UK indie act Skies has released their debut EP “If You Feel Like It‘‬ on LAB Records. The latest single ‘Leave Me‘ has a stadium rock anthem and soaring melodies. The new track is a follow up to the single ‘Feel Like It’ which clocked 20k SoundCloud plays and 15,000 YouTube streams. Lead vocalist Alie Cotter says of the track: “it’s an emotive song about bringing relationship to an end, and addressing how difficult and painful that can be” (you don’t wanna go and I don’t wanna stay / but I need you to know I’ve tried). Having received lots of blog attention, rotation on Abbie McCarthy’s BBC and performed alongside Coasts, Pixel Fix and As Elephants Are, 2016 could be a big year for the band.
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Every time the clock ticks it seems Adele sells another million records. She did it again. Adele is set to sell another million albums in a week. All in all, Adele’s ’25’ could sell near 7 million copies by years end.

A band started by three NJ natives who go under the moniker ARIZONA are buzzing with their latest track ‘Where I Wanna Be‘. With hints of M83, although it’s hard to pin the band down, they’ve clocked hundreds of thousands of Soundcloud streams. Having just signed with Atlantic Records, the band spends most of their time either on the road creating in a mobile recording studio they built in an old Toyota. The three piece indie-alt act is back in their NJ hometown working on the 2016 upcoming release.
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In a recent interview with Time Magazine, Adele says she quit social media in order to spend time writing a great album.

“How am I supposed to write a real record if I’m waiting for half a million likes on a #$%^! photo? That ain’t real”

Nearing 7 million albums sold in a quick short weeks, Adele is astonished with her recent success in America:

“I’m not even from America.” Maybe they think I’m related to the Queen. Americans are obsessed with the royal family.”

Other artists may heed Adele’s advice. Instead of spending hours tweeting, consider spending hours creating a real album.

UK Indie alternative act Secret Company has become a 2015 favorite and could be a 2016 breakthrough artist.  Why? Unlike their cohorts, the band has a knack for writing memorable anthems followed by classic guitar riffs. The new single release ‘Picture’ follows their debut EP that contains the track ‘Saviour’ which has garnered over 150,000 plays Soundcloud. Lead singer & guitarist Scott Revell explains the meaning behind the new track …“I fell out with an old friend of mine and he went on to tell another mate of ours what happened. This other mate, hearing only his side of the story then stopped talking to me as a result. Frustrating, because I didn’t feel in the wrong at all and maybe if he’d have heard it from my point of view, things would have been different. But he never did. Quite often, I think people will hear things about someone and then take that word as gospel. There’s always another side to the story, so I decided to tell mine with ‘Picture’”. The new video can be viewed here.
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