Cheat Codes is an electro hip-pop trio from Los Angeles. The new house track “Adventure” was produced by the up & coming DJ Evan Gartner, and hit #2 on the Hype Machine twitter charts, climbing the overall charts sitting at #33. The track has already been featured by several blogs including Indie Shuffle & Waxhole pushing the song to 20,000 SoundCloud plays in just a few days. Stoney Roads says this “Infused with some tropical and electronic elements, the myriad of genres range all over the map. Good vibes and sunny days, Cheat Codes latest will make you want to have an “Adventure”.
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Melbourne indie pop act Crepes is back with a new EP “Cold Summers”. The bands last 2014 EP ‘Ain’t Horrible’ was praised charting in the Hype Machine’s Top 10, as well as landing a spot in BIRP’s ‘Best of 2014’ compilation. The new year saw ‘Stages of Fear’ attract international radio-play (sitting among AirIt’s weekly top 10 ‘Most Ordered for Airplay’ chart, as well as landing spot rotation on Triple J). The new title track ‘Cold Summers‘ could be the summer indie anthem.
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The pop trio PUBLIC has quickly made a name for themselves. In January, the group went to LA to record with Eric Palmquist (Bad Suns, Mars Volta) and is currently on tour with Oh Honey. Good Music All Day says “‘Heartbeating” presents PUBLIC as a rising rock band with a contagious indie style. A sort of love song with highly relatable lyrics about falling for a woman, the trio makes their mark with an effortless sense of harmony and entertaining musicality.” The band has performed SXSW, CMJ, and CMW, and supported acts including Neon Trees, Walk The Moon, Twenty One Pilots, among others.
Contact: stephanie@thecatalystpublicitygroup.com
Four piece rockers from London, Wolf Alice, debuted their newest music video for the track “Giant Peach“. The video premiered on Noisey and reached the #1 spot on Hype Machine’s Most Popular Artist List. The band was UK’s most blogged about artist of 2014. The band recently performed SXSW and have lined up Spring dates. The Observer described their sound as “an engaging strain of off-kilter indie rock” while Clash described the band as “the lovechild of folk and grunge”. They will release their debut album My Love Is Cool on June 23rd via Dirty Hit/ RCA Records.
Contact: jen@pressherepublicity.com
Kevin Lyman is best known as the producer and creator of the extremely successful Vans Warped Tour, the longest running traveling music festival in the world today. Celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, the tour has played to over millions of fans. Kevin has founded many other highly successful tours including the Rockstar Mayhem Festival and Down from the Mountain Tour. When not curating giant festivals, he sits on the Board of Directors for Saint Archer Brewery and the LA County Fairplex. He also has his hand in the record industry as co-owner of Side One Dummy.
A trendsetter for youth branding, Kevin has established creative partnerships with brands such as Vans, Kia, Journeys, Fuse, Ernie Ball, and Monster Energy Drink. Kevin was an honoree at the Grammy/MusiCares MAP Fund 2011 and received the Billboard Touring Awards Humanitarian of the Year in 2009. Recently he has founded The Entertainment Institute to revolutionize music business education utilizing his 35 years of experience.
You are best known as the creator of the Vans Warped tour, the longest running traveling musical festival in the world today, as well as the Rockstar Mayhem Festival. Are you content with your achievements or do you feel there is unfinished business?.
KL: No there is always stuff out there to do. I’ve always felt there is more out there to be done. People have asked me what was the best Warped Tour. I say “it’s the one that is going to happen, I hope.” You can’t live on status quo. I think what we are doing now , especially with The Entertainment Institute (TEI), some of the other branding things like speaking engagements, are pushing in the direction I want to go. I thought that education was going to be my calling and maybe the music thing was going to be a passing thing and I would get on with my life.
When you founded The Entertainment Institute, what sparked that idea? KL: A few reasons are that I speak at colleges and universities quite a bit. I firmly believe in the education process but sometimes kids come out of school not quite up with everything that is going on. They are not keeping current. I thought that maybe we could create a supplemental education program to teach them real time. Not to replace anything that one is doing in education, but to keep it in real time. CONTINUE READING
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