Buzz Track: Heart Beats

Johnnyswim is a Los Angeles/Nashville based duo composed of Amanda Sudano and Abner Ramirez. They were featured in Vogue as well as Garden&Gun magazine along with Black Keys as “Nashville’s new sound”. The band will be releasing an EP this June. For fans of Mumford & Sons, Lauryn Hill, and John Mayer.
Contact: jking@johnnyswim.com

Buzz Track: In My Head

Cilver is a brand new band created from the ashes of several NYC hard rock/alt bands. The band just finished the first song “In My Head” which features Bumblefoot of Guns n’ Roses. The song was picked as single of the day on Revolver Magazine, and is currently testing at radio. Sirius XM Octane, WDHA, WRAT, WCPR, and KCGQ has already been spinning the track.
Contact: EJG@msk.com

Buzz Track: Who You Do

Kings favorite Tara Priya who we featured last year is back with a video for her new song Who You Do. The song was recorded with London with producer Steve Booker (Duffy, Rebecca Ferguson) and filmed its video with director Adam Buncher (Sharon Jones & the Dap-Kings, Wiz Khalifa). She licensed her last album to the Japanese label, P-Vine Records. It debuted as the #2 R&B/Soul album on iTunes & Amazon, with its single, my song “Run Like Hell”, hitting #6 on the Billboard Japan charts.
Contact: jrecor@gmail.com

Buzz Track: Touch The Sky
Alternative rock act Windsor Oaks Band just released an album produced by Steven Haigler (Pixies, Fuel, Brand New, Clutch). Fans of Kings of Leon, Foo Fighters and Weezer will take interest. The band recently sold out the album release show at The Pour House Music Hall in Raleigh.
Contact: Julie@theWindsorOaksBand.com

Nearly two years after launching in the U.S. primarily via word-of-mouth, Spotify will air its first in a series of U.S. TV ad commercials on NBC’s “The Voice” Monday night as part of a larger branding campaign valued at over $10 million in media spend. The campaign, titled “For Music,” will feature digital and social media ads, with additional TV spots to air on NBC’s “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon” as well as Viacom’s MTV, MTV2, VH1 and other networks in the coming weeks.

A trio of spots released online Monday afternoon, created by ad agency Droga5, take a more existential approach to the streaming music service, focusing more on the feelings that music evokes rather than any specific product offerings. It’s an interesting tactic for a company that recently touted its 6 million paid worldwide subscribers at South By Southwest earlier this month.

One spot, which airs tonight on “The Voice,” features a crowdsurfer sailing across a sea of packed fans at a concert, with a voiceover posing the question, “Why can a song change the world?” The speaker then offers a list of answers, including, “Because we were all conceived to a 4/4 beat. Because music can’t be stopped. Can’t be contained. It’s never finished.” Read more