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Earlier this year Dani Rae Vaughn saw rapid accession up the Spotify ladder when her collaboration Goosebumps with Texas Drew charted on Billboard and Viral 50. Goosebumps peaked at #3 garnering Vaughn a solid click of listeners waiting for new music.

Following up her last single Be Somebody, Vaughn releases Blah. produced by Texas Drew, Co-Written with Joseph Michael.

Blah. is Available Everywhere: Spotify | AppleMusic | iTunes

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Friday morning Spill Magazine premiered the latest single from Casey Hopkins Fashion Queen.

“I grew up a blues guitar prodigy in hand-me downs and band shirts, so aesthetic was never my number one priority.  It’s sort of a rejection of that culture and a personal call for people to focus more on the quality of the art they are making.” – Hopkins / Spill Magazine

Stream Fashion Queen now playing on Spotify

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This morning Rap-Up premiered Jallal’s new mixtape Off The Radar ahead of his debut album. The project features tracks with Lil Wayne, 2 Chains, Ne-Yo, T-Pain, BJ The Chicago Kid, and Kaye Fox. Producers include Chad Hugo, Jan Fairchild, Elliot James, RDGLDGRN, and DJ MOZA.

“Every track comes out of my daily realities and what surrounds me, including all the creatives who participated on the project with their pure direct innate reaction/response and feeling to what I created.” – Jallal tells RapUP

The 23-year-old Los Angeles rapper spent last year touring with his mentor Yasiin Bey (Mos Def), follow Jallal for upcoming shows and announcements.

Listen to Off The Radar now: http://bit.ly/OffTheRadarP

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This morning Texas Drew & Dani Rae Vaughn released the music video for their reimagined version of The Chainsmokers & Coldplay Something Just Like This.

The video was directed by Arthur Johnson and currently streaming now exclusively on YouTube and Blossöm.com

Listen now Spotify | Apple Music | SoundCloud

Directed by Art Johnson (http://walkgoodmedia.com)

Dancer – Jessie Levine (http://www.jessielevine.com)

http://texasdrew.xyz

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This morning Ben Epand, also known as KidEyes released a reinspired cover of Bob Marley’s ‘No Woman No Cry’ featuring Lisa Donnelly. Here’s a message about the song’s release directly from the artist:
My good friend Lisa Donnelly and I were writing some songs when one day she came to me with this distinct plan of covering Bob Marley’s ‘No Woman No Cry’. As soon as we put the vocal on the track, we had something super cool in the making. We finished a rough version of the song and had talks to release it but as these things go in the chaos of life in Los Angeles, the project was put on an indefinite pause.
Lisa Donnelly was a traveler, a free spirit with a great laugh and of course an incredibly talented singer and song writer. Lisa left LA about a year and half ago on one of the many international adventures she was always taking and shortly after, I heard she had some medical issues and was indefinitely moving back home to Kansas City. In that time I learned she was suffering from Bell’s palsy (paralysis to part of the face) and with misdiagnoses she had some additional medical complications. All this put Lisa into a sad and depressed place and on April 7th, 2017 she took her own life. 
Listening to her sing the Chorus, ‘No Woman No Cry’ is so tragically haunting. I wish I could have understood the horror she was suffering and tell her, “everything’s gonna be all right”.!
Miss you so much, Lisa. I know you’re blasting this tune now!  -ben
The song is streaming on all platforms and you can watch the music video on YouTube here.
Rest In Peace Lisa. x

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This afternoon Alternative Press premiered the new music video Out Of Place from Southern California’s Crooked Teeth. The band also announced their upcoming EP Pastel which will release everywhere next Friday, June 23rd.

“As a means to convey the longing to escape the responsibility, stress and uncertainty of adulthood and the desire to let nostalgia take control. I hated high school, I hated my hometown, and at that time I so badly wanted to get out and take on my dreams more than anything.” – AltPress, Tyson Evans of Crooked Teeth

Fans can Pre-Order the EP now on iTunes. Watch the premiere and read full story here on AP right now: http://bit.ly/AltPressCT

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Devault caught up with Ones To Watch and shared 5 artists that influence him. The interview covers Devault’s history as an electronic artist and producer spearheading his way into the scene.

“His remixing skills were enlisted for major singles by Rihanna, AlunaGeorge, Kehlani, and one of our top artists to watch, Billie Eilish. Not to mention, he’s already amassed 10 million Spotify streams with original singles, “Nothing New,” “All I Need,” and “Right With You.” – Ones To Watch

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Virgin’s latest article “How To Turn Fear Into Opportunity” with Richard Branson tells the truly unique and remarkable story of Natalie Clark.

“Early this year I was participating in a question and answer session in Glasgow with BBC Radio 1 host, Nick Grimshaw, when young Scottish singer-songwriter Natalie Clark took up the microphone to ask me a great question about fear.

I turned the tables on Natalie and invited her on stage, with an impromptu challenge to sing us a song. Facing her fears with a screw it, let’s do it attitude, Natalie wowed everyone with a totally off-the-cuff performance of her beautiful song, ‘Weakness’.” says Branson

Read the full story now on Virgin.com

Follow Natalie Instagram | Spotify | Twitter