50 Arkansas artists who made good noise in 2020
50 Arkansas artists who made good noise in 2020
December 29, 20207:43 pm (top left to top right) Bazi Owenz, Bailey Bigger, Joshua Asante, (bottom left to bottom right) The Eulogy Brothers, Elise Davis, DOT
Creators are going to create, and whether the upheaval of a year like 2020 stifles or fuels that process probably depends on the artist, and on the day. Many, undoubtedly, made music in 2020 at their own expense, investing time, money or both into projects they couldn’t support or promote with live performance, at least not for the foreseeable future. A good number of them, especially those who make music for a living, have spent the year devoted to an industry and to a live music landscape that may well emerge from Post-Pandemic Times looking very different than it did in 2019. But I’m willing to bet that by the time some of this quarantine-crafted music reaches the stage, congregants’ ears
13 New Metal & Hardcore Songs Out This Week
2020 is coming to a close and the year-end lists are flooding in. We posted punk/hardcore/emo/etc and screamo lists, our metal sister site Invisible Oranges has begun posting its series of year-end lists, and we ve posted many artists lists, including many metal/hardcore musicians. With all the lists, we re finding some cool stuff we missed, so this week s metal/hardcore roundup has a few slightly older releases (that are new to us) along with the new stuff. Check out some of this week s new albums in IO s Upcoming Metal Releases and head below for new singles from Tribulation, The Ruins of Beverast, Enforced, Shelter, Blood Menace, Molten, World Peace, and more.
PINS - MERRY CHRISTMAS (I DON T WANT TO FIGHT TONIGHT) (RAMONES COVER)
Manchester group PINS have covered the Ramones holiday classic Merry Christmas (I Don t Want To Fight Tonight), putting an anthemic spin on the track, making it their own.
CLEOPATRICK - GOOD GRIEF
Luke Gruntz and Ian Fraser have been friends since they were four and making music together for nearly as long and are now doing it officially as Cobourg, Ontario s Cleopatrick. New single Good Grief is kinda punky in a King Krule sort of way.
MOZZY - KEEP HOPE (ft. BLXST)
Sacramento rapper Mozzy already released two great songs this year, and now he s back with another single that was born out of a RapCaviar freestyle about COVID, Kobe Bryant, Breonna Taylor, OnlyFans, Obama, and more.