Friday, July 25, 2014

Salme Dahlstrom debuts “relentlessly hooky and ridiculously accessible” new single exclusively via Entertainment Weekly.

“Pop Ur Heart Out” is latest sure-to-be-ubiquitous track from musician Wall Street Journal calls “music licensing queen.”

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Salme Dahlstrom as photographed by Bryce Prevatte

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“Pop Ur Heart Out” is the latest from Salme Dahlstrom.  Hear it via Entertainment Weekly or at the links below!
 




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“Music licensing queen.” – Wall Street Journal

“Relentlessly hooky and ridiculously accessible.” – Entertainment Weekly

The Wall Street Journal dubbed musician Salme Dahlstrom a “music licensing queen” when, like Moby before her, she managed to license every track from her 2008 album The Acid Cowgirl Audio Trade to various corporations and television programs.

At the time, Dahlstrom, who produces, performs, edits, and mixes all of her tracks herself, was not only just getting noticed, she was just getting started. “C’mon Y’All,” one of catchiest numbers on an album of catchy numbers, climbed Billboard’s Dance Chart and eventually received prominent placements in major ad campaigns for CoverGirl, Suave, and Kellogg’s that ran on primetime network television for months.

While managing what inevitably became a highly successful licensing business, Dahlstrom continued to do the work that got her there, and will now release “Pop Propaganda Volume 2: Retro Funk Soul Junction” on September 16th, 2014.  The new six-song collection is preceded by the single “Pop Ur Heart Out” – streaming now via Entertainment Weekly which calls the song “Relentlessly hooky and ridiculously accessible.”

About “Pop Ur Heart Out,” Dahlstrom says, “I felt like bringing some soul and poetry to the party.  I used organic instruments - piano and acoustic guitar - and mixed them with glitch effects and Kaoss Pad to give it an electronic edge. It's one of my new favorites!”

“Pop Propaganda Volume 2: Retro Funk Soul Junction” by Salme Dahlstrom is scheduled for release on September 16th, 2014 via Kontainer Music.  The first single “Pop Ur Heart Out” arrives on August 5th, 2014, accompanied by a trio of remixes of the track by SpekrFreks, DJ Phunkae, and Quadrat Beat on August 26th, 2014.

Salme Dahlstrom is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Salme Dahlstrom
“Pop Propaganda Volume 2: Retro Funk Soul Junction”
(Kontainer Music – Sept. 16th, 2014)
  

Track Listing:

01. Love+Shine
02. Pop Ur Heart Out (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3)
03. Superfunky Babes
04. Bodies In Motion
05. Rockin’ On The Spot
06. Barcelona Babe (Bonus Track)
07. Pop Ur Heart Out (SpekrFreks Mix)
08. Pop Ur Heart Out (DJ Phunkae Mix)
09. Pop Ur Heart Out (Quadrat Beat Mix)

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Salme Dahlstrom Links


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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion

Thursday, July 10, 2014

One Finger Riot to release “The Sea” July 22nd; Hear the title track’s “soothing, laid-back vibe” now at NylonGuys

Third album from L.A.-based Faris McReynolds utilizes “cheap gear from the past” to mimic sound of Dad’s stereo.

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Faris McReynolds of One Finger Riot as photographed by Andre Vippolis

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 “The Sea” is the title track from the new album by One Finger Riot. Hear it via Nylon Guys or the links below!

 



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“Complex and dreamlike” –USA Today

The upcoming album The Sea (July 22, Post Planetary) documents the end of a very long relationship, and is the first One Finger Riot full-length since a slew of releases by one-man-band Faris McReynolds in 2012, which included two from One  Finger Riot and second pair from his now-shuttered ExDetectives moniker.  A prolific creator, all of this musical work is in addition to McReynolds’ “day job” as a gallery-backed painter.

The album’s latest single is its title track, of which McReynolds explains, “I was staring at the beach in Big Sur thinking about how all of these things that don't work out in life are just part of the evolution of what eventually will.”  The track is streaming and available for download now via Nylon Guys.

“This is the first record I’ve seen all the way through by myself,” he says of The Sea, “and I think the first that sounds like it.  It sounds like my previous records, but rolled into something more coherent and upright.”

McReynolds goes on to curiously describe the sound of The Sea as “punk-simple, but not punk-modulated. There’s a guy in the outskirts of L.A. who built me a lot of inexpensive, simple, gear to get the sounds I am after. I rely on cheap random gear from the past or one-off devices.  A lot of Radio Shack and re-purposed pre-amps.”

One of the sounds prevalent throughout the record is the dry fuzz guitar tone that McReynolds says is meant to mimic “the sound my Dad’s stereo made when I would plug my bass into the mic input as a kid.”

Faris McReynolds of One Finger Riot is available for interviews.  Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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One Finger Riot
The Sea
(Post Planetary – July 22nd, 2014)
  


Track Listing:

01. Give Me A Drug That Works Forever (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3)
02. The Sea (STREAM | DOWNLOAD | MP3)
03. Epic Dream
04. I’m Another You
05. Flame In The Big Dark
06. All We Are Is All
07. The Hardest Part of Love
08. I’m Still You
09. The Waking Lost
10. Wanting Breaks My Heart

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Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic Promotion