Andrew Deadman was a piano mover when early attention from John Peel landed his tunes on TV; His first album under his own name is available now.

“Reminiscent of giants such as Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen, Deadman proves himself very much his own man,” says PopMatters; Live in L.A. this Friday.

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“Silent Scream” is the latest single and music video from Andrew Deadman’s debut solo album Santa Monica Airport 1987, out now from Minty Fresh.

Jedd Beaudoin of PopMatters says: “Although reminiscent of giants such as Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen, Deadman proves himself very much his own man on this latest cut, finding the fine line between desperation and hope with conviction and deep pathos.”

For fans of Wilco, The War On Drugs, The Waterboys, Joshua Tree-era U2, Belle and Sebastian, The Clientele, and Bruce Springsteen.

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKwWRVwn-uY

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Andrew Deadman | Live

11/29/2019: Los Angeles, CA @ Hotel Café | TICKETS | RSVP

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Andrew Deadman

Santa Monica Airport 1987

Out Now

(Minty Fresh)

Streaming Link:

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Track Listing:

01.  A Day Without The Storm (VIDEO)

02.  Barely There

03.  Prey For Rain

04.  Jean Paul Belmondo

05.  Silent Scream  (VIDEO)

06.  The Cold Hard Light of The Sober Morning

07.  Sometimes The Dogs Don’t Find You (VIDEO)

08.  Woman Gone, An Afternoon

09.  The Driver

10.  Run With The Hunted
11. Parallel Wives

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Andrew Deadman | About

“I grew up dreaming of making albums not streams,” says Los Angeles-based songwriter Andrew Deadman. “I miss songs and I tried to write an album’s worth of em.”

Deadman’s debut solo album Santa Monica Airport 1987 is the eclectic and electric album he set out to make. The songs brim with an inescapable energy and crunch that is often absent in today’s barrage of cut and run singles that sometimes come up short in the passion department.

“I wrote and produced the songs on this record hoping they don’t belong in any time or era,” Deadman claims, and the album plays that way. The instinct to plop the needle down on any of these cuts doesn’t invoke the fashion of the day, it calls back to more authentic days gone by. Days that saw Deadman dropping out of school at 17-years-old to realize dreams, not streams.

Traveling the world, sleeping on benches and busking for change, by 20-years-old, Deadman drifted to Los Angeles, taking up odd jobs to support himself while writing and recording in a home studio that he assembled piece by piece over time.

Eventually, Deadman would release several self-produced records under the name The Temporary Thing, and like his own years of drifting, would eventually find their way overseas to the playlists of John Peel. Opportunities presented themselves, and soon Deadman’s bedroom creations were being heard on television shows such as “The New Girl,” “Love,” “Gossip Girl,” “Togetherness,” “Community,” and many others.

The fame comes before the fortune, and although Deadman was moving his music now, he was also continuing to move pianos – a different kind of music business – and a trade he was taught by his father.

Deadman developed a reputation in Los Angeles for not only his piano moving, but his ability to move giant vintage recording consoles and priceless gear.  Through these jobs, he worked with Keifer Sutherland and Mike Campbell of Tom Petty’s band The Heartbreakers, among others.

Dreams are often subject to reality, and after breaking his hand on a job, the sidelined Deadman was relegated to driving. Through it all, he never gave up on his own musical road, and when he found himself giving guitarist Davey Catching (Eagles of Death Metal, Queens of The Stone Age) a ride from Los Angeles to his studio in Joshua Tree, a new lane emerged.

A gracious discount from Catching allowed Deadman to record Santa Monica Airport 1987, and for you to hear it. On the record, Deadman is joined by his longtime drummer and collaborator, Kevin Day, along with Ben Stone on bass.

Santa Monica Airport 1987, featuring the singles “A Day Without The Storm,” “Sometimes The Dogs Don’t Find You,” and “Silent Scream,” is out now via Chicago’s Minty Fresh.

Deadman realized the dream, so compromised on the stream: hear it here.

Santa Monica Airport 1987, the debut solo album from Andrew Deadman is out now featuring the single “A Day Without The Storm”. Andrew Deadman is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Songwriter Jared Putnam moves The March Divide to Dallas; Drops new “Crowded Room” single; Adds more dates to upcoming tour.

New lyric video streaming now via Bad Copy is latest from “Distractions, Vol. 5” singles series. Final installment arrives Dec. 13^th.

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See the premiere of the “Crowded Room” lyric video by The March Divide at Bad Copy now!

“‘Crowded Room’ comes from a strange place. It’s about my social anxiety and how random it can be. I recently had a friend send me a text about a song called ‘Starting To Rain,’ off my old band, The Conversation’s first album. It got me thinking about the lyrics from that album and the context of where they were coming from.

‘Starting To Rain’ was a rebellious song I wrote in my 20’s about being in a constant state of drug induced indifference and the lack of accomplishment that often accompanies such a state. Truth be told, that drug induced indifference was my coping mechanism, at the time, for that helpless ‘I gotta get out of here’ feeling that comes with social anxiety.” – Jared Putnam, The March Divide

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The March Divide | Live

11/29/2019: Wichita Falls, TX @ GypsyUncorked

12/06/2019: San Antonio, TX @ The Point

12/07/2019: San Antonio, TX @ Freetail Brewing

12/13/2019: Portales, NM @ Enchantment Vineyards

12/14/2019: Amarillo, TX @ The 806 (w/Ryan Traster)

12/15/2019: Wichita Falls, TX @ WF Brewing Co. (w/ Ryan Traster)

12/16/2019: Wichita, KS @ Kirby’s Beer Store (w/ Ryan Traster)

12/17/2019: Tulsa, OK @ Hunt Club (w/ Ryan Traster)

12/18/2019: Austin, TX @ House Show (w/ Ryan Traster)

12/19/2019: San Antonio, TX @ Ventura (w/ Ryan Traster)

12/20/2019: Corpus Christi, TX @ BUS (w/ Ryan Traster)

12/21/2019: Brownwood, TX @ Pioneer Tap House (w/ Ryan Traster)

12/27/2019: Wichita Falls, TX @ GypsyUncorked

01/05/2020: Oklahoma City, OK @ Sauced on Paseo

01/16/2020: New Orleans, LA @ Neutral Ground

01/17/2020: Ocean Springs, MS @ Greenhouse on Porter

01/18/2020: Athens, GA @ Vega Studios

01/19/2020: Atlanta, GA @ Tin Roof

01/20/2020: Charleston, SC @ Tin Roof

01/21/2020: Asheville, NC @ The Double Crown

01/22/2020: Lexington, KY @ Best Friend Bar

01/24/2020: St. Louis, MO @ Livery Company

01/25/2020: West Plains, MO @ Wages Brewery

01/26/2020: Norman, OK @ Red Brick Bar

02/06/2020: Harlingen, TX @ Hop Shop

02/07/2020: San Antonio, TX @ Southtown 101

02/08/2020: Del Rio, TX @ Lone Star Vitality

02/16/2020: Dallas, TX @ Adair’s Saloon

02/21/2020: San Antonio, TX @ The Point

02/22/2020: Seabrook, TX @ Midnite Slice

03/20/2020: Fallon, NV @ Telegragh

03/28/2020: Portland, OR @ No Fun Bar

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The March Divide

“Distractions, Vol. 5”

(Slow Start Records)

Dec. 13^th, 2019

  

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Track Listing:

01. Crowded Room (STREAM | MP3 | LYRIC VIDEO)

02. It’s Not Over (LYRIC VIDEO)

03. Secrets

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The March Divide | In The Press

“Impressively hooky.” — American Songwriter

“Putnam’s vocals pop.” — PopMatters

“Ingenious.” — Cowboys & Indians

“Hits the mark again and again.” — The Big Takeover

“The melodies are as catchy as ever.” — Twangville

“Strummy acoustic reverie.” — BLURT

“Putnam is skillful.” — Nashville Scene

“A serious set of pipes.” — The Aquarian

“Infectiously poppy.” — Glide Magazine

“Quality pop at its best.” — Popdose

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The March Divide | About

“This will be the last in my series of distractions.”

Jared Putnam of The March Divide has been releasing two and three-song singles throughout 2019 as real-time follow-ups to his most recent full-length album, Anticipation Pops, released in the summer of 2018. “Distractions, Vol. 5” will be released on December 13th, preceded by the song “Crowded Room,” out now. A lyric video for the song “It’s Not Over” is also streaming now.

“Something I started as an outlet to release songs I was working on between releases has slowly evolved into more of a personal song writing challenge,” Putnam explains. “I knew that I wanted to push myself to finish the series before the year was over, so I really dove into a lot of new releases from 2019 that I’ve found inspiring.”

Putnam lists Pete Yorn’s collaboration with Jackson Phillips of Day Wave as a stand-out.

“He brought a whole new vision to what he was already doing, flawlessly, in my opinion. I also found myself obsessed with the new Julia Jacklin album Crushing and American Football’s LP3, which made me wanna get that Fender sound back into my songs.”

Putnam was also inspired to collaborate in more of a band setting than he has in quite some time.

“I tapped my friend Bobby Rivas, a crazy-talented writer and player, to help me with the overall direction of the songs. He also helped bring a focus to the production that I often can’t find on my own. I also had my friends Ernie Garcia on bass and Jason West on drums.”

One of the resulting songs, “Crowded Room,” is one of the catchiest The March Divide songs to date, and its in-your-face, youthful quality really does call back to Putnam’s younger years spent recording and touring with his then-band, The Conversation. Hear “Crowded Room” now.

 “Distractions, Vol. 5” is just the latest representation of Putnam’s evolved state of mind and work ethic since that time. A mere three-song collection in a catalog comprised of dozens of songs that Putnam has recorded and released in only the last five years.

The new three-song single “Distractions, Vol. 5” by The March Divide is out December 13th. The first four releases in the series are out now, along with Anticipation Pops, the fourth full-length album by The March Divide. All are available via Slow Start Records.

Look for Jared Putnam out on the road throughout 2019 and into 2020. Jared Putnam of The March Divide is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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J Hacha De Zola drops his “Urban Junkyard” take on Billie Eilish’s “Bury A Friend;” Song is one of three covers to appear on “UnPOPular,” out Dec. 6th.

Upcoming EP also includes versions of tunes by Halsey, Lorde. “Icaro Nouveau” album, produced by John Agnello (Sonic Youth, Kurt Vile), available now.

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J Hacha De Zola | “Bury A Friend” (Billie Eilish Cover)

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J Hacha De Zola | About

“A few years ago, I covered an Ariana Grande tune, “Bad Decisions,” as an experiment. It’s a dance-pop tune which I wanted to make sound like a J Hacha De Zola song. Ya know, make it sound ‘creepy and dark.’

Musically or lyrically speaking, that song is very different from what I do. It couldn’t be any more different and was quite challenging for me, especially vocally. Obviously Ariana Grande is an ultra-amazing vocalist - a real song bird - and then there’s me!”

I had a lot of fun turning that song into a ‘Tom Waits-esq barroom roar’ as Cover Me put it. Fast forward almost three years later and I’ve decided to keep experimenting and pushing the boundaries of what I do by covering some more pop tunes. However, interestingly enough, this time things are a bit different.

During my Icaro Nouveau recording sessions, I recorded what I thought would be another one-off pop cover, ‘Writer In The Dark’ by Lorde. It has a dark, moody, and almost even slightly “dangerous” feeling.  From a production standpoint, we did some different things, but I kept that creepy-longing vibe intact. I was quite happy with this cover and put it under my hat for a bit, hoping for the right moment to release it.

Suddenly, some new pop artists emerged with even more tunes that I felt like I could relate to. A friend of mine passed this song along to me – ‘Bury A Friend’ by Billie Eilish – who I didn’t know about at the time. As he passed it along he said ‘You should do this song! This could be a legit J Hacha De Zola tune!’ When I finally put some ears to it, I couldn’t agree more.

Billie is truly making some moves that ya just don’t see very often for a pop star nowadays. This song is an exploration of the darker side of songwriting. The instruments on the original tune are electronic, so we decided to have a go at it and put my brand of creepiness on using some interesting folk instruments like a Kaval, Gadulka, and Banjo. Also that’s an Upright acoustic Bass thumping away on there! It almost feels like a strange Balkan Bluegrass folk-music type of thing. I hope folks will dig it.”

J Hacha De Zola is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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J Hacha De Zola | In The Press

“A wild man in the vein of such fire breathing artists like Screamin’ Jay Hawkins.” — Paste

“The kind of alluring character found in old children’s books.” — UTNE

“Enticing as it is distant and strange.” — MAGNET

“Bound to light the way forward and inspire a legion of imitators.” — PopMatters

“Sits at his own, most likely oddly shaped table.” — Pancakes and Whiskey

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J Hacha De Zola | Available Now

J Hacha De Zola

Icaro Nouveau

(Caballo Negro)

Out Now

Streaming Link:

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Track Listing:

01. Anarchy (VIDEO)

02. El Chucho (Hooko) (VIDEO)

03. On A Saturday

04. Juan Salchipapas

05. A Song For Her

06. Hollow Trees

07. A Fool’s Moon

08. Ode To Ralph Carney

09. Super Squeaky (VIDEO)

10. Hacha’s Lament

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J Hacha De Zola

‘Syn Illusión’ EP

(Caballo Negro)

Out Now

Streaming Link:

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Track Listing:

01. Syn Illusión (VIDEO)

02. Otro Lado

03. Lejos De Mi

04. El Mago Negro

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L.A. by way of Chicago producer Josiah Mazzaschi follows-up 20 years of Light FM w/ all-new EP feat. Brett of The Donnas.

“Tourist” EP – out today – includes “buzzing three-minute” (FLOOD) pop gem “Dreamerz,” Career-spanning comp also out now.

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“You’ve likely heard Josiah Mazzaschi’s music — if not from his passion project Light FM, then from his work producing Built to Spill and The Jesus and Mary Chain. The former artistic outlet is celebrating twenty years of existence in 2019, sharing the joy by dropping a new EP. Before Mazzaschi shares the full project with the world, though, he’s giving us a second sneak preview with the buzzing three-minute single ‘Dreamerz,’ which notably features Donnas vocalist Brett Anderson.”

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Light FM

“Tourist” EP

Nov. 15^th, 2019

(Moonboot Records)

Streaming Link:

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Track Listing:

01. Tourist (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

02. Dreamerz (feat. Brett Anderson of The Donnas) (STREAM | MP3)

03. Marzipan Summer

04. Horrible Friend

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“Cars-meets-Weezer-meets-Rentals crunch and fuzzed-out pop hooks... Alternately buzzing and shimmering, the title track comes to life in the video.” – Kevin Bronson of Buzzbands.la

“With buzzing guitars, angelic vocals and choruses that rise to majestic heights… Speaking to contemporary frustrations about gentrification and becoming an alien in the place you've long called home.” – Jedd Beaudoin of PopMatters

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=675Cyt6_4K0

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Light FM | About

Los Angeles-based record producer and engineer Josiah Mazzaschi (Jesus and Mary Chain, Built To Spill) will celebrate the 20-year anniversary of his bedroom dream pop project Light FM this year with the release of a new EP “Tourist” on Nov. 15^th.

The four-song non-stop bop is the first new Light FM music in five years and features the EP’s title track as its first single and video, premiered this week via Buzzbands.la, along with the upcoming single “Dreamerz,” a collaboration with Brett Anderson of The Donnas.

Light FM was most recently seen on tour in the US and UK as a trio while supporting its previous EP, 2015’s “Pointless,” sharing stages with Smashing Pumpkins, The National, and Ra Ra Riot along the way.

Even though Mazzaschi is back to recording solo now, the “Tourist” EP represents a new, collaborative approach to his songwriting, with half of the EP comprised of co-writes.

“This was the first time I have ever collaborated with other songwriters for Light FM,” Mazzaschi says of the “Dreamerz” single written with Anderson and the title track with Pittsburgh-based songwriter, Alex Aleco.

When Mazzaschi started Light FM while living in Chicago, the aim was to shroud what he calls his “pretty depressing lyrics” in upbeat music and melodies. After relocating to the west coast in 2005, and releasing several albums, Mazzaschi perfected that style, so much so that other artists began to seek out his production touches.

As Mazzaschi became an in-demand producer – recent clients at his The Cave Studio include Smashing Pumpkins guitarist Jeff Schroeder’s new project Night Dreamer, Deap Vally collaborations with The Flaming Lips, Jamie Hince of The Kills, and Andy Rourke of The Smiths’ new project Blitz Vega – his Light FM recordings slowed, but the “luxurious, atmospheric textures” (The Big Takeover) of those songs were still in demand.

“Mazzaschi never met a pop hook he couldn’t dirty up a little bit,” said L.A.’s most important music discovery website Buzzbands, and Mazzaschi continues to prove that on the “Tourist” EP.

New fans of Light FM can be “tourists” through the band’s: a 14-song compilation “Turn On The Light FM,” culled from five albums and two EPs released throughout the band’s 20-year career, is out now. The title track and video from “Tourist” are also both streaming now.

Josiah Mazzaschi of Light FM is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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Light FM

Turn On The Light FM

Out Now

(Moonboot Records)

Streaming Link:

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Track Listing:

01. Turn On The Light FM

02. 16 Below

03. Save The Drama

04. The High

05. Black Magic Marker

06. IJWUTBM

07. Friends Aren’t Friends (VIDEO)

08. Problems of Our Own

09. Thrift Store Clothes

10. Mercy (VIDEO)

11. Voices In My Head

12. Let Go

13. PTSD

14. Pointless

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Samantha Sidley covers a Ry Cooder classic, chats about her “quietly radical” debut with Los Angeles Times; Announces early 2020 NYC residency.

“Interior Person” LP, out now on Inara George’s Release Me label, “addresses the pleasures and torments of romance from an explicitly gay point of view.”

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Samantha Sidley | “Drive Like I Never Been Hurt” (Ry Cooder)

“I heard ‘Drive Like I Never Been Hurt’ for the first time on a long drive out of town. One of my favorite places to listen to music is on a long drive. It got stuck in my head and I wanted to listen to it all the time. I felt I needed to sing it. It was something I needed to talk about. This song to me is about saying ‘f*** you’ to all and any oppressive obstacles life throws at you. You don’t forget pain, but you learn to accept and move through it. Sometimes that feels like you are driving down the road in a convertible, tears streaming down your face, you don’t even know where you are headed but that doesn’t matter. You trust the destination. Even when you can’t see it.”

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Samantha Sidley | NYC Residency

02/06/2020: New York, NY @ The Green Room 42 (TIX)

02/07/2020: New York, NY @ The Green Room 42 (TIX)

02/08/2020: New York, NY @ The Green Room 42 (TIX)

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“Sidley’s quietly radical debut album, Interior Person, is premised on the idea that a listener in 2019 shouldn’t have to decode a love song to hear herself in it.”

See the video for “I Like Girls” and read an in-depth interview with the Los Angeles Times.

[VIDEO]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1glEdQNP13k

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Samantha Sidley

Interior Person

Out Now

(Release Me Records)

Streaming Link:

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Track Listing:

01. I Like Girls (STREAM | MP3 | VIDEO)

02. Only You Can Break My Heart

03. Naked To Love

04. Butterfly In My Ass (STREAM)

05. I Can’t Listen

06. Listen!! (STREAM | MP3)

07. Rose Without Thorns

08. Busy Doin’ Nothin’ (STREAM | MP3)

09. Easy To Be True

10. Interior Person

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Samantha Sidley | In The Press

“Samantha Sidley turns ‘Singing In The Rain’ into a pro-lesbian anthem. It’s her take on the black and white era of catchy songs from movie musicals but updated to be inclusive and reflect her take on the world.” — Refinery29

“Feels like a breath of fresh air. But it is also its meticulously crafted sound, which blends vintage jazz with more modern pop elements, that makes it such an outstanding debut.” — JAZZIZ

“It takes us back to the speakeasies of the 20s, with flirtatious saxophones and crisp, expressive vocals. The song (‘I Like Girls’) is a sophisticated and delicious ice-breaker, serving anthemic lyrical content for an evolving culture.” — Grimy Goods

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Samantha Sidley | About

Samantha Sidley is a jazz vocalist, born-and-raised in Los Angeles, and she likes girls.

The words “I like girls” are the first thing you’ll hear when Sidley’s debut album Interior Person (Out Now, Release Me Records) opens. The song is an unassuming anthem, a future standard for an evolving culture. It’s also a fun and funny ice-breaker that you’ll sing along with.

“I Like Girls” is a peek into what plays out as a meticulously crafted debut album featuring Sidley’s beautifully trained voice taking confident ownership of songs written for her to sing by some of the most important women in her life.

These other “girls” include fellow musicians Inara George, Alex Lilly, and Sidley’s “Top One” favorite musician of all-time, her wife, Barbara Gruska.

“Inara and Alex and Barbara wrote songs that are all very personal to my story – they literally are my story – and from my lesbian perspective, which I appreciate so much,” Sidley says. In addition to co-writing many of the songs here, and playing drums (masterfully) on many of the tracks, Gruska also produced Interior Person in a studio constructed in Sidley’s childhood bedroom.

“My whole life was a song,” Sidley says of her childhood. “If I looked at a tree, it was a song. If I felt happy, sad, joy, it was a song. When I first heard Judy Garland in ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ I remember thinking: ‘I understand.’ I’ve always considered myself an interpreter, which is sort of and undervalued art form. I like to take a song and make the story true for me.”

Sidley soon discovered Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, soul music in general, and her own personal “soulfulness” itself. You know, like all seven-year-olds do. Later, considering how annoyed 11-year-old Sidley was when her vocal instructor wouldn’t allow her to sing Holiday’s “Lover Man (Oh Where Can You Be)” at her first recital, it all made perfect sense.

A decade later, Sidley got to sing whatever she wanted, performing at NYC’s legendary Oak Room at the Algonquin Hotel, where she lived in Dorothy Parker’s room, listened to a lot of Anita O’Day and Ella Fitzgerald, and landed a rave review in The New York Times.

“She knows exactly how I express myself and what my intentions are,” Sidley says of her working relationship with Gruska. “Collaborating on this record has actually been a much longer collaboration of us getting to know each other.”

Interior Person, the debut album from Samantha Sidley is out now featuring the single “I Like Girls”.  Samantha Sidley is available for interviews. Contact Josh Bloom at Fanatic for more information.

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