Olya

Versatile artist Olya K is known for the Pop gem 'Hollywood". She traveled around the world to achieve sucess as a singer and a songwriter. From Bulgaria to Chicago, and from Nashville to Los Angeles...

She's a global artist with a sense of humor that shines through her lyrics.

Recently she recorded a new version of her song "Waking up in Nashville" -  this time in the style of Rock and Roll.

www.olyafans.com

Lance Lopez

 

There's no doubt about it, the state of Texas is well known world wide for its fiery blues guitar players.

Even just a cursory look will reveal the state's rich tradition, which easily rivals Chicago and Mississippi for producing players who have been both originators and contributors to the legacy of the guitar's significant role in the genre's history. Dating back to the 1920's with "Blind" Lemon Jefferson, continuing through the 1950's with such legends as Freddie King, T-Bone Walker and "Lightning" Hopkins, with the advent of the rock era of the 1960's the pressure cooker exploded.

Albino blues giant Johnny Winter, from Beaumont, in 1968 was signed to what was then the largest advance in the history of the recording industry---$600,000. Houston's ZZ Top, with the Reverend Willie G, i.e. Billy F. Gibbons - armed with a '59 Les Paul- during the 70's went from being "That little ol' band from Texas" to being world wide ambassadors with their unique brand of deep blues infused boogie rock.

Although disco and subsequently new wave lessened blues rock's influence in the late 70's, by 1983 it was another native Texan, Dallas born Stevie Ray Vaughan, whose combination of raw blues mixed with Hendrix styled pyrotechnics spearheaded yet another resurrection as the genre rose its evil head once again. A breath of much needed fresh air amongst the synth heavy offerings on MTV and radio airwaves of the time, the guitarist's massive influence has extended long beyond his untimely, tragic death twenty years ago.

One such player whom Vaughan touched the soul of was young, gifted blues/rock axeslinger Lance Lopez. Although born in Shreveport, Louisiana, at the age of 12, his family moved to Dallas, where with the exception of a spell back in New Orleans and Southwest Florida, the guitarist has called his home ever since.

A professional musician since the age of 14 when he began playing local bars in and around the New Orleans, Louisiana area, at 17 he was hired by soul great Johnnie Taylor, with whom he toured for six months. By 18 he was hired as the band leader of blues legend Lucky Peterson's band, spending three years touring throughout the world.

It was while with Peterson in Europe that he struck up a close friendship with the larger than life drummer Buddy Miles, subsequently becoming the guitarist for The Buddy Miles Express for a brief time. The former Band Of Gypsys legend would go on to mentor Lopez, leading to him co producing his debut album 'First Things First', along with Grammy winning producer Jay Newland (Norah Jones) which was released independently in 1998.

From 2003 to 2007 Lopez recorded, and released three studio and one live CD for a small independent label, Grooveyard Records - all of which were heavily influenced by another of the guitarist's main influences - Jimi Hendrix. Despite the hindrance of being released on such a label, the albums are all prime examples of post Hendrix heavy blues, filled to the brim with awe inspiring fretwork, which led to him garnering a cult following amongst guitar fanatics world wide.
After a three year break, Lopez came back with a brand new studio album 'Salvation From Sundown', his first release on MIG Music/String Commander Records, based in Hannover, Germany. 'Salvation From Sundown was produced by legendary Producer/Engineer, Jim Gaines (Stevie Ray Vaughan, Santana) 

Intentionally conceived as a more traditional Texas blues styled offering, which has elicited none other than guitar god Jeff Beck to call him "A very exciting and intense blues guitarist".   In 2012, MIG Music released 'Handmade Music', Lopez's 6th studio album. Again, he worked with legendary producer Jim Gaines and recorded at the legendary Ardent Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. It's one of  the guitarist's most mature recordings to date, showcasing strong songwriting while still retaining the red-hot fretwork. 'Handmade Music' shows him poised to take his rightful place as one of the finest blues players on the planet. In 2013 Lance began work on his 7th album with Producer Fabrizio Grossi (Joe Bonamassa, Leslie West, Steve Vai) in Los Angeles. They are currently writing and recording material for this new album. 

Lance Lopez continues to tour internationally playing, clubs, Blues, Jazz and Rock Festivals, biker rallys, charity events and concerts. He  also works as a producer and songwriter for other artist, as well as teaching guitar lessons to hand picked students when his schedule allows. If you are just now discovering what many die-hard fans of obscure Blues-Rock and guitar music have known about for many years, take the time to delve into Lance's catalog spanning 6 albums and you will soon find, that he is one of the greatest guitarist that the State Of Texas has ever produced...

https://ll4581.wixsite.com/lance-lopez

Steve Winwood

Steve Winwood was making music professionally at an age when most young men are still attending high school proms. As a member of the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic, and Blind Faith--and now as a successful solo artist--Winwood has produced highly eclectic songs based on a grafting of blues, folk, experimental rock, and rhythm and blues. His best-known pop hits have all been released since 1981, and his self-produced albums, Arc of a Diver (1981), Talking Back to the Night (1982), and Back in the High Life (1986) have all gone platinum. "That Winwood ... has come through [the 1960s] glory grind with minimal scars is evident in the supple, good-natured funk and romantic electronic-keyboard glaze of his recent work," writes David Fricke in Rolling Stone magazine. "Arc of a Diver and ... Talking Back to the Night are logical high-tech extensions of Winwood's original fusion of American rhythm and blues and European classical and folk traditions with Traffic." 

 Winwood can hardly remember a time when he wasn't singing in front of an audience. The son of a foundry worker, he grew up in blue-collar Birmingham, one of a family of amateur musicians. By the time he was six, Winwood was playing the piano; he joined an Anglican church choir the following year for his first "professional" work. "I used to get a shilling for every wedding," he told People magazine. "That was when I first realized that one can make money out of singing." Schoolwork held no fascination for Winwood. He was consumed by the popular music of the day, especially American blues and the burgeoning rock and roll sound. At eleven he joined a skiffle band, and at fifteen he dropped out of school permanently to join his older brother in a rock band, the Spencer Davis Group. The teenage Winwood provided lead vocals and organ riffs for the Spencer Davis Group, guiding it to a pair of hit singles, "Gimme Some Lovin'" and "I'm a Man." According to Lillian Roxon in her Lillian Roxon's Rock Encyclopedia, it was Winwood's "voice, his songs, his organ and piano work that made Spencer Davis' band soar. I'm a Man and Gimme Some Loving, done under the Davis umbrella, were so black and strong it took a lot of adjusting to get used to the fact that they were coming from a seventeen-year-old English kid from Birmingham." In 1967 Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group to start his own band. With Chris Wood, Dave Mason, and Jim Capaldi he formed Traffic, an experimental psychedelic pop ensemble that drew its musical inspiration from jazz, soul, blues, and folk. Traffic's debut album, Mr. Fantasy, included two British hits, "Paper Sun" and "Hole in My Shoe," and by virtue of Winwood's already-established fame, the group quickly became a favorite. "At its best, Traffic was a band to be reckoned with," writes a Rolling Stone Record Guide contributor. "The first two Traffic albums are late-sixties classics, an eclectic combination ... that was polyglot without ever becoming overextended." Unfortunately, the members of Traffic had disparate musical tastes, and the band changed personnel frequently during its seven-year run. 

Winwood himself quit Traffic briefly in 1970 to play with Blind Faith (a "supergroup" consisting of Winwood, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, and Rick Gretch), but he returned to cut several session albums, including the 1974 When the Eagle Flies. Winwood went solo in 1974, building himself his own personal recording studio on his fifty-acre farm in Gloucestershire. He seemed almost in retirement as the years passed, but instead he was working hard on new material, laying down every track himself at his studio and accepting help only with an occasional lyric. 

In 1977 he released Steve Winwood to unenthusiastic sales. Winwood told People that his first solo effort "got buried," and when time came to cut the next album "it was a make-or-break situation. If it hadn't been for Arc of a Diver, I might be a taxi driver." Indeed, the 1980 Arc of a Diver, with its hit single "While You See a Chance," was a great success both in England and America--even though Winwood refused to tour. A reputation for reclusiveness (and drug abuse) hounds Winwood, although he denies both charges at every turn. He spends so much time at his farm, he says, because he is a perfectionist who makes albums very, very slowly. As for the drug abuse, he told Rolling Stone that he had no interest in drugs during the 1960s or in subsequent years. "I saw what drugs were doing to people," he said of the psychedelic era, "and in most cases I had to suffer the consequences of their substandard work.... I just don't fit into the predominant image of rock and roll. I never quite understood or had the attitude that certain other bands had. We were never really involved with the smashing-up of hotel rooms, the rowdy parties, like the other bands of the period." The 1980s have been a period of resurgence for Winwood. To quote Lisa Robinson in Vogue, the artist "sits comfortably at the top of the rock pantheon, a graceful survivor of an extraordinary number of years in the music business." Winwood has followed Arc of a Diver with two more platinum albums, Talking Back to the Night and Back in the High Life, and he has even undertaken a concert tour after thirteen years off the road. "More and more," he told Rolling Stone, "I see that rock and roll doesn't just need a youthful energy and spirit to it. It also needs a craft, an experience to get it across." 

 Today, Winwood said, his aim is to make music that he likes, hoping that an audience will like it as well. "The point for me is to reach people through what I'm doing," he said. "... If I make music that people might dance to, that's fine with me." He elaborated in High Fidelity: "I try not to aim at an audience. That can be dangerous--you might just miss, and then you haven't got anything. I basically make albums because I like to make them. I like to make successful albums, too, but I make them for my own ear in the hope that other people will like the same things as me." Rock and roll is entertainment", Winwood concluded.

https://www.stevewinwood.com 

Spit It out!

 

Spit It Out! was founded late 1990 upon several band members returning to Varberg, Sweden after living in Los Angeles, CA during 1989-90. They recorded a number of times at the Tuff studio in Gothenburg and released a 7” single in 1991 and a CD in early 1993. Following this and a few changes in line-up the music turned heavier and the band entered Recordia Studios in 1995. This recording (Hear, See & Say No Evil) is briefly mentioned in the feature of Spit It Out! in Janne Starks – The Encyclopedia of Swedish Hard Rock & Heavy Metal.

The band has been on hiatus since 1999 but they’re still friends and you never know, it’s not impossible they might do something in the future...

Phillip Foxley

 

 

Phillip Foxley is a multi-genre songwriter and musician. He writes and produces music from his home studio in Conwy, North Wales, UK.

 

With influences from every corner of the world, Foxley has now released his own debut album entitled “I’ll Try ‘Till I Die”, an eclectic collection of original blistering blues rock guitar and soft acoustic and piano tracks written over the years. Foxley says “Every track on this album means so much and every note is from my very soul”.

 

“This album is like my musical life story. It’s also a ‘big’ album in that there are over twenty tracks on it already and, because I don’t intend to release any more albums, I just keep adding tracks to it as they are released”.

 

 https://linktr.ee/phillipfoxley

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Daggerplay

 

Daggerplay is a Finnish punk rock´n´roll band formed in Helsinki in the end of 2011.

The band´s sound is a combination of punk rock, traditional rock´n´roll and power pop.

Daggerplay are lead vocalist and guitarist Pekko Mantzin, guitarist and vocalist Tommi Luostarinen, bassist and backing vocalist Bryan Ugartechea, and drummer Sirpa Immonen.

The band have played over hundred gigs since they started and playing shows actively.

The second album ´Subterranean Reality´ was released in October 2018.

Discography :

Urban Campfire Songs (album) 2013
Forest Hills / Ruhkarannan Juhannus 1976 (single) 2014
One Mile Town (single and video) 2016
Ghosts (single and video) 2017
Afterlife (single and video) 2017
Cruel Wind Blowing (single and video) 2017
Subterranean Reality (album) 2018
Don´t Give Up (single and video) 2019

Site: www.daggerplay.com

Crash Midnight

 

Rock n’ Roll is back! Formed on the streets of Boston by Shaun Soho (lead vocals) and Alex Donaldson (lead guitar), CRASH MIDNIGHT has burst onto the music scene with vintage guitar riffs, pounding drums, and searing vocals. A collision of classic 70′s festival rock with a punk swagger, their trademark sound is packing clubs and turning heads. In 2018 the band relocated to Las Vegas where they quickly became the city's highest drawing independent rock act. With their exploding following and high-energy stage show, CRASH MIDNIGHT performs with all the reckless abandon of a runaway freight train and is poised to carry the torch for a whole new generation of Rock n’ Roll.

Crash Midnight has toured North America with acts like Sevendust, Adelitas Way, and The Pretty Reckless. The band has headlined all of the major Las Vegas venues including House of Blues, Brooklyn Bowl, The Hard Rock, and most recently began a residency at Fremont Country Club in downtown Vegas -selling out every show to date.  Crash Midnight secured an Artist Deal with Guitar Center and Gibson Guitars.  They make regular TV appearances in Las Vegas on NBC's "Wake Up With The CW," ABC's "The Morning Blend," and Fox 5.    Their single "Don't Need Your Advice" spent 9 months on Spotify's HARD ROCK Playlist, reaching as high as #4.  Current single, "Nothin' To Lose," is featured on Apple Music's "Breaking Hard Rock" Playlist.  Other notable spots include the song "Welcome To Boston" playing at Gillette Stadium during the New England Patriots game 2019 Super Bowl-Winning season and "Diamond Boulevard" used as the title track for the 2020 season of Formula 4 Racing.

www.crashmidnight.com

 

Freya Wolf

 

Freya was born in Aberdare in South Wales in 1978 She lived in Aberdare, Swansea, Carmarthenshire. She moved to Street in 2008 before travelling the UK for two years, with stays in London, Scotland, North and South Wales, Cornwall, Devon, before finally settling in Somerset.

As a classical pianist she was inspired early on by Nina Simone and Beverly Craven. She then found a love for female soul singers. She says "I have varied tastes from rock to reggae, classical piano to drum and bass. However, my all time favourite soul tracks are RESPECT by Aretha Franklin and My Baby Just Cares for Me by Nina Simone. My favourite track from other genres is Brighter Days by Hybrid Minds ft Charlotte Haining."

https://linktr.ee/freyfreywolf

Spudgun Assassins

 

UK Chichester based and formed by Tex Nash, Graham Hutchason, Steve Swatton and Graham Linn, the band have achieved their own style of melodic/mainstream rock.

Initially on forming, the intention was to concentrate on creating a live set of cover tracks in order to start playing live, however the band were immediately drawn into writing their own material which a few are now included in the live set. Although collectively their influences are varied, a natural writing chemistry was obvious from the start and the ‘Spudgun Assassins’ sound has formed naturally.

With an emphasis on strong melodies and hooks, all songs are written, recorded and produced by the band. The ‘Spudgun Assassins’ 6 track EP was the bands first release in 2018.

Plans were in place to start the process of releasing their second EP when tragically in 2021 the band lost their friend and guitarist Hutch to a heart attack. As part of a tribute to Hutch the band have collaborated with his daughter Phoebe Hutchason on keys and long time friend Ally Burnside on guitar to complete their new single release ‘All In My Mind’.

 https://www.spudgunassassins.co.uk

The Scaramanga Six

 

The Scaramanga Six is the brainchild of headstrong siblings Paul and Steven Morricone. Not in any way like your conventional mindless rock-star filth, The Morricone brothers appear more like a pair of polite and softly-spoken, yet viciously intense and sadistic nightclub bouncers. Raised in the Westcountry seaside resort of Weston-Super-Mare on an education of Stranglers records (by elder brothers) and Tony Bennett records (by their Mum), the young Morricone twins discovered there was much fun to be had in crooning and shouting in equal measures. The Scaramanga Six was finally realised in the dark & drizzly backdrop of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire where the band still lurk to this very day.

TyrannoPop? Luxury Rock Noir? Schitzophonic Splattercore? – whatever you want to call it, this suave and enigmatic unit have carved their own scenester-defying niche since the mid-90’s as the most unique and creative underground rock band in the UK. Every one of these individuals is hell-bent on assaulting the ears of the unsuspecting with intense and preposterous rock and roll music. Add ‘prolific’ to their wild claims – over the last decade & a half, the band have relentlessly embarked on a rampant recording spree. The average gestation period for a Scaramanga Six long-player is approximately 2 years – ‘The Terrifying Dream’ is the title of their current (and eighth) studio album, for which The Scaramanga Six decided to use the fantastic PledgeMusic platform to find and release with a hugely successful campaign. For their previous album, ‘Phantom Head’, The Six made an ambitious pilgrimage to Chicago Illinois to record with the best engineer in the world, Mr Steve Albini (Pixies, Nirvana, PJ Harvey, The Stooges, Shellac etc etc) in his own Electrical Audio studio. To get that authentic ‘Albini sound’, the recordings were all done completely live with minimal overdubs onto 2” tape using all analogue equipment and the bare minimum of post-production.

But hot on the heels of ‘The Terrifying Dream’, The Six are currently holed up in their secret underground base preparing a barrage of new material for their ninth studio album, which promises to be the most uncompromising, bloated and lavish offering to date. It seems The Six are entering a zenith of creativity, despite committing the music industry cardinal sins of mostly being over 40 and being around for over a decade.

The self-styled ‘evil pop group’ have been tearing a hole in the arse of the live circuit over recent years with their incendiary rock rituals including key slots at many UK festivals (headline set at Leeds 2007 on the Introducing stage). Their previous few albums have pulverised the minds of critics and also seen releases across Scandinavia, the Germanic countries and Japan, all through the band’s own infamous label – Wrath Records. Bookings at some of the big European festivals have also transpired (Hove Festival, Norway and Peace & Love, Sweden). All the while they have been building up and grooming a legion of die-hard crackpot fans ready to creep out from under logs or something and support the band wherever they play. 

 

 http://www.thescaramangasix.co.uk