This week’s video pick comes from HONNE with their track Me & You ◑ and it’s giving us all the feel-good summer vibes and is sure to kick start your summer feeling; even if you’re more of a June Gloom person, you definitely won’t be able to get this tune out of your head once you’ve heard it.
The British duo outdoes themselves this track they made in collaboration with the always smooth Tom Misch and feauturing him on the guitars. The smooth synths, hooky guitar and funky bass come alive with the lively dance moves of South Korean dance company ¡NTRO Dance Company, who landed the gig after the duo saw them dancing to another track of their earlier this year.
The track comes off their single Me & You ◑ / I Just Wanna Go Back ◐, all gearing up towards their next album Love Me, Love Me Not, which is out on August 24th. They’re currently on world tour this album, be sure to catch them live on Sept. 20th, 2018 at the Novo by Microsoft in Los Angeles.
-Adolfo Zepeda
This video pick is a no-brainer: Straight-up Rock and Roll - check, a song to have on repeat - check, badass music video showcasing the band’s personality - check! Enjoy music from Them Evils with their song Got Me Rockin’, off their latest EP Rollin' Stoned and Livin' Free.
It’s no mystery why Them Evils has been endorsed and supported by rock icon Zakk Wylde, with rock and roll that’s as iconic as it is fresh. The influence of acts like Led Zeppelin, AC/DC and Queens of the Stone Age can be felt but you can’t call them derivative; Them Evils is a sound for this generation but rocks every bit as hard as their predecessors and they’ve been proving it on tour with acts like Zakk Wylde’s Zakk Sabath, Pretty Reckless, 10 years and Alter Bridge for the past 4 years.
And you don’t have to look no further than the next Hunnypot Live at The Mint, on June 25th 2018, to see what this tour proven live act sounds like; just be ready to rock as hard as they do.
-Adolfo Zepeda
I always thought a Hand So Low was just masturbation. Hunnypot Live #392 rode the coat tails of a Star Wars Story opening weekend and we might have done better numbers. . . . Hot Tub Johnnie took off from an intergalactic music space port and hardly smuggled in some song gems with his fist DJ Set. Our celebrity guest Mason Reese brought imperial force of talent and personality in the hot tub to talk about his acting, overall entertainment career, and played a super funk fest DJ set. Pacific Radio set our dials to stun with an over the top rock n roll spectacle, Old_Sport got their jolly's rodgering us with their brand of anthemic music, Dead Poet Society brought life, lyrics, melody and rhythms to their musical performance (and were enthusiastically forced in to an encore), Kevin Michael & The New Jack Twang were in "country" at Hunnypot to entertain us, JackEL created a people magnet that crowded the dance floor for his electronic music extravaganza and Hot Tub finished the night off with more dance party music for America. 05/28/2018
Audio Available Soon Photos by J. Gray, R. Taalbi, Camille Recap by J. Gray
Mason Reese was a child star of the 1970s. His television commercials and appearances, combined with talent and a unique look, catapulted him to pop icon status.
Between the years of 1969 to 1984, Mason was everywhere you looked. Being a veteran of over 75 commercials, seven of which won Clio awards, including the coveted best male actor Clio. Mason was a guest on countless variety and talk shows, his charm and sense of humor made him a fan favorite on the Mike Douglas Show of which Mason appeared over 25 times and Co hosted three separate weeks. Mike dedicated many pages to Mason in his autobiography, and claimed that Mason received the highest ratings in the history of the show. Mason also graced the covers of every major magazine including the ever popular T.V. Guide. When Mason was 7, he was hired by WNBC, in New York, to be a contributing field reporter and present family oriented pieces for the newscast.
Mason went on to film a sitcom pilot for ABC, called "Mason" in 1977, and was a regular guest on Howard Cossell's variety show. Mason then went on to be a regular contributor to Howard Sterns first television show, and was a frequent radio guest as well.
Over the years Mason has been a "go to" guest for panel discussions and talk shows, when the subject matter was favorite commercial or child stars, including the Today Show, Good Morning America, Jenny Jones, Midday Live, A.M. New York, A.M. Los Angeles, Dick Cavett, People Are Talking, Wonderama, the Regis Philbin Show, and Phil Donahue, and Leeza Gibbons.
In recent years Mason has been featured on VH1, Child Star Confidential on E!, and was a guest presenter on TV Lands first award ceremony.
“You know those bands that the moment you get to the first chorus of their first song you realize, holy f*ck, they are gonna be HUGE. Introducing, Pacific Radio. With a penchant for big freaking hooks, thundering bass lines and singalong choruses, they remind me of The Killers, Weezer, the Airborne Toxic Event, Eagles of Death Metal and early Foo Fighters all poured into one flaming mojito.”
~Keith Creighton (Pop Dose)
Pacific Radio is a sonic collision of energetic garage rock with L.A. heartbreak. It's origins can be traced back to when Joe Robinson (singer/ guitar) and Joe Stiteler (bass) left L.A. punk band The Ringers in search of a more dynamic sound and space. The duo grew to a quartet with the addition of Kyle Biane (Guitar) and Hyke Shirinian (Drums). Stiteler, Biane and Shirinian created the perfect backdrop for Robinson’s catchy melodies.
After the release of their debut EP, 2017 saw the band hit the road with their wildly charismatic live show. From their home base in L.A. to Austin to Seattle to Napa’s Bottlerock Music Festival, the band began winning over fans from festivals to dive bars.
Between tour dates, the band retreated to the studio with Grammy nominated engineer and producer, Eric Weaver, putting the finishing touches on their upcoming full length album “Pretty, but Killing Me”. They diligently transformed their songs from wild rock show crowd-pleasers into a meticulously crafted record inspired by their heroes.
"Pacific Radio is a band that listeners will fall in love with from their Pop Rock to Punk Rock tempos and upbeat sound. Even with a theme around heartache and love each song has its own sound and style.” ~Alexis Coleman (Side Stage Magazine)
"...even though I hadn’t heard a single song from this band, their performance had me dancing like a maniac before the first song even finished" ~Kylie Banks (The Music Court)
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OLD_SPORT is a five piece folk-grunge rock band forged in LA with roots to NYC. Formed to create the soundtrack for the award-winning independent film ELSEWHERE. They have played multiple headlining shows over the past 6 months on both coasts including: The Troubadour, Hotel Cafe, Pianos, and Mercury Lounge. They’ve just completed a 3 song EP with Steve Kille of Dead Meadow producing. "Burning Cigarettes" is the 1st single. "Ain't So Crazy" is the next.
DEAD POET SOCIETY are an unlikely group of wierdos who like to make noise together; A punk on bass, a U2 lover on guitar, a kid who used to listen to nothing but Bob Dylan on vocals, and an absolute percussion nerd on jazz flute (we know its weird but he’d rather play flute then drums). And our hometowns are as different as our interests, from all over the country serendipity brought us together drinking beer on the same couches in college, in Boston MA. Nothing more then acquaintances at first, a disastrous first tour made us brothers for life. Now we try to just make whatever we want and stay inspired by new things everyday. Books, history, the macabre, art, foreign films, skating and surfing, video games, and shenanigans stoke us out to make music. Stay tuned for a new album in 2018.
Jack "Sheezecake" Underkofler - Vox, Rhythm Guitar
Will "Lone Shock" Goodroad - Drums
Nick "CuckNine" Taylor - Bass Guitar, Backing Vox
Jack "Fork Gnar" Collins - Lead Guitar, Backing Vox
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Kevin Michael, born and raised in the south, New Orleans, Louisiana the youngest of five. A singer songwriter who comes from a musical family.
My father and my mother as well as my sister are all very musical inclined, I guess that's where I got it from.
This is a story about a boy who had a dream. And the ones to thank for it first and foremost, I'd like to thank God for all my many blessings. In giving me the strength and the determination to be able to do what I love.
I'd like to thank my family for all their support. My mother for always believing in me and my beautiful wife for never giving up on me. To my daughter, you make me the proudest father in the world,having you let's me know I've been truly blessed.
Hello friends, Hot Tub Party is kicking into summer so I'm proud to present our newest Hunnypot Artist Single compilation. Ten hot new releases for 2018, we're crossing genres while presenting some of the coolest emerging artists out there.
Vol. 26 features new signings Teenage Bottlerocket, Sky Cries Mary, OLD_SPORT and J.D. Wilkes. There are also fresh singles from favorites Grace Blue, The BellRays and Michete. As a bonus, Vol. 25 includes two active Pop/Club singles from the Robbins Ent. label. Please support what we do here at Hunnypot by supporting the artists we represent for licensing and placement.
-John Hot Tub Anderson
Michete - Touch It
Grace Blue - Nowhere to Go
Those Who Burn - Loppe Cirkus
The BellRays - Bad Reaction
Sky Cries Mary - Ugly Stick
Teenage Bottlerocket - They Call Me Steve
J.D. Wilkes - Walk Between the Raindrops
Little Coyote - Daylight Twilight
OLD_SPORT - Burning Cigarettes
Ghost Of Jericho - Holy Ghost
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike - Wakanda (WARRIORS Remix)
A-Minor - Fluid (feat. Iris Gold)
The Songery - Hey Hey (Acoustic Demo)
Location: Spokane, WA
Genre: Dance/Sexy/Club/Rap
Sounds like: Euro dance music without German accents a la Fischerspooner
Location: Los Angeles, CA by way of Israel
Genre: Pop/Dance/Alternative
Sounds Like: Sia & Florence + the Machine
Location: Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK
Genre: Experimental Rock
Sounds Like: Joy Division asked to write Black Mirror theme
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Rock n Roll Full Frontal style
Sounds Like: Aretha Franklin fronting MC5 or The Stooges
Location: Seattle, WA
Genre: Psychedelic/Punk
Sounds Like: Lou Reed, Velvet Underground
Location: Laramie, Wyoming
Genre: Classic Pop/Punk
Sounds Like: The Ramones of Wyoming/Ode to Minecraft
Location: Paducah, KY
Genre: Southern Gothic madness, with a carnival barker front-man
Sounds Like: Crazed, bug-eyed combination of rockabilly, hillbilly and country blues
Location: Toronto, Canada
Genre: Indie-pop, female vocals
Sounds Like: London Grammar
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Indie Rock
Sounds Like: Beachy garage rock reminiscent of early Kings of Leon at times
Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Genre: Dark and dreamy Pop
Sounds Like: A dreamy walk through a forest of synths
Location: Tel Aviv
Genre: Club/Dance, Party
Sounds Like: Otto Knows & Tiesto
Location: London, UK
Genre: Electronic, House, Party
Sounds Like: House music with dash of world sounds
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Genre: Pop, singer-songwriter
Sounds Like: Pop with traces of a musical theater background a la GaGa
NICK AND THE OLD SPORT is a four piece bi-coastal soul-rock band. Formed to create the soundtrack for the award-winning independent film ELSEWHERE, they have since headlined legendary clubs on both coasts, including The Troubadour in L.A. and The Mercury Lounge in Manhattan. The band releases new singles regularly.
NICK AND THE OLD SPORT is Nick Vergara, Brian Williams, Keith Roenke, and Michael Maio.
Hunnypot is proud to be NICK AND THE OLD SPORT's official sync representative controlling both Masters & Publishing, ask John Anderson about LICENSING!
Attention fellow QUEEN lovers, this week saw the release for the official biopic Bohemian Rhapsody film trailer, We can't wait! Earlier this year a new video was generated for the 40 year anniversary, to the original News Of The World album track, sung by Brian May. The visualization was created by Unanico Studios (Directors Jason Jameson & Robert Milne, Producer Paul Laikin), in collaboration with Brian, and stars Brian’s childhood pet cat Pixie.
Bohemian Rhapsody will be in Theaters November 2, 2018. Cast: Rami Malek, Lucy Boynton, Gwilym Lee, Ben Hardy, Joseph Mazzello, Aiden Gillen, Tom Hollander, and Mike Myers
Bohemian Rhapsody - 20th Century FOX
Our video pick for the week comes from the Aussie quartet Confidence Man and a song from their latest album Confident Music for Confident People and you can’t deny there is confidence here. The band’s party sound is an homage to 2000’s alt-disco acts like CSS and electronic acts from the same era as Fatboy Slim. But the 90’s is strong here too, the influences of bands like Deee-lite can’t be missed especially with a video as out there as this one. “There’s not enough dork in dance music these days”, they told NME in a interview earlier this year and sure enough there’s a lot of dance in this video. If this is the sound you were looking for the weekend, be sure to check out their latest album Confident Music for Confident People.
-Adolfo Zepeda
Sky Cries Mary is an American psych rock/cosmic music group from Seattle, Washington, formed in the late 1980s by Roderick Wolgamott and Ben Ireland. Early band influences included European Industrial music bands like Einstürzende Neubauten, COIL, Test Department, and 1970’s glam/punk artists like Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, and David Bowie. Notable band alumni include Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow of The Posies, vocalist Anisa Romero, Michael Cozzi (Shriekback), Jon ‘Juano’ Davison (later of Yes and Glass Hammer), and Gordon Raphael (producer for The Strokes). In 2017, Ben and Roderick reformed the band along with Ron Rudzitis (Love Battery) and Kurt Danielson (TAD), recording the first batch of songs for the new record along with noted producer Jack Endino (these tracks include War Song, Prayers and Curses, Ugly Stick, and the Velvet Underground’s I Can’t Stand It). Subsequently, Ben and Roderick created the current incarnation of Sky Cries Mary, drafting Jack Endino (Skin Yard), Curt Eckman (The Walkabouts), Kevin Whitworth (Love Battery), and Debra Reese.
The new Sky Cries Mary album, Secrets of a Red Planet, is available now. Hunnypot is proud to be Sky Cries Mary's official licensing agent. Check out the new album tracks and classics below:
Hunnypot Live flows hotter than car "eating" lava. Show #391 was another molten burner.
Hot Tub oozed and rumbled through a vulcanized opening DJ set. Jonathan Palmer donned his heat reflective suit and got in to the VERY hot tub to talk about his music career from major label band to music supervisor and more. Good.To.Go blasted live drums rap tracks, The Songery returned to break our hearts and shake our butts, supergroup jackiO proved their pedigree for pop, rock and jams, Rit$y cooled us with hip hop flavors and the night finished with a world famous Hot Tub Johnnie DJ dance set. 05/14/2018
Jonathan Palmer is a music industry veteran whose diverse experience encompasses music supervision, licensing, management, A&R, publishing, songwriting, production, and live performance.
Palmer has held key posts with Columbia Records, SONGS Music Publishing, Sanctuary Records, Sony/ATV and Bug Music. He has worked with artists including Adele, Beyoncé, Daft Punk, John Legend, MGMT, AC/DC, Foster the People, Jack White, St. Paul & the Broken Bones, Thievery Corporation, Ryan Adams, Tegan and Sara, Rosanne Cash, Los Lobos and Sam Phillips. His consulting clients include Riptide Music Group, Faction Management, and WAX LTD, among others.
His music supervision and consulting credits include the new series "Ugly Delicious" for Netflix, as well as projects for Apple, HBO, MTV, ABC and NBC. His numerous soundtrack credits include the Oscar- and Grammy-winning documentary “20 Feet from Stardom."
Palmer is also lead vocalist for the lounge-pop band Love Jones.
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HipHop, Words, Creativity, Unity and the DIY Mentality are all part of the George Ellett p.k.a. Good.To.Go lifestyle. Having played in different bands over the years ranging from funk, to reggae, with Punk Rock at its core, has given Good.To.Go a unique style and original voice that stands out on each track. Now on the brink of channeling his voice and message through the music of HipHop, Good.To.Go wants to push boundaries further while spreading good vibes and further thinking with meaningful lyrics and charismatic shows.
Create. Embrace. Enjoy!
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Writing songs that deal with every color and nuance of life, The Songery aims to push mental boundaries through genre-bending pop and theatrics. The concepts, ideas, and messages behind the songs are more important than the songs themselves and every move, every sound, every visual is developed with care and intent in a final attempt to peel back the mask that humanity can so easily wear.
When asked why one person would decide to call herself “The Songery” she replies, “The Songery is more than a persona. It is a call to arms, a spearhead signaling for spiritual awakening, symbolic of an ideology that the world seems to be lacking severely and yet constantly surrounds us. For this reason, my project is grounded in story-line, integrity, concept, and character. I feel very secondary- as if I am the one driving the car, and it’s my car… but I am not the car. The Songery is a name I feel very intertwined with, I feel it so perfectly encapsulates the whimsical world I strive to show people. I’m not quite there yet. I’m still developing, completely on my own, so it is a process… but I’ll get there.”
-I also feel the name gives me freedom to play with all these abstracts and to adopt such a wide range of tones and subject matter. Some very light, some very dark, ranging substantially in color yet all unified within this world. I have been writing songs and performing since I was a little girl, and never really had the belief that I could or should be trying to make a career out of it… until The Songery came along. It sparked a purpose within me. I believe in The Songery with such passion that I want to keep fighting until I see it realized. The Songery comes with power to me. It is more than me. It is bigger than me. If I forfeited the name, the music would not feel the same. Nothing would feel the same. It would not be the same.
The Songery loves Jonsi, Sigur Ros, Regina Spektor, Danny Elfman, Queen, Nick Cave and Warren Ellis, Beethoven, all the random hits of the 80s, and pretty much any film score.
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Steve Bartek (Oingo Boingo, Elfman etc.)
Ira Ingber (Dylan, Robert Altman etc.)
John Avila (Oingo Boingo, Neil Young, Willie Nelson etc.)
Dave Raven (Keith Richards,Norah Jones, T-bone Burnett etc.)
It's That Simple!
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