Hailing from Northern London, Avelino teamed up with fellow U.K artists Stormzy & Skepta to release a track called "Energy." Their music video is a testament to the name of the track. Having a very low-fi, VHS feel, the video is definitely worth a look, which is why we are happy to showcase it as one of our Video Picks! Be sure to share the love and follow Avelino on social media.
"What's in the box??!?!"
Another killer night from Hunnypot Live!
Hot Tub Johnnie started the night with a premeditated set of hot tracks. Chris Husong from Club M lead the Sampling Session and got in the hot tub to talk about the upscale marijuana subscription box, Orion Simprini gave us felonious pop gems, Punky G brought salvation to the show, CeCe Frey incarcerated the crowd with pop/rock gems and The Tens gave us a life sentence of entertainment to close the live set. At the end Hot Tub returned to the decks to revisit the scene of the crime; We all danced to repent. 3-20-2017
- Jeff Gray
Writer of Music, Maker of Mischief, Love Child of the 1970’s, Modern Day Resister.
Orion began his musical journey in the 1990’s New Jersey music scene. While fronting the psychedelic bubblegum pop band Kitty in the Tree, Orion shared the stage with the likes of Ween, Cake, The White Stripes and The Strokes. Fast forward to New York City circa 2006, Orion started his Supergroup, The Orion Experience. Subsequent albums Cosmicandy, Heartbreaker, NYC Girl, and Children of the Stars produced a handful of indie hits garnering over a million YouTube views and a million Spotify streams. Cool!! Today ORION lives in beautiful Redondo Beach, where he continues to write and record subversive pop songs with a shiny, candy coating.
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A fresh face to Rock & Roll, a breath of fresh air to music—she’s been called everything from a “rock star” to a “fashionista” to a “preacher”. She just simply calls herself a servant.
Gabrianna also known as “P.u.n.k.y. G…”, a Los Angeles native, is a budding entrepreneur, artist and philanthropic visionary. Her experiences and background provide her with an unmatched and diverse style. Her strength, authenticity and sincerity are to be an inspiration to all people, with a developing fan-base transcends race, age and culture.
With a bold yet graceful approach to challenge and confront the status quo, it can sometime be difficult to categorize her into one specific genre between her broad lyrical content and musical diversity. She has developed her unique rap style from taking her original spoken word content and blending them with her original melodies combined with her love for Rock & Roll. She infuses her messages of love, hope, respect, faith, unity, and individuality in melodies that stick, words that matter, chords that unite and lyrics that heal, provoke and restore! Blending various sounds and styles of rock, soul, funk, hip-hop and folk she tends to fall into her own genre. She calls it “Rock Fusion”.
Punky G… is the first of her kind and is undoubtedly an up and coming voice for this generation with a fresh sound and perspective. Providing the world with timeless melodies and timeless content, her music will make you dance, rock, cry, laugh, think, perhaps even change.
Punky loves people, life and fun. She is a creative, prophetic prodigy with a strong commitment to acting, writing and music that all show her passion to impact and change lives and culture.
CeCe is a singer/songwriter originally from a small farm town in southern Illinois, and now residing in Los Angeles where she is gearing up for the release of her new material. CeCe delivers raw, timeless, pop energy with the southern rock flare she was raised on. Her undeniable voice fills a room and captures hearts across all demographics- if you didn't show up as a fan, you're sure to leave as one.
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The Tens are a greasy, blue, soul-funk jazz collective that originated on a street corner in Old Hollywood. They polished their chops on the concrete sidewalk for two years before they started getting booked for gigs. Since then, they've become the resident band at several venues across Los Angeles. The Tens never play the same set twice, they never play a song the same way, and they always play with their heart. They are a living, breathing, organic manifestation of music that will leave you feeling experienced.
Little Dragon never ceases to amaze us with their downtempo beats and dream pop vocals. Their new song “High” is just a taste of their fifth studio album Season High which is set to be released on the 14th of April this year. Little Dragon was first formed in 1996 in Gothenburg, Sweden and continue to release music true to their sound ever since. In 2011 their third album Ritual Union picked up some heat and ranked 41 on Rolling Stone list of the best 50 albums of 2011.
Hot Tub Johnnie opened up his set on his last radio show with their new song “High” and received a lot of love from the community. Be sure to check out their new music video as it is as unique as their sound.
From Paris France, Bastien Laval has released a new single titled "Souvenir" with his Billboard Dance Chart ranking vocalist and friend, Layla.
Already getting remixed by acts such as tyDi and Tim Gartz, Bastien and Layla are eager to show the world that they still got what it takes.
This one is ready to be licensed! Reach on out and we can help you clear the tack for your current project.
Written by Rose Falcon, Lenny Bertoldo, Bastien Laval
Published by Spirit of Nashville One (BMI) / Lil Flossie Music (BMI) admin by Spirit of Nashville One, Nota Lent Songs (BMI), Rocks/ASCAP/Robbins Ent,
“When they play live, THE INTERNET is a band.” That’s the closest thing to a description of The Internet’s music they have currently published, with a minimalist website and only slightly more descriptive facebook page. Formed originally from the partnership between former Odd Future members Syd Tha Kyd and Matt Martians, the band also includes Patrick Paige II, Christopher Smith, and Steve Lacy. The combination is something that I would best describe as sultry R&B with clear Brainfeeder-style funk and hip-hop influences, generating catchy grooves and sexy personal narratives of love and lust.
Perhaps qualifying The Internet as a band when they play live makes sense, specifically due to their emphasis on each member as an individual artist. Their current tour, “The Internet presents: The Internet” focuses as much on their solo work as their most recent album, Ego Death, to mold together a whopping hour and forty-five minute set with no opener. It’s the first group that I’ve seen so confidently support each other’s solo efforts as much as their collaborative work, almost marketing themselves as a super group than a band of their own.
Thus, seeing them in the incredibly intimate, 400-person-capacity New Parish in Oakland never felt like a regular show. Something in the air--between the amicable and down-to-party crowd and the simultaneously confident and personable band members—made being in that room feel like an absolute privilege. Their set revolved around their best-known songs from Ego Death, starting with “Special Affair” and threading songs like “Girl” and “Get Away” between mini-sets devoted to each members solo work. Steve Lacy’s set was my personal favorite, the peak of which featured a personal serenade to an audience member who was celebrating her 20th birthday. Syd Tha Kyd also of course deserves a special mention, who’s cool composure and humble leadership perfectly complimented her soothing, sultry vocals. At just twenty-four years old, she has experience from Odd Future, The Internet, and her solo work, and thus absolutely glows with swave confidence on stage.
Overall, the show is one that could easily draw in a crowd twice the size that The New Parish can fit. The group gelled together with well-rehearsed cohesiveness, pounding out jam after jam and making it so that the crowd never stopped dancing despite their lengthy set. The members each connected personally with the crowd, signing shirts and jackets thrown on stage, responding to comments from the audience, and singing directly to individual fans. Thus, though tickets are selling out incredibly fast at almost every venue, the chance to see The Internet, specifically this tour, cannot be missed.
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Once you click play, you will be greeted with a big smile from our LGBT+ queen CupcakKe in her fur boots. Like her usual viral rap videos, we have heavy beats, arresting lyrics and dazzling colors, but this time CupcakKe amazes us with smoke grenade of colors. We do not want to get smoked, but totally want her kind of smoke out.
You may be able to sense it from the song name, this upbeat tune is written in dedication to a huge part of her fans (Slurpers) and the LGBT+ community. CupcakKe is a female artist, she’s free. And she openly supports her fans to be free.
Last month, according to BuzzFeed, one Twitter user hailed CupcakKe as the “queen of kindness, talent, and support.” People are loving her kind gesture towards her gay teen fan who got kicked out of his house because he was gay. 17-year-old Christian tweeted CupcakKe about his situation out of desperation and guess what? CupcakKe offered him a hotel, and made sure he was warm and safe. “The first thing that came to my mind was not that ‘this is a fan’, but this is someone who is in need,” CupcakKe said. “Someone that’s about to be homeless just like I was at 13 years old.”
Her career being a rapper all started from the $50 her mom gave her to book a studio session for CupcakKe. She made it real by exposing the financial hardship and physical abuse she suffered of her childhood, and pairing them up with heart and creativity.
This 19-year-old Chicagoan is caring, innovative and unstoppable. So far, she has been writing her own songs, directing her own videos, and managing herself as an artist. She got acclamations from Rolling Stone, and listed in Rolling Stone's June 2016 listing of the "Best Rap Albums of 2016 So Far,” as well as recognized by well-known music publications such as Pitchfork, Complex, and The Fader. She went viral by simply being herself.
Her “LGBT” video has over 939,000 views on YouTube, make it a million in dedication to CupcakKe and the LGBT community she supports!
“The LGBT community is human and every human being deserves love and that’s what I’m here to spread at the end of the day.”
-CupcakKe
All water on earth has always been here. Every drink of water you've ever had was once dinosaur urine. If you come out to Hunnypot Live you know urine for an amazing time. Monday night Hot Tub Johnnie roared right in to a killer set of curated music. Jeff Miller guest DJ'd and dug deep in to the mantle for his musical past. Stephen Day Chakra'd the stage, Susy Sun sang with new day solar rays, Reverie partied hard, Mario Jose let his soul music glow, Amy Guess left us with no questions about talent and the world famous dance party book-ended our "epoch" party. 3/06/2017
Jeff Miller is the senior city editor of Thrillist LA, one of the stars of Travel Channel's "Trip Testers," the guitarist/frontman for Black Crystal Wolf Kids, and a longtime music journalist: his byline has appeared in the LA Times, Rolling Stone, Spin.com, and Billboard. Jeff got his start in music in the promotions department at Interscope before seguing into the journalism world, and has covered major music events all over the globe, from Coachella to SXSW to the Red Bull Music Academy in South Africa. He's also dabbled in music management, working on building small local bands' base, and booking, with successful nights at LA venues like The Mint and the Satellite. You can often find him at a show or a new restaurant or a comedy show, where he's always identifiable by a huge laugh -- and a huge beard.
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Sarod player, singer / songwriter and composer Stephen Day writes songs and compositions inspired by his many music tours around the world.
Born in California, and raised in Canada and France, Day began as a guitarist, then studied sarod in India with world-renowned award winning sarodist Amjad Ali Khan.
Day describes the 21-stringed fretless silver-necked sarod as being like the ‘granddaddy of all guitar like instruments’ and playing it as being ‘like taking a rocket ride for the inner soul’.
After India, Stephen spent time touring in Europe and America where he played premier venues including the Kodak Theater in L.A. and Town Hall in N.Y. He then settled in Los Angeles and began to write music for TV and film. His body of work now contains music in 7 films, 4 music libraries, 4 albums and hundreds of television shows.
In 2007 Stephen organized and performed in a concert at the United Nations where his music was featured as a uniting force for ancient civilizations and modern countries in the East and in the West. A return visit is pending.
His latest album, Namaste, a collection of songs about adventure, mysticism and the road less traveled, is produced by two-time Gold Disc Award winner Matt Forger (Michael Jackson, Stephen Spielberg, Paul McCartney), and Shenkar (John Mcglaughlin, Peter Gabriel, voice of NBC's smash hit “Heroes”). It features musical appearances by Matt Malley (Counting Crows), Daryl Jones (Miles Davis, The Rolling Stones), Satnam Singh (Nikka Costa, Hans Zimmer), and Vishwa Mohan Bhatt (Ry Cooder) among others.
Stephen is the founder of “Ombience” a 501 c3 non-profit organization dedicated to self-reflection through the Arts. In addition, he co-founded Arts & Entertainment Radio (AER), the most listened to station in the IBS network of over 45 mostly college radio stations, with well-known broadcaster and musician John Tesh.
Stephen currently resides in Los Angeles where he composes, records with his band and launches music tours.
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Susy Sun road trips South to find her new sound in sunny Los Angeles. From drizzly Seattle to the Golden State, Susy Sun's self-titled EP is a compilation of songs fueled by love lost, a move to California and a newfound sense of freedom. For this project, Sun dropped her traditional classical piano roots, and partnered with LA producer Benjamin Greenspan to create a pop masterpiece that's as catchy, as it is whole-hearted -- From "Girls", a peppy feminist piece, to "Selfish Love", a satirical beachy throwback, to "Pretty Baby," a heart break piano ballad, don't be surprised if, while listening to Susy Sun, you find yourself whistling and shedding a tear all at the same time.
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A San Francisco Bay Area native Mario Jose is a seasoned singer/songwriter, session vocalist, and true entertainer.
Mario has had the privilege to share the stage and studio with music icons including John Legend, Pentatonix, Prince, Meghan Trainor, Justin Bieber, Michael McDonald, Philip Bailey (of Earth, Wind & Fire), John Elefante (of Kansas), Jim Peterick (of Survivor), Bill Champlin (of Chicago), Paula Cole, Lalah Hathaway, Ben E. King, Post Modern Jukebox and many more!
Mario released his first EP of original music ‘Heart Of Gold’ in October 2016 and has just finished as emcee and featured vocalist on Post Modern Jukebox’s US winter tour.
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The family moved to Las Vegas when Guess was 12. She played the lounges in cover bands and landed a job as a singing gondolier at the Venetian Hotel while still in high school.
One of the demos she made using karaoke tracks got the attention of Darren Sher. He produced her first album, Coming Up for Air, a collection of rock tunes that got local attention, but she was already moving on. “I wanted to blend EDM and pop to write songs with a big, emotional sound.”
A meeting with producer Rusty Varenkamp led to “Moonlight,” the single that put her on the map. They began working on Ten Times Out of Ten soon thereafter. Guess will spend most of 2017 on the road with her band, touring to support the EP.
Hot from her success as a Top 12 finalist of NBCs ‘The Voice, singer songwriter Ohio native Emily Keener is on her own with her new record, “Breakfast.” On the first video single “Elevator,” the 18 year old sings with a depth that belies her age. The stark imagery of the video is a perfect match for the simple, concise arrangement and sets the mood for this intimate break up/kiss off song. Come hear Emily at The Mint as she joins the Hunnypot Live line up on 1 May!
This video pick is coming at ya via young artist Jane Ellen Bryant, hailing from Austin, Texas. The song, “Twenties” released last year explores the universal trials and tribulations of Western young-adulthood verging on the cusp of full fledged adulting. Bryant’s music is a melodious blend of pop and rock, tied together with her strong, twangy voice. Navigating the turbulent waters of social lives, full time jobs, bills, the marriage of your peers, moving back in with parents, and college (or lack thereof), Bryant speaks to the confusion of the 20s in a person’s life. In her mid-twenties herself, Bryant possesses a first hand insight to this age of transition. The video is a visual representation of all this, cut together with shots in a bouncy castle and on a velcro wall to help accent the contrast and serve as a reminder that not so long ago, people in their twenties were in high school with much different concerns (and may be nostalgic for childhood).
Jane Ellen Bryant has three releases currently, including her most recent single, “All In My Head” which just dropped on February 17th. Her talent attracted Grammy-nominated producer Chris “Frenchie” Smith (formerly of the band Young Heart Attack) who touts her incredible voice. Bryant will be performing at Hunnypot Live on May 1st, come out to The Mint and hear it for yourself!
Were you unlucky enough to miss our Sampling Sessions on January 23rd 2017 at the Mid City Music Lounge? Our event was co-hosted with Hey Jackpot and featured products from sponsors Sensi-Chew, Evoxe Labs, Califari, and Verde Essentials. Watch this teaser shot by Jeano Brooks and Ryan Taalbi (Media Liberated) and edited by Jeffrey Perez de Leon to catch up on some of the action.
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