In the wake of the splash left behind by their return from a five year hiatus, dream pop trio Emmecosta stays true to their enigmatic sound on their intoxicating new single ‘UmaybeU’, dropping on 18th November via Icons Creating Evil Art as their second single of the calendar year.Hailing from the coastal Italian village of Positano, the post-club troop has been reclusively living and creating in Sweden since 2015. Only this year has two thirds of the outfit moved back to their home country, setting up shop in Milan and gearing to re-embrace their Italian roots while simultaneously blending them with their cultivated Swedish...

Norwegian-New York bubble punk hybrids Lazy Queen are getting tired of the seemingly endless churn of music releases - fatigued by the facelessness of it, all squeezed out and gone in a flash by the next week. And that’s why Lazy Queen will be launching their next single “Option To Nothing” via video chat services Omegle and ChatRoulette on Wednesday 16th November. From 7pm CET on either chat service, Lazy Queen will unleash the fast-paced, attitude-laden new banger to an unsuspecting global audience in the hours leading up to its release on DSPs. Those who are lucky enough to land in Lazy Queen’s chat will be instantly transported into the LQ...

Jesse Malin will be marking his 20th anniversary as a solo artist with a UK and European tour celebrating his acclaimed 2003 debut album, The Fine Art of Self Destruction.  Jesse and his band will perform the album in its entirety, plus music from his latest album Sad and Beautiful World, and beyond.  Special guest Tommy Stinson of The Replacements will open the tour.  The UK tour follows a 2022 performance at Glastonbury, a run with Brian Fallon and sold-out headlining dates.   The Fine Art of Self Destruction will be reissued in early 2023 with a bonus disc of the entire album re-recorded and...

Raine Seville came to national attention in 2007 after fellow dancehall artiste Sernai "discovered her" while parked in her car singing. Armed with the support from Sernai and her then partner fellow artist Bugle she recorded and released some of what were the most popular songs of their time. Influenced by entertainers such as Whitney Houston, Lauryn Hill, Tupac Shakur, Tanya Stevens, Lady Saw, Bugle and Serani, Raine hopes to one day reach their levels of success. PAPA SOUND is a Swedish producer duo focused on creating bass driven, dancehall, afrobeat, and reggae tunes. Founded by Patrik Arve and Paolo Albo, Papa Sound became a duo in the year 2020. The name PAPA comes from their given...

  Tollef is an aspiring Norwegian producer and guitarist with love for funky guitar licks and lush synth chords. Having released on several prominent dance music labels, he has already established himself in the scene with a unique blend of nu-disco, indie dance and house. The synth leads typically heard in dance music are replaced by funky guitar licks that are destined to float your boat on a summer's day, and Tollef works and lives under the motto "Dance music needs more guitar". he explains the collaboration with Glamour Hammer: - "Why Don't You Call Me?" is really well written both lyrically...

  “The whole thing was a freak accident,” Sean Keel says of the unlikely set of circumstances that led to the release of the Austin-based singer-songwriter’s raw, starkly evocative record, A Dry Scary Blue, with the independent Stockholm-based  label, Icons Creating Evil Art.  “I’ve got four records on Bandcamp; basically no one has listened to any of them; and now I’m putting one out with a record company. An actual record company! From Sweden!” A Dry Scary Blue introduces a distinctive, wholly individual singer-songwriter who, despite living in a legendary roots-music mecca, has honed his craft far from the public eye.  Keel’s raw, evocative...