On a sunny Tuesday afternoon I met with Santa Barbara-based Indie Rock artist Alexandra Riorden. With a selection of new singles and her debut LP “Angel City Radio” releasing on June 25th, I’m eager to get into the details of her creative process leading to this project. READ MORE…
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Under the Radar debuts Anna Ash’s new single “What the Light Can Do,” calling it a “stark and beautiful reflection”
Michigan-born and LA-based singer/songwriter Anna Ash is back this week with her latest EP, Fire Season, releasing June 25th. Coming shortly after L.A. Flame, her 2019 full-length album, and Oldies, her 2020 EP, her latest EP was recorded under COVID isolation at Eli Crews’ home studio in the Catskill Mountains, building out the personal and reflective elements long present in Ash’s music to new heights. Ash has already shared a handful of new singles from the record, but she is now back with one last taste of the EP before it releases, “What the Light Can Do,” premiering with Under the Radar.
With “What the Light Can Do,” Ash crafts a song of gently rising beauty and barely controlled pain. Singing in a gorgeous trembling twang, Ash contemplates God, riches, and her future, questioning her path but finding small comforts in simple joys like the morning light shining through the window. Ash’s pastoral guitar passages and contemplative vocals are further filled out by twinkling piano lines and swelling gospel vocals, adding warmth and presence to the cold isolation of the track. The result is a stark and beautiful reflection, an honest expression of Anna Ash’s heartfelt sorrow and hesitant hope
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American Songwriter premieres GoldenOak’s new single “Ash”
“Oh gosh, it’s a sad story, the loss of a keystone species in the Maine woods,” Zak Kendall tells American Songwriter in an interview about GoldenOak’s latest song “Ash”—premiering today (June 16). The single is their fourth and final single ahead of the Maine-based duo’s forthcoming album Room To Grow, due out June 25. READ MORE…
Psychedelic Baby Magazine debuts NEW single from Giovanni Carnuccio III, “Everybody Just Calm Down”
New single from Austin, TX electronic and experimental pop artist Giovanni Carnuccio III, mixes elements of psych-rock, trip-hop, jazz, and Ennio Moriconne.
Exclusive video & interview: Ditty TV catches up with Anna Ash on new EP Fire Season, her Michigan roots & why saying “jeez o petes” in L.A. won’t make you friends with the bartender
On June 25, Michigan-born, Los Angeles-based musician Anna Ash will release her new EP titled Fire Season, featuring songs recorded and mixed at Eli Crews’ home studio in the Catskill Mountains with her friend Eric Kuhn in November of 2020. “Even though we had taken all the necessary covid precautions,” says Ash, “I was still like, ‘Man, let’s just have our own little zones, I’ll stay in my room, you stay in yours, and Eli stays in the control room, and let’s see if we can function.’ And we did. It was really surprising actually how well we could play together without seeing each other.”
To learn more about the story behind the new EP and to get to know Ash better in general, we caught up with her for a 5 Questions feature, as well as invited her to perform something for us from Fire Season. She chose to deliver a lovely and vocally impressive song about “how destructive doing nothing can be” called “Dress Rehearsal” and shared some fun and enlightening answers to our questions, including why saying “jeez o petes” in L.A. won’t make you friends with the bartender.