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Cletus Romp Out Now on Musik and Film

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January 22, 2013
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CLETUS ROMP SELL SOME SNAKE OIL

By definition, snake oil is any number of various substances or mixtures sold as medicine (as by a traveling medicine show) usually without regard to their medical worth or properties. The men of Cletus Romp are carrying the phrase into the modern times, taking their tunes out of the back of a wheeled wagon and shilling what is good for what ails you on their debut, Snake Oil.

Cletus Romp are caregivers. Their regard for the music delivered on Snake Oil assures and gives good Alt Country and Roots’ bedside manner. Where the band slides into the dictionary description of their album title is the mixing pot of music used to concoct audio potions. The sound on Snake Oil borrows liberally from classic rock, rock and soul, swamp grooves and back porch jams echoing the shimmies, slides, and shakes of a million guitar-driven groups, present and past. The band proudly wear their love of Creedence, Motorhead, Drive-By Truckers, Tom Waits, and Motown.

Cincinnati, Ohio is where Cletus Romp calls home. Their traveling show foregoes setting up in the town square, but they nonetheless bear the form and feel of torch-lit tents and soul-saving gospel. Derek Stinson (slide guitar, piano) and Tim Golliher (guitar, banjo) share vocal duties. Mark Karapondo (bass) and Adam Brokamp (drums) anchor the rhythm, while Ryan Moore keeps it real by adding assorted junkyard percussion.

Snake Oil slides into action with the album’s opener, “Tin Roof”. And here is where Cletus Romp show their hand immediately. “Tin Roof” features dual vocals, and a constant and ever-present slide guitar, complemented by a cacophony of banging and beating on percussion. It sets a pace that the band carries well. “Coming Home” moves in like riverbank fog as it leads you along highway roads back to your own bed; “Wicked Left Hand” is a guttural groove fest; “Farmyard” slides along for a tale of the past, and “Floater” stays true to its rhythm-only arrangement as banjo notes keep the beat allowing a variety of percussion to have their sway. The band mellows into a steamy crawl for the appropriately titled “Lullaby”.  The vocals add a tender touch as a jangly guitar rides a steady dream beat.

Styles and manner of deliverance aside, Cletus Romp offer an honest brand of Alt Country that keeps artists like Mojo Nixon and Jimbo Mathus on the dashboard for saintly inspiration. They will get under your skin…maybe there is something to that medicine after all.                              Danny McCloskey/RA

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The Matthew Davidson Band

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December 28, 2012
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The Matthew Davidson Band – “Rock and Roll Christmas” by George Thorogood – Natchitoches, LA


“Wonder kid Matthew Davidson may only be 14 but he definitely knows a little something about the blues. After recently releasing his EP album, Step Up, a four track blues-rock album including an electric cover of Jimmy Eat World’s early 2000s pop classic hit, “The Middle,” Davidson has become something of a name worth talking about. His unprecedented knack for music along with the mentorship and influence of renowned veteran musician Joe Osborn has helped him put his guitar/musical skills on full throttle. Davidson is only in the first stages, chalking out his path to blues-pop, rock stardom. After less than a decade of playing, Davidson has become an award-winning guitarist and vocalist. He has been planting his name all over the airwaves from being the chosen guitarist of Kidd Kraddick’s “Rock Band Camp” to accepting the 2011 Robert Johnson Blues Foundation New Generation Award. Stage hopping around the Southern states, the Shreveport, La. native and his four-piece band, The Matthew Davidson Project, has an ever growing list of festival performances including: The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, The Natchitoches Jazz/R & B Festival, The T-Bone Walker Blues Fest in Linden, Texas and headlining the 2011 Mississippi Blues Marathon in Jackson, Miss. Step Up is only a taste of what is to come for Matthew. His mature funk’d out guitar skills are inevitably demonstrative of this kids natural talent and devotion to music. You’ll never hear another 14-year-old hone that Louisiana Southern blues-funk rhythm the way that Davidson has.” -Kimmie Tubre ( “Step Up” Review in Where Y’at Magazine – New Orleans, LA – Dec. 19th, 2012)

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Musik and Film Artists in top 100 tracks of 2012!

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December 17, 2012
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The NBT Music Radio’s Top 100 Tracks/Singles of 2012

by Martin Nbtproject

Terranovacain #18 TERRANOVACAIN – An Odd Place To Be
#46 TERRANOVACAIN –  Put It In My Mind
babble #38  BABBLE – The Divine Discontent
beaulieu #59 BEAULIEU PORCH – Navy Blue

As I worked on this list, I found there was a rather radical difference in mood and temperament to the selection, as opposed to the Album list.. Pop and the so called ‘mainstream’ perked  their goofy heads up more than once. A lot of Indie Kids would frown at this, but to me, there is probably nothing harder in this world than writing a good song for ma and pa and their 2.5 children to sing along to on their way to work. That doesn’t mean I have left out the eccentric and the noisy, they are here too J and this list was WAY harder than even the Album chart as at least a third more Artists that submitted work to us this year didn’t have albums, just a song or two, so much more to sift through and find the true gold.

As Always you can find ALL these songs on the 24 hour stream that is the NBTMusicRadio

http://nbtmusicradio.playtheradio.com/

View the article and entire 100 at this link:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/martin-nbtproject/the-nbtmusicradios-top-100-trackssingles-of-2012/440229202710632

 

 

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Australian 18 year old “next superstar” arrives in US!

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December 8, 2012
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Tamika Kaspar Signs Exclusive Record  Deal with US Label Musik and Film.

Talented 18 year old Tamika has signed an exclusive three year production, distribution and promotion deal with US based Musik and Film, Inc.  Tamika’s first EP will feature original songs composed by Tamika or written for her by Musik and Film’s multi-talented production team of Stephen Wrench, Jon Wilkes and Terry Nails. 
The 5 track EP will be released digitally by the Orchard with 7000 retail outlets in 243 countries.  World-wide physical distribution will be done by The Orchard/Sony.  Musik and Film plans to push all five songs from the EP to over 15,000 radio stations in 60 countries through their exclusive in house Musik Radio Promotions.
Production is slated to begin in December of 2012. The EP will be released to the world in Jan of 2013.   Jon Wilkes of red Jump Suit Apparatus says, “I recently finished the Warped Tour and know if Tamika was on this tour she would have been overwhelmingly received. Tamika has a great voice and delivery and is sure to become an international success!” 
To learn more about this exciting new artist visit: http://www.facebook.com/MikaMusicOfficial
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Radio Promotions Wall of Success Updates!

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December 3, 2012
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Wall of Success

Our promotions program has been a great success!  Just look what Musik and Radio Promotions is doing for our artists! The below station count includes syndicated stations and networks. This includes FM, AM, College and Internet airplay around the world


Adrianna Freeman, has charted in Europe’s top 100!   She is nearing the 11,000 station mark!

7 Horses “You know I’m Gonna Miss You” in the Americana and adult contemporary genre  is up to 541 stations.

Rock group Rone Kaos (Australia) are up to 438 station mark!  That’s almost double from last week!

Freddie Stone formerly of Sly and the Family Stone is out to Christian stations around the world 372  to be exact!

Blues artist RB Stone is up to 521 stations!

Country artists Hangin with Stogie have broken the 1000 station mark!

Singer/Songwriter KC Hurt  in his second week of promotion has exceeded 356 stations all over the world.

Jazz Legend Dave Appell & Friends  with 359 radio stations!

Blue grass award winning Fiddler Tim Smith is at 653 stations!

Sam McClain –  is playing on 367 stations.

JJ Crowne – Up to 676 stations worldwide!

Stephen Foster and Howler with 2200 radio stations!

World renowned Gwyn Ashton with at 367 stations.

UK Artist Amy Sinha with 347 stations!

Australian Pop Star Nicole Taylor playing 1280 stations!

Spearmint Fur with 331 stations.

Country Christmas single by Christina Reese with 426 stations.

Southern Rock group Cletus Romp with 363 stations.

Alternative Rock band The Carnival Kids playing on 321 stations.

Rock group Push with 376 stations.

 

 

 

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Welcome PUSH to Musik and Film!

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November 24, 2012
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PUSH Signs with Musik And Film Records and Releases Their Debut Single

 

Former front man for Head East and Steele has hot new record deal with stunning new band called “PUSH”

Musik And Film Records is excited to announce the signing of PUSH to Music And Films stable of international recording artist. PUSH’s first release is “ALL TORE UP”, a classic start for a great modern band.
PUSH is lead by world renowned frontman, J. Jaye Steele, formerly of Head East, Sweet Savage and Steele, with Tommy
Yates, formerly of Bullet Boys on bass/vocals, Mark Chang, formerly of Tattooed Love Child on guitar/vocals and session
great Jeff Miles on drums/vocals.
Formed in late 2010, PUSH has already shared their music with hundreds of thousands of fans thanks to recent concert
appearances with Cheap Trick, Skid Row, Quiet Riot, Great White, Eddie Money, Gin Blossoms, Tonic, Foghat, Blue Oyster
Cult, Eve 6, Fabulous Thunderbirds, .38 Special, Meatloaf and many more all within two years.
PUSH and Musik And Film Records https://musikandfilm.com have two more singles ready for release in early January and
mid February, and are just coming out of sessions with new tracks recorded, so get used to these guys, they are here to
stay!

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Radio Interview for Adrianna Freeman!

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November 13, 2012
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Fans can tune in and talk with Adrianna November 14, 2012 on Twisted South Radio!

This is a LIVE call in show and they’d love to hear from you on the air and to see you in the chat room as well. You can call in to talk with Adrianna Freeman OR The Chad Wesley Band, host Mars and New Orleans native/co-host Harry Hoerner at 917.388.4498 OR you can click this link right here to listen:
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/twistedsouthradio/2012/11/15/adrianna-freeman-and-the-chad-wesley-band

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Album Review – Bleed Between The Lies by Never A Hero

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November 12, 2012
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The majority of Never A Hero’s photographs present us with dark clothes, leather straps and psychotic masks. However, once you look past what appears to be some mysterious bondage shoot, you realise you’re actually faced with five extraordinarily talented musicians.

After 2009’s critically acclaimed Socially Awkward EP, the lads set to work on their debut album with the aim to make it rise above the already sky-high bar they had set for themselves. At fourteen tracks long, Bleed Between The Lies has the potential to prove the band name wrong and help Never A Hero become musical…well…heroes.

Opener, Read Between The Lines, eases you into the album with a simple and playful electro rhythm yet the heavy riffs of Burning Skies soon burst this bubble plunging the listener out of the safety zone. The vocalists of Never A Hero are also forced out of their comfort zone as they experiment with brutal screaming and power-driven clean vocals.

Roses Are Dead sees Never A Hero revert back to their older and more familiar style yet the sound is now finely-tuned to the standard you would expect from a band with a few more years of experience tucked away under their belts. The Call proceeds to showcase the entirety of the band’s skills: old and new.

The guitar riffs in Screams Of Silence (quite the oxymoron) take you back to a time when big hair and muscles ruled over the pansies that plague today’s UK charts. By the time you reach track six, Days of Patience, the introductions to each song begin to sound all too familiar with their slow and haunting electronic feel. However, this trend is soon thrown off course by Vogue which demonstrates rock at it’s best throughout the whole three minutes and eighteen seconds.

The second half of Bleed Between The Lies throws us some real stunners ranging from the tranquil, easy-going samples of Between through to the diverse vocal skills demonstrated in Dreamcatcher. Never A Hero jump on the dubstep bandwagon for Hollow yet thankfully, they pull it off in small quantities.

Sunbeam and Stalked have elements comparable to those of Linkin Park and Never A Hero jump to claim the empty spot where Linkin Park resided when they were actually good (yes kids, a long time ago they were half decent).

The album is closed rather unusually with title track, Bleed Between The Lies. Classical piano and strings shine through in this track to calm your mind after the album has thrown you head on through the twists and turns of an epic electro-rock journey.

Although it has taken a little while to set the ball rolling since their formation, the guys have pushed the limits with their debut album and certainly pulled it off. If Never A Hero aren’t widely recognised within the next year or so, there is something seriously wrong with the music scene. Keep an eye on these guys; they’re going to be big.

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