Rui da Silva is a House producer from London who has been releasing quality track after quality track for a while now. One of the scene's most respected voices, he's been finding new sounds, new ideas, and new ways to discover what House music can be ever since he traded in his bass guitar for an early generation of analog drum machines and samplers.
So how does a song even get on the radio anyway? It's a lot of different stories about a lot of creative people, and here's a good example.
Curb Records recording artist Dylan Scott and his stage-scorching band rolled into Chicago for a show at the legendary Joe's Bar on Weed Street last week. Forty-five minutes before the show, Joe's was packed wall to wall with a thousand of his fans, and when he broke into his new single "Crazy Over Me" most of them could sing along, even though it wouldn't be released for a week. Dylan Scott is an artist whose fans are so enthusiastic about his music that every new thing he does gets massive attention, even if some of it stays under the big
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Mo Pitney knows a couple of really important things about being Country, real Country.
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Unless you already know who MC Frontalot is, it would be all to easy to miss out on his new album Question Bedtime.