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Singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Jeff Litman latest release, Crowded Hour is out now!  Litman was born in Minneapolis at the end of the 70s, playing piano by age six and guitar by ten. Listening to grunge and metal throughout the 90s, he eventually became hooked on the melody-driven classic rock of the Beatles and Beach Boys as well as the gritty melodic rock of Minneapolis bands like The Replacements , Soul Asylum , and the Jayhawks . After being tuned into Miles Davis by a guitar teacher, he dropped into the deep end of jazz, eventually earning a degree from Indiana University’s prestigious jazz program in 2002. After college, he followed his growing love of classical music to New York City, where he enrolled at the Manhattan School of Music, earning his masters degree in classical guitar in 2006. Listen to the Crowded Hour EP here - and buy it (digital or CD): Crowded Hour by Jeff Litman

Elise Trouw is a singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist from the US. To tell her story with her own words: " I was born in Southern California to a South African father and a mother from New York in the very last year of the millennium. Raised on The Carpenters, Green Day, and 80s New Wave, I always looked forward to rides in my mom’s car where she played her “mixtapes", whether it was on a compilation CD or an ancient iPod. Inspiration struck when my six-year-old self first heard the haunting piano melody in “My Immortal” by Evanescence. I distinctly remember a five hour plane ride that consisted of that one song blasting repeatedly into my ears. So I begged my parents for piano lessons, and after they finally relented, they were then begging me to not practice at five in the morning every day. I did it anyway, and my love for piano just grew stronger. Life changed when my family bought the game Rockband for Xbox. After mastering the drums to "Dani California”...

Most of you may know Roger Joseph Manning Jr from Jellyfish , but the man had also 2 fabulous solo records: Land Of Pure Imagination (it had a slightly different release in Japan with 3 different tracks and was called Solid State Warrior ) in 2006 and Catnip Dynamite in 2008. Since then it was very quiet regarding new records - until now! The is a new campaign on Pledgemusic for his complete musical work: A new four track EP called Glamping (digital and CD release in May 2018, vinyl later), reissues of his first two records (CD & colored vinyl), signed stuff, lyric sheets, art books, clothing, Skype interviews, writing birthday songs and much more.

The new record of Chris Price is out now! After his critically acclaimed second record Stop Talking nearly 50 songs were left off from the record because they simply didn't fit in its concept. With the arrival of Dalmatian , Price’s brand new third album and second release in only 10 months, that music finds new life. The 13 tracks found on Dalmatian are all written, produced, engineered, arranged and mixed by Price himself (with occasional help from co-writers Taylor Locke, Fernando Perdomo, and Alex Jules). Price says, “ This is a collection of fragments, outcasts and ideas from the sessions that produced Stop Talking . A lot of material that I love was left off of that album for one reason or another. Whether it was because the songs didn’t fit tonally or thematically, or the sonics didn’t match up, I found myself sitting on a pile of stuff that couldn’t find a home. I’m not sure if this is my new album or a companion piece to the last one (Disc 2, if you will)...

' Sara ' is the first single taken from the upcoming Teitur album ' I Want To Be Kind '. Buy or stream the song here: TeiturMusic.lnk.to/SaraSt If you're old-fashioned - just wait for the new record!