Q&A With Selasee

Describe your nominated work: The nominated work titled “Saidaway” means ‘hear my voice,’ was composed around the ‘palmwine guitar’ style that originates from Ghana, West African.this finger picked guitar rhythm which is heard in the intro of the song. It has a fun uplifting sound generated from the rhythm and melody from the guitar intro.

Don’t Sleep on Sir Ari! Celebrate the release of this new album “Between the Spirit & the Flesh”

Highly accomplished, subculture celebrity and openly gay pop artist Sir Ari Gold has sung his way into the hearts and heads of critics far beyond the reach of the LGBT community. Sir Ari who just released his 4th studio album, Between the Spirit & the Flesh has already claimed a 3/4 stars from People Magazine. [...]

Dance/Electronica 9th IMA Winner Boys Noize Is ‘Really Excited’ About Spank Rock’s New Music

After a massive showing at Coachella this month, German electro house and techno producer Boys Noize rocked New York’s Webster Hall this past weekend before settling into a more private role for the remainder of his week in the city: Alexander Ridha is producing MC Spank Rock’s next album. For the unaware, Boys Noize is [...]

Q&A With aKido

What is the meaning of your band name? I was looking for a way to incorporate my name, Kim, into the name of my music project, and I liked the look of the little “a” and the big K followed by the “i d o”. I didn’t know the existence of the Japanese martial art [...]

Q&A With Svoy

What’s the meaning of your name? Were there any other contenders?: The word “svoy” in my language is ambiguous and could mean “independent,” “local,” “one’s own,” “one’s friend.” There were no other contenders.

Q&A With bignic

What’s the meaning of your band name? Were there any other contenders: I’m 6’5 and 380 pounds. BIG NIC.

DISCOVER ARTISTS IN THE 10TH IMAs: Miss Amy

HOMEBASE: New Jersey, USA GENRE: Children’s Music with a blend of  Jazz, Rock, Pop, Broadway, Lullabies CATEGORY ENTERED: Song: Children’s SONGS SUBMITTED: “Imagination Island“, and “Magic Pony” From the Album Miss Amy Fitness Rock & Roll LABEL: Ionian Productions ARTISTS FEATURED: Amy Otey (Vocals, Guitar) Alex Otey (Collaborative arranging, engineering, production, keyboard, trumpet and back-up [...]

Alaska In Winter Revisits Old Medium for New Music Release

9th IMA Dance/ Electronica Album winner and Vox Pop Vote winner, Alaska in Winter Alaska in Winter is a one man band out of Albuquerque, New Mexico, and consists of master mind front man Brandon Bethancourt.  Bethancourt decided this year to press his 3rd Album, Space Eagle (the motion picture soundtrack), on only 100 cassette [...]

Discover Artists Submitting to 10th IMAs: The Perfects

New Wave/ Dance Rock act The Perfects have joined the IMAs.  Check out their interview here: SUBMITTING ARTISTS:  The Perfects HOMEBASE:  Baltimore, MD GENRE:  New Wave/ Indie/ Dance Rock CATEGORY ENTERED:  Pop/Rock Song SONG SUBMITTED:  “Girls That Dance” ALBUM: New Life LABEL:  FU Records HOW DID THE PERFECTS BEGIN? The Perfects started after a dormant [...]

9th IMA Winners Boys Noize on US & European Tour

Electronica/Dance act Boys Noize, 9th IMA Vox Pop Winner, will be touring the US and Europe. A bit of advice for his sets, don’t forget to wear some good dancing shoes! Jul 31 2010 8:00P FUJI ROCK JAPAN, JP Aug 6 2010 12:00A Bleilochtalsperre Saalburg-Ebersdorf, Thüringen, DE Aug 6 2010 8:00P SONNE, MOND UND STERNE [...]