Artist Of The Week: Justin Timberlake and ‘N SYNC
While I am all about giving Shockya’s “Artist Of The Week” to fresh-faced singers, every now and then a seasoned talent deserves to dethrone the youngins and retake the title.…
Artist Of The Week: Katy Perry vs. Lady Gaga
Pop sensations, Katy Perry and Lady Gaga, will unexpectedly be going head to head in the coming weeks on the Billboard charts. Perry’s new single, “Roar”, hit the digital market…
Artist Of The Week: CHVRCHES
Electro-pop music has finally been justified with the Scottish outfit, CHVRCHES. The group, which consists of Lauren Mayberry (lead vocals), Iain Cook (multi-instrumentalist, vocals) and Martin Doherty (synthesizers, vocals), doesn’t…
Put Some Pep Into Your Work Week With Machines Are People Too
Happy Wednesday, Shockya readers! Placing “happy” adjacent to a workday might read like an oxymoron, but any form of encouragement midweek helps. Thanks to the Nashville quartet, Machines Are People…
Artist Of The Week: Fifth Harmony
Before reading about the “Artist Of The Week”, you, Shockya readers, deserve to be warned. This week’s selection is filed under my guilty pleasures aka a band associated with the…
Top 10 Albums Of 2013 (So Far)
Eclecticism seeps throughout my list of “Top 10 Albums Of 2013”. So far, this year has seen established artists drop new albums, which broadens their “own” music palette, but also…
Artist Of The Week: Gus + Scout
In retrospect, this band should have been Shockya’s “Artist Of The Week” months ago because I have been continuously playing their infectious self-titled EP since Rolling Stone featured the outfit…
Artist Of The Week: The Mowgli’s
Typically gravitating towards the “harder” or “darker” side of the rock genre, I often find my music misplaced in the carefree summer days. So, lately I have become more sympathetic…
Lido Beach Release “So Glad” Music Video
LA rock group, Lido Beach, recently premiered their music video for the song, “So Glad”, on PureVolume. Directed by Brian Weber, the music video features performance footage of the band,…