"First off... Alkey's not just a name it's a description of love, loss, pain, cries, and Family addictions. Been told that i'm too old ta still be thinkin' bout rappin, but see, music is my life, NOT JUST SOMETHIN' THAT HAPPENED!!! I don't do it for the fame, could care less if you know me. I guess i'm just a kettle who gotta release that heat. So I don't mind JACKIN' BEATS, for my UNDERGROUND cds, hit the streets, work my mouf piece, and make money that's tax free. Some of ya'll don't understand and wanna block my road, that's when my goes into overload and I wanna lock and unload. My dad always said in the end it's just me, half of these cats don't have ya back so it's best ta be one deep. That's why Key, just drops by and never chill too long, cuz I feel half you niggaz lookin' at me wrong. So i'd rather stay in MY SPACE, than have you pussies in my face, I smell you from mile away, and I don't wanna go there taday." .. ALKEY= Great song writing, story telling, and entertainment. .. Honest with himself!!! .. Not a Wanna Be Gangster!!! .. Those who really know him know his music is who he is... .. " I write things I see, been told, BEEN THROUGH, things that just crossed my mind, and I often find myself talking about myself or telling myself what to do. For instance, I might say something and it sound like I'm talkin' down on someone, but actually, I'm talking to myself. Maybe I am selfish, but I write the songs I want to hear. I don't really care about what you wanna hear! Now when it comes down to the business of it you gotta do what you gotta do ta get paid when you wanna go HOLLYWOOD...LOL..."
You will hear a-lot of emotion in his music...
" My favorite songs are the sad ones or the funny ones like GET AT YOU and or NOGGIN' on my play list. I love to get an emotional reaction out of people. I know then I gave them something to remember and want to listen to when they want to feel that emotion again."
Everybody asks where the name Alkey came from, are you an alkie?
" LOL...LOL...LOL... I don't know I might be...LOL!!! Actually, my mothers name wuz(R.I.P) Alcasena but people just called her Alkie for short. Then on the other side of it, her father(R.I.P), MY FATHER, and his grandfather, where all alcoholics. For a while I was doing talent shows and jumpin' on mix tapes just goin' by Brad. Then one day I had a dream or epiphany..lol.. and the name just seem to fit me, my attitude, and my look. Oh, I do throw back a few now and then...lol... Michaelryan, Tang, Kelvo, Ron Ron, Beazy, Tracy, Elroy, AND DJ Escalade YA'LL KNOW WHAT'S UP....LOL"

“Will microClocks become as good as Depeche Mode?“

The oh-so independent and impartial “Bild”, Germany’s most famous tabloid paper, entitled an article about microClocks with these words some time ago. Since then, the yellow press has been obsessing about this question more than the band itself. The comparison with the celebrities from Basildon falls short ... but still ennobles the band from the Ruhr area (Germany)! Stylistically, microClocks is rooted in the rock and pop music of the 80s, but likes to snack from the tree of electronica and industrial. Hence, microClocks is far from being a plagiarism of well-known artists.

Powerful guitars, complex arrangements, stomping rhythms and finest synthesizer sounds – with this mixture the last single “Is Anybody Out There?” jumped to number 8 of the “German Alternative Charts”, followed by news coverage in nearly all relevant scene magazines and daily papers. Big and small festival and club shows have been performed – from the “M’era Luna” festival in 2014 with headliners like Within Temptation and Marilyn Manson to a tour throughout Germany presented by “Sennheiser” and “intro” music magazine.

In 2016, microClocks releases the album “Soon Before Sundown”. For the first single “The Edge” none other than experienced producer José Alvarez-Brill (Unheilig, Wolfsheim, De/Vision) came on board. The content of the new songs focuses on all kinds of pressing social issues – loss of values, wrong ideals, waste of privacy. However, pensive and interpersonal tones are adopted as well – on the new album more than ever before.

In fact, with this new complete package microClocks is ready! Ready to enter the club charts with its very peculiar interpretation of electronic rock, to thrill the festivalgoers, to let the reviewers marvel... and to appear in the yellow press again, at worst!

Pennsyltucky-fried - Sister Harmonies - Roots/Americana. Breaking Hearts and Winning Fights since 2006. NEW ALBUM AVAILABLE NOW! http://bit.ly/1yGYKSz 

What does Austin-influenced, rural-Pennsylvanian, indie sister-folk sound like? Verbosity aside, it sounds uniquely like The Hello Strangers, a sister duo, comprised of Larissa Chace Smith and Brechyn Chace, whose haunting harmonies and original, wittingly noir songwriting style are the backbone of their sound.

The Hello Strangers just released their first full-length, self-titled album with multi-award winning (Grammy, Emmy, Dove, Tele) IMI Records in Nashville, Tennessee. The album features 11 originals and 2 covers, including "What You Don't Know," written by, and featuring on vocals, Jim Lauderdale; and "Que Sera, Sera," an homage to their grandfather, Ronald Chace, who sang with Doris Day.

In 2012, Larissa and Brechyn won AirPlay Direct's "Win An Americana Record Deal" contest, giving them the opportunity to work with Steve Ivey of IMI, and a host of other talented industry professionals, on their 2014 album.

The Hello Strangers were born out of the Austin, Texas music scene in 2006 when the sisters wrote their first song together, entitled “Pregnant in Jail.” Based on true events, it was a preamble to a string of original tunes the pair crafted in a little cottage off South Congress Avenue. Soon, however, the mountains of Pennsylvania beckoned the girls back north, and so they packed up their lives, dogs, and Larissa’s husband and returned to their two-stoplight hometown.

The move has since proven to be a boon for the duo. The sisters have created a catalogue of original music with nods to American folk traditions, modern indie rock, Texas country-folk, and roots rock, all tied together with lilting harmonies that only sisters can create. Timeless imagery and fables are at the core of each song, from tales of a boggy creek bottom where a murdered man sleeps, to a Texas roadhouse with bawdy dancers and clinking beer bottles, to more poignant reflections on the loss of winter or a man gone wrong.

The sisters are supported by a dynamic and talented trio: Spencer Pheil on lead guitar, Trent Renshaw on drums, and Tom Hoy on bass.

Chuck Dauphin of Music News Nashville says, “They are just – for lack of a more sophisticated term – Damn Good. Take a listen to a cut like “Chances,” and if you are not totally hooked by their spellbinding harmony, your hearing must not be working right. It’s a sonically brilliant cut – from start to finish, one that simply needs to be heard. Ditto that for the Appalachian feel of “The World Knows Far Better,” where the harmony is chilling, as is the harmonica work from Brechyn. The sisters even match musical wits and talent with the incredible Jim Lauderdale on his gem “What You Don’t Know,” which they keep as haunting as his 1990s original.”

Everything happens for a reason. When I was 19 I was waiting for the train to take me from Gothenburg in Sweden to somewhere - I don't remember where... A homeless old man started talking to me. He told me of his life and why he ended up like like this. It was a sad story of loss, a broken heart and of making the wrong decisions. But although he was in a miserable state he still had hope. He said that it was something life was trying to tell him and that he had to learn and figure out what it was - untill then, he'd have to go on living like this. And if he couldn't figure it out in this life, he would become a wiser man in the next.... Before we parted he looked at me with his tired eyes and said - never give up on your dreams! I've been carrying that moment with me ever since.
Naked Congress is from Malmö in Sweden and Flensburg in Germany.
https://naked-congress.com


just chilling on the west coast. playing footie and strumming the 6 string. ⚽🎸

Music in its purest form makes the listener reminisce , It takes them back to a place in time. It conjures up emotions that had since been forgotten. They can relate to the lyrics, the melodies, the mood. It makes them feel. 
Jim Pullman’s latest work “Jackals and Wolves” does an impeccable job of this. 
Jackals and Wolves aims for Jim Pullman at his most essential and honest. Its a snapshot of a rockstar unresolved, meandering a lonesome landscape of hard truths and attractive wrong answers 
The fruit of a year's worth of recording and even more time spent writing, 
The result is a seamless body of work, combining modern power pop with the friendly familiarity of easy '90s rock, at times reminiscent of bands like R.E.M. Made ominous by spacey guitars and mournful pedal steel, the mood of the music matches Pullman's theme of loss and returns to his songwriting roots, tapping into more personal subject matter. 
The album kicks off with whooshing air and guitar squeals giving way to Revolving Door, a strong rock song with a hook suggesting the best of Oasis, and rallies to an end with righteous guitar soloing punctuated by slams of grand piano. Then follows You Don’t Dump the Boys, They Just Lose Their Turn, an odd, sardonic track recalling The Turtles’ Happy Together, were it frolicking with the gleeful madness of an anxious and hopeless bar patron
Sonically, the album lends a more lonesome tone than previous releases, although it’s the band’s the most dynamic and well-arranged. Providing the record’s most lofty and dramatic moments, Levitate opens with a flowing and majestic string quartet
50 Paces  seems inspired by the lonely road ballads of Bob Seger, with a spacey and atmospheric pedal steel by Bronson Bergeson. And not to be outdone by other songs’ twisted-yet-tender moments, the album closer Feather Soft Heart (#7) reconsiders the other songs’ hard-bitten realism. Between soft percussion breaks and hushed piano progressions, Jim posits the question that, if we could set aside the defensive sarcasm for a couple minutes, could we build the courage to consider what we had was pretty good all along?


Born at the end of July, in 1986, in Thornton, Colorado. Krimzon Tha NonKonformizt, of the original Too High Crew, from the 303, began writing raps back in the year 2000, and started experimenting with recording by the end of that year. Starting off with cassette tapes mainly for practice, to turn a talent into a sharpened skill, and earn the respect of his peers. In early 2001 he began recruiting members for the Too High Crew. They kept practice up and went digital in 2004, Rockin' house parties and cyphers to gain a rep. Recording mostly singles for the underground the THC made its premier in the club at a 420 show in 2008. The group consisting of other solo artists came together to hold shit down as equals. Members came and went. But Krimzon and one of his 1st recruits by the name of Money remained tight despite other members leaving getting kicked out or retiring from the rap game. Recording new tracks from a in home studio Krimzon with the THC found them selves working with a long list of other locals over the years. Most notable Reality from the CO3, Albeez 4 Sheez and others from A-Co Recordz, Lyrasick of Home of the Sick, Alais Clay, just to name a few and many others. Kill'n it at clubs like Cervantes, The Roxy, and Casslemans. Thanks to member Jimmy Redrum THC saw one of its best years in 2010 booking many shows over the summer and holding down The Wash a local bar along with local label Remedy Records. After many shows some of which opening for big names like Trea tha Truth, Lil Whyte, Bizzy Bone, Esham, ABK, and more. THC slowed down in 2011 to reevaluate its message when Krimzon woke up to the conspiracy theories of the New World Order/Illuminati. With a new found sense of purpose the THC saga continued. Then abruptly in the summer of 2012 Krimzon was diagnosed with cancer so the THC was no longer booking or recording till the end of that year. 2013 was slow and only a few shows and tracks came out of that year. 2014 only saw the retirement of Jimmy Redrum, 1 single ft. Krimzon and Alais Clay, and ultimately the loss of the Too High Crew Recording studio location. Basically disbursed like a protest gone wrong. Krimzon now in 2015 is looking for new opportunity a new recording location and a way back in the game as a solo act until the Too High Crew can be reunited. Hip-Hop at the core Gangsta Rap as back round and conscious Rap at the four ground. Krimzon Tha NonKonformizt brings old school tradition to the new school and beyond. For more info, booking, production, promo, ect. contact Krimzon by email. krimzonthc@gmail.com or right here on soundcloud.com thanks for reading and enjoy the tracks posted. Share all free downloads please. Also check out RSOMradio right here on soundcloud.com peace and love.           

Corey Koehler (pronounced KAY-ler) is a musician with an unending supply of goals for his music career and the ambition to follow through. The title of his first CD, Never Too Late, reflects Koehler’s own path to singing and songwriting. Around the age of 30, Koehler finally decided he wanted more than he could wean from a nine-to-five job. He picked up his guitar, which he hadn’t touched in years, and discovered not all was lost. Something about the music gave Koehler the fulfillment he was searching for.
Accidents Happen

His singing ability was an accidental discovery. Though he always enjoyed belting out songs along with the radio, it was his friends who encouraged this talent. Koehler would grab his guitar while sitting around a campfire to entertain an audience of friends. Compliments on his vocals became so frequent he started to believe maybe he possessed genuine talent.
Exploration

Koehler tried a succession of get-rich-quick schemes dreaming one would position him, financially, where he could devote the majority of his time to music. In retrospect, Koehler says that was the wrong decision. He now believes expending his energy on his musical abilities provides the greatest benefit and recommends the same to anyone with a talent of their own. He feels strongly that once a person begins exploring their talent, they find a more meaningful existence and are better able to positively influence the people around them.

Where The Music Comes From?

Koehler’s insight is present in the seven Americana originals in Never Too Late. Lyrically, his subject matter relates to anyone who finds themselves weary of monotony in the daily grind, inadequate in choosing words to express compassion over loss, and an active participant (eventually, anyway) in the failure of a relationship. Musically, he makes you want to raise a beer and toast yourself for making it this far.
Many Influences

Koehler is not committing himself solely to Americana. His influences stem from multiple genres, many of which he would like to try in the future. He considers himself a bit of a “music goat.” He has never been able to decide upon one genre and stick with it, so he decided it was unnecessary. Koehler arrived at the term “music goat,” he says, because a goat will eat anything. In the same fashion, Koehler will absorb all types of music without a preference for any one in particular. He also loves a hearty breakfast.

Bio by Jamison Lee

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