Category: New Music

The Big Moon

New Music

“The Big Moon” are an English band formed in 2014. The four piece have recently released their third album Here s Everything. Their single, Trouble, looks at motherhood and its impact on life. The band’s lead singer, Juliette Jackson, comments:

“‘Trouble’ is about remembering walking over the railway bridge to the hospital to give birth. This is a bridge I cross every day, but somehow in my memory on that day it’s like a bridge over a canyon in a technicolour Wizard of Oz jungle landscape. Like giant leaves and blurry edges and oversaturated colours. But it’s just a pissy graffiti-covered South London pedestrian bridge. And it’s about learning that memories aren’t always right, and you don’t have to hang on to them and be traumatised by them forever.”

Trouble by “The Big Moon” is new this week on RadiJohan

Rosa Linn

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22 year old Armenian singer-songwriter “Rosa Linn” began playing the piano at the age of six and started writing song when she was 11. This year she represented her country in the Eurovision Song Contest with her song Snap. Despite only finishing 20th in the contest’s grand final the song went viral on social media and started to chart globally. Rosa Linn’s Snap is new this week on RadiJohan.

“New” Queen

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Queen have released a previously unreleased song with the legendary Freddie Mercury on lead vocals. Face It Alone was recorded during the sessions for Queen’s 1989 album The Miracle. The track had been forgotten about but was rediscovered when the band returned to the sessions as part of a reissue box-set for the album due to be released in November. Guitarist Brian May said that they found the “little gem” kind of hiding in plain sight. He explained:

“We looked at it many times and thought, oh no, we can’t really rescue that. But in fact, we went in there again and our wonderful engineering team went, ‘OK, we can do this and this.’ It’s like kind of stitching bits together. But it’s beautiful, it’s touching.”

The presence of Freddie is without doubt the song’s main attraction. Face It Alone is new this week on Radijohan.

New music from Queensrÿche

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“Queensrÿche” have released their new album Digital Noise Alliance. Outside of the Hard Rock/Heavy Metal genre the American band, formed in 1980, are no doubt best remembered for their 1990 hit ballad Silent Lucidity. There’s a ballad on the new album too. Queensrÿche states:

The ballad of the album, ‘Forest’ embodies the sorrow of losing a loved one, trying to cope with such a profound loss, while occasionally feeling that person’s presence around you and asking for a sign.  It is a topic very relatable to people, as we will all at some point experience the great loss of a parent, child, sibling, spouse, or dear friend.

Queensrÿche’s Forest is new this week on RadiJohan.

KT Tunstall

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Scottish singer-songwriter “KT Tunstall” has recently released her seventh studio album Nut. It’s the third album of a trilogy which explores the Body, Soul, and Mind. The album’s first single, Private Eyes, recounts a surreal celebrity encounter at a party early in Tunstall’s career.

Early on after my big success, I would dip my toe into accepting invites to random parties. At one party in a little club in Soho, London, a beautiful actress – who I didn’t know personally – in a big puffball gown, grabbed my hand and pulled me down the stairs into the basement kitchen in a panic. She was terrified of the paparazzi stalking her outside – she couldn’t face them,” Tunstall shares. “Mascara was running down her face as she had a meltdown on the floor. I had to break it to her, there was no door down here; the only way out was back up. But I remember through my own boozy haze how tragic it seemed that this person had so craved a life that had now felt like a prison. Beautiful eyes that didn’t want everyone looking into them.

Private Eyes is new this week on RadiJohan.

Madison Cunningham

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Madison Cunningham is an American singer, songwriter and guitarist for whom songwriting has been a passion since she was fifteen years old. She is influenced by Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan. Her 2019 album, Who Are You Now, was nominated for the best Americana album in the 62nd Annual Grammy Awards and the expanded version of her EP, Wednesday, was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Folk Album for the 2022 Grammy season. Her new album “Revealer” was released last month and is full of hard truths and confessions. Her single Life According to Raechel, a song about losing her Grandmother, is new this week on RadiJohan.

Ingrid Andress

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Ingrid Andress is an American singer-songwriter who learned to play piano and drums as a child. She released her debut Album, Lady Like, in March 2020. The album and her debut single, More hearts Than Mine, were both nominated for a Grammy award. Ingrid’s new album, Good Person, is out now and her single, Pain, is new this week on RadiJohan.

The Smashing Pumpkins

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Beguiled is the first single to be released from the upcoming 12th studio album Atum: A Rock Opera in Three Acts, a concept album by “The Smashing Pumpkins.” The album will be released in three separate acts of 11 songs. Lead singer, songwriter and guitarist Billy Corgan, in an interview with Kerrang Magazine explained:

“…..there’s different characters in the musical, but Beguiled is sung from the standpoint of the authoritarian…. He’s saying, ‘Trust the message.’ At the height of the pandemic, we kept saying trust the science. Having been in public life for 35 years, anytime anyone asks you to trust them, that’s when I run. So it’s a little bit like somebody saying, if you just have faith in what we stand for, everything will be fine.”

Beguiled is new this week on RadiJohan.

New from Shania

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Shania Twain has released the first single from her forthcoming sixth studio album. It is her first release in five years since her 2017 album, Now, which peaked at number 1 on the Billboard Top 200 and on the Top Country Albums Chart. The new album will be released next year. Shania’s new single, Waking Up Dreaming, is new this week on RadiJohan.

The Night Flight Orchestra

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“The Night Flight Orchestra” is a Swedish Rock band formed in 2007. Their goal has been to reclaim the 70’s and early 80’s sense for classic melody. They have released six studio albums to date. The Night Flight Orchestra’s latest release is the single Black Stars and Diamonds which is new this week on RadiJohan.