Blues Rock: Greta Van Fleet (Short)

Last week the Dutch festival Pinkpop took place. It's one of the largest and oldest in The Netherlands and features music from all kinds of genres and styles. Although I didn't go there myself I know many people who did. When I asked them which artist or band they liked the most one name kept popping up: Greta Van Fleet. I had never heard of the band and initially thought they were Dutch because of their very Dutch sounding name. A quick Google search however showed me that that wasn't the case.

Greta Van Fleet is an American band formed back in 2012 by the three brothers Jake, Josh and Sam Kiszka and currently features Danny Wagner as drummer. But what is it that distinguishes this young band from all other up-and-comers? Listen to their first hit Highway Tune and it becomes clear within seconds. Their bluesy, unpolished sound is unlike anything most modern rock groups make. In fact it's more reminiscent of music made 50 years ago by bands like Led Zeppelin.

The sound quickly caught on and the band's popularity skyrocketed giving them the opportunity to open for acts like Bob Seger and Guns N' Roses and even perform at Elton John's Academy Award Party.

Currently the band has released one EP called 'From the Fires' which can be played on Spotify. Their debut album is scheduled to be released somewhere halfway through 2018. I can't wait for more bluesy guitar riffs.

R&B: Hoody (Short)

Back in 2016 I wrote a post about Korean rapper Jay Park. In his more R&B oriented songs he usually collaborates with the singer I'd like to introduce today: Hoody.

Hoody had released several songs already (BabyOh Baby, Let Em Know) before getting signed to Jay Park's label AOMG in 2015. During 2016, as mentioned before, she collaborated a lot with Jay (Me Like Yuh, All I Wanna Do) but also released her first album, from which 'Like You' is still one of my favourite slow jams.

Last month Hoody released two new tracks, Golden and Why. Although I personally prefer Golden, both are great R&B songs. Enjoy!

Check out more of Hoody on the AOMG official YouTube page

If you like Hoody you might also enjoy: Alice Vicious

Latin pop: Sofía Reyes (Short)

Temperatures reached summer-like hights the past week in The Netherlands, prompting me to look for some sweet summer tunes. One of the songs that caught my ear was 1,2,3 by Mexican singer Sofía Reyes. Sofía started out five years ago, posting covers on YouTube. Soon after, she got signed to the label of bachata singer Prince Royce and released some songs which had moderate success. Her latest hit 1, 2, 3 is blowing up though, and has managed to rack up 67 million views in only two months. 2018's summer hit?!

Watch more videos on the official Sofia Reyes YouTube channel

Country Rap: Bubba Sparxxx (Short)

Today I'd like to introduce a new Weekly Sounds concept called a 'Short'. As you might have noticed the amount of blogs I've put out lately is a bit low. There are several reasons for this: Sometimes I discover an artist which hasn't made a lot of music yet, other times I find myself lacking the time to do research and write a proper post. In times like these I will upload Shorts; short posts that contain a music video and possibly some basic information but no elaborate link-filled article. You can recognise them by the Short-logo in the picture and (Short)-addition to the post title. In this way I'll be able to provide you with a more continuing flow of new music. Hopefully you'll enjoy them.



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Watch more videos on the Official Bubba Sparxxx YouTube channel.