Acclaimed producer and songwriter Porter Robinson shares the music video for his latest track, “Mirror.” This is the third track to be released from Robinson’s forthcoming full length, Nurture. In the video, Robinson uses Live2D face-tracking technology to map his own facial movements onto the hand-drawn avatar. Thus capturing his own live expressions and performance of the song.Continue Reading

Stefan Aronsen is the co-founder of Balanced Breakfast, which is a group of musicians and music industry professionals that get together for breakfast to discuss how to best help each other reach the widest audience. There are chapters all around the world, and they are meeting online during the pandemic. We talked about how he...Continue Reading

Mirror explores duality and shadow psychology in the quest for integration of the true self, interlacing diverse threads of culture through sounds of oud, qanun, piano, drums, bass, and a string quartet from a ten-piece chamber ensemble. It is my hope that this music may help us discover how to love ourselves, and one another,...Continue Reading

The California Honeydrops’ new EP, Just One More, And Then Some, released via Tubtone Records, is now out! Just One More, And Then Some follows the recent release of their standalone single “In The Air.”Continue Reading

Burning Man 2020 will take place in the Multiverse, made up of eight unique Universes created by Burners, waiting to be explored.Continue Reading

Norwegian singer-songwriter Ane Brun debuts a new video, “Take Hold Of Me.” The song is the sixth to be released from her as-of-yet untitled album, due out this fall via her own Balloon Ranger Records.Continue Reading

In Mission:Music's thirteenth episode, we talk to Jack Charles and his goth lounge style of music. Jack is from Austin, Texas, and goes over what the week of SXSW was like without the legendary festival & conference. The group also gets into how the quarantine has helped (and hurt) the creative process, illegal outdoor shows...Continue Reading

Outside Lands 2020 could not happen as planned due to the COVID pandemic. Instead of doing nothing the organizers created Inside Lands, a free virtual music festival taking place this August 28-29 on Twitch. The event will feature iconic archival sets, exclusive live musical performances, interviews with artists, and more. Among the artists confirmed for...Continue Reading

Michael Bang of Tell Me Tell Me just dropped his latest release “Before” and it is a sweet little gem. The first bass note grabs you like a ghost from the past, and the drums rattle you like a slow passing locomotive. “Before” is at its beating heart a groove-driven love letter that bursts out...Continue Reading

Santa Rosa’s sixth annual Railroad Square Music Festival has moved online, and is presenting this year as RSMFtv, taking the magic of this free festival and making it last all summer! Our mission is to showcase Santa Rosa and imagine what it can be, through the eyes of its artists. Continue Reading

Balanced Breakfast's podcast Mission:Music is back and broadcasting via ZOOM! In our first online show, and twelfth episode overall, we talk to Bay Area band Alvie & The Breakfast Pigs about the pandemic and what it's like to be a musician during this mess. Highlights include what it's like taking a dump in green rooms...Continue Reading

After listening to Franck’s new album Symphoney, I really understood what he is trying to do with his music. It really took me out of the world. Each song or part, in this album’s case, really takes you to a different realm which is a super powerful thing for music to do.Continue Reading