New Music Tuesday: Ariel Bellvalaire

This weeks (late) new music Tuesday features extraordinary female rocker Ariel Bellvalaire.  The chick can sing, shred, put together some great production, and looks fantastic doing all of it - what is there to not love?  For a comparison, she sounds a bit like a mix of Heart and Hey Monday - or even 'RIOT!' era Paramore or Orianthi - actually instead of trying to explain her sound I'll just embed some of her songs.  She is currently working on her debut album - so subscribe on youtube and support this future rockstar!

New Music Tuesdays Vol 1: I/O

Alright unlike my other music segments I am going to make a harder attempt at keeping this one running.  Basically every Tuesday I am going to make a post about a lesser known artist whom I believe is talented, and this week I would like to start with the NY triple-threat (singer-producer-song writer) I/O, who just recently released his mixtape/free album 'Isolation'

I/O fits within the genre of abstract RnB being run by Frank Ocean and The Weeknd, actually he sounds like a perfect child from the two of them.  He handled most of the production (10 of the 12 songs) on his own and wrote the entire thing himself.  It's a great project.  If you enjoy Frank Ocean or The Weeknd and this experimental/abstract form of RnB then you will probably enjoy I/O, if you have not listened to much Ocean of Weeknd then maybe I/O can be your first venture into the genre, let me know what you think!  You can stream and download his project 'Isolation' for free here - http://www.djbooth.net/index/albums/review/i-o-isolation/#stream