Hey Music Mag - Issue 3 - December 2018
Hey you! Feast your eyes on the December issue of Hey Mag. It’s crammed with music news and features from around the world. British singer-songwriter Jess Glynne reveals the truth about fame, Icelandic neo classical genius Olafur Arnalds exudes glacial cool, UAE-based band The Boxtones return to their rock roots, and we get spaced out with Japanese hip-hop producer Shin-Ski. Discover five emerging Chicago acts you need on your radar and how to bag your band a gig. And don’t miss our gift guide for music junkies – full of great present ideas for the audiophile in your life. Get stuck in!
Hey you!
Feast your eyes on the December issue of Hey Mag.
It’s crammed with music news and features from around the world.
British singer-songwriter Jess Glynne reveals the truth about fame, Icelandic neo classical genius Olafur Arnalds exudes glacial cool, UAE-based band The Boxtones return to their rock roots, and we get spaced out with Japanese hip-hop producer Shin-Ski. Discover five emerging Chicago acts you need on your radar and how to bag your band a gig.
And don’t miss our gift guide for music junkies – full of great present ideas for the audiophile in your life.
Get stuck in!
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THE PRAIRIE FIRES<br />
The Prairie Fires is a Chicago band<br />
creating a new generation of guitar-andvocal<br />
rock music that blends the rootsbased<br />
approach of greats like Petty and<br />
Mellencamp with ’90s-influenced pop<br />
songwriting inspired by bands like Gin<br />
Blossoms and The Wallflowers. Energetic,<br />
tuneful, raw and real, the band’s new<br />
release, All New Kinds of Strange, is<br />
one of the best local efforts of <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
The band takes its name to honour<br />
its Midwestern home but also to keep<br />
focused on starting fresh no matter one’s<br />
circumstances. Fire burns the prairie down<br />
to its bare essentials and gives it a chance<br />
to recreate itself.<br />
Band members Collin Marks, Mason<br />
Hadley, Christian McCann and Dan<br />
Beasley are clearly taking advantage of<br />
this rebirthing process and have written<br />
and recorded an album of songs capable<br />
of being meaningful in an age of plastic<br />
emotions. The sound is deeply connected<br />
to the analogue world of the 20th century<br />
but is also fresh and original enough to<br />
stand on its own.<br />
Fans of loud guitars and lyrics that matter<br />
will latch onto The Prairie Fires at first<br />
listen. The band wears its emotions on its<br />
sleeve instead of indulging in the macho<br />
posturing that ruins most young rock<br />
musicians – and it makes all the difference.<br />
theprairiefires.com<br />
JILL M. STONE<br />
A Chicago songwriter and poet who<br />
works in a soulful, dark and meditative<br />
style that is instantly alluring, Jill<br />
M. Stone doesn’t give up a lot of<br />
information about herself, preferring<br />
to let her work do the talking. Her first<br />
album, No Cure For Loneliness, is a<br />
deep and emotional journey into life’s<br />
struggles and her latest release, Taught,<br />
builds on that journey.<br />
Stone has that rare ability to fully<br />
capture the listener’s attention with<br />
quiet sounds, not bombast, and makes<br />
music perfect for the overnight hours.<br />
She is fairly new to the music scene but<br />
those in the know expect her profile to<br />
rise with the new record. Anyone who<br />
likes their songwriters on the artistic<br />
side should find Jill today.<br />
jillmstone.com<br />
Written by independent music journalist Mike O’Cull.<br />
Check more of Mike’s work at www.mikeocull.com<br />
HEYMUSIC.COM<br />
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