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Shinedown Issues a Dystopian Warning With Lead Single “Planet Zero”

Announces New Studio Album Planet ZeroOut April 22 on Atlantic Records Album Pre-Order – https://shinedown.lnk.to/planetzeroSingle Link – https://shinedown.lnk.to/planetzerosingle Multi-platinum rock band Shinedown have released their lead single “PlanetZero,” the title track from their newly announced seventh studio album out April 22 on Atlantic Records.Planet Zero serves up an incisive look at the issues at hand: cancel culture […]

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HOT HALF DOZEN 12.14.21

85 submissions this week  ( slowing down for the holidays) Let It All Out, single by Elsten Torres. The music is as heartbreaking and inspiring as the story behind it.  Another Torres masterpiece.  If you are a fan – or even if you are not – you will cry and fall in love with the […]

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HOT HALF DOZEN 11.30.21

101 submissions this week Ike Babbitt – America’s One Man Band, video by Alan Babbitt. A music video about the director’s father who created the One Man Sym-phoney band, which was a regular on national radio in the ’30s and television in the ’40s and ’50s.  His brother Art created the character Goofy for Disney, […]

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The Day After Thanksgiving

The day after Thanksgiving and my family are all in the kitchen in San Diego making fried corn and strawberry tamales and a Mexican omelette* with caso Oxacaño (cheese from the town of Oxaca) and homemade salsa verde with aqua fresca hormica (non-alcoholic).  No leftover turkey in sight – wait until dinner.  We have had […]

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HOT HALF DOZEN 11.23.21

96 submissions A slow week this week – only 96 submissions.  I guess the Americans are off for Thanksgiving and the Latinos are still recovering from the Latin Grammys (so am I!)  But it is not slow for HHD. This week,  I want to announce a partnership between the Hot Half Dozen and Unsigned Only, […]