out musicians Archives

May 30, 2015August 20, 2019

New Music: Mika “Good Guys”

Out recording artist Mika drops his newest music video, “Good Guys,” from his fourth studio album No Place In Heaven.

With creative and theatrical staging, Mika expresses his frustrations with the gay community throughout the video – “where have all the gay guys gone?” – while he searches for a “good guy.”

Mika quotes Oscar Wilde’s for his chorus, ‘If we are all in the gutter, it doesn’t change who we are/cause some of us in the gutter are looking up at the stars.’

Later he acknowledges many of the gay icons who came before him including W.H. Auden, James Dean, Jean Cocteau, Wilfred Owen and others.

The single is available now; the full album release date is June 16th.

I’ve previously written about Mika here and here.

May 26, 2015August 20, 2019

Jeb Havens Covers Stevie Nicks’ “Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?”

Sexy Jeb Havens continues his “Closer Covers’ series with a sensitive performance of Stevie Nicks’ “Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?”

Havens writes, ‘Channeling the incredible Stevie Nicks, trying out her gorgeous song “Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You?” on the keys/mic setup in my closet.’

Find more of Jeb’s music on iTunes here.

May 17, 2015August 20, 2019

Music: Adam Lambert “Underground”

The second single from Adam Lambert’s upcoming album The Original High.

What begins as a mournful, piano-driven ballad churns into a driving beat of intense desire. After this and first single “Ghost Town,” it looks like the new album is going to have some serious emotional punch.

The album drops June 16th.

May 6, 2015July 3, 2020

Music Video: Bright Light Bright Light & Ana Matronic “Good Luck”

Bright Light Bright Light (Rod Thomas) teams up with former Scissor Sisters vocalist Ana Matronic with this track from the coming Life Is Easy remix album. The duo collaborated earlier this year covering the Pet Shop Boys classic West End Girls in a charity single for NYC’s Hetrick-Martin Institute, which serves at-risk LGBT youth.

April 30, 2015August 20, 2019

Music: Matt Zarley Covers “Nobody Knows” By Tony Rich

Award-winning singer/songwriter Matt Zarley continues his UnCOVERED series of cover songs with the Tony Rich hit “Nobody Knows” from 1996.

From Zarley: “This song reminds me of why I love 90s music so much. I used to play the original Tony Rich Project version incessantly.”

You can find Matt Zarley on iTunes here.

April 15, 2015August 20, 2019

Jeb Havens & Michael Powers Cover “Enough” By Reba McEntire & Jennifer Nettles

The universe has a fantastic way of taking care of us, don’t you know?

Just in time for Hump Day (or should it be “Hunk Day?”), woofy Jeb Havens and Michael Powers share their take on the Reba McEntire/Jennifer Nettles hit “Enough” from Reba’s new album Love Somebody (currently number one on the iTunes Country chart).

Following in the tradition of Haven’s “Closet Covers,” the two songsters recorded their separate vocals from their respective closets in Los Angeles and Chicago.

The guys shared this with the video on YouTube:

We both love this amazing song from Reba’s new album so decided to record a cover from our closets in Los Angeles and Chicago. Please share the video if you like it. Maybe then even Reba herself might see it someday. 🙂

So, let’s see if we can make that happen. Share this link all over your social media, kids 🙂

Havens is a Randy Report favorite having stopped internet traffic with his heartbreaking cover of “Fast Car” last year. Find more of my coverage of Havens here.

You can follow his YouTube channel here, and follow American Idol’s Michael Powers on YouTube here.

April 4, 2015August 20, 2019

Out Singer/Songwriter Steve Grand Lands On Billboard Charts

Via Billboard:

Singer-songwriter Steve Grand — who scored a hit viral video in 2013 with “All-American Boy” — arrives on the April 11-dated charts with his Kickstarter-funded debut album.

All American Boy bows at No. 47 on the Billboard 200, No. 27 on Top Album Sales and No. 3 on Independent Albums.

The set sold 10,000 copies in the week ending March 29, according to Nielsen Music.

“I’m blown away! My fans have done it again,” says Grand. “I have believed in this record, and now it’s clear a lot of other people do too. Putting out an album has been my longtime dream, and to have it do so well in just its first week is phenomenal.”