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DownTown Mystic Wants To Live In Sync
Roots Rocker Releases New Single as Brand Rises at Radio and Sync Licensing.
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Sha-La Music Inc. announces the release of the new single Live by US Roots Rocker DownTown Mystic on March 27. The single will be digitally released and distributed worldwide via AWAL/The Orchard/Sony Music.
The Live single contains 2 tracks with the Vocal Demo included. Sha-La Music released the DownTown Demos in 2021 to show in real-time how the songs would go from demo to new studio recordings. Now the Live single release shows how it turned out and follows the previous singles from 2022, the rocker Superstar and the retro-chilled Fly, which had combined radio airplay on over 150 stations in 25 countries. The 3 singles showcase the diversity that can be expected on the upcoming AmeriKarma album.
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Rock’n’Roll spoken here…
The sound of DownTown Mystic is “vintage yet modern”, continuing in the legacy of rockers like Tom Petty and Bruce Springsteen. The music is rooted in all the great traditions of American Rock‘n’Roll, blending storytelling songs with vintage guitars and analog recording into a unique style that owes nods to Buffalo Springfield, The Beatles, CCR, Rockpile and The Rolling Stones but somehow manages to sound as contemporary as anything currently available.
DownTown Mystic is the alter ego of American Rocker, Robert Allen, whose passion for “old school” recording borders on obsession. Robert adds, “I grew up listening to all these great records and their sound and style stayed with me”. Robert is joined by a stellar cast of musicians, including drummer extraordinaire Steve Holley (Paul McCartney/Wings/Elton John/Ian Hunter) & urban legend Paul Page (Dion/Ian Hunter) on bass, as well as one of the great rhythm sections in the history of American Rock’n’Roll–Max Weinberg & Garry Tallent of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band.
2023 has been a banner year for DownTown Mystic with the release of the career defining album, AmeriKarma. This album comes on the heels of 2 major musical statements, 21st Century Rock’n Roll in 2022 and DownTown Mystic On E Street Deluxe featuring Max Weinberg & Garry Tallent in 2021. 10 years earlier, DownTown Mystic’s 1st release, Standing Still, found critical acclaim overseas in 2011. That album made the Top 25 Euro/Americana Chart, which led to a Licensing Deal in Europe distributed by Sony Music.distributed by Sony Music.
Radio has played an important role in the career of DownTown Mystic. It started with veteran tastemaker, Jed The Fish, playing a DownTown Mystic track as his “Catch of The Day” on “World Famous” KROQ in LA, one of the most influential stations in the US. This would be followed by the “Mayor of The Sunset Strip”, legendary KROQ DJ Rodney Bingenheimer, playing another track and leading to national airplay. Since then DownTown Mystic has been played on over 5000 stations in 44 countries. The artist has also had a #1 single and #3 album on the Roots Music Report Charts, as well as going to #1 on the European Independent Airplay Chart.
Besides gaining recognition from Radio programmers, the DownTown Mystic Brand has been developing via Sync Licensing with music placed on over 240 TV shows & films, including The Voice on NBC, American Pickers on the History Channel, as well as shows on MTV, USA, CNN, CMTV, Discovery, and National Geographic. This makes DownTown Mystic one of the top sync-licensed artists in the world.
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Discography
Turn Around And Go
Single
2018-07-06
Think A Little Louder
Single
2018-11-23
Love Light
Single
2019-01-21
The Wish
Single
2019-04-12
One More Chance
Single
2019-08-02
Better Day
Single
2020-01-21
Modern Ways
Single
2020-05-20
3-Way Heartbreak
Single
2020-09-14
Test Of Time
Single
2020-12-07
Hard Enough
Single
2021-01-26
And You Know Why
Single
2021-06-22
Fly
Single
2022-05-09
Superstar
Single
2022-10-10
Live
Single
2023-03-27
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