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Tune in to MTV's series premiere of 'The City' tonight, December 29th, at 10pm ET/PT to hear Hope's song "Leave Me In New York"! The song is off of Hope's upcoming album, coming soon!   To hear a preview of "Leave Me In New York" head over to MySpace.Com/HearHope now!  As many may remember (refer bottom of this page), MusicLoad found, photographed and  featured Hope Shorter on MusicLoad.Com before she signed to Atlantic Records.
It's a whole new world for 'The Hills' star Whitney Port, as she packs up and moves from the comforts of her hometown in Los Angeles to the bright lights of Manhattan. Surrounded by all new friends, pursuing a fresh love life, and starting to work in the upper echelon of the fashion industry is a lot to navigate for a new girl in the big city... especially one who has everything to lose. Visit The City's MTV webpage here for more on 'The City'.

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If you have ever been into Mazzy Star, Chris Isaac, Jewel, Lisa Loeb, Kim Carnes, Joni Mitchell, or Suzanne Vega, today you might want to think about JaC Stone.   At present, (Dec 2008) JaC is 19 years old and in her 3rd and final year at an Australian university pursuing a Bachelor Degree in Popular Music. She has been making recordings as class assignments each semester.  At age 17, whilst in her first semester, she experienced  a heartbreak that led her to write the featured mp3 free download that  (story continued below)

was amongst the recordings she made as part of her first semester assignments in college.  JaC's track entitled You Missed The Point is the story and her attempt to wash her soul free from a boy who was her first true love and childhood sweetheart whom she'd been with all through high school.  It was a heavy song for her and we like it for such an early demo in any artists career.

MusicLoad thinks JaC Stone has a little something special.  She may not be the right artist for every audience, but when JaC finds her audience, she may well be the celebrated company amongst those above mentioned artists and much more..

Completely raw and recorded on a camcorder with a overhead flashlight as the sole source of light, MusicLoad had the privilege of shooting the video below of this gifted up and coming songwriter as she sat on the edge of a bed in a dark room.   Enjoy!

She offered up a listen to some recordings that had been recorded directly to the Apple iPod. Whilst the sonic quality of the recordings left much to be desired, is was apparent that Paula Ferraro had that magic thing MusicLoad likes to call "it" and MusicLoad mustered up a Joe Meek VC1Q microphone pre-amplifier along with a large diaphragm recording microphone for her to try.  She grasped the concept, got her own gear and has gone on to record what is now a rather large body of well crafted songs and recordings.  You can most certainly say you heard her here at MusicLoad.Com first.

It's like bliss to hear a new song and suddenly drift off, forgetting the days reality, if even for just a few bars.  Glyn Parry did just that and more when we first heard him croon on one of his myspace pages, which is why we call him multifarious.  He has different MySpace pages for different projects that fit the broadness of his musical background.  On his MySpace page that features more soul oriented music is our favorite song entitled Runaway.  It's a beautiful song that might make you heart wrenchingly flash back to homeless souls or runaways you may see in your travels or in your own neighborhood.   With lines such as "surrounded by, a tearful sky, no hope of love from passers by",  Glyn Parry lays it down in the vein of early Boy George Culture Club B sides, with hints of Kenny Loggins meets Michael Mc Donald.  He has this beautiful vibrato reminiscent of Aaron Neville.  However, Glyn Parry delivers up his own identifiable vocal sound and is in no way copying or emulating.  On his my space page is a quote that sums really seems to sum him up: "It doesn't have to be perfect. Just needs a soul!".   MusicLoad.Com would like to say Glyn Parry has that "it" thing in the soul department.  MusicLoad recommends major artists tap into Glyn for a hit song and more.  If you are a music fan, just enjoy his songs while he is still unknown.   We are pleased to have found this fine needle in the haystack.

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Gaby Moreno hit our radar a few years ago when it was apparent that she has that intangible, elusive that some people think to be "it".  Since then, she was the overall winner in the John Lennon Songwriting Contest where the "it" of her songwriting skills become etched in the $20,000 check Gaby and her crew walked away with as the prize.   She is  doing exactly what she loves and that is to play, because she gigs often, sometimes doing two gigs in one day.  To do what one loves with a positive glow, real smile and a overall grateful nature... That's Gaby, and that's success in our book!

For anybody old enough to remember the 1980's band the Missing Persons, the track below is reminiscent of their track entitled Words, which we added just below the following Santogold video.  Enjoy!

Solomon, a wickedly talented percussionist who has played with many greats has his own project entitled Solomon's World.  Solomon is one of those musician's musicians, if you know what we mean.  He's like some sort of inspired guru on a level of Frank Zappa genius who won't stop the conversation either musically or verbally.

When we first heard Sol Philcox, he was 16 years old and making these blazing recordings right out of his bedroom.  A kid with limited resources, but tons of passion, one who really listens can tell this is one young man who may well become the cock of the walk as he woodsheds his way to stardom.  Visit his page to buy his record direct from Sol Philcox today!

Moriah Harris' track entitled The Devil's Game is one of those mellow tracks that grabbed us the same was Sade, Lisa Loeb and Sara Bareilles grabbed our attention the first time we heard them.  Check her out today!

Seeing hot bands around L.A. non-stop is fun and every once in a while you come across artists who have not only amazing charisma, vocal abilities and raw talent, they have something more.  They have "it".   Gaby's inspiration, sweet voice and charisma is pure and fresh.   Gaby has recently won two different John Lennon Songwriting Contests and recently had a staring role performing in the musical "Hair"

Click here for FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD of Gaby Moreno's track entitled "Bella"

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This group from Poland defies description, except for the fact that they are masters of their musical domain.
You will want to buy their record, except that they are unsigned and have no music yet for sale. 
They so graciously have allowed us to offer you a free download of their track entitled Mi a Ma

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On March 29 2004, MusicLoad's photographer shot this photo based on a rumor that Sara Bareilles had "it".  She was a hard working food server at the time and was so low key about her music,  never hyping herself. Few knew of her talent, which is one of those things that sets her apart from the rest.  A year after that photo moment passed, Sara was presented with and signed a major label recording contract with Epic Records, a division of SonyBMG.   Recently Sara's album entitled Little Voice became the biggest selling album on itunes.com upon release.

A soulful balladeer and a funky girl, she has a definite straight jazz vibe mixed in.  Sara B is obviously diverse and a real true musician that is not out riding a trend or a fad. Part of what makes her special is her minimalist and stripped bare naked sound.  No overplaying or overly emphasized soul shows her purity.  She's soothing at the lowest volume settings and awesome cranked up high.

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Way Mellow Jazz Soul MusicLoad Pick
Cruising on music.download.com, MusicLoad came across French Horn player Alex Brofsky's jazz genre project entitled AB + and a sweet vocalist named Jianda who adds what is necessary to make this a beautiful track to melt into the sofa or the sand, if you are so lucky.  Alex graciously has granted MusicLoad permission to give musicload.com visitors the free mp3 download below.  Enjoy!  If you dig the sound and wish to purchase more of AB+, Alex told Musicload that he likes to people to buy at his personal CD Baby pages at www.cdbaby.com/cd/abplus2 and/or  www.cdbaby.com/cd/abplus

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