July DownTown Newsletter
Rock’n’Roll spoken here!
Happy Birthday America! The 4th of July is here as the official kickoff to summer! July starts off with a bang on the 2nd with a New Moon Solar Eclipse, which is a great time to go inward and set your intentions before the supercharged Full Moon Lunar Eclipse, which arrives in the middle of the month on July 16. The moon rules our emotions so this is a good time to take some quiet time and sort things out. Next week another Mercury Retrograde enters the equation for the rest of the month, so things begin to slow down as the planet of communications stops its forward motion in the skies. Concentrate on work already started.
NEW NEWS…With The Wish Single and EP having been released in April and May, DownTown Mystic will now release the new One More Chance Single on August 2 worldwide via AWAL/Kobalt Music. The single also includes the track Read The Signs (featuring Bruce Engler). Bruce co-wrote both tracks and is featured playing lead guitar. Pre-orders for the One More Chance Single will be available on July 15 at Amazon, iTunes, etc. You can listen to the exclusive premiere of the One More Chance Single via this newsletter on Number1Music.com.
Here’s a preview of the press release which will go out later this month:
Sha-La Music, Inc. announces the worldwide release of the new digital single One More Chance by US Rocker DownTown Mystic on August 2. One More Chance is being distributed worldwide via AWAL/Kobalt Music with pre-orders available starting on July 15 on Amazon, Apple Music, etc.
The One More Chance single will contain 2 songs, including Read The Signs, which features longtime DownTown Mystic ally Bruce Engler. Besides co-writing both songs with DownTown's Robert Allen, Bruce's tasty lead guitar is featured on One More Chance and Read The Signs as well as his vocal chops on the latter song. One More Chance also features one of the last sessions by drummer Tommy Mastro, with some great bass playing from P.J. Farley of Trixter fame. Read The Signs features the same ace rhythm section from the last 2 singles of drummer Steve Holley (Paul McCartney, Ian Hunter) and bassist Paul Page (Dion, Ian Hunter).
The working relationship between DownTown Mystic Writer/Producer Robert Allen and Singer/Songwriter Bruce Engler goes back some 25 years. Robert co-produced and played on Bruce's 1st album, Go Back, which Sha-La Music released in 2012. The writing of One More Chance came about when Robert would give Bruce the music to write a melody and lyrics to record. Robert explains, "I had this music that I'd been playing around with for a number of years and Bruce was just developing as a singer/songwriter. I thought he needed some more songs so I suggested we collaborate on this song I had. We got together and came up with the chorus and title. Bruce took it from there and hit it out of the park and the message is especially timely now. I've always thought that One More Chance was an important song in more ways than one."
One More Chance is the 3rd single to be released this year by DownTown Mystic following on the heels of The Wish and Love Light. Those singles have done exceptionally well at worldwide Radio via the iPluggers online platform, garnering airplay on over 250,000 stations in 40 countries, thanks in no small part to being added to stations by some of the largest In-store Media companies in the world. The singles are part of the build-up to the release of DownTown Mystic's first album in 3 years called Better Day.
RADIO…“The Wish” single has now outperformed the 3 previous singles at worldwide Radio with airplay in 20 countries via the iPluggers online platform. With strong support from In-store media companies, the single is being played on over 550,000 in-store stations.
Check out the iPluggers page: https://ipluggers.com/downtownmystic
DOWNTOWN BLOG…Check out the new blog post about “The Wish” and the long strange trip it took to be written and recorded: https://downtownmystic.net/downtown-blog-wish/
SYNC & STREAMING…Thanks to our man in Sync, Eddie Caldwell, DownTown Mystic songs have been placed on ViceTV’s “Jasper and Errol's First Time” and “Step Up: High Water” on YouTube Premium.
Listen to The Wish on Spotify: https://tinyurl.com/y352kndf
Listen to The Wish EP on SoundCloud: https://tinyurl.com/y5yfqxt5
VIDEO… Check out the new video for “The Wish” as well as videos for “Tomorrow’s Clown” and "Love Light" on YouTube: The Wish: https://youtu.be/8eORFZwByAM
Tomorrow’s Clown: https://youtu.be/3Aw_cDGbhXA
Love Light: https://youtu.be/_I32Hni4EuI
SOCIAL MEDIA…Stay up to date with DownTown Mystic via Social Media. Hook up with us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/shalaman and https://twitter.com/DTMysticBand
Until next time…Keep it ROCKIN’!!
PS. DownTown Mystic Website: http://downtownmystic.net/
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