New Artist Spotlight

  • 10 Questions With Smokin’ Cola

    10 Questions With Smokin’ Cola

    In this week’s 10 Questions we get to know Smokin’ Cola – an eclectic rock artist from Maryland. Their track ‘Brand New Day’ is currently featured on the NAS Spotify playlists. You can follow Smokin’ Cola on BlueSky, X (formerly Twitter) and YouTube.


    1. Tell us a little about where you are from


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  • 10 Questions With Steve Lazero

    10 Questions With Steve Lazero

    In this week’s 10 Questions we get to know Steve Lazero, an EDM artist from Las Vegas

    Their song Crooked Halo is currently featured on the NAS Spotify playlists


    You can follow Steve Lazero on Instagram, X and TikTok

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  • 10 Questions with Kathleen Turner Overdrive

    10 Questions with Kathleen Turner Overdrive

    In this week’s 10 Questions we get to know Kathleen Turner Overdrive, a punk band from Toowoomba, Australia.


    Their song ‘Sticks and Stones’ is currently featured on the NAS Spotify playlists


    You can follow Kathleen Turner Overdrive on Facebook and Instagram


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  • 10 Questions with JoseMichtka

    10 Questions with JoseMichtka


    This time, we get to know Jose Michtka.

    The track “Lisboa” is featured in the New Artist Spotlight Family of Playlists.


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  • 10 Questions With Teddy Head

    10 Questions With Teddy Head

    In this week’s 10 Questions we get to know Teddy Head, a rock artist from the UK


    Their song Out Of Control is currently featured on the NAS Spotify playlists


    You can follow Teddy Head on X (formerly Twitter)


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  • 10 Questions With Toxic Garden Gnomes

    10 Questions With Toxic Garden Gnomes

    In this week’s 10 Questions we get to know Toxic Garden Gnomes, a pop-rock band from Brisbane, Australia.


    Their song ‘Out Of It‘ is currently featured on the NAS Spotify playlists


    You can follow Toxic Garden Gnomes on Facebook, Instagram, and YouTube


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  • 10 Questions with Dislike Tonality

    10 Questions with Dislike Tonality

    In this week’s 10 Questions we get to know Dislike Tonality, an alt-rock artist from Greece


    Their song Monkey Dream is currently featured on the NAS Spotify playlists


    You can follow Dislike Tonality on Instagram, Facebook and YouTube


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  • 10 Questions with Colleen Kitchen

    10 Questions with Colleen Kitchen



    This time, we get to know Colleen Kitchen. The track “Back Porch People” is featured in the New Artist Spotlight Family of Playlists. Link To New Artist Spotlight Playlists:

    https://www.newartistspotlight.org/playlists 𝟭. Where are you from and what are your hobbies? I am originally from the USA midwest but I have lived on both coasts, Europe, and Mexico. My hobby is visual art, and sometimes it is copacetic with music. I am especially fond of making partially 3-D fish and animals out of junk such as tin cans and bottlecaps in a modified steampunk style. 𝟮. How did your get into music? I’ve done music one way or another since I can remember. Piano lessons as a kid, picking up guitar and other instruments on my own, some formal vocal training, and jamming with friends. I have been in over a dozen bands, from traditional Celtic, to eclectic pop, to R & B, eventually leading my own four piece Latin Brazilian jazz cover band “Chuva Boa.” (Chuva Boa has an album on Spotify if you’re interested.) All that worked until it didn’t. When you write original songs that are not formulaic and don’t conform to the latest trend, AND it’s in the middle of a pandemic, most of your musical colleagues evaporate. But being first a bandleader, and now a solo artist has forced me to deal with many aspects of the biz I never worried about before. I am happiest when I’m learning new things, and so it suits me. 𝟯. Who are your biggest influences? Being classically trained in piano, of course i was trained in the dead white men repertoire, and of those, Debussy and Chopin (who anticipated and helped shape jazz) are my favorites. Then we have the jazzers, of course: Bill Evans and Thelonious Monk are faves. As for singers, I look to Ella. In the romance languages singers department I am very influenced by Gal Costa, Flora Purim, and Violeta Parra. I also count Joni Mitchell, Grace Slick, Joan Baez, Gretchen Parlato, Dar Williams and Brandi Carlile among my early influences. For harmonies I’m mad about the Beach Boys and CSNY I especially like Joni & Joan, because they wrote on a lot of topics, and not just “love,” which IMO is overdone.


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  • 10 Questions with Captain Chemical

    10 Questions with Captain Chemical

    In this week’s 10 Questions we get to know Captain Chemical, a rock band from Arizona


    Their song Drive Into The Ocean is currently featured on the NAS Spotify playlists


    You can follow Captain Chemical on X (formerly Twitter), Instagram, Facebook and on their website


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  • 10 Questions With Ava Breeze

    10 Questions With Ava Breeze

    In this week’s 10 Questions we get to know Ava Breeze, a singer-songwriter from New Jersey.


    Her song Lemonade (LMN8) is currently featured on the NAS Spotify playlists.


    You can follow Ava Breeze on Instagram and TikTok


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