I have gotten a plethora of cool press releases have been flooding my inbox recently that you may find interesting. This post includes blurbs on Tassia Zappia, Chelsea Cutler, Claire Rosinkranz, JP Cooper, Detainee 001, Back to Life, POV, and Buried.
- Earning critical acclaim and enchanting fans around the world, Melbourne singer songwriter Tassia Zappia shares a cheeky and catchy new single entitled “Like Ohh” via Republic Records. Listen to “Like Ohh”— HERE. Tassia comments about the new single, “During a writing trip to LA I met a new guy and we really hit it off. After I went back home to Australia, I just couldn't get him off my mind. “Like Ohh" is a sexy, playful song about craving a person knowing you may never see them again. I had the best time making this with my collaborators Lauren Christy, Jon Levine and Entente.”
- Platinum Certified singer, songwriter, and producer Chelsea Cutler drops her latest single, “You Can Have It,” from her highly anticipated sophomore album—listen HERE! “You Can Have It” illuminates another side of the songwriter, as delicately plucked acoustic guitar shifts into a head-nodding beat, and she delivers upbeat verses before a sun-kissed, soaring refrain, “Anything that you want, that I got, that’s for you.” Chelsea co-wrote the song with James Alan and co-produced it with Kevin White of Rice N’ Peas.
- Tallying hundreds of millions of streams and attracting universal acclaim from Billboard, Ones To Watch, EUPHORIA. Magazine, and more, Gen Z singer-songwriter Claire Rosinkranz only increases the momentum of her rapid rise by unveiling the music video for her latest single “Hotel” today. Watch the music video for “Hotel”—HERE. It is available on her tastemaker-praised sophomore EP, 6 Of A Billion – listen HERE!
- Acclaimed British singer and songwriter, JP Cooper, has dropped his uplifting new single “Call My Name”, today and announced his new album titled SHE, which will be released on October 15th. You can listen to “Call My Name” HERE and the video is also available to watch HERE.
- SHOWTIME Documentary Films today announced the new documentary feature DETAINEE 001, directed by Emmy®-winner Greg Barker (The Final Year, Sergio, Manhunt, Legion of Brothers). The film unpacks the mysteries surrounding the young American man, John Walker Lindh, found on the battlefield in Afghanistan alongside the people who were supposed to be his enemy. The story reveals how society views the “enemy from within” and the shifting allegiances during the war on terror. SHOWTIME will premiere DETAINEE 001 on Friday, September 10 at 9 p.m. ET/PT. The announcement was made by Vinnie Malhotra, Executive Vice President, Nonfiction Programming, Showtime Networks Inc. To watch and share the trailer, visit: https://youtu.be/aCk7P6voen0.
- SHOWTIME announced that the six-part second season of the critically acclaimed comedy series BACK TO LIFE, created by and starring Daisy Haggard (EPISODES, Breeders), will premiere on Monday, September 13 at 10 p.m. ET/PT with new episodes airing each week. All episodes of season two will be available on that day to stream and on demand for subscribers on SHOWTIME. From the producers of Fleabag, BACK TO LIFE follows Miri Matteson (Haggard) who, after 18 years behind bars, returns home and stumbles back into adult life in the coastal town she once knew. Miri continues to reconcile with her past while trying to assimilate and make a new life for herself post-incarceration. To watch and share the trailer, please visit: https://youtu.be/1nnVxjwmbtA.
- POV Shorts, the newest series from American Documentary, debuts its fourth season on September 6, 2021 on PBS and streaming online at POV.org. With 13 new short nonfiction films packed into seven unique episodes, POV Shorts continues to program innovative and diverse stories that capture longing for community and identity and difficult reconciliations with family history. In just its 3rd season, POV Shorts was named the ‘Best Short Form Series’ at the 36th annual IDA Documentary Awards.
- SHOWTIME announced it will air BURIED, a four-part documentary series, about how one woman’s long-repressed memory of her childhood best friend’s murder sparked a national debate about the power and limitations of memory in the court of law. The legal thriller spotlights the reverberations of this first criminal case based on a recovered memory and analyzes how fallible and malleable the mind can be. SHOWTIME will release all four episodes to its subscribers at 12:01 a.m. on Sunday, October 10, prior to its on-air debut that night at 9 p.m. ET/PT. A co-production of MA Productions and Guendelman & Timor Productions, BURIED is executive produced by Yotam Guendelman (Shadow of Truth), Mika Timor (Coastal Road Killer), Maor Azran (Beauty and the Baker, The Amazing Race Israel) and Dan Adler (Noel) and written and directed by Guendelman and Ari Pines (Shadow of Truth, Coastal Road Killer). To watch and share the teaser, go to: https://youtu.be/MElWc1ACVvM.
