5 Artists You Should Know: Kenya
With a variety of regional languages, ethnic groups, and geographical environments, Kenyan music has a complex history. There is a diversity of folk music, sung most frequently in Swahili or native languages. Traditional Kenyan music included instruments a...
Swedish Grammis Wins 2023
The winners for this year’s Swedish Grammis have been announced. The awards took place May 3rd at Annexet in Stockholm. Congratulations to Orchard distributed labels and partners on 3 wins! The Satchi Six artist Bavé won in the Soul/Rnb category for his...
Manifestgalan Honors Independent Swedish Music: 2023 Winners Revealed
Every year, the Svenska Oberoende Musikproducenter (translated to "Swedish Independent Music Producers", also known as SOM) honors the Swedish independent music sector with Manifestgalan. The 20th annual Manifestgalan took place live at Pustervik in Gothen...
Celebrating Twenty Years of Thirty Tigers
In 2001, in a guest bedroom in Nashville, David Macias and Deb Markland founded a business to help emerging artists and teams with sales and marketing solutions. Twenty years and a handful of Grammy Award-winning artists and releases later, Thirty Tigers c...
Ten Minutes With GIRL SKIN
GIRL SKIN released their 11-track debut album back in April called Shade is on the other side. They’ve received praise from the likes of NPR Music who said their “gentle folk songs benefit enormously from their soft chamber-pop bent, which helps an ambitio...
With Boundless Love, We Remember John Prine
Known for his ingenious songwriting and tender, raspy voice, John Prine was a musical legend and leader for an entire generation of country-folk and Americana artists and songwriters of all kinds. It is with a heavy heart to learn of the passing of singer-...