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Not for Noobs: Here are Kaskade’s Top 5 Gaming Tracks
After Monstercat‘s massive acquisition of Silk Music, the Monstercat Silk label is already off to a stellar start. Now, dance music megastar Kaskade is gearing up for his debut Monstercat Silk release, which is shaping up to be one of 2021’s best EPs. Kaskade’s Reset EP will be out tomorrow, March 5th, and will consist of four tracks that are also featured in the hit video game Rocket League‘s current season, which moonlights as an homage to electronic dance music. The title of the EP, as well as its opening track, “Flip Reset,” is a clever nod to an in-game Rocket League movement mechanic that pros should be well-versed in. Reset will include the yet-to-be released “Miles To Go,” a collaboration with synth-pop star ...
Legendary Drum & Bass Label Hospital Records to Celebrate 25 Years With Massive Compilation
A quarter century of music is certainly a milestone achievement for any record label. Legendary drum & bass imprint Hospital Records has reached that mark and is celebrating in a massive way, with a brand new compilation that sees classic Hospital tracks and crowd favorites remixed by some of the foremost names in the genre. A celebration of drum & bass and its impact on electronic music as a whole, H25PITAL will showcase the past, present, and future of the label, and the genre. The compilation is poised to be a groundbreaking achievement from one of the most esteemed labels in all of electronic music. H25PITAL is an expansive compilation of 25 brand new remixes, reworks, and VIPs of some of the label’s finest works to date. Embracing the full spectrum of drum &...
Tommy Trash and Daisy Guttridge Drop First Song on deadmau5’s hau5trap Label: Listen
Tommy Trash and Daisy Guttridge have set the tone for what looks to be a power player in the house music scene. The frequent collaborators have once again teamed up, this time around for “hiiigh,” a beautiful house track that arrives on deadmau5‘s brand new hau5trap imprint. After taking some time off to refocus, Tommy Trash said the song is the result of a “life-changing” period when he took a trip to South America, where he experimented with Ayahuasca. “Two years ago I took some time out to recharge and refocus my life. I had been through some crazy times, and was dealing with some stuff that had really screwed with my mojo,” said Tommy Trash, one of Australia’s most decorated dance music artists. “I ended up heading to...
SAXON’s BIFF BYFORD Is Working On An Album With His Son SEB
SAXON singer Biff Byford is collaborating with his son Seb (NAKED SIX) on a new album, to be released before the end of the year. Speaking to Sweden’s RockSverige, Biff stated about the effort: “The record company wants to call it ‘BIFF AND SEB‘ or ‘SEB AND BIFF,’ but we would like to do it with a band name and we’ve got the name HEAVY WATER. I quite like that name. We have a working title called ‘Red Brick City’. We’ll call it ‘Heavy Water’ or… I don’t know. The working title might change. As we speak at this moment, we’re doing bass guitars. I’m playing some and Seb‘s playing some. When I finish talking to you, I’m going back into the studio. Asked if he is singing on the album, Biff sai...
STYX’s TOMMY SHAW Receives First Dose Of COVID-19 Vaccine
Tommy Shaw received his first dose of the COVID-19 vaccine on Wednesday (March 3). The 67-year-old STYX guitarist/vocalist took to his Instagram to share a photo of him getting the shot, and he wrote in an accompanying message: “In honor of what would have been my mother’s 93rd birthday, I asked the nurse to give me my first vaccine by her name on my shoulder! Happy Birthday Mom!” A recent Kaiser Family Foundation poll showed almost a third of U.S. adults are undecided on whether they’ll get the COVID-19 vaccine. The poll, released last month, found that 31 percent of adults are going to “wait until it has been available for a while to see how it is working for other people” before receiving the coronavirus vaccine. America’s two main vaccines have shown...
EPICA’s SIMONE SIMONS Feels Like A ‘Kitchen Slave’ During Pandemic
In a new interiview with “The Metal Hammer Podcast”, EPICA singer Simone Simons was asked what she misses the most about touring. She responded (hear audio below): “What I miss is definitely being on stage, singing, traveling. Ever since I was 17, I’ve been traveling a lot, and that was my lifestyle, not just my job, and it was normal to me. Being home a lot is not normal for me. [Laughs] And I miss the variation — the traveling, meeting the fans. There’s nothing compared to being on a stage, singing live, creating the music at that moment — nothing compares to that; nothing can replace that. So that’s definitely missing, and I feel a little bit as if I’m on standby. And besides that, what I miss as well is that other people are cooking for me [lau...
CANNIBAL CORPSE Frontman ‘Would Love To’ Record Second SERPENTINE DOMINION Album
During a recent appearance on the “Metal Blade Live Series”, CANNIBAL CORPSE frontman George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher spoke about the possibility of a second album from SERPENTINE DOMINION, his collaboration with KILLSWITCH ENGAGE guitarist Adam Dutkiewicz and ex-THE BLACK DAHLIA MURDER drummer Shannon Lucas. He said (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I text with Adam D. here and there, and we always talk about it. He did say to me that he had a little intro thing written, but who knows? He might have used that for something else. I don’t know. I haven’t talked to him about it. But when I do talk to him, I try not to bug him; there’s so much other shit going on in life and whatnot. We have had conversations about it, especially before all this...
Tom Morello Hits Back at Accusation of ‘White Privilege’: ‘I’m Not White’
Rage Against the Machine guitarist/activist Tom Morello is usually a man of many words but in a response to a Twitter user who accused him of “white man privilege” on Wednesday, he gave a simple answer to the accusation. His reply? “I’m not white.” The guitarist sent the message to Twitter user @TheRealNubian2, who had criticized him for defending his friendship with Ted Nugent, the guitarist who espouses strong right-wing views. His accuser identifies on Twitter as: “She/Her. Feminist SJW. Not an American but will talk shit anyway.” Morello, the son of an American mother of Italian and Irish descent and a father, Kikuyu Kenyan, who is from Kenya, told the story of his friendship with the Motor City Madman to Howard Stern on his SiriusXM show earlier this week. Discussi...
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band The Ultimate Collection Reissue Will Feature 87 Never-Before-Heard Recordings
Yoko Ono Lennon will celebrate 50 years of the John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band — a record Lennon described as “the best thing I’ve ever done” — with the release of a massive eight-disc super-deluxe box set. The 159-track, 11-hour collection, which boasts 87 never-before-heard recordings, arrives April 16 via and Capitol/UMe. The ultimate mix of “Mother” launches the album as the first single. The box explores the album’s 1970 recording sessions at EMI Studios 2 & 3 and Abbey Road along with John’s post-Beatles singles “Give Peace A Chance,” “Cold Turkey” and “Instant Karma! (We All Shine On).” Tracks from inception to the final master are revealed via unreleased and rare demos, rehearsals, outtakes, jams and studio conversations. A variety of new listening ex...
BTS’ Groundbreaking Saturday Night Live Performances Return to YouTube
ARMY, rejoice with us: after a long and painful absence, BTS’ 2019 performances on Saturday Night Live were rightfully restored earlier this week. Last June, after racking up a collective 39 million views, the performances of “Boy with Luv” and “Mic Drop” vanished from SNL’s YouTube account. This is, unfortunately, a pretty common occurrence, and often happens when labels run into copyright renewal with outlets like NBC. The resurfaced performances have arrived on the heels of similar copyright friction between Spotify and Kakao M, a South Korean music distributor, which resulted in hundreds of Korean artists and songs being removed from the platform earlier this week. In April of 2019, the world of Korean music in Western markets looked quite different. This was long before BTS had secure...
John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band Gets “Ultimate” Reissue with 159-Song, 8-Disc Box Set
Yoko Ono Lennon has announced a massive deluxe reissue of John Lennon’s debut solo album, titled John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band – The Ultimate Collection. Ahead of its release on April 16th, preview the collection with “Mother (Ultimate Mix)” below. John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band was originally released on December 11th, 1970 following the break-up of The Beatles earlier that year. Influenced by his experiences with primal therapy, it features minimal production with simple and sparse instrumentation. The new box set contains 159 tracks across six CDs and two Blu-ray audio discs, including 87 never-before-heard recordings. There are unreleased and rare demos, rehearsals, outtakes, jams, and studio conversations detailing how the songs came together. All of the tracks have been mixed from scrat...
Ready or Not, The Opus to Explore Fugees’ The Score
Consequence Podcast Network and Sony’s The Opus returns for an incredible Season 13. Beginning March 11th, host Jill Hopkins will begin exploring the stories and songs behind the Fugees’ second and final album, The Score. After their criminally underrated 1994 debut, Blunted on Reality, struggled to win over critics and fans, the Fugees needed to make a statement. The trio of Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, and Pras Michel were granted a second chance in 1995 by Ruffhouse Records head Chris Schwartz, who gave them a $135,000 advance and complete creative control. Their followup was 1996’s The Score, a diamond album that cemented Fugees’ place in hip-hop history. Led by hit singles “Killing Me Softly”, “Fu-Gee-La”, and “Ready or Not”, the LP went on to be certified six-times Platinum by the ...
