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SHINee Is Back — And It’s Been ‘A Long Time Coming’
By Ashlee Mitchell Key, Minho, Taemin, and Onew sit together, makeup-free, laughing, sipping on drinks, vibing, and generally enjoying each other’s company. It’s about 2 p.m. in Seoul, and the guys have obviously been busy with back-to-back interviews, but that doesn’t deter from the positivity they radiate on a Zoom call. One could mistake them for brothers instead of the iconic second-generation K-pop moguls they are, but that relatability in spite of their superstardom makes them SHINee. The K-pop landscape looked very different when they debuted under SM Entertainment in 2008. SHINee entered the scene with the timeless “Replay,” an R&B jam where the fresh-faced boys sang about impressing an older woman. This debut secured their place as trendsetters in Korea, inspiring what media d...
Wizkid’s Album Best During Pandemic – 6lack
Wizkid’s recent album, “Made In Lagos” which received major attention across the world has been rated by American rapper, 6lack as the best album of any genre that was dished out during the pandemic. Recall that the Award-winning singer released the much-anticipated project on the 22nd of October 2020 and music lovers wasted no time to vibe to the amazing sounds. Naija Music gathered that the album from Nigeria has received over 181 million streams across the world. Meanwhile, 6black in a post on Twitter noted that Wizkid dished out the best project during the pandemic. The statement of the American rapper has been commended by some, while some others believed he stating the wrong thing. See the post below: also @wizkidayo dropped the best album during this pandemic, of any genre. — black ...
Eptic Drops Blistering Single “Shadow People” on Monstercat
After kicking off 2021 with Monstercat in early January with a massive dubstep track, Eptic has returned to the electronic music tastemaker for round two. Following some creative marketing that placed Eptic’s patented Computron character in a lucid nightmare soundtracked by “Shadow People,” the track arrived in full today. Just like “Stop Pretending,” Eptic’s latest is yet another masterclass in bass music sound design from the Belgian producer, who seems to push the boundaries of the genre with each new release. This time around, he somehow melds hypnotic arpeggios and crisp tom fills, which coalesce in the song’s verses before building into a screeching drop. He goes haywire from there, introducing nuanced production techniques thr...
England’s Music Festivals and Nightclubs Given Green Light to Reopen This Summer
At long last, England’s nightclubs and music festivals have been given the green light by the government to resume operations amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Prime Minister Boris Johnson recently announced a roadmap aimed at easing lockdown restrictions, which signals the imminent reopening of venues and clubs starting June 21st, 2021. Mixmag notes that restrictions on such events could be lifted as long as the number of COVID-19 cases, deaths, and hospital admissions continue to decline. According to Sky News, Johnson’s plan will unfold in four steps, this first of which goes into effect on March 8th, when all schools and colleges in England will reopen. The second phase of the plan will allow outdoor hospitality to reopen starting on April 12th—including pubs ...
Adventure Club Shares Tracklist, Collaborators of Upcoming “Love // Chaos” Album
Fans of Adventure Club have been waiting quite some time for the next album from the famed melodic dubstep duo. After teasing a plethora of unreleased songs in recent months, they’ve finally unveiled the official tracklist for Love // Chaos, their highly anticipated sophomore album. Adventure Club unveiled the tracklist in a series of Instagram Story posts today, February 22nd. The list for the album—their first since 2016’s seminal Red // Blue LP—moonlights as a Rolodex of electronic music linchpins, many of whom have been instrumental in Adventure Club’s storied career. Each and every one of the album’s 21 tracks are collaborations, which could point to why it took so long to develop. Featured on Love // Chaos are Krewella, Said The Sky, Blanke, Kaivon, Sara ...
EDM Artists React to Daft Punk Split: “An Impossibly Rich, Immaculate Legacy”
We’re not crying, you’re crying. The electronic music community was flung headlong into hysteria today after Daft Punk revealed their shocking split after 28 years. Naturally, a deluge of tributes to the legendary “One More Time” producers immediately overwhelmed social media from the likes of Zedd, Porter Robinson, TOKiMONSTA, Alesso, and countless others. In a particularly poignant post from fellow electronic music fulcrum Madeon, the French compatriot shared an open letter of sorts, tipping his cap to the iconic duo’s “impossibly rich, immaculate legacy.” “Their songs became diaries, I kept them close and I’ve been attaching new memories to them at every chapter of my life. It’s a cherished treasure,” he wrote while gu...
Billie Eilish Announces Documentary Premiere Event, Shares Live Version of “ilomilo”: Stream
Ahead of the upcoming Apple TV+ documentary Billie Eilish: The World’s a Little Blurry, the pop star and the tech giant have announced a live premiere event featuring interviews, video previews, and special musical performances. It’s going down February 25th before the film receives a wider release on the 26th, and Eilish is heralding the news by releasing a live performance of “ilomilo”, the song which gives the documentary its name. Apple TV+ reportedly paid $25 million to pull Eilish under their umbrella, and they now seemed to determined to get their money’s worth. The documentary live premiere event will be hosted by Apple Music’s Zane Lowe and feature interviews with both Eilish and the film’s director R.J. Cutler. Also expect are video packages previewing the doc and a st...
Mariachi Band Trolls Ted Cruz Outside His Houston Home
Senator Ted Cruz may not have been able to carry out his tone-deaf vacation to Cancún, but some residents of Texas made sure that Mexico came to him. As The Independent reports, a Mariachi band held a lively performance outside of Cruz’s Houston home on Sunday, because as one organizer put it, “No one should go to Cancún and not listen to Mariachi.” Cruz, who is responsible for approximately 90% of the terrible haircuts in the Senate and at least 10% of its jowls, flew to Cancún on Wednesday, February 17th. The timing struck almost everyone as less than ideal, given that his home state of Texas had been rocked by catastrophic winter storms. With millions snowed-in without water or electricity, Cruz used the powers of his office to arrange a police escort to the airport and made a beel...
Lzzy Hale’s Powerhouse Vocals Highlight Halestorm’s Cover of The Who’s “Long Live Rock”: Stream
Halestorm have covered The Who’s “Long Live Rock” in conjunction with the recently announced documentary of the same name. The rousing rendition is fueled by frontwoman Lzzy Hale’s powerful vocals. The new documentary Long Live Rock … Celebrate the Chaos focuses on the culture surrounding hard rock, with appearances by members of Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Rage Against the Machine, Slipknot, Halestorm, and many others. It was filmed at a number of U.S. rock festivals in recent years, and also spotlights fans of the music, as they “commune with their ‘rock families’.” In promotion of the movie, Halestorm have tackled “Long Live Rock”, which was released on The Who’s 1974 rarities collection, Odds & Sods, and also featured during the credits of the legendary UK band’s 1979 documentar...
Tomorrowland Reveals Limited-Edition 5LP Vinyl Box Set
3,000 lucky fans will be able to get their hands on a piece of Tomorrowland history with the festival’s latest merch drop. Coming this week is the first of three limited-edition vinyl box sets celebrating the history of the event. Adding to the appeal of the rare collector’s item, each box will be labeled from 1 to 3,000. In an announcement post revealing the set’s artwork on Tomorrowland’s Twitter account, the brand divulged that the trilogy will cover a “selection of the most iconic tracks of the past 15 years.” The first chapter will feature the songs of Tomorrowland’s first five years, 2005 to 2009. As you might imagine, the second and third sets will feature the next ten years, totaling up to fifteen years of music. As shared on the digit...
Guided By Voices Announce New Album Earth Man Blues, Share “Free Agents”: Stream
Guided by Voices released three albums in 2020, and it looks like they plan on continuing that impressive pandemic pace in the new year. The legendary indie rockers have just announced another new record called Earth Man Blues, due out April 30th via Rockathon. Earth Man Blues is the 33rd studio album (!) of Guided by Voices’ career. It’s comprised of songs from the past decade that were never used on previous LPs and organized here to create an overall theme. After realizing it sounded like a musical stage production, Robert Pollard decided to lean into that style and named the album after his elementary school’s theater playbill. “I was blown away that I had discarded them,” Pollard said of the tracks in an interview with Rolling Stone. “Anyway, I combined some of them and created new ar...
Pasquale Rotella Confirms EDC Las Vegas and Beyond Wonderland’s 2021 Dates Still On—For Now
Insomniac‘s Pasquale Rotella recently updated fans on the state of EDC Las Vegas and Beyond Wonderland in 2021. In a comment on a recent Instagram post, Rotella shared that his company is “continuing to plan” the events for their scheduled dates, bur cautioned that things could change. “I know a lot of you are looking for an EDCLV update, so yes, we’re continuing to plan EDC Las Vegas & Beyond Wonderland for their scheduled dates,” Rotella wrote. “There continues to be new developments & we’re in constant communication with local officials. If things change, however, we have backup dates in place & I’ll let you know soon.” The post that contains Rotella’s comment was published to announce Insomniac’s brand new Orla...
