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ILLENIUM Announces a New Album is On the Way
Stop the presses, ILLENIUM has new music on the way. The beloved future bass artist has given a hint that an album is incoming with one simple post. Where there is a photo shoot, there is music. He further shared why things have been quiet on the production front, “Sorry if I haven’t been 100% there for you guys this past year. When the pandemic first hit I was so exhausted from touring nonstop. Being in the studio for 12 hour days was something I missed so much. Been grinding hard on this next body of work. Can’t wait to share it!!” His standards are clearly high because last year, he delivered an impressive amount of work. In 2020, he released “Feel Something” with Excision and I Prevail, “In Your Arms” with X Ambassadors, ASCEND (...
A Memorial for Avicii is Being Built in Stockholm
The late Avicii is being honored in his hometown of Stockholm with a new memorial site. The news comes almost three years after the tragic passing of the beloved producer. The plans have been announced by the Stockholm local chapter of the liberal Moderaterna party which chairs the district committee of the capital district of Östermalm. The memorial site is said to be approved by next Thursday. According to a report from Antenne Münster, “the people at the place in the center of Östermalm should be able to remember Avicii alias Tim Bergling on the one hand, but also honor all people with psychological problems who died too early on the other.” In a quote obtained by the publication, Klas Bergling, Avicii’s father, spoke for his family and said ̶...
MitiS Delivers Melancholic Single “Homesick” featuring SOUNDR
MitiS has solidified himself as a mainstay on Seven Lions‘ Ophelia Records. The Pennsylvania-born artist has found himself releasing numerous records on the imprint, including his All I Have and Shattered EPs. Today, he returns to Ophelia with “Homesick” in collaboration with SOUNDR. “Homesick” encapsulates MitiS’ signature sound, hitting listeners with waves of deep, textured bass and soaring synths. SOUNDR’s passionate vocals add greater depth to the melancholic tune, as she croons about the struggle of maintaining a long-distance relationship and trying to remain hopeful. Their collaboration does an excellent job at pulling on heartstrings, as every second of the five and a half minute tune inspires more confidence. Although MitiS...
Original Real World: New York Cast Reuniting for New Series
ViacomCBS will mark the launch of its revamped streaming platform by reuniting the original cast of The Real World: New York for a brand new episodic series. Real World Homecoming: New York will premiere on March 4th — the same day ViacomCBS will officially rebrand CBS All Access as Paramount+. The first season of The Real World premiered on MTV in 1992, marking one of the earliest forms of reality television. To date, the franchise has run 33 total seasons. All seven cast members from The Real World: New York — Recky Blasband, Andre Comeau, Heather B. Gardner, Julie Gentry, Norman Korpi, Eric Nies, and Kevin Powell — are returning for Homecoming. According to Page Six, they recently wrapped filming at their original loft at 565 Broadway in SoHo. Editors’ Picks “Becky,...
Judas and the Black Messiah Puts a Nostalgic Lens On a Modern-Day Struggle: Review
The Pitch: The early morning of December 4th, 1969 served as an exclamation point for this country’s most tumultuous decade. The assassinations of Medgar Evers, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X; became jarring reminders that the virtues of morality, peace, and equality would never supersede the ideology that the United States was built on – racism. At 21 years old, Fred Hampton’s life may have been cut short, but his legacy continues to live on. Directed by Shaka King, Judas and the Black Messiah is not only a film about the political killing of one of the movement’s most promising figures, but an exploration of the inner turmoil plaguing the man who set him up – and the mindset of many others like him. In a powerful montage, the film opens with footage focused on quotes and spee...
Trump’s Lawyers Used Madonna and Johnny Depp in Impeachment Defense
Madonna (photo by Paul Morigi), Donald Trump, and Johnny Depp (photo via YouTube) Donald Trump’s second impeachment trial has been taking place over the past few days, and his lawyers haven’t been doing that great of a job defending him. For example, on Friday they argued that Democrats have previously used the same type of provocative language that Democrats are now claiming the former president used to incite the Capitol siege. To prove their point, Trump’s lawyers played a video that featured “fight” rhetoric used by Madonna and Johnny Depp, neither of whom provoked a violence insurrection. Trump’s attorney David Schoen accused the House impeachment managers of deceptively editing Trump’s words in their own video, which focused on Trump’s rallying cries on January 6th that were the...
Ryley Walker Announces New Album Course in Fable, Shares “Rang Dizzy”: Stream
Ryley Walker has announced the new album Course in Fable. It arrives April 2nd from his own Husky Pants Records, and you can catch a preview with the winding, witty “Rang Dizzy”. Walker’s last album in the traditional sense of the word was 2018’s Deafman Glance, though with its leisurely instrumental interludes, ‘traditional’ might be a bit of a stretch. He followed that with The Lillywhite Sessions, a not-especially-faithful cover of a lost Dave Matthews Band record, the jazzy Charles Rumback collaboration Little Common Twist, and, last week, the jam-heavy live set Deep Fried Grandeur performed with Kikagaku Moyo. Over the last three years he’s been busy, bordering on prolific, but the music hasn’t always accommodated itself to popular tastes. If “Rang Dizzy” is any in...
Kranium Brings ‘Toxic’ Vibes Ahead of Valentine’s Day With His New EP: Stream
Dancehall star Kranium looks to warm up listeners ahead of Valentine’s Day weekend with his five-track EP Toxic. After garnering success with his breezy single “Gal Policy,” Kranium clocked in another lively record last month with “Block Traffic.” Shot in Jamaica, the cinematic visual showcases Kranium’s smooth swagger when interacting with the apple of his eye. “Toxic is a five-song body of work,” he tells Billboard. The EP isn’t a traditional dancehall project. It’s more melodic. I leaned more into the rhythmic zone with this one — more into the ‘Melody God’ in me.” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It...
Papa Roach’s ‘Last Resort (Reloaded)’ Crowns Hot Hard Rock Songs
It’s also the group’s, and Johnson’s, first Hot Hard Rock Songs leader since the chart debuted in June 2020. Papa Roach’s current radio single, “The Ending,” concurrently reaches a new No. 17 high. The original “Last Resort” led Alternative Airplay for seven weeks beginning in August 2000. The rap-rock tune kicked off a career for Papa Roach that encompasses 17 entries on Alternative Airplay and 31 on Mainstream Rock Airplay, including five No. 1s on the latter. The latest, “Come Around,” led in December 2019. Johnson has experienced early success with his own song “Damn!,” which has so far reached No. 44 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs. (An alternate version of “Damn!” features another 2000s rock stalwart in Nickelback’...
How to Watch Justin Bieber’s TikTok Valentine’s Day Concert
All that matters this Valentine’s Day is Justin Bieber‘s first-ever performance of his 2013 album Journals. Journals was Bieber’s third compilation album that he recorded during his Believe Tour from 2012 to 2013, which he dropped as a string of digital singles for his Music Mondays series from October-December 2013. The collection of R&B-leaning sensual tracks begot the pop superstar’s swagged-out “Biebervelli” alter ego and molded the R&Bieber he eventually resurrected for his Changes era earlier last year. Journals notched the Biebs four No. 1 hits on Billboard‘s R&B Digital Song Sales chart in 2013: his earliest Chance the Rapper collab “Confident,” “Recovery,”...
First Spin: The Week’s Best New Dance Tracks From Moore Kismet, Imanbek & Rita Ora, Surf Mesa & More
Moore Kismet, “Rumor” It’s never easy growing up. Teenagers are little balls of flesh and exploding chemicals forced to sit in school chairs and memorize algebraic equations they’ll soon forget. Meanwhile, the wounds we suffer during those years, physically and emotionally, go on to create the scaffolding of the humans we become. How we shape ourselves around the hurt is an on-going process that takes a lifetime to emerge, but if we’re kind to ourselves, we find space for beauty in the pain. That’s what Moore Kismet and WYN carved with their complex, texture-rich single “Rumor,” the first single from the producer’s forthcoming debut LP. Kismet is young, to be sure, but the quickly-rising star crafts deeply-stirring character with crackling vinyl noise, deep-wa...
Issa Rae Launching ‘RAP SH*T’ HBO Max Series, City Girls Co-Exec Producers
Source: Jerritt Clark / Getty HBO Max has been making some epic moves in the content wars and once again, they’ve scored what could be a major hit. The streamer has just announced a new series tentatively titled RAP SH*T with Issa Rae named as the lead executive producer with co-executive producing credits for JT and Yung Miami of the City Girls. The announcement shares that along with the aforementioned Rae and City Girls, writer Syreeta Singleton will serve as the executive producer and showrunner for the eight-show series. The logline reads, “RAP SH*T (wt) follows two estranged high school friends from Miami who reunite to form a rap group,” which, to us, reads like the City Girls are a possible influence on the story. Montrel McKay, who worked on A Black Lady Sketch Show and Road Tripp...
