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Armin van Buuren is Highlighting the Top 1,000 ASOT Tracks in Weeklong Stream
On New Year’s Eve, Armin van Buuren sent off 2020 with the 997th episode of his illustrious A State of Trance radio show. Not long before that, he treated fans to an end-of-the-year mix, highlighting some of his favorite releases of the year. To keep the celebration alive for trance addicts, in preparation of the show’s jaw-dropping 1,000th episode, van Buuren will be counting down the top 1,000 A State of Trance tracks in a weeklong streaming event. Considering the show has been running for nearly twenty years, choosing 1,000 songs might be too great of a task for one man. As detailed in the embedded announcement tweet below, the Dutch trance icon asked fans for help in selecting tracks that will make up the all-time list. Armin van Buuren’s special A State of ...
Excision Announces Artists on Upcoming Subsidia Melodic Showcase, “Dawn Vol. 2”
Excision left no neck unbroken in 2020 with the debut of his own record label, Subsidia. Split into three volumes, Dusk, Night, and Dawn, the 118-track debut of the label rocked the bass music world to the core and made Subsida an easy choice for EDM.com‘s Record Label of the Year. Since then, they’ve released a new volume in both the wonky and weird Dusk and the unforgivingly-heavy Night sagas. Now, echoing the calls for new beginnings brought on by the New Year, Excision and company are preparing for the release of the second chapter of the melodic bass journey that is Dawn. As shown in the announcement above, the compilation album will feature new music from ill.Gates, Dani King, Cyrus Gold, Computa, Ahee, and a new collaboration from the man himself and...
Why Has FOREIGNER Not Been Inducted Into ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME? The Reason Is ‘Very, Very Simple,’ Says JEFF PILSON
FOREIGNER bassist Jeff Pilson says that there is a “very, very simple” reason his band has not yet been inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. Artists are eligible for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame 25 years after the release of their first album or single. Criteria for inclusion includes “the influence and significance of the artist’s contributions to the development and perpetuation of rock and roll.” Eligible since 2002, FOREIGNER has had a huge number of rock hits, including “Cold As Ice”, “Double Vision”, “Hot Blooded”, “I Want To Know What Love Is”, “Juke Box Hero” and “Urgent”, and has been nominated for three Grammy Awards, with no wins. Asked in a new interview with Jeff Ga...
MICHAEL SCHENKER On EDDIE VAN HALEN’s Guitar Playing: ‘I Was Blown Away By What He Did’
In a brand new interview with The Metal Voice, legendary guitarist Michael Schenker discussed the legacy of VAN HALEN icon Eddie Van Halen, who died in October at the age of 65. “The weirdest thing is actually VAN HALEN was supporting UFO at the Starwood [club in Los Angeles],” Michael said (see video below). “I was 19 years old, I guess. That would have been ’74 or ’75. I heard that some people were saying a phenomenal guitarist was there, but it was five years before they broke out with ‘Van Halen I’, which, even though I’m not listening to any music for the last 50 years, sometimes [you would] hear things coming out of speakers everywhere. And when I heard Eddie, I went, like, ‘Wow! This is amazing.’ But I didn’t know tha...
SHARON OSBOURNE Is ‘Still Very Tired,’ Almost A Month After Testing Positive For COVID-19
On Monday’s (January 4) episode of her talk show “The Talk”, Sharon Osbourne discussed her recent battle with COVID-19. “I’m feeling really fine now, except that I’m still very tired,” she said, less than a month after she announced her positive coronavirus diagnosis. “I nod off at ridiculous times of the day. And I’m good. “I went through all the symptoms — headache, eye ache, body ache, dizziness, sickness; all of it,” Ozzy Osbourne‘s wife and manager explained. “But there’s people who are much worse than I got it; they have it much worse. And I just think I came out very lucky. “By the way, I still can’t smell very much or taste very much,” Sharon added. When the Emmy-winning host of &#...
GEORGE LYNCH On Retiring LYNCH MOB Band Name: ‘I Got Tired Of Rationalizing It’
George Lynch has once again explained his decision to retire the LYNCH MOB band name, saying he “got tired of rationalizing it.” Last August, Lynch announced that he was ending LYNCH MOB, apparently due to the racial insensitivity of the moniker, saying he will no longer record or perform under that name. In a new interview with George Dionne of Metal Express Radio, George spoke about “Heavy Hitters”, his recently released collection of studio recordings with Jeff Pilson that turn pop music classics into metal anthems, and addressed questions about why it took him three decades to call it quits with LYNCH MOB. “When we first formed the band in ’89, the name had sort of already been around,” George said (hear audio below). “While I was in DOKK...
Chris Rock to Release “Extended Cut” of Netflix Special Tamborine
When Chris Rock released his Netflix stand-up special Tamborine in 2018, he managed to garner a whopping 100% score on Rotten Tomatoes — a rare accomplishment for a film, never mind a comedy routine. Now, Rock is treating fans to even more of those critically lauded jokes with Chris Rock: Total Blackout, The Tamborine Extended Cut, which hits the streamer next week. The Tamborine Extended Cut boasts 27 minutes of previously unreleased footage from Rock’s original Grammy-nominated special. The new clips — which include never-before-seen jokes, behind-the-scenes footage, and various interviews — will touch on race, fatherhood, and politics. Because they’re interwoven throughout the stand-up special, Netflix is calling it a repackaged “remix” of the initial release. To hype up the extended cu...
Pablo Cruise on Their First New Music in 40 Years
Kyle Meredith With… Pablo Cruise Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSS Pablo Cruise have returned with their first new song in nearly 40 years with “Breathe”. David Jenkins hopped on the line with Kyle Meredith to discuss what prompted writing again after being primarily a live band for the past couple decades and their love of a positive message. We also turn the clocks back to their final album, 1984’s Out of Our Hands, to hear what it was like having the ’70s pop band adjust to an ’80s new wave scene, writing with Huey Lewis, and the possibility of more new music. Kyle Meredith With… is an interview series in which WFPK’s Kyle Meredith speaks to a wide breadth of musicians. Ever...
Open Mike Eagle Pays Tribute to MF DOOM with New Freestyle: Stream
Open Mike Eagle has shared a new freestyle called “For DOOM”. It’s a tribute to the late MF DOOM, the legendary masked rapper whose death was made public last week. Stream it below. “For DOOM” is a heartfelt mix of nostalgia and earnest praise. Over a beat by Illingsworth, the Anime artist spends two minutes rapping about the impact of DOOM’s music, the moment he heard the news of his passing, and the ways in which he raised the lyrical bar for hip-hop. OME also credits DOOM for the lifelong impact his visual aesthetics will have. “Fool you about to sell more masks than Dr. Fauci,” he raps. “I’m copping one off Etsy to rock it proudly.” At one point in the freestyle, the Chicago-bred MC brings up how he idolized MF DOOM in both childhood and adulthood. That lifelong respect event...
Tanya Roberts Is Still Alive — Despite Her Husband and Publicist Being Told She Was Dead: Report
Tanya Roberts is still alive, despite a statement from her husband saying she had passed. Yesterday, a publicist representing Roberts’ husband, Lance, issued a press release saying that the actress had died on Sunday at Cedars Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. The press release even included a statement from Roberts’ husband, saying: “As I held her in her last moments, she opened her eyes.” But now, the publicist has now gotten back to TMZ to confirm that Roberts is not actually dead. Apparently, Lance received a call from the hospital on Monday informing him about Roberts’ current state and confirmed to him that she is still alive. However, she remains in the ICU in “dire” condition. Roberts was hospitalized on Christmas Eve after collapsing in her home. Her exact ailment hasn’t b...
Travis Scott Teases An Unreleased “Cactus Jack” Air Jordan 1 Low
Source: Prince Williams / Getty We don’t know why Nike and Travis Scott love to make us sneakerheads suffer, but they do and all we can do is suck it up and go about our lives. Over the weekend pics of Travis Scott in a pair of unreleased Air Jordan 1 “Cactus Jack”‘ lows surfaced and hype beasts across social media immediately began to drool and pound their keyboards as no one knows whether or not these will see a general release. The white and light blue North Carolina inspired colorway low’s feature Scott’s signature backward swoosh and even though it’s not visible due to its white color, heads still wanna get their feet in these as anything Travis Scott touches is gold. 👀 @trvisXX h/t @MrUnloved1s pic.twitter.com/AQ5z8AQLwM — J23 iPhone App (@J23app) January 2, 2021 These joints...
Kim Hill Reacts To will.i.am Wondering Why Black People Stopped Checking For Black Eyed Peas
Source: Gie Knaeps / Getty Recently, will.i.am publicly pondered why Black people aren’t really checking for Black Eyed Peas despite their international success. The answer is quite obvious, and former BEP singer explained it quite clearly after hearing about his concern. [embedded content] Speaking on Wyclef Jean’s Run That Back podcast, will.i.am discussed his disappointment with the Black Eyed Peas not being celebrated as “a Black group” and examined why that possibly isn’t widely accepted., will.i.am wondered out loud why Black Eyed Peas has been forsaken be the Black community, despite being artists of color (for the most part) and having been discovered by the late Eazy-E of N.W.A fame. “In 2004, Black Eyed Peas we, we were just trying to get on. When you think of…like, I’m a Black d...
