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Save the Trees With Disclosure and Treeapp’s New Collaborative T-Shirt
Helping fans protect the environment during the UK’s National Tree Week, Grammy Award-nominated duo Disclosure has recently announced a new t-shirt collaboration with British tech company Treeapp, whose mobile app allows users to plant trees from their phones for free. Co-branded with each group’s logo and screen-printed with the words “This T-Shirt planted a tree,” every shirt keeps its word, with sales facilitating the planting of a tree in the UK on the buyers’ behalf. The limited edition shirt is an extension of Disclosure’s “Big Tree ENERGY” clothing line, released in support of their most recent album ENERGY. Like all pieces in the line, this new t-shirt will be delivered to purchasers in biodegradable packagi...
With New Global Directory of Creators, FEMNØISE Works to Close the Music Industry Gender Gap
Launched in 2017 as a music industry collective for women, transgender and non-binary creators, Barcelona-based organization FEMNØISE has been actively working to close the gender gap through activism, discussion forums and virtual community building. With the launch of a new interactive map on the group’s website, FEMNØISE’s nearly 2,000 members from all backgrounds in the industry can now find each other around the globe, making a smooth system for professionals and emerging talent to forge new relationships and hire each other. Looking at the big picture, this move will empower the collective’s network to make meaningful connections and expand the pool of creators with marginalized gender identities. “Our idea is to serve as a bridge between d...
You Can Now Learn Spanish, French, and Other Languages With New Deezer Playlists
Need to refresh the foreign language skills you haven’t tapped into since high school? Deezer‘s latest playlist series may be for you. The streaming platform is betting on listeners’ openness to the idea of learning their next language through the power of music. A survey conducted by the company appears to have revealed exactly that, as over 90% of respondents confirmed they believe music assists with language mastery. The company has retained language expert Susanna Zarysky to help curate and launch five separate playlists, each designed to enhance the listener’s understanding of a particular language. The playlists, consisting of 20 tracks, are broken down into four segments, each having a specific purpose. The first five tracks are designed to enhance the l...
Zedd Launches “Inside Out” Minecraft Scavenger Hunt
Zedd is sending gamers through a slew of brain-twisting puzzles with the “Inside Out Scavenger Hunt,” a series of challenges named after the producer’s recent single. Taking place in the far reaching fields of Minecraft, participants are competing to solve ten unique challenges, each giving them the chance to win a special prize provided by Logitech, Elgato, Discord, and Mavix. The scavenger hunt environment was concocted by DoodleChaos, a YouTube creator with experience in developing immersive Minecraft concepts. DoodleChaos was the mastermind behind Zedd’s previous Minecraft-related endeavor, a rhythm game similar to Beat Saber, which was soundtracked to the producer’s single “Funny.” DoodleChaos invested over 100 painstaking hours into bui...
Country Girl
Long before the Taylor Swifts, Miranda Lamberts and Brandi Carliles, Carlene Carter set the standard for today’s independent, self-empowered, and irrepressible female country artists—and she did so when country music, as Barbara Mandrell sang in her 1981 Country Music Association Single of the Year, “wasn’t cool.” Three years earlier, the daughter of 1950s and ’60s country crooner/honky-tonker Carl Smith and the Carter Family’s June Carter Cash — and stepdaughter of Johnny Cash — released her self-titled debut album, on Warner Bros. The label had sagely sent her off to London with the idea of recording country music with a rock band. But it wasn’t just any rock band: Carlene Carter was recorded with New Wave singer-songwriter Graham Parker’s cutting-edge The Rumour, and produced by its key...
COREY TAYLOR’s ‘HWY 666’ Is Official Theme Song Of WWE’s ‘Tables, Ladders And Chairs’
Corey Taylor‘s “HWY 666” is the official theme song of WWE‘s “Tables, Ladders And Chairs” event. The final WWE pay-per-view of 2020 will take place on December 20 at a new Thunderdome set up at Tropicana Field in Tampa Bay, Florida. In “HWY 666”, which is taken from Taylor‘s debut solo album, “CMFT”, he narrates a harrowing tale of a man wandering down the titular road when the Dark Lord appears, eager to snatch a new soul. “CMFT” made impressive debuts on charts around the world last month, entering at No. 1 on Billboard‘s Current Hard Rock Albums chart, while claiming No. 2 on Current Rock Albums, No. 6 on Vinyl Albums, and No. 9 on the Top Albums charts. Furthermore, “CMFT” landed Top 10 on t...
SG Lewis Taps The Brothers Macklovitch, Kassian to Remix “Feed the Fire”
Known for his talents as a multi-instrumentalist, producer and vocalist, powerhouse UK export SG Lewis is back again, this time with two imaginative remixes of “Feed The Fire” featuring Lucky Daye. Penned by The Brothers Macklovitch, a duo of brotherly love comprised of siblings A-Trak and Chromeo‘s Dave 1, and emerging talent Kassian, each artist used their signature styles to put their own spin on the original, whose melody was interpolated from Daft Punk‘s “Voyager.” With both remixes out November 27th via Jasmine Music and Universal Music, the reimagining from The Brothers Macklovitch is particularly noteworthy, as it marks only their third official release since reemerging in January. Reworking “Feed the Fire,” the d...
ACCEPT Wanted To Make ‘An In-Your-Face Heavy Metal Album’ With ‘Too Mean To Die’
ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hoffmann spoke to France’s “213Rock” podcast about the band’s upcoming album, “Too Mean To Die”, which will be released on January 15, 2021 via Nuclear Blast. You can now listen to the chat below. Speaking about how the coronavirus pandemic affected the creation of “Too Mean To Die”, Wolf said: “We didn’t really feel like we wanted to respond to all the craziness and the corona [crisis]. This whole year has been so crazy and sad in a way because people are just locked away in their homes and all that. So we thought we don’t wanna contribute any more to that. Why don’t we just give ’em an in-your-face heavy metal album and maybe that’s gonna lift up everybody’s spirit more. So tha...
TARJA TURUNEN: ‘Music Has Saved Me’
In a new interview with Heavy New York, former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen was asked if she ever thinks about the impact a song will have on the listener while she is working on new music. She responded (hear audio below): “Not necessarily I’m thinking about when I sit down to write a song how will be the impact of this song. The whole process of writing songs, or my lyrics, they are so personal nowadays that first place they have to mean so much to me, and then I hope, obviously, that they could mean something for another one. But I wouldn’t go and even explain my lyrics for somebody. I kind of tend to write them openly so that they could really understand them the way they want. Because that is important. If I understand one certain song in my way, it’s my own ...
ILL NIÑO Drummer On Lineup Changes: ‘I Can’t Work With People That Aren’t Passionate About What They Do Anymore’
ILL NIÑO is mixing its new studio album, to be released in early 2021 via an as-yet-undisclosed record label. The group’s current lineup features founding drummer Dave Chavarri and longtime bassist Laz Pina alongside recent recruits, vocalist Marcos Leal (SHATTERED SUN), lead guitarist Jes DeHoyos (SONS OF TEXAS) and rhythm guitarist Sal Dominguez (UPON A BURNING BODY). ILL NIÑO‘s new LP will mark the band’s first release since the departure of vocalist Cristian Machado, lead guitarist Ahrue “Luster” Ilustre and rhythm guitarist Diego Verduzco. Machado, Ilustre and Verduzco, along with Chavarri and Pina, announced in March that they had “reached a mutual, amicable and binding agreement” that will allow Chavarri and Pina to continue with ILL NIÑO wh...
Arcana, Scrying and Revelation – MONGREL’S CROSS
RATING: 8.5/10 There has long been something unique about the way Australians make metal music. Particularly over the last 20 years, the power and fury of Aussie death and black metal has grown exponentially, and MONGREL’S CROSS are surfing that creative wave with abandon on their third full-length. You can certainly detect the spirit of frenzied brutality that has informed fellow countrymen like GOSPEL OF THE HORNS and DESTROYER 666. But this Brisbane quartet have evolved a great deal since 2018’s “Psalter of the Royal Dragon Court”, and it is a refined grasp of metal’s melodic power that has emerged from that developmental process. “Arcana, Scrying and Revelation” stands proudly at the midpoint between metal’s black, death and old school, w...
America’s Obsession: Our 1994 Kate Moss Interview
This article originally appeared in the September 1994 issue of SPIN. From billboard to shining billboard, Kate Moss’s lank frame and doe-eyed stare have dropped a volatile mixture of fame and fury into her 20-year-old lap. Elizabeth Mitchell hops continents to sift through the myths and mystique. If Kate Moss were to open her ripe, Cupid’s-bow mouth to make a public statement, it would go something like this: “I’m not anorexic, I’m not a heroin addict, I’m not pregnant – all the shit they fucking say about me is not true. It’s a load of lies the media made.” Moss pauses for breath. She is a lot of life when you meet her outside a picture. CREDIT: Catherine McGann/Getty Images Moss is not making a statement. She’s enduring an interview, a process she hates because she doesn’t wan...
