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deadmau5 Announces New Year’s Eve and 2021 Streaming Events
Those of you who are unable to attend deadmau5‘s 2020 New Year’s drive-in shows are in luck. After another typically huge year, the mau5 is set to bid adieu to 2020 with a run of drive-in concerts in Southern California, two of which will be livestreamed for those taking in the celebrations at home. Fans will be able to stream his December 31st show before tuning into his January 2nd, 2021 performance, in which he’ll be operating under his dark techno alias TESTPILOT. His New Year’s Eve stream is scheduled to kick off at 6PM PT (9PM ET) and will also feature fellow mau5trap artists No Mana and Speaker Honey before its conclusion at 10PM PT (1PM ET). The January 2nd stream, which Insomniac invited fans to “step into the dark side,” will air for ...
David Guetta Previews New Year’s Eve Virtual Concert from Paris’ Legendary Louvre Museum
When it comes to the best DJ performances of 2020, electronic music artists have been quite creative in their choice of locations throughout the COVID-19 age. Charlotte de Witte DJed at a medieval Belgian castle. RÜFÜS DU SOL performed live at the fabled Joshua Tree National Park. Kaskade spun at the Grand Canyon. However, David Guetta just dunked on them all. The Grammy Award-winning dance music producer recently announced the third edition of his “United At Home” concert series, a string of virtual shows that raise funds for COVID-10 relief. However, when he shared the news of the momentous New Year’s Eve show in Paris, he refrained from revealing its location until now. Many of Guetta’s fans speculated that an Eiffel Tower performanc...
Marshmello Teases “So Much New Music Coming” in 2021
Back in August, Marshmello confirmed that a new album would be releasing in 2020. His fanbase lost its collective mind, feverishly anticipating its release as he dropped a string of one-off singles throughout the year. However, with only two days to go until Mello kisses 2020 goodbye, he seems unlikely to deliver on that promise. A recent tweet published by Marshmello has fans reading the tea leaves again. Replying directly to a fan account who wrote that they missed him, Mello attributed his relatively quiet social media presence this year to his many hours spent in the studio. “I miss you all too!!!” he replied. “I’ve got so much new music coming though, that’s why I’ve been off social media for the most part.” Considering the immeasurable number o...
AYOR Drops Sultry House Heater “Chemicals”
The latest banger to arrive on Martin Garrix‘s STMPD RCRDS imprint is “Chemicals,” a sultry house gem courtesy of mysterious three-piece dance music outfit AYOR. “Chemicals” is rife with the gritty house flair that is synonymous with STMPD, a record label that has become a bona fide tastemaker in little time. Fans of brass will gravitate to the track, which features crisp horns that thump with an orchestral flair in the mix. Thick subs also run roughshod through the song’s industrial drops, transporting “Chemicals” to the dusty warehouse rave we all crave in the midst of the pandemic. The enigmatic trio has been on a roll as of late. Earlier in the month of December, they made a splash on Tchami‘s coveted CONFESSION label with a na...
Parents Of Late WE CAME AS ROMANS Frontman Establish Scholarship To Provide COVID-19 Relief To Struggling Musicians
2020 has been a difficult year for many, including musicians. Relying heavily on live performances as a source of income, the arrival of COVID-19 meant that performing in person for a live audience was out of the question. In response to the struggle that many musicians are currently facing, the Kyle Pavone Foundation worked with the Battle Creek Community Foundation to establish the Kyle Cares Scholarship in order to help ease the financial burden of COVID-19. Up to $2,000 will be awarded per applicant until scholarship funds are exhausted. “In honor of our son Kyle Pavone, we wanted to do something that would help musicians during this time of great need,” said Vince and Caroline Pavone, parents of Kyle Pavone. “Even under normal circumstances, the life of a musician ca...
Watch ALICE COOPER Sing Surprise Original Song For Ailing ZAK NILSSON
Alice Cooper has written a song for Zak Nilsson — son of late singer Harry Nilsson — in an effort to cheer him up, as he battles end-stage colon cancer. Cooper performed the song on a recent episode of “Coffee Talk With ADIKA Live”, a YouTube Live show hosted by bassist Stefan Adika and writer and former Rolling Stone contributor Corey Levitan. According to Rolling Stone, the pair have been friends with Nilsson for years, and invited him on the show to discuss his experiences with cancer, chemotherapy and more. Adika and Leftan also reached out to members of Hollywood Vampires — Harry Nilsson‘s old drinking club — to see if anyone wanted to send Zak a message after he recently chose to enter hospice instead of continuing treatment. Alice, the founder of the Hollywood Vamp...
STEVE VAI Pays Tribute To ALEXI LAIHO: He ‘Was A Fiercely Confident And Monstrous Guitar Commander Of The Highest Order’
Steve Vai has paid tribute to Alexi Laiho, calling the former CHILDREN OF BODOM frontman “a fiercely confident and monstrous guitar commander of the highest order.” On Monday (January 4), Vai took to his social media to write: “So sorry to hear of the passing of Alexi Laiho of CHILDREN OF BODOM. With his band he was part of a powerful movement that ushered in hi octane, intense Metal at its most brutal and beautiful. I had the good fortune of meeting him several times and being a part of this Guitar World story with him. He was always respectful, personable, quiet and unassuming, but then you’d hear him play and you realize that embodied in that delicate frame was a fiercely confident and monstrous guitar commander of the highest order. Rock on young brother.”...
Former MORBID ANGEL Frontman DAVID VINCENT To Celebrate 30th Anniversary Of ‘Blessed Are The Sick’ With European Tour
I AM MORBID, the band featuring former MORBID ANGEL members David Vincent (vocals, bass) and Tim Yeung (drums) alongside guitarists Bill Hudson (CIRCLE II CIRCLE, TRANS-SIBERIAN ORCHESTRA) and Kelly McLauchlin, will celebrate the 30th anniversary of MORBID ANGEL‘s second album, “Blessed Are The Sick”, with a European tour in September/October. Support on the trek will come from GRAVE, GRUESOME and PYREXIA. A complete list of tour dates can be found in the poster below. In a May 2019 interview with Jorge Botas of the “Metal Global” radio show, which airs on the Portuguese public TV and radio broadcaster RTP, Vincent said that he had every right to perform MORBID ANGEL’s classic songs with I AM MORBID. “Times come and life works the way that it does,...
Today’s Ska-Punk Is Serious Fun
A new generation of ska-punk bands has a message for you, Rudy, and it’s all about unity. Embracing the 80s British ska scene’s politically charged idealism while taking musical inspiration from 90s American ska-punk, Bad Time Records is a focal point of the thriving ska-punk scene. The label has released music by We Are the Union, JER, Kill Lincoln, Bad Operation, Catbite, and the recent “Ska against Racism” compilation. According to label owner and Kill Lincoln frontman Mike Sosinski, he explicitly created the label as a ska-punk platform. “Asian Man Records puts out some great stuff, Jump Up Records does great traditional ska, but nobody had drawn a line in the sand for ska-punk. We’ve been making progressive music and preaching these ideas for a long time. Some ideas that maybe got los...
Steve Earle Shares New Justin Townes Earle Covers Album J.T.: Stream
Back in August, the world mourned the death of Americana songwriter Justin Townes Earle. Now, father and country legend Steve Earle has paid tribute to his late son with a new covers album called J.T., and it’s streaming below via Bandcamp. J.T. comes today (January 4th), on what would have been Justin’s 39th birthday. It consists of 11 covers, all pulled from throughout Justin’s discography. There are favorites such as “Harlem River Blues” (2010) “Champagne Corolla” (2017), and “The Saint of Lost Causes”, taken from Justin’s 2019 album of the same name, which proved to be his last. Other songs that appear on J.T. include “I Don’t Care”, “Turn Out My Lights”, and “Last Words”. In a statement, father Steve said the “record is called J.T. because Justin was never called anything else u...
Local Natives’ Taylor Rice on Struggling with the Useless Slog of the Pandemic
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Presented by Consequence of Sound and Sound Mind Live, Going There with Dr. Mike is a new interview podcast series in which clinical psychologist and life coach Dr. Mike Friedman talks with musicians about the crossroads where music and mental health meet. Local Natives singer-songwriter Taylor Rice joins the show this week to discuss his experience of coping with anxiety and depression during the pandemic. Many of us have lost loved ones, the opportunity for work, and the ability to see our friends and family amidst these times. Taylor wrestles with these feelings of loss, and how these stressors have impacted his overall emotional well-being. The Sour Lemon artist goes on to talk about ...
Rapper Jawara Headley sues Nicki Minaj for song ‘Rich Sex’
Nicki Minaj may have ushered in 2021 with adorable baby pictures of her son but the rapper has legal woes as she has been sued for $200 million. The lawsuit is over her song “Rich Sex” which Queens rapper and songwriter Jawara Headley says she stole from him after he played it for her. Jawara who goes by the name Brinx Billions is suing Nicki alongside Universal Music Group, Young Money, and Cash Money for damages. In court documents obtained by TMZ, Jawara who is already credited as a writer of “Rich Sex” according to the ASCAP database claims that he let Nicki listen to his version of “Rich Sex” in 2016. He also claims that he is the sole author/creator/composer/writer/producer of “Rich Sex” and Nicki told him it would be extremely marketable and become a global hit. The rapper and songw...
