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EDM.com’s Best of 2020: Songs
This year, the team at EDM.com is proud to publish four installments of “Best of 2020” coverage: Industry Leaders, Performances, Music Producers, and Songs. When COVID-19 stomped on the sandcastles of the live music industry and its countless venues, the streaming world mushroomed due to a massive influx of new music. With nowhere to share their art but the blue light of our devices, producers turned to streaming platforms and released new music at a breakneck pace in 2020. With so much new music offered by EDM’s artist community, it would be unfair to its diverse range of creators to publish a nebulous blanket list of the year’s top songs. So to highlight the best songs of the year, we’ve chosen ten of the most popular sub-genres of dance music and recognized...
Mako Drops Emotive Sophomore Album “Fable”
Mako has kept the anticipation high for his new sophomore album, releasing the impressive singles “Coyote,” “Chameleon,” “Parable,” “Again,” and “Ocelot.” The wait is finally over, and Fable has arrived. It’s an emotive body of work that serves to represent the latest chapter of Mako’s life and showcases his creative exploration into different musical genres. Through each track, the striking 11-song album cultivates a rich, captivating soundscape incorporating a mix of somber and upbeat tones with his haunting vocals. You can also hear a mix of classical influences with the beautiful violin instrumentals as he layers them into the progressive atmosphere he’s created. The entire album is truly a pi...
TWISTED SISTER’s JAY JAY FRENCH Doesn’t Have A Problem With Classic Rock Bands Touring With Non-Original Members
TWISTED SISTER guitarist Jay Jay French was interviewed on the latest episode of the GUNS N’ ROSES-centric “Appetite for Distortion” podcast. You can now listen to the chat below. Asked for his opinion of GUNS N’ ROSES playing massive stadiums around the world while only having three members from its classic lineup, French said: “Unlike Dee [Snider, TWISTED SISTER singer], I’m not as rigid [about bands touring with non-original members]. If the public buys it, that’s all that matters. If they don’t buy it, then that’s what matters. So you can go out there, and if you’re selling something that doesn’t live up to what the public believes in, then you’re out of business. And if you’ve figured out a way to do it, and...
ROB HALFORD Reveals ‘Greatest Piece Of Advice’ He Has Ever Gotten In Music Business
JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford was recently interviewed for “The French Connection: The Music Business And Beyond”, the new podcast hosted by TWISTED SISTER guitarist Jay Jay French. You can now listen to the chat below. Asked to name the greatest piece of advice he has ever gotten in the music business, Rob said: “Oooh, dear. Oh. I don’t know. “Here’s one that might sound a bit superfluous. We have a great friendship with Gene [Simmons] and Paul [Stanley] from KISS. And PRIEST were out on this big tour — we were invited to open up for KISS — and I was just talking to Gene about the music business, and he goes, ‘Let me just say this: It doesn’t matter what they say about you, as long as they’ve got your picture and they spell your name...
THE PRETTY RECKLESS Releases Music Video For ’25’
THE PRETTY RECKLESS‘s music video for the band’s latest single, “25”, can be seen below. The track is taken from the band’s upcoming album, “Death By Rock And Roll”, which will be released on February 12, 2021 via Fearless Records in the U.S. and Century Media Records in the rest of the world. THE PRETTY RECKLESS singer Taylor Momsen told Paper about the track: “’25’ is one of the first songs we recorded, I think it was the first song we recorded for the album. I wrote that song when I was 25, [and] we recorded it right after I turned 25. It’s very autobiographical, in a lot of ways. I thought it would be an interesting idea to figure out a way to go through all the years of my life and somehow calculate that and have it end...
URIAH HEEP Bass Player TREVOR BOLDER’s Legacy Enhanced By Posthumous Solo Album ‘Sail The Rivers’
Trevor Bolder was the bass player in ZIGGY STARDUST AND THE SPIDERS FROM MARS, WISHBONE ASH and URIAH HEEP, but passed away in 2013. He left behind a solo album which had been mapped out and his friends and family have helped complete it as a labour of love in his memory. “Sail The Rivers” features guest appearances by URIAH HEEP bandmates Mick Box and Lee Kerslake (who passed away recently) and WISHBONE ASH bandmate Laurie Wisefield, along with Trevor‘s friends. The artwork on the LP is by Ioannis, who created the artwork for the last URIAH HEEP albums Trevor played on. Trevor‘s widow Shelly Bolder shared these personal comments about the album: “Trevor would have been so proud. It was his dream to produce a solo album which he spent endless hours working so ...
Eric Clapton and Van Morrison’s Anti-Lockdown Track Is Out Now
Van Morrison is still currently working on the world’s worst renaissance in his effort to go from being known as “that old guy who wrote ‘Brown Eyed Girl’” to “that old guy who writes anti-lockdown songs.” As we initially reported last month, Morrison recruited guitar deity Eric Clapton for “Stand and Deliver,” the latest track to support his Save Live Music campaign. It was supposed to release on Dec. 4 (and it actually did thanks to the two of them not knowing how to effectively remove things from the internet) but was officially delayed for two weeks. Well, now it’s out and as bad as pretty much everyone expected. While it’s sure to be the Boomer rallying cry of anti-lockdown, anti-mask, anti-vaccination, and pro-disease people everywhere, Clapton singing lyrics like “Do you want ...
Dean & Britta and Sonic Boom Cover John Lennon’s “Happy Xmas (War is Over)”: Stream
Earlier this week, Alanis Morissette festively covered the timeless John Lennon single “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Now, Dean & Britta, the musical duo comprised of Galaxie 500’s Dean Wareham and Britta Phillips, have put their own spin on the holiday classic in collaboration with English producer Sonic Boom. Additionally, Sonic Boom has released his own song dedicated to the season. Jingling bells rattle throughout the warm and faithful rendition of “Happy Xmas”. But there’s also an echoing effect draped over the entire cover, giving it an almost trippy wall-of-sound sensation. According to a statement, Sonic Boom, a.k.a. Pete Kemper of Spacemen 3, came up with the idea for this version and mixed it himself at New Atlantis Studios in Portugal. As for Sonic Boo...
Melvins Announce “New Year’s Evil” Livestream Event
The Melvins have announced “Melvins TV: Volume 1, New Year’s Evil”, a livestream event to ring in 2021. The virtual show will feature a five-song performance by the Melvins, interviews, extras, and an opening set by Void Manes. The stream goes live on December 31st at 3:00 p.m. ET / noon PT, and tickets cost $5 each. “‘Melvins TV, New Year’s Evil’ is as close to a live show as we can get during this hideous pandemic,” Buzz Osborne said in a press announcement. “We’ll be doing more of these so tune in and enjoy! Happy New Year!” The Melvins lineup for the stream will consist of the band’s core trio of Osborne, Dale Crover, and Steven McDonald (of Redd Kross fame). A commemorative limited-edition poster and T-shirt designed by Junko Mizuno and Mackie Osborne will be available exclusively to ...
Education Ends the Small Axe Anthology With Full Marks: Review
The Pitch: Courtrooms, prisons, the police — Steve McQueen‘s Small Axe anthology has taken probing, deeply personal looks at the effects of racial discrimination, bias, and anti-Black violence on London’s Afro-Caribbean communities in the ’60s through the ’80s. With Education, McQueen turns his eye to London’s school systems in the 1970s, a place rife with bifurcated ideas about the intelligence of Black and white people. Enter Kingsley (a warm, intelligent turn from young Kenyah Sandy), the 12-year-old son of West Indies immigrants (Sharlene Whyte’s Agnes and Daniel Francis), who finds himself transferred to a “School for the Educationally Subnormal,” essentially a babysitting gig for special needs kids. Kingsley’s smart, intellectually curious; the school, filled with disi...
Grimes Changes the Album Artwork for Miss Anthropocene
When Grimes rolled out her excellent fifth studio album Miss Anthropocene back in February, it was clear that the full-length was an ambitious passion project bursting with imagination. Little did we know that nine months later it would get a new creative twist. As caught by FADER, the album artwork for Miss Anthropocene has been replaced with a painting by artist Rupid Leejm on all streaming platforms. When Miss Anthropocene was initially released, the album repped a black and pink graphic akin to a screenshot of Photoshop mid-assignment. As Grimes later clarified, the visual was an image of the software that the “new Gods” use to design the simulation, and the project they were designing was the record’s titular character. Now, streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music display a b...
Barack Obama Clarifies Defund Police Statement: “That Actually Was Not The Point I Was Making”
Source: – / Getty Former President Barack Obama is setting the record staright regarding his stance on the ideology of defunding the police, after being miquoted during a recent interview. On Tuesday (Dec 16), President O appeared on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and clarified his stance on the matter, stating that the point he was trying to mke was missed by the masses after he was dragged online for seemingly criticizing the Black Lives Matter movement—a takeaway that the former President is calling false. “I have consistently believed that their courage, activism, media-savvy, strategic resolve far exceeds anything I could have done at their age, and I think has shifted the conversation in ways that I would not have even imagined a couple of years ago,” Obama said. In regard...
