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Cosmic Gate Announce Immersive Two-Part Virtual Concert Series
Cosmic Gate are throwing their hat into the virtual concert ring after announcing a two-part digital concert series. The series is set to kick off this Saturday, October 3rd. The legendary trance duo will perform two digital concerts from Miami’s The Temple House, a lavish event space known for hosting idyllic special events. Globally recognized for its immersive, 360° projection mapping, the one-of-a-kind venue is a natural fit for Cosmic Gate’s can’t-miss virtual shows. The upcoming October 3rd stream has been dubbed “For Your Mind.” It will be a two-hour concert featuring a slew of fan-favorite Cosmic Gate originals as well as new music, all of which will be accompanied by their own thematic visual components. Following in the footsteps ...
Mr. Pig Unveils Expansive New Album “Yinyang”
Mr. Pig has unveiled his full-length Yinyang LP, a 9-track album that serves as a bona fide breakthrough for the Mexican DJ and electronic music producer. Yinyang represents the result of months of diligent work and dedication to Mr. Pig’s craft. The album features a number of his previously released singles as well as new collaborations with Fancy Folks, SIAS, Typow, and Bruses, among others, as well as a stellar joint effort with Sapir Amar. Amar is also the voice behind Mr. Pig’s “Blue Dreams,” a March 2020 release that has now found a home on Yinyang. The album, which Mr. Pig made to focus on self expression through music, is a song-cycle of future pop and Latin-inspired dance music. Highlights include the bouncy future house tune “Astro,” ...
Steve Aoki is Opening a Shop with Iconic Sports Memorabilia, Pokémon Cards, and Modern Art
Sports memorabilia is somewhat of a lost art, especially card collecting. The sports cards business was a billion-dollar industry in the 90s before it completely collapsed. Long gone are the days when you could go into a shop, pick out a mouthwatering sealed box of Topps cards and ravenously tear through it with your pals, hoping to pull a rookie card or a jersey swatch. Steve Aoki is now reviving the art with a retail shop called “Cards and Coffee.” The store on Hollywood Boulevard will buy and sell rare sports memorabilia, Pokémon cards, and modern art. Aoki’s newly minted enterprise, which he founded alongside Dan Fleyshman and DJ Skee, boasts a collection that the trio values at $2 million. Check out the announcement below. Among other rare items,...
Calvin Harris Blasts UK Government: “You’ve Lost Sight of What Life is About”
Calvin Harris took to social media yesterday, September 28th, to blast the UK government for its treatment of the music industry in the wake of COVID-19. The Grammy Award-winning music producer and DJ shared a scathing statement on Instagram, writing that the UK government is “treating [the] music industry like shit.” ” [It] contributes 5bn to the economy, generates massive tax revenues for NHS and other public services…besides that, culture is extremely fucking important…you’ve lost sight of what life is about…you’d rather live in a world of supermarkets and pharmaceutical drugs,” Harris continued. To further drive home his sentiments, Harris also cited an article by UK Music that analyzed its own 2019 “Music By Numbers” repo...
Bonnaroo Reschedules 2021 Dates — Again
Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival 2021 dates have changed for the second time. The annual fest will now take place on Sept. 2-5, 2021. On the festival’s website, organizers thank concertgoers for being “loyal Bonnaroovian(s)” and say, “we encourage you to rollover your tickets to the new dates, however, we will make refunds available for those who cannot attend.” Information on the lineup, camping and accommodations will be available at a later date. All current 2021 Bonnaroo ticket holders for the originally rescheduled June dates: You have the opportunity to get ticket and camping refunds by logging into your Frontgate account and selecting the refund option beginning on Sept. 30, 2020, at 8 am CT. The refund window will close on Oct. 31, 2020, at 11:59 pm CT. All ticket holders wh...
Borat Sequel to Debut on Amazon Prime Before Election
High-five! Earlier this summer, Sacha Baron Cohen was up to his old tricks by pranking folks in Washington, and also former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. Now we know why: Baron Cohen is returning as Borat this fall. According to Deadline, the film will be shown on Amazon Prime beginning in late October. The outlet also reports that the sequel was the first movie made during the COVID-19 shutdown and zigzagged across the country to film. Last month, an eagle-eyed TikTok user caught Baron Cohen zipping around Long Beach, California, dressed as his infamous character. The first Borat film, which was released in 2006, was nominated for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 2007 Academy Awards. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined w...
The xx’s Romy Madley-Croft Releases Her First Solo Single
The xx’s Romy Madley-Croft has shared her first proper single. Released simply under the name Romy, the song, titled “Lifetime,” was written and recorded during quarantine with Fred again.. and Marta Salogni producing. It’s the second song she’s shared from her untitled solo album (Madley-Croft performed “Weightless” in an Instagram Live session in April). If there were a club season, this dance-y number would no doubt be played. Madley-Croft described the song as “being totally in the moment and celebrating it” in a statement. It’s about the quarantine dream of being reunited with friends, family and the ones we love, capturing the euphoria of being together again — which we can all relate to at this point. Listen to the song below. [embedded content] You Deserve to Make Mo...
Bartees Strange Gives In To Lawless Creation
By Danielle Chelosky Over a span of five years, friends and bandmates pulled musician Bartees Cox Jr. aside to tell him, You need to quit those bands you’re in and start your own. “I had multiple friends who were like, dude, what are you doing? You’ve got to focus on your own stuff,” Bartees recalls as we talk on the phone early in September. “I was like, no, it’s not good enough.” He had put himself in a box. His main gig was as guitarist and vocalist in a New York-based emo quartet called Stay Inside, founded in 2016 when future bandmate Chris Johns answered Bartees’s Craigslist ad, and they discovered they had the same birthday. “I was like, oh, wow, super cosmic, we’re both Aquariuses,” Bartees says. Along with Vishnu Anantha and Bryn Nieboer, who worked with Bartees at a 3-D printing ...
Sharon Van Etten Covers Nine Inch Nails’ ‘Hurt’
Sharon Van Etten has had a fairly active year, all things considered. She celebrated the 10th anniversary of her sophomore album, Epic, last week, and also digitally released “All Over Again” for the first time as well. Earlier this year, she performed with Fountains of Wayne as part of the Jersey 4 Jersey COVID relief fundraiser. The singer-songwriter has now teamed with the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline as part of National Suicide Prevention Month and shared a cover of Nine Inch Nails’ “Hurt.” “It doesn’t make you a weak person for thinking about your darker times it actually makes you stronger by being vulnerable and open and sharing who you are with the people you care about,” Van Etten said in a statement. Check out her version of “Hurt” below. [embedded content] You Deser...
Tyler, the Creator, Iggy Pop, and A$AP Rocky Star in New Gucci Campaign
Fashionable music icons Iggy Pop, A$AP Rocky and Tyler, The Creator are the stars of a new Gucci ad campaign shot by Kids and Spring Breakers director Harmony Korine. The spots were shot in pre-pandemic February and are airing now. The artists, with their distinctive looks, dance around in a West Coast home in their Gucci finery. Pop, who is joined by his parrot Biggy Pop at the kitchen table with a pot of spaghetti, and at the lounge in the afternoon sunlight, appears mostly in his signature barefoot style. “A certain type of fun is also portrayed and the idea of how one’s obsession with appearances can create a kind of common ground that can become a sort of brotherhood,” Gucci creative director Alessandro Michele says about the new campaign. “It was beautif...
NBA Finals Regular LeBron James Help Locals Register To Vote in Cleveland
Source: MEGAN JELINGER / Getty LeBron James continues to doing the good Lord’s work for communities in Ohio, this time to get Clevland locals registered to vote ahead of the November presidential election. Raw Story reports James’ voting rights group, More Than a Vote, in partnership with the NBA, the government, and civic groups, held a non-partisan voter registration drive that helped registered more than 700 people via in-person or online at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. The sports facility will also serve as a polling location on November 3. More Than a Vote is heavy on the mission to register as many citizens in underserved areas as possible to fight voter suppression efforts by converting sports venues into spacious voting locations and addressing staffing s...
A$AP Ferg Says He’ll Address A$AP Mob Drama In New Song
Source: WENN/Avalon / WENN Just a few weeks ago A$AP Mob fans were shocked and disappointed when A$AP Ferg was unceremoniously kicked out of the Mob by A$AP Illz via a social media announcement that took the Hip-Hop world by surprise. Though Ferg has remained quiet since the shocking move and has continued to use A$AP regardless of his group status, it seems like the Harlem rapper is ready to address the situation on an upcoming track dubbed “Big A$AP.” During a conversation with Hot 97, Ferg told Ebro that those social media posts weren’t a publicity stunt and were “really real. It was something super petty but to make a long story short, I address it in a song called “Big A$AP” that I’m adding on to the project in a week… So the song is called “Big A$AP” and you’re gonna get all the answ...
