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Conway The Machine Keeps Things Gritty On His ‘Tiny Desk’ Performance [Video]
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty If you have slept on Conway The Machine than his latest effort should be your final wake up call. The MC gave us another reminder of why he is cut from a different cloth. As spotted on Hip Hop N More the Griselda Records front man brought his talents to the Tiny Desk concert series. While Covid-19 prevented him from performing to an in studio crowd he still delivered a memorable appearance. Recorded at a Sweet Chick in Queens, New York the “They Got Sonny” rapper is seated at a booth. Even though his section is what you would expect whenever you dine at a coffee shop setting, he made sure to bring some street flair to the scene by adding a scale to the items on his table. He gave his fans a live run through of some the standouts from his From A King To A G...
WHITECHAPEL To Begin Recording New Album This Week
In a new interview with Terry “Beez” Bezer of Knotfest.com‘s “Mosh Talks With Beez”, WHITECHAPEL guitarist Alex Wade spoke about the cancelation of the band’s touring plans amid the coronavirus pandemic. He said (see video below): “I definitely feel like we got kind of cut short as far as the album cycle for ‘The Valley’ goes. But we’re trying to make the best of it that we can. We had a lot of killer tours and everything lined up this year. But it is what it is, and we just kind of have to roll with the punches. “We made the best of a bad situation, and we ended up writing another album,” he revealed. “So we’re gonna be going into the studio this week, actually, and we’re gonna start production on th...
Original JUDAS PRIEST Singer AL ATKINS Says He ‘Didn’t Like’ ROB HALFORD’s High-Range Vocal Style At First
Original JUDAS PRIEST singer Al Atkins says that he gave the rest of the band his blessing to continue using the PRIEST name after he left the group. Atkins formed JUDAS PRIEST in 1969 in Birmingham, England, naming it after the Bob Dylan tune “The Ballad Of Frankie Lee And Judas Priest”. In 1973, Atkins stepped out to land a “real job” to support his family and the band moved forward with Rob Halford. Asked in a new interview with Crystal Logic how PRIEST ended up keeping the name after his exit from the group, Atkins said: “I left the band in May 1973. I was the only one married and now with a small child to feed, I decided to get a 9-to-5 job and support my family because we just couldn’t get that big record deal we so wanted to give us some financial...
COREY TAYLOR Unveils Music Video For New Single ‘Culture Head’
The official music video for Corey Taylor‘s new song “Culture Head” can be seen below. The track is the latest single from Taylor‘s debut solo album, “CMFT”, which will be released on October 2 via Roadrunner Records. Taylor recorded the effort with his band consisting of Jason Christopher on bass, Dustin Schoenhofer on drums, and Zach Throne and Christian Martucci (STONE SOUR) on guitar. The LP was completed at Kevin Churko‘s The Hideout Recording Studio in Las Vegas with producer Jay Ruston, who has previously worked with ANTHRAX, STEEL PANTHER and STONE SOUR, among others. “I love what I’ve done in the past, I love the projects that I’ve been attached to, but this, honestly, was probably the most enjoyable album that I’ve...
Watch METALLICA Perform National Anthem Before SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS Vs. COLORADO ROCKIES Game
METALLICA‘s James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett virtually performed “The Star-Spangled Banner” before the September 23 baseball game featuring the San Francisco Giants and the Colorado Rockies. Video of their performance can be seen below. Wednesday’s rendition of the U.S. national anthem marked the eighth consecutive season that METALLICA played the song before a Giants home game. This year, due to the coronavirus pandemic, Hetfield and Hammett provided the performance via a pre-recorded video. “They’re always a pleasure. Come on, to be able to support a hometown team in the best possible way, it’s a huge honor,” Hammett said in an interview with former Giant and noted METALLICA fan George Kontos. “And also to be able to play the national ...
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How eevee, the Heroine of Lo-Fi, is Channeling Her Music Through Her Pregnancy [Interview]
Despite its robust presence in the streaming landscape, lo-fi music remains one of the most unheralded and overlooked avenues in the industry. A melancholic and brooding sub-species of dance music, lo-fi is EDM’s ugly duckling, trudging behind the genre flock before quietly emerging as a dominant force. You may not readily know what lo-fi music is, but odds are it is a subliminal quality of your everyday life. Subtly incorporating organic audial elements like the hiss of a cassette deck or the crackle of a vinyl player, lo-fi music is deeply enrooted in its mainstream counterparts—hip-hop, R&B, and soul—and influences much of the contemporary music we hear today. To this day, though, it remains in the shadows, eager to burst out of the murky cocoons of the vast musical genre spec...
Flying Lotus Teams Up with Marc Rebillet for the Return of Brainfeeder’s “The HIT” Series
Name a more iconic duo than Flying Lotus and Marc Rebillet. We’ll wait. For the return of Brainfeeder‘s “The HIT” series, Flying Lotus’ renowned independent label is joining forces with the “Work That Ass For Daddy” artist for a collaborative show that is bound to get weird in the best way. Fans of Rebillet, who recently performed an impromptu live set with Erykah Badu, can attest that the one they call “Loop Daddy” puts on a one-of-a-kind show. Intertwine his unique bravado with the gravitas of Flying Lotus, and you have a must-see performance. Meanwhile, Rebillet also recently announced that he has officially embarked on the recording process of his debut album. The return of “The HIT” with FlyLo and Rebillet is sched...
Viberate Launches New Analytics Tool to Empower Music Professionals
Last year, around 40,000 songs were uploaded to Spotify every single day. The figure represents both a staggering statistic and a daunting obstacle for independent artists, whose music is essentially rendered a needle in a haystack. With so much new music entering platforms each passing minute, music discovery and management have become more difficult in an extremely competitive industry. Enter UMEK, the renowned electronic music producer and entrepreneur behind Viberate, a music tech startup that develops tools to empower music professionals. Their latest venture is a brand new analytics tool, which the company launched this week. The tool collects and analyzes crucial social media and music streaming metrics, such as followers, charts, views and engagement, and turns accur...
Bonobo Launches New Label with Release of TEED Collaboration “Heartbreak”
Bonobo is crossing a career milestone today with the launch of his new imprint OUTLIER. The new venture comes in partnership with Ninja Tune and expands on the series of club shows and festival stage takeovers under the same moniker. To kick things off, he’s teamed up with friend and fellow UK producer Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs (TEED) to drop the label’s inaugural single “Heartbreak.” Bonobo shared in a press release that the new imprint will “reflect the more club focused side of what [he is] building with OUTLIER. “‘Heartbreak’ seems like a good starting point and was the track that became the catalyst to start the label,” he continued. “One for the dance floors in a time when they’re dearly mi...
Black Widow Delayed to 2021, More Marvel Movies Reshuffled
Disney has returned with more re-programming woes. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the Mouse House is pushing back both Black Widow and West Side Story way, way into 2021 because of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. Scarlett Johansson’s blockbuster will go from November 6th to May 7th, 2021. If you’re keeping tabs, that’s more than a full year removed from its pre-Covid release date of May 1st, 2020. Because of this, Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings is moving from May 7th to July 9th, 2021, while The Eternals will shift from February to November 5th, 2021. Meanwhile, Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is officially out of this year’s Oscar race. 20th Century and Amblin’s remake of the iconic musical is being delayed an entire year, going from December 18th, 2020 to December 1...
David Letterman Details New Season of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction
Dave Chappelle and David Letterman on Season 3 of My Next Guest Needs No Introduction Pull up a chair because David Letterman’s Netflix talk show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction is returning next month for its third season. Set to premiere October 21st, the new season will feature only four episodes — down from the usual six — but the expected star power should more than make up for the abbreviated run. Letterman is set to conduct illuminating hour-long interviews with Kim Kardashian and Dave Chappelle, as well as with Robert Downey Jr., and Lizzo. Season 1 of the Emmy-nominated TV series hosted prominent folks like former president Barack Obama, JAY-Z, and George Clooney. In our review of that season, we praised Letterman for revealing a “different side of himself,” one that’s “m...
Bonobo Drops New Song “Heartbreak” Featuring TEED: Stream
Electronic producer Bonobo has teamed up with Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs to share the new song “Heartbreak”. It’s the first release on Bonobo’s just-founded record label OUTLIER, and will be available as a 12-inch on November 13th. Bonobo, aka Simon Green, has been relatively quiet the last three years, ever since dropping 2017’s Migration and the related Koyo Ganda EP. But last year he announced the OUTLIER live performance series, and now that impulse has led to a new imprint on Ninja Tune. In a statement, he said that “Heartbreak” was “the track that became the catalyst to start the label. One for the dance floors in a time when they’re dearly missed.” “Heartbreak” pays homage to the New York dance scene of the 1970s and ’80s, when disco ruled, and everyone returned from th...
