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Django Django Return with New Song “Spirals”: Stream
Although the pandemic continues to keep us apart, and political tactics seek to divide us, we’re all inherently connected as one human race. That’s the message British art-rock outfit Django Django want to remind us of on “Spirals”, their first single in almost two years. The track follows the group’s pair of 2018 releases, Winter’s Beach EP and full-length album Marble Skies, and picks up musically where those projects left off. With frontman Vincent Neff leading the way with a spell-like cadence, “Spirals” chugs along with propulsive energy until its guitars and drums lock into a looping groove. Its accompanying video, directed by Maxim Kelly, continues this spinning theme. Imagining Neff as something of a hybrid human and double helix, the clip “uses the image of DNA to muse on how...
Tom Petty’s Family Shares Previously Unreleased Song “Confusion Wheel”: Stream
Tom Petty fans will soon have a new prized piece to add to their collections: Wildflowers & All the Rest, a sprawling reissue of his 1994 album. In addition to cozy home recordings and fascinating alternate takes, the box set boasts a disc containing five previously unreleased songs. Today, one of those tracks has been unearthed, a contemplative yet optimistic tune titled “Confusion Wheel”. “One of these days my old friend, you and I won’t have to worry no more/ One of these nights it’ll all wash away,” sings the music legend, as though comforting us and our weary, pandemic-worn souls from the grave. “And we’ll wake up singing a brand new song/ We’ll wake up singing a whole new song.” The song’s corresponding visualizer looks like the inner workings of a mind curious about the truths o...
The National’s Matt Berninger Reveals New Solo Song “One More Second”: Stream
We’re less than a month out from hearing Matt Berninger’s debut solo album, Serpentine Prison. In anticipation, The National frontman is giving fans another preview of the record with a new song called “One More Second”. Unlike recent single “Distant Axis”, which featured a momentous swell, today’s offering has more in common with the album’s mellow title track from back in May. “One More Second” is a mostly acoustic cut with the pacing of a country shuffle. Berninger’s fibrous guitar strums are elevated by crisp percussive taps, and eventually the song does take off into a pretty anthemic swing that orbits around a tickling keyboard solo. Lyrically, the tune is an entry in the timeless canon of “give me one more chance” love songs. In fact, according to a statement in the track’s YouTube ...
The London College of Music Examiners Now Recognizes DJing as Formal Education
Thanks to two relentlessly passionate DJs, you can now study the art of DJing and receive a formal GSCE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) qualification. According to a report by The Guardian, brothers Austen and Scott Smart have been working tirelessly over the last five years to galvanize institutions to recognize DJing as formal education. Forcing the issue via their FutureDJs banner, they have teamed up with the London College of Music Examiners to formulate and offer a syllabus for prospective students to receive formal grades and become certified DJs. Sandra Allan, of exam board AQA, says the objective is to allow “more accessibility and diversity, giving students opportunity they may not have considered before now.” The London College o...
Win a Pair of Pioneer DJ’s New Color-Splashed HDJ-CUE1 DJ Headphones
EDM.com has teamed up with NERVO and Pioneer DJ to give away a few pairs of the industry leader in DJ technology’s new HDJ-CUE1 DJ headphones. The HDJ-CUE1 DJ headphones are fully customizable and available in two different models—wired and wireless Bluetooth. With a sleek look, decadent sonics, and a unique foldable design, they are optimal for both beginner DJs and seasoned audiophiles. Artists are able to personalize their HDJ-CUE1s with Pioneer DJ’s HC-CP08 accessory packs, which include two replacement ear pads and a detachable coiled cable in orange, yellow, green, blue, or violet. The new model is also sturdy and durable, having been put through the ringer via Pioneer DJ’s strict in-house durability tests. The HDJ-CUE1s contain met...
Nick Cave Brings His Version of T. Rex’s ‘Cosmic Dancer’ to Late Late Show
To celebrate the release of AngelHeaded Hipster: The Songs of Marc Bolan and T. Rex, which was released Sept. 4, a number of the artists are playing their versions of the T. Rex tracks they contributed to the album. Last night, Nick Cave did a live rendition of “Cosmic Dancer,” which is off T. Rex’s 1971 Electric Warrior album. The performance looks like it was done while Cave was filming his recent concert movie, Idiot Prayer. Watch the performance below. [embedded content] Speaking of the Idiot Prayer, Cave has also shared a new extended trailer for the movie, which is set to hit theaters on Nov. 5. The live album will release two weeks after, on Nov. 20. Watch the extended trailer for Idiot Payer below. [embedded content] You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Onl...
Snoop Dogg Slams President Trump For Disrespecting ‘Every Color in the World’
Snoop Dogg calmly listed the very long roster of people that Donald Trump has disrespected during his presidency in a new Instagram video, uploaded in the wake of reports that the commander in chief made disparaging remarks about military veterans. “So, me and my homeboys sittin’ up here talkin’ about all the people that President Trump disrespected… Women, gays, transgenders, Blacks, Mexicans, Asians, and now veterans,” Snoop said in the video posted on Wednesday (Sept. 9). “Hmmm. Seem like he’s disrespecting every color in the world and everything that ain’t what he is, which is a racist,” he added. According to Snoop, those who voted for the president “got exactly what they wanted. He gave them what he said he was gonna give ’em.” Rapper/producer Fred...
U.S. Recorded Music Business Still Growing (A Bit) Amid Pandemic: RIAA 2020 Mid-Year Report
The good news: The U.S. recorded-music business was still in an upswing in the first half of 2020, growing 5.6% at retail to $5.7 billion, up from $5.4 billion, continuing a trend of growth that extends back to the industry’s nadir in 2015. The less-good news: That growth, like most everything else in the music business and beyond so far this year, took a pandemic-related hit, ending a short streak of double-digit gains after a 17% boost at mid-year 2017, 10% at mid-year 2018 and 18% at mid-year 2019. Of course, percentage-based growth, by its nature, is always increasingly-difficult to improve upon, and once-in-a-generation pandemics were never going to help keep that streak alive. And within that context there’s still plenty of good news for the industry in its continued recovery amid th...
Shawn Mendes Partnering With Toronto Film Festival For Changemaker Award, Will Perform at 2020 Ceremony
Shawn Mendes will perform at the virtual prize-giving. Olivia Colman, Ava DuVernay, Colin Farrell, Jodie Foster are set to introduce prize-winners at the 2020 TIFF Tribute Awards on Sept. 15, Toronto Film Festival organizers said Wednesday (Sept. 9). Canadian pop sensation Shawn Mendes will perform as part of TIFF’s celebrity-driven awards show, which is to air on the CTV network countrywide and stream online. Other presenters set for the TIFF Tribute Awards include Regina King, Delroy Lindo and Bollywood star Tabu, while Chloe Wilde and Tyrone Edwards will host the kudosfest. This year’s honorees will include Kate Winslet, Anthony Hopkins, directors Chloe Zhao, Mira Nair and Tracey Deer and Grammy-winning composer Terence Blanchard. After the coronavirus pandemic ended plans f...
‘Julie and the Phantoms’: TV Review
Kenny Ortega’s Netflix tween musical follows a grief-stricken high schooler who joins an all-ghost rock band. I am just old enough for High School Musical to have been a threat to my personal dignity. Kenny Ortega’s kiddie megafranchise, which debuted January 2006, juggernauted into cultural relevance just as I turned 17 — frankly, only three years after Disney Channel ceased being the white noise of my everyday existence. I saw vulgarity in HSM‘s plastic funk and robotic pop, its earnest romance and “follow your dreams” hamminess. You see, I was far too mature and alternative for HSM‘s chintzy charms. I recall eye-rolling aplenty while babysitting my little cousins the summer before freshman year of college, bravely enduring the film’s ubiquitous ...
U2’s All That You Can’t Leave Behind to Be Reissued With New Songs
Damn, it’s been 20 years since U2 released All That You Can’t Leave Behind, an album some considered a return to form after experimenting on Zooropa and Pop. So it makes perfect music biz sense that the album, 20 years later, is getting the proverbial red carpet rolled out for its anniversary. All editions will feature the remastered version of the original tracks and a U2 concert from Boston in 2001. Other editions will feature that, along with 39 additional songs, including remastered B-sides, outtakes and 11 remixes featuring four previously unheard versions recently discovered in the band’s Dublin archives. The super deluxe version will also offer a hardback book from longtime friend and collaborator Anton Corbijn, with previously unseen photos and a poster. The group re...
Marilyn Manson Shares Latest Single ‘Don’t Chase the Dead’
Marilyn Manson dropped the new “Don’t Chase The Dead” single a day ahead of the release of his new album, We Are Chaos. The singer shared the LP’s title track back in July. We Are Chaos, a 10-song conceptual album produced by Shooter Jennings, has a Manson painting titled “Infinite Darkness” as its cover art. The piece was specifically created to accompany the music. Check out “Don’t Chase The Dead” below. [embedded content] The album drops three years after Manson’s Heaven Upside Down LP. We are Chaos was completed in January 2020, and Manson told Consequence of Sound that during the pandemic he’s been focusing on “making more art. I will admit that I’ve watched probably more television than I need to, and films, but I’ve tried to make it productive. I’ve tried to comp...
