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The Knocks and MUNA Turn Back Time with “Bodies”
Now entering the sixth month of the COVID-19 lockdown, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to remember life before sheltering at home. A new song by electronic duo The Knocks and pop trio MUNA, titled “Bodies,” may be the escape you need. Co-written by each group, “Bodies” was inspired by “nostalgia for the early-mid aughts,” according to a press statement by MUNA. Out today via Big Beat Records, “Bodies” has now come to represent hope for the joyful times to come, conjuring memories of house parties, beach days with friends, and fireworks at a music festival. Set to the tune of The Knocks’ signature upbeat, pop-centric production style, “Bodies” delivers a hypnotizing, light-hearted punch with b...
Amazon Music Enlists Disclosure for “The Summer Sessions” Playlist
Amazon Music recently launched their new “Summer Sessions” playlist series, in which they enlist the help of some of the best DJs and producers that dance music has to offer to curate the ultimate soundtrack for the season. Next up in the series is Disclosure, who threw down over 5 hours of vibrant music to soak up with the warm weather. Get down to their house track “Ecstasy” or “He Loves Me 2” by Steve Silk Hurley and CeCe Peniston. If hip-hop and R&B are more your speed, fear not—the duo added in tracks such as “Find a Way” by A Tribe Called Quest and “On & On” by Erykah Badu. To make “The Summer Sessions” with Disclosure complete, they provided Amazon Music an original exclusive to...
You Can Buy These Items from the Fyre Festival Merchandise Collection Seized from Billy McFarland
Thanks to the mythical implosion of the dumpster fire that was Fyre Festival, you can now get your hands on a memento from the notorious event. The US Marshals Service is auctioning off merchandise seized from the festival’s disgraced founder, Billy McFarland, to augment efforts to offer restitution to his victims. From July 30th through August 13th, you can bid on 126 items, including loungewear, bracelets, and retrospectively humiliating tokens emblazoned with the phrase, “a conspiracy to change the entertainment world.” According to US Marshal Ralph Sozio, McFarland was planning to sell the merchandise even after his arrest following the festival’s historic descent into ignominy. “The proceeds from the sale of these items, all traceable to McFarland’s...
EDM.com Presents “Quarantini Chats” Episode #4: HOSH and Boss Doms
Whether they’re bedazzling eggs with rhinestones, baking their own sourdough from scratch, or concocting absurd cocktails, those in the social media community at large have embraced their creativity during their time in quarantine. Harnessing that creativity and manifesting it into the dance music community, EDM.com’s Instagram Live interview series “Quarantini Chats” invites the brightest music producers and DJs in the game to join our platform and craft a custom cocktail as they sip and dive into a wide range of topics with our special guest hosts, The Hotel Lobby. Joining us this week are HOSH and Boss Doms, who will be interviewing each other in a special edition of “Quarantini Chats.” Doms released HOSH’s remix of his new single “I Want ...
MÖTLEY CRÜE’s TOMMY LEE And ROB ZOMBIE’s JOHN 5 To Perform With TYLA YAWEH On ESPN House’s Virtual Fan Experience
To celebrate the restart of the NBA season, ESPN House returns with a virtual fan experience for the tip-off of the NBA on ESPN. The experience will be anchored by a live musical performance from rapper and songwriter Tyla Yaweh with special guests Tommy Lee and John 5 (ROB ZOMBIE, ex-MARILYN MANSON). The performance of Tyla‘s new single, “Tommy Lee”, which also features Post Malone and is said to be an ode to the MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer and his lavish lifestyle, will be streamed on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and the ESPN app on Saturday, August 1 at 5:10 p.m. ET prior to “Hoop Streams”. ESPN House will also feature content from The Undefeated on ESPN.com surrounding social justice efforts. “I have a longtime friendship with Tommy Lee and we have worked on s...
COREY TAYLOR: ‘I’ve Reached A Point In My Life Where I’m Tired Of Being Miserable Making Music’
SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor will release his debut solo album, “CMFT”, on October 2 via Roadrunner Records. Taylor recorded the solo 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. Speaking to Dave “Higgo” Higgins of Australia’s MMM Hard N Heavy radio station, Taylor stated about the musicians on his solo album (hear audio below): “I’ve played with all of these guys in one form or another, but never all at the same time, and I knew n...
LACUNA COIL’s CRISTINA SCABBIA Is Not A Fan Of METALLICA’s ‘Lulu’: ‘Sometimes Experiments Fail’
LACUNA COIL singer Cristina Scabbia has criticized “Lulu”, METALLICA‘s controversial collaborative disc with Lou Reed, saying “sometimes experiments fail.” Released in 2011, “Lulu” polarized fans around the world and earned METALLICA some of the most scathing reviews of its career. The effort featured the late THE VELVET UNDERGROUND frontman’s spoken-word poetry and lyrics combined with METALLICA‘s musical assault for a jarring experience that didn’t sound like anything METALLICA had ever attempted before. Asked by Metal Hammer magazine to name one album “that should not be,” Scabbia picked “Lulu”, explaining: “I hate to bash other people’s art, because it’s their expression and everyone s...
LARS ULRICH: ‘Playing Covers Will Always Be A Significant Part Of The DNA Of METALLICA’
During an appearance on this past Wednesday’s (July 29) episode of SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk”, Lars Ulrich spoke about METALLICA‘s penchant for covering classic songs from artists that he and his bandmates were influenced or inspired by. The drummer said: “You have to remember that, for all intents and purposes, METALLICA started as a cover band. So when we got together, and we were there in Southern California in February or March of ’82, there were kind of two paths at the time. One was that you basically were sort of like a cover band and you would play bar favorites — you’d go out and play ‘Smoke On The Water’ or ‘Ain’t Talkin’ ‘Bout Love’ or ‘Rock And Roll All Nite’ or...
Sheryl Crow Still Wants a ‘Woman in the White House,’ Restores 8-Year-Old Song
Sheryl Crow is making her demands for the presidency known ahead of the 2020 election by rerecording one of her 2012 B-sides, “Woman in the White House.” The Grammy award-winning singer completely transformed her light-hearted country tune into a hard rock anthem with a scorching guitar solo in the outro, re-emphasizing her suggestion-turned-demand for “a little female common sense down on Pennsylvania Avenue” and a different face after the last approximately 230 years of male Commanders-in-Chief. “When I first recorded this song 8 years ago, I was hopeful that we, as a nation, would seize the moment and put a Woman in the White House,” Crow wrote on Twitter yesterday (July 30). “That did not happen – but our movement of strength grows a...
From ‘The Nada’ to ‘Algo Ritmos’, a Dive Into Kevin Johansen’s Music Journey
The ‘sub-tropicalista’ celebrates his 20-year career anniversary. About a year ago, Kevin Johansen was sitting in a rooftop of a hotel in Miami, Fla. garbed in a spiffy navy-blue suit and his habitual tranquil look on his face. From that time onward, many things have happened, and in spite of his 20-year career anniversary, his spirit remains the same. There is no sound of birds or the robust trees whooshing through the air in the background. Instead, our conversation dwindles to the soulless connection of two screens 4,406 miles apart. Sitting in the comfort of his house in Buenos Aires, Johansen sips mate, crossed legged dressed in blue jeans and a blue sweatshirt. “I’m here, resorting to endurance, like everyone else,” he sighs with a smile. “Like my mother used to say, ‘do like the Phi...
AMP Music Summit Draws Inspiration From History & Community in Second Virtual Event
The AMP Music Summit presented by KCRW held its second online conference earlier this week, celebrating the power of collaboration between artists, business leaders and local communities through music, storytelling, technology, law and culture. While the main arc of the AMP Music Summit focused on culture-shifting changes resulting from COVID-19, a common theme at AMP’s second event was the power of music to inspire smaller cities while building a sense of community and collective pride. “It’s great to hear the stories of hope and that’s really a lot of what we’re trying to do with this conference,” said Simon Lamb, who along with Rebel Industries founder Josh Levine and Seth Combs co-founded AMP Music Summit earlier this year. “We want to provide a counter narrative to s...
Executive Turntable: TalentX Founder Named Triller Chief Strategy Officer, Radio Promo Vets Launch New Company
Social media star, entrepreneur and TalentX Entertainment co-founder Josh Richards has been named chief strategy officer at AI-driven music video and entertainment platform Triller, which he also invested in. In his new role, Richards will lead strategy at Triller while also overseeing the company’s implementation of live streaming and monetization tools. Triller, a rival to the wildly popular video-sharing platform TikTok, last year raised $28 million in a funding round led by Proxima Media last year, also drawing investors including Snoop Dogg and Lil Wayne. In June, the platform — which currently has music licensing partnerships with Warner, Sony Music and UMG — hit 50 million monthly active users. “After seeing the US and other countries’ governments’ concerns over Tik...
