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Mastodon Unleash New Song “Fallen Torches”, Announce Medium Rarities Collection: Stream
Mastodon have unveiled the new song “Fallen Torches”, featuring frequent collaborator Scott Kelly of Neurosis. The track will appear on the newly announced career-spanning compilation Medium Rarities, which collects instrumentals, one-off singles, live tracks, cover tunes, and other obscurities. Medium Rarities, due September 11th, is the ultimate tide-over for fans eagerly awaiting Mastodon’s highly anticipated eighth studio album, which is now slated to arrive sometime in 2021. “Fallen Torches”, an uptempo track with heavy verses and a melodic chorus, was originally planned for release in support of the band’s 2019 European tour; however, Mastodon’s attention was diverted from completing the track by a worthy cause. “This classic Mastodon track [“Fallen Torches”] was recorded in Atlanta ...
Billie Eilish Finds Her Personal Power On ‘My Future’
After the breakout success of her debut album When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?, Billie Eilish, then a talented newcomer whose delightfully disheveled dye job and slime green style were seemingly at odds with the serene vocals she delivered, was solidified as a star on the rise. Yet, despite her laissez-faire attitude towards press and accolades, she’s become something of an awards show darling, becoming the youngest artist, at 18, to sweep the big four Grammys in January. And on Thurday (July 30), she was nominated for six VMAs, including Video of the Year and Song of the Year. That same day, independent of the announcement, Eilish dropped “My Future,” her first release since “No Time to Die,” the theme to the now-de...
Lastlings Get the RÜFÜS DU SOL Remix Treatment on “No Time”
Australian electronic pop musicians and siblings Lastlings made waves in 2018 with their signing to the Rose Avenue imprint, headed by Australian superstar trio RÜFÜS DU SOL. RÜFÜS had the pair along for their “SOLACE World Tour” last year and have now given Lastlings the remix treatment. “No Time (RÜFÜS DU SOL Remix)” is a dreamy house offering from the powerhouse electronica group. The original track was already a deep, progressive earworm, and RÜFÜS capitalize on that sound by kicking things up with both the tempo and composition. While the original has a deep and danceable yet chilled-out feel to it, the remix explores those euphoric and sporadic synths even further with a drawn out, atmospheric breakdown and buildup. The...
Tiësto to Elon Musk: “Shall We Put a Drive-In Party Together for Everyone Who Drives a Tesla?”
Earlier in the month of July, eccentric tech billionaire Elon Musk unveiled 3D renderings of his new Giga Factory in Berlin, Germany. Musk, who has also dipped his toes in electronic music production via a house track called “Don’t Doubt Ur Vibe,” wrote at the time that the rooftop may double as a “rave space,” adding, “Might be an indoor/outdoor rave space on the roof,” in a tweet. After another typically incendiary tweet from the Tesla boss today, June 30th, in which he wrote that he “sure could use a good rave,” legendary DJ and producer Tiësto jumped in with his own solution. “Shall we put a drive-in party together for everyone who drives a Tesla ?” he posed. Considering the horsepower and means behin...
OSC/PILOT, Performance Tool deadmau5 Used Only for His Shows, is Now Available to the Public
Iconic DJ and electronic music producer deadmau5 has unveiled OSC/PILOT, a control surface application that has been a vital component of his performance arsenal. Originally developed as a both a control surface unit for his shows and a performance tool for digital artists and musicians, deadmau5 has now made the tool available to the public. Considering the increasingly omnipresent overlap in audio and visual contrived by the livestreaming era in light of COVID-19, OSC/PILOT represents a simple way to bridge the gap in a desktop application. Artists are also able to adapt the control surface to their programs and DAWs, including Ableton Live, TouchDesigner, and Bitwig, among others, providing a streamlined and fully customizable UI. A press release issued to announce the application ...
Gryffin and John Martin Join Forces for Dream Collaboration, “Cry”
Just a few days after announcing his “first record of the next chapter,” renowned future bass and dance pop producer Gryffin has dropped the curtain, unveiling his new single “Cry” with John Martin. On July 28th, 2020, Gryffin tweeted that he started work on the track “with the intention of making a timeless dance record.” There is perhaps no collaborator more suitable for such an ambition than Martin, the iconic voice beyond a bevy of the most inescapable songs in electronic dance music, like Swedish House Mafia‘s “Save The World” and “Don’t You Worry Child.” “Cry” is a scintillating future pop record that tugs at the heartstrings through Martin’s poignant vocal effort. If Gryffin’s sentim...
DEE SNIDER Says Independent Labels, Bands And Venues Are All ‘Suffering Death Blows Right Now’
TWISTED SISTER singer Dee Snider spoke to Inlander about the devastating impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on the music industry. “The destruction that this is doing to the independent art scene, whether it’s music, film, painting, whatever it is, we’ll eventually recover, but I don’t know when because it can’t afford what’s happening to it,” Snider said. “What we’re going to be left with is the corporate world that has the resources to survive, but without independent art on every level — and that’s what creates the next fad, the next movement, the next style. “It comes from independents. The independent labels, independent bands, independent venues, and they’re all suffering death blows right now,” he con...
Alphaville – Imperial Triumphant
RATING: 9/10 Metal’s endless malleability has never been more widely exploited than it is in these genre-hopping, rule-defying times, but IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT will still make your synapses throb in confusion. Building on and casually surpassing the jazz-infused madness of 2018’s “Vile Luxury”, New York City’s masked masters of malevolent madness have upped the ante again with their fourth and most flagrantly unhinged work to date. Opener “Rotted Futures” has been festering and coagulating online for a while now, but it remains startling on every spin: this is wildly progressive extreme metal, but not in a form that anyone has previously attempted. Intermittently grotesque and majestic, it steals its freewheeling intensity from jazz, but its ugly hea...
ICE-T Explains Decision To Re-Release BODY COUNT’s 2017 Single ‘No Lives Matter’ To Radio
During an appearance on last night’s (Wednesday, July 29) episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”, hip-hop legend, actor and director Ice-T spoke about the decision to re-release BODY COUNT‘s 2017 single “No Lives Matter” to radio. He told host Jimmy Fallon (see video below): “If people have followed me, my whole career, it’s always been anti-racism, trying to explain you the complications of living in and growing up in the hood, in the community — just me kind of walking you through someone else’s life, so you can see it from their perspective. ‘Cause I believe most of this stuff is perspective — it’s easy to hate something that you don’t truly understand how they see it. “I did the song ‘No Li...
Watch CHRIS CORNELL’s Daughter TONI Cover PEARL JAM’s ‘Black’ for LOLLAPALOOZA Livestream
Toni Cornell, daughter of SOUNDGARDEN singer Chris Cornell, performed a cover version of PEARL JAM‘s “Black” during Lollapalooza‘s Lolla2020 livestream, a free four-night broadcast event taking place on the original dates of the Chicago-based festival. Check out video of the performance below. Toni previously performed an acoustic cover version of TEMPLE OF THE DOG‘s “Hunger Strike” from her father’s home studio during LiveXLive‘s “Music Lives” global digital music festival this past April. In August 2017, Toni Cornell joined the band ONEREPUBLIC onstage on ABC‘s “Good Morning America” to perform the Leonard Cohen song “Hallelujah”. The performance was a celebration the lives of Chris Cornell an...
Here Are All the Winners From the 2020 GLAAD Media Awards
On Thursday (July 30), the 31st annual GLAAD Media Awards took place, honoring LGBTQ visibility in music, film, television, journalism and more. Stars like Lil Nas X and Dolly Parton took home awards for their continued efforts in raising awareness for the LGBTQ community through their work. Check out the full list of winners from the 2020 GLAAD Media Awards below. Outstanding Music Artist: Lil Nas X, 7 (Columbia) Outstanding Individual Episode (in a series w/o a regular LGBTQ character): “Two Doors Down” Dolly Parton’s Heartstrings (Netflix) Outstanding Drama Series: Pose (FX) Outstanding Comedy Series: Schitt’s Creek (Pop) Outstanding Film – Wide Release: Booksmart (United Artists Releasing) Outstanding Film – Limited Release: Rafiki (Film Movement) Ou...
Lady Gaga Feels the Love From Her MTV VMA Nominations: ‘I Am So Grateful and So Blessed’
Lady Gaga scooped nine nominations for this August’s MTV Video Music Awards, and no one is more excited about it than the lady herself. Gaga and Ariana Grande lead the contest with nine nods, including a co-nomination for video of the year for their mega-collab “Rain on Me.” “I am so grateful and so blessed to have 9 #VMAs nominations this year for my album Chromatica, for Rain On Me, and other performances I’ve given,” Gaga tweets. “This is such a difficult time for people all over the world, I really honor how lucky I am to have a day like today.” I am so grateful and so blessed to have 9 #VMAs nominations this year for my album Chromatica, for Rain On Me, and other performances I’ve given. This is such a difficult time for people all over the world, I really honor how lucky ...
