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Manager of Lady Gaga Producer BloodPop®: Women “Will Usher in a New Revolution” of Dance Music
Following the release of her sixth studio album Chromatica, Lady Gaga is going to need a forklift to haul the hardware coming her way. According to a report by Bloomberg, Gaga has dethroned Bad Bunny as the world’s biggest pop star thanks to the EDM-inspired Chromatica, which features production from Madeon, Skrillex, Tchami, Axwell, and Boys Noize, among others. Following the album’s ballyhooed release, it skyrocketed up the charts to rapidly emerge as the best-selling album in the US this past month. According to Bloomberg, Mother Monster sold over 400,000 copies over the course of the month while no other artist even eclipsed 300,000. The record’s lead singles, “Stupid Love” and “Rain on Me,” the latter of which we predicted as an...
METALLICA & SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: ‘S&M2’ Live Album And Video Details Revealed
METALLICA and San Francisco Symphony‘s September 6 & 8, 2019 “S&M²” concerts were historic on multiple levels: They served as the grand opening of San Francisco’s Chase Center, reunited the band and Symphony for the first time since the 1999 performances captured on the Grammy-winning “S&M” album, and featured the first-ever symphonic renditions of songs written and released since those original “S&M” shows. The sold-out concerts were rapturously received by the 40,000 fans who traveled from nearly 70 countries, as well as the media: Rolling Stone raved “the group proved that anything was possible,” Variety noted an atmosphere “buzzing with excitement,” while the Mercury News witnessed “a concert ...
DREAM THEATER’s JORDAN RUDESS Pays Musical Tribute To ENNIO MORRICONE
DREAM THEATER keyboardist Jordan Rudess has paid tribute to Oscar-winning composer Ennio Morricone, saying he “left us with some of the must beautiful music this planet has ever heard.” Morricone passed on July 6 at the age of 91. According to Morricone‘s longtime lawyer, the composer died in a Rome hospital of complications following a fall, in which he broke a leg. Rudess has uploaded a video of him performing some of the Morricone’s compositions, and he included the following message: “Here is my tribute to Ennio Morricone– who left us with some of the must beautiful music this planet has ever heard. May his melodies bring him directly to a special place in heaven.” Morricone composed “The Ecstasy Of Gold”, the song from the classic ...
DESTRUCTION Releases Mini Documentary On ‘Socially Distanced’ Concerts In Switzerland
German thrashers DESTRUCTION played their first two concerts after the coronavirus pandemic closures on July 3 and July 4 in Pratteln, Switzerland. In response to COVID-19 restrictions, only 300 tickets were made available for each show at the 1,600-capacity Z7 club. According to DESTRUCTION frontman Schmier, 250 people attended the July 4 gig, and 300 fans were present at the July 3 show. DESTRUCTION has now released a seven-minute “aftermovie” capturing the highlights of the band’s return to the live stage. Check it out below. Schmier states: “I am very glad that our film team could capture those moments. The first shows after the loosening of the rules in Switzerland for concerts were for sure a special moment for all of us. The fans did a very good job, and the ...
DRAGONFORCE’s HERMAN LI And SAM TOTMAN Show You How To Write A SABATON Song In 10 Minutes (Video)
During a recent Twitch livestream, DRAGONFORCE guitarists Herman Li and Sam Totman had some fun by attempting to write a SABATON-style song in 10 minutes. “We’ve known SABATON for so long,” Li said. Totman added: “I read this interview with them, and apparently, we were like their first-ever tour. I didn’t even realize it at the time, but that was like their first tour they ever did.” Herman said to his bandmate: “I think we should force you to write a SABATON song right now. Then we can finish a SABATON album within, what? An hour?” Video of the resulting session has since been uploaded to DRAGONFORCE‘s official YouTube channel and can be seen below. Two years ago, SABATON bassist Pär Sundström told Finland’s Soundi magazine that...
Kanye West Drops Presidential Bid (Report)
We hardly knew Ye. Kanye West’s presidential bid is over before it started. According to a report in Intelligencer, West hired a get out the vote specialist to try to whip up 100,000 signatures to get him on the ballot in Florida and South Carolina. Steve Kramer, the specialist, said they were “working over the weekend there, formalizing the FEC and other things that they’ve got to do when you have a lot of corporate lawyers involved.” Ultimately, Kramer told the publication that he received word from the group that hired him that “he’s out,” with “he” being Kanye. Earlier in the week, the first national poll with West’s inclusion had him 2% of the vote, which isn’t getting him elected. Interestingly, when he was included in that poll, West took votes away from President Donald T...
Yo La Tengo Release Third Song in As Many Days
Yo La Tengo has done it again. The indie veterans have shared their third song in as many days, releasing “James gets up and watches mourning birds with Abraham (Wednesday)” on…Wednesday. The tune follows “James and Ira demonstrate mysticism and some confusion holds (Monday),” “Georgia thinks it’s probably okay (Tuesday)” which were released on Monday and Tuesday, respectively on Yo La Tengo’s new Bandcamp page. Listen to the song below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Roland S. Martin Joins The ‘Black Information Network’ As New On-Air Commentator
Source: Moses Robinson / Getty In an age where misinformation runs rampant, partisan news networks reign supreme, and social media accounts for much of the news people consume on the regular, the culture needs a trusted news outlet to keep us informed, educated and aware. No, we’re not talking about Fox Soul. We’re referring to the Black Information Network. Dedicated to objective and accurate news coverage for the community, BIN recently launched a 24/7 comprehensive national audio news service and has announced that acclaimed American Journalist, Roland S. Martin has joined the network as a veteran commentator to break down all the latest news as only he can. Listeners hoping to hear Martin’s take on the day’s hottest topics can listen to his commentary on the iHeartRadio app as he will ...
LA Witch Share Eerie New Single ‘Gen-Z’
Garage rock trio L.A. Witch is back today with their latest single, “Gen-Z,” which appropriately sounds like it was recorded right in their neighbor’s empty garage or hashed out in a local cave. The reverb-heavy track is the second single off their August record, Play With Fire, and finds Ellie English, Irita Pai and Sade Sanchez dedicate some space off their nine track release to the youth. Sanchez says the track was inspired by articles she read about “high suicide rates” among Gen-Z due to social media pressure. She says she also read about music companies “not doing well,” citing a lack of interest in learning to play instruments. “When I was a kid, music and guitar were my escape,” Sanchez said. “Music was how I fought through my depressions. What will the future do to get throug...
Hulu’s Palm Springs Had a Record-Breaking Opening Weekend
When was the last time you experienced pure, unbridled joy? It’s clearly been some time, and Hulu’s latest success story is proof. As IndieWire reports, Andy Samberg’s newest film Palm Springs has smashed the platform’s opening weekend streaming records, proving that we’re all quite desperate for the twin balms of romance and laughter. Palm Springs was directed by Max Barbakow and written by Andy Siara. Set in the titular idyllic California town, it stars Saturday Night Live alum Samberg and Cristin Milioti, who you may remember as the panicked crew member trapped aboard the USS Callister from Black Mirror’s fourth season. It’s an earnest, warmhearted take on the time-loop format; think Groundhog Day meets When Harry Met Sally, set against a hazy desert sky. Sure, we’d all love to be ...
SoundCloud Is Now Offering Algorithmic Audio Mastering for $5 a Song
SoundCloud has partnered with Dolby to offer algorithmic audio mastering. “Mastering on Soundcloud” provides a variety of “mastering profiles,” and seeks to bridge the gap between amateurs and professional-quality masters for a fraction of the price. When done by a skilled human, the final master can cost anywhere between $50 and $200 a song. On SoundCloud, that service is available for $4.99. If it works — and that’s not guaranteed — it could do what Instagram filters did to photography, and radically reshape the market. Of course, many “groundbreaking” products are ultimately worse versions of what’s currently available, and that may be the case here. But SoundCloud and Dolby are big players, and what they say they can do is tantalizingly cheap. In a new blog post, SoundCloud revealed th...
IDLES Offer Up “A Hymn” of Shame and Love: Stream
Ultra Mono is the third album from post-punk group IDLES, due out this fall through Partisan Records. The effort, which comes two years after Joy As An Act of Resistance, is being previewed today with “A Hymn”. While previous singles “Mr. Motivator” and “Grounds” the Bristol natives ferocious and snarling as always, their newest offering opts for an entirely different mood. “A Hymn” rolls out slowly and steadily, almost in a drone-like fashion. “I want to be loved, everybody does/ I find shame in the crack-like corpse un-cadaver reign… I find shame gripped tight like your withering fame,” sings frontman Joe Talbot, with an equally monotone cadence. The fixed churn of it all echoes the backstory for “A Hymn”, which according to a tweet from the band ” rejoices in the sinister flesh-eating v...
