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Relive the Magic of Porter Robinson’s Secret Sky Music Festival
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve certainly witnessed nearly the entire EDM community lose their collective mind over Porter Robinson‘s digital Secret Sky Music Festival on Saturday. With multiple performers trending across a number of social media networks, it’s safe to say Porter and co. took over the internet. While the virtual festival was a blast for those who tuned in, it was more than just a good time. For his event, Robinson teamed up with the Recording Academy and collected funds for their MusiCares COVID-19 Relief Fund. At the time of writing, Secret Sky raised over $115,000, and 100% of donations will go to the fund. Those who watched the festival stream can’t stop talking about the unexpected mash-up of PorterR...
Porter Robinson Drops Unreleased Track “Look at the Sky” During Secret Sky
The hundreds of thousands of fans who tuned into Porter Robinson‘s set during his virtual Secret Sky Music Festival were treated to the debut of an unreleased track. Titled “Look At The Sky,” the new song embodies everything fans of the multi-genre superstar know and love. After performing more than an hour’s worth of new music, timeless classics, and a bizarre yet on-point Avril Lavigne mashup, he thanked everyone for watching his set and stood on the side of his makeshift stage while projected text introduced the new single. Luckily for those unfortunate souls who missed the digital festival, someone on Reddit recorded the segment of the stream that featured the new track and shared it for all to enjoy. While the electronic music ext...
Dance Music’s Top Livestream Events: May, 2020
Just because you’re stuck at home, that’s no reason to let those dance moves get dull. Our prescription? A deep feet-first dive into a dancefloor, of course! There’s no shortage of phenomenal livestreams to enjoy this month either. For a dance fan wading through the sea of options, it’s enough to feel like swimming in cement boots, but don’t fret—we can help. Put your feet up and peruse some of the best below. With this handy guide, we’ve hand-picked our favorites for your listening pleasure. It may be true that there’s less to do at home while we wait out the COVID-craze, but with heavy-hitters like Diplo, Dada Life, and VNSSA pumping out steady streams with new music, May is still absolutely packed with plenty to be hyped about. Credit: Courtesy of Wuki Global Dance Digi...
April’s New Releases Bring the Promise of Even More Music to Come [Playlist]
While we might still be stuck at home for a considerable amount of time because of COVID-19, DJs and producers haven’t let the pandemic stop them from bringing new music to fans. In fact, for some, it’s actually helped with freeing up more time to finish unreleased songs. In EDM.com‘s interview with Riot Ten about being in quarantine, he said that he has less on his mind, having not to think about traveling and touring. And although he wishes he could play his music live, he has a lot of unreleased songs that he can now focus on. Last month Riot Ten released “Save You,” a single from his upcoming EP that’s slated for June. He told us that fans are going to hear “some of the heaviest music” he’s ever produced. The same will mo...
Little Richard Was a Quiet Civil Rights Pioneer Whose Concerts Helped Push Culture Past Segregation
“With Richard, although they still had the audiences segregated in the building, they were there together. And most times, before the end of the night, they would all be mixed together,” — producer H.B. Barnum in biography ‘The Life and Times of Little Richard.’ The early history of rock ‘n’ roll is a story of segregation — and Little Richard, who died of bone cancer at 87 on May 9, was a key player in the fight to destroy it. Because of Jim Crow laws, and racism in general, African-American musicians from Louis Armstrong to Charlie Parker to Motown revues traveling through the South spent much of the 20th century relegated to black hotels and black restaurants, denied entrance even to hotels where they were headlining. Ballrooms and auditoriums dr...
Bad Bunny Drops Surprise New Album ‘Las Que No Iban a Salir’: Stream It Here
Bad Bunny surprised his fans over the weekend with yet another new album. The 10-track release, titled Las Que No Iban a Salir (The Ones That Were Not Coming Out), dropped on music streaming services Sunday (May 10), marking the Puerto Rican artist’s second new album in 2020. The set features appearances by fellow reggaeton stars Don Omar, Yandel, Zion & Lennox, Nicky Jam, and Jhay Cortez. Las Que No Iban a Salir follows Bad Bunny’s first 2020 album, YHLQMDLG, which dropped in February and made history on the Billboard charts. YHLQMDLG debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, scoring the highest charting all-Spanish-language album ever. Last weekend, Bad Bunny previewed songs from Las Que No Iban a Salir during an epic three-hour appearance on his Instagram Live. In addition ...
Betty Wright’s 10 Best Songs: Staff Picks
Betty Wright was one of the most venerated figures in ’70s soul, funk, gospel and disco — not just a brilliant singer- songwriter, but also an accomplished producer and even an instinctive A&R woman, helping singers and eventual disco stars George & Gwen McCrae sign their first record deal in the late ’60s while just a teenager herself. While Wright’s multi-faceted career has seen her importance and influence trickle down to future generous in numerous ways — including as liberally sampled source material — what still resounds the most are her classic original songs. Following her death this week at age 66, Billboard takes a look back at here at 10 of our favorites from her towering catalog. “Girls Can’t Do What the Guys Do”...
P!nk Pens Encouraging Mother’s Day Essay Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
P!nk has an encouraging message for moms around the world this Mother’s Day: “You are doing amazing.” In an essay published by NBC News on Saturday (May 9), the pop superstar chronicles her emotionally draining experience battling Covid-19 and offers hope to less fortunate families around the globe struggling during the pandemic. “Battling COVID-19 along with my 3-year-old son was the most physically and emotionally challenging experience I have gone through as a mother,” writes P!nk, who was diagnosed in early April. “Weeks after receiving our test results, my son was still ill and feverish. It was a terrifying time, not knowing what might come next.” The singer’s experience with coronavirus has opened her eyes to the needs of others around ...
Rolling Stones Unveil Rare Havana Moon Footage in Latest Livestream
The Rolling Stones continued to unveil bonus concert footage with their Extra Licks YouTube series on Sunday (May 10), rolling out clips from the 2016 film Havana Moon. That project documents the band’s historic free show in Havana, Cuba at the Ciudad Deportiva de la Habana, which drew an estimated half-million fans and marked a rare major performance by an international rock band in the country. Havana Moon is the second Extra Licks installment, following the premiere livestream on May 3 featuring outtakes from the Rolling Stones’ 2016 concert movie Olé Olé Olé!: A Trip Across Latin America. The six-part series, part of the streaming service’s #StayHome campaign, will also include footage from their 1994 Voodoo Lounge Tour. Extra Licks follows the band’s surprise-released single...
R.I.P. Betty Wright, Veteran R&B Singer Dies at 66
Betty Wright, the veteran R&B singer known for hits such as “Clean Up Woman” and “Where Is the Love?”, has died at the age of 66, according to TMZ. A native of Miami, Florida, Wright achieved her first Top 40 single at the age of 14 with “Girls Can’t Do What the Guys Do”. Arriving three years later, Wright’s signature song, “Clean Up Woman”, spent eight weeks at No. 2 on the Billboard R&B charts in addition to peaking at No. 6 on the Billboard Top 100. “Clean Up Woman” was later sampled by a number of prominent R&B and hip-hop artists, including Mary J. Blige (“Real Woman”) and Chance the Rapper (“Favorite Song”). Even Sumblime sampled the song on their 40oz. To Freedom track “Get Out!”. In 1974, Wright earned her first and only Grammy Award for “Where Is the Love”, which ...
Betty Wright, Soul Hitmaker and ‘Clean Up Woman’ Singer, Dies at 66
R&B singer Betty Wright, best-known for a string of soulful hits in 1970s and early 1980s, including “Clean Up Woman” and “Where Is the Love?”, has died at age 66. Wright’s niece confirmed the news but didn’t reveal a cause of death, TMZ reports. Wright, born in Miami in 1953, launched her career as a child member of her family’s gospel act, the Echoes of Joy. But she ventured into soul and funk with her first solo album, 1968’s My First Time Around. Wright first found commercial success with 1972’s “Clean Up Woman,” famously sampled three decades later for a remix of Mary J. Blige’s “Real Love.” The vocalist issued a string of solo records and singles in the decade, including minor hits like 1972’s “Is It You, Girl?”, 1974’s “Secretary” and 1975’s “Where is the Love?”, which earned th...
Bono Shares a Playlist of the ’60 Songs That Saved My Life’
Want to feel old? U2 singer Bono turns 60 today. Maybe if you’re young, maybe he’s always been old. But that’s not the point here. In honor of his big birthday, Bono shared a playlist of artists who have inspired him. It’s diverse and wide-ranging that includes expected artists like David Bowie, Sex Pistols, the Ramones, (as in “The Miracle [of Joey Ramone]”), Nirvana and the Clash but also included Kanye West, Billie Eilish, Arcade Fire and Kendrick Lamar. Additionally, he shared a series of letters he wrote to each artist mentioned on the list, thanking them for inspiring him along the way and what their music meant to him. “These are some of the songs that saved my life…. the ones I couldn’t have lived without… the ones that got me from there to here, zero to 60… through all the scrapes...
