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Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Share New Song “Falling Thunder” and Video: Stream
Next month, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are set to drop their sophomore album, Sideways to New Italy. In the video for the album’s latest single, “Falling Thunder”, the Melbourne outfit return to old Italy, the place of singer/guitarist Tom Russo and bassist Joe Russo’s ancestral heritage. Th intention of the video was to juxtapose shots of Italy with an Italian-founded venue in Melbourne. However, as Tom Russo explained in a press release, things didn’t exactly go as planned: “Our friend Jamieson Moore shot the footage of Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands on her phone while on vacation last year. The Aeolian Islands is also where my and Joe Russo’s ancestors are from. We were also planning to shoot the band playing in Eolian Hall in Melbourne (it’s a community hall founde...
Martin Garrix to Release New Set Recorded On the Back of a Moving Boat
After releasing sets from the roof of his apartment and on top of the A’DAM Tower in Amsterdam, Martin Garrix recently decided to take things to the next level. On Tuesday he will be releasing a live set, produced in collaboration with Insight TV, recorded entirely from the back of a moving boat. On Twitter, he shared a short video teasing the ambitious new performance and showcasing the stunning views that the camera-equipped drones, helicopters, and boats captured. In a quote obtained by Deadline, Garrix spoke to the adventurous nature of his new performance and why this week felt like the perfect time to do it. “I wanted to do something like this for a long time. Especially now, when I’m not able to travel and do any shows, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to ...
A$AP Rocky, Sting, and More Share Wild Tripping Stories In New Netflix Psychedelics Documentary
Netflix recently unveiled the trailer for a new documentary film called Have A Good Trip: Adventures In Psychedelics, which features A$AP Rocky, Sting, and many more. The project will share true stories about tripping on psychedelics, offering up “star-studded reenactments and surreal animations [to] bring their comedic hallucinations to life.” According to a synopsis from Netflix, Have A Good Trip: Adventures In Psychedelics “explores the pros, cons, history, future, science, pop-cultural impact, and cosmic possibilities of hallucinogens” and “acts as an unofficial user’s guide for these consciousness-altering compounds, and helps dispel the scare myths of the After School Special era.” If any quote from the trailer will galvanize you into watching the documentar...
Electronic Young Gun MELVV Is Throwing Down a Huge Livestream DJ Set Right Now
Milwaukee-based electronic young gun MELVV has teamed up with EDM.com for a special livestream DJ set, which is now live via Twitch. You can tune into the show, which Melvv is kicking off with an unreleased Charli XCX remix, below. With his unique ability to blend future pop and house music, MELVV is one of the electronic scene’s most promising artists. In addition to releasing a number of scintillating original tracks, like the Atlantic Records singles “Babe” and “Anything Else,” he has also emerged as a highly coveted remixer. Most recently, he was commissioned by Wafia for a bouncy official remix of her single Big Beat Records single “Hurts,” which was produced in collaboration with the super-tandem of Louis Th...
Check Out This Incredible 3D-Modeled and Printed REZZ Hand
Fans of REZZ can attest that her brand is one-of-a-kind. With her menacing, mind-bending midtempo sonic flair, Space Mom has carved out her own sound over the years, concocting a signature electronic cocktail all her own. Her live shows only reinforce that notion, as she pairs her thunderously spellbinding sound with her patented, mesmerizing LED goggles to offer up a truly unique live concert experience for any flabbergasted revelers lucky enough to catch a live performance. One of those fans, Brandon Lee Morris, took things to the next level by breathing life into one of REZZ’s visual brand components, a hand with an eyeball centered in its palm. Morris, who operates a visual concepts and 3D printing project called Replicant Lab, took it upon himself to create a 3D-modeled and...
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Ghosteen
On the sublime Ghosteen—the first album Nick Cave has written and recorded entirely since the death of his teenage son, Arthur, in 2015—he sorts through his grief and all the requisite stages, occasionally as though in real time. His mood drifts between domesticity and depravity. He empathizes with the true believers who wept beneath Jesus’ feet at the crucifixion. He latches onto friendship and love in any shape they take. He loses his faith, then fights desperately for any belief that can replace it. Scored by synthesizers, pianos, and electronics, the process is alternately harrowing and comforting for the first hour of the album, Cave’s waking nightmare on full display. But then, in the album’s final verse, at the close of the dangerous “Hollywood,” he steps back from the edge of a ner...
Deftones Hosting Diamond Eyes 10th Anniversary Listening Party
Deftones are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their sixth album, Diamond Eyes, by hosting a listening party on YouTube. The event takes place Tuesday night (May 5th), and will allow fans to “virtually chill with the band” and listen to the entire album. Diamond Eyes actually turned 10 years old on Monday, having been released on May 4th, 2010. The album was a pivotal one for Deftones as it marked their first without late bassist Chi Cheng, who at the time was in a coma as the result of a car crash. The band had started another album, the never-released Eros, with Cheng, but ultimately decided to start fresh with Diamond Eyes and new bassist Sergio Vega. The listening session will take place tonight at 9:00 p.m. ET / 6:00 p.m. PT at Deftones’ YouTube channel. The band encourages fan...
Hundreds of Hours Worth of 1980s-Era MTV Programming Uploaded Online
We want our MTV now… and, in a way, it looks like we got it. After years of missing the channel’s glory days, one Internet Archive user has been steadily uploading VHS recordings of MTV’s early years in the ’80s and ’90s, reports BrooklynVegan. There’s hundreds of hours’ worth of footage online there and it’s all free to watch. The MTV collection is being uploaded chronologically under the apt title “’80s MTV VHS Recordings 1981 to 1989 Collection”. So far, most of the footage features everything you would have seen live on TV as it aired, including the network’s promos and now-outdated commercials. It begins with the dawn of MTV: the channel’s August 1st, 1981 debut where they introduced themselves by way of The Buggles’ legendary and topical hit “Video Killed the Radio Star” before movin...
Grimes Explains Why She and Elon Musk Named Their Baby X Æ A-12
Grimes and Elon Musk (photo via Getty Images), X Æ A-12 (photo via Twitter/@elonmusk) On Monday, Grimes and Elon Musk welcomed a new baby boy into the world. Upon sharing the news on Twitter, Musk told his followers that the baby is named “X Æ A-12”, which seems like a joke until you remember this is Grimes and Elon Musk’s baby. Now, Grimes has seemingly confirmed the name while providing some context for its meaning. According to Grimes, “X” refers to “the unknown variable” and “Æ “is “my elven spelling of Ai (love &/or Artificial intelligence).” If you guessed “A-12” refers to the Lockheed A-12 OXCART, the reconnaissance aircraft built for the CIA, you’d be right. “No weapons, no defenses, just speed. Great in battle, but non-violent,” Grimes explained. Additionally, the “A...
50 Reasons We Still Love The Beatles’ Let It Be
Gimme a Reason takes classic albums celebrating major anniversaries and breaks down song by song the reasons we still love them so many years later. This week, we celebrate 50 years of The Beatles’ Let It Be. It’s become an iconic scene: The Beatles carrying out their last-ever live performance on the roof of Apple Corps, joined by keyboardist and general legend Billy Preston, their long hair flipping around in the London wind while they recorded live takes of songs like “Dig a Pony” and “Don’t Let Me Down” before eventually being shut down by the Metropolitan Police. The event was unannounced. Onlookers gathered on their lunch breaks, looking up at the midday sensation. This was the concert from which the final version of the Let It Be album would in part manifest, preserving takes of thr...
How Well Do You Know Bassnectar? Take Our Quiz
If you’re even remotely familiar with bass music, you’ve certainly heard of Bassnectar. Throughout the course of his illustrious career, he rose from underground sensation to one of the most esteemed acts in not only bass music, but also electronic music in its entirety. With performances at the world’s most renowned festivals as well as his own massive curated shows under his belt, his live concert experiences have become can’t-miss events in the EDM world. In honor of this unstoppable force, we’ve created a test to see how well you know the man himself. FOLLOW BASSNECTAR: Facebook: facebook.com/BassnectarTwitter: twitter.com/bassnectarInstagram: instagram.com/bassnectarSoundCloud: soundcloud.com/bassnectar
Artists are Ingeniously Using the PS4 Game “Dreams” to Create Full Songs
In February, developers Media Molecule launched their most ambitious creation platform to date, Dreams. Following the success of last decade’s LittleBigPlanet, the developers have harnessed this generation’s technology to produce a game creation platform that allows players to create much more than side-scrollers. With the tools embedded in Dreams, players are able to develop games of nearly every genre out there. So far, we’ve seen first-person shooters, horror adventures, racing games, action RPGs, and everything in-between. In addition to being able to make playable games, Dreams includes incredibly intuitive music production tools that let users compose entire songs in-game. Levi Niha, a popular YouTube creator known for making videos where he composes musi...
