Brooklyn rapper Rowdy Rebel has announced the forthcoming release of his debut album, Rebel vs. Rowdy. The rapper is a member of the hip-hop collective GS9, along with his collaborator Bobby Shmurda. Arriving this Friday, July 15, Rebel revealed the news of the project with an official album trailer. In the video, he recounts his 2014 arrest only a few months after he signed to Epic Records. Rebel, whose real name is Chad Marshall, subsequently served six years in prison and was released in December 2020. The visual also offers a glimpse at Rebel’s life post-release, showing him hitting the studio and reconnecting with former collaborators. Due from Epic Records, the LP will feature A Boogie wit da Hoodie, Dreezy, Drizzy Juliano, Kamikaze Kai, Fivio Foreign, French Montana and Jadakiss. St...
Airbeat One‘s highly anticipated 2022 edition is just days away, and tens of thousands of attendees are itching to return to Neustadt-Glewe for four days of dance music bliss. Organized by Music Eggert, the gigantic electronic music festival is celebrating its momentous 20-year anniversary in 2022 while aiming to take fans to the destination of Italy with its groundbreaking Mainstage design. As you’re getting ready to hit the fields of Neustadt-Glewe and enjoy the mesmerizing experience Airbeat One has to offer, here’s all the information you need to make the most out of your festival experience this year. Airbeat One dates and location Airbeat One is taking place July 6-10 in an old airfield near Neustadt-Glewe, a small town in Northern Germany. Located on Autobahn 24, Neustadt-Glew...
After years of honing her craft in the underground dance scene, Los Angeles-based DJ, house music producer and vocalist Nala has quickly become a fast-rising star. Harnessing a unique, Riot Grrrl-inspired sound that blends 90s punk aesthetics with analog synthesizers, she writes electronic music with a conscious edge. Nala has now launched a new record label, Mi Domina, a “femme-dominated” platform “where women are in charge,” per a press release shared with EDM.com. The name translates to “Dominate Me,” a phrase which functions as an ode to Nala’s Italian heritage. Serving as Mi Domina’s inaugural record is Nala’s new three-track EP, Get Familiar, a joint record with fellow Dirtybird artist E.R.N.E.S.T.O. Blending funky tech ho...
You’ll feel like a real “Starboy” by wearing the new timepiece from Hegid and Hervet Manufacturier. The two companies, the latter of which was co-founded by Daft Punk‘s former artistic director Cédric Hervet alongside his cousin Nicolas, have partnered to create a “retro-futuristic” watch with an aesthetic akin to the legendary robots’ helmets. Jérôme Coste, the artistic director for Hegid, a French watchmaking studio, called upon the Hervets to design the spacetime-inspired “Celeste” timepiece. With a frame designed to replicate a “radar dial,” the watch, Hegid says, was “made to match inter-galactic explorers’ helmets and gloves in style.” “Celeste is a mysterious, geometric and uncompromising ...
Combining soothing soundscapes with mesmerizing melodies, Nils Hoffmann’s latest release is a stunner. The Berlin-based producer has returned to Anjunadeep with a new single, “Let Me Go” (with TENDER), which coincides with the launch of a brand new chapter in his blossoming career. Directly following his recent double-single “9 Days / Cranes,” the new track is the first taste of its 26-year-old creator’s sophomore album, A Radiant Sign. “Let Me Go” masterfully blends Hoffmann and TENDER’s production styles while juxtaposing minimal bridge sections with cathartic drops. Tastefully drawing from their inspirations, they interpolate potent analog synths and warm low end frequencies to curate a heady dance record. Take a listen to “Let Me Go” below. Scroll to Co...
Panda Bear, founding member of Animal Collective, and Sonic Boom, founding member of Spaceman 3, have announced the new collaborative album, Reset. It’s out August 12th, and as a preview, the experimental pop auteurs have shared lead single “Go On.” According to a statement, Bear and Boom (real names Noah Lennox and Peter Kember) met over MySpace in the mid-aughts, after the former thanked Spaceman 3 in the liner notes of his solo album, Person Pitch. They’ve been collaborating since Panda Bear’s 2011 album Tomboy, and six years ago Kember moved to Portugal, in part to be closer to Lennox. Work on Reset began around the same time as the first wave of pandemic lockdowns, with Sonic Boom pulling loops out of his vinyl collection while Panda Bear added singi...
Listen via: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Pandora | Stitcher | Google | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Mia Berrin — leader of former Artists of the Month Pom Pom Squad — joins the Going There podcast to discuss the bias that “mental health” means always feeling and acting happy, calm, and confident. Advertisement The world would have us believe that being “normal” involves continuous positive and optimistic thinking, and being accepted or popular socially. If we don’t behave this way, our mental health and well-being can be questioned. This bias can create a stigma whereby people are unduly judged or criticized. Berrin explains that she took on these societal standards by evoking the image of a cheerleader in h...
The Smile unveiled a new song called “Bending Hectic” during their set on Tuesday, July 12th at the Montreux Jazz Festival in Switzerland. The trio, comprised of Radiohead’s Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood and Sons of Kemet drummer Tom Skinner, also performed a number of fresh cuts that have debuted throughout their ongoing inaugural tour. “Bending Hectic” was revealed during the band’s encore, with Yorke telling the crowd they wouldn’t know the words “because I just wrote them about half an hour ago.” That introduction has become a common refrain during The Smile’s tour as the nascent group has quickly built a sizable cache of new songs. The Smile’s 2022 tour, in support of their debut album A Light for Attracting Attention, wraps its first leg in Europe next week. After a l...