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Basscon’s Wasteland Festival Is Returning to SoCal With a Revamped, Mind-Blowing Stage
Wasteland has long been the crown jewel of Basscon, and to celebrate the return of the brand’s flagship festival, organizers are pulling no punches by debuting a redesigned stage production in 2022. Check out a digital render of the mind-blowing stage below. Render of Wasteland’s 2022 festival stage. c/o Insomniac Events It’s no myth that Insomniac is home to a diverse range of envelope-pushing brands within the EDM ecosystem. This year, Basscon—the company’s dedicated hard dance brand—has brought in Headhunterz, Sub Zero Project, Lady Faith, and many more hardstyle favorites. Wasteland is scheduled to kick off on Friday, February 25th at San Bernardino’s NOS Events Center. You can purchase tickets here. Recommended Articles Basscon&#...
Over 70 DJs to Perform at Virtual Charity Rave for Rare Genetic Disease Therapies
If you’re going to rave, why not do it with a purpose? Cure Rare Disease, a nonprofit biotechnology research organization, is hosting a four-day streaming event to raise awareness and research funding to develop therapies for rare genetic diseases. Supported by Logitech’s Streamlabs Charity, Rare Rave 2022 will feature over 70 DJs and electronic music artists from 17 countries. Rare Rave 2022 will kick off on Friday, February 25th and conclude on the 28th, which the U.S. recognizes as Rare Disease Day. Donations from viewers tuning into the virtual fest will fund the development of life-saving therapies for rare diseases, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a severe disorder with a median life expectancy of only 22 years. According to a press release shared with EDM.com, Cure ...
BRUJERIA Announces Spring 2022 U.S. Tour
Extreme metallers BRUJERIA have announced their “Raza Odiada West America Tour 2022”. The 18-date Southwest trek will kick off on April 26 in Mesa, Arizona, and make stops in Albuquerque, Dallas, and Tucson before concluding on May 15 in Palmdale, California. Support on the tour will come from GOATWHORE and UNIDAD TRAUMA. Juan Brujo comments: “Regresando desmadre Post-Covid! Esto es Brujeria!” General admission tickets for the tour are now on sale. Confirmed dates for BRUJERIA‘s “Raza Odiada West America Tour 2022” with GOATWHORE and UNIDAD TRAUMA are as follows: Apr. 26 – Nile Theater – Mesa, AZ Apr. 27 – Launchpad – Albuquerque, NM Apr. 28 – Jake’s – Lubbock, TX Apr. 29 – Scout Bar – Houston, ...
MIKKEY DEE To Lead MOTÖRHEAD Tribute Concert In Sweden This July
On July 23, Mikkey Dee will take part in a special “tribute to MOTÖRHEAD” concert at Mellby Horsepower in Laholm, Sweden. This “unique” gig will feature the former MOTÖRHEAD and current SCORPIONS drummer and as-yet-undisclosed “friends” performing MOTÖRHEAD classics. For more information, click here. In a 2021 interview with the “Waste Some Time With Jason Green” video podcast, Mikkey said that MOTÖRHEAD frontman Ian “Lemmy” Kilmister refused to quit touring in the weeks leading up to his death, even when his health was clearly deteriorating. “We played the last show the 11th of December [of 2015] in Berlin, and he passed just [two] weeks later,” Mikkey recalled (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “And that tel...
MESHUGGAH Drops Music Video For New Single ‘The Abysmal Eye’
Swedish extreme tech-metal pioneers MESHUGGAH have released the official music video for “The Abysmal Eye”, the first single from their upcoming ninth studio album, “Immutable”. You can now watch the Scott Hansen-directed clip below. Due on April 1 via Atomic Fire, the follow-up to 2016’s “The Violent Sleep Of Reason” was recorded at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden; mixed by Rickard Bengtsson and Staffan Karlsson; and mastered by multiple Grammy Award winner Vlado Meller (METALLICA, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, SYSTEM OF A DOWN). Visionary artist Luminokaya once again created the stunning cover artwork. Full of surprises and yet instantly recognizable as the work of metal’s most idiosyncratic force, “Immutable&...
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Drummer Says Making ‘Perdida’ Album Was An ‘Amazing And ‘Cathartic Process’
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS drummer Eric Kretz spoke to Australia’s “Everblack” podcast about “Perdida”, the group’s first-ever acoustic album, which came out in February 2020. Asked if the follow-up effort will see him and his bandmates returning to the heavier sounds of STP‘s earlier releases, the 55-year-old musician said: “On every STP record, we’ve always had one or maybe two songs that had that kind of vibe to it — where it was just softer and kind of acoustic based. And I think it was, like, ‘Let’s just do a whole album like that — have some fun and do something different.’ And it was an amazing and it was a cathartic process to record it because it was a whole different thing… It was really trying to do more with less ...
Oak View Group Rebrands Facilities Division as OVG360, to Launch New Suite of Services
Months after finalizing the purchase of Spectra, Tim Leiweke‘s Oak View Group has rebranded its OVG Facilities division as OVG360 and announced plans to launch a new suite of services for its venue management and hospitality clients. The news comes after six years of rapid growth across Oak View Group in partnership with music executive Irving Azoff and private equity firm Silver Lake, going from six employees in 2015 to more than 25,000 employees and more than $5.3 billion in deployed capital across nine projects, including the recently opened Savannah Enmarket Arena in Georgia. Last year, Oak View Group opened the $1.2 billion, 18,100-seat Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle as well as UBS Arena, a $1.1 billion multi-purpose, state-of-the-art arena located on the grounds of Belmont Park in E...
‘Broadway Bares’ Benefit Sets Live Onstage Return for June
Broadway is back, and so too is the long-running Broadway Bares spectacular. The annual, one night only charity burlesque show will return — live, onstage and in-person — for its 30th anniversary celebration on June 26 at the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York. For the last two years, COVID-19 sidelined the show to a virtual event. The theme for 2022 Broadway Bares show will be announced at a later date, along with any special guests that may take the stage. Previous installments of the show have included appearances from musicians like Billy Porter, Vanessa Williams, Cyndi Lauper and Adam Lambert. The extravaganza is a showcase for the dancers of Broadway and New York, and in 2019, more than 200 performers took the stage. The 2022 show will be directed by Laya Barak, who also helmed the 201...
Who Gets Paid for a Stream?
Over a trillion times a year, somebody streams a song within the United States and sets in motion the process of paying royalties to the rights holders and creators responsible for the music. Each individual payment is minute — usually less than a cent — but for the most popular songs, royalties can add up to millions of dollars in a single year. Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” for example, which was 2021’s most-streamed song in the U.S., according to MRC Data, earned her, its songwriters and its various rights holders about $4 million, Billboard estimates. Exactly how each involved party is paid varies, but the recipients are the same: record label, performing artist, songwriter, music publisher and an intermediary or two. Both the sound recording and its underlying musical work receive royaltie...
Why Snoop Dogg’s Death Row Deal Won’t Include 2Pac and Dr. Dre, Lizzo Talks New Album & More Top Stories | Billboard News
Snoop Dogg won’t get 2Pac and Dr. Dre in his new deal, Lizzo talks new music and we catch up with legendary rocker Sting. Plus, Megan Thee Stallion calls out Tory Lanez, a look at Kelly Clarkson’s latest cover and your chart update. This is Billboard News for Thursday, Feb. 24. [flexi-common-toolbar] [flexi-form class=”flexi_form_style” title=”Submit to Flexi” name=”my_form” ajax=”true”][flexi-form-tag type=”post_title” class=”fl-input” title=”Title” value=”” required=”true”][flexi-form-tag type=”category” title=”Select category”][flexi-form-tag type=”tag” title=”Insert tag”][flexi-form-tag type=”article” class=”fl-tex...
A Decade Under Spotify’s Streaming Influence
Welcome to New Retro Week, a celebration of the biggest artists, hits, and cultural moments that made 2012 a seminal year in pop. MTV News is looking back to see what lies ahead: These essays showcase how today’s blueprint was laid a decade ago. Step into our time machine. When Spotify hit the United States in the summer of 2011, it arrived with a cavalcade of enthusiasm. “Finally” and “at last” were used in headlines announcing its launch. An NPR explainer laid out why the moment marked a milestone in the digital music era, describing Spotify’s “huge catalog of music that can be streamed, combined into playlists and accessed from any computer with an Internet connection, all for free.” The New York Times went much pithier: “New Service Offers Music in Quantity, Not by Song.” Through ...
Denzel Curry Releases New Single ‘Zatoichi’
Denzel Curry has shared his latest single, “Zatoichi,” featuring slowthai. On the song, Curry’s verses are laid over a powerful drum and bass instrumental. “Zatoichi” is also accompanied by a music video inspired by the Japanese samurai movie character Walkin and the film Kill Bill Vol. 2. As Curry transitions away from his era of theatrical characters and alter egos, we see a new creative side of him that was once veiled. [embedded content][embedded content] For his upcoming album, Melt My Eyez See Your Future, Curry is attempting to hit a different note with audiences. The rapper says: “I like traditional hip hop, I like drum and bass, I like trap, I like poetry, so a lot of that is going to be interwoven in this album including jazz and a lot of genres that I came up on as a kid and jus...
