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DJ-Themed DJenerates NFT Collection Partners With Moonwalk to Deliver Premium Dance Music Experiences
Dance music’s famous faces have been immortalized through the immutable power of blockchain technology. DJenerates, an NFT collection supported by many of dance music’s biggest names including Benny Benassi, Carl Cox, Maceo Plex, and Paul Oakenfold, is turning the likenesses of superstar DJs into NFTs. The collection of 10,000 avatars additionally incorporates algorithmically driven concatenations of hundreds of unique potential traits to develop a host of unique, nightlife-inspired characters. Following the collection’s season one release, which completely sold out in just four days, DJenerates is taking major steps to build community and utility around their tokens, starting with a partnership with Moonwalk. Moonwalk provides the digital infrastructure for NFT crea...
Watch ODESZA Rock Out In Cinematic Music Video for “The Last Goodbye”
ODESZA have dropped the latest crumb of the trail to a 2022 tour, a cinematic music video for their new single “The Last Goodbye.” ODESZA’s Clayton Knight and Harrison Mills perform the soulful track in the video, galvanizing fans and fueling speculation of a new tour, which has not yet been confirmed but is likely to be announced soon. The same goes for a new album, if today’s premiere is any indication. Livestreaming the video on YouTube, ODESZA built the hype in slow and painstaking fashion leading up to its premiere, intercutting snippets of ambient music with clips of the duo working in the studio. While they are yet to formally announce a new album—their first since 2017’s A Moment Apart—their activity in early 2021 has the feel of a smoke signal. Filmed...
Joe Rogan’s Spotify Deal Is Reportedly Worth Double What Was Originally Thought
Joe Rogan’s podcasting deal with Spotify was worth at least double previously believed, according to a report from The New York Times. On Thursday, The Times reported the streaming services’ exclusive arrangement with The Joe Rogan Experience was priced at “at least $200 million” for three and a half years, according to two anonymous sources — far exceeding the originally reported deal sum of more than $100 million. This puts the former Fear Factor host and comedian’s deal in the same ballpark as Spotify’s acquisition of entire audio studios — like Gimlet and Ringer — for slightly less than $200 million. The spending was all part of the company’s plan to become a premier destination for all audio content, not just music. Music, for the streaming service, has not proven to not incredib...
US Trade Rep Identifies 7 Online Platforms as Significant Threats to Music Creators
A U.S. government report highlighted the ongoing challenges that piracy poses to creators around the world, including from seven online platforms that pose significant threats in the music realm. The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR), in its 2021 Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy released Thursday (Feb. 17), identified 42 online markets and 25 physical markets that reportedly engage in or facilitate significant trademark counterfeiting or copyright piracy. The 2021 findings reflect a slight improvement over the 2020 report, which identified eight online threats to music creators. Last year’s list includes all the same sites listed this year in addition to Russian social media site VK. While VK is still listed in the 2021 report for its popularity in the...
Jack Harlow Returns With ‘Nail Tech’ & Yung Miami Stuns in the Music Video: Watch
Jack Harlow returns with his first solo single since 2020’s “Tyler Herro.” The hitmaker released his all-new song “Nail Tech” and its accompanying music video at midnight Friday (Feb. 18). He teased a snippet from the video via Instagram on Thursday, just hours before its release. In the 13-second shot, Harlow is seen walking into an upscale nail salon with surprise guest Yung Miami following closely behind him. “Nail Tech…tonight at midnight EST…I CANT WAIT,” he captioned his post. Also exciting for Harlow, he announced a partnership with New Balance ahead of the new single’s debut. The rapper will serve as brand ambassador for the sneaker line and debuted a new basketball shoe during Thursday’s Ruffles NBA All-Star Celebrity Game in Cleveland. Explore See latest videos, charts ...
NIGO & Kid Cudi Join Forces on ‘Want It Bad’: Stream It Now
NIGO has been keeping busy. First thing Friday (Feb. 18), the beloved fashion icon released the second single from his upcoming album, I Know NIGO. The track, “Want It Bad,” features Kid Cudi and was teased on the runway at NIGO’s Paris Fashion Week debut as artistic director of KENZO in January. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news On Tuesday, NIGO posted a video containing the track to his Instagram account, showing he and Cudi racing around a city at night and partying with friends. In the video, he tagged longtime collaborator and friend, Pharrell, also featured on the upcoming album. I Know NIGO will mark the 51-year-old Japanese tastemaker’s first solo album since 2000’s Ape Sounds. At the time, the now-fashion-icon had a much smaller followin...
Hurray for the Riff Raff: Life on Earth
Listening to Segarra’s stories, connections come alive, honoring another tenet of Emergent Strategy: “Transform yourself to transform the world.” Accordingly, Segarra threads Life on Earth with songs of self-reckoning, where electronics quake like new life about to spring. “Trying to avoid running into my ex on Broadway,” they sing on the brooding, skyscraping “Pierced Arrows,” knowing it takes work to not look back. On the lonesome “Nightqueen,” they sing of betraying their own heart in favor of an “addiction to freedom,” which proves futile. When they insist, over the slinking beat of “Jupiter’s Dance,” that they “can’t start a fire without my heart”—the restless spirit of Springsteen never too far off—it seems to say: access to one’s own emotions is the ultimate spark. Life on Earth’s f...
ED SHEERAN And BRING ME THE HORIZON Release Studio Version Of ‘Bad Habits’ Collaboration
Following on from their high-energy performance at last week’s BRIT Awards, Ed Sheeran and BRING ME THE HORIZON have released their alternate version of “Bad Habits”, out now on Atlantic Records. Sheeran and BRING ME THE HORIZON opened the BRIT Awards with their version of “Bad Habits”, which made waves across both fanbases, leading us to today’s track release. Sheeran says: “I really enjoyed the show last week and I think people will really like the new version. Excited to get it out.” BRING ME THE HORIZON‘s Oli Sykes says: “From receiving the email asking whether we’d like to open the BRITs with Ed Sheeran to us chatting and bouncing ideas to rehearsing and then performing and now releasing, this has, needless to say, been...
Legendary ALICE COOPER Manager SHEP GORDON Focus Of Latest Episode Of GIBSON TV’s ‘Icons’
Gibson TV, the iconic, American guitar maker’s award-winning, worldwide online network, features original series about music and culture from the world’s best storytellers. Gibson TV has premiered the latest episode of the show titled “Icons” — a longform interview series featuring some of the most iconic artists, producers, and music business pioneers in the world. In the new episode of “Icons” out today, Gibson TV sits down with legendary Alice Cooper manager Shep Gordon. There are those who tell stories and those who are storytellers; Gordon is neither. Shep is the storyteller. Lovingly known as “Supermensch,” he is one of the most influential and respected personalities in show business. In the newest chapter of “Icons”, Shep shares...
MEGADETH And LAMB OF GOD Announce Rescheduled Canadian Shows For ‘The Metal Tour Of The Year’
MEGADETH and LAMB OF GOD have announced the rescheduled Canadian shows as part of their “The Metal Tour Of The Year”. The dates, which were originally set to take place last fall, will now happen May 17-19 following the final shows of the 2022 U.S. leg of the trek. Tickets and VIP packages are on sale now and previously purchased tickets from the original concerts remain valid. The newly announced Canadian “The Metal Tour Of The Year” dates featuring MEGADETH, LAMB OF GOD, TRIVIUM and IN FLAMES are as follows: May 17 – Laval, QC – Place Bell May 18 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser Stage May 19 – Quebec City, QC – Centre Videotron “The Metal Tour Of The Year” was originally announced and planned for 2020 but was halted by the ...
Ex-MÖTLEY CRÜE Singer JOHN CORABI Blasts ‘Pam & Tommy’ Series: It’s ‘So Full Of Bulls**t, It’s Ridiculous’
Former MÖTLEY CRÜE singer John Corabi has blasted “Pam & Tommy”, Hulu‘s limited series about MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee‘s and “Baywatch” star Pamela Anderson‘s infamous leaked sex tape, saying everyone involved with the project should be ashamed. Sebastian Stan and Lily James star in the series as Lee and Anderson, while Seth Rogen also appears as the man who stole the tape, and produced with his partner Evan Goldberg. The series, which premiered on February 2, also stars Nick Offerman, Taylor Schilling, Andrew Dice Clay, Pepi Sonuga, Spencer Granese and Mozhan Marnò. Earlier today, Corabi, who joined CRÜE in 1992 as the replacement for the group’s original singer, Vince Neil, and stayed with the band for five years, took to his social...
Kanye Announces ‘DONDA 2’ Will Only Be Available on $200 USD Stem Player
With tickets for a special EXPERIENCE PERFORMANCE already available for the February 22 launch date, Kanye West has now announced that DONDA 2 will only be available on his Stem Player. Taking to Instagram, the YEEZY head revealed that the sequel to DONDA won’t appear on streaming platforms. Sharing a teaser of the album which shows a Stem Player playing a one-minute snippet, Ye wrote, “Donda 2 will only be available on my own platform, the Stem Player. Not on Apple Amazon Spotify or YouTube.” Going on to outline why he has made the decision to keep his upcoming project exclusive before sharing that the Stem Player is now available. “Today artists get just 12% of the money the industry makes. It’s time to free music from this oppressive system. It’s time to take control and build our own.”...
