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The Ultimate European EDM Festival Tour for Summer 2022
Sadly, summer has come and gone. But there’s always next summer. While you may have been able to squeeze in a music fest or two close to home this year, festivals across Europe felt the wrath of COVID-19, navigating the pitfalls of countless postponements and cancellations. Despite the hardships, major European events are setting their sites on 2022 and it looks like a promising summer for the return of international music festivals. We’ve put together the ultimate 30-day electronic music European tour for 2022, plus our firsthand recommendations on how to travel to them on a budget. Travel Europe has one of the best train systems in the world. It’s fast, cheap and comfortable. Traveling from country to country can be stressful and tiring—and you’re going to wa...
Juelz On His “Paradise Lost” Concept Album, Working With RL Grime, and the Future of Trap Music
After almost two years without playing a show in his hometown fast-rising, Vancouver-based electronic music producer Juelz threw down at the city’s beloved FVDED in The Park music festival. EDM.com sat down with Juelz to chat about his meteoric rise and the future of trap music. EDM.com: So how are you feeling? You just rocked your second set at FVDED. Yeah, it was my second time playing FVDED, it’s been like three or four years since I played it last. Lots of shit has changed since. It feels good to be here, this is like my first hometown show in like a longtime. EDM.com: Speaking of that, you’ve been playing all over the place. When was your first show back from COVID-19 and how has it been on your various tour dates? First show back was at the Brownies & Lemonade fes...
Juelz On His “Paradise Lost” Concept Album, Working With RL Grime, and the Future of Trap Music
After almost two years without playing a show in his hometown fast-rising, Vancouver-based electronic music producer Juelz threw down at the city’s beloved FVDED in The Park music festival. EDM.com sat down with Juelz to chat about his meteoric rise and the future of trap music. EDM.com: So how are you feeling? You just rocked your second set at FVDED. Yeah, it was my second time playing FVDED, it’s been like three or four years since I played it last. Lots of shit has changed since. It feels good to be here, this is like my first hometown show in like a longtime. EDM.com: Speaking of that, you’ve been playing all over the place. When was your first show back from COVID-19 and how has it been on your various tour dates? First show back was at the Brownies & Lemonade fes...
Actor and Anti-Vaxxer Kristy Swanson Hospitalized with COVID-19
Kristy Swanson, who played Buffy in the 1992 movie Buffy the Vampire Slayer and who has recently devoted her social media feed to slamming Dr. Fauci, questioning the legality and effectiveness of mask mandates, and suggesting that COVID-19 vaccines are responsible for the deaths of children, has been hospitalized with COVID-19. “Prayers for me please,” Swanson wrote in a Tweet on November 1st. “Yesterday I took an ambulance ride to the hospital. I’m still here with pneumonia, I’m on oxygen etc, all covid related of course. I’m in good spirits and in great hands.” She added, “I was just at the tail end of my Covid diagnosis when it jumped into my lungs. So they are treating me with Baricitinib & blood thinners so I don’t clot. I’m ok.” Many well wishers on Twitter and Instagra...
Here’s What Went Down at Rolling Loud NYC 2021
When it comes to crafting largescale hip hop and rap concerts, Tariq Cherif and Matt Zingler, the co-founders of the global music festival Rolling Loud, are among the most tapped in the industry. For Halloween weekend 2021, the three-day event made its way back to NYC’s Citi Field for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, allowing 80,000 plus fans to witness electrifying performances from some of hip hop’s biggest emcees. Spread across the Queens venue were three stages — Deleón, Audiomack and Punx — where excited fans gathered for high-energy performances. Colorful and interactive installations added to the ambiance and included a swing ride, a haunted house hosted by 300 Entertainment, a massive Rolling Loud welcome gate adorned with giant blow-up aliens, a skatepark, a half basket...
Slash, Myles Kennedy, and Two Conspirators All Contracted COVID-19 While Recording New Album
Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators took extra precautions while recording their upcoming album, 4. Unfortunately, that didn’t stop most of them from contracting COVID-19 during the process. The Guns N’ Roses guitarist reveals in a new interview that he, Kennedy, and two of the Conspirators all were infected with COVID-19 despite purposely not traveling commercially en route to the studio. “The funniest story about this record was the COVID story, because we took a tour bus to Nashville to keep ourselves safe — to get there and not travel commercially,” Slash told Germany’s Radio Regenbogen (as transcribed by Blabbermouth). “And then we went and recorded the whole record, and then I got a phone call from Myles in the studio when I was about to do overdubs, and he goes, ‘Man,...
Adele’s 30 Tracklist Includes Relatable Song Titled “I Drink Wine”
Adele, she’s just like us — in one way, at least. Today, the tracklist for her upcoming album, 30, popped up on the listing for Target’s exclusive deluxe edition, and it revealed her alcoholic drink of choice: wine. In addition to “I Drink Wine,” there are dramatic song titles like “Cry Your Heart Out,” “Oh My God,” and “Can I Get It.” The record also includes an interlude called “All Night Parking” crediting jazz pianist and composer Erroll Garner, as well as a Target exclusive alternate version of her lead single, “Easy on Me,” with Chris Stapleton. Check out Adele’s 30 tracklist below. In a statement on her website announcing the record, Adele described the process of working on 30, which emotionally paralleled her recovery from divorce. “I’ve learned a lot of blistering home ...
The Boondock Saints III Announced with Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery
And Shepards they shall be: Norman Reedus and Sean Patrick Flanery will reunite for The Boondock Saints III, a sequel to The Boondock Saints (1999) and The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009). As Deadline reports, Troy Duffy, who wrote and directed the first installments, returns to the director’s chair with a script co-written by Flanery. The franchise began with a violent revelation in 1999, as fraternal twins Connor McManus (Flanery) and Murphy MacManus (Reed) decided to rid Boston of crime after killing a pair of Russian mobsters in self-defense. The sequel found them returning to their hometown after being framed for a crime they hadn’t committed, and it ended with them locked in prison. Film three will be produced by Impossible Dream Entertainment,...
The Recording Academy and OneOf announce Grammy Awards partnership
The Recording Academy and OneOf, a green nonfungible token (NFT) marketplace backed by legendary record producer Quincy Jones, have announced an exclusive partnership centered around the next three years of Grammy Awards in an unsigned statement on the Grammys website. Details on specific NFT collections will be released in January but will celebrate both the awards themselves and nominees and recipients. Some of the money from the sale of the assets will go toward funding the Recording Academy scholarship fund. OneOf, built on the Tezos blockchain, is specifically designed with musicians and listeners in mind. Panos Panay, co-president of the Recording Academy, said: “As an Academy, we are always looking for ways to help artists discover new forms of creative expression, while a...
10 Cool New Pop Songs to Get You Through The Week: Conan Gray, Amy Allen, Poo Bear & More
Alt-pop star Conan Gray hasn’t missed yet with his series of 2021 singles, from the dance-inspired “Overdrive” to the more tender “People Watching” and more. His latest release, the twinkling and racing “Telepath” continues his winning streak with a song that features Gray harmonizing with himself while relaying his feelings about an ex coming back around. — Lyndsey Havens BENEE, “Doesn’t Matter” New Zealand’s rising pop star BENEE is back with a slow-burning acoustic ballad “Doesn’t Matter,” which sounds as if its looped production was built around an old Mac DeMarco riff. But in the absence of the vibrant punchiness behind breakout hit “Supalonely,” BENEE’s talents as a vocalist and lyricist shi...
Why ‘White Christmas’ Struck a Chord In WWII: ‘Hollywood Victory’ Book Excerpt
By October 31 it was number one on Billboard. And it stayed there until Tommy Dorsey’s “There Are Such Things” dethroned it on January 16, though it would top the charts again over the holidays in following years. On November 16 it also topped the CBS radio show Your Hit Parade’s weekly chart of the nation’s most popular songs and would remain at number one for an unprecedented ten weeks. Not a carol exactly, certainly not a religious song, “White Christmas” brought nostalgia into mainstream culture like nothing else ever quite had. It was inevitable then that it became the biggest single of all time—fifty million recordings sold of both the 1942 version and Crosby’s 1947 rerecording, which was necessary because the master cylinder of the original was nearly worn down, it had been copied s...
Utopia Music Acquires Lyric Financial Amid Surge of Investment in Independent Music
Utopia Music’s strengths play well with Lyric Financial’s data analysis to determine the amount of financing it can provide an artist. Its core product is an online platform for creators, rights holders and collection societies that tracks global usage data and maximizes a catalog’s revenues — its tagline is “fair pay for every play.” A separate service for investors helps them value and assess risk when acquiring a recording or publishing catalog. In September, Utopia acquired artificial intelligence startup Musimap to improve recordings’ metadata — information about performers, songwriters and rights owners that requires accuracy for the parties to be paid properly. Investors and the companies they back are increasingly funding artists who look to Chance the Rapper, who put three a...
