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Nicky Romero Joins Forces With Rising Protocol Artist Timmo Hendriks for “Into the Light”
Since the inception of Dutch DJ Nicky Romero’s Protocol Recordings in 2012, the imprint has blossomed into a multi-faceted brand with its radio show receiving over 40 million listeners every week. For his newest track “Into The Light,” Romero collaborated with Protocol’s very own Timmo Hendriks. The track uplifts and inspires with beautiful piano chords and the crisp vocals of David Shane, who croons about a “paradise you’ll find” if you “step into the light.” After a gradual and heavenly build up, the drop thrusts into a victorious progressive house drop with an upbeat chord melody and potent kicks. The tune truly feels like paradise. Romero has been pumping out impactful, high-quality music for over a decade. His most notable pieces are “I Could Be The One” with Avicii, ...
Armin van Buuren’s Full Tomorrowland NYE Set Hits Streaming Platforms
If you tuned into Tomorrowland‘s star-studded New Year’s Eve virtual festival, odds are you saw Armin van Buuren rip it on the Melodia stage. For those who weren’t able to catch the massive streaming event, the trance legend has now shared his full set on streaming platforms. van Buuren’s performance was nothing short of breathtaking. He cycled through a whirlwind of his own trance hits, such as “Euthymia,” the festival favorite “Blah Blah Blah,” and Ilan Bluestone and Maor Levi‘s remix of “In And Out Of Love.” He also dropped the curtain on a huge unreleased ID, which many fans believe is a collaboration with MORTEN. “To end 2020 on a high note despite all the lockdown struggles, I set out to celeb...
Nitepunk’s Wild Breakbeat Track “Flow” Gets a Habstrakt House Twist
Nitepunk released “Flow” as his first single on the HARD RECS label just last month, making a splash on the fan-favorite electronic music imprint. The original track showcased a set of inventive breakbeat production skills, proving that Nitepunk has a lot to offer the dance music scene. Last year, Nitepunk remixed Habstrakt‘s “The One” and he was not the only artist to do so, joining the likes of fellow bass heavyweights NGHTMRE, Basstrick, Asdek, Effin, and Unlovable. This year, the roles have been reversed. Habstrakt, the renowned French bass house producer, has decided to give “Flow” his own unique spin. Habstrakt—the french house mainstay artist—has been on a roll as of late, releasing tracks on Never Say Di...
SPIN Daybreaker: 21 Artists Breaking Into 2021
Last year had 2,020 problems, but music thankfully wasn’t one of them. The time has come to venture into a new year of discovering the unknown. The time to discover more artists you love, songs that move you from the inside out, and most importantly, yourself. We’re ecstatic to be kicking off a new year of SPIN Daybreaker in 2021 with 21 new artists who blasted into the new year, ready to make their mark. This week’s edition with a medley of genre-defying rising artists that quickly have set the tone for what’s to come. Standouts this week include: dynamic vocalist Lilly Carron who carries her own in the vibe-packed, “Superhuman.”, indie heartthrob Ryan Woods who lays his heart out in “how i’m feeling.” and Sacramento-based band Madi Sipes & The Painted Blue who whisk you away in...
Rage Against the Machine Unveil Killing in Thy Name Documentary About ‘the Fiction Known as Whiteness’
If you were waiting for Rage Against the Machine to collectively chime in with their take on the modern revival of old-fashioned racism (which has always been there, but is far more prevalent in society now than it was five years ago), your day has come. Arguably the most politically charged band of all time has just released a short documentary called Killing in Thy Name in order to serve as “a fire escape from the fiction known as whiteness and a spring for discovery.” Of course, the film utilizes plenty of the band’s “Killing in the Name” as a soundtrack and reference, while the material itself goes into an explanation about how people who now consider themselves “white” have actually come from a wide variety of backgrounds and committed no shortage of atrocities over the cent...
Zayn’s Nobody Is Listening Has A Song For Every Mood
By Ashley Oken Zayn’s eagerly awaited third album, Nobody’s Listening, is out today (January 15), and instead of the sprawling 90 minutes of 2018’s Icarus Falls or the pop maximalism of his 2016 debut, Mind of Mine, it scales back to focus on the singer’s deepest thoughts, including nostalgia, sexual desire, and heartbreak. It’s a tenacious yet delicate album full of stripped compositions and intimate lyrics, the kind that longtime fans need during a tumultuous time. Teasing new music for months before the release, Zayn dropped the early singles “Better” in September and “Vibez” three months later. The former hit the Billboard Hot 100 in October, while the latter set the tone for the rest of the album to come with its neo-soul vibe. On January 12, Zayn even launched a phone ...
Olivia Rodrigo’s Emotional Rite Of Passage, Taylor Swift’s Bonus Feels, And More Songs We Love
One of two bonus tracks on the deluxe edition of December’s Evermore, “Right Where You Left Me” transports listeners back to the fantastical forests of Folklore, Taylor Swift’s first foray into indie folk-pop. “Help, I’m still at the restaurant / Still sitting in a corner I haunt,” a forlorn Swift pleads in the pre-chorus, referencing a public breakup that left the song’s narrator permanently frozen in time. Folksy strings and self-aware lyrics underline tensions between the head and the heart, reality and fantasy, evolution and stagnation. It’s also a total earworm, which is to say: How dare you, Taylor! —Sam Manzella You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful p...
Watch FOO FIGHTERS Perform ‘Waiting On A War’ And ‘No Son Of Mine’ On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
FOO FIGHTERS performed the songs “Waiting On A War” and “No Son Of Mine” on last night’s (Thursday, January 14) episode of “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Watch video of their appearance below. “Waiting On A War” and “No Son Of Mine” are taken from FOO FIGHTERS‘ upcoming album, “Medicine At Midnight”, which will be released on February 5 via Roswell Records/RCA Records. The nine-song, 37-minute effort was produced by the FOO FIGHTERS and Greg Kurstin. If “Waiting On A War” seems to have an especially emotional heft to its lyrics, well, that’s because it does. Dave Grohl recounts the personal anecdote that inspired the song: “Last fall, as I was driving my daughter to school, she turned to me an...
Watch DIO Perform ‘Rainbow In The Dark’ From ‘Holy Diver Live’ Reissue
Niji Entertainment and BMG recently announced the first two albums in the DIO live album reissue series with “Evil Or Divine: Live In New York City” and “Holy Diver Live” on February 12. Fans can get another early listen with a track launched today, a live version of the classic “Rainbow In The Dark”. Wendy Dio, who has served as the curator of Dio‘s musical legacy and everything that relates to her late husband’s career (including the Ronnie James Dio hologram tour), says: “I am very excited to be working with BMG, a label that still has a passion for rock music. They will be making the complete DIO catalog available again with some interesting surprises.” “Evil Or Divine: Live In New York City” * Reissue of DIO‘...
Former THE BLACK CROWES Guitarist MARC FORD Says He Was Asked On Two Separate Occasions To Join GUNS N’ ROSES
During an appearance on the most recent episode of “The State Of Amorica: A Black Crowes Podcast”, former THE BLACK CROWES guitarist Marc Ford confirmed that the was approached twice about becoming a member of GUNS N’ ROSES. “I got asked to join that band a couple of different times,” he said (hear audio below). “Once when Axl [Rose] was still finishing that record that was taking forever,” apparently referring to GUNS‘ 2008 album “Chinese Democracy”. “Right about when I was about to make [my 2002 solo album] ‘It’s About Time’, I got offered to join that band. But the first time, I had just come back from a sort of ‘unofficial official,’ or whatever it was, joining of THE BLACK CROWES weekend in...
TESLA’s BRIAN WHEAT Doesn’t Think Rock Is Dead, But Admits ‘It’s Become More Of A Selective Thing’
TESLA bassist Brian Wheat has dismissed the notion that rock is dead, saying some of the biggest artists in the genre are still huge concert draws. While rock ‘n’ roll has been king of the music world for decades, in the past few years, it’s been unseated by the growing popularity of hip-hop. This has caused many pundits to proclaim the genre “dead” from an industry perspective, noting that it has been eclipsed in all measures by pop, hip-hop, and EDM. A few years ago, KISS bassist/vocalist Simmons told Esquire magazine that “rock did not die of old age. It was murdered. Some brilliance, somewhere, was going to be expressed and now it won’t because it’s that much harder to earn a living playing and writing songs. No one will pay you to do it....
Apparently Car Choirs Are a Thing Now Thanks to the Pandemic
What’s a choir to do when the pandemic makes it impossible to rehearse in person? If you ask Canadian chamber ensemble Luminous Voices, they’ll tell you the answer can be found in your car. As NPR reports, Luminous Voices have been gathering together and singing from inside their own cars. And no, they aren’t shouting out of their rolled-down windows — only irresponsible dummies like Kirk Cameron would do that. Instead, their voices are actually broadcast through each individual car’s radio system. Think of it like Fast & Furious: The Hymn Edition. College music professor David Newman first came up with the innovative “car choir” approach after seeing his Facebook friends “either bemoaning the fact that we couldn’t sing together at all, or saying ‘Singing together is too important and ...
