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What’s Your Favorite New Dance Project Out This Week? Vote!
To put it simply, there’s a ton of great new dance music out today. With releases from Disclosure, Bob Moses, Calvin Harris and The Weeknd, The Blessed Madonna and Dua Lipa and other dance world all stars, there are loads of new beats, builds and drops to dig into this weekend. Of all this heat, we want to know which project is making you tap your feet hardest. Let us know your favorite new dance project of the week by voting below! 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 people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Post Malone Takes Equity Stake in Envy Gaming
The partnership was revealed on Friday ahead of the ‘Call of Duty’ League Playoffs. Post Malone has taken an undisclosed equity stake in esports organization Envy Gaming. The partnership was revealed by the singer via social media on Friday ahead of the Call of Duty League playoffs this weekend. Malone is from North Texas, where Envy Gaming and its esports teams — including the Dallas Fuel, which competes in the Overwatch League, and the Dallas Empire, competing in the Call of Duty League — are based. “I grew up in Texas and I’ve been gaming my whole life, so this just really felt right,” said Malone in a statement. “I have always wanted to be a part of bringing gaming into the professional sports world, so to be involved wit...
Rick Astley Takes on Post Malone’s ‘Better Now’ With Acoustic Cover
Rick Astley has been spending quarantine uploading a variety of covers onto YouTube, but on Friday (Aug. 28), the “Never Gonna Give You Up” star took on an unlikely track for his latest at-home performance. There are a lot words in this song. It’s not my song. I don’t really know it properly, but I love it so I’m going to give it a go,” Astley admitted before delving into a stripped-back rendition of Post Malone‘s “Better Now” on acoustic guitar. Other covers on Astley’s channel include Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine,” Foo Fighters’ “Everlong” and Sia’s “Titanium.” Watch “Better Now” below. [embedded content] You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looki...
No ‘Useless Girl,’ Cazzu Talks Dinner With Alfonsina Storni & Feminism
The Argentine Singer released Una Niña Inutil today Rising trap artist Cazzu is in her home in Argentina, surrounded by her paintings and three cats: Mu, Elvira and Gary, a black-and-white kitty who likes to leap on her lap unannounced. Her hair is dyed red, a color that –coincidentally—matches the color scheme of the cover art of her new album, Una Niña Inútil (Useless Girl), which shows her wearing a checkered red schoolgirl skirt, with roses and masking tape covering her breasts. The album title and its contents were inspired by Diario de una niña inútil (Diary of a Useless Girl), a “diary” penned 100 years ago by Argentine feminist poet Alfonsina Storni in a subversive effort to defy the norms that dictated what women could write at the time. Cazzu, who at 26 years old has ...
Hardy Strictly Bluegrass Announces Relief Fund for Roots Musicians in the Bay Area
The long-running Hardly Strictly Bluegrass festival is shifting to a digital format this year and is now accepting applications from local musicians within the American roots music ecosystem in the Bay Area. The fund includes $450,000 for individual musicians’ relief and additional support for local music venues and their workers, part of a large $1.5 million charitable effort. “As we were weighing what do, there was a sense that we had to do something this year and not just take 2020 off because of the pandemic,” says Mick Hellman, whose father investment banker Warren Hellman created the free bluegrass festival in Golden Gate Park in 2001. “My family went all in on the festival following my father’s passing (in 2011) and the festival has grown to ov...
CNCO Dishes on New Single ‘Beso’ & Their ‘Cool’ 2020 VMAs Performance
CNCO is days away from making their first-ever mainstage performance at the 2020 MTV Video Music Awards but first, they have released new music for their beloved CNCOwners. On Friday (Aug. 28), the Latin boy band dropped their latest single “Beso,” flaunting their musical growth and maturity in the lyrics and infectious rhythms. “We had this song recorded about two years ago,” Christopher Velez tells Billboard. “Time passed, we recorded it, changed the beat, and fixed the little things that we didn’t like. It was a cool and very long process but we really loved the end result. It is a giant step for CNCO.” On Sunday (Aug. 31), the group, composed by Velez, Richard Camacho, Joel Pimentel, Erick Brian Colon, and Joel Pimentel, will debut the song at the VMAs, marking the first tim...
Blackpink Tease Upcoming Album, Talk Churning ‘Ice Cream’ With Selena Gomez: Watch
Selena Gomez and BLACKPINK hopped on the air with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe on Friday morning (Aug. 28) to talk about their superstar collab on “Ice Cream” and what a blast it was to blend their voices. “I’m so excited. The girls are so cool, and I love their music. I just think that they know… They have this thing about them… I had such a good time with them over FaceTime,” Gomez said in her video chat with Lowe. And while the original plan was for all of them to be together, but of course the COVID-19 pandemic changed all that. “But it felt so fun,” Gomez added, dipping into the fun she had filming the colorful, playful video for the track, which dropped Friday morning. “Recording the song, having a blast doing that, but then also...
JoJo Unveils Deluxe Edition of ‘Good to Know,’ Featuring ‘Lonely Hearts’ Demi Lovato Remix
JoJo‘s sassy, empowering Good to Know album got a new twist. The singer dropped the deluxe edition of her recent project on Friday (Aug. 28), featuring a number of new songs and remixes. The “Too Little Too Late” singer called on some of her fellow female acts to assist on some sultry songs, including Demi Lovato on “Lonely Hearts” and Tinashe on a new track called “Love Reggae.” However, one person who doesn’t appear on the project is Tory Lanez, who was featured on the original album with 30 Roc on “Comeback.” The news came last week, after Megan Thee Stallion confirmed that the rapper is the one who shot her in a recent incident. In a statement to Billboard, the singer said, “It felt like the righ...
Dua Lipa Welcomes You to ‘Club Future Nostalgia’ With New Remix Album: Stream It Now
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Dua Lipa is bringing the fun of a nightclub to the comfort of our socially distanced homes. The pop star dropped her Club Future Nostalgia remix album on Friday (Aug. 28), featuring fresh new spins on Future Nostalgia favorites. Most notably, the 17-track effort includes the epic “Levitating” remix by The Blessed Madonna, featuring Madonna and Missy Elliott. “I see her and I saw this album as a part of this whole history of subversive women in pop music,” The Blessed Madonna recently told Zane Lowe of Lipa’s music. “And for me, the great dance records are pop records and the great pop records are dance records and those things live together. And then to be able to have all of this content ...
Calvin Harris & The Weeknd Drop Their Collab ‘Over Now’: Listen
The Internet went on high alert last week when Calvin Harris and The Weeknd both shared cryptic but suggestive Instagram images that pointed to a forthcoming collab. Today (Aug.28) that track, “Over Now” is here. The song is deeply smooth, R&B-leaning breakup jam with flourishes of funk and synth shimmer that serves as base for The Weekend to deliver lyrics in which he implores his ex to stop calling. The video finds a digitally rendered and fairly psychedelic avatar of the singer dancing around a series of Web 1.0 landscapes that altogether have heavy aesthetic influences of Daft Punk, Gesaffelstein and Blade Runner. “Over Now” is the Scottish producer’s first release as Calvin Harris since his 2019 single “Giant” with Rag’n’Bone M...
Katy Perry Tells a Vintage Cartoon Love Story for New ‘Harleys in Hawaii’ Video
It’s been a busy week for Katy Perry. Not only has the pop star given birth to her fist child with Orlando Bloom, she’s also gearing up for the release of her fifth album Smile on Friday (Aug. 28). In the midst of it all, Perry has been delivering a number of creative clip for her Smile tracks, including the latest visual for “Harleys in Hawaii.” “Took my time capsule back to one of my favorite periods in animation and created a lil 1920s Hawaiian love story for you,” she tweeted earlier in the day, teasing the clip. The black-and-white cartoon vignette finds two Hawaiian lovers running away together with their new band of friends. Watch it below. [embedded content] You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we rei...
Alanis Morissette Needs Help Finding ‘Pretty Forks’ in Virtual Escape Room
In celebration of her No. 1 album Such Pretty Forks in the Road, Alanis Morissette invited a select few to a virtual escape room experience Thursday (Aug. 27) to find the prettiest fork in the room. Her ninth studio album topped Billboard‘s Top Rock Albums two weeks ago (chart dated Aug. 15) following its release on July 31. But the pressure was on to follow suit and come out victorious with the missing item from her recording studio. In the 15-minute simulation presented virtually by the Anaheim-based escape room center Mission Escape Games, Amy the sound engineer misplaced the prettiest fork, and it was up to us to find it so the famed singer-songwriter could finish her album. Morissette’s catalog lent itself nicely as various clues, from a poster of her H...
