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World Club Dome: Winter Edition Set for Big 2022 Return With Axwell, Boris Brejcha, More
Almost three years since its last fest in Düsseldorf, World Club Dome: Winter Edition is finally making its long-awaited return to the Merkur Spiel-Arena. The brainchild of BigCityBeats—the long-running German label, radio show and event company—World Club Dome has been taking the world by storm for nearly two decades now. With their expert production and curation, BigCityBeats has taken the brand to Asia, Hollywood and the Caribbean, and even into space back in 2019 in collaboration with the European Space Agency. World Club Dome: Winter Edition is coming to Düsseldorf December 16-17 with a staggering lineup, which features over 150 artists. Curated within its enormous arena, the festival also spans an impressive 15 stages. World Club Dome: Winter Edition c/o World Club Dome Scroll to Con...
EDM.com’s Best of 2022: Performances & DJ Sets
EDM.com proudly publishes four installments of annual year-end coverage: Industry Leaders, Performances, Music Producers and Songs. To honor their creativity and deeply influential work to challenge the boundaries of performance, we’ve recognized 10 of the year’s best sets from around the electronic music world. Alison Wonderland Alvarado Laundry, Los Angeles If you asked us to think of a rarer show than a rave with Alison Wonderland in a laundromat, our hands would be Tide. In celebration of her remarkable third album, Loner, the superstar DJ and singer-songwriter rinsed out a slew of filthy tracks live from a vacant L.A. laundromat. Organized by Brownies & Lemonade, the pie-in-the-sky performance was attended by less than 100 people, who raved away as strobe l...
MDLBEAST Welcomes 600,000 Fans to Rave the Night Away at Soundstorm Festival
You can do a lot with over 5 million square meters of festival space. Just ask MDLBEAST, the Saudi Arabian entertainment company behind the massive Soundstorm festival. According to a press release shared with EDM.com, they welcomed over 600,000 people to the capital of Riyadh for the giant festival, which they’ve dubbed “the loudest week in the Middle East.” The three-day Soundstorm fest was the culmination of a weeklong celebration of music via MDLBEAST’s XP Music Futures conference. Perhaps the festival’s most notable feat was BIG BEAST, the largest of its seven stages at a towering height of 135.5 feet. It’s here where a slew of electronic music superstars threw down electrifying DJ sets, including Tiësto, DJ Snake, Swedish House Mafia, R3HAB and Dav...
Eddie Murphy Keeps Jonah Hill On His Toes In New Trailer To ‘You People’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Netflix / Netflix Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy might be the comedy duo we never knew we needed as in the new trailer to Kenya Barris’ You People, the two seem to have some special chemistry with each other in the few short seconds they shared. Source: Netflix / Netflix Basically an interracial version of Meet The Parents, Hill finds himself head over heels for Lauren London but first has to convince her parents, Eddie Murphy and Nia Long that he’s a good man at heart and only wants the best for their daughter. Still, Murphy has to counter with skepticism and asks, “So do you hang out in the hood all the time or do you just come up here for our food and women?” Related Stories That is a legit question for Hill especially with that hipster looking hairstyle ...
HHW Gaming: Microsoft Commits To 10-Year Deal With Nintendo For ‘Call of Duty,’ Gamers React
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Infinity Ward / Call of Duty Microsoft really wants this Activision deal to happen and to ensure it does. The company has reached a 10-year agreement with Nintendo to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo consoles. It’s been nine years since the world’s most popular game, not called Fortnite, was on a Nintendo console, but that has all changed thanks to Microsoft’s acquisition of Activision, currently walking on thin ice. To prove to regulators that Microsoft is not trying to keep the competition from being able to compete, the company agreed to a 10-year deal with Nintendo to bring Call of Duty to Nintendo consoles if the Activision Blizzard acquisition clears the hurdles in front of it. Microsoft has also agreed to bring Call of Duty games to Steam on th...
A$AP Rocky “Sh*ttin Me,” Meek Mill ft. Fridayy “Don’t Give Up On Me” & More | Daily Visuals 12.6.22
HipHopWired Featured Video After taking a little break to play daddy daycare with his newborn son, A$AP Rocky seems ready to get back on his grizzly and Source: Manny Hernandez / Getty churn out some new work now that he has a new mouth to feed (though with Rihanna as his baby mama we’re sure the child won’t starve). Coming through with some new visuals to “Sh*ttin Me,” Pretty Flacko takes an office job only to emasculate his co-workers before hitting the road with his homie and getting a tad bit too turnt up. Meek Mill meanwhile seems to be living his life regardless of the hate he garners on social media and in his Fridayy assisted clip to “Don’t Give Up On Me” Meek shows everyone how fulfilling his life is whether he’s on stage or just rolling with his peoples through the cities they vi...
Alex G Plays NPR “Tiny Desk Concert”: Watch
Alex G stopped by the NPR offices for a “Tiny Desk Concert,” performing four tracks from his catalog. With his band, he performed “Runner” and “Miracles” from September’s God Save the Animals, “Gretel” from 2019’s House of Sugar, and “Snot” from 2015’s Beach Music. The band featured guitarist and vocalist Samuel Acchione, bassist and vocalist John Heywood, drummer Thomas Kelly, and violinist and pianist Molly Germer. Check out the performance below. Read about Alex G’s “Runner” at No. 4 on Pitchfork’s “The 100 Best Songs of 2022.” Plus, learn more about God Save the Animals at No. 10 on “The 50 Best Albums of 2022.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Eddie Murphy Keeps Jonah Hill On His Toes In New Trailer To ‘You People’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Netflix / Netflix Jonah Hill and Eddie Murphy might be the comedy duo we never knew we needed as in the new trailer to Kenya Barris’ You People, the two seem to have some special chemistry with each other in the few short seconds they shared. Source: Netflix / Netflix Basically an interracial version of Meet The Parents, Hill finds himself head over heels for Lauren London but first has to convince her parents, Eddie Murphy and Nia Long that he’s a good man at heart and only wants the best for their daughter. Still, Murphy has to counter with skepticism and asks, “So do you hang out in the hood all the time or do you just come up here for our food and women?” Related Stories That is a legit question for Hill especially with that hipster looking hairstyle ...
The Flaming Lips Announce 2023 West Coast Tour
The Flaming Lips will tour the West Coast of North America in 2023. Billed as An Evening With the Flaming Lips, the career-spanning, two-hour shows kick off in Vancouver next year before the band make their way down toward Santa Barbara. Check out the dates below. Last month, the Flaming Lips reissued Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in a 20th-anniversary edition, both digitally and on CD. A 5xLP version of the reissue is out next April. The band will also perform Yoshimi in its entirety at a handful of dates next spring. All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. An Evening With the Flaming Lips West Coast Tour 2023 An Evening With the Flaming Lips: 02-28 Vancou...
The Flaming Lips Announce 2023 West Coast Tour
The Flaming Lips will tour the West Coast of North America in 2023. Billed as An Evening With the Flaming Lips, the career-spanning, two-hour shows kick off in Vancouver next year before the band make their way down toward Santa Barbara. Check out the dates below. Last month, the Flaming Lips reissued Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots in a 20th-anniversary edition, both digitally and on CD. A 5xLP version of the reissue is out next April. The band will also perform Yoshimi in its entirety at a handful of dates next spring. All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. An Evening With the Flaming Lips West Coast Tour 2023 An Evening With the Flaming Lips: 02-28 Vancou...
Ukrainian Composer Heinali Announces New Album Kyiv Eternal, Shares Song: Listen
Ukrainian composer Oleh Shpudeiko has announced a new album under his electronic moniker Heinali: Kyiv Eternal is out February 24 via Injazero. The LP is a tribute to Ukraine and the city he loves. Listen to the album’s title song below. “After the Battle of Kyiv was over, many Kyivites noticed this strange feeling,” said Shpudeiko in a statement. “It was as if the city was alive, breathing. We wanted to hug it, to protect every inch of it from harm. I didn’t know how to do it back then. It took time and distance to figure it out, but Kyiv Eternal is my hug.” Kyiv Eternal spans 11 songs in total. The album artwork features a photo of a monument to Petro Konashevych-Sahaidachny—a 16th-century Ukrainian political, military, and civic leader—wrapped up to protect it from the Russian bombs. “K...
Lana Del Rey Announces New Album, Shares New Song: Listen
Lana Del Rey has announced her new album, Did You Know That There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd, and shared its title song. The follow-up to Blue Banisters is out March 10 via Interscope. The cover artwork lists various album contributors, including producers Jack Antonoff, Drew Erickson, Zach Dawson, as well as guests Jon Batiste, Father John Misty, and Tommy Genesis, engineer Laura Sisk, and others. Find the new song below. In 2021, Lana Del Rey shared a pair of new records, Chemtrails Over the Country Club and Blue Banisters. With the release of the second LP, she set a new record for the most No. 1 albums on Billboard’s Alternative Albums chart. The musician has more recently released the Euphoria song “Watercolor Eyes” and covered Father John Misty’s “Buddy’s Rendezvous.” Earlier this f...
