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Liv.e Announces New Album Girl in the Half Pearl
Liv.e is set to return with her second album: Girl in the Half Pearl is due out February 10 via In Real Life. The follow-up to Couldn’t Wait to Tell You will include a new song called “Wild Animals,” which arrives with an accompanying video. Check it out below. “I really love the process of coming up with a vision and doing my best to ensure that it will come out just as it was in my imagination,” Liv.e shared in a statement. “I tend to use almost all my practices as another way to strengthen my trust and belief in myself. The concept is just based on the release of letting go old ‘people pleasing’ habits that I tended to act on in the past a lot. A depiction of gaining the strength & courage to choose myself every time.” Girl in the Half Pearl follows a deluxe edition of Couldn’t Wait...
Liv.e Announces New Album Girl in the Half Pearl
Liv.e is set to return with her second album: Girl in the Half Pearl is due out February 10 via In Real Life. The follow-up to Couldn’t Wait to Tell You will include a new song called “Wild Animals,” which arrives with an accompanying video. Check it out below. “I really love the process of coming up with a vision and doing my best to ensure that it will come out just as it was in my imagination,” Liv.e shared in a statement. “I tend to use almost all my practices as another way to strengthen my trust and belief in myself. The concept is just based on the release of letting go old ‘people pleasing’ habits that I tended to act on in the past a lot. A depiction of gaining the strength & courage to choose myself every time.” Girl in the Half Pearl follows a deluxe edition of Couldn’t Wait...
8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Weyes Blood, Roddy Ricch, Fousheé, and More
With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums and projects from Weyes Blood, Roddy Ricch, Fousheé, Pulse Emitter, $ilkmoney, Thaiboy Digital, Meekz, and Isomonstrosity & International Contemporary Ensemble. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.) Weyes Blood: And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow [Sub Pop] Natalie Mehring’s latest album as Weyes Blood is the ...
8 New Albums You Should Listen to Now: Weyes Blood, Roddy Ricch, Fousheé, and More
With so much good music being released all the time, it can be hard to determine what to listen to first. Every week, Pitchfork offers a run-down of significant new releases available on streaming services. This week’s batch includes new albums and projects from Weyes Blood, Roddy Ricch, Fousheé, Pulse Emitter, $ilkmoney, Thaiboy Digital, Meekz, and Isomonstrosity & International Contemporary Ensemble. Subscribe to Pitchfork’s New Music Friday newsletter to get our recommendations in your inbox every week. (All releases featured here are independently selected by our editors. When you buy something through our affiliate links, however, Pitchfork earns an affiliate commission.) Weyes Blood: And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow [Sub Pop] Natalie Mehring’s latest album as Weyes Blood is the ...
Taylor Swift Teams Up With ILLENIUM for Soaring Remix of “Anti-Hero”
Unlike Ticketmaster, there’s no bad blood between Taylor Swift and ILLENIUM. She’s tapped the Grammy-nominated dance music superstar for an official remix of “Anti-Hero,” the lead single from her 10th studio album, Midnights. And ILLENIUM does what he does best, transforming the synth-pop track into a soaring future bass anthem. The high-profile remix arrives as ILLENIUM records his fifth album, which he revealed in September. Take a listen below. Meanwhile, Midnights has broken all kinds of records, becoming Spotify’s most-streamed album in a single day after its release. But it hasn’t come without controversy. Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles Swift partnered with Ticketmaster to offer her superfans early access to tickets for her “Eras̶...
NERVO Raise Awareness of Child Trafficking With New Single: Listen
Dance music duo NERVO have teamed up with Hopeland to raise awareness of child trafficking. In collaboration with the nonprofit and Spinnin’ Records, they’ve released a new single called “Is Someone Looking For Me.” The progressive house track was produced to shed light on trafficking and support children in poverty areas who are forced into labor, according to a press release shared with EDM.com. All proceeds will benefit Hopeland. “Is Someone Looking For Me” features vocals from Liv Nervo’s three-year-old daughter, Ace Paloma, whose innocence echoes through a haunting soliloquy: “Together, we can help spread the word. Is someone looking for me?” Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles NERVO performed at all three of this year’s ...
Seismic Dance Event Quakes the Status Quo—By Prioritizing the Ultimate Techno and House Music Experience
After concluding it’s milestone fifth year of action in the “live music capital of the world,” it’s clear Seismic Dance Event has not only found its flow, but is also actively reaching higher for the next rung on the ladder to festival greatness. There’s frequently a misplaced notion when it comes to the live events space that bigger is always better. To an extent, it’s easy to see the underlying logic—a festival which sells a larger volume of tickets generally is likely to have more resources available at their disposal. More monetary resources generally affords higher profile talent bookings, more jaw-dropping production and effects, increasingly extravagant amenities and more. Seismic Dance Event is among the few notable event brands where the best of...
22 Images That Illustrate the Stupefying Sights of EDC Orlando 2022
We’re running out of superlatives for EDC. What more can be said of Insomniac’s flagship festival brand at this point? It’s long been a lynchpin of the electronic music community, but even though EDC is considered the apotheosis of dance music hedonism, its architects are seemingly hellbent on raising the bar year after year. And after this year’s fest in Orlando, the star of EDC’s legend somehow got even brighter. There was no ambiguity when it came to Insomniac’s commitment to fan experiences. Tinker Field became an adult playground where ravers could frolic through swaths of giant mushrooms by day before they transformed into polychromatic art installations by night. Towering LED daises glittered beneath the night sky, which ultimately became a c...
2022 Billboard Live R&B/Hip-Hop: Photos From the Evening
The biggest and brightest stars and executives in the R&B and hip-hop world showed out at Billboard Live: R&B/Hip-Hop on Thursday night (Nov. 17) at Academy LA. Billboard‘s deputy director, R&B/hip-hop Carl Lamarre and executive director, R&B/hip-hop Gail Mitchell started the evening’s festivities by thanking the R&B and hip-hop team, including reporters Neena Rouhani and Heran Mamo, and devoting a moment of silence to Takeoff, PnB Rock, Young Dolph, Pop Smoke, Nipsey Hussle and more rappers who have died in recent years. Future, who currently stars on Billboard‘s cover, presented the Rookie of the Year award to Blxst, who recently came off a sold-out world tour and earned two 2023 Grammy nominations for album of the year with Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & the Big S...
Nick Cannon Has ‘No Idea’ If He Has More Children on the Way: ‘I Don’t Know!’
Nick Cannon swears that he’s “good right now” with the amount of children he has — but he’s also unsure if he has any more on the way. Speaking with Billboard News at the Billboard Live: R&B/Hip-Hop Power Players event, Cannon caught up with Tetris Kelly on the red carpet, who asked him about his musical endeavors and what he had in the works for the future. “I got a record with Chris Brown out now called ‘I Do,’” the multi-hyphenate explained. “It’s always working, more on the executive side, we got a lot of hot young artists coming up, so we’re excited about next year.” And when asked about his brood — which currently consists of 11 kids and one on the way — the former talk show host said, “That’s my number one priority obviously. I wake up being a father thinking about my kids...
Big Sean & Jhené Aiko Welcome Baby Boy
Congratulations are in order for Big Sean and Jhené Aiko, who welcomed their first child together, a baby boy named Noah Hasani. Aiko took to Instagram to share the wonderful news, noting that the bundle of joy arrived on November 8. “After 24 hours of labor, a total lunar eclipse, and while it was pouring rain… he came,” she wrote alongside a series of photos from the hospital, surrounded by family and, of course, Sean. “my baby Yoda, my Sani [blue heart emoji].” See her post here. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Sean mirrored the same sweet sentiment over on his Instagram, along with a photo of his new son holding the rapper’s finger. “After 24 hours of Labor, A Lunar Eclipse, with rain from the beginning of labor til he was born, he’s here s...
Did Taylor Swift Really Have a Choice to Work With Ticketmaster?
Maybe Live Nation chairman Greg Maffei’s statement that Taylor Swift and promoter AEG “chose” to work with Ticketmaster for her calamitous onsale earlier this week should have come with an asterisk. On Thursday (Nov. 17), Maffei attempted to correct criticisms about Ticketmaster and its owner Live Nation operating as a monopoly by pointing out that Swift’s 2023 Eras Tour “is not actually a Live Nation promoted concert” but rather “promoted by one of our largest competitors.” Maffei — who is also the president of Live Nation’s largest shareholder Liberty Media — continued: “AEG who is the promoter for Taylor Swift, chose to use us because, in reality, we are the largest and most effective ticket seller in the world. Even our competitors want to come on our platform.” The...
