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Hear Millennium Parade’s Opening Sequence to ‘Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045’ Season 2
Daiki Tsuneta’s Tokyo-based music collective Millennium Parade has shared the opening sequence to the second season of the anime series Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045. Based on the 1980s manga Ghost in the Shell by Masamune Shirow, the show takes place in the year 2045 following a worldwide economic crisis that led to the dissolution of all forms of currency. Its first season premiered globally on Netflix in April 2020. For the theme song, entitled “Secret Ceremony,” Millennium Parade crafted a track that plays on the anticipation of the action-packed season two. An accompanying music video brings viewers through different shots of the anime’s futuristic landscape. The music collective is also behind Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 season two’s closing sequence, “No Time to Cast Anchor.” The se...
James Blake’s New Album Is Designed To Assist With Building Better Sleep Habits
James Blake‘s new album is a snoozer by design. If you thought music was purely an entertainment medium, James Blake might challenge that mindset. Releasing the first functional album under a major label imprint, Blake’s effort aims to create healthier sleep. The album is a product made in part with the assistance of the generative AI technology application, Endel. Endel’s cutting-edge technology creates a feedback loop by which the music adapts and changes based on the time of day, the user’s heart rate, their movements, and more. Blake has honed his penchant for ambient music in recent times, originally making the leap towards developing ethereal soundscapes in 2020, during what he called a “beat holiday.” At the time, the project received praise...
James Blake’s New Album Is Designed To Assist With Building Better Sleep Habits
James Blake‘s new album is a snoozer by design. If you thought music was purely an entertainment medium, James Blake might challenge that mindset. Releasing the first functional album under a major label imprint, Blake’s effort aims to create healthier sleep. The album is a product made in part with the assistance of the generative AI technology application, Endel. Endel’s cutting-edge technology creates a feedback loop by which the music adapts and changes based on the time of day, the user’s heart rate, their movements, and more. Blake has honed his penchant for ambient music in recent times, originally making the leap towards developing ethereal soundscapes in 2020, during what he called a “beat holiday.” At the time, the project received praise...
James Blake’s New Album Is Designed To Assist With Building Better Sleep Habits
James Blake‘s new album is a snoozer by design. If you thought music was purely an entertainment medium, James Blake might challenge that mindset. Releasing the first functional album under a major label imprint, Blake’s effort aims to create healthier sleep. The album is a product made in part with the assistance of the generative AI technology application, Endel. Endel’s cutting-edge technology creates a feedback loop by which the music adapts and changes based on the time of day, the user’s heart rate, their movements, and more. Blake has honed his penchant for ambient music in recent times, originally making the leap towards developing ethereal soundscapes in 2020, during what he called a “beat holiday.” At the time, the project received praise...
Check Out Gryffin’s EDM.com Festival Hits Playlist Takeover Ahead Of His Sunset Music Festival 2022 Performance
2022 is looking like it’s about to be another massive year for Gryffin. The highly acclaimed producer and songwriter is gearing up for his performance at Sunset Music Festival Tampa this Memorial Day Weekend from May 27-29 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, which will also include sets from Alesso, Zeds Dead, ILLENIUM and many more electronic music mainstays. Ahead of his set, Gryffin has teamed up with EDM.com to take over the EDM.com Festival Hits playlist, giving fans an early taste of the legendary artists and music that festival-goers can expect at ‘SMF Tampa’ 2022. “I’m stoked to be playing Sunset Music Festival this year,” Gryffin tells EDM.com. “Fans that come to my set can definitely expect some of my upcoming songs from Alive as well as everyone’s favorites f...
Check Out Gryffin’s EDM.com Festival Hits Playlist Takeover Ahead Of His Sunset Music Festival 2022 Performance
2022 is looking like it’s about to be another massive year for Gryffin. The highly acclaimed producer and songwriter is gearing up for his performance at Sunset Music Festival Tampa this Memorial Day Weekend from May 27-29 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, which will also include sets from Alesso, Zeds Dead, ILLENIUM and many more electronic music mainstays. Ahead of his set, Gryffin has teamed up with EDM.com to take over the EDM.com Festival Hits playlist, giving fans an early taste of the legendary artists and music that festival-goers can expect at ‘SMF Tampa’ 2022. “I’m stoked to be playing Sunset Music Festival this year,” Gryffin tells EDM.com. “Fans that come to my set can definitely expect some of my upcoming songs from Alive as well as everyone’s favorites f...
Check Out Gryffin’s EDM.com Festival Hits Playlist Takeover Ahead Of His Sunset Music Festival 2022 Performance
2022 is looking like it’s about to be another massive year for Gryffin. The highly acclaimed producer and songwriter is gearing up for his performance at Sunset Music Festival Tampa this Memorial Day Weekend from May 27-29 at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida, which will also include sets from Alesso, Zeds Dead, ILLENIUM and many more electronic music mainstays. Ahead of his set, Gryffin has teamed up with EDM.com to take over the EDM.com Festival Hits playlist, giving fans an early taste of the legendary artists and music that festival-goers can expect at ‘SMF Tampa’ 2022. “I’m stoked to be playing Sunset Music Festival this year,” Gryffin tells EDM.com. “Fans that come to my set can definitely expect some of my upcoming songs from Alive as well as everyone’s favorites f...
Julia Roberts Recalls Meeting ‘Charming’ Harry Styles
Julia Roberts, turns out, is a Harry Styles fan. The Pretty Woman actress recalled meeting the 28-year-old “Boyfriends” singer in a recent interview with Variety at Cannes Film Festival. “It was backstage at the ‘Ellen Show’, and he was the guest on after me. And he was as sweet and charming as a young man could be,” she shared. “I was really, I was quite taken with his fine manners and he’s very charming.” She also chatted about her upcoming movie, in which she stars alongside her Ocean’s Eleven counterpart George Clooney. “It is a romantic comedy,” she said of the film, called Ticket to Paradise. “He plays my ex-husband. I think it’s so funny and George is so funny and George and I together, it’s probably going to be terrible because there’s too much potential for it ...
Bad Bunny & Chencho Corleone Rule Hot Latin Songs Chart With ‘Me Porto Bonito’
Continuing his monster debut week across Billboard charts with his latest album Un Verano Sin Ti, Bad Bunny arrives at another career milestone as “Me Porto Bonito,” with Chencho Corleone, hits No. 1 on the Hot Latin Songs survey (dated May 28). With the new win, Bad Bunny collects his 11th No. 1, the most among Latin rhythmic acts. Corleone claims his first champ in his fifth try. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Me Porto Bonito” ascends from No. 4 to lead the tally — which blends radio airplay, streaming activity and sales. It climbs to the top despite a 9% dip in streaming activity, with 21.4 million on-demand streams, earned in the U.S. in the week ending May 19, according to Luminate, vs. the 24 million registered clicks from its debu...
How to Watch ‘Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders’ on Hulu
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. The unsolved murders of three young girls found slain at an Oklahoma summer camp in the ’70s are explored in Keeper of the Ashes: The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders, a four-episode documentary series premiering on Hulu on Tuesday (May 24). The latest true-crime series to debut on the streaming platform comes ahead of the 45-year anniversary of the tragedy, which occurred June 13, 1977. The victims, Lori Farmer, 8; Michele Guse, 9; and Denise Milner, 10, were raped and murdered after their first night at summer camp at Camp Scott in Mayes County, Okla. Explore E...
Lorde Calls Kendrick Lamar ‘The Most Popular and Influential Artist in Modern Music’
Lorde shared an update with her fans on Tuesday (May 24) and couldn’t help but gush over Kendrick Lamar‘s latest album, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers. “I’m loving Kendrick,” she wrote in her email newsletter to fans. “I cannot get over the most popular and influential artist in modern music displaying a working nervous system, admitting mistakes, trying to process intergenerational trauma and prejudice. I love the way the album opens, the pace and heat of the first few songs, and later ‘Count Me Out,’ the build and strings in ‘Auntie Diaries’… special.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The double LP — the rapper’s fifth full-length — bowed atop the Billboard 200 upon its May 13 release, notching the best first week of 2022 with 295,000 alum ...
Fat Joe Calls Tekashi 6ix9ine A “P*ssy,” The “State’s Evidence” Fires Back
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @MATHHOFFA / Youtube It’s no secret that Tekashi 6ix9ine remains one of the most hated men in Hip-Hop today and now Fat Joe has become the latest high profile rapper to air out the most famous snitch in Hip-Hop history. Joey Crack had some pretty strong opinions on Tekashi that he aired out while he was sitting down with Math Hoffa for Math’s Expert Opinion podcast and labeled the “Gummo” rapper a “a p*ssy, a sucka, a B*tch!” No lies detected. That being said, Fat Joe did say he doesn’t wish any harm on Tekashi but feels like he might have a death wish given how Tekashi carries himself out in these internet streets. Related Stories Naturally, Tekashi caught wind of Fat Joe’s popular opinion and hit up TMZ to clap back at the New York Triple OG and b...
