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Travis Scott Announces First Festival Performances Since Astroworld
After performing and DJing at two private events earlier this year, Travis Scott is slated to perform publicly for the first time since the tragic Astroworld 2021 music festival that left 10 dead and countless injured. Scott is headlining three Primavera Sound festivals in South America: He’ll perform in São Paulo, Brazil on November 6; Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 12; and Santiago, Chile on November 13. Scott is also billed to appear at Miami’s E11even nightclub on May 7, as TMZ points out. A source close to the situation tells Pitchfork that Scott will host but will not be performing at the event. In late March, Scott performed a brief set at a private pre-Oscars house party in Bel Air, California, as TMZ initially reported. Videos of Scott performing “Sicko Mode” at the event cir...
Klaus Schulze, Trailblazing Electronic Composer, Dies at 74
Klaus Schulze, the pioneering German electronic composer, has died, his representatives confirmed in a statement. Schulze died Tuesday (April 26) following a long illness. Frank Uhle, the managing director of his record label, SPV, wrote that while Schulze had been ill, his death was “sudden.” “We lose and will miss a good personal friend,” Uhle wrote in his statement. “One of the most influential and important composers of electronic music—a man of conviction and an exceptional artist. Our thoughts in this hour are with his wife, sons and family. His always cheerful nature, his innovative spirit and his impressive body of work remain indelibly rooted in our memories.” Klaus Schulze was 74 years old. Born in Berlin in 1947, Schulze played drums and guitar in a number of local bands in the ...
Post Malone Reveals Release Date for New Album Twelve Carat Toothache
Post Malone has revealed the release date for his new album Twelve Carat Toothache: The follow-up to 2019’s Hollywood’s Bleeding is out June 3. The new record, according to a Billboard profile, will include Malone’s single with the Weeknd, “One Right Now.” Twelve Carat Toothache will clock in at 45 minutes, according to Billboard. He told the publication’s Lyndsey Havens that the new tracks “speak more to how [he’s] feeling at the moment: the ups and downs and the disarray and the bipolar aspect of being an artist in the mainstream.” Post Malone recently previewed new songs on Instagram Live, including collaborations with the Kid Laroi, Doja Cat, Roddy Ricch, and Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold. (If you’re not aware, Post Malone is a huge fan of Fleet Foxes.) Revisit the 2018 feature “Learning...
New Brian Eno Documentary in the Works
A new documentary about Brian Eno is in the works. The career-spanning Eno is helmed by Helvetica director Gary Hustwit, who was granted access to hundreds of hours of never-before-seen footage, unreleased music from Eno’s archive, and visual art. The film will be released in multiple versions. According to a press release, Eno will employ “groundbreaking generative technology in its creation and exhibition” in order to provide unique viewing experiences via multiple digital formats. Eno and Hustwit first collaborated in 2017, when Eno composed the original score for Hustwit’s film *Rams—*a documentary about German designer Dieter Ram. “He is the perfect subject to use this sort of approach,” Hustwit said of Eno in press materials. “He’s turned down many previous projects because he didn’t...
Travis Scott Announces First Festival Performances Since Astroworld Tragedy
Travis Scott will perform publicly for the first time since last year’s Astroworld tragedy in Houston, which left 10 dead and hundreds injured. The 30-year-old artist is scheduled to headline three Primavera Sound events in South America this fall. The long-running festival, which was first launched in Spain before expanding to Southern California and South America, will take place in Sao Paulo, Brazil on November 6, Buenos Aires, Argentina on November 12 and Santiago, Chile on November 13. Additionally, Scott is slated to perform at “major” festivals in the summer, presumably in the U.S., according to sources via Variety. Scott has maintained a relatively low profile in the aftermath of the tragedy, though he has given private performances on two occasions — in late March, Scott...
Take a Look Inside EDC Las Vegas’ Brand New Stage, bionicJUNGLE
EDC Las Vegas‘ new stage, bionicJUNGLE, will be a cool addition to one of the hottest festivals in the world. The announcement comes weeks ahead of the 2022 iteration of EDC Las Vegas. The new stage will be located between neonGARDEN and Polygon Park, and it will feature DJs playing various sub-genres of house music. Insomniac Events founder Pasquale Rotella took to Instagram to announce bionicJUNGLE, adding that the lineup for the festival’s ninth and newest stage will be revealed “soon.” The bionicJUNGLE stage was first unveiled back in February at EDC México, which featured performances by Afrojack, Da Tweekaz, Carl Cox, CamelPhat, and many more. A video shared via the festival’s official Twitter account captures a glimpse into the lush,...
Big Gigantic Announce New Album With Features From Aloe Blacc, GRiZ, More
Boulder, Colorado-based dance music duo Big Gigantic have announced their eighth studio album, Brighter Future 2, as well as a summer tour. The announcement is paired with the release of “Keep It Rising,” a collaboration with Grammy-nominated musician Aloe Blacc, who is perhaps best known in electronic dance music circles for his timeless vocals in Avicii’s “Wake Me Up.” This is the first time in more than a decade that the beloved electronic-funk duo and Aloe Blacc have released music together. The last time was Big Gigantic’s remix of Blacc’s “I Need a Dollar.” “Our ‘I Need A Dollar’ remix really kicked off our career,” said Big Gigantic’s Dominic Lalli in a press release shared with EDM.com. “So it...
Meow Wolf’s Vortex Festival Is Moving to Denver
Meow Wolf‘s Vortex festival is officially headed to Denver. The event, which originally started in Taos, New Mexico, is produced in partnership with Live Nation and will take place August 5th to 7th. In addition to the move, organizers have also announced a huge lineup, with headliners Neil Francis, Duke Dumont, Toro y Moi, Bob Moses, 100 Gecs and more. Didi Bethurum, Meow Wolf’s Vice President of Marketing, told the Santa Fe Reporter that they’ve relocated to Denver due in part to the notion that their audience is expanding. This year’s Vortex festival in Denver will feature two stages, live performers, food and drinks trucks, and experiential art installations, among other interactive experiences that have made the arts production company such a hit. Meow Wo...
Madeon Turns Back the Clock In Breezy Banger, “Love You Back”
Madeon is holding the gaze of the electronic music community—and he won’t let go. The French virtuoso has been dazzling fans with his subversive “Good Faith Forever” live show, which just made two scene-stealing appearances at Coachella. And it hasn’t even been a week since he wrapped up his run at the iconic Indio festival, but he’s already back with new music. Madeon has finally released “Love You Back,” a long-awaited track that many fans thought may never escape the depths of his hard drive. He says it was originally intended to be a single on his Grammy-nominated Good Faith album, but despite playing it live at many of his shows, he ultimately “couldn’t figure it out at the time.” Released just in time for summer, the sun-kiss...
Drake, Kanye West and More To Feature on Future’s New LP ‘I Never Liked You’
Just a few days after announcing its title and release date, Future has shared the tracklist for his upcoming new album I Never Liked You. Out this Friday, the LP will land as the Atlanta rapper’s ninth studio album and features a compact but star-studded roster of guest artists. Spanning sixteen tracks in total, the album opens with “7:12 PM.” Kanye West will offer up the first feature on the project’s third single, “Keep It Burnin.” Following his West collaboration, Future links up with Gunna and Young Thug on “For A Nut.” The trio of rappers recently teamed up for the hit track “Pushin P” off of Gunna’s DS4Ever record. Later in the project, Future taps Drake and Nigerian singer Tems for “Wait For U.” EST Gee features on a single entitled “Chickens” and Kodak Black appears on “VooDoo.” D...
Adam Levine Reveals He’s ‘Technically the Reason’ Why Ellen DeGeneres Is With Portia de Rossi
Adam Levine and Ellen DeGeneres have a lot to thank each other for. During the Maroon 5 singer’s Tuesday (April 26) appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, he and the daytime talk-show host discussed about their history — a conversation that ultimately led to Levine revealing that he is largely responsible for why DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi are together. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news After talking about how Levine gifted DeGeneres one of his few articles of clothing during his second appearance on the show, the host said, “What I’ve done in exchange is, I named your first born child.” “I know that it was definitely a name that you recommended and I brought it up to [wife] Behati [Prinsloo], and she didn’t get it at first and then ...
Lady Gaga Confirms She Wrote a Song for ‘Top Gun: Maverick’: ‘I’ve Been Working on It For Years’
It’s been three years since she took home an Oscar for her songwriting work on A Star Is Born, but Lady Gaga isn’t done making music for film. On Wednesday (April 27), the 36-year-old pop icon confirmed rumors that she would be contributing an original track to Top Gun: Maverick with an emotional Instagram post announcing that her next single, “Hold My Hand,” will indeed be featured in the film. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “When I wrote this song for Top Gun: Maverick, I didn’t even realize the multiple layers it spanned across the film’s heart, my own psyche, and the nature of the world we’ve been living in,” she wrote, sharing a photo of the track’s black-and-white, military-themed art. “I’ve been working on it for years, per...
