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Dillon Francis Confirmed As Special Guest On Marc Rebillet’s “We’ve Got Company” Show
Dillon Francis will be going inside the mind of Marc Rebillet for the debut episode of the latter’s new Amazon Music show, We’ve Got Company. Francis has been confirmed as the second special guest in the series, following Flying Lotus’ appearance in the first episode. Broadcasting bi-weekly, We’ve Got Company is described as “a talk show inside of a sitcom.” Rebillet and his guests will create music on the fly, interact with viewers, play video games and more, all inside the world of a zany TV sitcom hosted by Loop Daddy himself. While the episode with Francis is technically the second episode in the series, it will be the broadcast debut of We’ve Got Company since the pilot with Lotus never made the air due to technical difficulties. A...
Moonrise Festival Announces Massive 2022 Lineup With REZZ, Zedd, Excision, More
East Coast ravers will soon be treated to one of the year’s biggest lineups at Moonrise, Baltimore’s longest-running electronic dance music festival. After a three-year hiatus, the fest is primed to return to Pimlico Race Course on August 6th and 7th, bringing along a jaw-dropping roster of artists. Zedd, Rezz, Adventure Club, Excision, Chris Lake, Zeds Dead, FISHER, Moore Kismet, Dom Dolla and many more will throw down. Moonrise 2022 passes are on sale now and you can purchase them here. Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles The lineup arrives following the acquisition of a majority stake in the festival by Insomniac and Club Glow, who earlier this year announced the launch of Project Glow, a first-of-its-kind fest in D.C. The tandem’s second venture is the 2022 editio...
Disney Announces Vinyl Reissue of Daft Punk’s Iconic “Tron: Legacy” Soundtrack
Daft Punk are the gift that keep on giving. In celebration of the 40-year anniversary of the original TRON film, Disney has announced a vinyl reissue of the 1982 sci-fi classic’s soundtrack. The company is also pressing new vinyl of Daft Punk’s iconic TRON: Legacy score and subsequent remix album, 2011’s TRON: Legacy Reconfigured, which features reworks of the robots’ music by Avicii, M83, Boys Noize and The Glitch Mob, among others. TRON: Legacy remains Daft Punk’s only film score. Featuring an 85-piece orchestra, the soundtrack took over two years to create and eventually debuted atop Billboard‘s Dance/Electronic Albums chart. In late 2021, 11 years to the day, the timeless album reclaimed that top spot. The original TRON film was scored by legend...
Coachella 2022 Guide: Parking, WiFi, Lockers, Lineup and Everything Else You Need to Know
Whether you like it or not, there are more important things to consider ahead of Coachella than your Instagram captions. So we’ve created a handy guide of everything you need to know for Coachella 2022. With the long-awaited return of the iconic festival just days away, read on to find out about the event’s parking, camping, lockers, lineup and more. Coachella 2022 Dates Just like years past, Coachella is taking place over two weekends. Weekend 1 is April 15-17 and Weekend 2 is April 22-24. Coachella Address Coachella is taking place at the same venue it has since 1999, the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. The location to plug into your navigation app is: 81-800 Avenue 51, Indio, CA 92201 Considering the sheer scale of the festival, which attracts approximately 125,000 pe...
Future Announces Release Date for Ninth Studio Album
Future will be releasing his new album at the end of this month. The Atlanta rapper teased the project with a smoky image of himself on Instagram. Arriving on April 29, the title of the LP has yet to be announced. The project will follow his 2020 solo endeavor High Off Life and his joint venture with Lil Uzi Vert the same year, Pluto x Baby Pluto. View this post on Instagram A post shared by Future PLUTO Hendrix (@future) Earlier in the year, Future shared a music video for his song “Worst Day.” He also clocked in two guest appearances on Gunna’s DS4Ever on the singles “Too Easy” and the social media hit “Pushin P.” Few details have been shared about the forthcoming project, though the rapper suggested that it may feature collaborations with Babyface Ray and FKA twigs. I...
Madonna & Sickick’s ‘Frozen’ Heats Up in Hot Dance/Electronic Songs Chart’s Top 10
Madonna and Sickick surge to the top 10 of Billboard‘s multimetric Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart (dated April 16) with “Frozen” (12-10). It’s Madonna’s third top 10, and first in nearly seven years, on the chart, which premiered in January 2013. It follows two 2015 Diplo co-productions: “Living for Love” (No. 9, that February) and “B**** I’m Madonna” (No. 5, July). It’s Sickick’s first top 10. “Frozen,” a 2021-remixed, Sickick-produced version of Madonna’s No. 2-peaking 1998 Billboard Hot 100 hit (which she wrote with Patrick Leonard and produced with Leonard and William Orbit) from her Ray of Light album, debuted at No. 20 on Hot Dance/Electronic Songs in December after going viral. Since, Madonna and Sickick have released two additional remixes, complete with new vocals and offic...
Mon Laferte & More Moms in Latin Music Are Doing ‘The Impossible to Balance It All’
Chilean singer Mon Laferte made quite a stir at the Latin Grammys last year when she walked the red carpet and then performed in belly-baring outfits that proudly displayed her baby bump. At the time, Laferte was nearly seven months pregnant, in the middle of her U.S. tour and making it all look so easy. Except it wasn’t. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I always saw pregnant women going to work and thought, ‘Oh how cute. It must be so easy.’ But now that I lived it, it’s exhausting,” says Laferte — who, unbeknownst to most people, was bedridden for a chunk of her tour, getting up only to perform. “Your back hurts, your feet get swollen – I went up a whole shoe size. It’s physically and emotionally complicated. All my concentration was placed o...
Trending Up: Willow Is Everywhere, With Hits Both New and Old — Plus SZA and Muni Long on R&B Radio, ‘Sun and Moon’ & More
Welcome to Billboard Pro’s Trending Up newsletter, where we take a closer look at the songs, artists, curiosities and trends that have caught the music industry’s attention. Some have come out of nowhere, others have taken months to catch on, and all of them could become ubiquitous in the blink of a TikTok clip. This week: A resurrected older hit of Willow’s bumps up against her newer singles (again), Muni Long and SZA help close the gap between streaming and radio in R&B, and yet another 2010s alt-rock song blows up on TikTok. Willow’s Slow-Release, Sped-Up New Hit Willow has quietly become a ubiquitous figure in pop over the past year — popping up on alternative radio with her great 2021 pop-punk album Lately I Feel Everything, in the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 w...
Here Are the Lyrics to Yahritza & Su Esencia’s Heartfelt Viral Hit ‘Soy El Unico’ Translated to English
Yahritza y Su Esencia released only their second single this week, dubbed “Esta Noche,” part of their upcoming EP Obsessed. Yet another heartfelt tune, where Yahritza’s powerful vocals shine, the track follows their record-breaking debut single “Soy El Unico.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I know that the words are very strong but honestly, when it comes down to me writing my songs, it’s more like a research process,” Yahritza previously told Billboard. “I don’t write my songs specifically for anyone. I just observe what’s going on around me and I get ideas from it.” “Soy El Unico,” which is the first song Yahritza penned at the age of 13, debuted at No. 1 on Hot Latin Songs and hit No. 20 on the Billboard Hot 100, making the 15-year...
Debut Albums of Wu-Tang, Alicia Keys To Be Inducted Into the National Recording Registry
The highly-influential albums, Wu-Tang Clan’s Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) and Alicia Keys’ Songs In A Minor, will be inducted into the National Recording Registry later this year. The Library of Congress named the projects as among 25 recordings worthy of being preserved. The recordings — which also include a Ricky Martin’s Latin pop “Livin’ La Vida Loca,” Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” and even a podcast — were selected based on “cultural, historical or aesthetic importance in the nation’s recorded sound heritage,” the Library of Congress said. Released in 1993, Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers) is the debut album of the Staten Island rap collective, bringing together the talents of RZA, Ol’ Dirty Bastard, GZA, Ghostface Killah and Method Man. Keys dropped her debut Songs In A Minor in 200...
A New Villain: Peep The New Trailer To ‘Stranger Things’ Season 4
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Courtesy of Netflix / Netflix On Tuesday (April 12), Netflix finally dropped their first official trailer for the newest season of Stranger Things and judging from the look of things, this fourth installment is going to be one helluva ride. Source: Courtesy of Netflix / Netflix Taking place six months after the events of season 3, the trailer to Stranger Things season 4 seems to show life getting back to semi-normal in Hawkins, Indiana after that big Battle of Starcourt. Though the Bryers family have now relocated to California in hopes of a new start, their supernatural fighting crew remain in Indy where the threat of the monsters from the Upside Down is still very much alive. Unfortunately for everyone, Eleven doesn’t seem to have her powers anymore, po...
Wack 100 Said He’s Never Seen Ray J & Kim Kardashian Sex Tape Footage, Kim Is Not Having It
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Patrick McMullan / Getty Wack 100 is out here being messy again as the music executive is claiming to be in possession of never before seen footage of the infamous sex tape of his former managing client Ray J and Kim Kardashian. Only this time, Kardashian is not having it. According to Page Six, in the premiere episode of her family’s new Hulu series, The Kardashians, Kim catches wind of the salacious sex tape being resurrected back into trending celeb news and she immediately hops on the phone with attorney Marty Singer. Related Stories “Over my dead body is this happening again. I know the right attorneys this time and I’m not going to let this happen to me again,” she said to Singer. “I have all the time, all the money and all of the resources to burn ...
