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Jarvis Cocker Talks First Album in 11 Years and His First Time Crowdsurfing

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There was a time when live music was all there was. No shaky mobile phone camera videos of concerts uploaded to Instagram Stories or YouTube. No hissing bootleg tapes recorded out of the lint-ridden pocket of a teenage concertgoer’s knitted wool sweater. No sounds emanating from a needle against a scratched-up piece of easily shattered vinyl. And originally, JARV IS… was going to be just that – a live music experience with little connection to a medium of plastic permanency. Thankfully, though, Jarvis Cocker, the bespectacled, lanky, former frontman of mid-’90s British indie band Pulp, and now frontman of JARV IS… decided against that. Instead, his band just dropped the wild, claustrophobic, profound Beyond the Pale, which is part pandemic record, part tribute to live music, and part musin...

S.G. Goodman Goes After Southern Stasis and That Old Time Feeling on Jim James-Produced Debut

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S.G. Goodman Goes After Southern Stasis and That Old Time Feeling on Jim James-Produced Debut

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Type ”Murray, Kentucky” into a Google Maps search box, and the jagged edges of what USA Today once called the “Friendliest Small Town in America” come into view. There are two labels. One, predictably, is for Murray State University, a public college in town. The other is simply called “Confederate Monument.” It’s right there by the courthouse in town, Gen. Robert E. Lee standing sentinel over a porcelain drinking fountain surrounded by columns. It was erected in 1917; things being how they are today, who knows how much longer it will stand. S.G. Goodman, whose debut album, Old Time Feeling is out July 17, doesn’t specifically write about the monument standing in her town, but her subtexts are pointed straight in its direction. She sings — her voice as soulful as her themes can be challeng...

Founders of “In My Elements” Share Goals, Safety Measures, Challenges Ahead of COVID-19 Compliant Event [Interview]

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Founders of “In My Elements” Share Goals, Safety Measures, Challenges Ahead of COVID-19 Compliant Event [Interview]

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With the COVID-19 pandemic ravaging the economy, the music industry has been particularly hard-hit. Since mid-March, live music events have been canceling left, right, and center in response to the pandemic. While the electronic music community has found its new normal through livestreams ranging from free-form, laid-back DJ sets and intimate production walkthroughs to full-blown virtual festivals, safe resumption of in-person events in the US has appeared implausible outside of drive-in concerts. However, even as US festivals postpone or cancel outright, an independently organized electronic music retreat in Pennsylvania hopes to pave the way for safely hosting in-person music gatherings. Taking place this weekend from July 10th to July 12th, In My Elements will host house and techno heav...

Camo & Krooked on Their Revolutionary Red Bull Symphonic Performance and Album [Interview]

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Camo & Krooked on Their Revolutionary Red Bull Symphonic Performance and Album [Interview]

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Red Bull constantly pushes the envelope with everything the brand has its hands in. Music is no different in that regard, and this year Red Bull teamed up with legendary drum & bass duo Camo & Krooked to create an entirely new concert experience. Pairing drum & bass with a live orchestra, Camo & Krooked enlisted world-renowned composer and conductor Christian Kolonovits and the Max Steiner Orchestra to rework their music into a live symphonic performance in the duo’s hometown of Vienna, Austria. Needless to say, the performance was stunning. Camo & Krooked took some time to chat with EDM.com about the experience and the work leading up to the instantly iconic performance. EDM.com: First and foremost, what was the inspiration behind turni...

DVRKO Continues Meteoric Rise with Another New Single [Interview]

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DVRKO Continues Meteoric Rise with Another New Single [Interview]

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DVRKO seemingly appeared out of nowhere. The masked producer’s first release “This Is How” quickly gained millions of streams. His follow-up release “Lights Up” is following the same success and is a contender for song of the summer. We managed to sit down with the masked producer to discuss his signature sound, studio, and more. EDM.COM: We love your second single and we previewed it here, “Lights Up.” But we’re also still digging your first single, “This Is How” featuring Sarah De Warren! We see it on Spotify’s Friday Cratediggers and your Spotify streams seem to be gaining pretty quickly and the music video is a hoot! So we have to ask…..Who IS DVRKO? DVRKO: DVRKO? I was released without bond, I paid in false top lines with borrowed compression and stolen m...

Mike Shinoda Talks Making an Album on Twitch and Life After Quarantine

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Mike Shinoda Talks Making an Album on Twitch and Life After Quarantine

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Despite being in quarantine for the past four-plus months, Mike Shinoda hasn’t only found time to stay busy, he’s managed to be productive. The Linkin Park/Fort Minor singer has used his time at home to hang out with his kids, jam on new tunes by Run the Jewels, Thundercat, Trash Talk, and of course, to make new music. But what’s garnered the most attention lately have been Shinoda’s Twitch streams. During these sessions, Shinoda, with the input of his fans, has managed to create new music, and sometimes, he might just drop a nugget (like this one about Linkin Park). The way the streaming schedule played out, four days were dedicated to making music, while one was spent working on visual art. And thus, an album was born. Shinoda is releasing that new solo album, Dropped Frames, V...

The Sword’s J.D. Cronise Talks New Compilations, Bootlegging Rare Clutch Tracks, and His Band’s Future

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The Sword’s J.D. Cronise Talks New Compilations, Bootlegging Rare Clutch Tracks, and His Band’s Future

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Modern stoner rock owes a major debt to The Sword. Formed in 2003 in Austin, the band’s propensity for Black Sabbath-influenced doom and desert grooves predated the subculture that suddenly emerged from the stoner rock scene in the 2010s. Suddenly, remote fans of bands like Sleep and Electric Wizard were connected by the familiar churning sounds of these bands. The Sword played a vital role in this movement, with their 2006 debut album, Age of Winters, and its lead single, the now legendary “Freya”, cementing their place in doom metal lore. It was a time of resurgence for classic rock, a new era of teenagers were discovering Led Zeppelin and Sabbath, and “Freya” garnered The Sword a cult audience of eager rock fans. Their music even reached Lars Ulrich of Metallica, who would eventually ta...

Ted Templeman Is the Most Interesting Producer in Rock

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Ted Templeman Is the Most Interesting Producer in Rock

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The ubiquitous advertising campaign featuring “the most interesting man in the world” got it wrong. The most interesting man is indeed a debonair gray-haired gentleman, but he’s real: Ted Templeman, record producer of classics from Van Halen, Van Morrison, stellar non-Van’s including Captain Beefheart, The Doobie Brothers, Bette Midler, and many more. The 77-year-old Santa Cruz, California, native was a revered record executive and is a multi-instrumentalist, avid history buff and sublime teller of tales. There’s the one about, how, in 1969, after a gig with his band Harper’s Bizarre [they had a hit with a cover of Simon & Garfunkel’s “The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)”] their TWA flight to San Francisco was hijacked. Understandably, Templeman still dislikes flying. There ar...

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CHOMPPA on New Music and All-Original Audiovisual Set Ahead of SummerEyes Festival [Q&A]

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The start of the new year brought a veil of promise and potential for many, but few artists were looking to ride the high of a new decade more so than DC native CHOMPPA. With a Deadbeats EP planned for this summer, which helped him land bookings at Shambhala and Summer Camp, 2020 was looking like the year the young bass producer was to make a name for his project. Already touted highly by his artist companions as well as those from Zeds Dead’s flagship label, his rise seemed all but inevitable. While pandemic-related hardships have derailed those plans, it’s not the first time the producer has pivoted his career in a new direction. When he was 16, around the time he began taking music production seriously, he became inspired by progressive house acts like Hardwell and Afrojack be...

Asch Pintura on Her Livestream Series, Debuting on Anjunabeats, and SummerEyes Festival [Interview]

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Asch Pintura on Her Livestream Series, Debuting on Anjunabeats, and SummerEyes Festival [Interview]

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The conversation on American social injustice has caused ripples throughout America in recent weeks, but it’s also become a central topic across the globe. One person to witness this phenomenon firsthand is Asch Pintura, a New York-born DJ and producer currently studying at the University of West London. “For quite some time, the death of George Floyd kept my brain in a complete fog,” Pintura told EDM.com. “[But] I’ve been very moved by the outrage that I’ve seen over here in the UK.” Like she did during the COVID-19 pandemic, Pintura has experienced these issues entirely as an American living abroad. The sensation and call to action of protests related to Black Lives Matter in Europe, however, has helped her understand and cope with what is going on at home. “...

Fire and Festivus: Sein Peaks Brings Seinfeld to Twin Peaks

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Fire and Festivus: Sein Peaks Brings Seinfeld to Twin Peaks

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I Saw It on the Internet is a new monthly feature that explores the fringe side of online pop culture. Today, Editor-in-Chief Michael Roffman speaks with graphic artist Jesse Brooks about his popular Instagram account Sein Peaks. Two men walk into a diner, order coffee, and discuss the world at large. What’s the show? For many, Seinfeld. For some, Twin Peaks. For Jesse Brooks, both. As the mastermind behind Sein Peaks, Brooks has spent the last few years forging an unlikely bridge between the iconic New York comedy and the groundbreaking Pacific Northwest drama. Through myriad memes, Brooks has proven there is a strange and wonderful symmetry to the minds of creators Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, David Lynch, and Mark Frost. It’s in the iconography, the themes, and the aesthetics that Brook...

Carl Reiner on His As Yet Released Book: “The Finest Work That I’ve Ever Been Involved In”

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Carl Reiner on His As Yet Released Book: “The Finest Work That I’ve Ever Been Involved In”

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“The most serious films are comedies. They look easy to come by, but they’re hard to come by. Even Shakespeare knew that. For the most part, comedies are done by people with great senses of humor — and you can’t fake that.” Carl Reiner was always busy. Even in December of 2019, months from his 98th birthday, Reiner showed zero signs of stopping. At night, he spent time with his best friend of 70 years, Mel Brooks. But during the day, he was always writing. Always. If he wasn’t working on a new book, he was tweeting — and he tweeted nearly every day. About his life, about his work, about the work of those he admired, and, of course, about Trump. He tweeted about his disdain of Trump so much that he was able to take all of those tweets and turn them into a book called The Downing of Trump. S...