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Stagecoach 2022: Where to Buy Tickets Online & How to Watch From Home
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. Let the good times roll! Stagecoach is back after being canceled the last two years, along with Coachella, due to the pandemic. The three-day country music extravaganza returns to the Empire Polo Field in Indio, Calif. on Friday (April 29). Thomas Rhett, Carrie Underwood and Luke Combs will headline separate nights. Click here for set times. The star-studded performance roster also includes Maren Morris, Midland, Brandi Carlile, Jordan Davis, Breland, Lee Brice, Margo Price, Brothers Osbourne, Colter Wall, Shenandoah, Laci Kaye Booth, The Black Crowes, Tanya...
Royyal Dog Paints his Life Story with a Custom Mural for Porsche in LA’s Downtown Arts District
The larger-than-life self-portrait of graffiti writer, Royyal Dog, is hard to miss at the intersection of 6th and Alameda in Los Angeles’ Arts District. Porsche teamed up with Royyal Dog to showcase how the luxury vehicle empowers him to make the most of every minute and get closer to the things he loves. This video captures Royyal Dog’s creative process as he tells his story of leaving his family home in Seoul, Korea, and his commitment to pastorship to plant roots and build a family of his own in Los Angeles as a graffiti writer. Here’s what the mural means to him: The self-portrait itself is a representation of Royyal Dog, where he is the hero and the creator of his destiny as a graffiti writer. In his hand is a box of his painting supplies – using the contents of a small cardboard...
Everything You Need to Make the Coconut Cloud Smoothie That Went Viral on TikTok
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. Looking for a fun beverage for Earth Day and beyond? The Coconut Cloud Smoothie might be perfect for you. The $17 smoothie from Erewhon Market in Los Angeles went viral on TikTok and will be staying on the menu “a little while longer” due to customer demand, the company announced April 2. For those of you who don’t live in Southern California, or don’t have $17 to spend on a single smoothie, making it at home will save you money in the long run. Social media influencers have been sharing step-by-step video recipes on how to re-create the epic cloud smoothie ...
ILLENIUM Joins Forces With DC Comics and Electric Family for Stunning “Batman” Merch Collection
ILLENIUM is the hero Gotham needs right now. The electronic music superstar has teamed up with DC Comics and leading apparel brand Electric Family for a rare Batman merch collab. The DC-branded, limited edition collection is available now. One look at the threads is all it takes to realize the undeniable synergy between the DJ’s and superhero’s respective imagery. The dark skies of Gotham are an ideal canvas for ILLENIUM’s incandescent “phoenix” emblem and likeness, which glides around the iconic Bat-Signal. A t-shirt from Electric Family’s new “Batman” collection in collaboration with DC Comics and ILLENIUM. c/o Electric Family Electric Family has long operated in the vanguard of electronic dance music and fashion. Over the years, the compan...
This Teacher Plays House Music Bangers Every Morning While His Students Arrive at School
I wish my elementary school teacher played house music when we arrived for school. The self-proclaimed “Tech House Teacher” on TikTok, better known as Mr. P by his students, is a teacher based in Chicago, Illinois. Mr. P has been playing tech house bangers for his students to motivate them as they arrive to school each morning. One even penned a letter, urging him to keep it up. “Dear Mr. P, can you please keep playing house music when we come into school in the morning?” reads the note. “It really makes me happy and ready for the day.” Mr. P is also pursuing a career as a DJ and producer, creating tech house tracks under the moniker Jakeshoredrive and releasing them on a number of notable record labels, like Hood Politics. And his educational meth...
Kaskade and deadmau5 Release Kx5 Video Game
deadmau5 and Kaskade are putting your ability to escape the matrix to the test. A month after revealing their stunning debut single “Escape,” Kx5 have released a new game designed in the spirit of the track. Developed by WOLF72, the “Escape” video game is an 8-bit, 2-D platformer that allows players to navigate the grid as either Kaskade or deadmau5. WOLF72 If “Escape” wasn’t bouncing around in your head previously, playing this simple and addictive arcade style game will certainly make it so. Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles Players must scale platforms, avoid hazardous spike traps, dodge speeding Lamborghinis and flatten virtual enemies by jumping on top of them. Along the way, collect diamonds and dog tokens in order to en...
Study Suggests a Link Between Musical Preference and Personality Type
Are one’s musical preferences a form of personality test? A new study conducted by the University Of Cambridge suggests that could be the case. A large scale study encompassing 350,000 participants, collectively hailing from over 50 countries and six continents, showed a linkage between one’s stylistic preferences when it comes to music and their personality type. During the study, participants were asked to complete a personality questionnaire and complete an exercise in which they ranked popular songs. Intriguingly, the linkage was found to be universal on a global scale, suggesting localized cultural influences were not confounding factors. “Ed Sheeran’s song ‘Shivers’ is as likely to appeal to extraverts living in the UK as those li...
Need a New Phone? This Limited Deal Gets You a Free Samsung Galaxy S22
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. Shopping for a new phone, but haven’t settled on a design yet? A free phone might make the decision a lot easier. The Samsung Galaxy S22 series is currently free, thanks to a new promo deal. The S22 is one of the most popular phones of the year, and it’s only been out for a couple of months. Originally released in February, the S22 sold over 1 million pre-orders the first week after release — more than double that of the S21. Samsung’s Galaxy S22 is equipped with a 50MP rear camera, a 4Nm processor (Samsung’s fastest and most-powerful chip yet) and a 6.1-inc...
This 15-Year-Old Twitch Streamer Has Festival-Grade Pyro and Lasers In His Bedroom for CoD Celebrations
It’s official: Crossmauz is the greatest Twitch streamer of all time. There are few better feelings than getting the last kill in an intense Call of Duty game and securing the win for your squad. Some people stand up and scream in joy. Others do a little dance. But a rare, elite few decide to ignite a flamethrower. Enter Crossmauz, a 15-year-old Twitch streamer who has set up festival-grade lasers, lights, sound and pyrotechnics—yes, really—for his CoD celebrations. Taking place in what appears to be his small bedroom, after queuing up some hard dance music, he unleashes a barrage of laser beams, strobe lights and literal walls of flames that appear dangerously close to the ceiling and furniture around him. Onscreen visual effects blitz viewers as our star screams into the mic and lo...
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...
Jennifer Lopez Spills Details on Ben Affleck Bath Tub Proposal: ‘I Was Quite Literally Speechless’
The second time seems to be the charm for Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez. The Marry Me singer shared the details of the couple’s sequel engagement in her “On the JLo” newsletter on Tuesday (April 12), which included Affleck popping the question while Lopez was in her happy place. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Saturday night while at my favorite place on earth (in the bubble bath), my beautiful love got on one knee and proposed,” she wrote in the newsletter (which requires registration). “I was taken totally off guard and just looked in his eyes smiling and crying at the same time trying hard to get my head around the fact that after 20 years this was happening all over again. I was quite literally speechless and he said, ‘Is that a ‘yes?R...
Absolut Vodka Teams Up With Swedish House Mafia to Create Album-Themed Cocktail
It’s time to pour it up for the return of Swedish House Mafia. In anticipation of the iconic dance music trio’s upcoming closing performance on Sunday night of Coachella 2022, Absolut Vodka is assisting fans with finding paradise. Absolut’s new “Paradise (Again) Paloma” blends the brand’s refreshing grapefruit vodka with a tangy dash of lime juice, soda water, and a sweet Swedish Fish garnish to top it all off. The summertime citrus beverage is being sold as a pre-packaged craft cocktail blend for easy mixing. Even better, with the release of Swedish House Mafia’s debut album Paradise Again looming just around the corner on April 15th, those not attending Coachella will still have the opportunity to join in the conversation. Absolut VodkaR...
