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Best New Tracks: Dreamville x DJ Drama, Freddie Gibbs x Rick Ross and More
As the week in music comes to a close, HYPEBEAST has rounded up the best projects for the latest installment of Best New Tracks. This week’s list is led by releases from Dreamville x DJ Drama and Freddie Gibbs x Rick Ross, who dropped the surprise D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape project and the new collab “Ice Cream.” Also joining this selection are New Gen honorees Doechii and ENNY with Mychelle, Japanese Breakfast, Toro Y Moi, Bakar, Lil Tjay and joints from Ibeyi x Jorja Smith and Hit-Boy x Pacman Da Gunman. Dreamville x DJ Drama – D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape [embedded content] J. Cole’s Dreamville collective and DJ Drama join forces the surprise project D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape. The record features the entire Dreamville roster along with guest appearances fro...
Tiësto Announces Two Shows for Brooklyn Mirage Debut In Summer 2022
Global dance music titan Tiësto will be making his Brooklyn Mirage debut in New York on July 14th and 15th. These two shows will be his biggest solo performances in the city in years, according to a press release shared with EDM.com. The Brooklyn Mirage is a spectacular outdoor space with a state-of-the-art sound system and three-dimensional video projection mapping technology. In 2021 alone, Tiësto amassed a staggering one billion Spotify streams and currently has over 70 million monthly listeners around the globe. His track “The Business” was also recently nominated for a Grammy and became certified Platinum in the U.S. with more than 1.3 billion streams to date. Tickets for the Brooklyn Mirage shows are currently on sale now and can be purchased here. Scroll to Con...
Marc Rebillet to Star in “Talk Show Inside of a Sitcom” On Amazon Music
You better watch Marc Rebillet‘s new show or he will be very upset with you. Coming this week to Amazon Music‘s Twitch channel is a new biweekly show hosted by Rebillet, affectionately known as Loop Daddy. Titled We’ve Got Company, the program will feature special guests, gaming, audience interaction, and of course, some improvised performances from Rebillet and his friends. Described by Rebillet as “a talk show inside of sitcom,” the first episode of We’ve Got Company will feature an appearance from the multimedia mastermind Flying Lotus filmed in the style of those classic, comforting TV shows. Considering the duo’s penchant for absurdity and Rebillet’s tendency to shed his clothing, we can already imagine how much the executives who g...
Brownies & Lemonade Wraps Up Sun-Kissed Debut Spring Break Experience
Marking their debut Puerto Vallarta show, as well as first Spring Break experience, celebrated electronic music event organizer Brownies & Lemonade just wrapped up their latest destination festival. And after a triumphant, sun-kissed week of dance music, hopefully it’s the first of many. Hosted March 21-25, B&L Spring Break offered four meticulously curated days and nights filled with day parties, branded club nights, and a slew of wellness activities. With headliner Alison Wonderland not being able to attend due to a private matter, her slot was filled by Dillon Francis, who lit up the indoor stage with a maniacal set along with B&L co-founder Fernet, Craze and Wax Motif. Day 1 also included a pool party and the kick off of the B&L Olympics. Day 2...
Dead and Company Announce 2022 Summer Tour
Dead & Company have announced a 2022 Summer tour. The Grateful Dead offshoot, which features Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, and Bob Weir alongside John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti, will kick off the 20-date outing at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium on June 11th. The itinerary also includes multiple dates at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA; Folsom Field in Boulder, CO; Chicago’s Wrigley Field; and Citi Field in New York City. A Ticketmaster Verified Fan pre-sale will begin Tuesday, April 5th at 10:00 a.m. local time. Fans can register for access now through Sunday, April 3rd. A general public on-sale will follow on Friday, April 8th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Related Video Dead & Company 2022 Tour Dates:06/11 – Los Angeles, CA @ Dodger Stadiu...
Harry Styles Premieres New Single “As It Was”: Stream
A new Harry Styles era is officially upon us. The pop singer has shared “As It Was,” the first single from his forthcoming album, Harry’s House. Styles goes new wave for “As It Was,” where he grieves a broken relationship over a gentle, reverberating synth line. “Nothing to say/ And everything gets in the way/ Seems you cannot be replaced,” he sings in an understated croon, before repeating, “You know it’s not the same as it was.” In keeping with the song’s shimmering aesthetic, in the song’s accompanying music video, Styles does a moody interpretative dance in a red sequin jumpsuit, while his heartsick love interest dances in a blue costume of her own. Check out the clip, helmed by Ukrainian GRAMMY Award-nominated director Tanu Muino, below. Advertisement Related Video “Directing a Harry ...
DJ Drama and Dreamville Unleash D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape: Stream
J. Cole’s Dreamville Records gets the latest DJ Drama look on the surprise release D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape. Stream it below via Apple Music and Spotify. The project was first announced on Wednesday night via Cole’s Instagram with a grainy trailer that featured the Dreamville founder and his labelmates J.I.D, EARTHGANG, Bas, Ari Lennox, Cozz, Lute, and Omen. It marks the first collaborative effort from the label since 2020’s deluxe release of Revenge of the Dreamers III. D-Day drops just days before the return of J. Cole’s Raleigh, North Carolina-based Dreamville Festival after a three-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. The two-day event begins Saturday, April 2nd with a lineup touting the label’s entire roster, as well as a special Gangsta Grillz set by the Atlanta-based ...
The Bubble Tests Positive for Tone-Deaf Tedium: Review
The Pitch: It’s 2022, which means that we’re now getting the kind of movies that weren’t just filmed during COVID, but conceived during it (see also: Soderbergh’s Kimi, Doug Liman’s Locked Down). For Judd Apatow, that meant a long, hard look at the ways that mainstream studio filmmaking has adjusted to the times: masks aplenty, social distancing, and the much-vaunted “bubble” of fully quarantined people who are trapped together until, well, all this stuff is over. And that’s the environment under which the latest entry in the hit blockbuster franchise Cliff Beasts, Cliff Beasts 6: The Battle for Everest: Memories of the Requiem, is to be made, says the film’s producers (including Peter Serafinowicz and Kate McKinnon). But of course, throwing a group of temperamenta...
Harry Styles Releases Music Video for Emotional New Single “As It Was”
Harry Styles has released “As It Was,” the debut single from his upcoming third album Harry’s House. While previous music endeavors were packed with songs such as “Lights Up,” “Watermelon Sugar” and “Golden,” it seems that the upcoming album is going to be Styles’ most personal and open to date — especially if “As It Was” is anything to go by. The song opens with children saying “Come on, Harry, we wanna say good night to you,” before a synthy melody promising a cheerfully upbeat song kicks in. However, Styles’ lyrics are quite the contrary, ranging from “In this world, it’s just us / You know it’s not the same as it was” to “Answer the phone / Harry, you’re no good alone / Why are you sitting at home on the floor? / What kind of pills are you on?,” which perhaps allude to t...
Snoop Dogg Shares Photo With Dr. Dre in the Studio: “The Chronic is Bac Home”
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NIGO’s ‘I Know NIGO’ Receives Vinyl Release
NIGO‘s I Know NIGO — his first album in almost two decades — is receiving a vinyl release. The record will feature all 11 tracks with Lil Uzi Vert, A$AP Rocky, Kid Cudi, Teriyaki Boyz, Pusha T, Clipse, Pharrell, Gunna, A$AP Ferg, Pop Smoke and Tyler, the Creator, and will be offered in two editions: the original blue album art with blue pressing, and the limited edition cover art designed by KAWS with a beige-pressed record. Speaking to HYPEBEAST about the record, Steven Victor and NIGO expressed their excitement for the album. “This project is all our favorite rappers paying tribute to NIGO’s contribution to the culture,” Victor said, with NIGO adding, “Finally, I was happy to present new music to fashion people and new fashion to music people.” NIGO’s I Know NIGO vinyl is available ...
Alabaster dePlume: Gold – Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love
Alabaster DePlume is a lot of things—a saxophonist, a poet, an arranger, a social node in London’s jazz scene—but above all, he’s a person who wants you to treat yourself with more kindness, gentleness, and self-respect. On GOLD, his second album for International Anthem, he applies self-love like an exfoliant, scraping off the old skin of cynicism and exposing the clean and vulnerable surface below. He is, as he says multiple times on this record, “brazen, like a baby,” and while that means the Mancunian musician born Gus Fairbairn is often agog at the fresh beauty of the world, it also means he’s uniquely attuned to its difficulties. Even when it’s comforting, GOLD is not comfortable. GOLD follows 2020’s To Cy and Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1, an astounding collection of songs DePlume devel...
