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Beyoncé Confirms ‘RENAISSANCE’ World Tour in 2023
Beyoncé has confirmed that she will embark on a world tour in support of her latest record, RENAISSANCE, which was released earlier this year. Bey seemingly announced the tour, which is slated to commence next summer, during an auction for the Wearable Art Gala on Saturday. There, a concert ticket package offered passes to attend the RENAISSANCE tour, confirming that Beyoncé will return to the stage in 2023. The description detailed that the action winner would receive two First Class International United Airlines Polaris tickets, alongside a three-night stay at a Marriott hotel and two tickets to the tour in a city of their choosing. Valued at $20,000 USD, the auction item also included a backstage experience with Beyoncé’s mother, Tina Knowles-Lawson. Beyoncé has not made an officia...
Run the Jewels Announce Latin American RTJ4 Remix Album RTJ CU4TRO, Share “Caminando en la Nieve”: Stream
Run the Jewels are revisiting their 2020 album RTJ4 with RTJ CU4TRO, a reimagining of the record made entirely by Latin American artists. The remix project arrives November 11th via Jewel Runners / BMG, and “Caminando en la Nieve,” an adaptation of “Walking in the Snow” by Orestes Gomez, Nick Hook, Akapellah, Apache, and Pawmps, is out now. Nick Hook curated and co-executive produced RTJ CU4TRO, while artists like Bomba Estéreo, Zack de la Rocha, Akapellah, Baco Exu Do Blues, Iggor Cavalera, Sarah La Morena, Sante Fe Klan, and Mexican Institute of Sound put their own spin on EL-P and Killer Mike’s songs. “We are honored and delighted to have had the opportunity to work with the amazing producers, vocalists, musicians, and artists who made this album happen,” EL-P said i...
Bono Pleads “Mea Culpa” for U2’s Misguided Songs of Innocence Apple Rollout
Bono took “full responsibility” for the controversial release strategy behind U2’s 2014 LP, Songs of Innocence, that installed the album on every Apple device for free, in his upcoming memoir, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story. In an excerpt shared via The Guardian, Bono detailed a meeting with CEO Tim Cook, U2 manager Guy Oseary, and other Apple executives where the frontman previewed the new album and proposed the tech giant “pay us for it, and then you give it away free, as a gift to people… like when Netflix buys the movie and gives it away to subscribers.” The plan was subsequently pushed forward despite Cook raising legitimate concerns like “we’re not a subscription organisation” and “this is just to people who like U2?” “I take full responsibility,” the singer reflected in response to ...
Check Out ACRAZE’s Exclusive EDM.com Playlist Ahead of His Seismic Dance Event Debut
Seismic Dance Event lies just on the horizon and ACRAZE is chief among the newcomers to Austin’s largest house and techno music festival. Promising talents and established legends alike are converging on the Lone Star state next month, and the EDM.com Class of 2022 inductee has plenty for fans to chew over in anticipation for this year’s landmark 5th edition. As the “Do It To It” producer achieves new highs, he’s reminding himself of the persevering journey through the highs and lows along the way with “Believe.” The Goodboys-assisted single marks his opening salvo in an exclusive playlist he’s put together for EDM.com. Seismic Dance Event. Alexis Sturm Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles Summertime track selections are still top of mind ...
Ellie Goulding Readies Her Return to Dance Music With Announcement of 5th Studio Album
Ellie Goulding is healing from the scars of the pandemic with a return to dance music. The chart-topping songstress announced her vision for her fifth studio album back in early 2021, but now, Higher Than Heaven has an official release date slated for early 2023. In a 2021 interview on “The Joe Wicks Podcast,” Goulding outlined her original vision for her upcoming LP and explained that writing in the album’s early stages was progressing seamlessly. “I spent a lot of time by myself, quite introspective. I had a backlog of things I wanted to write about,” Goulding said at the time. “It was quite deep and emotional. And this album is the opposite of that. I found this dream team of writers, who just for some reason, without even having to talk ab...
Innovative Music Tech Companies Receive €100K After Winning ADE Startup Competition
Last Spring, the Amsterdam Dance Event and venture capital firm Antler asked the industry for their forward-thinking ideas in music tech. This week, two winning concepts were crowned, with each receiving six figures of investment. The ADE & Antler Startup Competition received more than 100 entries, but after a rigorous interview and pitch process, the pool was ultimately narrowed to just a handful of finalists who made their final pitch at Felix Meritis during ADE. Un:hurd is an artist-facing platform which helps creators better leverage their data and promotional insights through the help of artificial intelligence. The company was founded in 2019 by Alex Brees. The second winner, SYNKii, developed a clear use case as a result of the pandemic. Calling itself “the profession...
Look Inside Carl Cox’s Historic Headlining Performance at London’s Wembley Arena
What better way to celebrate a new EP—and the year’s most anticipated electronic album—than with a massive party. Carl Cox took “massive” to a new level on October 15th, taking over London’s Wembley Arena for his first-ever headlining set at the iconic entertainment venue. But it doesn’t stop there. For the very first time, he treated attendees to music from Electronic Generations, his first album in 10 years. The impending record, Cox’s first as a live electronic artist, has the feel of a tour de force for the legendary techno artist, who promised a “true electronic music experience” inspired by the crowds he has watched and directed in dance over his storied career. The Wembley show was every techno fan’s dream. Captivating lights and...
Run the Jewels To Release Remix Album Made Entirely by Latin Artists
Run the Jewels are gearing up to release a new RTJ4 remix record, dubbed RTJ Cu4tro. The album will include new iterations of familiar songs made entirely by Latin artists. Among those who will reinterpret the record’s 11 tracks are Zack de la Rocha (Rage Against The Machine) and Bomba Estéreo, as well as rappers Santa Fe Klan (Mexico), Baco Exu do Blues (Brazil), Akapellah and Apache (Venezuela). Ahead of the album’s arrival, Run the Jewels have released their first remixed track: “caminando en la nieve” featuring Apache, Akapellah and Pawmps. [embedded content] “We set out to make a remix album, but we consider the end result of RTJ Cu4tro to be more than that,” Run the Jewels said in a statement. “It’s a reimagining of RTJ4 through the lens of collaboration and a fusing o...
Zac Brown Band Cancels Concert in Canada After Members Denied Entry at Border
Zac Brown Band canceled its concert in Vancouver on Friday (Oct. 21) after some of the group’s members were denied entry at the Canadian border. Frontman Zac Brown took to social media just hours before the concert at Rogers Arena to break the news to fans. “We’re sorry to announce that we won’t be able to perform in Vancouver tonight. Our Canadian fans are incredible, and we would love nothing more than to share an evening of music together,” Brown wrote in a statement on Facebook. “Some of our crew members had charges on their records from over a decade ago that have since been removed. Our team has regularly performed in Canada for 10 years, including two performances this year alone.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The singer expla...
Turkish Singer Gulsen Appears in Court Over Religious Schools Joke
A Turkish pop singer accused of “inciting hatred and enmity” with a joke about Turkey’s religious schools rejected the charge Friday (Oct. 21) during her first court appearance. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Singer-songwriter Gulsen was charged and briefly jailed over the joke she made during a concert in April, when she quipped that the “perversion” of one of her musicians came from attending a religious school. The 46-year-old singer, whose full name is Gulsen Colakoglu, was taken away from her Istanbul home in August after a video from the concert began circulating on social media, with a hashtag calling for her arrest. She was jailed for five days and later spent 15 days under house arrest despite having apologized for any offense...
How Taylor Swift’s Recent Album Releases Tell a Story of the ‘Midnights’ Rollout
Taylor Swift has been a regular fixture at the top of the Billboard 200 since 2008, when she notched her first No. 1 album with Fearless. Since then, she’s continued to break records, rack up No. 1s — 10 so far — and score eye-popping first-week unit totals. While it’s difficult to compare debut-week performances of any single artist’s albums over time — owed to changes in market conditions and music consumption patterns — it’s enlightening to take a look back at Swift’s last five charted releases, from 2019’s Lover through 2021’s Red [Taylor’s Version], and at what fueled their debuts on the Billboard 200 albums chart. The marketing and promotion techniques applied to those five releases likely informed the rollout plan of Swift’s 10th studio album, Midn...
Taylor Swift’s ‘Midnights’ Off to Record-Breaking Start in U.S.
Taylor Swift’s Midnights is off to a record-breaking start in the U.S. after its first day in release. According to initial reports to Luminate, the album, which was released on Oct. 21, has sold more than 800,000 copies in the U.S. through its first day across all available formats (multiple digital album download, CD, vinyl and cassette variants). It has already logged the largest sales week for any album since 2017, is the top-selling album of 2022 year-to-date, and has set a modern-era record for single-week vinyl album sales. Luminate’s data powers Billboard’s weekly charts. 2022’s Top-Selling Album After One Day: Midnights’ initial sales sum already makes it the biggest-selling album of 2022 year-to-date. Previously, 2022’s top-selling album, year-to-date, was Harry Styles’...
