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Carl Cox Partners With Social Virtual Reality Platform, Sensorium Galaxy
If you’re a fan of Carl Cox, The Sims, or Second Life, you’re in luck. Sensorium Galaxy is a new multi-user social virtual reality program (backed by former Brooklyn Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov and Jay-Z‘s TIDAL streaming service) that allows people to experience the arts in a digital social network. Cox has teamed up with Sensorium to bring his world-class performances to the virtual landscape. Using true-to-life motion capture, Sensorium will create a virtual representation of Cox, who will be performing exclusive DJ sets for the platform’s music world, PRISM. “I am excited to join Sensorium Galaxy in taking communication and entertainment to the next level,” Cox said about the collaboration. “This ...
Nine Inch Nails, The Killers, Dua Lipa to Feature on Latest Episodes of Netflix’s Song Exploder
The Killers, Nine Inch Nails, Dua Lipa and Natalia Lafourcade are the artists tapped to take dives into specific, career-changing hits on Volume 2 of Netflix’s Song Exploder. The new season will premiere globally on Dec. 15, 2020. Trent Reznor will discuss his iconic Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt,” which has been famously covered by Johnny Cash and others. Reznor, an Oscar, Grammy and Emmy-winning composer and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, wrote “Hurt” in 1994 and it’s the final track on NIN’s second studio album, The Downward Spiral. “I first interviewed Trent Reznor for a Nine Inch Nails episode of the podcast back in 2017, and afterward, as I was packing up my microphone and laptop, he asked me, ‘Have you ever thought about making this into a TV show?’” Song Exploder host and...
Bruce Springsteen Shares New Trailer from Upcoming Apple TV+ Doc
After announcing Bruce Springsteen’s Letter to You earlier this month, Apple TV+ has offered up the official trailer for the film. [embedded content] Directed by longtime Springsteen collaborator Thom Zimny, the documentary not only follows the recording process of Springsteen’s upcoming album and also serves as a tribute to the E Street Band, longtime Springsteen collaborators who played a significant role in the artist’s life. It will include the final take performances of 10 tracks from the new album as well as never-before-seen footage from the archives. “I’m in the middle of a 45-year conversation with the men and women I’m surrounded by,” Springsteen said in the clip. “The years of playing together have created an efficiency in the studio. Ideas tumble around the room, confusion ofte...
Pharrell Williams, 2 Chainz Added to Run the Jewels’ Holy Calamavote Lineup
Run the Jewels’ Holy Calamavote is less than two weeks away. And now, they’ve announced additional guests for the nights’ voter-encouragement event, adding Pharrell Williams, 2 Chainz, Greg Nice, Gangsta Boo, DJ Cutmaster Swiff, Cochemea and Gastelum. Zack De La Rocha, Mavis Staples and Josh Homme were previously announced as part of the telecast. It will also be the premiere performance of Run the Jewels’ RTJ4. Despite a rescheduled date due to a health scare, the event will air on Oct. 17 at 12:01am ET/9:01pm PT on Adult Swim’s website and HBO Max. Following the live broadcast, the show will also be available on Adult Swim’s YouTube channel, where fans can also donate to the ACLU. Watch the trailer for the show below. [embedded content] You can find out more about the show and ...
Ace Hood “Trampoline,” Curren$y & Harry Fraud “1 LUV” & More | Daily Visuals 10.14.20
While Ace Hood might not have DJ Khaled backing him like he once did when he was an up and coming rapper looking to establish himself in the Hip-Hop game, the Miami rapper is still making waves and chugging along on his own steam. Coming through with his latest visuals, “Trampoline,” Ace Hood and his crew get amped up for a friendly game of dodge ball with some attractive young females because nothing says “I like you” like a ball to the face. They must’ve had hella fun shooting this video. Curren$y meanwhile continues to keep up with his weekly video grind and in his latest clip to “1 LUV” blows smoke in one of his fancy automobiles while kicking back on his block. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from J Stone and Dave East, Joey Fatts featuring G Perico, and more. ACE H...
Struggle Rapper Lil Xan Sued For Pulling Gun On Man During Tupac Altercation
Source: PYMCA / Getty Lil Xan is once again in the news for nothing to do with his actual music. The struggle rapper is being sued by the man he allegedly pulled a gun on during an argument about Tupac Shakur. You may or probably don’t remember that way back in June 2019, Xan got into a tiff with a man over the merits of Tupac’s music. Xan drew the ire of many when he called Pac’s music “boring” during an interview, which led to immediate slander, and at the time the rapper said he pulled the blicky out because he was being bullied.. Reports TMZ: According to new legal docs, obtained by TMZ — Anthony Sanchez is going after Lil Xan for their June 7, 2019 altercation at an L.A. 7-Eleven … the tail end of which Sanchez recorded video. Sanchez claims he asked the rapper about a contr...
Public Enemy Share Animated Video for ‘Grid’ Featuring George Clinton and Cypress Hill
Public Enemy dropped an animated video for “Grid,” the latest from PE’s recent album, What You Gonna Do When The Grid Goes Down?, the group’s first album in over 20 years for their first label Def Jam. The video was directed by Ice the Endless, with background by ThatOneDudeZach and visual effects by RMELL and ARTJCON. Public Enemy group performed the song along with Cypress Hill and George Clinton on CBS’s special live broadcast of The Late Show With Stephen Colbert immediately following the first presidential debate in September. The song and vid is an excoriation of our screen-addicted society, with lyrics including “Communication breakdown it’s a take down / are you awake now or consumed by a fake clown? / World Wide Web keep the spiders fed / Looking at my feed, trolls everywhere...
Ariel Atom 4 First Look: Looks Like an Atom, Sounds Like a Civic Type R
Despite its familiar looks, the Ariel Atom 4 shares only three parts with its predecessor: the clutch pedal, brake pedal, and fuel cap. In other words, this is an all-new iteration of the company’s famously analog sports car. Although Ariel initially announced the model more than two years ago at the Goodwood Festival of Speed, the British brand is finally kicking off production of the two-seat Atom 4 in the United States. Fortunately, it seems the American-made model essentially mirrors its overseas counterpart. See all 56 photos Civic Duty That’s good news, too, because this 1,350-pound rocket features a new chassis that’s 15 percent stiffer than before and a mid-mounted 320-hp turbocharged 2.0-liter inline-four from the Civic Type R hatchback. Ariel claims the At...
COVID-19, Bushfires Impact APRA AMCOS’ Financial Year
With restrictions in place on live music and events across the country, royalties are “expected to take a more substantial hit in 2020-21,” APRA AMCOS warns. In a painful sign of the times, royalties payable to songwriters, publishers, affiliated societies and rights holders during the year-long period were down 0.9%, to A$407.3 million ($289 million). Predictably, the hardest hit revenue category was public performance income, which generated A$73 million ($51 million) of income, almost A$20 million ($14 million) less than the corresponding figure from last year. The results are published in the APRA AMCOS’s Year In Review. “Individual and collective resilience has been tested and we’ve had to adapt quickly,” comments APRA AMCOS CEO Dean Ormston, on publication of the annual report....
Post Malone, Billie Eilish & More Artists Who Made History at the 2020 Billboard Music Awards
Here are 14 artists not named Post who made history at the show. Billie Eilish: The teen phenom’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? won top Billboard 200 album, nearly nine months after it won the Grammy for album of the year. It’s the fourth album in the past 10 years to receive both of these awards, following Adele’s 21 and 25 and Taylor Swift’s 1989. Eilish also won top female artist, beating last year’s winner, Ariana Grande, and three-time category champ Swift. Eilish also took top new artist. She’s the first female artist to win in this category since Lorde in 2014. Luke Combs: The 30-year old country star won top country artist for the second year in a row, becoming the first artist to win back-to-back awards in this category since the show’s relaunch in 2011. Swif...
Get a Taste of Justin Bieber’s ‘Lonely’ Before It’s Out Via This Brand-New Snapchat Feature
Picture-perfect, you don’t need no filter — but you need the perfect song to go with your latest Snapchat. That’s why the social media platform launched Sounds early Thursday (Oct. 15), which features a snippet of Justin Bieber‘s new single before its release. Now, Snapchatters have access to a curated music library so their favorite songs by established and emerging artists can soundtrack the short videos they send to friends and family. Snapchat’s Sounds list will exclusively feature a sample of “Lonely,” Bieber and Benny Blanco’s new collaboration that’s set to drop first thing Friday. When a user receives a Snap with Sounds, they can swipe up to see the song title, artist name and album artwork. A “Play This Song” link wi...
Sam Smith, Maluma, Doja Cat & More to Perform at 2020 MTV EMA
This year’s show will be shot in multiple locations around the world. Sam Smith, Maluma, Doja Cat, Yungblud and Zara Larsson are the first performers announced to appear on the 2020 MTV EMA (Europe Music Awards), which are set to air globally on MTV on Nov. 8. The timing works out especially well for Smith and Yungblud, who are set to release new studio albums near the show date. Smith’s third studio album, Love Goes, is due Oct. 30. Yungblud’s second studio album, Weird!, is due Nov. 13. Maluma and Doja Cat will be performing on the EMA stage for the first time. Maluma is nominated for three awards, including two categories that are newly added this year: best Latin and best virtual live. The latter category was created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and is expected to be short-live...
