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Mat Zo Breaks Down His New Album ‘Illusion of Depth’: ‘I Wanted to Make a F— You Statement’
Now 30, the English-born, Los Angeles-based artist is delivering some of his best work to date on Illusion of Depth, which spans jungle, rave, melodic trance and DnB and maintains the cockiness Zo’s earlier output while also demonstrating his maturity as a producer and human. Body-movers such as “Love Songs” and “Next Chapter” will increase your already significant distress about not being able to dance at a club for the foreseeable future, while the soaring, multi-movement “Paralysis” will provide you with the emotional catharsis necessitated by this garbage year. “I was getting really tired of how clean everything is in this corner of dance music,” Zo says of the album in a statement. “Above all else, I wanted to make an album w...
Megan Thee Stallion Slams ‘Dumb Comment’ Criticizing Her ‘Protect Black Women’ Essay: ‘This Is Sad’
“I was recently the victim of an act of violence by a man. After a party, I was shot twice as I walked away from him,” Megan wrote for the NYT, in reference to the July incident in which Tory Lanez is accused of shooting her in the foot from outside his vehicle after an argument. “We were not in a relationship. Truthfully, I was shocked that I ended up in that place. My initial silence about what happened was out of fear for myself and my friends. Even as a victim, I have been met with skepticism and judgment. The way people have publicly questioned and debated whether I played a role in my own violent assault proves that my fears about discussing what happened were, unfortunately, warranted.” Despite the trolls, Megan also received an overwhelmi...
What’s Your Favorite Track in the Top 10 of Dance/Electronic Songs? Vote!
In 2020, a few select tracks have dominated the Hot Dance/Electronic Songs chart, with the Imanbek remix of Saint Jhn’s “Roses” now in its 30th week on the chart, where it has spent many of them in the top position. Meanwhile, The Black Eyed Peas and J Balvin have spent exactly a year on the chart with their hit “Ritmo” which is currently celebrating its 52nd week on the chart, while Lady Gaga and Ariana Grande are still holding strong with their smash “Rain On Me,” now in its 21st week. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, bloggin...
John Legend on ‘Voice’ Return & Why He Didn’t Wait to Release Music During Quarantine: Exclusive
NBC’s The Voice is returning on Oct. 19, and ahead of the 19th season premiere, coach John Legend caught fans up on what he’s been up to in quarantine, and releasing his Bigger Love album “that I am so proud of and I put so much love into.” “Bigger Love was such a labor of love for me,” he explained. “I couldn’t imagine waiting until the pandemic was over to put it out because we don’t even know when it’s going to be over, we don’t know when we can all get back together and physically enjoy the music together. So, I just wanted to give it to the people when it was ready.” “Times are tough, people are stressed and uncertain and worried, and I feel like music can help us get through moments like this, so ...
Watch The Flaming Lips Perform to an Audience in Giant Bubbles
In something out of a Black Mirror episode, psychedelic rock band The Flaming Lips have hosted a concert wherein everyone was encapsulated in giant bubbles. Lips frontman Wayne Coyne has been using a bubble over the course of his career to walk on top of crowds, but the Oklahoma City show marks the first time the band has required fans to utilize them on a large scale. While the globes were primarily used to thwart a potential spread of COVID-19, they also offered quite a live music experience. More importantly, the use of the bubbles offers a glimpse into what the immediate future of concerts could look like as many regions continue to struggle to navigate the convoluted process of reopening. Check out footage from the unprecedented show below. Prior to the show, Coyn...
Burning Man Launches New Series with Jennifer Cardini as Debut Guest
Burning Man Project‘s live media platform Kindling has launched “Incandescence,” a monthly curated program focusing on driving “enlightened conversations” through the perspective of creators. The new virtual series has a mission to bring fans closer to artists of all types through deep dive explorations of their respective experiences and motivations to change the world. The series kicks off with a conversation between producer Jennifer Cardini and Pablo González Vargas, creator of the Mayan Warrior art car, a staple of Burning Man. Cardini is an internationally recognized techno tastemaker and owner of two labels, Correspondant and Dischi Autunno. Cardini additionally became the first female signee to Kompakt Records, a Cologne-based...
The Bird and the Bee Cover ‘Little Drummer Boy’ With Dave Grohl
The Bird and The Bee are gearing up for the holiday season. The group will release Put Up The Lights, a collection of the duo’s favorite holiday songs featured alongside new original compositions. From that, the group released their new song, “You and I At Christmas Time,” as well as a version of the classic “Little Drummer Boy (feat. Dave Grohl).” The album, due out Oct. 23rd via No Expectation/Release Me Records, also includes covers of “Deck the Halls” and “Christmas Time is Here.” You can listen to Grohl’s playing on “The Little Drummer Boy” here and “You and I At Christmas Time” here. The initial idea for Put Up The Lights dates back to 2007 but it wasn’t until they released Interpreting the Masters Volume 2: A Tribute to Van Halen in 2019 that they committed to making the a...
Stevie Wonder Releases Two New Songs
Stevie Wonder has released a pair of new songs, his first solo offerings in years. “Can’t Put It in The Hands of Fate” features Rapsody, Cordae, Chika, and Busta Rhymes, while the second tune, “Where Is Our Love Song,” includes the guitar playing of none other than Gary Clark Jr. As the titles of the songs infer, they’re respectively about activism, rising to the moment and joining together to face the world’s current issues and how love can help folks overcome the problems of today. The songs were written and produced by Wonder, and released on Wonder’s own So What The Fuss Music label. “In these times, we are hearing the most poignant wake-up calls and cries for this nation and the world to, please, heed our need for love, peace and unity,” Wonder said in a statement The proceeds fr...
2021 Honda Accord First Look: Improved Value, But One Big Loss
There are two plot arcs in the 2021 Honda Accord story. Which one you follow depends on whether you’re one of the hundreds of thousands of buyers who snatch up new Accords year in and year out, or if you’re among the extreme minority who purchase the midsize sedan because of its available manual transmission. To the bigger group, the headline changes to Honda’s Accord for 2021 are its minor restyle and richer standard equipment across the lineup. That’s pretty standard mid-cycle refresh stuff. To the smaller group that enjoys shifting Honda’s sweet-driving sedan for themselves, bad news. Just as Honda had warned, the Accord’s six-speed manual transmission option is gone. The automaker even wrote what read as an apology to the shrinking number o...
Devilish Durango: Hennessey Tunes Dodge’s SRT Hellcat SUV to 1,000+HP
Cue AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell,” because the folks at Hennessey want to get 2021 Dodge Durango SRT Hellcat drivers on the road to Hades as quickly as possible. Why else would the famed tuning company see a need to tweak this three-row SUV’s supercharged 6.2-liter V-8 engine from 710 horses to an eye-widening 1,012 ponies? Yes, you read that right. Hennessey has a kit for the Durango SRT Hellcat that ups the total number of ponies in the Dodge SUV’s stable to over 1,000. Christened the HPE1000, this mighty Mopar promises to hit 60 mph in 2.8 seconds and cross the quarter mile in just 10.8 seconds. That’s a claimed 0.8-second improvement over the standard Durango SRT Hellcat’s manufacturer estimates of 3.5 and 11.5 seconds, respectively. Wha...
Metallica Announce Acoustic ‘Helping Hands’ Streaming Benefit Show
Metallica’s second “All Within My Hands Helping Hands” acoustic concert and auction will be the band’s first-ever worldwide pay-per-view event. This special gig benefitting the band’s All Within My Hands foundation will stream live from Metallica HQ on Nov. 14 at 2 pm PST. The event is named after the band’s 2003 song, “All Within My Hands” off St. Anger. The first show in 2018 raised $1.3 million. This year’s virtual event will be live-streamed from Metallica’s San Francisco HQ. Ticketholders can replay the show for 48 hours from when they first start the stream. Tickets, VIP packages, bundles and more are on sale here. All of the proceeds from this year’s Helping Hands event — tickets, fees and auction items — will go directly to help those in need, with Metallica and...
Snoop Dogg Celebrates New Los Angeles Lakers Title With New Tattoo
Source: Scott Legato / Getty If nothing else Snoop Doggy Dogg is a man of his word so when he promised Jemele Hill that he’d get himself a new Lakers tattoo if they won the championship this year, and low and behold, he done went and done did it. To celebrate LeBron and Anthony Davis bringing the City of Angels their 17th NBA title in franchise history, the Doggfather immediately visited famed tattoo artist, Mister Cartoon and got himself a huge Larry O’Brien trophy inked on his arm with the initials “KB” drawn up right under it. Sitting in a chair while the Chicano artist goes to work on his arm, Snoop looks into his camera phone and proudly states “Anything for the Lakers” and immediately taking a shot at Kawhi Leonard’s team stating, “F*ck the Clippers.” That was lowkey uncalled for but...
