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What’s Your Favorite Avicii Song of All Time? Vote!
Tuesday, Sept. 8, would have been Avicii’s 31st birthday. As dance stars such as David Guetta and Armin van Buuren commemorate the late dance music superstar, and SiriusXM’s BPM channel launches a week of Avicii programming, we consider the musical legacy that the producer born Tim Bergling left behind. While the Avicii catalog is packed with era-defining hits and beloved B-sides, everyone has a favorite track. Let us know yours by voting below. 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, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Fiona Apple to Perform Virtually at the New Yorker Festival
Fiona Apple is slated to perform virtually at this year’s New Yorker Festival on Oct. 10. The show begins at 8 p.m. EDT and will also feature the singer in conversation with the magazine’s Emily Nussbaum. Tickets are $19.95 and available here. The Grammy-winning singer/songwriter has put out five studio albums since 1996, most recently, Fetch the Bolt Cutters, which was released to critical acclaim on April 20 of this year. The New Yorker Festival will be held virtually from Oct. 5-11, 2020. Additional festival guests include Steve Martin, Jerry Seinfeld, Yo-Yo Ma, Natasha Lyonne and Maya Rudolph. Recently, Apple narrated a new short film that outlines how to document arrests by ICE, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In the follow-up interview ...
Porter Robinson Recounts Early Career-Defining Moments, First Ever Show In New Interview
It’s hard to believe that it has been nearly a decade since Porter Robinson was signed to Skrillex‘s OWSLA imprint, propelling the then-fledgling producer into the spotlight. It was a fire-starting moment for Robinson’s career, but the story starts much earlier, as we learned in a new interview with British GQ wherein Robinson recounted the early “wins” that took his music production from hobby to career path. Asked about when he knew he wanted to become a professional musician, Robinson described the process as “gradual.” Perhaps unsurprisingly, his earliest musical inspiration came from the popular arcade game Dance Dance Revolution. Robinson’s older brother had brought home a copy when the artist was just 12. He ultima...
Netflix Documents Michigan Man’s Attempt to Contact Aliens With Kraftwerk’s Music
Deep in the woods of rural Michigan, John Shepherd spent years attempting to contact extraterrestrial life. In the new Netflix short documentary John Was Trying to Contact Aliens, Shepherd shows filmmakers the array of inventions he used in order to beam sound into outer space. Avant-garde style music was the medium by which Shepherd sought to communicate with alien life. John frequently broadcasted sounds from legendary electronic groups Kraftwerk and Tangerine Dream in an attempt to make a connection. Any sounds deemed “non-commercial,” including jazz and reggae music, were fair game in his eyes. Eventually, Shepherd’s determination escalated into building an addition onto his grandparents’ house where he lived, creating an enti...
Gorillaz Tease Forthcoming Collaboration with Robert Smith of Iconic Rock Band The Cure
The latest installment of Gorillaz‘ “Song Machine” series will feature none other than Robert Smith, frontman of iconic rock band The Cure. The virtual band touts “Song Machine” as a collection of singles and music videos, which they dub “episodes,” and each one features a newly announced guest. Previous collaborators include Schoolboy Q, Fatoumata Diawara, slowthai, and Slaves, among others. The first season of the series—set to consist of 10 episodes—launched in January 2020 and is slated to release in full in October 2020 as a compilation titled Almanac. The project will also come with a full-color hardback produced in collaboration with renowned graphic novel company Z2 Comics, with 120 pages of Gorillaz-themed puzzles, games, co...
Lana Del Rey and Jack Antonoff Discuss Progress on New Album, Performing with Joan Baez
While we were all hoping that Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club would be out by now, unfortunately, the waiting continues. In fact, Interview magazine just released the transcription of a phone conversation between Rey and frequent collaborator and friend Jack Antonoff that revealed that the new album isn’t done yet. While Rey admitted that they were “incredibly close” to the finish line, the two discussed how Chemtrails Over the Country Club came to be. “I was thinking about how different it’s been making this one because of how much I’ve been distracted by poetry this year,” Rey said. “Just when you think you know what you’re doing, something else pops up.” Antonoff, who revealed that he was in New York working on Rey’s album, told the singer, “When you would send me them, ...
Janelle Monae Unveils New Song ‘Turntables’
All In: The Fight For Democracy will debut in theaters tomorrow (Sept. 9) and the documentary about voter suppression will feature a new song from Janelle Monae. Titled “Turntables,” the anthemic new tune (which is a little under three minutes) from Monae is her first new song since 2018’s Dirty Computer. The song was written by was Monáe, Nathaniel Irvin III, and George A. Peters with production by Nate “Rocket” Wonder and Roman GianArthur. The documentary was directed by Oscar-nominated and Emmy-winning filmmaker Liz Garbus and Oscar-nominated and Emmy-nominated filmmaker Lisa Cortés, and produced by Garbus, Cortés, Academy Award-winning producer Dan Cogan and Stacey Abrams. Monae will feature in the upcoming Antebellum film that is out on Sept. 18. Listen to the...
Members of Spirit Adrift, Royal Thunder Cover Robyn’s ‘Ever Again’
Two Minutes to Late Night closed out Labor Day Weekend with an unexpected cover of Robyn’s “Ever Again,” off her 2018 LP, Honey. Drawing inspiration from Thin Lizzy, 2M2LN host Jordan Olds, aka Gwarsenio Hall, took on guitar duties, bringing in Nate Garrett of Spirit Adrift, Troy Sanders (Mastodon, Killer Be Killed and Gone Is Gone) on bass and Ben Koller (Killer Be Killed, Converge, Mutoid Man and All Pigs Must Die), who took his place at the drumkit. Royal Thunder’s Mlny Parsonz returns with “another fake mustache” as the cover’s singer. “Call your girlfriend, the boys are back in town! We covered Robyn as if it were a Thin Lizzy song and Mlny’s back with another fake mustache,” Two Minutes to Late Night captioned the video. Two Minutes to Late Night has done a number of other notab...
Neil Young Reveals 1970 Carnegie Hall Show Will Be Released as First ‘Bootleg’
In a post on his website a few weeks ago, Neil Young teased the release of “Official Bootlegs” from his live archives while announcing several other releases in the coming months. Over the weekend, Young revealed that the first in this series would be from his 1970 show at New York City’s legendary Carnegie Hall. Young performed two shows that week at the venue — which he says that bootleggers only were able to record the second. This release would be from the first show. “There was one at 8:00 pm and one at midnight [the next night]. No one got that first one — the first time I walked onstage at Carnegie Hall, blowing my own 25-year-old mind,” he wrote. The show in question took place in December 1970, just a few weeks after the release of After the Gold Rush. Young notes that he pre...
Billie Eilish Unveils New Signature Fender Ukulele Model
Grammy-winning phenom Billie Eilish added another feather to her cap with the release of a Signature Ukulele from Fender, the instrument embodying her preferred specs and aesthetic with her distinct “blohsh™” pattern. “The ukulele was the first instrument I learned,” she said in a statement. “It’s where I started writing, and where I found new ways of writing that I had never tried before. It inspires a different kind of writing. The rules of the ukulele are simple, and basically, if you know three chords you can play almost any song. I hope my Fender Signature ukulele inspires people to start playing, and start writing; anyone can do it.” Eilish plays and talks about the instrument below. [embedded content] The launch coincides with the addition of six of her songs, including ...
The Rolling Stones Heading For Big Splash on U.K. Chart With ‘Goats Head Soup’ Reissue
A 21-year-old Englishman stands in the way of another Rolling Stones chart triumph. Declan McKenna leads the U.K.’s midweek albums chart with his sophomore effort Zeros (Columbia), ahead of the Stones’ Goats Heads Soup (Polydor) reissue. Based on weekend sales activity reported by the Official Charts Company, Zeros has shifted the most physical units in the week so far to lead the Official Chart Update. McKenna got his break in 2015 when he won Glastonbury Festival’s Emerging Talent Competition. His debut album What Do You Think About The Car? peaked at No. 11 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart following its release in 2017. Meanwhile, the Stones are rolling on to another big chart impact with Goats Heads Soup, an album that ruled the national sales tallies on both sides of ...
Ted Cockle, Amy Thomson Join Hipgnosis Songs
Ted Cockle, the Universal Music Group stalwart who most recently served as Virgin EMI president, has joined Merck Mercuriadis’ Hipgnosis Songs. Three months after announcing his departure from the U.K. label, Cockle is today (Aug. 8) unveiled as president of Hipgnosis Songs. Also joining the company is Amy Thomson, a management and marketing veteran who takes the role as chief catalog officer. The incoming executives will be expected to help “grow and care for songs and their legacy” within the expanding Hipgnosis Songs catalog, reads a statement announcing their arrival. “It’s a testament to the iconic song catalog that we have assembled over the last two plus years, and our songwriters, that we have been able to attract executives with the extraordinary talent, pedigree and success of Te...
