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Things Get Hairy on JPEGMAFIA’s “BALD! REMIX” Featuring Denzel Curry: Stream
In February, JPEGMAFIA released a new jam for everyone with a “fucked up hairline,” “BALD!”. While Denzel Curry has a full head of hair, he also takes great pleasure in rapping about anything at all, and the two off-kilter MCs have unleashed a “BALD! REMIX” that takes on the haters and promises there’ll be hell toupee. After Peggy’s initial exuberant verse, the remix shaves down the beat to bare percussion. Curry starts off with a relentless, driving flow, before switching it up to a jazzier delivery. The accompanying music video was filmed on a cellphone outside of a convenience store, as the two artists take turns filming each other. It’s a delightfully lo-fi experience, as simple and full of joy as a couple of kids rapping on the corner. Check out “BALD! REMIX” below. In addition to “BA...
Adele Celebrates Birthday, Thanks Essential Workers in Rare Social Media Post
On Tuesday night, Adele celebrated her 32nd birthday with her very first Instagram post of the year. The rare photo captured the pop icon smiling ear to ear in a lush courtyard, as well as featured a special message of thanks to essential workers and first responders on the frontlines of the pandemic. “Thank you for the birthday love. I hope you’re all staying safe and sane during this crazy time,” the Grammy winner wrote on IG. “I’d like to thank all of our first responders and essential workers who are keeping us safe while risking their lives! You are truly our angels. 2020 okay bye thanks x .” Adele has been on social media only sparingly the last 12 months — yes, even that secret Twitter account has probably gone dark — in an effort to focus more on herself following her split from&nb...
R.I.P. Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder Dies at 73
Florian Schneider, co-founding member of Germany’s electronic music group Kraftwerk, has died at the age of 73. A representative for the band said Schneider had been battling cancer. Schneider founded Kraftwerk alongside Ralf Hütter in 1970, after meeting at the Academy of Arts in Remscheid in Düsseldorf. The pair were part of Germany’s experimental music underground scene, initially playing together as members of a group called Organisation. However, after Schneider became interested in synthesizers, the duo began recording music under the name Kraftwerk. Their initial two studio albums — Kraftwerk and Kraftwerk 2 — consisted of free-form experimental recordings, created using guitar, bass, drums, organ, flute, and violin, and later distorted with audio-tape manipulation and multiple dubb...
Florian Schneider, Kraftwerk Co-Founder, Dies at 73
Florian Schneider, the co-founder of German electronic music pioneers Kraftwerk, has died, SPIN has confirmed. He was 73. “Kraftwerk co-founder and electro pioneer Ralf Alf Hütter has sent us the very sad news that his friend and companion over many decades Florian Schneider has passed away from a short cancer disease just a few days after his 73rd birthday,” a band rep said in a statement. In 1970, Schneider formed Kraftwerk with Ralf Hütter after first meeting at the Academy of Arts in Remscheid, then at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. From then until his 2008 departure, the group was widely praised for their futuristic keyboard-based sound or in their own words, “robot-pop.” Kraftwerk were set to embark on a North American tour this summer to celebrate their 50th anniversa...
Ezra Koenig Plays Father of the Bride Medley on Tonight Show
While others are keeping the quarantine streams going or doing weekly covers, Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig has been chilling out a bit — with the occasional acoustic tune on Instagram or joining his partner Rashida Jones on an zoom interview. But on Tuesday night (May 5), Koenig did a special medley of “Flower Moon,” “Stranger” and “Big Blue” from Vampire Weekend’s latest, Father Of The Bride from his home studio, which you’ll immediately see is stocked with equipment. In February, the band released bonus tracks from FOTB, which included a track featuring Jude Law reciting a 19th-century Scottish poem. Watch Vampire Weekend’s Ezra Koenig perform a medley from Father of the Bride on The Tonight Show below: [embedded content]
SLANDER and SVDDEN DEATH Announce Epic B2B and New Collaboration
Fans of SLANDER and SVDDEN DEATH have a lot to look forward to this Saturday, May 2nd. The duo just announced they will be kicking off the Bassrush live stream with a special B2B performance at 8PM PST (11PM EST). If that wasn’t enough, during the stream they will be premiering their new collaboration for the first time ever live on SLANDER’s Twitch channel. The tandem first raised eyebrows when they shared a call to action for fans to retweet if they wanted a collab between the two revered bass music acts. After receiving 4.7K retweets, the result was an unequivocal “yes.” Based on the snippet shared on Twitter, fans should plan to stretch in preparation for the stream as necks and backs will be pushed to the extreme with this heavy-hitter.&nb...
Bass Prodigy A Hundred Drums Delivers Dynamic New Single “19”
California-grown, Denver-based recording artist A Hundred Drums was supposed to be playing Bassnectar’s Deja Voom and Freestyle Sessions events in the first half of 2020, but like the rest of us, her live music plans have been sidelined for the foreseeable future by the impact of COVID-19. Today, however, she’s plugging back into the bass community and culture by delivering an electrifying new single, “19,” which displays how she’s using quarantine to cultivate an even more palatable sonic storyline. A Hundred Drums has honed in on creating her multi-instrumental bass music project since starting out in 2006. Fusing elements of modern electronic music with tantalizing, genre-defiant soundscapes, the Redondo Beach native earned co-signs and bookings from various artists, li...
Malaa Drops a Funky Homage to Stoners with “Four Twenty”
Malaa is here to represent for all the stoners out there who feel like every day is 4/20 with his brand new single. The French ski-masked artist shared that “Four Twenty” was originally supposed to come out on April 20th, but in true stoner fashion, the producer got a little too high. The intoxicating, aptly-titled single is the perfect soundtrack to blast as we enter into yet another weekend of self-isolation. The single samples Dr. Dre‘s iconic track “Let’s Get High,” transforming it with a funky G-House production, ambient chatter that is great for imagining you’re surrounded by all your friends, and Malaa’s signature use of sirens. Stoners and non-stoners alike can get down with a bassline like this, artfully crafted t...
Gryffin and Noah Kahan Breathe New Life Into Bon Iver’s “Heavenly Father”
With great hair comes great responsibility. Remixing music from Bon Iver is no easy task, but with their flowing locks and spellbinding dance pop sensibilities, Gryffyn and Noah Kahan have done so with flying colors. Today the pair released their cover of Bon Iver’s 2014 single “Heavenly Father,” producing a soaring future bass rework that serves as a refreshing electronic twist on the original. Iconic indie folk band Bon Iver released “Heavenly Father” back in summer 2014 before the track appeared on the soundtrack to Scrubs star Zach Braff‘s film Wish I Was Here. In a glowing review of the single, Rolling Stone said it “finds [frontman] Justin Vernon looping angelic coos to create an electronic choir before his robus...
Cold War Kids Enlist The Lumineers’ Wesley Schultz on ‘1 x 1′
Cold War Kids have released a new track, “1 x 1,” that sheds light on a community that many have been falling under the radar. “This song was inspired by the stories of child migrants separated from their families at the border,” singer Nathan Willett said in a statement. “Now that we are all quarantined, it has taken on an extra meaning…One by one each of us are staying apart to help the whole of us.” The acoustic guitar-led track saw the band co-write the song’s lyrics with One Republic’s Brent Kutzle and features Wesley Schultz of The Lumineers on vocals. Cold War Kids shared some of the lyrics on Twitter to convey more of their message. Since (almost) everyone is staying at their own homes, the video shows Willett standing by himself at the mic with projections of Schultz an others on ...
Blitzen Trapper Share ‘Magical Thinking’ From Yep Roc Debut
Blitzen Trapper are gearing up to release their first album with Yep Roc Records later this summer. On Holy Smokes Future Jokes, singer Eric Earley looked beyond mere existence (or even the end of it) to contend with grander cosmic explorations — namely, the intermediate period between a person’s separate lives on Earth “and what it means to escape the cycle of birth and rebirth.” The record therefore takes listeners on a trip through bardo (the Buddhist transitional state between death and rebirth), and it’s that sense of cosmic humility that has served as the impetus for the album’s message. Thus, it should come as no surprise that the first song from the album is titled “Magical Thinking” and features the delicate alt-folk that has become synonymous with the group. T...
Florence and The Machine Perform Digital Met Gala Concert: Watch
Grab your biggest sunglasses and get dressed in your finest garments: Florence and the Machine have announced they will perform a live digital benefit concert for The Metropolitan Museum of Art. The livestream, dubbed “A Moment with the Met”, will take place this Monday, May 4th at 6:00 p.m. ET on Vogue’s YouTube channel. Watch below. The Met Gala traditionally takes place on the first Monday in May, but because of the pandemic, this year’s event has been canceled. In its place, this livestream will seek to raise funds for the Costume Institute and A Common Thread. In addition to a live set by Florence and the Machine, fashion designer Virgil Abloh will perform a DJ set, Vogue will recount previous Met Galas, and new videos will be released featuring Cardi B, Naomi Campbell, Liv Tyler...
