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Underground Vibes | 048
Numerous artists, industry professionals and fans consider SoundCloud the best platform for unheralded music to reach its true potential. Its direct, artist-centric approach has enabled bedroom artists to reach fanbases all over the world, and it has equipped emerging talent to turn their SoundCloud game into longterm careers. In this series, our aim is to showcase the best new music we discover on the platform—music that oftentimes can’t be found anywhere else. In addition, we shine a light on talented artists who are either breaking through on the platform or have used it to attract an active following in the past. Underground Vibes 048 includes explosive gems from Taw and Late June, atmospheric soundscapes by Duke & Jones, club-ready tracks by Chace and Sparkee x LIINKS, and mo...
Marshmello and Halsey Channel the 80s With New Collaboration “Be Kind”
Earlier this week, Marshmello teased a forthcoming collaboration with Halsey. Luckily fans did not have to wait long for the radio-ready hit “Be Kind,” which dropped everywhere yesterday. The conversational summer song explores the struggles of opening up and demonstrating vulnerability in the context of a serious relationship. Listeners will also likely notice the instrumental choices are reminiscent of 80s-style dance music. Both artists have let the music speak for itself for the most part, but Halsey did mention the stylistic influence of the era played a role in shaping the single. Marshmello and Halsey have had nothing short of prolific presences within dance music in recent years. Halsey’s feature on The Chainsmokers‘ “Closer” helped so...
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Laidback Luke Launches New Mixmash Dating App to Connect Music Producers [Exclusive Interview]
With self-isolation and quarantine orders in effect across the globe, people are connecting through music online more than ever. With unity at its bedrock, the EDM scene has been leading the way, with new drive-in raves, virtual festivals, and artist livestream events every week. Iconic producer Laidback Luke has taken notice, vlogging himself listening to demos submitted to his website, interviewing dance music industry leaders affected by COVID-19, and even offering a DJ livestream tutorial. Laidback Luke’s team at Mixmash Records took things a step further while working on the remix contest for his new single “We Found Love,” a beautiful future house collaboration with Dutch dynamo Steff Da Campo. The bouncy summer banger dropped on April 17th, followed by a vi...
Liam Gallagher and Mark Lanegan Are Fighting on Twitter About Something That Happened 24 Years Ago
Liam Gallagher is in a Twitter fight with someone not named Noel. As Stereogum point outs, the Oasis singer currently finds himself in a tiff with another famous alt-rock singer, Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan, and it’s over something that literally happened 24 years ago. In his new memoir, Sing Backwards And Weep, Lanegan reveals that Screaming Trees and Oasis were supposed to tour together in 1996, but that plan fell apart after Gallagher mocked the name of Lanegan’s band by calling them “Howling Branches”. In response, Lanegan told Gallagher to “Fuck off, you stupid fucking idiot.” They apparently then set a date and time to have an actual physical fight, but Gallagher “had quit and bailed before I could have a go at him… That phony motherfucker had pissed his pants and gone...
July Talk Share the Origins of New Song “Identical Love”: Stream
In our new music feature Origins, musicians give fans an inside look at the some of the inspirations behind their latest song. Today, July Talk tell us how they found their “Identical Love”. “I want to be changed/ I want to be rearranged,” go the first lines on July Talk’s new album, Pray for It. The words set the tone for the whole effort, as the Toronto rock outfit set out to find renewal in rebirth — both for themselves personally and their band’s sound. Both types of restoration are denoted in the LP’s latest single and opening track, “Identical Love”. Though known for their snarling indie rock, “Identical Love” shows July Talk operating with a gentler touch. Synths beat like a pulse in the chest of someone slowly reaching out to their lover in a profound moment of truth. A glorious sa...
Jerry Seinfeld Says Netflix’s Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee Likely Over: “I Did That Tour”
Jerry Seinfeld isn’t one to linger. He’s the master of his domain, to borrow from his own words. That’s why we’re not surprised to hear he’s likely finished with Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. Or that his new Netflix special, 23 Hours to Kill, might be his last. In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Seinfeld digressed on the former Crackle series, saying: “We haven’t planned anything with that show, I kind of feel like if I did that tour.” He went on to stress how it’s actually a harder show to shoot than the series lets on, adding: “I don’t know, I feel like I may have done that exploration at this point.” He also feels the same about standup specials, contending: “Don’t overstay your welcome.” Again, this isn’t much of a shocker seeing how it took him 22 years to follow...
Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever Share New Song “Falling Thunder” and Video: Stream
Next month, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever are set to drop their sophomore album, Sideways to New Italy. In the video for the album’s latest single, “Falling Thunder”, the Melbourne outfit return to old Italy, the place of singer/guitarist Tom Russo and bassist Joe Russo’s ancestral heritage. Th intention of the video was to juxtapose shots of Italy with an Italian-founded venue in Melbourne. However, as Tom Russo explained in a press release, things didn’t exactly go as planned: “Our friend Jamieson Moore shot the footage of Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands on her phone while on vacation last year. The Aeolian Islands is also where my and Joe Russo’s ancestors are from. We were also planning to shoot the band playing in Eolian Hall in Melbourne (it’s a community hall founde...
Martin Garrix to Release New Set Recorded On the Back of a Moving Boat
After releasing sets from the roof of his apartment and on top of the A’DAM Tower in Amsterdam, Martin Garrix recently decided to take things to the next level. On Tuesday he will be releasing a live set, produced in collaboration with Insight TV, recorded entirely from the back of a moving boat. On Twitter, he shared a short video teasing the ambitious new performance and showcasing the stunning views that the camera-equipped drones, helicopters, and boats captured. In a quote obtained by Deadline, Garrix spoke to the adventurous nature of his new performance and why this week felt like the perfect time to do it. “I wanted to do something like this for a long time. Especially now, when I’m not able to travel and do any shows, it seemed like the perfect opportunity to ...
A$AP Rocky, Sting, and More Share Wild Tripping Stories In New Netflix Psychedelics Documentary
Netflix recently unveiled the trailer for a new documentary film called Have A Good Trip: Adventures In Psychedelics, which features A$AP Rocky, Sting, and many more. The project will share true stories about tripping on psychedelics, offering up “star-studded reenactments and surreal animations [to] bring their comedic hallucinations to life.” According to a synopsis from Netflix, Have A Good Trip: Adventures In Psychedelics “explores the pros, cons, history, future, science, pop-cultural impact, and cosmic possibilities of hallucinogens” and “acts as an unofficial user’s guide for these consciousness-altering compounds, and helps dispel the scare myths of the After School Special era.” If any quote from the trailer will galvanize you into watching the documentar...
Electronic Young Gun MELVV Is Throwing Down a Huge Livestream DJ Set Right Now
Milwaukee-based electronic young gun MELVV has teamed up with EDM.com for a special livestream DJ set, which is now live via Twitch. You can tune into the show, which Melvv is kicking off with an unreleased Charli XCX remix, below. With his unique ability to blend future pop and house music, MELVV is one of the electronic scene’s most promising artists. In addition to releasing a number of scintillating original tracks, like the Atlantic Records singles “Babe” and “Anything Else,” he has also emerged as a highly coveted remixer. Most recently, he was commissioned by Wafia for a bouncy official remix of her single Big Beat Records single “Hurts,” which was produced in collaboration with the super-tandem of Louis Th...
Check Out This Incredible 3D-Modeled and Printed REZZ Hand
Fans of REZZ can attest that her brand is one-of-a-kind. With her menacing, mind-bending midtempo sonic flair, Space Mom has carved out her own sound over the years, concocting a signature electronic cocktail all her own. Her live shows only reinforce that notion, as she pairs her thunderously spellbinding sound with her patented, mesmerizing LED goggles to offer up a truly unique live concert experience for any flabbergasted revelers lucky enough to catch a live performance. One of those fans, Brandon Lee Morris, took things to the next level by breathing life into one of REZZ’s visual brand components, a hand with an eyeball centered in its palm. Morris, who operates a visual concepts and 3D printing project called Replicant Lab, took it upon himself to create a 3D-modeled and...
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds: Ghosteen
On the sublime Ghosteen—the first album Nick Cave has written and recorded entirely since the death of his teenage son, Arthur, in 2015—he sorts through his grief and all the requisite stages, occasionally as though in real time. His mood drifts between domesticity and depravity. He empathizes with the true believers who wept beneath Jesus’ feet at the crucifixion. He latches onto friendship and love in any shape they take. He loses his faith, then fights desperately for any belief that can replace it. Scored by synthesizers, pianos, and electronics, the process is alternately harrowing and comforting for the first hour of the album, Cave’s waking nightmare on full display. But then, in the album’s final verse, at the close of the dangerous “Hollywood,” he steps back from the edge of a ner...
