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Nickelodeon Is Throwing a Family-Friendly Music Festival With San Holo, LP Giobbi, More
Get ready to see some of EDM, pop and hip-hop’s biggest stars share the stage with… SpongeBob SquarePants. Nickelodeon has announced NickFest, a family-friendly music festival coming this fall to Southern California. In an effort to cultivate an experience that highlights the lighthearted nature of the brand, every aspect of the fest will be inspired by the iconic children’s cable channel’s programming. Organizers promise food from star chefs inspired by their programs, activities based on fan-favorite Nickelodeon show moments and special appearances from some of the brand’s notable characters like Arnold from Hey Arnold, Tommy and Chuckie from Rugrats, Blue from Blue’s Clues and Bikini Bottom’s SpongeBob and Patrick. And, of course, plen...
Is Beabadoobee Bringing Back the Pop-Rock Guitar Solo?
This afternoon, my inner Cheap Trick alarm system was breached at the 1:41 minute mark of “10:36.” It’s fleeting, but undeniably, a guitar solo, played by the song’s co-writer, Jacob Bugden. He also solos on her last single, the excellent “Talk,” but you have to strain to hear it just barely peeking out from the distortion. The rising pop-rock singer Beatrice Laus, who performs as Beabadoobee, has been dropping singles for her forthcoming album, Beatopia (out July 15) over the last several months between high-profiles live slots opening for Halsey, playing massive festivals including Governor’s Ball and the Newport Folk Festival, and opening for Bleachers on the east coast leg of their tour. [embedded content][embedded content] Laus said that “10:36” refers to the time she was finishe...
The 30 Best Songs of 2022 (So Far)
It’s almost absurd how much good music — universally acclaimed, big-ticket, year-end contender music — came out in 2022’s first five months. It’s hard to imagine the next seven matching that pace. We’ve heard soul-bearing rap songs (Kendrick Lamar), future windows-down rock classics (Momma), loads of elite-level Thom Yorke (The Smile) — the list, literally, goes on. Below, we gathered our 30 favorite tracks of 2022 so far. (In this case, we decided songs from any 2022 albums were on the table.) Let’s meet back here at year’s end and see how things shake out. 30. All Get Out – “Feeling Well” The first single from All Get Out’s new album, Kodak, smartly swirls folk-rock, emo, and a dash of country into a potent cocktail of paranoia, self-doubt, and hesitant nostalgia. This South Carolin...
Beabadoobee Shares Glittering Acoustic Single, ‘Lovesong’
Ahead of the release of her sophomore studio album Beatopia, singer/songwriter Beabadoobee has shared the delicate, heart-wrenching acoustic “Lovesong.” The song feels like a blissful hug, but Beabadoobee’s lyrics are more ambivalent: “I guess that this is just another love song about you.” [embedded content][embedded content] “‘Lovesong’ is a song that I had bits written for since my second ever EP,” Beabadoobee says in a statement. “The chorus was actually already written since Loveworm, I just didn’t have any chords to sing it with. It’s actually written in a really strange tuning that I forget. And, yeah, it’s just another sweet love song. It was one of the last songs I recorded for Beatopia.” Formally known as Beatrice Laus, the Filipino-British artist will release Beatopia ...
Hear Beabadoobee’s New Shrooms-Inspired Song, ‘See You Soon’
Beabadoobee is gearing up for the release of her sophomore album Beatopia in July. Today, she shared her second single “See You Soon.” This single follows “Talk,” which was released last month, ahead of her two Coachella sets. Beabadoobee said “See You Soon” is about clarity and revitalization, which she attained during a solo shrooms trip. The song radiates a newfound appreciation for life and everything around her. [embedded content][embedded content] The official “See You Soon” video will be released on Wednesday, and the full album is out on July 15 via Dirty Hit, available for preorder here. After making a splash at Coachella these past two weekends, Beabadoobee will be hitting the stage again as support for Halsey’s tour and for Bleachers. Beatopia Track List Beatopia Cultsong10:36Su...
Beabadoobee Announces New Album Beatopia
Singer-songwriter beabadoobee announced her upcoming sophomore album Beatopia which will be released on July 15 on Dirty Hit. Alongside the album announcement, Bea also released a brand-new single and video for “Talk.” [embedded content][embedded content] “I wrote ‘Talk” just after my first album. I was obsessed with Tuesday because I thought it was the best night to go out, not too much chaos but just enough to have a good time. Generally, it’s about doing things that aren’t necessarily healthy or great for you, but you can’t help indulging. It’s like that unavoidable feeling that you get. You can’t get rid of it, and you know it’s bad, but you love it really, and its whatever, so you do it anyways,” Bea said of her latest single. Prior to the album release, beabadoobee will be making her...
Beabadoobee Brings ‘Last Day on Earth’ to Fallon
To celebrate the release of her latest EP, Our Extended Play, Beabadoobee performed the album’s single “Last Day on Earth” on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. When she originally released the song, the UK-based singer-songwriter explained its meaning in a statement: “’Last Day On Earth’ is about all the things I would have done had I known we were going into a lockdown and the world was going to change the way it has. It was written shortly after the first main lockdown and lyrically it’s me reflecting on how it would feel if we all knew ahead of time what was going to happen. All the things I would have done if I knew it was the last day of our old normality.” This performance mirrors that epic party she would’ve thrown. Beabadoobee transformed a studio space into every teen’s...
Women’s History Month: The Path Forward
As women claim space, power, and influence, there continues to be #MeToo reckonings in every business field, and none more so than the traditionally permissive music industry. It’s a world that values art and creation and catharsis, but along with it, the ’70s cliche of sex and drugs and rock ‘n’ roll. And with that came — and still comes — commensurate and all-too-true stories of abhorrent behavior both backstage and behind desks at record companies. There are triumphant tales: Tina Turner, ultimately, painfully escaped Ike Turner and his abuse to become one of the strongest, most successful and revered women not just in music, but in pop culture. And where one woman is brave enough to come forth and name her abuser, others are empowered to share their stories, as allegations against Mari...
The 20 Most Interesting New Artists of 2020
With most indie venues closed due to the pandemic and many record stores altering their business methods, it was a challenging year for music discovery. Luckily, we live in the Internet age, where a glowing album review, trending social media post or intriguing Bandcamp tag can instantly connect fans to their next favorite band. As the music world remained stuck in quarantine limbo, upcoming songwriters had more time than usual to record, hype, network and livestream — and it’s safe to say we all needed the distraction. To cap off the year’s depressing madness with a glimmer of optimism, we gathered this list of our 20 Most Interesting New Artists of 2020 — from indie-pop to Afrobeat. Where there are fresh sounds, there’s hope. Anjimile The trendy comparison for Anjimile is Sufjan Stevens,...
The 30 Best Albums of 2020
After a deluge of canceled or delayed tours, drive-in experiments, Bandcamp Fridays and bedroom livestreams, we’re finally here. Yay? It’s hard to celebrate much of anything in 2020. But one encouraging sign from the music industry has been the number of artists innovating on the fly — figuring out ways to sustain their careers through the madness. And as fans, at least we’ve had new albums to help us process our continuing semi-apocalypse. Having (mercifully) reached the end of this awful year, we have even more perspective on the functionality of a great record. The 30 we’ve assembled here have prompted us to dance, helped us grieve, made us laugh, or even just allowed us to escape into a transportive riff or soundscape. We assume they did the same for the artists themselves. Let us reme...
Pop-Punk and Hip-Hop: 2020’s Dynamic Duo
In October, Bad Boy Records’ Machine Gun Kelly topped the Billboard 200 for the first time with his fifth album, Tickets To My Downfall – charting higher with guitar-driven pop-punk songs than he ever had as an emcee. Two weeks later, the top spot on the Hot 100 was secured by “Mood,” a guitar-driven emo-rap song by 24kGoldn and Iann Dior, who have since ruled the chart for most of the last two months. But those feel like only the most prominent tipping points of an unlikely alliance between pop-punk and hip-hop — one that has been everywhere in 2020, bubbling up in recent years to finally reach the forefront of popular music. Once upon a time, hip-hop and punk bubbled out of New York City as parallel movements that intersected often, from Debbie Harry rhyming about Fab Five Fre...
Beabadoobee on Making Fake It Flowers for Her 15-Year-Old Self
Fake It Flowers, Bea Kristi’s debut LP as Beabadoobee, is the series of honest conversations she’s always wanted to have — drawing on childhood memories, new and old relationships and finding confidence in her 20-year-old self. The singer-songwriter emigrated with her parents from Iloilo City, Philippines to Camden in North London at age three. While she settled into her U.K. home, Kristi admits to SPIN that she was “embarrassed of how I looked and embarrassed about the lunch my dad used to pack me — rice and adobo or sinigang,” two popular Filipino dishes. And the desire to connect to her identity flowed into her first encounters with music. “I remember just being like, ‘Why is there no one who looks like me onstage?’” she says. “I had no one to kind of look up to, and it was strange.” Sh...
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