Tove Lo is a married woman! The Swedish singer-songwriter shared a photo on her Instagram Story of herself and love Charlie Twaddle showing off matching wedding bands on Saturday (July 25). “Oops! @seetwaddle,” the artist captioned the photo of herself with her new husband. In the picture, the bride is wearing what appears to be a beautiful vintage wedding gown with lace details, while the groom is in a powder blue tux with matching bow tie and a ruffled shirt. The two are also making adorable surprised expressions in the wedding photo. Fans may notice that the newlyweds are sporting their new jewelry on their right ring fingers instead of their left. According to The Knot, wedding bands are commonly worn on the right hands of those in Northern European countries such as Sweden...
Katy Perry graced the big, virtual Tomorrowland stage with a big top-inspired show ahead of the release of her upcoming album, Smile. The pregnant pop star, rocking bold, orange hair and a bright, polka dot dress, teased her set on social media Saturday afternoon (July 25). “Orange you glad TODAYS THE DAY!” she quipped on the caption for some snapshots showing off her Tomorrowland costume. “Hope you enjoy my (big) top tier performance at @Tomorrowland Around the World.” Perry popped in following Afrojack at the live streaming dance festival, hosting a lineup including Martin Garrix, Steve Aoki, David Guetta and more this weekend. Backed by an elaborate virtual set, she performed a feel-good medley that kicked off with “...
New Music Friday is intense. Hundreds of songs drop from artists around the world, and you’re supposed to somehow find the best ones. It’s fun work, but it’s time-consuming — so we at Billboard Dance want to give you a hand. Each week, we sift through the streams and dig in the digital crates to present the absolute must-hears from the wide breadth of jams. This week saw several high-profile releases, with Ms. Kylie Minogue gracing our ear-space with “Say Something,” the first single from her forthcoming Disco LP, Howling releasing their excellent sophomore LP Colure, DJ Shub dropping knowledge and beats with his latest single “The Social,” Porter Robinson remixing himself, dance super-group Bronson dropping its third single and the EDM ...
To label Kygo as an EDM DJ is underselling him. The Norwegian artist does spin discs, and produce electronic music. And during his appearance Wednesday on The Tonight Show, he showcased his talents on a grand piano. Kygo (real name Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll) performed an iso-version of “Lose Somebody” with OneRepublic, a collaboration lifted from Golden Hour, the multi-talented European musician’s latest LP. The Nordic wonder is in the mix with another collaboration doing big things on sales charts around the globe. His remix of Tina Turner’s “What’s Love Got To Do With It” is on target to give the soul legend her first U.K. top 40 hit in more than a decade. Golden Hour peaked at No. 18 on the Billboard 200 in June. Watch the performance below. [embedded content] You Deserve to Make Money Even W...
Porter Robinson fans are today (July 22) getting a double dose of the producer, with Robinson dropping a remix of his own “Get Your Wish.” The edit is a sped-up, tricked-out take on the original, with violins and drums traded for shimmery, glitchy effects and the already pitched up vocals pitched up even higher. The remix — the first work Robinson has released under his DJ Not Porter Robinson alias — follows another official edit of the track by Anamanaguchi that was released last week. Hear both “Get Your Wish” edits below. “Get your wish is a song about finding a reason to keep going, even if it’s not for your own sake,” Robinson wrote of the original song upon its release in January. “Get Your Wish” is the lead single fro...
While many of are still trading office life for working on the couch in our sweatpants, the new video from Bronson brings us back to our desks via its surrealist approach to life on the corporate ladder. In the clip for the trio’s latest single “Keep Moving” (out today, July 21) the pristinely dressed employees of Bronson Inc. partake in corporate strategy in the midst of an increasingly surreal series of events including miniature corporate drones shooting out of computer screens, dead-eyed employees lip-syncing the song lyrics and a man casually on fire in the boardroom in what appears to be an homage to the cover of Pink Floyd‘s Wish You Were Here. Watch the video below. The creeping panic is set to the tune of the newest track from Bronson, the electronic music ...
Let’s just say it clearly: there is so much great new music this week. In the past five days we got a vibey new single from Bob Moses and Zhu, Inner City released its first album in 30 years, Zedd dropped his first new music of 2020 and, incredibly, Kygo collab’d with Tina Turner. Plus, Aluna, Princess Nokia and Jada Kingdom dropped the deliciously slinky “Get Paid,” Alex Metric and Riton released the excellent “How Could I Ever” under their Kuu moniker, white-hot producer Haai dropped the spooky, ambient single “Head Above The Parakeets,” Dombresky remixed Tokimonsta‘s “Come and Go” Benny Benassi and Cece Rogers established their bromance on “I’ll Be Your Friend.” But wait, there’s more. From house t...
Nearly 30 years after the release of their last album, Inner City is back. The seminal dance music project began in the late ’80s, when Detroit techno pioneer Kevin Saunderson linked with singer Paris Grey for the 1989 debut Inner City album, Paradise. That LP generated a pair of all-time genre classics in “Good Life” and “Big Fun,” with the latter track hitting No. 1 on Billboard‘s Dance/Club Songs chart in the fall of 1988. The duo then followed up with 1990’s Fire and 1992’s Praise before letting the globally successful project rest for the next 28 years. Now featuring Saunderson, his son Dantiez (an accomplished producer in his own right) and vocalist Steffanie Christi’an, Inner City has today (July 17) released We All Move Toge...
Tedder and the producer will perform tomorrow (July 17) as part of iHeartRadio’s ongoing ‘Summer Camp With the Stars’ series If you went to summer camp as a kid, you know how meaningful it was to spend those glorious golden days running around the woods and making new friends around the campfire. But with COVID-19 closing and dramatically reducing the capacity of summer camps around the world, iHeartRadio is offering an alternative with their Summer Camp with the Stars series. This week’s installation will feature a performance from Kygo and OneRepublic frontman Ryan Tedder, who teamed up like camp buddies in a three-legged race for “Lose Somebody,” from Kygo’s latest LP Golden Hour. The album is currently in the No. 2 position on Billboa...
Each week, Billboard is polling club DJs, with venues shuttered due to the coronavirus. With clubs closed across the country and Billboard’s Dance Club Songs chart on hiatus, we’re asking reporting club DJs what they’ve been listening to lately, while at home, of course. This week, we spoke with Detroit DJ Captn20; Los Angeles’ SRO; and Las Vegas’ Marc Stout. Captn20Captn20 (real name: Nick Haddad) has been enjoying Tony Arzadon and Kendall Huggins’ “Right Now,” from the former’s new album of original music, From Within. “This track has great energy and the synthesized vocal is perfect,” Captn20 tells Billboard. “It’s great for any club setting or just to get hyped to at the gym. Tony is a super-talented DJ, prod...
Pleasure and pain are both common side effects of desire, with this trifecta of emotions broken down in colorful contrast via “Desire,” a new collaborative single and video from Bob Moses and Zhu. The song is a darkly vibey homage to lust and love, with its video allowing viewers to choose their own adventure in amore by pushing “pleasure” and “pain” buttons. These buttons change the colors of the video from red to blue, turn beating hearts into burning fires, transform an embracing couple into a solo figure in free-fall, make images of Bob Moses appear and disappear throughout the animated cityscape and create other effects.The clip was directed by Owen Brown of the creative agency CTRL5. “Desire” is the title track and lead single fro...
If there were a Mount Rushmore of electronic music, Daft Punk‘s helmets would surely be blasted into the side of a mountain. But in fact, the robot icons have only have a single No. 1 song to their name. In the spring of 2013, the anticipation around Daft Punk’s forthcoming LP was kinetic. It had been eight years since the duo’s last studio album, Human After All — a noisy, industrial electro banger that extended the game-changing aural aesthetic of their prior two LPs, 1997’s Homework and 2001’s Discovery. It had also been seven years since Daft Punk’s seminal 2006 Coachella performance, which is still cited as one of the best shows in the 20-year history of the festival and is considered a gateway moment for the burgeoning rise of dance musi...