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ODESZA Returns in Dazzling Form for First Live Show in Three Years
Five years after their last album and almost exactly three years after their last live set, ODESZA returned to their hometown of Seattle Friday night (July 29) and showed the roughly 17,000 people in attendance at the city’s Climate Pledge Arena that — despite the name of their latest album — there is truly no last goodbye. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The duo, Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight, released their new LP, The Last Goodbye, on July 22, kicking off their tour a week later with a sold-out, three-night run at Climate Pledge that continues Saturday (July 30) and Sunday (July 31.) The tour will then extend across North America this summer with an amphitheater run. But with Friday night marking ODESZA’s return to live music, anticipati...
Calvin Harris Drops ‘New To You’ With Normani, Tinashe & Offset: Stream It Now
“New To You” indeed. The freshest single from Calvin Harris is the thus titled R&B-oriented jam, featuring a trio of stars in collaborators Tinashe, Normani and Offset. Together, the foursome deliver a track that’s combines classy orchestral arrangements with glittery disco vibes. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “New to You” is the fourth single from Harris’ forthcoming Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2, which drops Aug. 5 via Sony and is the followup to Harris’ 2017 hit Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1. (Offset also featured on that album as part of Migos on the smash single “Slide,” which also featured Frank Ocean.) “New To You” is the fourth album single, coming on the heels of “Stay With Me,” a collab with Justin Timberlake, Halsey and Pharrell that debut...
Top 50 Dance Remixes of Classic Hits
Sometimes, you just want to listen to a familiar classic you already know all the words to — probably because your parents played it all the time when you were young. Other times, you want to bump a track with a beat you can feel in your rib cage, something that wouldn’t be out of place on the club floor or in a desert festival mosh pit. Every once in a while, you want to do both at the exact same time. If that description fits you, you’ve come to the right place. Countless DJs and producers of the 21st century have combined the nostalgic power of oldies with the liberating boom of 808 drums, sharing their creations with millions of listeners on YouTube and SoundCloud. The musical magic of old-meets-new has become such a phenomenon that sometimes, legendary artists who dominated radio year...
Get Lifted With Full Northern Nights 2022 Sets From Qrion, Two Feet & More
The 2022 incarnation of California’s Northern Nights festival had the distinction of being the first-ever U.S. festival with multiple onsite dispensaries, meaning that the boutique show’s 7,000 attendees had myriad ways to get lifted during the woodsy three-day affair. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Taking place this past July 15-17 in Piercy, Calif. — at the center of Northern California’s Emerald Triangle, the United States’ largest cannabis-producing region made up of Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity Counties — Northern Nights 2022 featured cannabis-related activities and legal cannabis consumption within the festival grounds, in areas compliant with local and state regulations. (Attendees have been able to legally purchase and consume canna...
First Spin: The Week’s Best New Dance Tracks From Jessie Ware, Chris Lorenzo With COBRAH & More
This week in dance music: The Chainsmokers announced that they’re launching themselves into space, traveling electronic festival Breakaway announced a California date happening this fall, Dimitri Vegas told us about his first starring role in a feature film, we celebrated the 32 year anniversary of Black Box’s 1990 hit “Everybody Everybody” hitting No. 1 on Dance Club Songs, BMG acquired the publishing catalog of French legend Jean-Michel Jarre, Swedish House Mafia announced a two-year residency with Wynn Las Vegas, Skrillex graced what appears to be the credit list for Beyoncé’s forthcoming LP Renaissance, Sofi Tukker’s “Summer In New York” hit the top 10 on Dance Mix/Show Airplay, Fred Again.. teased a forthcoming Swedish House Mafia collab, ODESZA dropped their new album, we went to Tom...
These Were the Top 10 Current Tracks Played During Weekend One of Tomorrowland 2022
The first weekend of Tomorrowland — which took place between July 15 and July 17 in Boom, Belgium — was a barrage of sensory input that included, of course, loads of music from across eras and genres of dance. While the top 20 songs played at the festival provided a mix of fresh tracks and cross-genre classics, there were also ten more current songs — a mix of mostly techno, hard dance and electro pop — that were played more than all the others during the festival this year. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Data was collected by DJ Monitor, a global leader in electronic music monitoring with exclusive access to performance data from festivals, clubs, venues and online streams. DJ Monitor identifies music for Collective Manageme...
Sofi Tukker’s ‘Summer in New York’ Hits Dance/Mix Show Airplay Top 10: ‘We Were Dreaming About the Energy of the City’
Sofi Tukker sizzles on Billboard‘s Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart (dated July 23) with “Summer in New York,” which soars from No. 22 to No. 9. The song is scoring core-dance airplay on iHeartRadio’s Evolution Network, Channel Q and WZFL (Revolution 93.5) Miami, among others, according to Luminate. (The Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart measures radio airplay on a select group of full-time dance stations, along with plays during mix shows on around 70 top 40-formatted reporters.) “We wrote this song while we were in Florida in the middle of quarantine,” Sofi Tukker – the duo of Sophie Hawley-Weld and Tucker Halpern – tells Billboard in a statement. “We were dreaming about the energy of the city in the summer, of being with friends, of serendipity and adventure. The fact that now that is happening ...
Fred Again.. Teases Swedish House Mafia Collab ‘Turn on the Lights Again’
After a pair of beloved albums, a pair of breakout performances at Coachella, and a series of white-hot releases including the recent Four Tet collab “Jungle,” U.K. favorite Fred Again.. is in the midst of a full on moment. That moment will extend next week, when Fred Again.. releases a collab with Swedish House Mafia. The producer teased the collab Wednesday (July 20) via his Instagram, writing, “Arite so parrrrt of the reason I had to push back AL3 is cos of the nuts reaction to turn on the lights that jus made me wanna fniish it and get that shit ouuutttttt. Sooo Turn on the lights again.. with Swedish House Mafia is coming out next weeekkkk.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The video in the gram shows Fred playing a spare, simmering track w...
The Video for Calvin Harris’ ‘Stay With Me’ Is Like Being Inside a Kaleidoscope With Halsey, Justin Timberlake & Pharrell
VIP areas and the interiors of a kaleidoscope are both similarly dazzling, and in a stroke of genius the video for Calvin Harris‘ latest, “Stay With Me,” combines these two spaces with glitzy visuals and even glitzier stars. Released Friday (July 15), the clip places the track’s featured vocalists, Halsey, Justin Timberlake and Pharrell, inside a shimmying, spinning, lightly psychedelic universe, where each of them — dressed in dazzling brights — perform the funk-inflected disco opus, with Timberlake giving just the right amount of air guitar and evoking the video for Jamiroquai’s classic “Virtual Insanity” while dancing on a moving walkway. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In addition to the trio of vocalists, Harris also makes two brief cameos...
Calvin Harris Drops 21 Savage Collab ‘New Money’: Listen
The “wavs” are getting progressively bouncier with the release of “New Money,” the second single from Calvin Harris‘ Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2, set to drop Aug. 5 via Sony Music. The track, the Scottish producer’s first collaboration with 21 Savage, is a breeze of fresh summer air. “New Money” fuses chill with hip-hop and a touch of yacht rock, complete with a guitar solo. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Harris first teased “New Money” on social media yesterday (June 30), the day after he dropped the complete list of Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2.’s featured artists. This truly impressive crew includes Justin Timberlake, Snoop Dogg, Halsey, Tinashe, Normani, Shenseea, British rapper Stefflon Don, Chloe Bailey, Charlie Puth, Pusha T, Lil Durk, Offset, 6...
‘Stranger Things’ Star Joe Keery Drops ‘Change’ Single, Preps Second Solo Album as DJO
While Kate Bush is burning up the charts thanks to her gold-medal Stranger Things sync, one of the Netflix drama’s stars is gearing up to release new music under his Djo stage name. Joe Keery, better known as shaggy-haired monster hunter Steve Harrington, will drop his second solo album, DECIDE, on Sept. 16. He gave a sneak peek at the follow-up to his 2019 solo debut, TWENTY TWENTY, this week with the release of the hazy, Tame Impala-like pop funk jam “Change.” Keery — one of several Stranger cast members who also dabbles in music — was part of the Chicago band Post Animal before breaking out on his own with TWENTY TWENTY. The 30-year-old actor who’s been making music since his teens worked on DECIDE during the pandemic with engineer/musician Adam Thein (Temporex, Post Animal) and recorde...
Beatport to Host Inaugural Electronic Industry Summit This Fall In New York
The electronic music world’s leading digital download store is expanding further into physical reality. Beatport announced on Wednesday (June 15) its first ever ReConnect Summit, a two-day conference happening at Williamsburg, Brooklyn event space 74Wythe on September 21-22, 2022. Summit programming will focus on electronic music culture, creative innovation, technology, Web3 and more. Electronic-oriented companies including wellness initiative Art Of Areté, harm reduction group Dance Safe and representation nonprofit Women in Music will host keynote speeches and one-on-one discussions, with metaverse company PIXELYNX and Web3 streaming platform Audius curating a slate of Web3 focused conversations. Additional programming, including performances, will be announced in the coming month...
