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Staff Picks: The Albums and Songs We Loved in 2021
The late, great Lester Bangs once wrote that we will never again agree on anything as we agreed on Elvis. And he was basically right until Lil Nas X came sliding down the stripper-pole to Hell. Oh, 2021. You rocked us like a damn sociopath. What an insanely exciting, emotional, and reinvigorating year for music. President Biden took office and made Olivia Rodrigo an ambassador. We had Hot Vax Summer and Sad Girl Fall (Taylor’s Version.) Live music came back and Dave Grohl never left. Noobs ruled songwriting. Doja Cat ruled the planet. We brought back the electric guitar (all the rumors are true, baby), 2000s pop-punk, and Adele. We freed Britney. Halsey freed the nipple. And we all somehow found out about a Baltimore rock quintet called Turnstile. It’s all in SPIN‘s lists for Best Songs of...
Hangout Music Festival Announces Massive 2022 Lineup With Zedd, ILLENIUM, More
Hangout Music Festival has officially punched its ticket to 2022. The three-day oceanside music festival is set to return to the beaches of Gulf Shores, Alabama for the first time since 2019 from May 20-22, 2022. Organizers have put together a massive lineup of EDM, pop, rock, hip-hop, and country artists for the momentous fest. Zedd, SLANDER, ILLENIUM, Madeon, Louis The Child and more will rep the electronic music scene. Major contemporary music artists to perform include Post Malone, Tame Impala, Megan Thee Stallion, Oliver Tree, Post Malone, Halsey, and Fall Out Boy, among many others. Hangout Music Festival Recommended Articles Registration for pre-sale tickets to Hangout 2022 is now active on the festival’s official website and they’ll be available on December 10t...
Watch Halsey Perform ‘Darling’ With Lindsey Buckingham on SNL
Halsey made their fourth appearance as Saturday Night Live‘s musical guest last night, where they performed two songs off their latest album If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power. The pop star sang their latest single “I am not a woman, I’m a god” for their first selection, donning a futuristic suit on a sci-fi set thought up by filmmaker Michel Gondry. Halsey was joined by Lindsey Buckingham for their second song, “Darling.” (The legendary guitarist is also featured on the recorded version of the track.) The aesthetic of that performance couldn’t be more different from the former. Both musicians stood regally behind their microphones, with Halsey channeling Buckingham’s former bandmate Stevie Nicks’ haunting look. SPIN called Halsey’s Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross-produced fourth album “an i...
Halsey Drops Four Remixes of ‘I am not a woman, I’m a god’
Halsey already dropped a remix EP in lieu of their recently released If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, with new versions of “I am not a woman, I’m a god” by Underworld, Hot Chip, Gazelle Twin and Adrian Sherwood. “I remember hearing the Halsey single ‘Now Or Never’ in a cab in LA and thinking it was a great pop song,” Hot Chip’s Joe Goddard wrote on Twitter. “And when we were told that for her new album she was collaborating with Trent Reznor it seemed like a fun prospect and an exciting thing to work on.” SPIN wrote that the singer’s fourth record “is an industrial-leaning masterpiece,” and received generally high praise. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross of Nine Inch Nails notably produced If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power. “I think that Trent has an amazing talent for working with synths...
Halsey, Kacey Musgraves, Brandi Carlile, Young Thug to Perform on SNL
Saturday Night Live is back for Season 47 and its music lineup features a slew of heavy hitters. The first four music guests are Kacey Musgraves, Halsey, Young Thug, and Halsey. This will be Carlile and Young Thug’s first time performing on the show, while Musgraves is returning for a second time and Halsey is back for her fourth appearance with the most recent on Season 45. Hosting will be Owen Wilson, Rami Malek, former SNL castmember and Ted Lasso star Jason Sudeikis and … Kim Kardashian. This will be Kardashian’s first time hosting SNL. Hopefully (for her sake) it goes better than it did for Elon Musk earlier this year. Here’s the full lineup and dates: Oct. 2 – Owen Wilson / Kacey MusgravesOct. 9 – Kim Kardashian West / HalseyOct. 16 – Rami Malek / Young ThugO...
Halsey’s If I Can’t Have Love I Want Power Turns the Pop Artist into a Rock Star
In 2019, Halsey released the fiery “Nightmare,” an urgent, industrial anthem that aptly captured the universal “female rage” amplified by the patriarchal doom of the Trump era. The song, a stark departure from her pop-centric releases in the past, was noticeably left off of their third album Manic. The track, however, was never written off by Halsey; instead, the defiant, standalone single laid the foundation for If I Can’t Have Love I Want Power, the singer’s new concept album that tackles “the joys and horrors of pregnancy and childbirth.” The unwavering hope of parenthood loomed large on Halsey’s last record Manic, as she marked their uphill battle conceiving with a love song to their future child. “When you decide it’s your time to arrive, I’ve loved you for all of my life,” they sang ...
KDrew Revives Halsey’s “Graveyard” With Haunting Future Bass Remix: Listen
It’s no secret that Halsey‘s music is among the most popular for dance music producers to rework. But out of all the skeletons in the vast graveyard of remix attempts over the years, very few have proved ageless. That brings us to yesterday, when renowned electronic music producer KDrew brought Halsey’s 2019 single “Graveyard” back from the dead to produce a haunting remix. Processing the acoustic plucks of the original with a warm fuzz, he repurposes the track into an aching indie dance number that moonlights as a soaring future bass jam. The drops here flutter with a euphoric punch, as trembling vocal chops float atop bubbly, frenetic chords. KDrew manages to manipulate Halsey’s vocals in a markedly unique way, lacing them with a plethora of layers—and...
Halsey Reveals Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross-Produced Album Release Date
A few weeks after announcing that her fourth album, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, would be produced by none other than Nine Inch Nails duo Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, Halsey has revealed that it will be out on Aug. 27 via Capitol Records. In a video shot at New York City’s Metropolitan Museum of Art, Halsey also unveiled the album art, which you can see below. [embedded content] On Instagram, Halsey explained the album’s meaning and theme: This album is a concept album about the joys and horrors of pregnancy and childbirth. It was very important to me that the cover art conveyed the sentiment of my journey over the past few months. The dichotomy of the Madonna and the Whore. The idea that me as a sexual being and my body as a vessel and gift to my child are two concepts that ...
Halsey’s Upcoming Fourth Album Is Produced by Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross
A year and a half after the release of her third album, Manic, Halsey dropped a big bombshell — and it’s not just that her fourth album is on the way. The pop star’s upcoming collection will be produced by none other than Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, aka the reigning Best Original Score Oscar winners (along with Jon Baptiste) for their work on Soul. There isn’t yet a date for release for the LP, but it does have a title: If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power. Billboards for the release popped up in select cities on Monday morning, and Halsey herself shared the news on Instagram along with a snippet of a song, available below. As you can hear in the clip, whatever song that may be sounds dark, menacing and cinematic — exactly what you’d expect from a Reznor/Ross product...
Steve Aoki, Halsey, and Lauv to Join BTS for New Year’s Eve Streaming Event
South Korean entertainment juggernaut Big Hit Entertainment is gearing up for a New Year’s Eve livestream celebration. Powered by their Weverse platform, the ticketed event will feature performances and virtual meet-and-greets from some of the biggest stars in the world. BTS, Lee Hyun, TOMORROW X TOGETHER, and more are slated to send off 2020 with the app’s multi-camera technology, which will allow fans to watch each set from a variety of immersive angles. Over the weekend, it was announced that a trio of American performers would be taking the digital stage for the end-of-the-year party. Joining the Big Hit Entertainment mainstays are Steve Aoki, Halsey, and Lauv. As you may know, each of the three artists have collaborated with BTS in the past. In the...
Bono, Halsey and Pharrell Williams Join Sing 2 Cast
Bono, Halsey and Pharrell Williams are joining the cast of the computer-animated musical comedy Sing 2, it was announced on Monday. In addition to the three musicians, Bobby Cannavale, Letitia Wright, Eric Andre and Chelsea Peretti will be voicing characters. The original Sing was released in 2016 and starred Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Taron Egerton, Tori Kelly and Nick Kroll. All of them will be returning to the second edition. Bono will voice lion Clay Calloway, the world’s most reclusive rock legend, who Buster Moon (McConaughey) needs to convince to come out of seclusion to perform at the Crystal Tower Theater, the most prestigious performance hall in that world. Halsey will voice the daughter of Jimmy Crystal (Cannavale), Porsc...
Halsey Addresses Grammys Snub: ‘It’s Not Always About the Music or Quality or Culture’
Women ruled the 2021 Grammy nominations list that was unveiled on Tuesday, but there was a name noticeably missing: Halsey. After spending a few days to ruminate on yet another snub, the pop star took to Instagram stories to get some things off her chest. “I’ve been thinking and wanted to choose my words carefully because a lot of people have extended sympathy and apology to me since the Grammy nominations,” she wrote. “The Grammys are an elusive process. It can often be about behind the scenes private performances, knowing the right people, campaigning through the grapevine, with the right handshake and ‘bribes’ that can be just ambiguous enough to pass as ‘not bribes.’” If artists were able to manage any of these political tactics, Halsey also suggested having to commit “...
