Mark Ronson
Madlib & Mark Ronson Joins With The Coca-Cola Company For Clever Recycled Records Project
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Coca-Cola Company / The Coca-Cola Company The art of sampling is taking something previously recorded and rendering it anew by chopping, looping, and other techniques that are the hallmarks of Hip-Hop production. Producers Madlib and Mark Ronson joined forces with The Coca-Cola Company for an innovative EP cleverly titled Recycled Records. Source: The Coca-Cola Company / The Coca-Cola Company The Recycled Records campaign launched back in December, putting Oxnard, Calif. native Madlib (Lootpack, Madvilliany, Freddie Gibbs) and London’s Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse, Wale, Lady Gaga) in charge of sampling a bevy of sounds from a number of recycling centers that are turning used clear plastic bottles into new containers for a bevy of Coca-Cola products. Re...
Mark Ronson Pulls Back the Studio Curtain
When Mark Ronson was working on his namesake AppleTV+ documentary, Watch the Sound with Mark Ronson, there was no shortage of not just internationally acclaimed artists he had access to, but genre sonic pioneers willing to sit down with the super-producer and expose secrets behind some of their biggest songs. Calm, yet exceedingly curious in his interviews, Ronson got legends — like Paul McCartney, Beastie Boys’ Mike D and Ad-Rock, Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna, Questlove of The Roots, Thurston Moore from Sonic Youth, Santigold, Queens of the Stone Age’s Josh Homme, Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, Public Enemy producer Hank Shocklee, Nick Rhodes of Duran Duran, and so many, many, many more — to not just go behind the music, but inside it, explaining not only the tricks of their trade, but how the...
Foo Fighters, Mark Ronson Team for Remix of ‘Making a Fire’
The Foo Fighters don’t stop, do they? Today, Dave Grohl and company released a remix of “Making a Fire,” which was produced by none other than Mark Ronson. The track features members of Antibalas, the Budos Band, the Dap-Kings, El Michels Affair, La Buya, Menahan Street Band), the Tedeschi Trucks Band and Tuatara. Also featured on the remix is Grohl’s daughter, Violet, on vocals. Listen to it below. [embedded content] Earlier this week, the Foos played the biggest show in New York City since the lockdown ended (and in turn, since the pandemic started) at Madison Square Garden. They were joined by Dave Chappelle for a version of Radiohead’s “Creep.” You can read our review of the show here. Foo Fighters played their first show since the pandemic in suburban Los Angeles the week before...
Diplo and Mark Ronson Drop New Silk City Mix, “Especially 4 U, Vol. 3”
Silk City, the mammoth collaborative alias of Diplo and Mark Ronson, have followed up their recent collaboration with Ellie Goulding, “New Love,” with a brand new mix. The third installment of their Especially 4 U mix series is out now. Jam-packed with a wide array of bangers, Especially 4 U, Vol. 3 is a journey through some of house music’s most soulful selections of the moment. The mix opens with “New Love,” of course, and moves through music from Chris Lake, Armand Van Helden, Mark Knight, Aluna, A-Trak, The Martinez Brothers, and many more instantly recognizable names in house music. Also included are remixes of true classics, like Lincoln Baio‘s reworking of Soul II Soul‘s timeless “Back To Life.” The Doobie Bro...
Watch the World Premiere of Silk City and Ellie Goulding’s “New Love” Music Video
Things are moving fast. This past week, we learned that Diplo and Mark Ronson are bringing back their Grammy Award-winning collaborative musical project, Silk City. Soon after, they revealed that the mystery collaborator—who they had teased at the time of the announcement—was none other than Ellie Goulding. The trio didn’t make fans wait long for their new collaborative track. Before it hits streaming platforms tomorrow, January 22nd, the official music video is arriving a day early. Watch the world premiere of Silk City and Ellie Goulding’s “New Love” below at 4PM PT (7PM ET). FOLLOW SILK CITY: Website: silk-city.comFacebook: facebook.com/SilkCityMusicSpotify: spoti.fi/3smziUK FOLLOW ELLIE GOULDING: Website: elliegoulding.comFacebook:...
Ellie Goulding and Silk City Confirm New Single, Announce Release Date
A trifecta of contemporary music superstars are set to collide to mark the return of Diplo and Mark Ronson’s Silk City. After toying with fans about the reemergence of Silk City and a mystery collaborator tied to the duo’s return, Diplo and Mark Ronson have confirmed their new single with Ellie Goudling. The trio’s upcoming collaborative track “New Love” is set to hit streaming platforms this Friday, January 22nd. The members of Silk City, who won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording in 2018 for the Dua Lipa-assisted “Electricity,” had teased fans on social media with a short audio preview leading up to the announcement. Goulding then poured gasoline on the fire when she tweeted the same preview, which includes a link that ...
Ellie Goulding Teases Involvement in Return of Silk City
Earlier in the week, Diplo and Mark Ronson teased the return of their Grammy Award-winning side project, Silk City. Not much was revealed in the ten-second video aside from a short musical preview, but it did direct fans to a landing page for “The New Love Club.” Not long after the initial teaser was shared, Ellie Goulding joined in on the fun and shared a cryptic video with a link to the website. Like the original, the video is ten-seconds long and features the same audio snippet. The main difference, however, is that the visual component shows an eye inside a heart instead of the Silk City logo. Check out both posts below. It’s unclear precisely what “The New Love Club” is, but fans have begun to speculate. Some believe it’s a new album ...
Diplo and Mark Ronson Announce Return of Silk City, Share Preview of Bubbly New Track
Diplo and Mark Ronson have announced the grand return of Silk City, their Grammy Award-winning collaborative musical project. Both artists took to Twitter to share the news and post a preview of a new upcoming single. The clip is short but fans are able to get a taste of what’s on the horizon, which sounds like a pop-house hybrid akin to their last original track release, 2018’s global smash hit “Electricity.” Check out the preview below. Silk City won the Grammy Award for Best Dance Recording in 2018 for “Electricity,” which they released in collaboration with pop superstar Dua Lipa. After a deluge of tweets from fans guessing what vocalist is featured this time around, Ronson toyed with them, asking Diplo, “should we tell them who’s on ...
Saturday Night Live: 20 of Biggest Breakthrough Musical Performances Since 2000
Saturday Night Live is back! The late-night sketch comedy returns to NBC for the start of its 46th season on Saturday. After spending half of last season shooting at-home episodes due to the pandemic, promos for the show have revealed the cast is back at 30 Rock’s Studio H8 and ready to put on a show. Former SNL cast member Chris Rock (’90-’93) will host the season premiere, which also features the debut performance of hip-hop’s woman of the moment – Megan Thee Stallion. Over the years, the long-running late-night series has featured some iconic performances, usually bringing in artists at a pivotal moment in their career and giving them a legendary platform to transfix America. And so, in that spirit (and because it’s 2020), SPIN looks back at some of the biggest breakthrough pe...
Dua Lipa Reveals Stacked List of Collaborators in Official Tracklist for “Future Nostalgia” Remix Album
Following the reveal of the official tracklist for Club Future Nostalgia, the anticipation surrounding Dua Lipa‘s forthcoming remix album is bubbling over. In addition to previously announced featured artists Madonna, Missy Elliott, Gwen Stefani, and Mark Ronson, the tracklist flaunts a stupefying list of collaborators. It reveals a carefully curated stable of polished remixers, including Yaeji, Jayda G, and Mr. Fingers, among many others, as well as a number of high-profile samples, like Steve Nicks‘ “Stand Back” and Stefani’s “Hollaback Girl.” The Grammy Award-winning pop songstress has long been a champion of EDM, teaming up with its most recognized producers, such as Diplo (“Electricity”) and Calvin Harris (̶...
