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Mike Posner Recorded a Song With Tom Morello While Scaling Mount Everest

Tom Morello is readying the rollout of a new album that in many ways reshaped his creative approach.  Amid the pandemic, the iconic Rage Against the Machine guitarist faced his first creative drought. Despite being admittedly “Type A” when it comes to his recording process, which he has historically done alongside an engineer, Morello broke his own rules by recording straight into his phone.  Paradoxically, it was one of the most liberating creative decisions he could have made. After sending around those homemade riffs, an album concept began to take shape. And it was rapidly heading into uncharted territory—the literal top of the world.  Morello and Mike Posner‘s collaborative album cut was recorded as the latter was scaling Mount Everest, a trek he ...

Mike Posner Climbs to the Summit of Mount Everest

<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-06-02T02:39:17+00:00“>June 1, 2021 | 10:39pm ET While you were busy working or sleeping in or whatever you did today, Mike Posner was busy climbing to the top of the highest mountain in the world. He reached the summit of Mount Everest at roughly 4:35 a.m. local time on Tuesday, which is a whopping 29,031.7 feet tall. No big deal. The Grammy-nominated electropop artist was joined by his teammates Dawa Chirring Sherpa, Jon Kedrowski, and Dawa Dorje Sherpa for the treacherous hike. The four of them celebrated the climb by watching the sunrise from what’s probably the clearest view in the entire world. “That’s what I call a sunrise,” he tweeted. “We are now back at camp 2 but not out o...

“Highest Concert on Earth”: New Documentary Chronicles Paul Oakenfold’s Mount Everest Performance

In 2017 legendary electronic artist Paul Oakenfold hiked his way through Himalayan villages and up to the base camp of the world’s tallest mountain, Mount Everest, where he performed a DJ set that earned him the world record for the “highest concert on Earth” at 18,000 feet above sea level. The event managed to raise money for non-profit organizations Supporting Nepal’s Children and Youth Music, and reach over three million people worldwide through its gripping livestream. The iconic event, known as SoundTrek, became the first of many planned events of a similar nature that will encompass elements of music, travel, and philanthropy. Now, Oakenfold and executive producer Josh Heffler have released a documentary chronicling that journey to Everest’s base ca...