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Couple Turns Wedding Into Two-Day Camping Music Festival
Planning a wedding is ambitious enough. Now imagine a wedding crossed with a camping music festival. That is precisely what Jamon Deaver and Joey Lawton were able to pull off in Berea, Kentucky. The couple held their event, titled Wonder Woods, on a 40-acre plot owned by Deaver’s family. At first, they expected the idea would be a hard sell. Preparing for pushback, the couple prepared by crafting a pitch deck and formal presentation for Deaver’s family, but in the end they didn’t hesitate to go along with it. “They were 100 percent in from the first second,” Deaver recalled. A story published by the The New York Times notes the couple brought 230 guests to the property and 125 of them camped for two nights. Together, they built a stage and DJ booth ...
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 ...
