Holy shit!!! I haven’t been this excited in quite some time!!!
On Saturday, April 11 RATATAT (the duo of Mike Stroud and Evan Mast) took to the Coachella stage to perform for the first time in four years. During the duo’s performance they debuted new music from their upcoming fifth studio album, due out this summer on XL Recordings. Directly following their performance a new song from the set, “Cream On Chrome,” was made available, check it out below!!!!!
RATATAT recently completed a handful of sold-out shows in Tulsa, Denver, Salt Lake City and Las Vegas. RATATAT will also perform at Governor’s Ball and Capital Hill Block Party music festivals this summer.
Check out the latest video from The Offspring, “Coming For You”
Head to store.offspring.com to pick up a digital copy of the single. The song is also available via iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and other digital services.
Catch the band on the road in the coming months and stay tuned for additional US tour dates.
Grammy award winning Reggae superstar Shaggy, is showing no signs of slowing down or taking a break. Last year we saw Shaggy tour his album “Out of Many, One Music”, which received 2014 Grammy nomination for Reggae album of the year. Some may have asked, ‘What’s next for Shaggy’? Well, “I Need Your Love” is whats next. Released September 2014 “I Need Your Love”, featuring Mohombi, Faydee and Costi, immediately gained global notoriety with over 800,000 YouTube views in less than one week. Its no surprise that this single is currently in the Pop Top 40.
“I Need Your Love” is truly a global collaboration, featuring Afro-pop star Mohombi, Australian singer Faydee, Romanian producer Costi and Shaggy whose dancehall mix brings something extra special to the track. Currently playing on mainstream radio, “I Need Your Love” commanded over 750 spins in one week resulting in a 7 place jump from 46 to 39, entering Shaggy on the top 40 pop chart. This is Shaggy’s 9th hit on the billboard charts.
“The success of the single is not solely on me, I must thank my team as it is definitely a team effort to reach where we are right now. So much more to do but definitely pleased with the success” says Shaggy.
Shaggy recently premiered a video for a new single “Picture” featuring Melissa Musique, exclusively via the leading music identification app Shazam. While “I Need Your Love” continues to excel on social media, on the air waves, in the clubs and currently over 20 million views on YouTube, it is evident “I Need Your Love” will be a hit for 2015.
New York-based singer and songwriter Greg Holden has teamed up with Brent Lindeque, the founder behind the global movement #RAK15, and BuzzFeed Media to premiere the very special video for his brand-new single “Hold on Tight.” #RAK15 encourages people to perform one random act of kindness, film it happening, post the video on social media, and challenge friends to do the same.
With its “pay-it-forward” theme, the powerfully moving video for “Hold on Tight” shows how one small random act of kindness can spark another, as it follows a chain reaction of events beginning with Holden helping up a woman who has fallen on the sidewalk. The video’s theme resonates perfectly with #RAK15’s International Random Acts of Kindness Day 2015, which took place yesterday. On Monday, Lindeque nominated Holden to perform a random act of kindness and share it to his social media with the hashtag RAK15. Holden did so and in turn has encouraged his followers to take part and post their videos online. In addition, BuzzFeed has published a list of ways people can get involved in the global #RAK15 initiative. For more, visit http://www.raknominations.org/.
“Hold on Tight” is the first single from the Scotland-born, England-bred artist’s debut album for Warner Bros. Records, entitled Chase The Sun, which will be released on April 14th. Produced by Greg Wells (Adele, OneRepublic). Chase The Sun is filled with Holden’s passionate, purpose-driven rock songs, which brim with tough, vibrant energy and showcase his lean, literate songwriting. Watch the Chase The Sun album trailer below.
Holden began to write the songs that appear on Chase The Sun after returning from a life-changing, seven-week trip to India and Nepal in February 2013. “Hold On Tight is about looking at life as something we should feel grateful for, not be complaining about,” he says.
Holden has earned a name for himself as an independent artist for the last several years, releasing two albums, 2009’s A Word in Edgeways and 2011’s I Don’t Believe You. His song “The Lost Boy” – a poetic rumination inspired by a Dave Eggers’ novel about a Sudanese refugee – hit No. 1 on iTunes in Holland and raised over $50,000 for the Red Cross. Within two weeks of being featured on Sons of Anarchy, “The Lost Boy” sold 30,000 downloads in the U.S. and debuted at No. 36 on Billboard’s Rock chart. Holden also earned recognition for writing the massive hit “Home” – the debut single for American Idol winner Phillip Phillips that sold five million tracks in the U.S. and earned Holden an ASCAP Pop Award.
Remember that really cool song that was playing on the Bud Light commercial during the Super Bowl??? Well, here it is!
It’s no secret that Bud Light kills it with their Super Bowl advertising every year, but this year it’s on a whole other level. The 90-second ad features Life On Planes label boss and Grammy-nominated producer DJ White Shadow on the 1s and 2s, soundtracking a massive real life game of PAC-MAN™ – all a part of Bud Light’s recent #UpForAnything campaign.
Featuring White Shadow’s own production alongside irreverent sampling of the timeless sound effects from the arcade classic, “DJ White Shadow vs. PAC-MAN™” is available for streaming below:
Following his recent nomination as one of the Top 10 L.A. DJs by The L.A. Sun Times with Dillon Francis, Kill Paris, Kill The Noise and Ookay, today Hollywood producer/DJ Whiiite sets out on his winter mini-tour hitting Kansas City, Murfreesboro, Las Vegas and more – full tour routing is below.
Along with this exciting announcement, the fifth podcast in Whiiite’s new Miiilkcrate Radio series is here and it’s absolutely stacked! Falcons x Mike G “Oh!” (Ciara x Ludacris) is fire and kicks things off with a bang, and tracks from Galantis, SNBRN, The Weeknd, Aaliyah, Jack U and more keep the energy flowing. The massive “No Type of Landline” remix from Rae Sremmurd, A-Trak and GTA begins the transition into some rap tracks including a killer Biggie x Ice Cube mashup. The carefully crafted mix also features also a brief section of hard hitting trap with Gladiator before things begin to settle down. Whiiite weaves g-house, R&B and hip hop together with highly danceable beasts throughout the podcast, including his fresh new remix of Juicy J’s “Low” (Whiiite’s Future1Hundred Mix) which you can download for free right HERE.
Tracklist:
01. Falcons x Mike G – Oh! (Ciara x Ludacris)
02. Kanye West – All Of The Lights (@Thrizzo Trap Remix)
03. Galantis – Runaway (U & I) (Lash Remix)
04. 50 Cent ft. Nate Dogg – 21 Questions (SNBRN Remix)
05. The Weeknd – Often (Jesse Slayter x Wuki Remix)
06. Aaliyah – Are You That Somebody? (@Thrizzo Jersey Club Remix)
07. Jack Ü ft. Kiesza – Take You There (TJR Remix)
08. Don Diablo – Back In Time (Extended Remix)
09. Juicy J – Low (Whiiite’s Future1Hundred Remix)
10. Rae Sremmurd x A-Trak & GTA – No Type Of Landline 2.0 (TWRK Edit)
11. Tyga – Make it Work
12. Dan Farber – Bootyzilla
13. Party Favor – Bap U
14. Simeon x Mos Def – Ass So Fat (Bubble) (Steve1der Edit)
15. Lil Troy x Gladiator – Wanna Be A Baller (TWRK Edit)
16. YG ft. Drake – Who Do You Love (Whiiite’s Future1Hundred Remix)
17. Drake x David Guetta – 0 to 100 (Noodles Dangerous Bootleg)
18. Mary J Blige ft. Disclosure – Right Now
19. Ice Cube x Notorious B.I.G. – Hello Vs. Party & Bullshit (Matoma MusicRemix)
20. Oh Wonder – Body gold (Louis The Child Remix)
Whiiite Tour Dates: 12/18/14 Social Bar & Lounge | Columbia, SC 12/19/14 Bleu | Detroit MI 12/20/14 Tier | Orlando, FL 01/16/15 The Sickhouse | Idaho Falls, ID 01/17/15 Thompson House Parlor | Newport, KY
I am so so so so so stoked to release new music! It has been such a busy year and I am very proud to finally give you guys a listen and free download to my first single “A Fine Way to Die” featuring my good com-padre Orlando Napier! Between recording horn lines, drums, writing guitar lines, and recording the most killin’ vocals, this song took a full year to make. I really hope you guys enjoy this monster of a tune!!! Get the funk down!
Music icon Prince returns to the SNL stage on November 1st marking his third time as musical guest. The evening also marks former SNL cast member Chris Rock’s return as host.
The November 1st performance promises to be one for the record books and will feature his band, 3RDEYEGIRL (Guitarist Donna Grantis, drummer Hannah Ford Welton and bassist Ida Nielsen).
This is the first television performance from Prince since the release of his two chart-topping albums, ART OFFICIAL AGE and PLECTRUMELECTRUM, on September 30th. ART OFFICIAL AGE, Prince’s solo album, bowed in at #1 on Billboard’s R&B Chart while PLECTRUMELECTRUM, featuring Prince’s new band 3RDEYEGIRL, debuted at #1 on the Rock Chart, making Prince the first artist in over a decade to debut two albums in the Top 10 at the same time. The New York Times declared, “Prince at his best doesn’t just collect and recreate genres; he smashes them together.”
2014 has been one of the most exciting years yet for the prodigious musical talent. The two new studio albums marked a historic return to Warner Bros. Records, Prince’s original label home. The renewed partnership came after the announcement that Warner Bros. Records returned to Prince the master recordings of his pioneering ’80s albums, including Dirty Mind, 1999, Purple Rain and Sign ‘O’ the Times. In April, NPG Music Publishing was launched, marking the first time Prince’s vast publishing catalog has been independently controlled and administered in over twenty years. In the live arena, together with 3RDEYEGIRL, Prince rocked UK and European audiences into a frenzy with his sell-out ‘Hit & Run’ tours, generating some of the most significant critical acclaim of his career. The Guardian declared, “These are performances by one of the greatest funk-rock bands ever.” All of this in addition to headlining and curating the Essence Festivalon July 4th in New Orleans and a much talked about appearance on hit TV show ‘New Girl’. 2014 has underlined that Prince continues to innovate and surprise, thrilling his fans and welcoming a whole new audience in the process.
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