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This week in dance music: PinkPantheress shared the tracklist for her upcoming mixtape, we caught up with DJ Koze about his new album Music Can Hear Us, John Summit, Skrillex and more made moves on the dance charts, we spoke with Sherelle about her debut album With a Vengeance, Poolside shared their set from CRSSD spring 2025, Create Music Group acquired venerable indie electronic imprint !K7, IMS announced that it will honor dance world power agent Maria May with its Legends Awards at the event later this month in Ibiza and we chatted with Spanish psytrance star Indira Paganotto ahead of her Coachella debut this weekend.
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And in addition to all that, of course, these are the best new dance tracks of the week.
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Charlotte de Witte, “The Realm”
Techno fans have been waiting a long time for this moment, with genre titan Charlotte de Witte this week releasing the first single from her forthcoming album — the first LP from her 15-plus year career. “The Realm” is just that, a windy, sleekly tough track that functions as a sort of space to move through, and in. “The lyrics capture the essence of what I believe music can do,” the Belgian producer says. “Techno, and by extension clubbing, has always been about more than just dancing for me. It’s about connection, transcendence and exploration. It’s a way of accessing something unseen, something powerful. There’s a tension and release in the structure that mirrors the feeling of letting go, of stepping into something bigger than yourself.”
De Witte’s eponymous 11-track LP is coming November 7 through her own Kntxt label. Ahead of that, she’s touring heavily across Europe, the U.S. and Asia this spring and summer.
Bob Moses, “Time of Your Life“
Bob Moses return with their first new music in three (!) years via “Time of Your Life,” a song the duo wrote in a few hours at their L.A. studio. In a joint statement they say “the song is about the devil on your shoulder. The one whispering to you to indulge in the moment and worry about everything else later. That impulsiveness can feel intoxicating. We felt that feeling in the moment, embraced it, and wrote the song from that perspective: throwing caution to the wind and having the time of your life.” While the theme seems to be fresh for them, the song itself is the classic plodding, sleek and sexy synthwave the pair have long been known for. Bob Moses will play the Do Lab stage tonight (April 11) at Coachella.
Röyksopp, True Electric
The latest album from Norway’s finest Röyksopp collects 19 studio versions of music from the duo’s 2023 True Electric tour in 2023, with an emphasis on the club-oriented elements of a catalog that goes back almost 25 years. True Electric also features a previously unreleased track, the oversized and deliciously cacophonous “The R.” Out on their own Dog Triumph label, the project also includes the previously released and very essential update to their 2014 Robyn collab “Do It Again,” among other favorites.
Walker & Royce, “Death By Love”
Walker & Royce have been longtime torch bearers for underground West Coast tech house, with their latest being one of their coolest contributions to date. Out on Insomniac Records, “Death By Love” is a textural multi-movement heater with a heft and style that makes it feel longer than its two minutes and 50 seconds. The L.A. duo will surely play it out a lot out on a spring and summer tour that includes dates at EDC Las Vegas, Movement, Dirtybird Campout x Northern Nights, HARD Summer and Outside Lands.
Haai, “Shapeshift”
The latest from Haai slowly pulses to life, with a long burn intro built with the Australian producer’s own vocals and a repeated note that sounds like the sonar on a submarine. But oh, how it takes off. Lyrics from Kam-bu take the song into its second movement, with the London rapper stating “still don’t got love for cages, feel like we haven’t spoke in age” as the beat builds and the production takes a darker, clubbier turn and then takes off into sub-bass hyperspace around the 3:06 mark. Haii herself says the track is about the “duality of being both the person you are onstage and the person you are at home, in the normal world,” a theme that will play out when she plays Coachella twice this weekend, once on the Quasar stage and once in the Yuma Tent.
Ester Dean is responding after Keri Hilson expressed regret over her Dean-co-written “Turnin Me On (Remix)” aimed at Beyoncé.
The songwriter hopped on Instagram Thursday to clear the air after Hilson said during an interview with The Breakfast Club that the decision to shade Queen Bey on “Turnin’ Me On” negatively impacted her career. “It’s a regret,” Hilson said at the time, denying that she wrote the song and pointing to Dean’s pen instead.
Dean noted that her post is an “open letter” to Hilson and other creatives. “Back in July 2008, I started working with [producer] Polow Da Don in Atlanta,” she began. “Later, I moved to Los Angeles to write for Polow’s artist over at Interscope. I wasn’t famous. I wasn’t chasing clout. I was in the studio – day and night – writing 3 to 4 songs a day. No friends. No family. Just work.”
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She went on to rewrite some of the lyrics off the “Turnin’ Me On (Remix)”: “Your vision cloudy if you think that you’re the best/ You can dance, she can sing/ But she need to move it to the …,” which many believed to be in reference to Beyoncé’s 2006 hit “Irreplaceable.”
Those lyrics, Dean admitted in her open letter, were “tacky,” but not forced. “No. That was me. I wasn’t in the room with Keri writing this together,” she continued. “I didn’t know her personally. She was already a star. I was just a writer trying to earn my place. I did my job and left. Keri came in another time and wrote her own verse – her pen, her voice.”
Dean went on to clarify, “I didn’t work with Beyoncé until years later when I signed to Roc Nation as a writer. There was no ‘plot’ no ‘beef squad’. No secret industry mission. Just writers writing.”
She added: “Keri was already massive. She didn’t need saving. She was out here making history. Why Speak Now? Keri was speaking on big platforms I didn’t have access to – and it was her story to tell, not mine. I stayed writing. No hate. No shade. Just truth.”
Dean concluded her letter by noting that what Hilson went through was unfortunate. “She’s a great artist, a beautiful spirit, and she deserves grace,” the songwriter wrote. “She took her lessons. I’ll take mine.”
In Hilson’s aforementioned interview with The Breakfast Club, she said part of the blame belonged to Polow.
“I tried to fight him on it and I began writing my own,” the singer said. “The mistake that I made was not continuing to fight. But I was in tears, I was crying, I was adamant that I did not want to do that.”
Dean had previously come forward and issued her own apology on Wednesday (April 9) after Hilson’s interview, claiming the verse was “childish.” She wrote in what appears to be a now-deleted post: “I see how it hurt people, especially women, and I take full accountability.”
Check out Dean’s full response shared April 10 below.
Passover is one of the most musical of Jewish holidays. The annual springtime celebration of the ancient Israelites’ exodus from slavery in Egypt is full of beloved traditions, from the elaborate seder meal to inviting the prophet Elijah in to join the festivities, and, of course, the eating of unleavened bread called matzah. The meal […]
As artists and fans from across the globe are flocking to the desert for this year’s Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, African music is set to make its biggest splash yet. South Africa’s Tyla, Nigeria’s Rema and Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 and Ghana’s Amaarae will take over the festival this weekend and next. […]
Duo Soft Palms has returned with new single “Radio” from their upcoming sophomore album. The track marks the first new music from the wife and husband pair of Julia Kugel (The Coathangers, Julia Julia) and Scott Montoya (former member of The Growlers) since their debut self-titled album in 2020.
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“Radio” kicks off with Montoya on the drums before Kugel joins in a boisterous guitar riff that drives the track. The song is about the divisive nature of media and the alienation that results from the echo chamber of negativity, hearing secondhand information and the perception of persecution.
The track’s release is accompanied by a music video featuring the duo in night vision and serves as a reflection of the lyrics’ sentiment with surveillance cameras and projected messages that reflect the idea of being watched and judged.
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The Southern California couple have been making music together and separately for decades, and have decided to take their careers to what Montoya calls the “next logical step” of attempting to win a Grammy.
“Julia and I have over 40 years combined experience in music. ‘Radio’ will be our combined 352nd track on our combined 46th release, but it’s the first time we’ve ever thought to submit our work to the Recording Academy for Grammy consideration,” Montoya tells Billboard. Coming from the independent side of the music industry, he explains, the Grammys have “a stigma of being specifically for pop artists and for mainstream music, but it’s really not the case.”
The duo has also spent years strengthening their local music scene through their free annual festival, Happy Sundays, in Long Beach, Calif. The three-day event is scheduled to return this summer to several locations in the city between Aug. 23-25.
They also run non-profit Studios for Schools that provides equipment and funding for building recording/production studios in schools.
“Radio” was recorded and mixed by Kugel and Montoya at their home studio Centre of Mental Arts (COMA) in Long Beach, Calif., and mastered by BAFTA winner Mick Boggis. The entirety of the record is expected out later this year via Everloving Records.
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Mariah Carey fans have been waiting for the moment the chanteuse will unveil Someone’s Ugly Daughter, the alt-rock LP she worked on with her band in 1995 while simultaneously recording her album Daydream. Now that the superstar is nominated for a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction, it seems fitting for her grunge album to see the light of day.
“I mean, I really want to [release it], but I want to do videos, and I have just so many ideas for that,” she told Associated Press in a new interview. “I don’t think I’ll be able to pull it together by the summer (before the Rock Hall ceremony) but maybe, maybe I’ll release a few songs from it.”
As for her Rock Hall nomination, she gushed, “That’s a huge honor. I don’t know if I’m going to win it, so I don’t want to get too excited about it. So, I just want to say that, again, it’s a huge honor and I guess I didn’t expect it. I wasn’t really thinking about it. And here we are.”
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The Grammy-winning singer detailed in her 2020 memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, that she and her band wrote and recorded Someone’s Ugly Daughter to blow off steam while working on Daydream. She initially wanted to drop it as it was, but ended up releasing it under the pseudonym Chick with her friend Clarissa Dane on lead vocals.
Carey later confirmed to Rolling Stone Music Now in 2020 that she’d uncovered the original version of the record with her voice at the forefront. “I think this unearthed version will become something that, yes, we should hear,” she said at the time. “But also, I’m working on a version of something where there’ll be another artist working on this with me as well … Possibly something built around the album. I’m just full of surprises.”
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s The Class of 2025 will be revealed in late April, and the induction ceremony will take place in Los Angeles this fall, with more details to be announced in the coming months.
Kendrick Lamar and SZA have dropped off the official music video for their Billboard-chart topper “Luther,” just days before launching their highly anticipated Grand National Tour. The minimalistic video debuted on Friday (April 11). Directed by Karena Evans — who notably helmed Drake’s videos for “God’s Plan,” “Nice for What” and “In My Feelings” — […]
The highs, lows and secrets within the Judd family will be explored in the upcoming Lifetime four-part documentary series The Judd Family: Truth Be Told, which will air on Mother’s Day weekend, May 10-11, at 8 p.m. ET.
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The documentary delves into the nuanced relationship between The Judds matriarch Naomi Judd and her daughters Ashley and Wynonna. According to an announcement regarding the Alexandra Dean-directed and executive-produced documentary, the series seeks to explore “the complex mother-daughter dynamics and intergenerational trauma as seen through the eyes of the Judd family.”
Naomi and Wynonna Judd formed the successful mother-daughter country music duo The Judds, garnering 14 No. 1s on Billboard‘s Hot Country Songs chart in 1980s. Meanwhile, Ashley Judd went on to become a successful actress, known for roles including Double Jeopardy and Heat.
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The trailer for the documentary shows Naomi and Wynonna together in the early days of The Judds’ career. Naomi smiles at Wynonna and says, “You love me?” as Wynonna nods. “Are you ever going to leave me?” Naomi asks, as Wynonna grins and shakes her head no.
“I was so proud of their success,” Ashley Judd later says in the trailer, which also features comments from The Judds’ fellow country star Reba McEntire. From there, the trailer quickly shifts, alluding to family secrets and struggles, with Ashley saying of Naomi at one point, “She had no idea what I went through as a child.”
Later Wynonna says, “It’s a blessing and a curse to be that close to your mother.”
The Judds led headlining tours and notched hits including “Love Can Build a Bridge” and “Why Not Me.” They won five Grammy Awards and nine CMA Awards during their career, before Naomi’s battle with hepatitis C brought the duo’s career to a halt. Wynonna then forged a successful solo career on the strength of songs including “No One Else on Earth” and “Tell Me Why.”
In April 2022, tragedy struck when Naomi died by suicide at age 76, one day prior to The Judds’ induction into the Country Music Hall of Fame. At the time, a statement from Wynonna and Ashley Judd said, “Today we sisters experienced a tragedy. We lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness. We are shattered. We are navigating profound grief and know that as we loved her, she was loved by her public. We are in unknown territory.”
The documentary series is produced by Propagate Content for Lifetime, with Ben Silverman, Howard T. Owens, Isabel San Vargas and Jonathan Schaerf acting as executive producers. Elaine Frontain Bryant and Brad Abramson are executive producers for Lifetime.
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Bon Iver‘s Justin Vernon has always done things his way, and the roll-out of the singer’s latest album, Sable, Fable, is no exception. In addition to the LP that dropped on Friday (April 11), Vernon has lined up dozens of unique product tie-ins ranging from bespoke pink cashmere hoodies and beanies from designer Todd Snyder to fragrances, notebooks, signature cocktails, ice cream and more.
The exhaustive list of products includes the Allpress Espresso “SABLE, fABLE Spritz” cold brew (featuring San Bitters, citrus, orange bitters and soda), as well as the Billy Van Creamy SABLE SORBET featuring vegan salted olive oil and grapefruit sorbet with vegan sour jube, as well as a non-vegan option that will be served with salmon roe.
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You can also check out Canyon Coffee’s SABLE Black Sesame Hojicha Latte (with hojicha tea, black sesame, pistachio milk and Japanese brown sugar), the fABLE Hibiscus Milk Tea (with hibiscus tea, strawberry simple syrup and your choice of milk) and Courage Bagels’ bon iver salmon SABLE plate with wild hot smoke salmon, cream cheese, capeberries, onion, dill, tomato and olive oil.
The collabs are are available at his partners’ retail outlets on Friday, including a special Earl of East “immersive” scent inspired by sound, the Fables Bar & Cafe walk home hot chocolate, Fell + Cole SABLE whiskey ice cream, Field Notes SABLE, fABLE notebooks, Fishwife’s SABLE, fABLE smoked salmon duo and the Gravely Brewing Co.’s SABLE dark cream ale brew.
The exhaustive list of items inspired by the new album also includes listening lounges, signature cocktails, sourdough salmon pastries, a fresh peach puree matcha, a different stacked bagel sandwich, a gravlax pizza, smoothie bowl, salmon colored roses and bouquets, coffee blends, flash temporary tattoos (salmon and double hearts), a “Short Story Shortcake” and more unique offers inspired by the album’s color scheme and title.
All of Friday’s experiences will be available while supplies last at outlets stretching from Manchester, U.K. to Melbourne, Australia, L.A., Wisconsin, South Korea, Detroit, Louisville, Jakarta, Amsterdam, Malaysia, Chicago, Singapore, India and Mexico City, among many other spots; click here for the full list of collaborations and locations.
In addition to the avalanche of tie-ins, Vernon also released a cabin-core-to-coast video for “There’s a Rhythm/ Au Revoir” on Friday. In addition to all that, Vernon will hit L.A.’s Terasaki Budokan sports/community center on Saturday (April 12) for the “Live Inside This State Fair” event featuring the three-game SABLES vs. fABLES basketball tournament, art displays, games, vinyl and food and drink from his collab partners.
Check out the “There’s a Rhythm” video, as well as pictures and a full list of the collabs here and below.
Renowned singer-songwriter Silvio Rodríguez has announced a tour across five South American countries later this year, sharing the news in an Instagram post on Thursday (April 10).
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“Hey, friends! I’m Silvio Rodríguez, and I just wanted to share this quick message to announce an upcoming tour through Latin America,” he said in the video. “It’ll be in five countries, running from late September to early November of 2025. The countries, in this order, are Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru and Colombia. That’s all for now! We’re really excited about this, and I hope you all are too. Thank you so much.”
This marks his first performances outside of Cuba since 2022, when he gave concerts in Mexico — including one in Mexico City’s Zócalo before an audience of 100,000. The announcement also sets his return to South America after last touring the region in 2018 with concerts in Chile and Argentina.
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The nueva trova artist will be joined on tour by Emilio Vega (vibraphone), Jorge Aragón and Malva Rodríguez (piano), Niurka González (flute and clarinet), Jorge Reyes (double bass), Rachid López (guitar), Maykel Elizarde (tres guitar) and Oliver Valdés (drums), according to Cuba Noticias 360.
His most recent release, Quería Saber — his 21st studio album — was released last June.
Silvio Rodríguez is a pioneer of la nueva trova, a music movement that emerged in Cuba in the late 1960s blending poetic lyrics with social and political themes. One of his most recognizable hits include “Ojalá,” “Quien Fuera,” “Te Doy Una Canción” and many more. His profound storytelling and evocative melodies have inspired generations, establishing him as one of Latin America’s most iconic and influential artists.
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