By Emlyn Travis As the clock ticks past midnight on a chilly October evening in Seoul, South Korea, there is a light that doesn’t go out in the SM Entertainment building. Inside, NCT members Taeyong, Doyoung, Xiaojun, Lucas, Jaemin, Jaehyun, and Shotaro are wide awake, sipping on iced Americanos as they make fun of each other, pick at each other’s clothing, and chat excitedly via Zoom about the group’s most ambitious project yet: their two-part album NCT 2020 Resonance. “It’s a meaningful album,” 23-year-old singer Jaehyun answers in English. “ WayV, NCT Dream, and NCT 127, and we’ve...
One of the recent sensations in the hip-hop scene is the female rapper from Central Florida, Priceless Scott, whose recent release, the new EP titled Pressure Makes Diamonds stole the show for good. She makes urban life popping with her unique mixtures of old school hip-hop and her signature style sounds. All six tracks included in the EP are filled with tasty melodicism, a perfect balance of harmonic and power rap, as well as distills atmospheric energy throughout. Each of the tracks has verses deserving to be quoted and remembered. The artist’s lyricism deserves special and detailed attention. “Pull...
Hip-hop’s golden artist JGOTITT has released the hottest music video, and I would even dare to say in the whole history of hip-hop, for his recent track “Bounce That Ass.” The video’s fiery visuals recreate what the title states: beautiful ladies bouncing their beautiful body parts around the rapper who doesn’t seem unfamiliar with the scene. He enjoys every bit of the show and remains cool and edgy. The song itself is filled with groove and style. It is really grounded in the lyricism yet, provides a very out of body experience with the swaggy, groovy beats that pump...
Taylor Swift’s been hard at work. After releasing a new Folklore performance film on Disney+ last week, she headed into the Thanksgiving holiday with an impressive six Grammy nominations — including in the key Album of the Year and Song of the Year categories. But as we know from a note she posted to social media last month, she’s also been spending a lot of time in the studio. Due to Scooter Braun’s purchase (and subsequent sale) of Swift’s back catalog, she’s taken it upon herself to re-record those old songs — the ones from her first six albums...
Get your gigantic bows ready: Sia is coming to the Movie & TV Awards: Greatest of All Time, along with Steve Aoki and Travis Barker. The three pop talents will be performing at the 90-minute special, airing Sunday, December 6 at 8 p.m. ET/PT. https://twitter.com/MTVAwards/status/1333894415514017799 “I’m stoked to be performing with one of my good friends at the MTV Movie & TV Awards: Greatest of All Time,” Aoki said. “Not only will we be celebrating the best of the best pictures with the iconic music that pushed them forward, but we have some surprises for you all as well....
By Ashley Oken Miley Cyrus’s long awaited seventh studio album, Plastic Hearts, dropped on Friday (November 27) and sees Cyrus embracing a throwback rock sound, reinventing herself yet again and unapologetically reflecting on her journey from Disney child star to mature artist exploring herself. She spent her immediate post-Disney career trying to shed the clean-cut image that comes with child stardom, and since then, Cyrus has tried embracing many sounds, from pop to country to psychedelic, in order to break away. Now, she seems to have found a bold, fitting path in rock. The track “Gimme What I Want”...
Nova Twins have penned an open letter to the MOBO Awards, calling for them to introduce a Rock/Alternative category in their 2021 awards. In the letter, the London rock duo say that the inclusion of the new category could “widen the representation that ourselves and so many others didn’t have growing up”. READ MORE: Nova Twins: “Being black women doing punk music is political” Elsewhere in the letter, the pair say that the move would represent “more than just a category,” writing: “It’s a message to all young black people, letting them know that they can do and be...
AC/DC‘s Angus Young has explained the idea behind the title of the band’s new album ‘Power Up’. ‘Power Up’ came out earlier this month, and became the fastest-selling album of 2020. READ MORE: AC/DC on their explosive comeback record ‘Power Up’: “This album is for Malcolm” “I went through everything — like titles in songs,” Young told Australian radio station Triple M of the selection process for the album title. Advertisement “In the song ‘Realize’, there’s the line, ‘I’ve got the power to mesmerise.’ The word ‘power,’ it goes back to the name AC/DC. We always looked at ourselves as...
Pete Tong will return to The O2 Arena next month for a one-off livestream of his acclaimed Ibiza Classics show with the Heritage Orchestra. The show first debuted at the venue in December 2016 and has returned to huge crowds every year since – with the Heritage Orchestra putting a classical spin on a selection of rave classics. While no crowds will be present for this year’s event, fans can watch the performance on Saturday 19th December 2020 via LIVENow, which will mark the first music event at The O2 Arena since the pandemic forced it to shut in March. O Come...
Vans have announced details of their Musicians Wanted competition final for 2020. The global concert stream will air online on December 9, and will announce the winner of the European section of the competition, with the winner getting the opportunity to support Anderson .Paak at a live gig in 2021 as well as Fender gear, Vans products, streaming service playlisting and global distribution. READ MORE: Meet the finalists for Vans’ Musicians Wanted competition Announced back in September, 2020’s edition of Musicians Wanted sees the event – which was initially created by Vans’ Asia-Pacific region back in 2015 – come...