Posts made in April 2018

Machine Gun Kelly Releases Visual For “27”

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On the eve of his 28th birthday, Machine Gun Kelly released the music video for his song “27.” The track, which was featured on his album bloom, is an ode to fully living until the infamously-damned age of 27. The EST 19XX/Bad Boy/Interscope recording artist delivers the Ryan Hardy-directed visual that begins with a montage of MGK as he’s travelled through his career. The video takes on an analog-film editing aesthetic and continues with tour and studio footage interspersed throughout. MGK just wrapped filming Tommy Lee’s upcoming Motley Crue biopic, The Dirt, and is set to star in Sandra Bullock’s new film, Bird Box. The bloom rapper will join Fall Out Boy on The M A N I A Tour which kicks off on August 29 in Uniondale, NY.

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KAILEE MORGUE DEBUTS NEW SINGLE

Kailee Morgue debuts her new single, “F**k U”—listen and share here. “F**k U” was produced by notable producer Dylan Brady (The Neighbourhood, Jesse Rutherford, Goody Grace, Night Lovell, Nessly).

Morgue is set to perform her first-ever headlining show in New York at Baby’s All Right on May 17th—tickets are available now here.

“F**k U” follows Morgue’s breakout track, “Medusa,” which catapulted her into an overnight success last year after she posted a live performance of the song on Twitter. “Medusa” became the title track from her debut EP, which was also released last fall and features her hit single, “Discovery.”

Tattooed, green haired and anime-obsessed 19-year-old Phoenix-born and Los Angeles-based gothic pop siren, Kailee Morgue, casts a sonic spell with her music. A self-described “introvert” and the second oldest of six kids, she found solace in the sounds of fellow sonic sorceresses, such as Stevie Nicks and Gwen Stefani, as well as bands like Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin and more. By the age of ten, she picked up her first guitar, began quietly penning music and eventually started posting tracks on Soundcloud.

Between a gig at Jack In The Box in 2016, an 18-year-old Morgue found the beat for her breakout track, “Medusa,” on YouTube and cooked up the single. She first teased the track with a brief Twitter video, and it ignited a viral reaction garnering 100,000 “likes” overnight. Over an airy, minimalistic soundscape, Morgue creates a hypnotic and heartfelt melody with haunting and powerful lyrics. “Medusa” peaked at #1 on Hype Machine, was hailed as “Best Track of the Week” by The New York Times, MTV, The Line of Best Fit and Coup de Main and its video premiered on The FADER. As “Medusa” became an underground phenomenon, Morgue inked a deal with Republic Records in the summer of 2017. Further music is set for release this spring.

AFTERCLUV RELEASES ‘OLHA A EXPLOSÃO’ REMIX

Aftercluv releases a brand new blockbuster remix of MC Kevinho’s global smash ‘Olha A Explos’ featuring 2 ChainzNacho, and French Montana at all digital retailers in a unique partnership with Universal Music Brazil and Capitol Records remiering exclusively via HipHopDX. Get it HERE.

The remix transforms the wild Brazilian funk of ‘Olha A Explos’ into a sexy international affair. Atlanta’s finest 2 Chainz ignites the track with raw trap heat as Moroccan superstar French Montana turns up with a fiery cameo of his own. Venezuela’s Nacho adds South American flavor of his own as MC Kevinho carries the unshakable hook across borders. Be on the lookout for the music video’s premiere very soon.

The original ‘Olha A Explos’ generated a staggering 623 million YouTube views and counting as well as 154 million-plus Spotify streams. The remix is primed to pop off even more though as the song approaches the 1 billion mark.

‘Olha A Explos’ upholds a scorching hot streak for Aftercluv. The label recently dropped a powerhouse remix of MC Fioti’s ‘Bum Bum Tam Tam’ [feat. Future, J Balvin, Stefflon Don, & Juan Magan]. Billboard recently chronicled the company’s burgeoning success in a comprehensive feature. Aftercluv, Universal Music Latin Entertainments’ dance division, builds a bridge between Latin America and the rest of the world, keeping bodies moving on dance floors from continent to continent. Founded in 2015 and based in Los Angeles, the company operates another U.S. office in Miami and nine other countries in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.

Stay tuned for more Aftercluv very soon.

Post Malone Releases ‘Beerbongs & Bentleys’

History-making multiplatinum Dallas, TX artist Post Malone unleashes his second full-length album and the biggest musical event of 2018, beerbongs & bentleys [Republic Records].

Get it HERE and exclusive beerbongs & bentleys bundles available now at shop.postmalone.com.

beerbongs & bentleys represents yet another creative breakthrough for the genre-defying maverick. The track listing flaunts the #1 smash “rockstar” [feat. 21 Savage], “Candy Paint, and the recent hit “Psycho” [feat. Ty Dolla $ign]. It’s rounded out by “Spoil My Night” [feat. Swae Lee], “Ball For Me” [feat. Nicki Minaj], and additional collaborations with YG and G-Eazy.

TRACKLISTING:

1 “Paranoid”

2 “Spoil My Night” feat. Swae Lee

3 “Rich & Sad”

4 “Zack and Codeine”

5 “Takin’ Shots”

6 “rockstar” feat. 21 Savage

7 “Over Now”

8 “Psycho” feat. Ty Dolla $ign

9 “Better Now”

10 “Ball For Me” feat. Nicki Minaj

11 “Otherside”

12 “Stay”

13 “Blame It On Me”

14 “Same Bitches” feat. G-Eazy & YG

15 “Jonestown (Interlude)”

16 “92 Explorer”

17 “Candy Paint”

18 “Sugar Wraith”

Post Malone – beerbongs & bentleys links:

Main / Landing Page: http://PostMalone.lnk.to/bb

iTunes: http://PostMalone.lnk.to/bbDL/itunes

Apple Music: http://PostMalone.lnk.to/bbDL/applemusic

Spotify: http://PostMalone.lnk.to/bbDL/spotify

Google Play: http://PostMalone.lnk.to/bbDL/google-play

Amazon: http://PostMalone.lnk.to/bbDL/amazonmp3

iHeart: http://PostMalone.lnk.to/bbDL/iheartradio2

SoundCloud: http://PostMalone.lnk.to/bbDL/soundcloud

Radicalized Loyalties

By: Fabien Truong

In the wake of the Syrian terrorist attacks in France, the UK and elsewhere, there has been a growing concern about the ‘radicalization’ of young Muslims. Deprived areas of Western cities are believed to have become breeding grounds of home-grown extremism. But how do young Muslims growing up in the cities of the West really live?

This book takes us into the housing estates on the outskirts of Paris where we get to know Adama, Radouane, Hassan, Tarik, Marley and a shadowy figure whose name would suddenly and brutally become known to the world at the time of the Charlie Hebdo shootings in Paris in January 2015: Amédy Coulibaly. Seeing Amédy through the eyes of his close friends and these other young Muslim men in the neighbourhoods where they grew up, Fabien Truong uncovers a dense network of competing social loyalties and maps the road these youths take to resolve the conflicts they face: becoming Muslim.

On the peripheries of the modern city, boys become men through their loyalty to their neighbourhood, to their brotherhood, to their intangible family history, to the nation and the ideal of equal opportunities, to capitalism and its promotion of individualism, masculinity and economic success. Yet they need to move away from contradictions fuelled by an insecurity that stems from the pervasiveness of crime, policing and the political emptiness of everyday materialism.

Islam stands, often alone, as a resource or a gateway – as if it were the last route to ‘escape’ without betrayal and to ‘fight’ in a meaningful and noble way. Becoming Muslim does not necessarily lead to the radicalized ‘other’. It is more like a long-distance race, a powerful reconversion of the self that allows for introspection and change. But it can also become a belligerent presentation of the self that transforms a dead-end into a call for arms.

By enabling us to understand ‘them’, this book also helps ‘us’ to understand ourselves and our societies better, as well as shedding valuable light on the new forms of violence we face in a world where one is not born, but rather becomes, a warrior.

The Spencer Lee Band

The Spencer Lee Band reveals a live rendition of the classic “With a Little Help From My Friends” (Live In Studio) via SB Projects/Republic Records.

Get the song HERE and video for the song HERE.

The group teamed up with Fader to give the song a first look and share the soulful cover this morning. Of the song, the outlet wrote, “Spencer Lee’s voice is already a classic.” Known for their unbelievable live chemistry, the song is a perfect representation of their unparalleled live energy. Read full interview here.

Led by Kansas-born and Los Angeles-based singer and multi-instrumentalist Spencer Lee, the group has quietly become a burgeoning phenomenon. They contributed “The Wolf” to the chart-topping 50 Shades Freed Official Soundtrack Album, and it’s already generated nearly 7 million Spotify streams and counting while their debut single “Kissing Tree” continues to climb the charts.

Next up, The Spencer Lee Band storms the festival circuit this summer with performances at Governors Ball,BonnarooFirefly, and more.

Be on the lookout for more news on The Spencer Lee Band soon!

Aftercluv Releases Remix of MC Kevinho’s “Ohla A Explosão”

Today, Aftercluv releases a brand new blockbuster remix of MC Kevinho’s global smash Olha A Explosão featuring 2 Chainz, Nacho, and French Montana at all digital retailers in a unique partnership with Universal Music Brazil and Capitol Records premiering exclusively via HipHopDX.
Get it HERE.
The remix transforms the wild Brazilian funk of Olha A Explosão into a sexy international affair. Atlanta’s finest 2 Chainz ignites the track with raw trap heat as Moroccan superstar French Montana turns up with a fiery cameo of his own. Venezuela’s Nacho adds South American flavor of his own as MC Kevinho carries the unshakable hook across borders. Be on the lookout for the music video’s premiere very soon.
The original Olha A Explosão a staggering 643 million YouTube views and counting as well as 154 million-plus Spotify streams. The remix is primed to pop off even more though as the song approaches the 1 billion mark.
Olha A Explosão upholds a scorching hot streak for Aftercluv. The label recently dropped a powerhouse remix of MC Fioti’s Bum Bum Tam Tam [feat. Future,& J Balvin, Stefflon Don, Juan Magan]. Billboard recently chronicled the company’s burgeoning success in a comprehensive feature. Aftercluv, Universal Music Latin Entertainments’ dance division, builds a bridge between Latin America and the rest of the world, keeping bodies moving on dance floors from continent to continent. Founded in 2015 and based in Los Angeles, the company operates another U.S. office in Miami and nine other countries in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula.
Stay tuned for more from Aftercluv very soon.

New Album “Woman” x Angel

Angel, the dynamic UK R&B singer, has announced the date of his highly anticipated forthcoming album WOMAN. Set for release on June 8th and available for pre-order on April 27th, the new album which is a celebration of the women in Angelߣs life from over the years, features 14 addictive R&B tracks and explosive collaborations with the likes of Giggs, Eric Bellinger, Haile from WSTRN and Swizz Beatz.
The lead track taken from WOMAN is Nothing Wrong which alongside 6 other brand new tracks is released today as Part 1 of the forthcoming album and was written by Kassa Alexander (aka artist and producer PRGRSHN) and Angel, produced by Angel and follows a stand-out support slot for US R&B singer August Alsina and string of sold-out headline live dates, including two dates at Londonߣs Bush Hall. The new music also follows the launch of Angel’s More of HER playlist which featured tracks such as Hi Grade ft Protoje, Road Closed, Crud and No Days Off and his HER EP which featured rapidly rising UK rapper Steff London on the track Hop On and Atlanta, Georgia’s Rich Homie Quan on the Harmony Samuels produced Fvxk With You which made a huge splash across both sides of the Atlantic.
Signed in the US by Motown records VP, Ezekiel Lewis (also responsible for forming the group The Clutch who have gone on to write and produce hits for Beyonce, Justin Bieber, Neyo and more), alongside Island Records, Angel continues to reinforce his position as one of the UK’s hottest R&B talents. With Kehlani, Mila J, Pop and Oak (known for their work with the likes of Chris Brown, Kehlani and Nicki Minaj), Grammy award winning producer Swiss Beatz, Neff U and Prince Charlez (who recently collaborated with Rihanna’s Anti) on the list as just some of the credible names Angel has recently worked with and with his much-awaited new album WOMAN and live shows coming, there is no doubt that Angel’s new music is going to rock both sides of the shores, making 2018 and beyond his for the taking.
WOMAN Part 1 track-list
Woman Intro
No Flutes ft Eric Bellinger
Fly ft Giggs and Haile WSTRN
Nothing Wrong
Woman
Return of the Mackin
Making Up

WELSHLY ARMS “INDESTRUCTIBLE”

Cleveland based, blues and gospel influenced Alternative band, Welshly Arms debuts their latest song, “Indestructible,” today—listen and share here. The track premiered on Ones To Watch, who says, “prepare yourself for robust guitar strings and a pop-tinged chorus that thrives off of a funkified shuffle.”

Frontman Sam Getz explains the meaning behind “Indestructible,” saying “‘Indestructible’ is about being in love with someone that’s out of your league. You know they’ll never break down and fall for you, but in a way, that’s what makes you want them even more.”

“Indestructible” follows Welshly Arm’s previously released song “Sanctuary,” and both are taken from the band’s highly anticipated debut album, No Place Is Home, which is set for release on May 25th. See the full No Place Is Home tracklist below. Pre-order No Place Is Home here.

WESHLEY ARMS SQUARE

NO PLACE IS HOME TRACKLIST
01. “All The Way Up”
02. “Indestructible”
03. “Sanctuary”
04. “How High”
05. “All For Us”
06. “Down To The River”
07. “Locked”
08. “Hammer”
09. “Legendary”
10. “X”
11. “Wild”
12. “Love Of The Game”
13. “Unspoken”