Alexandria Wojcik

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  • Bunk Police Smuggled 15,000 Drug Test Kits Into Mysteryland USA

    This past summer, the Bunk Police smuggled 15,000 drug testing kits into Mysteryland USA's second annual three-day electronic dance music and culture festival held on the grounds of the original Woodstock '69 at Bethel Woods Performing Arts Center. CNN's Lisa Ling caught an interview with Adam Auctor, the CEO behind the harm reduction organization, which is scheduled to air on this Wednesday's episode of 'This Is Life with Lisa Ling: Electronic Woodstock.'

  • Pictureplane Releases New LP 'Technomancer,' Touring with HEALTH

    Pictureplane, the moniker for Travis Egedy's electronic production project, just dropped his new full-length album entitled Technomancer. The Brooklyn-via-Detroit multimedia artist's album was released via Anticon over the weekend and is available to stream via the label's Soundcloud. Next week, Pictureplane will join HEALTH as they embark on their Death Magic North American tour. Check out their tour dates listed below at the end of this article.

  • Scary Halloweekend for Ravers: 100s Arrested in Cali, Voodoo Fest Canceled, Riots in London

    This past weekend was an especially scary Halloween for many electronic dance music fans and headliners alike around the globe. Revelers faced hundreds of arrests at two California raves, HARD Day of the Dead and Escape: Psycho Circus. In New Orleans, Voodoo Fest's final day was canceled due to extreme weather. Meanwhile, ravers attending Scumoween in London clashed with riot police.

  • President Obama Sings Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' for Halloween [WATCH]

    It's Halloween weekend, which means most of America (maybe the world?) already expects to hear Michael Jackson's "Thriller" at least a few times between now and Monday. What we didn't expect was to hear President Barack Obama deliver the classic creepy tune. Just in time for the holiday, the POTUS seems to have found some time in between rocking out as leader of the free world and greeting Trick-or-Treaters with the first family to sing his own rendition of the title track from Jackson's seminal 1982 album.

  • Alanis Morissette’s 'All I Really Want' Covered by Canadian Punks F*cked Up [LISTEN]

    F*cked Up have covered Alanis Morissette's "All I Really Want," 20 years after the singer dropped her first album, 'Jagged Little Pill', which is being re-issued this week. To celebrate two decades of rocking out to Morissette's landmark debut, the music streaming service, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), is releasing an all-Canadian covers album.

  • Steve Aoki Fights for Animal Rights with Humane Society, Wants to Save the Rhinos

    Steve Aoki, recently voted America's Best DJ, is turning up for animal rights. The world renowned beat-dropper, raft-rider and cake-thrower has collaborated with countless other A-list artists over the years, but now he's taking genre-bending collaboration to the next level as he teams up with both the Humane Society of the United States and Humane Society International on an ad campaign to save endangered rhinos.

  • GWAR Covers Cyndi Lauper’s 'She Bop,' The Ramones’ 'Blitzkrieg Bop' [WATCH]

    GWAR has covered Cyndi Lauper's 1984 pop gem "She Bop" on the A.V. Club's "Undercover Series" which features artists covering other artist's greatest hits. After transforming the synth-pop female masturbation anthem into a moshpit-inducing thrash metal jam, the gore-metal legends treated listeners to a bonus cover of the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop."

  • Nine Inch Nails Releasing ‘Halo I-IV’ Vinyl Box Set for Record Store Day Black Friday

    Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor’s industrial rock outfit, will be releasing a vinyl box set entitled Halo I-IV for Record Store Day Black Friday. The limited edition set is based on Nine Inch Nails’ landmark 1989 debut album Pretty Hate Machine and includes the original 12” singles for “Down In It, “Sin,” and of course, “Head Like a Hole.” “Halo I-IV” is out November 27th at your local record store.

  • Dillon Francis is "Dead" Zombie in New 'All That' Music Video [WATCH]

    In the spirit of Halloween, electronic producer/DJ Dillon Francis has dropped the creepy music video for his track "All That," starring the artist's zombie alter-ego Dead Dillon. The track features Twista and The Rej3ctz and was released back in 2014 on the LA-born artist's debut album Money Sucks, Friends Rule. Both Francis and his song will be featured in the upcoming horror comedy film, Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse, which comes out October 30th.

  • Kasbo Drops New Track via ODESZA's Foreign Family Collective Label [LISTEN]

    Kasbo, the moniker of Swedish electronic producer Carl Garso, has recently dropped a new future bass track, "World Away." The 19-year-old up up-and-comer has yet to share a full-length album, but has already garnered quite the following--probably because the track is one of the coveted first releases on ODESZA's new label, Foreign Family Collective; or maybe because Kasbo scored a supporting slot on ODESZA's Fall North American tour that's kicking off this Friday in New Orleans. Either way, he'll be making his festival debut this Halloween at HARD's Day of the Dead in LA, which is kind of a big deal. Listen to "World Away," below.

  • Danzig Allegedly Punches Photographer, Confirms Retirement from Touring

    Danzig, the stage name of former Misfits frontman Glenn Anzalone, allegedly punched a photographer during a concert in Montreal last week. Following the incident, Danzig reportedly told Loudwire, "I think this is going to be it" after one of his New York City shows this past week, asserting, "I'll do some shows here or there, but I don't think I'm going to tour anymore." The metal-infused horror punk pioneer will finish his remaining Blackest of the Black North American tour dates with Superjoint before retiring from the road.

  • Diplo, Flume, Cashmere Cat and More on Mix for Nina Las Vegas’s Final Triple J Show [LISTEN]

    After a decade of ruling the Australian airwaves (and beyond) as host of several Triple J Radio shows, electronic DJ, producer and tastemaker Nina Agzarian, aka Nina Las Vegas, has left the station. For her final Mix Up Exclusives show this weekend, she solicited 30 minute mixes from Diplo, Anna Lunoe, Flight Facilities, Flume, Cashmere Cat, RL Grime, Swick and Levins. The result is a 4-hour long celebration of NLV's lasting influence full of new music (as well as some throwbacks) from each of the guests. Listen to the mix here:

  • Rock the Vote Celebrates 25th Anniversary With Free Concert

    Rock the Vote aired their first Public Service Announcement featuring Madonna draped in an American flag 25 years ago this past week. To celebrate their silver anniversary, Rock the Vote held a free concert in Washington, DC featuring the current members of 2 Live Crew (Wong Won and Mark "Brother Marquis" Ross), Darryl "DMC" McDaniels of Run DMC,and DC-based rapper Lightshow.

  • Candy or Ecstasy? Trending Warning About MDMA-Spiked Halloween Candy Another Urban Legend

    With Halloween right around the corner, 'tis the season for pumpkin spiced everything, pop-up costume stores, candy apples stuffed with razor blades, and ecstasy disguised as Halloween candy being distributed to trick-or-treaters. Right now, a warning about the threat of MDMA-spiked Halloween candy is trending, but it's more than likely another urban legend.

  • Junior Boys Announce 'Big Black Coat' Album, Drop Title Track [LISTEN]

    Junior Boys, the moniker for the Canadian electronic pop duo consisting of Jeremy Greenspan and Matt Didemus, have announced the release of their first new album in five years, "Big Black Coat." The forthcoming LP is due out February 5 via City Slang. The announcement was accompanied by the album's first single and title track, "Big Black Coat."

  • NERVO Tells Cancer to F*ck Off, Launches Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign #TTY

    October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, so Australian electronic DJ/production duo NERVO have launched their own awareness campaign, TITTIES TITTIES YEAH (#TTY). As announced on the NERVO sisters' artist page, the first ladies of EDM are collaborating with the philanthropic lifestyle brand Electric Family to sell custom bracelets while sharing cancer prevention and early detection information with their fans via social media; they are also "teaming up with F*ck Cancer and hosting some parties where all the proceeds will go towards funding mammograms and providing free breast cancer screenings."

  • Kylie Minogue Reads Nick Cave's 1996 Rejection Letter to MTV [WATCH]

    In 1996, Nick Cave (of Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds) penned a now-notorious letter to MTV requesting they rescind his Video Music Awards nomination for Best Male Artist. In his letter, Cave asserts "my muse is not a horse and I am in no horse race." Now, Kylie Minogue has read the rejection letter as a part of the Letters Live video series from the literary correspondence website Letters of Note.

  • Producer DUCKY Releases New EP 'Lost Angeles,' Streaming on NEST HQ [LISTEN]

    LA-based electronic producer DUCKY has dropped an ethereal new three-track EP, Lost Angeles, through Skrillex's free label NEST HQ. "Rain Dance," the entrancing track found at the center of the ambient techno house release, premiered last week on Anna Lunoe's Beats 1 show. The entire EP is available to stream or download (for free!) on NEST HQ's website; give it a listen below.

  • Moby & the Void Pacific Choir Drop New Songs, Share Video [WATCH]

    The veteran electronic dance music producer Moby has announced his new Moby & the Void Pacific Choir project and released several new tracks. Listen to "Almost Loved" and "The Light is Clear in My Eyes" below. As reported by Stereogum, no one "yet know[s] what's going on with Moby and his mysterious new project Moby & The Void Pacific Choir," but speculations about a new full-length album are probably not far off.

  • Eartheater Releases New Album 'R.I.P. Chrysalis' [LISTEN]

    Eartheater, the solo project of Guardian Alien frontwoman Alexandra Drewchin, has shared her new album, RIP Chrysalis, via Hausu Mountain. It is the Queens-based psychedelic cyborg singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist's second full-length album released this year. You can stream it now via Eartheater's BandCamp page.

  • French Band Caravan Palace Streaming New Electro-Swing Album [LISTEN]

    French electronic/jazz fusion group Caravan Palace have released their new full-length album, <|°_°|>, via Le Plan Records. Using a series of keyboard characters as a title that has been commonly translated as Robot despite the band's insistence via their Facebook that listeners should refer to the album as anything they wish, the Parisian electronic big band's third album premiered on KCRW and is now also streaming on Spotify and available for purchase through the band's website.

  • Warpaint's Theresa Wayman, Hot Chip's Jones, All We Are's Gikling Launch BOSS Project [LISTEN]

    Warpaint vocalist/guitarist Theresa Wayman, All We Are bassist Guro Gikling and drummer Sarah Jones from both Hot Chip and Yeasayer, have announced their new project, BOSS. The trio will officially release I'm Down With That on November 27 via Dan Carey's Speedy Wunderground (known for working with Bat for Lashes, The Kills, Franz Ferdinand and Chairlift, among others) as a limited 7". The B side will feature Carey's dub remix of the same track, entitled "Mr Dan's I'm Dub With That." You can listen to both tracks via Speedy Wunderground's Soundcloud, below.

  • WATCH The Muppets' Swedish Chef Covers Sia's 'Chandelier'

    The Muppet known as the Swedish Chef has paused from making popcorn for just long enough to record and release a video of him Bork Bork Bork-ing his way through Sia's "Chandelier." Aptly renamed "Cherndelifer," the cover is the product of Brock Baker, the comedian also known as the McGoiter of YouTube fame. Watch the video below.

  • Tracy Chapman's 'Give Me One Reason' Remixed by Manic Focus [LISTEN]

    Electronic artist Manic Focus (aka John "JmaC" McCarten) has just released a bootleg remix of Tracy Chapman's "Give Me One Reason," giving the 90s hit a funky electro-soul makeover. "Give Me One Reason (Manic Focus Remix)" premiered last week on This Song Is Sick and is available for free download via Manic Focus' Soundcloud; you can give it a listen below.

  • Dan Deacon Joining Miley Cyrus and Flaming Lips on Dead Petz Tour

    Miley Cyrus' transformation into one of the freaks of the indie music world is nearly complete. After surprising the world with her collaboration with Wayne Coyne and other Flaming Lips members on 'Miley Cyrus and her Dead Petz,' the singer and The Flaming Lips are readying the kick-off of their US tour together and have since revealed that Dan Deacon will be joining them as the opening act.

  • Joanna Newsom Slams Spotify, Compares it to a Rotten Banana

    Joanna Newsom's first album in five years, 'Divers,' drops next week, but don't expect to find it on Spotify. The harp-playing singer-songwriter slammed the music-streaming service in a recent interview, calling it "the banana of the music industry," asserting that "it just gives off a fume. You can just smell that something's wrong with it."

  • Australian Producer Wave Racer Shares Debut EP 'Flash Drive' [LISTEN]

    Bass house producer Wave Racer dropped his debut EP Flash Drive today. The release comes via the Australian label Future Classic (home of Cashmere Cat, Flight Facilities and Flume among others) and features collaborations with Cosmo's Midnight, Lido, and Baby. Stream Flash Drive via the artist's SoundCloud linked below or download it on iTunes.
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