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  • Holy Ship! Setting Sail Across Mediterranean Soon According To Gary Richards

    Hard Events's Holy Ship! has become one dance music's premiere destinations for fans who want to party out at sea with their favorite DJs. Entering its fourth year, the dance cruise just completed its first journey from Miami with Djs like A-Trak, Pretty Lights, Laidback Luke, Flume, Duke Dumont, Rl Grime, Gorgon City and others were brought along for the four-day voyage. 2015 saw the cruise expand to two seafaring expeditions out of Miami, but according to an interview by Revolt with Gary Richards, the founder of Hard Events, which hosts Holy Ship!, the promoter has their sites on another market, Europe, specifically the Mediterranean.

  • Joey Bada$$ Shares 'Teach Me' featuring Kiesza From B4.DA.$$ [LISTEN]

    Joey Bada$$, real name Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott, has been in the news over the past few days for all of the wrong reasons. Instead of people focusing of his upcoming album, the Brooklyn rapper has become snared in legal troubles following an incident at Falls Festival in Byron Bay Australia where he allegedly punched a security guard. He looks to right the ship of his public image with a new single preview coming from his album B4.DA.$. Scott took to the BBC radio waves to premiere the song with Zane Lowe, who jamed the new single, "Teach Me" featuring Kiesza, as the "Hottest Record In The World."

  • Tiesto Extends Hakkasan Las Vegas Residency

    Dutch DJ Tiësto, continues his reign over Las Vegas nightlife. He has inked a new deal with MGM Grand and Hakkasan to extend his residency at Vegas mega-club. The terms have not been disclosed yet, but it will lock him in for an exclusive, multi-year deal with the club. He will continue his "Club Life" residency at Hakkasan nightclub and his "Republic of Tiësto" residency during the summer at WET REPUBLIC.

  • SFX Promoter ID&T Bringing One Tribe Festival to California

    Dutch electronic music festival promoter, ID&T, is continuing their global expansion. The founder of renowned festival brands like Tomorrowland, Mysteryland and Sensation, SFX-owned ID&T has decided to start a new festival in the United States. Its new vision, One Tribe, takes the event promoter all the way across the United States to Southern California at Lake Perris State Recreation Area outside of Los Angeles. ID&T has brought its festival brand to the East Coast with Mysteryland and has gone as far as to bring the one-night only event, Q-Dance to Los Angeles, but never a multi-day outdoor event to the West Coast.

  • Are These Three New Katy Perry Songs?

    All has been quiet on the Katy Perry music front lately, but it appears that something has been brewing in the "Dark Horse" singer's lab of late. As to be expected with any large pop star, there have been rumors and plenty of speculation from die-hard fans, but nothing concrete as of yet. That seems to have changed. According to the résumé of decorated mixer Serban Ghenea via "Popjustice," there are three new Katy Perry songs that he has worked on, titled "She's So Creepy," "In Flames" and "Heartache Crusade."Check out his résumé in the document here and skip to Page 4 of 23 to see the evidence. Ghenea has mixed for artists like Keith Urban, Miley Cyrus, Justin Bieber, Kesha, One Direction, Rihanna, Usher, Katy Perry and more. He has worked on just about every big pop star of the past 15 years in music.The song "She's So Creepy" could be throwing shade at Taylor Swift and would bring their public tiff to a new level from the occasional comment and social media jab into discographies. Katy Petty would be pulling a Taylor Swift by writing a song about an enemy. The irony.

  • The Prodigy Announce Album 'The Day Is My Enemy' Release Date, Tracklist

    The news that all Prodigy fans have long been waiting for has finally arrived. The "Firestarter" group has dished the details on their upcoming artist album, "The Day Is My Enemy," slated for release March 30. Liam Howlett, Keith Flint and Maxim Reality have revealed the tracklist for the 14-track album as well via a post on the band's website."The Day Is My Enemy" will be the sixth album in The Prodigy's storied 20-plus-year discography and their first in six years. Fans have been eagerly waiting for the follow-up to 2009's "Invaders Must Die" with little definitive news as to when the next album would come. 2014 was supposed to see the next album in stores, but the year came and went, and 2015 looked like a surer thing after the group signed a new record deal and management contract.None of the songs on the album have been released yet, but two have been previously announced: "Ibiza" alongside Sleaford Mods and "Nasty," scheduled to get its release sometime later this month. It is interesting to see the band collaborate on the album with American dubstep producer Flux Pavilion, notably in a tracklist largely devoid of collaborations. They both make jarring and aggressive music, so we will see what kind of madness comes from that collab.

  • J. Cole Will Appear On Wale's 'The Album About Nothing' Following '2014 Forest Hills Drive'

    Washington DC rapper Olubowale Victor Akintimehin, better known as Wale, has been a very busy man lately. He just released a new mixtape, Festivus, based on the strong affinity and connection he has with the 1990s sitcom Seinfeld and is gearing up for the album follow up The Album About Nothing to his 2008 mixtape, The Mixtape About Nothing. He recently sat down with HotNewHipHop to discuss the album and confirmed the rumors that 2014 Forest Hills Drive rapper, J Cole would in fact be featured on the full length LP.

  • Hear Deadmau5' '5 Years Of Mau5' Guatemala Live Set [LISTEN]

    We have been very lucky in these past few months because normally, deadmau5 live sets released onto the web are exceedingly rare. Some intrepid soul recorded his entire set with Eric Prydz at Hard Day of The Dead and then his set from The Knockdown Center in Queens, New York City was live streamed as part of the Honda Summer concert series to promote his 5 Years Of Mau5 compilation. Joel Zimmerman continues the touring in support of the two-disc remix compilation as he spent the New Year in Central and South America playing shows in Brazil, Uruguay, Colombia and Guatemala. His set in Guatemala was recorded and has been made available for fans on the internet.

  • Eminem Sued By Hot Stylz Over "Rap God" Lyrics [LISTEN]

    Eminem may be a rap god, but somebody thinks he borrowed some of that title from them. According to TMZ, Raymond Jones from the Chicago rap trio, Hotstylz is suing Marshall Mathers and his label, Aftermath Entertainment for $8 million for the alleged use of a sample from their song "Lookin Boy" featuring Yung Joc in Eminem's "Rap God."

  • Rage Against The Machine Violating Arizona Ethnic Studies School Ban, According To State Superintendent

    Rage Against The Machine are not too popular with Arizona's outgoing superintendant of public education, John Huppenthal. For his last day of work, Huppenthal targeted one school district for what he perceived to be violating the state's ban on ethnic studies according to Rolling Stone. This "notice of noncompliance" sent to district superintendent, Dr. H.T. Sanchez, according to the Arizona Daily Star, highlighted two music-related violations, an Introduction To Hip-hop, written by KRS One in an English class taught from an African-American perspective and the use of Rage Against The Machine's "Take The Power Back" in a Mexican-American history course. As one might expect, Tom Morello was not too pleased with the decision.

  • Steve Angello Reveals Tentative Release Date For Album 'Wild Youth'

    Steve Angello fans, the boss has some great news for you. Replying to a fan on Twitter, a space where he is quite active and talks to his followers quite often, he stated that his highly anticipated album Wild Youth would be release in April. The former Swedish House Mafia member did not specify when in April, but it is good to know that the album will be arriving soon after a period of indefinite delays after battling with Columbia over the album.

  • Ultimate Music Experience (UME) 2015 Full Lineup Announced; Hardwell, David Guetta, Tiësto Included

    Electronic music festival, Ultimate Music Experience, known to fans as UME, has announced the full three-day lineup that will feature previously announced headliners David Guetta, Hardwell and Tiësto. The lineup has filled out over the three days with David Guetta collaborators, Showtek and Robin Schulz, plus Hard Events founder, Gary Richards, known by his DJ name, Destructo on the first day, Thursday, March 19th. Friday, March 20 will see Hardwell joined by his Revealed Recordings label mates, W&W, Dannic and Thomas Newson for a special Dutch party. The final night, Saturday, March 21st will feature artists who have released music on Tiësto's imprint Musical Freedom, DVBBS, Oliver Heldens and MOTI.

  • Rich Homie Quan Has Drake on His Album, Is Featured On Lil Wayne "Grindin" Remix

    Dequantes Lamar, better known as, Rich Homie Quan, recently sat down with VladTV to discuss his upcoming music and the Lil Wayne, Birdman, YMCMB beef and divulged some pretty tasty morsels of information. When asked about what music he has coming up, he divulged that he will be on Lil Wayne's upcoming "Grindin' Remix", though does not indicate when it might be released. He is asked about his work with Drake and offers a run down of collaborative interests with the whole YMCMB crew. He notes, "Drake will be on my album. He invited me out to his house, we did 2-3 songs."

  • Electric Zoo Announces Japanese Expansion, Festival Dates

    New York's largest dance music festival Electric Zoo is heading overseas. Today, Dec. 5, the festival organizers have announced that the Made Event festival would set up shop for the first time in Japan, Tokyo Beach to be exact. The festival will take place over Goldenweek Holiday, which takes place on April 29 and between May 3-5, though the date on the website says May 6. Electric Zoo made the announcement with a simple post on Twitter - "Hello Tokyo."

  • Joey Bada$$ Responds to Assault Allegations Stemming from Byron Bay Falls Festival Incident in Australia

    Allegations recently surfaced over the weekend that Joey Bada$$, real name Jo-Vaughn Virginie Scott, was arrested and charged with assault for punching a security guard at Falls Festival in Byron Bay, Australia. Scott has responded to the allegations on Twitter, asking fans to not "believe everything you see or hear."The crucification of my image has already begun. Remember don't believe everything you see or hear. They build u up to tear you down... — B4.DA.$$ 1.20.15 (@joeyBADASS) January 5, 2015According to reports, allegedly what had happened was the security guard thought Joey Bada$$ was not who he said he was and told him he did not have to go home, but he had to get out of there. Bada$$ said boo-yah and assaulted the man. The alleged incident took place around 8:30 p.m., right before Scott's set time.According to a police spokeswoman via the "Sydney Morning Herald," "A 20-year-old man was allegedly punched in the face by a man while working as a security guard at the festival. The man was treated for a broken nose and other facial injuries."Bada$$ was arrested after his set Friday night, Jan. 2, and charged with assault occasioning actual bodily harm. He appeared in court Saturday and was released on bail. His next court date is March 19.Joey Bada$$'s camp released the following statement via "The Fader": "Joey can confirm that there was a misunderstanding with security at the Byron Falls Festival show, which resulted in charges being laid by NSW Police. After fully cooperating with Police, Joey was granted bail and entered a plea of not guilty to the charge."

  • Death Grips Unveil Surprise New Instrumental Album 'Fashion Week' In Advance Of Possible 'Jenny Death' Release [LISTEN]

    Monday after a vacation is probably a real shock to the system right now. To jar the brain back into place, The Death Grips snap released a free instrumental album last night (Jan. 4) for their fans. Fashion Week is a 14-track album of pure Death Grips instrumentals that sound as twisted and dark as one would expect from Death Grips production. No Stefan vocals this time around.

  • Michael Jackson's Son Prince Jackson Reportedly Making Music With Justin Bieber

    The stories about Michael Jackson's 17-year-old son, Prince Jackson have been gossip website fodder for some time, ranging from times out on the town, to his exploits with women, even at the ripe age of 17 and a budding relationship with the biggest boxer in the world, Floyd Mayweather Jr. Now king of pop's heir is reportedly making a foray into music with the aid of one of the genre's biggest stars right now, Justin Bieber, according to page six. According to a family source, the pair are working on a "major recording album." Mayweather has been the driving force behind the recording sessions and with his yearly salary, he can easily afford to bankroll such an operation.

  • No Limits Master P Unleashes 'Power' Featuring Lil Wayne, Gangsta, Ace B From We All We Got [LISTEN]

    Word started to circulate recently that Master P and Lil Wayne had made amends and were collaborating on a new song, titled "Power". On Jan. 3, a snippet of the song appeared online with Master P rapping over a booming instrumental. He introduced the song pronouncing, "This is 'Power.' You want that money, you gotta go out and work for it. Me and Lil Wayne about to go crazy. It's about to be a magical 2015." The full version has now appeared online, premiered on Pigeons and Planes with Master P, Lil Wayne, Gangsta and Ace B.

  • Joey Bada$$ Charged with Assault at Byron Bay Falls Festival in Australia

    Joey Bada$$ is not having the best Australian tour right now. The Brooklyn rapper has been charged with assault stemming from an incident at the Falls Festival in Byron Bay, Australia, about 100 miles south of Brisbane. According to police reports, 19-year-old Joey Bada$$ got into an altercation with a security guard and allegedly punched him in the face, leaving the man with a broken nose.Joey Bada$$, whose real name is Jo-Vaughn Jalani Virginie, was about to take the stage Friday, Jan. 2, at approximately 8:30 p.m. when he was approached by the security guard. The guard did not believe Virginie was who he said he was, then Bada$$ allegedly lashed out.According to a police spokesman, "A 20-year-old man was allegedly punched in the face by a man while working as a security guard at the festival. The man was treated for a broken nose and other facial injuries."

  • Dance Music & Doctors Without Borders Team Up Through Zenter Music for Massive Prize Giveaway

    A new company, Zenter Music, which launched in November 2014, acts as conduit for the dance music community to the charitable space by being an events company, promoter and record label, while also connecting with large charities and donating funds to that cause. Each month, Zenter chooses one charitable organization to donate 50% of its earnings to and in January, it chose French medicinal organization, Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders). It has also teamed up with some large labels and DJs to include a large prize giveaway to those who donate to the organization.

  • O.T. Genasis's 'CoCo' Gets Video Makeover with Cars, Women, Coco [WATCH]

    O.T. Genasis burst onto the music fan's consciousness with his cocaine-inspired single "CoCo." It has caught on like wildfire, glorifying the "love for the coco." Now his single has gotten a new music video with all the hip-hop music video stereotypes of fancy cars, scantily clad and beautiful women, big boats and, of course, Genasis's beloved coco.This new, higher-budget video comes as Genasis gets signed to Busta Rhymes's Conglomerate Records and thus more resources at his disposal. There was something raw about the original, but the new clip makes the track more accessible to mainstream viewers.Filmed in some large waterfront Miami mansion, there are plenty of twerking women on Ferraris, large piles of baking soda and overly exaggerated hand gestures. He even gets his own coco cake at the end, presumably using all of that baking soda or flour in the video.As one might expect, Busta and O.T Genasis get a few celebrity cameos from DJ Khaled, surprisingly without his headphones, and Ice Cube, who just sits off to the side in a room of his own with some random woman.

  • Death Grips's 'Jenny Death' Release Date and Tracklist Possibly Released

    When experimental hip-hop group The Death Grips abruptly broke up July 2, 2014, canceling all subsequent tour dates in the process, they announced that the second disc, "Jenny Death," of their final album "The Powers That B" would be released at the end of the year. The first disc, "N---as on the Moon," was released in June 2014. The end of 2014 came and went without a new album from Death Grips, though new information was released on the album, including that it was finished and artwork was revealed to fans. The album still never got released, though that may soon change. According to reports and online retailers, the album could be arriving in the next month and a half and a rumored tracklist has been compiled as well, via Pigeons and Planes.According to Amazon, who inadvertently broke the news on J. Cole's album "2014 Forest Hills Drive," "Jenny Death" will be released in North America Feb. 10, a person said on Reddit, and then according to a Japanese retailer, HMV, the album will be available Feb. 25. Nothing has been confirmed yet, but this looks pretty definitive.The group released the lead single from the album, "Inanimate Sensation," Dec. 9, which would make this release date plausible. Below is a rumored tracklist for "Jenny Death" that sounds like a Death Grips-y album, though we will not know until it is officially announced.

  • Dalai Lama to Give Speech at Glastonbury 2015

    Glastonbury has always had a social awareness component to it since the modern Glastonbury Festival was founded in the 1970s. According to reports, the legendary festival will now play host to the one and only Dalai Lama on the final day of the festival, June 28. In a now-deleted post on his holiness's website, according to reports, he announces the news saying, "His Holiness will give a talk at the Glastonbury Festival in the morning." The Dalai Lama will also be in England the next day, June 29, to give a talk.Glastonbury will take place over five days in 2015, from June 24 to 28. There has been only one artist confirmed thus far on the lineup: Lionel Richie. Richie will be playing the Sunday afternoon legends slot."I'm really excited to play Glastonbury next year, as it's one of the most iconic festivals in the world," Richie told "The Guardian." "It has a phenomenal history and the alumni of artists who have previously played is incredible, so I'm honored to be joining that club. It will be a really special moment for me and I can't wait to share it with everyone.Additional artists have been rumored to join the lineup like Fleetwood Mac and AC/DC, but there have been no official announcements as of yet.

  • B.o.B Releases 18-Track 'No Genre: The Label' Mixtape Featuring T.I., London Jae & More [LISTEN]

    B.o.B is starting the New Year strong with a new mixtape that showcases the signees of his new No Genre label. He released the first edition of the 'No Genre' mixtape series in 2010 and would use the inspiration in 2014 to start his own label under the same name. He then began scouting for new talent that would appear on the highly anticipated 'No Genre: 2' mixtape and eventually, 'No Genre: The Label,' which has become the showcase for his new talent, Jake Lambo, Scotty ATL, London Jae, Lin-Z and JaqueBeatz.

  • Ludacris Flexes Lyrical Muscles With 'LudaVerses' Mixtape [LISTEN]

    Christopher Bridges, better known as Ludacris, has quietly been busy getting back into the swing of things recording and releasing music. He has been readying his ninth studio album, 'Ludaversal,' set for release on March 31st and he recently released a six-track EP primer, 'Burning Bridges,' for free on Google Play that featured guest appearances from Rick Ross and Miguel. In between the studio time for the official releases, the "Fast & Furious" actor has been releasing free freestyles on his Soundcloud over existing, popular beats in the hip-hop world today.

  • YG & DJ Mustad Squash Beef on Instagram

    It seems as though having a beef with someone is more common then not in many music circles. A new one seems to start every day and can linger on for months, sometimes years. It is far easier to get in contact with someone you may or may not know with social media at your fingertips by just Tweeting at the person you have a problem with. Even with all of the temptation to start beefs and keep them going, sometimes differences get settled and that is what DJ Mustard and YG managed to do on Instagram.

  • Lil' Twist Premieres Justin Bieber Collaboration 'Intertwine' [LISTEN]

    Justin Bieber probably wants to put 2014 behind him. After countless court dates, lawsuits and appearing in headlines for all of the wrong reasons, the Canadian pop star is looking for a clean slate in 2015. Part of that fresh start comes in the form of new music, something fans have been lusting after for months. A new radio rip has appeared online of a new collaboration titled "Intertwine" between the "Home to Mama" singer and friend and frequent collaborator, Lil' Twist.

  • Gucci Mane Shows Off His Boxing Skills [WATCH]

    When you think of Gucci Mane, the first thought that comes to your mind is probably rapper. That is a correct assumption to make, especially now as he continues to release music from behind bars, but you may need to start thinking about Radric Davis in a different way -- decent boxer. A new video has emerged of Gucci working out with a boxing coach in what appears to be relaxation / workout room in the jail that Davis currently calls home.

  • Armin van Buuren Leaves Pier 94 In A Trance [Review]

    The week between Christmas and New Years Day is one of the biggest party weeks of the year. Most people are off of work, or those who do have to work, things are pretty relaxed and expectations aren't as high for productivity. In that type of environment, Pacha and RPM Presents have been throwing parties all week at the club and on Pier 94 and Pier 36 in New York City with the likes of Armin van Buuren, Kaskade, Disclosure and Martin Garrix all coming to town. Last night saw trance titan, Armin van Buuren, known to fans as the god of trance, in part because of his stature within the genre and because his birthday is on Dec. 25, take the stage at Pier 94 with A State Of Trance regulars Andrew Rayel, Mark Sixma and Jochen Miller.
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