• Electric Zoo 2015 Dates Announced; Festival to be "Transformed"

    Electric Zoo, despite all of its mishaps and bad fortune, keeps on getting up after all of the haymakers the world throws at it. One has to admire the resiliency that the festival has shown. Even after two years of last minute cancellations, the festival is set to come back in 2015 for its 7th year. Today, it announced the dates for the upcoming festival, taking place as it normally does, over Labor Day weekend, from Sept. 4 to Sept. 6.

  • BPM Festival 2015 Phase Two Lineup, Showcases, Venues Announced; Âme, John Wink, Oliver $ & More Added

    BPM Festival's huge lineup just got even bigger. The Mexican 10-day festival getaway for underground dance music fans, has announced the second phase of the lineup that will be flying in this upcoming January, as well as the venues and showcases that will be hosting the parties from sun up to sun up each day. Situated on the blinding white beaches of Playa Del Carmen in Mexico, BPM Festival will occur over ten days from Jan. 9 to 18 next year. It has added well over a hundred names to the already stacked lineup, including Doorly, Amtrac, Âme, Danny Tenaglia, Harry Romero, Josh Wink, Marco Bailey, Mark Farina, Martin Buttrich, Oliver $, Noir, Nicolar Matar, Route 94, Steve Bug and so many more.

  • Johnny Depp and Aerosmith's Joe Perry Team Up for Chuck Berry's 'Run Run Rudolph' [WATCH]

    Joe Perry released a four-song EP of holiday tunes last week that feature guitar work by actor Johnny Depp, who's been known to jam with the pros from time to time. The Aerosmith guitarist dropped a video today (December 11) for his rendition of Chuck Berry's amped-up classic "Run Run Rudolph." Perry's axe work is awesome, as usually, but where's Steven Tyler when you need him?

  • Diplo Remixes Ty Dolla $ign's "Stand For" With Members of Grizzly Bear, Vampire Weekend [LISTEN]

    Last month, Los Angeles rapper Ty Dolla $ign shared his Diplo-produced track, "Stand For," and today Diplo has shared a radical remix of the song featuring two of Brooklyn indie rock's biggest stars: Ed Droste of Grizzly Bear and Rostam Batmanglij of Vampire Weekend. The track has been re-titled "Long Way Home" and replaces Ty's verses with Droste's gorgeous vocals, as well as some other embellishments from Batmanglij. "[I]t's about time that indie rock acts started to co-opt rap beats!," Diplo said in the song's original Soundcloud description.

  • Marilyn Manson Explains Involvement in Lana Del Rey Rape Video

    Last month, a mysterious video by horror director Eli Roth titled "Sturmgruppe 2013 Reel" surfaced online and featured scenes of Lana Del Rey being raped intercut with images of Marilyn Manson. Though Manson's representatives immediately denied that the shock-rock singer had anything to do with the video, Manson himself has now come forward and explained how the disturbing video came to fruition."It was not meant to be a Marilyn Manson video," Manson told "NME." "The editor of the company that put it out was somebody who's edited my videos. That video was something that was done with a camera that Eli, who's my friend, and I both wanted to test out, so I let him test it out."[W]hat they filmed was put in context seemingly as if it were a Marilyn Manson video," he continued, "and that was in no way the intention."Although the video that leaked online was not meant to be a Marilyn Manson video, Manson did want to make a music video with Roth and Del Rey, though it proved too difficult to organize."Eli and I wanted to do a music video with her," Manson explained, "but she was being such a problem, for me personally, although I still respect her, I'm friends with her. I just left, I was tired, I was not willing to make that part of the video. Eli and I originally had intentions of making a video with her, but that is not the intention that is represented in that film clip because that is not what I filmed, not for my video."

  • Eminem's 'Detroit Vs. Everybody' Gets Remixed by 15 Artists, Including Guilty Simpson, Black Milk, Sino and Marv Won [LISTEN]

    Eminem's "Detroit Vs. Everybody" just got a 16-minute, 15-person remix. The original was led by Detroit rap ambassador Eminem and features Big Sean, DeJ Loaf, Royce Da 5'9" and Danny Brown. Now the Statik Selektah-produced track gets a remix from a crew of Detroit rappers: Trick Trick, Guilty Simpson, Black Milk, Sino, Marv Won, Payroll, Hydro, Boldy James, Big Gov, Kid Vishis, Big Herk, Icewear Vezzo, Detroit Che, Calicoe and Denzel the Hitman, according to "Complex."The original was featured on Eminem's label Shadyville Records's compilation "Shady XV," which debuted at No. 3 on the "Billboard" Top 200 albums chart, selling 138,000 copies in its first week, according to "The Detroit News."As expected with this many rappers on this one track, there will be plenty of one liners and love for Detroit. They all look to one-up each other on how tough the streets of Detroit are and their ability to represent them and live that lifestyle.

  • Showcasing Hong Kong Punk to Promote Protests: King Ly Chee, Tokyo Sex Wale and More

    There's no better atmosphere for a punk scene than a region plagued by political misbehavior and featuring a populace that's had enough (except for a region where freedom of speech allows so-called punks to perform nearly anywhere without fear of persecution while still feeling rebellious...but whatever). One locale that's had a lot of protesting in recent months, along with a healthy influx of Western music influence, is Hong Kong. We wrangled together a list of four rock bands from the city that must be excited to provide a soundtrack to the current wave of student protests at mainland China's back door.
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