Joey DeGroot

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  • Vince Gill, Lyle Lovett Announce 'Songs and Stories' East Coast Tour [SCHEDULE]

    Country singers Vince Gill and Lyle Lovett have announced the joint Songs and Stories tour, which will run for four dates down the East Coast at the end of January. The tour kicks off Jan. 27 in Glenside, Pennsylvania, and finishes up Jan. 30 in North Charleston, South Carolina, with stops in Englewood, New Jersey, and Norfolk, Virginia, in between. According to Gill's website, the tour will feature "intimate solo and duo performances, during which the artists will serve as their own accompanists." You can check out Gill and Lovett's Songs and Stories tour dates here:

  • Flying Lotus Shares New Song 'Medication Meditation' Feat. Krayzie Bone from 'GTA 5' [LISTEN]

    Yesterday, Nov. 18, saw the re-release of "Grand Theft Auto V" for the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, and among its many new features are 162 new songs across its 17 fictional radio stations. Today, experimental hip-hop producer Flying Lotus shared one of his contributions to the game's new soundtrack, a moody and intense track titled "Medication Meditation" featuring Krayzie Bone of Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, which you can check out below but the artwork above. The track is a stark difference from FlyLo's most recent album "You're Dead!" Instead of being highly complex and jazz-inflected, this is much more traditionally hip-hop, in no small part due to Krayzie Bone's wildly energetic verses. Being a Flying Lotus track, however, it still does not sound anything like your typical 2014 hip-hop single.

  • Lana Del Rey Wrote 2 Songs for Tim Burton's 'Big Eyes'

    2014 has been a huge year for Lana Del Rey, appearing on the cover of "Rolling Stone" and scoring her first No. 1 album, and next month she will be capping off her stellar year with the premiere of Tim Burton's latest film "Big Eyes," which features two new songs from the "Ultraviolence" singer. "Tim showed her the film and she fell in love with it," screenwriter and producer Larry Karaszewski told "The Hollywood Reporter." "Women in particular seem to get the movie, and Lana really got the movie." Big Eyes tells the true story of American painter Margaret Keane (Amy Adams) whose work was credited to her husband Walter Keane (Christoph Waltz) during the 1950s and '60s. Del Rey contributed two songs to the film: "Big Eyes" and "I Can Fly," both of which are written from the perspective of Margaret Keane.

  • Tyler, The Creator Shares New Song, "Diaper," and Reveals New Tour Dates [LISTEN]

    Odd Future mastermind, Tyler, the Creator, has taken to his Twitter to share a new song titled "Diaper." Described by Tyler as a "random song" that he had "laying around," the track is a short blast of intense, obnoxious noise, which is exactly what we've come to expect from him. Tyler buries his voice underneath the siren-like beat, but his flow still sounds pretty spot-on.

  • Electric Daisy Carnival Reveals '15 Sin City Dates [WATCH]

    Insomniac CEO Pasquale Rotella has announced in a Facebook post the dates for the Electric Daisy Carnival's 2015 Las Vegas event, which will return to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway June 19 to 21. According to "Your EDM," the 2015 festival will also bring back its weeklong EDMbiz Conference & Expo, which will run from June 16 to 23. "Let's celebrate under the electric sky and watch the sun rise together!" Rotella wrote in the Facebook announcement. "Come one, come all, come home." You can check out the trailer for the 2015 Electric Daisy Carnival here, with original music composed by Bunny:

  • Taylor Swift Dishonest, Sold Her Soul to Google: Billy Bragg

    A few weeks ago, Taylor Swift caused a bit of a stir when she pulled her entire catalogue, including her recent platinum seller "1989," from Spotify, saying that the streaming service perpetuates "the perception that music has no value and should be free." Not everybody is buying Swift's story, however, and today, Nov. 18, British folk legend Billy Bragg posted a lengthy statement to his Facebook page explaining why Swift's reasons for pulling her music from Spotify are dishonest, citing the fact that her music is featured in Google's recently launched Music Key streaming service. "These worthy sentiments have been somewhat undermined by Swift making her new album and back catalogue available on Google's new Music Key streaming service," Bragg writes in the Facebook post, "which also offers listeners a free service alongside a premium subscription tier." Taylor Swift's "1989" has famously become the only album released in 2014 to have sold a million copies, with some arguing that her decision to pull the album from Spotify contributed to its strong sales. "If Ms Swift was truly concerned about perpetuating the perception that music has no value and should be free, she should be removing her material from You Tube, not cosying up to it," Bragg continues. "[S]he should just be honest with her fans and say, 'sorry, but Sergey Brin gave me a huge amount of money to be the headline name on the marquee for the launch of You Tube Music Key and so I've sold my soul to Google.'"

  • Excision Announces '15 North American Tour [SCHEDULE]

    Canadian dubstep artist Excision has announced a North American tour for 2015, which, according to Fist in the Air, will be the last performances of his audio/visual show "The Executioner." The tour kicks off Jan. 31 in Vancouver, Canada, and finishes up March 29 in Kansas City, Missouri. Supporting Excision on this tour will be Protohype and Minnesota. You can check out all of Excision's upcoming tour dates here:

  • Pusha T Shares Bizarre Kanye West-Produced Track "Lunch Money" [LISTEN]

    Rapper Pusha T has shared a new track titled “Lunch Money,” featuring production by Kanye West, which you can check out below. Though Pusha’s verses are totally focused and intense, the real story here is how absolutely insane Kanye’s production is, a psychedelic stew of bubbling synths and unexpected beat changes that come off like a smoother yet more surreal version of Yeezus. If this is any indication as to what Kanye’s next album sounds like, he’s got another masterpiece on his hands.

  • Meek Mill Drops A New Verse In K. Michelle's "Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart?" [LISTEN]

    R&B singer K. Michelle has shared the title track to her upcoming album Anybody Wanna Buy A Heart?, featuring a guest verse from currently incarcerated Philly rapper Meek Mill, which you can check out below. The track features some wonderfully spacey production, particularly in the chorus, and Mill’s flow is refreshingly energetic and charismatic.

  • Damien Rice Performs "I Don't Want To Change You" On 'Letterman,' Announces 2015 North American Tour

    On last night's episode of The Late Show with David Letterman, Irish folk singer Damien Rice stopped by to perform "I Don't Want to Change You" from his latest album My Favourite Faded Fantasy, which you can check out below. Rice is backed up by a string septet and delivers a beautiful, though somewhat abridged, version of the song, which runs over five minutes for the studio version, but only hits four minutes here.

  • Belle & Sebastian Share Music Video For "The Party Line" [WATCH]

    A few weeks back, Scottish indie pop crew Belle & Sebastian shared their single "The Party Line," the first from their upcoming album Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, and today they've shared the song's music video, which you can check out below. The Leblanc + Cudmore-directed clip features choreography by Robert Binet and offers three different takes of a shy girl going out to a dance club with her friends, like a twee version of Run Lola Run.

  • SXSW 2015 Announces Second Round Of Artists, Featuring The Zombies, Twin Shadow, And More

    Last month, South By Southwest announced its first round of artists, featuring Thee Oh Sees, Jessie Ware, Courtney Barnett, and more. Today, the legendary Austin, Texas festival has announced its second round of artists, which you can check out below. Some of the biggest names in this round include The Cribs, Gang of Four, Swervedriver, Twin Shadow, and '60s pop legends the Zombies.

  • 5 Best Songs: Genesis's 'The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway'

    Today, Nov. 18, marks the 40th anniversary of Genesis's landmark concept album "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway," which was their last with original lead vocalist Peter Gabriel. Across 23 tracks over 94 minutes, the album tells the bizarre story of a Puerto Rican teenager named Rael who goes on a surreal journey through New York City to rescue his brother John. To celebrate this masterwork of progressive rock, here are the album's five best songs.

  • 9 Rock Albums Whose Producers Co-Wrote The Music

    In genres such as pop and hip-hop, it's pretty much standard for a producer to have an active role in the album's songwriting, especially if they're working with a solo artist, but this is pretty uncommon when working with rock bands, who tend to write their own material. These nine albums, however, feature extensive songwriting contributions from their producers, even though they were made by rock bands.
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