Czechia’s Rock For Individuals has introduced its large line-up for 2025, led by Linkin Park, Slipknot and extra – see the present line-up under.
Rock For Individuals 2025 is scheduled to happen between June 11 and 14 subsequent 12 months at Park 360 in Hradec Králové, Czechia. Up to now, two headliners have been introduced for the rock and steel competition: nu steel icons Linkin Park and Slipknot. Two extra headliners are anticipated to be introduced within the lead-up to the competition. Slipknot are as a result of headline on June 12, and Linkin Park on June 14.
Mike Shinoda and Emily Armstrong of Linkin Park. CREDIT: Theo Wargo/Getty Photographs
Becoming a member of Linkin Park and Slipknot are Fontaines D.C., IDLES, Poppy, Spiritbox, Skillet, In Flames, Immobile In White, Deafheaven, Home of Safety and extra. You may see the line-up under.
The present line-up for Rock For Individuals 2025 is:
Slipknot Linkin Park Fontaines D.C. IDLES In Flames Immobile In White Poppy Skillet Spiritbox 6arelyhuman Archers Arrows In Motion Cam Cole Fort Rat Creeper Currents Deafheaven Dream State DZ Deathrays Ewa Farna Halocene Home of Safety Jerry Cantrell Karen Dió Kittie Polaris RUWORR!ED Static Gown Thrice Unprocessed Yard
Tickets to the four-day competition will go on sale on November 18 at 10am native time through its official website.
Performs on the Rock For Individuals 2024 invoice included The Prodigy, The Offspring, Convey Me The Horizon, Yungblud, Dangerous Omens, Parkway Drive, Sum 41, Pendulum, Enter Shikari, Avril Lavigne and extra.
In a three-star assessment of Linkin Park’s new album ‘From Zero’, Rishi Shah wrote for NME: “Crucially, ‘From Zero’ should be considered as a reset, exemplified by its title which pays homage to the band’s former title: Xero. Due to this fact, any inevitable comparisons to their largely masterful discography should keep in mind the place from which ‘From Zero’ was born: an natural need from Brad Delson, Dave Farrell, Joe Hahn and Shinoda to create collectively as Linkin Park as soon as extra. The worldwide rock scene is unquestionably a greater place when Linkin Park are in it, and the elite moments on ‘From Zero’ – regardless of its shortcomings – affirm why.”
Sam Fender has launched the primary official preview of his upcoming album ‘Folks Watching’ – you’ll be able to take heed to it beneath.
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Right this moment (November 15), Fender has shared the title observe from the forthcoming album, which is because of arrive on February 21, 2025 through Polydor. You possibly can pre-order the LP here.
The lead single, ‘Folks Watching’, is a euphoric five-minute reduce that was written in honour of Sam Fender’s late mentor and good friend Annie Orwin and is tells the story of his perspective of visiting her at a care house.
Juxtaposing the observe’s sombre theme is a vibrant, hopeful sound and message that encapsulates breaking out of a darkish interval. He sings in opposition to poppy guitar chords within the opening verse: “I people-watch on the best way again house / Envious of the glimmer of hope / Provides me a break from feeling alone / Provides me a second out of the ego.”
The track’s second verse dives deeper into his visits to Orwin: “I got here again house after seven years / Awake, tracing tracks of her tears/ Cornered the nurse to get the gist of it / I promised her I’d get her out of the care house / The place was fallin’ to bits / Understaffed and overruled by callous arms / The poor nurse was across the clock / And the great thing about youth had left my breaking coronary heart / Nevertheless it wasn’t arduous while you love somebody / Oh, I stayed all night time until you left this life ’trigger that’s simply love“.
Fender first revealed the story behind the upcoming single final week and shared that the observe is about any individual who was “like a surrogate mom to me and handed away final November. I used to be by her aspect on the finish, slept on a chair subsequent to her. It’s about what was going by my head, to and from that place and residential.”
He continued: “It’s type of ironic as a result of she was the one which gave me the arrogance to go on stage, and all the time was once like ‘why haven’t you talked about my title in your acceptance speech’. However now a whole track (and album) connects to her. I hope that wherever she is now she’s wanting down saying ‘about time child’.”
‘Folks Watching’ marks the primary official launch from Fender’s upcoming album of the identical title. Earlier this week, he revealed particulars surrounding the file, together with its tracklisting. It was produced by Fender alongside his bandmates Dean Thompson, Joe Atkinson, producer Markus Dravs, and The Conflict on Medication’ Adam Granduciel.
A press launch describes Fender’s album as “his subsequent steps ahead”, promising to supply “vibrant tales and observations of on a regular basis characters dwelling their on a regular basis, however typically extraordinary, lives.”
He first debuted ‘Folks Watching’ reside, together with one other unreleased track, ‘Nostalgia’s Lie’ in August, with each set to look on his long-awaited third album.
Sam Fender ‘Folks Watching’ album paintings. Credit score: PRESS
Fender’s final album, ‘Seventeen Going Beneath’, was named Greatest Album In The World and Greatest Album By A UK Artist on the BandLab NME Awards 2022. NME gave it 4 stars, calling it a “bruising” second album and saying: “If ‘Hypersonic Missiles’ was the sound of a younger boy kicking out on the world, ‘Seventeen Going Beneath’ sees Fender realise that it might chill lots more durable, and he counts each blow and bruise. However he appears to have discovered that point passes and that almost all wounds – even the deepest – will finally heal, if he can permit them to.”
His forthcoming UK and Eire tour contains two nights at The O2 in London. £1 from each ticket offered for these dates shall be donated to the Music Venue Belief in help of grassroots venues. Find any remaining tickets here.
U2 drummer Larry Mullen Jr. has teamed up with singer-songwriter GAYLE on the defiant and forthright monitor ‘Between The Strains’ for an upcoming dyslexia documentary – hear right here.
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The pair introduced the monitor on Tuesday (November 12), explaining that they labored collectively to write down it for the documentary LeftBehind, which appears on the struggle to open the primary public faculty devoted to kids with dyslexia in New York Metropolis.
GAYLE, actual title Taylor Gayle Rutherford, instructed Billboard: “I’ve been fairly public about the truth that I’ve dyslexia, and that’s one thing that has been part of my entire whole life. Larry reached out to me about attempting to collaborate for this documentary. He was speaking about how passionate he was in regards to the venture, particularly the truth that he has a baby that has been affected with dyslexia. He had a view as a guardian seeing the way it’s affected his little one. He didn’t should promote me in any manner.”
Mullen added: “I used to be actually anxious that once I agreed to do [the song] that someone who really had dyslexia was concerned and they’d do the lyrics. It was simply fully fortuitous and luck that myself and GAYLE form of fell into one another.”
Hearken to ‘Between The Strains’ right here:
Mullen went on to clarify that he and GAYLE, who rose to fame after her 2021 single ‘ABCDEFU’ went viral, “discovered a compromise” that bridged the hole between type and era, whereas GAYLE shared that she most likely wouldn’t have written a music about having dyslexia if not for the movie. However inside two days of turning into concerned, she despatched her concepts to Mullen and admitted that she was “extraordinarily intimidated” by the prospect of working with him.
For his half, Mullen mentioned that GAYLE’s involvement was what gave him “the kick we wanted” to complete the music. He mentioned: “It’s not about being offended. For GAYLE, it’s in regards to the frustration and having the ability to articulate that which is what makes it simply so such a strong thought. GAYLE is relatable as a strong younger girl on the market doing stuff that us outdated guys can’t do.”
GAYLE added: “I haven’t even instructed Larry this, however I used to cowl [U2] songs once I was somewhat child, and I used to play at farmer’s markets and I’d have somewhat hat out, simply begging for greenback payments, and I might purchase an ice cream sandwich with the cash.
“So clearly, it simply means a lot to have someone that I feel is simply so proficient and such a legend in music to collaborate on a music. It’s simply such an honor. After which for him to talk so kindly about me and my musicality and my music sensibilities, it actually means lots.”
Left Behind, directed by Anna Toomey, premiered on the Woodstock Movie Competition in October, and can play at DOC NYC on November 20 and 21. It’ll be launched at New York’s QUAD Cinema on January 17.
U2, in the meantime, shared an replace on Mullen’s well being final month after he stepped again from touring. When he pulled out of the band’s Las Vegas Sphere residency, U2 bassist Adam Clayton mentioned: “The entire band and I’m certain the viewers are going to be very unhappy and miss Larry. He desires to come back again, he desires to have the ability to have an extended profession and proceed his drumming so he’s taking good care of these accidents.”
Toni Cornell, daughter of late grunge legend Chris, has introduced her debut single ‘Sundown Of Your Love’ – pre-save it here.
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The 20-year-old shared on Instagram that the monitor might be launched subsequent Thursday (November 21) and revealed that it was written by MoZella, who co-wrote Miley Cyrus’ 2013 hit ‘Wrecking Ball’, and produced by Dave Hamelin, who labored on Beyoncé’s Grammy-nominated single ‘16 Carriages’.
In her publish, she gave followers a preview, showcasing lyrics together with, “All I do know is I’m not prepared/ ‘Til you discover me/ I’ll be ready within the sundown of your love.”
Whereas she describes it as her “first tune”, she did launch a monitor, ‘Far Away Locations’, again in 2019. She recorded the tune in 2017, three months earlier than her father died that Could on the age of 52, and it options manufacturing from the Soundgarden and Audioslave icon too.
Through the years, Toni has carried out a variety of covers, too, together with Temple Of The Canine’s ‘Starvation Strike’, Pearl Jam’s ‘Black’, Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’, and Prince’s ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’, which was her dad’s favorite tune to cowl.
In 2018, she launched a duet of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U’, which she carried out alongside her father, and donated the proceeds to the Worldwide Rescue Committee (IRC). The earlier 12 months, she started working with the humanitarian organisation alongside the Chris and Vicky Cornell Foundation, arrange by her mother and father in 2012, whereas in 2021 she was named the youngest ambassador to be appointed by the IRC.
She marked Father’s Day by sharing the recording of her and her father overlaying the monitor, writing: “Daddy, I like you and miss you a lot,” she wrote on the time. “You had been the very best father anybody may ask for. Our relationship was so particular, and also you had been all the time there for me.”
Toni and her father in 2016. CREDIT: Steve Granitz/WireImage by way of Getty Photos
On Father’s Day in 2020, she mentioned in a Billboard Instagram takeover: “I’m so grateful that I used to be fortunate sufficient to have a dad who was additionally my greatest pal,” she mentioned. Music was our life, so it actually created a particular bond between the 2 of us, even after we weren’t on the highway. Right here on this studio, he taught me how one can play the guitar, how one can document songs.”
Again in 2022, she paid tribute to her father on what would have been his 58th birthday by sharing an intimate residence video of father and daughter overlaying Eminem and Rihanna’s ‘Love The Means You Lie’.
Extra not too long ago, Toni hit out on the protection of Liam Payne’s demise after the previous One Course star died in Buenos Aires, Argentina, final month.
On her Instagram Tales, she criticised TMZ for its determination to publish pictures of Payne’s resort room and physique, writing: “Within the wake of Liam Payne’s tragic passing, I really feel compelled to talk out concerning the disgusting, distressing pictures launched by TMZ together with graphic pictures of his resort room and physique.
“Having seen these pictures, I can’t assist however mirror alone expertise when graphic pictures of my father’s demise had been additionally revealed by TMZ.
“As a 12-year-old, I stumbled upon these photos whereas scrolling via my iPad, and it was indescribably traumatising, and one thing I nonetheless carry with me to at the present time. TMZ nonetheless has not chosen to have the decency, seven years later, to take away these pictures from the web, and it’s one thing I imagine needs to be finished.
“Whereas the photographs of Liam have since been taken down, it means nothing. They need to by no means have been put up within the first place, and it breaks my coronary heart to suppose that his 7-year-old son, Bear, may in the future come throughout them and endure precisely as I did.”
Satirical information outlet The Onion has bought Infowars with the assistance of the households of Sandy Hook victims – and they’re hoping to make it “very humorous” and “very silly”.
Infowars is a right-wing media platform that was run by Alex Jones – a conspiracy theorist who falsely claimed that the 2012 Sandy Hook faculty capturing in Connecticut was a hoax staged by disaster actors to spur extra gun management.
The capturing killed 20 first-graders and 6 educators, and following his feedback, Jones confronted a number of lawsuits from the households of the victims. He was ordered by courts to liquidate his private belongings to assist repay the $1.4billion sum (through AP News).
Jones and his firm, Free Speech Techniques, filed for chapter safety in 2022, and Infowars went to a chapter public sale, the place it was purchased by The Onion. The information of the acquisition was shared this morning (November 14) in each a video by Jones, and in a post from the pinnacle of The Onion’s mother or father firm.
In response to the replace from the latter, The Onion is trying to rebuild the positioning and have well-known humour writers and content material creators characteristic on it. It has additionally been confirmed that the sale was made doable with assist from the Sandy Hook victims’ households.
Additionally, a part of the rationale we did purchased InfoWars is as a result of folks on Bluesky instructed us it will be humorous to purchase InfoWars. And people folks had been proper. That is the funniest factor that has ever occurred.
“The Onion, with the assistance of the Sandy Hook households, has bought InfoWars. We’re planning on making it a really humorous, very silly web site. Now we have retained the providers of some Onion and Clickhole Corridor of Famers to tug this off,” the replace learn. “I can’t wait to point out you what we’ve cooked up.”
In a separate put up on Bluesky, Ben Collins added: “A part of the rationale we did purchased InfoWars is as a result of folks on Bluesky instructed us it will be humorous to purchase InfoWars” including: “these folks had been proper [this] is the funniest factor that has ever occurred”.
As highlighted by The Guardian, the acquisition consists of the corporate’s mental property, together with the web site, buyer lists, stock and sure social media accounts, and the manufacturing tools. The quantity that The Onion paid in its successful bid has not been publicly disclosed.
Responding to the information of the sale, Jones took to his X/Twitter web page for a livestream update, the place he criticised the sale of Infowars. Emphasising that he was not instructed that he couldn’t go stay, he stated that it was “a definite honour to be right here in defiance of the tyrants”, earlier than discussing Donald Trump’s re-election as US President. “That is the struggle. When you suppose the deep state has given up, suppose once more,” he stated.
Reflecting on the sale of Infowars, New York Post shared a quote from Robbie Parker, whose daughter was killed within the Sandy Hook capturing. “The dissolution of Alex Jones’ belongings and the dying of Infowars is the justice we’ve lengthy awaited and fought for,” he stated in an announcement supplied by his legal professionals.
InfoWars founder Alex Jones. CREDIT: Joe Buglewicz/Getty Pictures
CNN additionally highlighted that, with a purpose to make the bid work, households of the victims “agreed to forgo a portion of their restoration to extend the general worth of The Onion’s bid, enabling its success”.
On the time that the lawsuits had been filed in opposition to Jones, households of the Sandy Hook victims claimed that they had been left traumatised by Jones’ conspiracies, and had obtained threats by his followers.
Jones’ replace on X/Twitter comes two years after the platform’s proprietor, Elon Musk, dominated out any likelihood of the alt-right determine returning to the positioning. He and the Infowars account had been initially suspended from the platform in September 2018 for violating the platform’s abusive behaviour coverage.
When requested by a person whether or not Jones must be introduced again, Musk initially stated “no” earlier than he elaborated and stated he had misplaced a baby – to sudden toddler dying syndrome in 2002 – and stated Jones used the dying of kids to push his personal agenda.
A pedestrian walks by an Onion information rack. CREDIT: Justin Sullivan/Getty Pictures
“My firstborn youngster died in my arms. I felt his final heartbeat. I’ve no mercy for anybody who would use the deaths of kids for acquire, politics or fame,” Musk wrote on the time.
That very same 12 months, Jones made extra headlines for his controversial interview with Kanye West – wherein the rapper shared his reward for Adolf Hitler. The feedback got here after West confronted backlash for making a collection of anti-Semitic remarks, carrying a “White Lives Matter” T-shirt, and expressing false claims concerning the dying of George Floyd.
Elsewhere, that very same 12 months noticed M.I.A. on the receiving finish of criticism, after she in contrast Jones’s falsehoods concerning the Sandy Hook capturing to celebrities “pushing” COVID-19 vaccines.
Final 12 months, Jones obtained a response from R.E.M.‘s Mike Mills, after he claimed that every one artists requested to “pledge themselves to Lucifer” earlier than signing file offers.
Pharrell Williams has denied dissing Taylor Swift‘s Kamala Harris endorsement.
The rapper and producer addressed his earlier feedback that he doesn’t “do politics” and will get “aggravated typically” by movie star endorsements. The interview was revealed simply days after Taylor Swift introduced her endorsement of Kamala Harris, who finally misplaced the US Presidential election to Donald Trump.
In a brand new interview with GQ, Williams clarified his feedback weren’t directed at Swift, saying: “They pit you in opposition to one another. I really like Taylor. She is aware of that.”
Williams went on to say he didn’t even point out the singer within the authentic interview, including: “I purchased a ‘1989’ Taylor t-shirt on-line final 12 months, and I used to be strolling round right here with it tucked into my denims. I really like her. I really like folks, bro.
“That was some right-wing troll shit,” he continued. “However I heard one thing the opposite day that made probably the most sense on the planet: Proper-wing, left-wing, all the identical chook.”
Pharrell Williams on ‘The Graham Norton Present’. CREDIT: BBC/So Tv/PA Media/Matt Crossick
In his authentic interview, Williams defined his the reason why he doesn’t “do politics”, saying: “I don’t do politics. In actual fact, I get aggravated typically after I see celebrities making an attempt to inform you [who to vote for]. There are celebrities that I respect which have an opinion, however not all of them.”
He continued: “I’m considered one of them folks [who says], ‘What the heck? Shut up. No person requested you.’ When folks get on the market and get self-righteous they usually roll up their sleeves and shit, and they’re on the market strolling round with a placard: ‘Shut up!’ So, no, I might slightly keep out of the best way, and clearly, I’m going to vote how I’m going to vote. I care about my folks and I care in regards to the nation, however I really feel there’s a number of work that must be achieved, and I’m actually in regards to the motion.”
In the meantime, Swift made a uncommon public endorsement for Kamala Harris, writing on Instagram: “I will likely be casting my vote for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz within the 2024 Presidential Election. I’m voting for @kamalaharris as a result of she fights for the rights and causes I consider want a warrior to champion them.
“I feel she is a steady-handed, gifted chief and I consider we are able to accomplish a lot extra on this nation if we’re led by calm and never chaos,” she continued. “I used to be so heartened and impressed by her number of working mate @timwalz, who has been standing up for LGBTQ+ rights, IVF, and a girl’s proper to her personal physique for many years.”
She additionally addressed Donald Trump’s false claims that Swift supported his candidacy utilizing faux AI photos. Trump has claimed he had nothing to do with the photographs.
“It actually conjured up my fears round AI, and the hazards of spreading misinformation. It introduced me to the conclusion that I should be very clear about my precise plans for this election as a voter. The best strategy to fight misinformation is with the reality.”
Swift lastly urged followers to do their very own analysis and reminded first-time voters to register.
In different information, Pharrell Williams has launched his LEGO biopic, ‘Piece By Piece’, which NME rated 4 stars. Talking to NME in regards to the film, he stated the thought got here to him after being advised by his agent that he might create the biopic “in hiw personal method”.
“I used to be like, ‘I need to do it in Lego’, and [his agent] was like, ‘Come on.’ I used to be like, ‘Sure, we are able to! He can all the time say no.’ We had the discuss with Morgan and he stated, ‘Truly. That’s an incredible concept. Let’s go!’”
He continued: “That is an incredible expertise of historical past for me. I can’t inform you how humbled I’m to have this masterful storyteller actually make sense of my life. It has all the time been all over and made sense to me however to not most. He was in a position to do it in color, vividly – brick by brick, piece by piece.”
Wednesday has added a significant star to its forged for season two: Girl Gaga.
Per a report from Entertainment Weekly, Gaga has formally been forged within the hit Netflix sequence’ extremely anticipated second season. Girl Gaga is reported to have already begun filming for the present in Europe.
Nevertheless, it’s presently unknown what position Gaga will play and simply how intensive her position in season two might be.
Girl Gaga attends the “Joker Folie à Deux” photocall on September 26, 2024 in London, England. (Picture by Gareth Cattermole/Getty Pictures)
Girl Gaga’s addition to the Wednesday ranks comes after sequence lead Jenna Ortega in early 2023 mentioned that she would “love” for Gaga to hitch the present and prompt that Netflix would possible get behind the thought too.
Ortega mentioned of Gaga’s hypothetical position on the time: “I feel Mrs. Thornhill and Wednesday had this bizarre mentor relationship or form of understood one another in a sure manner, so, if Girl Gaga had been to be an element, I feel it must be two monsters that perceive one another.”
Previous to Ortega’s pitch, Girl Gaga had proven the sequence some love in December 2022 when she recreated the viral dance that spawned following the present’s ultimate episode. In a scene from the massively widespread present, Ortega carried out a dance to The Cramps’ ‘Goo Goo Muck’, which was then dubbed over with Gaga’s ‘Bloody Mary’ on social media.
The primary season of Wednesday scored a four-star overview with Alex Flood writing for NME: “Wednesday finally ends up a uncommon spin-off success story. It’s creepy, kooky, mysterious and spooky – and an absolute deal with.”
As for Gaga’s most up-to-date appearing position, she starred in Joker: Folie à Deux reverse Joaquin Phoenix. In a four-star overview of the movie, Matthew Turner wrote for NME: “Phoenix is improbable as soon as once more as Arthur, delivering a compelling and remarkably bodily efficiency that teeters on the sting of madness all through – it’s concurrently chilling and unexpectedly transferring. Girl Gaga is equally good as Harleen, sparking palpably insane chemistry with Phoenix, and there’s robust assist from each Keener and Brendan Gleeson as Jackie, a jail guard with a keenness for musicals.”
Gracie Abrams has revealed that she recorded a “very vulgar” model of her hit tune ‘That’s So True’, even when it “won’t ever see the sunshine of day” – discover out extra under.
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Whereas attending Spotify’s current You’re Invited, I’m Sorry: An Night with Gracie Abrams occasion along with her co-writer Audrey Hobert, the pair confirmed that that they had written an alternate model of ‘That’s So True’ – one which’s “so gross”, it should by no means be launched.
Hobert admitted: “We had been drunk once we wrote the lyrics.” Abrams chimed in saying, “Yeah, there’s a complete, very vulgar model… that can by no means see the sunshine of day.” The pair confirmed that they had been “a little bit drunk in an effective way — in a light-weight, recent method,” once they had been recording at Electrical Woman once they penned the tune.
Gracie Abrams. Credit score: Cindy Ord/Getty
In response to Abrams, they had been “had been simply doubled over in tears, laughing so laborious, saying essentially the most horrific shit to tune,” Abrams continued. Nevertheless, regardless of by no means getting a launch, one different group of individuals have heard the tune outdoors of Abrams and her co-writer: Mumford & Sons.
“After which I get a textual content from Lee [Forster, who runs Electric Lady] and he’s like, ‘Mumford & Sons are doing an interview proper above you.’ It was unhealthy! Oh God!”
#GracieAbrams says there’s a “very vulgar” model of “That’s So True” that can by no means see the sunshine of day at Spotify’s ‘I’m Sorry: An Night with Gracie Abrams.’
Hobert then defined that the tune being labeled as “gross” was based mostly on its themes: “It was like… sexual, simply so that you don’t get it confused with every other horrible factor… Nothing that could possibly be on the radio or, you understand, Spotify.”
The unique model of ‘That’s So True’ didn’t make the reduce for Gracie’s newest album ‘The Secret Of Us’ however was launched as a part of the file’s deluxe version that dropped final month.
In a four-star overview of Abrams’ latest album ‘The Secret Of Us’, Hannah Mylrea wrote for NME: “It’s a second of pure pop catharsis that leans into the nice, unhealthy and messy of infatuation. That is the enjoyment of ‘The Secret of Us’: it doesn’t draw back from the complicated or contradictory. Right here Gracie Abrams embraces her rising pains and celebrates enduring the troublesome moments. She’s by no means sounded higher.”
In different information, Abrams has introduced her ‘The Secret Of Us’ 2025 UK and European tour, set to start early subsequent 12 months. Visit here to purchase tickets and take a look at the complete listing of dates right here.
“Taking pictures Stars” lands as Marc Antonix’s newest love letter to bass and electro-house muscle with an sudden twist.
A effervescent expertise on the West Coast, Antonix has carved his path by way of the LA underground, igniting Academy LA and Avalon Hollywood whereas stacking 3.75 million Spotify streams. By way of releases like “Love Wantz Lovin,” “So Fantastic,” and “Flashback,” Antonix has carved out his personal nook of the digital panorama – one the place experimental sound scapes and unpredictable drops paved the way. Now, with “Taking pictures Stars,” he’s pushing even additional into uncharted territory.
“Taking pictures Stars,” represents the start of a brand new period for me. I’ve been tremendous impressed by some nice concepts these days and that is the primary chapter of bringing that to life.” – Marc Antonix
Vegas-bred pop provocateur Max Rae isn’t simply climbing the business ladder – she’s taking the categorical elevator. Contemporary off setting UK venues ablaze supporting BLUE’s sold-out Best Hits tour (the place The Solar dubbed her “Glasto-worthy” in these signature sequin catsuits), she’s now crashing the EDM social gathering with Hakkasan resident DJ Jeff Retro on a thunderous remake of Janet Jackson’s “If.” The collab makes excellent sense – Retro’s been sharing deck house with Calvin Harris and Martin Garrix at Vegas’s holy trinity (Omnia, Hakkasan, WET Republic), whereas Rae’s been busy gathering scalps on each side of the Atlantic. Between strutting runways at London Style Week, igniting Delight levels with Amber Riley, and going viral on TikTok, she’s engineered a takeover that feels each calculated and chaotic in one of the best ways. Now, with Aston Merrygold tour dates looming and a Montell Jordan-blessed flip of “This Is How We Do It” locked for early 2025, Rae’s positioned herself as pop’s subsequent not-so-secret weapon. The Each day Mail referred to as her “the right hype increase,” however that looks like an understatement – she’s not boosting the hype, she’s manufacturing it. And judging by these Yorkshire Put up “gorgeous vocals” and that “infectious power,” we’re all shopping for what she’s promoting.
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