Watch Bono serenade Sarajevo Film Festival with Bob Marley’s ‘Redemption Song’


Bono surprised attendees at the Sarajevo Film Festival in Bosnia with an a cappella rendition of Bob Marley‘s ‘Redemption Song’ – watch the moment below.

The frontman and The Edge were present at the film festival for a special screening of U2‘s Kiss The Future documentary when the legendary Irish vocalist hopped on the mic to serenade the crowd.

Fans quickly joined in to sing along to the track after Bono unexpected belted out the opening lines to the Bob Marley classic. Watch a clip of the performance below.

U2’s Kiss The Future documentary – directed by Nenad Cicin-Sain and produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon – chronicles the band’s relationship with a wartorn Sarajevo in the 1990s, culminating in their historic 1997 gig in the country.

The documentary scored a four-star review from NME‘s Lou Thomas earlier this year. Thomas wrote: “It’s easy to question the motives of pop stars who get behind a cause, but the end-product here is a joyful night for people who’ve experienced unimaginable hardship. Cynicism can (and should) be put aside for now.”

Besides promoting Kiss The Future, U2 have been busy preparing for their upcoming Las Vegas residency at the new Sphere performance venue, where they will perform ‘Achtung Baby’ in full.

The tour will see U2 perform at the venue in Las Vegas between late September and early October – tickets to U2’s ‘Achtung Baby: Live At Sphere’ residency can be bought here.

Speaking to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe in April about the venue, Bono and The Edge took him on a tour of the event space, sharing several key details about the Sphere, noting that it was built specifically for live performances and the arts, rather than a typical arena that’s built for sports.

“There are no speakers. The entire building is a speaker. So wherever you are, you have perfect sound is the plan,” Bono said while Edge chipped in to add “There’s nothing else like it in the world and won’t be for many, many years.”





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Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike Announce Headlining Set at Historic Brooklyn Navy Yard

Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike are conjuring an unforgettable Halloween after announcing a rare performance in New York City.

Beloved for their show-stopping annual Tomorrowland sets, the superstar dance music duo are now poised for their first U.S. headlining set in four years at the upcoming “Twilight Harbor” event. It’s all going down on Saturday, October 28th at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, a historic industrial complex.

The eerie yet enchanting shipyard serves as an ideal venue to meet the moment. As the moon rises over the Navy Yard in northwest Brooklyn, attendees will be treated to a wicked fusion of heart-pounding rhythms and ghastly visuals, curating an otherworldly experience.

Nebula and nightlife management company Ignite Group are leading the charge to produce the thrilling 21-and-up show, which will transform the 104,000-square-foot venue into a spooky spectacular where ravers are enveloped by Halloween-themed lasers, lights and special effects.

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“Twilight Harbor” is not your average show, says Ignite Group’s Marketing Director, Peter Dong.

“For Ignite Group, this event is not just another show; it’s a celebration of music, art and community,” Dong explained in a press release. “The anticipation surrounding this event has been tremendous, and we’ve been working tirelessly to ensure that this will be a night to remember. We’re sparing no effort to make sure everyone knows that Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike are back and ready to take NYC by storm this Halloween.”

“Twilight Harbor” begins at 8:30pm and will wrap at 4am on October 28th. The night’s supporting acts will be announced in the weeks ahead.

Tickets go on sale on Sunday, August 13th at 3pm and can be exclusively purchased here. 

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The Weeknd done with features unless Daft Punk reunite


The Weeknd has revealed that he will no longer entertain the idea of features in his music career after he dropped a new song titled ‘Another One Of Me’.

  • READ MORE: The Weeknd live in Manchester: the summer’s latest blockbuster smash

While performing at the PGE Narodowy in Warsaw, Poland earlier this week (August 9), the singer told fans he will not be doing anymore songs featuring other artists. “I just wanna say, this, this is gonna be the last feature I ever do, ever in my career, so I wanna perform it for you guys tonight,” he told the crowd.

It is currently unclear who the track features and when it will be released.

Two days later (August 11), The Weeknd took to Twitter to share a clip of the ‘Another One Of Me’ performance, adding that it will be his final feature “unless [Daft Punk] ever get back together”.

Watch a clip of the performance below.

The Weeknd teamed up with Daft Punk on his 2016 ‘Starboy’ album, collaborating with them on the title track and ‘I Feel It Coming’. He performed with the French duo at the 2017 Grammy Awards.

Daft Punk announced their split in February 2021, with Thomas Bangalter – one half of the duo – recently revealing that he was “relieved” over the way that the band ended.

Reviewing The Weeknd’s recent tour stop in Manchester, NME wrote: “The Weeknd’s knack for dominating the charts with hit-after-hit-after-hit means that there might’ve been some debate over which track should end his main set tonight, but ‘Blinding Lights’, off 2020’s ‘After Hours’, is the obvious choice: a stadium-uniting force that prompts the kind of mass singalong you’d probably be able to hear over at Old Trafford on the other side of Manchester.”

Elsewhere, The Weeknd has confirmed that he’s currently “finishing” up his new album. The singer, who recently announced his plan to retire the moniker and record under his birth name Abel Tesfaye, has long teased a trilogy of albums that has so far featured the LPs ‘After Hours’ and ‘Dawn FM’.

“I’m finishing the third part of this saga, of this trilogy,” he revealed. “The name of it will come out soon, but it’s not called what some fans think it’s called… what they think it’s called is actually a song on the album, but that’s not what the actual album is called. So I’m just gonna say that.”





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Snapchat Introduces Evolving AR Lens For Kygo's Ushuaia Ibiza Residency

Snap is offering a fresh perspective on Kygo’s upcoming performances at Ushuaïa Ibiza thanks to the company’s AR lens technology.

Snap launched festival-centric AR lens content around major electronic music events like EDC Las Vegas last year, but Kygo’s partnership with the company explores an exciting evolution in the technology.

Previously, Snap’s AR lenses were bespoke to the event, though consistent throughout its duration. Kygo’s lens will see an evolution in the display throughout the set, incorporating over 25 different scenes based on what he’s playing in the moment. 

The company is betting that its AR tech will leave users feeling eager to embrace creative content opportunities in real time. 

“Kygo is a highly innovative artist who is always pushing the boundaries of how an audience can experience a live DJ set, so it was a no-brainer to bring Snap’s augmented reality to his shows this summer,” said the company’s Head of Music Partnerships, Manny Adler. “We’re delivering a new Snapchat Lens synced in real-time to his performance, enabling a fan’s phone to bring them deeper into the experience without taking them out of the moment.”

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Thomas Bangalter Confirms Myth That Two Daft Punk Albums Were Produced In His Bedroom Flat

There’s a bedroom producer in every global superstar, and even the iconic Daft Punk are no exception.

It turns out that the legendary robots specifically may have been harbingers for the broader bedroom producer phenomenon. Daft Punk’s Thomas Bangalter recently confirmed that two of the duo’s groundbreaking albums, Homework and Discovery, were both recorded by humble means.

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Speaking with the BBC’s Matt Everitt on “The First Time…” podcast, Bangalter confirmed the longstanding rumor to be true.

“Homework and Discovery were done in the bedroom, in the same flat as I was watching [TV show] Modern Times and we had [Stevie Wonder’s album] Songs in the Key of Life constantly on the turntables,” Bangalter said. “This small bedroom, [and] my parents had given me this small boombox for my 11th birthday, a JVC boombox with a little graphic equalizer, and I kept this thing. One day when we plugged in a few keyboards and samplers, I found that boombox and I put it on the stack of machines. And that little boombox is what we mixed and recorded both Homework and Discovery on. That was the magic one.”

The unconventional move for the time saved Daft Punk and their label thousands on studio costs, engineering and more while still yielding two of electronic music’s most timeless works in the genre’s history.



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Four Tet Opens Up About Viral "Country Riddim" Moment at Coachella

Despite a star-studded 2023 Coachella festival, there’s hardly an artist who courted the conversation quite like Four Tet.

In a new interview with The Guardian, the influential electronic music producer revealed that his show-stealing moment dropping “Country Riddim” was the product of feeling immune to any unconventional song selection previously thrown his way. 

He described a moment years earlier, when Skrillex dropped the Lion King soundtrack theme during one of their formative back-to-back sets. Since that time, Tet said, there’s been an unsaid tenant between the two that no song selection is off limits.

“Since then, we look at each other like: ‘Nothing you could play would be too chaotic to mix out of. Try me,'” he explained.

That was the better part of a decade ago. And as fate would have it, a similarly devilish inspiration struck Tet again in front of 100,000 Coachella attendees, where he dropped HOL!’s breakout track, “Country Riddim,” to a crowd all too eager to head-bang in unison.

“I actually had an out-of-body experience,” Tet recalled. “Absolutely lost my marbles. It was like knowing I’ve got the funniest joke in the world and 100,000 people are about to lose their minds. It’s one of the most powerful feelings I’ve experienced in my whole life.”

Clearly, despite the highest highs of that moment, Four Tet hasn’t let the newfound attention get to his head.

Making a lighthearted jab at the circumstances of it all, he added, “I did Coachella and the next gig was a three-and-a-half-hour set at my daughter’s 13th birthday party to 20 teenage girls, who I felt looked at me deeply unimpressed the whole time.”

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Billy McFarland Says He Signed a Deal to Turn the Story of Fyre Festival Into a Broadway Musical

The story of Billy McFarland is headed to Broadway, the Fyre Festival founder said. 

It’s been nearly a year since McFarland finished his six-year prison sentence, and in that time he’s hardly been sitting on his hands. For starters, he is working to shore up $26 million in restitution owed to the victims of 2018’s ill-fated Fyre Festival, all without being able to act as an officer or director of a public company, as per the terms of his settlement agreement with the SEC.

All of that isn’t to say McFarland is left without a paddle. Since his release, he’s been teasing the idea of a redemption arc for the Fyre brand, expressing his long-term intentions to execute on the original vision for the endeavor with the right planning and partners. 

In the meantime, however, McFarland has been exploring new avenues for monetizing the brand. Taking to Instagram, he revealed that he’s officially signed a deal to turn his life and experiences surrounding the Bahamian event into a Broadway musical.

McFarland first teased the idea back in May in a video interview with Adam Glyn, wherein he described it as, “Instead of like traditional Broadway actors, it’s going to be current music artists, combined with the Broadway format of the play—making fun of me, but also I think sharing some of the good sides as well.”

The working title for the Broadway show is said to be Fyre Festival 1.5.

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J. Cole says 50 Cent’s debut album is “the best album of all time”


J. Cole has revealed that 50 Cent‘s ‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin” is the “best album of all time” while on stage with the rap legend this week.

On August 9, the North Carolina rapper joined the New Yorker during his set at New York’s Barclays Center to perform his most popular track, ‘No Role Modelz’. The show kicked off the US leg of the ’50 Cent: The Final Lap’ tour, celebrating 20 years of 50 Cent’s 2003 debut album.

After performing the ‘2014 Forest Drive’ hit, J. Cole got the crowd to “make some noise for one of the greatest n****s to do this shit: 50 Cent, Curtis Jackson.” Before leaving the stage, he also added: “‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin’’ is the best album of all time. It’s ‘Get Rich Or Die Tryin’’ at number one and it’s ‘Thriller’ at number two, and I love Michael Jackson.”

50’s debut is now a rap classic. The album was released on February 6, 2003, debuting at Number One on the Billboard 200, selling 872,000 units in its first week and is now nine times platinum. Michael Jackson‘s ‘Thriller’ is one of the best-selling and most critically acclaimed albums of all time. Released in 1982, it has sold over 70 million copies worldwide and earned eight Grammy Awards.

Recently, in place of 21 Savage, the Dreamville Records co-founder stepped in and opened up for Drake during the Montreal stop of the ‘It’s All A Blur’ tour. As a nod to his absent past collaborator, Cole performed his and Savage’s Grammy Award-winning song ‘A Lot’ as well as other tracks.

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The 38-year-old also appeared on Summer Walker’s latest EP ‘Clear 2: Soft Life’, where he featured on the “audio hug” ‘To Summer, From Cole’. He penned a message to “Ms Walker”, referring to the R&B singer, about getting through the hard times over a sombre and subdued beat.

In March, rapper-turned-media personality Joe Budden said J. Cole was “pandering” to fans when talking about how the latter’s song ‘Procrastination (Broke)’ came about. Cole told fans that he was inspired by a “J. Cole type beat” on Youtube, which was produced by Bvtman, to write the single. However, Budden claimed “[He] found out that the guy who just so happened to do the ‘J. Cole type beat’ – that was the first one to pop up – is like the most popular producer on YouTube.

“And it’s pandering,” Budden continued. “There’s nothing wrong… Y’all swear I hate people, and I don’t. I love J. Cole, so don’t spread that. But the story that they put out versus what the fuck was really happening, like stop y’all. I’m just not stupid.”

The ‘Pump It Up’ rapper also took issue with J. Cole’s collaboration with BTS member J-hope, believing that it was all a ploy to push Cole’s music back out there. “I can see through what your publicist is pumping in you,” Budden said, “what your lawyer is pumping, your label, A&R is pumping in you… This is why people pander, by the way, because it works. Let’s land the K-pop star-J. Cole merger.”

In a four-star review of J. Cole and J-hope’s ‘On The Streets’, NME wrote, “For the most part, ‘On The Street’ caps this leg of J-hope’s voyage on a bright note – one where he can proudly look back on as he prepares to move forward. When he returns post-military, he’ll be coming back to strong foundations ready for him to build even more exciting new blocks on.” J. Cole said working on the single was a “blessing” and J-hope was “so happy” to work with his long-term idol.

‘The Final Lap’ tour continues to tour around the US with the next stop being in Hartford, Connecticut on August 11. The North American leg of the tour will end on September 17 at Detroit’s Pine Knob Music Theatre. Fans can look and buy any available tickets here.





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COBRAH's "MANIC" Music Video is a Latex Labyrinth of Provocative Dance Music

COBRAH has lost her mind—and all we can do at this point is hold on for dear life.

An experimental electronic artist with the sort of bravado to paint our emotions for us—albeit with a razor for a paintbrush—COBRAH has a bright future ahead. After debuting on Big Beat Records earlier this summer, she’s now returned with “MANIC,” a sultry track inviting fans to explore their own perceptions of sexuality and self-expression.

Here, COBRAH’s badassery shines through her unapologetic lyricism: “I just get a little drastic, want to blow things up with matchsticks / Let it out with holy godspeed, I’m so nice if it wasn’t for my kink.”

The cover of COBRAH’s new single, “MANIC.”

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Electronic music fans will recognize COBRAH from her seductive vocal performance in Chris Lorenzo’s global house hit, “MAMI.” She twists the knife into that style in “MANIC,” where her come-hither, slithering sound melts into a four-on-the-floor club beat.

“I loved making this record but if anything, it really brought out the manic in me,” COBRAH said in a statement.

She’s not kidding. COBRAH today also released the official “MANIC” music video, a madcap audiovisual that shows her heart is as black as her signature latex. The video finds her embracing her desires without inhibition in a noir world where sensuality and dominance are canon.

COBRAH is now gearing up for a big run of North American live dates, including a landmark performance at the 2023 Portola Festival in the Bay Area, where Eric Prydz and Skrillex will headline. She’s also poised for a series of shows alongside Brazilian drag queen and dance music star Pabllo Vittar.

These shows follow COBRAH’s breakout “THE ICON TOUR,” her first-ever U.S. live run, which saw her tear up Los Angeles’ famed El Rey Theatre, Brooklyn’s Elsewhere and Boiler Room’s Toronto offshoot, among other high-profile shows.

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YouTube celebrate 50 years of hip-hop with FIFTY DEEP campaign


YouTube has announced that they will celebrate the 50th anniversary of hip-hop this year by launching the FIFTY DEEP campaign.

This month marks 50 years since DJ Kool Herc performed at a party in the Bronx and showed off his DJing invention of scratching records to extend the instrumental breaks in the song. This revelation was the cornerstone for hip-hop as people could dance longer (evolving into breakdancing) and aspiring MCs could rap during song breaks.

In honour of the musical milestone, YouTube has launched FIFTY DEEP, “a cultural campaign on YouTube that salutes how far [the genre] come.” Director of Black Music & Culture Tuma Basa wrote a blog post on the new campaign, saying that the mission “is for every generation to dig into the gems of YouTube’s archival treasury of Hip Hop.”

They plan to fulfil their mission by collating a visual library of 2,000 videos that “have changed the game” for hip-hop music, having a custom Yoodle (YouTube’s version of the Google Doodle) to pay homage to the phenomenon of type beats, and creating a Google Arts & Culture Hip Hop Hub to collate “a wide range of cultural institutions’ collections and curated stories.”

FIFTY DEEP will kick off this Friday (August 11) with a live stream of Hip-Hop 50 Live on Mass Appeal’s official YouTube channel. The celebratory concert has a star-studded line-up of world-class rappers which is headlined by legendary duo Run-DMC, who will share the stage with fellow rap pioneers Lil Wayne, Nas, Snoop Dogg and more on the main stage. There will also be a showcase for the “Women of hip-hop”, where Lil Kim, Eve, Trina and more will recite their hits for the Bronx crowd at New York’s Yankee Stadium.

Basa also shared that YouTube has brought back the YouTube Avenues program in collaboration with hip-hop figure and YouTube cultural advisor Wallo267. Going to the Southern hip-hop hotspots of Atlanta, New Orleans, Baltimore, Raleigh/Durham and Miami, they hope to empower the next generation of hip-hop enthusiasts.

Explaining the reason why YouTube is “going so hard to salute Hip Hop,” Basa wrote: “Hip Hop has been poppin’ on YouTube dating back to when Soulja Boy’s ‘Crank That’ video went viral in 2007. And just last year, nine of the top ten artists in the U.S. were Hip Hop artists and collectively earned over 16B views globally in the calendar year.

“YouTube is a place I can find nearly every version of every song, plus interviews, plus podcasts, plus commentary, plus live performances, et cetera, et cetera. Basically, if it happened and it was recorded, YouTube is where people come to find it.”

At this year’s Grammys ceremony, Questlove curated a tribute to hip-hop which featured LL Cool J, GloRilla, Ice-T and Jay-Z. The performance came after Dr Dre was honoured with the Global Impact Award, which now will be known as the Dr Dre Global Impact Award.

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Elsewhere, Nas and the Wu-Tang Clan went on their ‘NY State Of Mind’ tour, performing their hits for fans across the world. After their sold-out London gig at The O2, Nas hosted an afterparty with Hennessy to celebrate 50 years of hip-hop. Ghostface Killah and Raekwon both surprised the audience and recited their verses from iconic hip-hop tracks like ‘C.R.E.A.M’ and ‘Protect Ya Neck’.





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