SIPPY is back with “Get Wompy,” stomping onto Monstercat with a doozy of a debut on the label.
The surging bass music producer, who is also a member of the 2024 U.S. Touch Football World Cup team, has released a trap banger rife with the hot-blooded intensity of a championship game.
A song with the title “Get Wompy,” of course, is better suited for music festivals. With its woozy arpeggios and thick saws, a languid verse leads us to a nasty drop, where SIPPY goes haywire. Here, she tears it up with wobbly bass, which slices through a thicket of thwacking snares.
“I’ve been playing this track in my sets for a very long time now and it always goes off,” said SIPPY, whose work on Marshmello’s Shockwave album led to a Grammy nomination in 2021. “For a while, it really just felt like the only people who believed in it were the crowd and myself. There’s no better song for my first release with Monstercat knowing that they fully trust my vision and fully believe in me as an artist—it’s an amazing feeling.”
Take a listen to “Get Wompy” below and stream the new track here.
Jason Aldean has quietly removed Black Lives Matter (BLM) protest footage from the music video for his song ‘Try That In A Small Town’.
As reported by TMZ, the video for the country singer’s track is shorter by six seconds compared to its original upload. The short missing clip is footage from a BLM rally in Georgia, which is projected on a Tennessee courthouse where a Black teenager was lynched in 1927. The original clip was shot by Fox 5 Atlanta.
According to Consequence of Sound, Aldean had previously claimed that there wasn’t “a single video clip that isn’t real news footage” within the ‘Try That In A Small Town’ video. The music video and song have received backlash with many believing they are promoting racism and gun violence.
Lyrics such as:“You cross that line, it won’t take long/ For you to find out, I recommend you don’t / Try that in a small town,” and “Got a gun that my granddad gave me / They say one day they’re gonna round up / Well, that shit might fly in the city, good luck” are featured within the song, adding to concerns about the track’s true meaning.
Despite the backlash, ‘Try That In A Small Town’ has become the singer’s biggest song to date. At his show on Friday, July 21, at Cincinnati’s Riverbend Music Center in Ohio, Aldean claimed that the uproar around the song was due to cancel culture.
“It’s been a long week, and I’ve seen a lot of stuff. I’ve seen a lot of stuff suggesting I’m this, suggesting I’m that,” he told the crowd. “Here’s the thing, here’s one thing I feel: I feel like everybody’s entitled to their opinion. You can think something all you want to. It doesn’t mean it’s true, right?”
He added” “What I am is a proud American. I’m proud to be from here. I love our country. I want to see it restored to what it once was before all this bullshit started happening to us. I love my country, I love my family, and I will do anything to protect that, I can tell you that right now.”
Despite artists such as Sheryl Crow and Jason Isbell speaking out against the song and video, the track went onto achieve the biggest sales week for a country song in over 10 years. It earned the Number Two spot behind BTS’ JungKook’s first solo Number One ‘Seven’ on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Truth x Lies have landed on deadmau5’s hau5trap label with “Esta Vaina,” a tech house anthem with a Latin twist.
The track is red lipstick and spicy peppers, a fiery house record that gets the heart racing like a warm shot of tequila. Truth x Lies pour gasoline on the arrangement at its drop, where frenetic vocal chops run roughshod through a bassline you can feel in your bones.
Interpolating sultry horns and smooth flamenco guitar riffs, the incandescent track should prove a weapon in DJ sets—and it arrives just in time to set dancefloors ablaze in the back half of the 2023 festival season.
“We’ve lived in Washington Heights in Uptown Manhattan for many years, so we hear tons of Latin music on a daily basis,” Truth x Lies said in a press release. “Once we found this sample we knew it was on.”
Check out “Esta Vaina” below and find the new track on streaming platforms here.
Crowdsourced song titles are definitely the new wave.
Louis The Child are celebrating the release of one of their most requested unreleased tracks, which prominently samples “Jump to It,” a song released in 1982 by the legendary Aretha Franklin. The twist? They called on their fans to name it.
When trying to figure out how to title the song, the duo asked for help from those who know their music the best before landing on the overwhelming favorite, “How High.” And we must say, it’s a fitting name for the bouncy track, which boasts a euphoric drop where blissed-out synths flutter atop a thick low end.
Next month, Louis The Child will host the second edition of their curated “Alter Ego “event at the Brooklyn Mirage, where they’ll go B2B with What So Not. The show is also slated to feature performances from JOYRYDE, Snakehips, Pauline Herr and The Knocks, among others.
You can listen to “How High” below and find the new track on streaming platforms here.
The 1975‘s Matty Healy has reacted to the news of Muse removing a song from their setlist for an upcoming concert in Malaysia.
The news comes after The 1975 and Matty Healy were banned from Kuala Lumpur last Friday (July 21) for criticising the Malaysian government for anti-LGBTQ+ laws. Healy, who was visibly drinking onstage, had also smashed a festival-owned drone, and kissed bassist Ross MacDonald onstage, before announcing just seven songs into their set that they had been banned from Malaysia and had to leave.
“I made a mistake. When we were booking shows, I wasn’t looking into it. I don’t see the fucking point, right, I do not see the point of inviting The 1975 to a country and then telling us who we can have sex with,” Healy said prior to the kiss.
The band were headlining the first day of the Good Vibes Festival. The following day (July 22), the country’s communications minister announced that he had ordered the rest of the festival cancelled.
Muse are the first major international band to perform in Malaysia since the incident, and according to an organiser of their upcoming concert, the band were proactive in ensuring that their performance fits into the country’s guidelines.
“They called us shortly after the incident went global. After discussions, they decided to pull one song out of the setlist due to the title of the song. It’s nice to know they’re eager to entertain while also respecting the guidelines,” Hello Universe founder Adam Ashraf said. He did not reveal which song was removed from the setlist.
Now, Matty Healy has reacted to Muse’s decision to remove a song from their Malaysia setlist via his personal Instagram Stories. He first shared a screenshot of a Muse pre-order message that reads “Join the Resistance”, before sharing the news of Muse removing a song from their setlist.
Credit: @trumanblack/Instagram
Credit: @trumanblack/Instagram
The Malaysian LBGTQ+ community has since condemned Healy’s actions, with many saying he has set back years of progress that the local community has made.
“If anything, what Matt Healy and The 1975 have done is discount and disrupted YEARS of work by local activists who have been pushing for change and understanding AND endangering our vulnerable minority communities,” Joe Lee wrote in a viral Twitter thread.
Another Twitter user added: “this is singlehandedly pushing back any progress queers in Malaysia could have made in the past century. this is purely performative activism and the 1975 have no idea that what they did is the worst thing that could happen to us”.
Malaysian artists and vendors are also readying a class action lawsuit against Matty Healy and The 1975. The class action lawsuit, which is being readied by Malaysian law firm Thomas Philip, will name all four members of The 1975 and seek compensation over losses suffered as a result of the incident, which the firm’s founder and managing partner Matthew Thomas Philip labelled a “deliberate reckless act done knowing well [sic] of the consequences”
Kill The Noise has unveiled the fourth and fifth singles from his forthcoming Ophelia Records album, HOLLOW WORLD.
“Give Out” features a stellar vocal performance from HALIENE, who leads us through a beautifully constructed introduction before a soaring drop befit for Ophelia. Kill The Noise then switches things up in the song’s coda with a huge dubstep drop to bring it all home.
“Broken Panes” sees P4VEN, a founding member of the critically acclaimed rap group Foreign Beggars, lend his musical expertise. His tenacious vocals march through a bass-fueled battlefield, leading to an unrelenting dubstep anthem on the B-side of this release.
Kill The Noise, who was recently injured after a run-in with a venomous stingray, has been on a tear in 2023 as he gears up for the release of HOLLOW WORLD, his third album. Last year, the virtuosic producer released his sophomore album, EMBRACE,as well as a heavy-hitting remix package featuring the likes of Moore Kismet, Ray Volpe, Xavi, AC Slater and longstoryshort, among others.
You can find both new singles on streaming platforms here.
Los Angeles DJ and music producer Sam Blacky returns with “Munca,” a captivating tribal/afrohouse piece that perfectly captures the vibe of her forthcoming EP. As a global traveler and worldly citizen, her music consistently showcases a powerful global influence, as evident in her 2021 release “Body,” followed by “Paradise” and 2022’s “Colombiana.” The track “Munca” captivates with dynamic basslines, worldly melodies, and enticing vocals, transporting you to a mystical African utopia. The stand out single of her new EP, she had this to say about the single’s genesis;
“‘Munca’ is actually my favorite record on the EP. When I was writing the melody, I immediately fell in love, and the tribal vocal I layered on top just worked perfectly and gave the song such a beautiful, almost ethereal tribal rhythm. I’ve been really inspired by Afro House and World Music, in general, the last couple of years – and my music, as well as my sets, are gearing more and more towards that vibe. It’s been a journey figuring out my sound in the public eye, as most artists do that far before they even launch their projects. Munca, as well as the other two songs, are another step closer in the direction of where I want to be.”
K-pop girl group tripleS have announced their 2023 ‘Authentic’ LOVElution in US tour, featuring shows in the New York, Chicago, Houston and more.
tripleS are set to head on their 2023 ‘Authentic’ US tour this September and October. This upcoming tour will feature members from the sub-unit LOVElution, which features the members Seoyeon, Hyerin, Yubin, Kaede, Dahyun, Nien, Sohyun and Xinyu.
LOVElution will play 10 shows across the US, kicking things off at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, Georgia on September 24. Later that month, the girl group will also hold concerts in Reading and Chicago.
In October, the K-pop act will play shows in both the East and West coasts, in New York and Los Angeles respectively. Other cities the girl group will perform in include, Kansas City, Houston, Akron and more.
According to the newly released poster for tripleS’ 2023 ‘Authentic’ US tour, tickets for the concert are set to go on sale July 31 (Monday) at 9am PDT via Ticketmaster.
The dates for tripleS’ 2023 ‘Authentic’ LOVElution in US tour are:
OCTOBER 2023 01 – New York, New York, Town Hall 03 – Tysons, Virginia, Capital One Hall 05 – Akron, Ohio, Goodyear Theater 07 – Kansas City, Missouri, Uptown Theater 09 – Houston, Texas, Bayou Music Center 11 – Fort Worth, Texas, Will Rogers 14 – Los Angeles, California, Pasadena Civic Center
[📢Tour Announcement] tripleS 1st World Tour [Authentic] LOVElution in US
🚨 A new era is here! tripleS LOVElution will be coming to #WAV in the US!💗
trpleS were recently features on NME‘s mid-year list of the 15 best K-pop songs of 2023 so far. The song ‘Rising’, from their February mini-album ‘Assemble’, was said to “harnesses the rookies’ appetite for success into a defiant and unwavering, if much too short, anthem”.
The girl group – whose final line-up will include 24 members – launched their first sub-unit Acid Angel from Asia last October.
Toronto-based DJ and producer Ryan Shepherd is back with a brand-new single, “Feels So Good,” serving as a strong testament to his production prowess.
Debuting on house music tastemaker Selected., Shepherd combines cinematic melodies and mesmerizing ambiances on the new track, which features an intimate vocal performance from Malou. The Hawaiian-born and Hamburg-based musician recently landed on the label with her stunning cover of Polarkreis 18’s classic “Allein Allein,” and is the perfect match for Shepherd’s intricate production.
Taking us on a pensive journey, “Feels So Good” is as anthemic as it is nostalgic, driven by warm atmospheres and minimalistic percussion as Malou’s vocals enchant throughout its entirety. The drop, on the other hand, quickly explodes with the help of washed-out brass stabs, groovy house drums and irresistible basslines.
Take a listen to “Feel So Good” below and stream the song here.
The multi-platinum duo Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike kick off their upcoming debut studio album – “Rewind + Repeat,” with the first single “She Knows.” This explosive collaboration with David Guetta, Akon, and Afro Bros sets the stage for an album that throws back to the sonic aesthetics of the ’90s, borrowing from trance, techno, rave, and hardcore.
As EDM mainstays, the duo are no strangers to crafting anthemic main stage hits and they’re ensuring their debut album follows in the footsteps of their decade plus career of bangers. The album hits the ground running with the summer smash “She Knows,” a fusion of the best of that electronic and hip-hop has to offer. This isn’t the first time Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike have worked with Guetta and Akon — you may remember the hits “Sexy Bitch” and “Play Hard” — and “She Knows” follows in kind.
With lively melodies and harmonious bass lines, “She Knows” features Akon’s pop forward vocals, adding an extra layer of heat to summer dance playlists. The song appeals to dance music enthusiasts, fans of ’90s classics, and hip-hop lovers alike. With its big room-inspired lower ends and bombastic beats, “She Knows” has exactly what you’d expect from the Dutch duo.
Stay tuned for more releases leading up to the debut of “Rewind & Repeat.”
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