Moby to release new two-and-a-half-hour ambient album on New Year’s Day

Moby has announced that he will release a new two-and-a-half-hour ambient album on New Year’s Day. The producer will start 2023 by sharing the lengthy new record, titled ‘ambient23’, which was, he revealed, made “almost exclusively made with weird old drum machines and old synths.” Over the last few months, Moby has shared a number …

Ultra Emerges As World's Most International Music Festival Brand

The team behind Ultra Music Festival have secured their spot as the most international music festival brand. After expanding to Peru and Abu Dhabi, Ultra Worldwide further cemented itself as a festival powerhouse with festivals on all six inhabited continents. The inaugural Ultra Abu Dhabi was postponed in 2020 due to COVID-19 concerns, but it’s now …

Tony Iommi confirms reissue of Tony Martin-era Black Sabbath albums

Black Sabbath guitarist Tony Iommi has confirmed that the band’s albums featuring Tony Martin will be re-released in 2023. The heavy metal pioneers went through many lineup changes in the 1980s and 1990s, beginning with the firing of Ozzy Osbourne for excessive substance use in 1979. Tony Martin was the band’s second-longest serving vocalist, fronting …

Sam Asghari denies controlling wife Britney Spears’ social media

Britney Spears‘ husband Sam Asghari has addressed rumours that he has been controlling his wife’s social media. Fans began to grow suspicious earlier this month that Spears didn’t have control of her own social media when she celebrated her birthday with a tribute to her younger sister Jamie Lynn, who she has been feuding with. …

FISHER and His Record Label Dominated Beatport Charts In 2022

FISHER had one helluva 2022. The Australian house music superstar took to Instagram to share a hilarious, on-brand post about dominating the Beatport charts. His edit of Bob Sinclair’s “World, Hold On” was the top-selling record on Beatport his year while “It’s A Killa,” his collaboration with Shermanology, landed in the ninth spot. Both are impressive …

Simon Cowell reportedly in talks to relaunch ‘The X Factor’ in the US

Simon Cowell is reportedly in talks to relaunch The X Factor in the US. The stateside version of the musical TV talent show was launched by Cowell in 2011, seven years after the UK version started in 2004. It ran for three seasons until Cowell returned to the UK show in 2014. After the UK …

Percussion done to Metronomic Perfection on JS aka The Best’s Bossa Nova

JS aka The Best offers a new way to approach percussion on Bossa Nova. Continuing his study of sound already shown in his countless commercial works, he takes on percussion in an emotionally charged fashion. Far away from the idea of a time-keeping device, he infuses the concept with the utmost of emotion. The result …

The US just had its biggest vinyl sales week since 1991

Vinyl records have enjoyed their biggest week in sales in the US since 1991. According to Luminate, 2.2million vinyl albums were sold in the week ending December 22, the highest figure it has ever recorded since it began electronically tracking music sales, Billboard reports. Indeed, this is the second time since 1991 that vinyl sales have …

5 Absurd But True Stories That Captivated the EDM World In 2022

2022 was another banner year for electronic dance music history as festivals returned en masse, the scene’s biggest artists released albums and live music records were broken. But then there were times when things got… weird. From head-scratching revelations on social media to dance music veterans taking the genre where it hasn’t gone before, read …

Watch Baauer's Epic DJ Set Live From a Secret Warehouse Location In Atlanta

“Tonight is not about me. It’s about you,” a deep voice said at the start of Baauer’s recent DJ set in Atlanta. “Strap on your dancing slippers, sweet cheeks. It’s going down.” The Grammy-nominated DJ and producer recently threw down at a secret warehouse rave hosted by DEF, a woman-owned media collective and event organizer. …