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- Hear FACT’s Parklife playlist with IAMDDB, Young Marco, Bicep and more
- The Broad announces 2018 Summer Happenings featuring Aïsha Devi, Kim Gordon & YoshimiO, Gang Gang Dance and more
- The Rap Round-up, May 2018: Post Malone’s Beerbongs & Bentleys is a bummer
- Actress, Lucrecia Dalt, British Murder Boys and more announced for Berlin Atonal 2018
- DJ Boring reveals the story behind his lo-fi YouTube smash ‘Winona’
- Field Day 2018 FACT/Bugged Out! stage times announced
- Drake issues statement on ‘The Story of Adidon’ blackface photo
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Posted: 31 May 2018 10:57 AM PDT
Manchester’s Parklife weekender is back again on June 9 with FACT faves like Shanti Celeste, Nina Kraviz, J Hus, The Black Madonna and more. We’ve pieced together a bumper playlist to celebrate.
This summer, Manchester is gearing up for another bumper weekend of music courtesy of Parklife. The festival is taking place on June 9-10 at the city’s Heaton Park and features performances from a litany of FACTy favorites. There are shows promised from Skepta, IAMDDB, N.E.R.D, Nina Kraviz, Shanti Celeste, Young Marco, Midland, Denis Sulta, Peggy Gou, Mall Grab, Soul II Soul, The Black Madonna and loads more. To celebrate, FACT has pieced together an epic playlist with a selection of music from our favorite performers. Take a listen now on Apple Music or Spotify. And if you still don’t have tickets for Parklife, you still have a few days to grab ’em. Watch next: Explore Shibuya's dance music history in this short film The post Hear FACT’s Parklife playlist with IAMDDB, Young Marco, Bicep and more appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music.. |
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Posted: 31 May 2018 10:45 AM PDT
The LA modern art museum has announces its third annual Summer Happenings series.
LA contemporary art museum The Broad has announced the lineup for this year's Summer Happenings, a concert series that launched in 2016 and has featured performances from Perfume Genius, SOPHIE, Jenny Hval, Downtown Boys and more over the past two seasons. This year’s includes an impressively diverse array of genre and concept, with four performances, one each month from June through September. Gang Gang Dance, legendary New Yorker DJ Stretch Armstrong, Jean Grae and Tara Jane O’Neil will all perform throughout the museum on June 30. Grae, who is now an ordained minister, will actually give a “nondenominational sermon on time, interspersed with her choir's themed cover songs and special musical guests.” Other artists slated to perform throughout the summer include Total Freedom, Matmos, Aïsha Devi, MIIIA, Laraaji, FAZI, ballroom legend Ranika JZ Prodigy, Swisha House co-founder Mike “5000” Watts and Kim Gordon and YoshimiO in collaboration, among many others. Find tickets and more information here. Listen next: FACT mix 648: Laraaji The post The Broad announces 2018 Summer Happenings featuring Aïsha Devi, Kim Gordon & YoshimiO, Gang Gang Dance and more appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..  |
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Posted: 31 May 2018 09:42 AM PDT
The Rap Round-up is back! Each month, columnists Alphonse Pierre and Lorena Cupcake compile a list of the most noteworthy rap releases. Up this month: A$AP Rocky, Key!, Lil Baby and more.
Despite what your Twitter feed looks like, a lot more happened in rap this month than the tangled mounting beef between Pusha T and Drake (and Kim K and Rhymefest and Quentin Miller… it's been messy). When we weren't listening to the Kanye-West-produced Daytona, Playboi Carti’s surprise album Die Lit, or one (two, three) of the new albums released by Rae Sremmurd, there was a ton to sink our teeth into. New York represented: we got new albums from Brooklyn queen Junglepussy and Harlem’s A$AP Rocky, while Upstate’s enfant terrible Post Malone delivered a sing-songy addition to the rap-rock pantheon. Weiland's Grimey Youth hit the SoundCloud underground, while Juice WRLD crossed over into notable mainstream success with Goodbye and Good Riddance. And while it might not be worth $100K, Blocboy JB showed us the value of a Drake co-sign (for now) when his first project since 'Look Alive' attracted more listeners than ever. Here's eight projects to catch up on while you for Drake’s 'The Story of Adidon' response. A$AP Rocky Testing (Apple Music / Spotify) A$AP Rocky may treat rap like a side hustle at this point in his career, but he’s still able to accumulate an intriguing set of ideas and collaborators despite a glaring lack of growth as an artist. Most of the exciting moments on Testing do not come from Rocky himself, but his guests. ‘ASAP Forever (Remix)’, a track reminiscent of the Live.Love era, features Kid Cudi in singular Man on the Moon form, giving us a peek into the unique interior that made people fall in love with his music almost a decade ago. Frank Ocean also comes out of hiding for 'Purity', where he delivers one of the album’s most genuine and introspective rap verses. AP Blocboy JB Simi (Apple Music / Spotify) Blocboy JB rides his current wave of fame with finesse on Simi. It’s the Memphis rapper’s first project since his single 'Rover' was remixed by Drake into the inescapable 'Look Alive' and the video for his track 'Shoot' became a viral dance challenge. 'Shoot' producer Tay Keith handles most of the beats and guests include Billboard chart mainstays like 21 Savage, Lil Pump and YG. LC Juice WRLD Goodbye & Good Riddance (SoundCloud) Chicago's Juice WRLD isn't scared to sing without the varnish of effects, a choice that lends an extra intimacy his lyrics of isolation, inadequacy and prescription drug addiction. There is a bold vulnerability that comes with the complete absence of hope; a fearlessness that allows one to lean over the precipice of self-destruction and free-fall. Goodbye & Good Riddance's success on the Billboard Hot 100 (his breakthrough song 'All Girls are the Same' debuted at No. 92; 'Lucid Dreams,' a sad banger based on a Sting sample, debuted at No. 74) is evidence of emo rap's development from a bedroom SoundCloud genre to a serious mainstream contender for radio and playlist placement. LC Junglepussy JP3 (Apple Music / Spotify) On her first album in three years, Brooklyn rapper Junglepussy hasn’t lost her edge. Single 'Trader Joe' cruises on dreamy double-tracked '60s girl group harmonies; 'All of Love' follows a sinuous funk bassline. 'I'm in Love' tortures her secret lover's partner with imagery of JP sprawled in bed with him, hitting spliffs. 'I Just Want It’ is a brash declaration of a need for female-first sexual fulfillment with profane chorus it's easy to imagine fans shouting at shows — just try to keep yourself from whispering along with your headphones. It's a song so fun, even JP dissolves into giggles. LC Key! & Kenny Beats 777 (Apple Music / Spotify) 777 is the rare rapper-producer album that actually works (we see you, Big Sean and Metro Boomin). For the last several years, Atlanta rapper Key! has had his fingerprints all over a number of rap movements: Two-9's initial buzz, OG Maco's run, the rise of Awful Records and, currently, A$AP Rocky's AWGE collective. Now he’s taking the spotlight with 777, an ambitious collaborative album with prolific producer Kenny Beats. There’s no weak link here and their chemistry is primed to push Key! from the realm of background player. AP Lil Baby Harder Than Ever (Apple Music / Spotify) Coach K's Quality Control has another star with Lil Baby. After a string of promising mixtapes, Harder Than Ever his breakthrough. Yes, it helps that the project received the Drake stimulus package in the form of collaboration 'Yes Indeed', but even without the assist from Aubrey, the project is a showcase of how well Baby's Young Thug-influenced melodic capability works when paired with Atlanta's top producers. Southside, Quay Global, Wheezy and London On Da Track handle the beats, while Lil Uzi Vert and Hoodrich Pablo Juan are supply some of the guest vocals. Baby’s partner-in-crime, Gunna, shows up for two essential Harder Than Ever tracks, 'Life Goes On' and 'Throwing Shade', a pair of tracks that suggest they could make a play to become the best rap duo since Rich Gang. AP Post Malone Beerbongs & Bentleys (Apple Music / Spotify) Thanks to streaming numbers from 'Rockstar', the marquee single featuring 21 Savage, Post Malone's rap-rock follow up to his 2016 debut Stoney was certified platinum in only four days, setting records as this year's biggest no. 1 debut on the Billboard charts. Despite a self-professed preference for Bob Dylan over hip-hop, Malone frequently dips his iced wrist into the black culture cookie jar, pulling out West Indies slang with less self-consciousness than one might hope to see from a white guy from Syracuse. Beerbongs & Bentleys is a bleary-eyed survey of post-party wreckage; while Malone accurately captures the apex of excess, he fails to imagine a future once the groupies have blocked his number and the housekeeper's wiped the last sticky rings and traces of powder off the coffee table. LC Weiland Grimey Youth We probably don’t really need another blonde-haired, gun toting-teenager in rap, but Weiland's Auto-tuned flex anthems and love ballads are a surprising exception. It's unusual to hear this much melodic control or such polished production on a SoundCloud project and it’s why he become one of the platform’s must-know names. Grimey Youth's best tracks are never rushed, despite their brevity. Standouts include the yearning 'Alot', produced by frequent collaborator Ginseng, while 'Into Me' is filled with puns and features an impressive vocal range. Like it or not, it's only a matter of time before Weiland makes his way into SounCloud's upper tier. AP Alphonse Pierre is a freelance music writer based in New York. Find him on Twitter. Lorena Cupcake writes about every facet of culture. Find their insightful coverage on music, food and more at lorenacupcake.com. Read next: Rae Sremmurd's 3xLP SR3MM is anything but overstuffed The post The Rap Round-up, May 2018: Post Malone’s <em>Beerbongs & Bentleys</em> is a bummer appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..  |
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Posted: 31 May 2018 07:48 AM PDT
Tons of FACT-friendly names.
Berlin Atonal has announced its first batch of names for 2018 with Actress, Lucrecia Dalt, British Murder Boys and more set to perform at the five-day event. Taking place between August 22nd and 26th inside the cavernous environs of Berlin’s Kraftwerk building, the festival will host the premiere of Dalt’s new live project Synclines, based around her recent Anticlines album, while Actress will present a live A/V show. Courtesy, Beatrice Dillon, Helena Hauff and Veronica Vasicka have also been announced, while FACT Rated alum Astrid Sonne will perform her live A/V show, Ephemeral. Atonal also marks the first German show in over 10 years for techno godheads British Murder Boys. See the initial lineup in full below and visit the Atonal site for tickets. More announcements will be unveiled over the coming months. Lineup: Actress, Live A/V Astrid Sonne presents Ephemeral, Live A/V, WP Beatrice Dillon, Live British Murder Boys, Live Courtesy Gábor Lázár presents Unfold, Live A/V, WP Giant Swan, Live Group A with Dead Slow Ahead, Live A/V, GP Helena Hauff Hiro Kone presents Pure Expenditure, Live, WP Iona Fortune presents Chaotic Profusion, Live A/V, WP Kolorit (Lowtec & Kassem Mosse), Live A/V, WP LABOUR presents next time, die consciously (بیگانگی), Live A/V, WP Lanark Artefax, Live A/V Lucrecia Dalt presents Synclines, Live, WP Ora Iso, Live Outer Space presents Organic Dial, Live A/V, WP Samuel Kerridge Skee Mask Veronica Vasicka  Read next: Techno and catharsis: Discovering electronic music's outer limits at Berlin Atonal 2017 The post Actress, Lucrecia Dalt, British Murder Boys and more announced for Berlin Atonal 2018 appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..  |
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Posted: 31 May 2018 07:01 AM PDT
“It’s difficult to be judged”. In late 2016, a YouTube thumbnail of an adolescent Winona Ryder kept popping up on Twitter, YouTube and Facebook feeds. The vintage image appeared at the same time as Netflix’s Stranger Things, a globally popular sci-fi series that starred a present-day Winona so it’s understandable why people were confused. Whether that confusion led to DJ Boring’s ‘Winona’, an unassuming but infectious lo-fi house roller, notching up almost half a million YouTube streams in just a few weeks has puzzled fans since. Several years later, DJ Boring aka Tristan Hallis is a certified DJ and producer in his own right, having put out a string of solid releases for labels including Unknown to the Unknown and Lost Palms. After filming his Against The Clock session a couple weeks ago, we sat him down to find out the story behind the track that put him on the map. Watch next: DJ Boring – Against The Clock Luis Muñoz is on twitter. The post DJ Boring reveals the story behind his lo-fi YouTube smash ‘Winona’ appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..  |
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Posted: 31 May 2018 05:05 AM PDT
Get plotting!
The stage times for FACT/Bugged Out!’s stage at Field Day this Saturday (June 2) have been revealed, with Gilles Peterson taking the headline spot at 8pm and Lemmy Ashton kicking off proceedings at 11.30am. DJ Seinfeld B2B DJ Boring, Jayda G and Amsterdam’s Young Marco are also set to play the FACT stage in association with Bugged Out! See the full schedule below. The two-day London festival is taking place on Friday June 1 and Saturday June 2 at south London's Brockwell Park for the first time this year after a decade of events at Victoria Park in east London. Other 2018 performers include Erykah Badu, Tony Allen & Jeff Mills, Four Tet and Helena Hauff. Check the Field Day site for more lineup info. Read next: From Abra to Aphex Twin: Field Day 2017 in photos The post Field Day 2018 FACT/Bugged Out! stage times announced appeared first on FACT Magazine: Music News, New Music..  |
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Posted: 31 May 2018 02:45 AM PDT
“The photos represented how African Americans were once wrongfully portrayed in entertainment."
Yesterday (May 30), Pusha T released a Drake diss track called ‘The Story of Adidon’ that featured artwork showing the OVO Sound boss in blackface. According to Pusha T, the photo was taken by photographer David Leyes and it had reportedly been used to promote a 2008 clothing line called Jim Crow Couture from Canadian fashion label Too Black Guys.
However, Drake has now issued a statement on Instagram, in which he clarifies and explains the photo’s origins. "This was not from a clothing brand shoot or my music career," he writes. "This picture is from 2007, a time in my life where I was an actor and I was working on a project that was about young black actors struggling to get roles, being stereotyped and type cast. The photos represented how African Americans were once wrongfully portrayed in entertainment." See the full post via Twitter below.
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