Thousands of people across the globe have been diagnosed with Coronavirus or COVID-19. As the virus continues to spread, many nations and states have declared states of emergencies, with some even going into lockdown. As the pandemic continues to grow in the US, organizers of large public gatherings are being forced to make a decision on whether or not to cancel or postpone their scheduled events. Major entertainment industries such as broadway, music, and sports have been forced to pull the plug on their events as states have begun to prohibit the gathering of large amounts of people. Governor Cuomo of New York has decided to close all places with a legal occupancy of 500 people or more. Places such as Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center, Avant Gardner, Webster Hall, Brooklyn Steel, Terminal 5 and more, will be closed until further notice.
Yesterday (March 12), was probably one of the heaviest days, as festivals, concerts, and music festivals seemed to be getting cancelled or postponed left and right. All Live Nation and AEG tours have been postponed until further notice. EDC Las Vegas will continue with their plans for May 2020, but officials are monitoring the situation day by day. Festivals such Lollapaloozza, Bonnaroo, Tomorrowland and Governor’s Ball which are all set to take place between June and July have not made comments yet.
It’s truly a sad time for the music world (and the world in general of course) as we are at the brink of festival season. Here is a list of festivals, shows, and tours that have been cancelled or postponed so far (as of the morning of March 13).
Festivals:
Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival: April 10 to 12, April 19 to 19 postponed to Oct. 9 to 11, Oct. 16 to 18
Beyond Wonderland SoCal: March 20 to 21, postponed until June 19 to 20.
South by SouthWest: March 13 to 22 cancelled
Ultra Music Festival: March 20 to 22 cancelled
Tomorrowland Winter: March 14 to 21 cancelled
Bassnectar’s Deja Voom: March 25 to 28 cancelled
Get Lucky Fest: March 13 to 14 cancelled
StageCoach: April 24 to 26, postponed until Oct. 23 to 15.
Big Ears Festival: March 26 to 29 cancelled
Days of Summer Cruise Fest: June 28 to July 1 cancelled
BPM Miami Festival: postponed
Treefort Music Festival: March 25 to 29, postponed until Sept. 23-27
Concerts & Tours:
Billie Eilish, Where Do We Go World Tour: postponed March dates
Blood Orange: cancelled March 2020 North American dates
Maluma, Maluma 11:11 WORLD TOUR 2020: Cancelled remaining European dates.
Kayzo, spring tour: cancelled
Jauz, Dangerous Waters Tour, remaining dates: postponed until further notice
Action Bronson: postponed upcoming tour dates.
Dan + Shay: postponed Spring tour leg.
Bob Dylan: Japan dates postponed until further notice
Iggy Pop, France Tour: postponed until further notice
My Chemical Romance, Japan Tour: postponed until further notice
Rage Against the Machine, first leg of tour: postponed until further notice
Pearl Jam, North American Tour: postponed until further notice
Madonna, Madonna X Tour: cancelled
BTS, Map of the Soul Tour-Seoul: cancelled
Green Day, Asian Tour: postponed until further notice
Zac Brown Band, remains dates: postponed until further notice.
Yes, US dates: cancelled
Rezz, Relentless Beat: cancelled
Ekali, select shows: cancelled
Wilco: postponed until further notice
Carlos Santana, Miraculous 2020 Tour, European leg: cancelled
Pussy Riot: postponed until further notice
The Who, UK and Ireland Tour: postponed until further notice
Courtney Love & Melissa Auf der Maur: postponed
Chris Stapleton: postponed next two weeks of dates
Kendrick Lamar has revealed he has a new project in the works, but it’s not what most fans were expecting. While most of us were hoping for a new album, Lamar has instead shared with us a teaser for his new company pgLang, with frequent collaborator Dave Free.
The Compton rapper made the announcement with a series of post as well as with a 4 minute visual mission statement. The short film is written and directed by Free and stars Lamar, Baby Keem, Yara Shahidi, and Jorja Smith, and features new music from Baby Keem, Florence Welch, and Kamasi Washington. “When you are identified with something your are not, it always leads to suffering and unhappiness,” a distorted voice tells us.
Upon visiting their website, we continue to learn that pgLang is a “service company,” specializing in music, film, television, art, books, and podcasts. Their mission is to deliver “stories that speak to many nations, many races, and many ages.” PgLang is a company comprised of writers, singers, directors, musicians, and producers that are breaking formats when building ideas to make them real.
“We embrace the idea of anarchy and challenges that make us stronger,” the statement continues “pgLang is focused on using our experiences, and nurturing our many collaborators, to build stories that are equally accessible and engaging and then fitting them within the best media.”
That is all Lamar has provided us with so far, but Free further explained that “in this overstimulated time, we are focused on cultivating raw expression from grassroots partnerships.”
On Monday (March 9) Eminem shared the new music video for “Godzilla,” the latest visual from his new album Music to Be Murdered By. The video is directed by Lyrical Lemonade’s Cole Bennett, and is dedicated to the late rapper Juice WRLD, who is featured on the song’s hook.
The video begins with Eminem in a Costco-like warehouse store, where he begins rapping, “I can swallow a bottle of alcohol and I’ll feel like Godzilla.” We then see the rapper beginning to chug a bottle of Godzilla, with his face on the bottle. The drunk rapper then begins to wander around the store clearly hallucinating, and runs into an array of characters some of which are played by himself, before he vomits up a pile of lego chunks.
The rapper then lands on top of a mountain of his entire discography, and raps to the shoppers in the store. He later runs through a parking lot where he is accidentally punched in the face and knocked out by Mike Tyson.
At the hospital, we see his longtime collaborator Dr.Dre playing up to his title in a white lab coat and blue scrubs alongside Eminem who is also playing a doctor. Eminem then spits his last verse before Bennett signs us off with a special tribute to the 21-year-old rapper Juice WRLD.
A black and white video of Juice laughing plays, accompanied by a voiceover from the rapper. “I hope everybody havin’ a good day. I hope everybody accomplished something significant. Even if you didn’t accomplish anything significant, don’t be discouraged. Just aim to accomplish something significant tomorrow and the next day and so on. If anybody is going through anything, I hope and pray you get through it. And just know you do have the strength to get through whatever the f— you going through, no matter what it is.”
Music to be Murder by was released in January, with “Godzilla” being its standout track. Both from Chicago, Bennett and Juice WRLD were close friends. Bennett is best known for his work directing videos for not only Juice WRLD, but Vic Mensa, Chance the Rapper, Famous Dex, Lil Pump, Smokepurpp, Lil Xan, Blueface, Ski Mask the Slump God, Jack Harlow, and more. His most notable video on his Youtube channel is Juice WRLD’s “Lucid Dreams,” which has surpassed 400 million views.
OnlyJahmez debuts his single “Disco.” The song serves as an invitation to his world, where OnlyJahmez brings the world to a none stop party. The soft melody serves the purpose of the song, escapism towards a better place.
The title of the song itself, “Disco,” might seem strange at first, (after all Disco is dead), but that is where the genius of the song comes out, Nu-Disco is a new genre associated with a renewed interested in 1970s US disco, as well as synthesizer-heavy 1980s European dance music style. The rhythm of “Disco,” completely embodies the core of the genre.
However, it is the story in the song that fully shows how clever the title is, as Onlyjahmez seems to find himself running away from the world. He is ready to take back what he lost and return to a happier time. As a result, he invites everyone to meet him in one of the most throwbacks, ‘happy,’ places in the world a disco.
“Disco,” is a great melody with a soft sound that invites to return a better time, and is one of a long line of classics from, OnlyJahmez.
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In January Dua Lipa released a technicolor music video for her single “Physical” off her upcoming album Future Nostalgia. Today, the British singer has released an 80s inspired workout video for the single.
While the single’s original music video is more focused on the “future” aspect of her upcoming album, the new workout has a much more 80s nostalgia look and feel to it. Dua is dressed in a yellow body suit that reads “Physical” and matching socks to go along with it, both of which can be purchased online.
The 24-year-old singer channels her inner Olivia Newton John in the new workout video. “Hey, I’m Dua and I’ll be your instructor today,” she says. She is the epitome of fitness as she walks us through her routine. She starts us off with a warm up filled with slow movements and stretches to get our limbs ready for some serious grooving. Things then begin to pick up as she brings out the mats and everyone begins to do moves like “The Crybaby,” and “The Fonda.”
Dua’s sophomore album Future Nostalgia is set to release on April 3. She has also released the album’s title track and “Don’t Stop Now” as singles. Check out the original “Physical” music video below.
Happy Friday! The music world has again kicked off the weekend with the release of new music from several of our favorite artists. I’m sure you’ll have a difficult time deciding what to listen to first, because I know I sure did. Today we have new albums and singles from Megan Thee Stallion, Jhené Aiko, Gunna, JADAKISS, Lil Uzi Vert, OnlyJahmez and Demi Lovato.
Megan Thee Stallion- SUGA
Image via Megan The Stallion’s Instagram.
Megan Thee Stallion has jumped through some major hurdles this past week in order to make it to this important day. Despite the beef with independent record label 1501 Certified Entertainment, she has still managed to drop her much anticipated debut album Suga. The album includes features from Kehlani and 300 label mate Gunna (who also released a new single today). Along with her album she released the official music video for single “B.I.T.C.H.”
Jhené Aiko- Chilombo
Image via Complex’s Instagram.
In an interview with Billboard about her new album Chilombo, Jhené Aiko said, “In a sense, I am like a Volcano, and this album is an eruption.” And a beautiful eruption it is. Chilombo (her surname), spans 20 tracks and includes features from Big Sean, H.E.R., Future, Miguel, Ab-Soul, Nas,John Legend, Ty Dolla $ign and Dr. Chill. Aiko recorded the entire album in Hawaii where her great grandmother was born. This is one of Aiko’s more experimental projects as she experiments with sound bowls that are commonly used during meditation and healing sessions. She told Billboard that the sounds can be heard on every track, and she plans to continue using them in future records.
Gunna– “SKYBOX (Single)“
Image via Apple Music.
“SKYBOX” is a brand new single off Gunna’s forthcoming album Wunna, the follow up to 2019 Drip or Drown 2. The upcoming doesn’t have a release date yet, but is set to release some time this year. Gunna also released a music video directed by Spike Jordan to accompany the new single. The music video shows Gunna in human and doll form riding in a hot air ballon, crash to Earth, and then kick it with some belly dancers.
JADAKISS– Ignatius
Image Via JADAKISS’ Instagram.
After a short delay following the passing of Pop Smoke, JADAKISS has dropped his latest project Ignatius. The rapper’s fifth studio album spans 13 tracks with appearances from Pusha T, Ty Dolla $ign, 2 Chainz, Dej Loaf and John Legend.
Lil Uzi Vert- Eternal Atake
Image via Fader’s Instagram.
The follow-up to Luv is Rage 2 is finally here, and Lil Uzi Vert fans couldn’t be happier. Despite releasing a trailer earlier this week and releasing the track list last night (March 5), the album’s arrival comes as a surprise, as Uzi never gave an official release date. The LP spans 16 tracks, and is feature-less expect for an appearance from the Internet‘s Syd, on “Urgency.” His two latest singles “Futsal Shuffle 2020” and “That Way” are included as Bonus Tracks.
Demi Lovato- “I Love Me (Single)”
Image via Demi Lovato’s Instagram.
Demi Lovato’s new single “I love Me,” is the self love anthem we all need. After staying under the radar following an overdose in 2018, the 26-year-old singer is back and better than ever. She also released a music video to accompany the new single. We can’t wait to see what the rest of the year and future holds for Demi.
OnlyJahmez- Disco
Rap Rockstar OnlyJahmez has released his long awaited single “Disco,” along with a lyric video to accompany it. His next single “Diana” is set to release March 13, and his debut album Disco 2020 is set to release later this year.
