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It was the Friday of July 4th weekend and, as expected, the Montauk crowd was partying. At Gurney’s Beach Club, 20- and 30-somethings danced to “Where You Are” by John Summit and Hayla, screaming along to the lyrics. The espresso martinis were flowing as gaggles of club-goers approached the DJ booth, asking the woman behind the turntable for a selfie.

Soundtracking the party was Christina “Tinx” Najjar, a social media creator with 1.5 million TikTok followers. She’s written a bestselling book, “The Shift: Change Your Perspective, Not Yourself,” secured...

The MaXXXine world premiere in Hollywood featured A-list stars, epic red carpet moments, and a meta celebration of fame and celebrity. Director Ti West emphasized the importance of experiencing the film in a theater setting during the jam-packed screening at the TLC Chinese Theatre. MaXXXine, the third part of a horror trilogy with Mia Goth, intertwines fame, secrets, and a deadly game of survival against a backdrop of Hollywood's dark past. It hits theaters Fourth of July weekend.

MovieWeb just attended the June 24 world premiere of MaXXXine world premiere in Hollywood, where director Ti West, star Mia Goth, and plenty of other A-listers were in attendance. Breaking Bad alum Giancarlo Esposito put on a clinic on the red carpet, where protesters were also seen waving disparaging signs about the dangers of Hollywood. After a closer glance, however, it became clear these demonstrators were just one of many aspects that the premiere had gleefully organized.

The Gulf Shores is ready to welcome country queens, sad bois, and ravers for this year’s Hangout Music Festival. On Wednesday, Alabama’s annual music fest announced that Zach Bryan, Lana Del Rey, and Odesza will headline the 2024 iteration, scheduled for May 17 through May 19.

The Chainsmokers, Cage the Elephant, Dominic Fike, Reneé Rapp, Nelly, and Chappell Roan are also slated to perform. On the rap and hip-hop side, the lineup features Nelly, Doechii, Sexyy Red, and Nle Choppa.

Other notable artists on the list are All Time Low, Flyana Boss,...

With more than 40 shows under her belt this year, electronic music artist Aluna Francis had one aim for Miami-based music festival III Points: to reconnect with her Black, queer fanbase. An hour before stepping on stage Saturday, she stopped to snap pictures, give hugs and later invited the Edm enthusiasts backstage as she cooed over a thunderous bass line.

“Connecting the Black ravers with a meet-up seems like a small thing, but today it’ll be everything to me,” Francis tells Rolling Stone from a III Points lounge. “Because the...

Electric Zoo returned to Randall’s Island Park this Labor Day weekend, but not without some conflict. The first day of the festival was canceled on Friday, hours before gates opened, due to incomplete construction of the main stage. Agitated crowds breached the gates Sunday after being informed the venue reached its capacity. Despite stage design errors and start time delays, the artists who were able to perform during the remaining two days electrified audiences with bass-heavy hits and hypnotic visuals.

Best Guitar Solo: Gryffin

Ravers blared at the top...

The Electric Zoo festival returns to New York City on Friday for three days of Edm all-stars.

This will mark the festival’s 14th year in the city. It will feature major performances by The Chainsmokers, John Summit and Major Lazer. Other musicians such as Liquid Stranger and Nora En Pure will be in attendance.

Jake Resnicow, the organizer of one of New York’s biggest Pride parties, Dreamland, will also host an LGBTQ+ stage.

“I have not witnessed such a thriving and expansive electronic music community in the Big Apple since Electric Zoo’s inception 14 years ago,” told Electric Zoo’s Chief of Marketing Michael Julian to Billboard. “We can’t wait to welcome the most vibrant and energetic crowd yet this Labor Day Weekend.”

The 2023 Electric Zoo festival will take place on September 1-3 at Randall’s Island Park. Tickets can be purchased on the festival’s official website.

Flatbush Zombies member Erick the Architect has returned with “Parkour,” his first new single of 2023 which is produced by James Blake. Stream the track below.

A reflection of Erick’s journey after moving to Los Angeles from his native Brooklyn, “Parkour” starts with pitched-up vocals that are then slowed down to a sinister tone before the rapper’s normal voice cuts through Blake’s spacy production. On the track, Erick describes coming up in New York City with lyrics like, “When I was growing up, we all had different crews/ I always knew what’s up/ If you down to bust a move.”

Back in 2020, Blake produced the Flatbush Zombies loosie “Afterlife,” after which Erick returned the favor by contributing to “I Keep Calling” on the producer’s EP Before. Prior to “Parkour,” Erick’s most recent solo singles were 2021’s “Self Made” and last year’s “No Ice” featuring Akthesavior.

Gulf Shores, get ready! On Tuesday, Hangout Fest announced the stacked lineup for its annual beachside festival, which is headlined by the likes of Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sza, Calvin Harris, and Paramore.

The 2023 installation runs from May 19 to May 21 and is set to feature headlining performances by Lil Nas X, Flume, Skrillex, and the Kid Laroi. Also on the lineup are Ajr, Ashe, Russ, Sabrina Carpenter, Tove Lo, Yung Gravy, and Thundercat.

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The nominations for the 2023 Grammy Awards have been announced and stars from the music industry are taking notice.

Doja Cat, Coldplay and Anitta are among this year’s nominees. Doja was nominated for Record of the Year (“Women”) and Rap Performance of the Year (“Vegas”). She expressed her feelings about the two nominations in a detailed tweet on Tuesday.

Read More: Beyoncé Ties Husband Jay-Z For Most Grammy Nominations Ever

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— fart (@DojaCat) November 15, 2022

Doja also wrote, “Gwammy” in a now-deleted tweet and informed a user that she indeed had more to say.

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— fart (@DojaCat) November 15, 2022

Coldplay took a more traditional approach and thanked the Recording Academy after receiving three nominations. They got Album of the Year and Pop Album of the Year nods for Music of the Spheres, plus Best Pop Duo/Group Performance for their BTS collaboration titled “My Universe”.

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Life Is Beautiful kicked off on Friday in the heart of Las Vegas, with thousands of festival-goers scurrying to the Sin City for the buzzy three-day show that turns Vegas’s eclectic downtown into a psychedelic desert amusement park.

The Life Is Beautiful footprint takes up 18 blocks of downtown Las Vegas, an area of town once known for cheap drinks, seedy motels and a string of pawn shops. However, this slice of Vegas has turned into a hipster haven known for funky art installations, home-grown farm-to-table restaurants and, cheap drinks.

Arctic Monkeys, Gorillaz, Lorde, and Jack Harlow are among the headliners of Life Is Beautiful 2022, which returns to Las Vegas this September.

Held in downtown Las Vegas from Sept. 16 to 18, the festival features an Edm-heavy lineup with Calvin Harris and Kygo among the festival’s headliners. Alison Wonderland, Gryffin, Sg Lewis, R3HAB, Marc Rebillet, and Said the Sky are among the electronic acts set to perform.

Also headlining the three-day music festival are Migos and Cage the Elephant. Tickets for Life Is Beautiful — whose lineup features Oliver Tree, Big Boi,...

Yasmin Honeychurch, Rory Potter, Rasmus King, and newcomer Guyala Bayles lead the cast of writer-director Macario de Souza’s Paramount+ feature, 6 Festivals.

An Invisible Republic and Hype Republic film, 6 Festivals follows a group of three best friends, Maxie, Summer and James, who ‘bucket-list’ six music festivals over six months while coming to terms with James’ cancer diagnosis.

Bayles, a poet, model and recording artist plays Marley, an up-and-coming musician.

The film will feature a slew of Australian music acts, some of whom will feature in cameo appearances (as themselves), including G Flip, Dune Rats, Alison Wonderland, Bliss n Eso, Peking Duk, Pnau, Example, Hooligan Hefs, The Amity Affliction, JessB, B Wise and Running Touch.

Filming started earlier this year at music festivals across Wollongong and the Sunshine Coast.

For de Souza, making 6 Festivals is the realisation of his childhood and professional experiences to date.

“Music festivals have had a profound impact on my life.

Exclusive: Mandy and The Prodigy outfit XYZ Films is re-teaming with Under The Shadow outfit Two & Two Pictures on a partnership to discover, develop and produce projects from first and second-time genre filmmakers from under-represented demographics.

Two & Two’s London and LA-based duo Lucan Toh and Babak Anvari were the producer and director, respectively, on 2016 Sundance hit and BAFTA-winning horror Under The Shadow, which was sold by genre specialist XYZ.

The new genre pact is set to produce two to three pictures a year. First project under the partnership will be History Of Evil, a horror-thriller, written and directed by Iranian-American filmmaker Bo Mirhosseni. Produced by XYZ Films, Two & Two Pictures and Jake Siegel, XYZ is co-repping domestic sales with CAA Media Finance, with Pip Ngo as point executive for XYZ.

In the film, a Latinx family on the run from a corrupt state takes refuge in a safe...

"We've been missing a voice... And we don't even know what that is." LevelFilm in Canada has released an official trailer for the indie documentary titled Underplayed, which first premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. Filmed over the summer festival season, Underplayed presents a portrait of the current status of the gender, ethnic, and sexuality equality issues in dance music. The doc film profiles a number of different female Edm DJs and musicians, examining how underrepresented and underplayed they are in the Edm (Electronic Dance Music) community. It's an attempt to right the wrongs and highlight great talent shaking things up. The film features Nervo, Rezz, Alison Wonderland, Tygapaw, TOKiMONSTA, with an original score composed by Kate Simko. It's available on VOD now for anyone to give this a look if they're interested in watching. Alas, as much as I love the Edm scene, I really did not...

It’s no secret that nearly every genre of music outside of pop itself suffers from a moderate or severe gender imbalance problem, but the spotlight rarely falls on how women fare in electronic dance music. So students of sexism in the arts may take a ready interest in “Underplayed,” a handsomely photographed documentary from Amazon Prime that argues persuasively for women getting more seats at the table — or standup spots behind the turntable — even if it’s better at offering up underdog tales of individual female DJs who’ve triumphed than it is at getting at root causes of why they might’ve been held down.

In lieu of narration, director Stacey Lee peppers “Underplayed” with a lot of flash cards with deeply discouraging statistics about how many women are making it in this corner of pop culture. In 2019, the 15 highest paid DJs made $261 million, and they were all dudes,...

Like every industry built under the watchful eye of a global patriarchy, the Edm scene is grossly tilted in favor of its male artists. And like many of those same industries, this fact exists despite the presence of women pioneers at the inception of electronic sound as a medium. For every Robert Moog that acknowledged their genius (he enlisted Clara Rockmore’s expertise to better the advancement of his synthesizer), there were unfortunately countless others like Don Buchla, who agreed to sponsor a class for recent grads like Suzanne Ciani before declaring it closed to women—of which she was to be the only one. So gatekeeping manifests at the level of education, the level of access, and ultimately the level of success.

The numbers don’t lie. Less than three percent of the field’s production and technical roles are women. Less than three-tenths of a percent are women of color.

Among the documentaries premiering at this year’s TriBeCa Film Festival is Stacey Lee’s debut feature-length project, “Underplayed,” about the gender inequality in electronic music. No stranger to the festival, Lee’s documentary short, “Live Fast, Draw Yung,” about a seven-year-old rap portrait artist and his relationship with his father, premiered at TriBeCa in 2015.

“Underplayed” was initiated by Bud Light Canada and presented to Toronto native and music video veteran Director X, who put Lee’s name forward. Shot over a period of six months, Lee brings viewers into the professional and personal worlds of established superstars like TOKiMONSTA and Alison Wonderland, newcomers like Sherelle and hardworking underground artists like Tigerpaw. Beautifully shot and creatively edited, “Underplayed” was made with an all-female crew.

“I’m a female filmmaker in an industry that is also underrepresented,” says Lee. “My own trajectory to being taken seriously was long and hard.”

While...

Insomniac announced its Electric Daisy Carnival 2020 lineup on Friday, celebrating a full decade of the festival in Las Vegas. David Guetta, the Chainsmokers, Tiësto, DJ Snake, Alesso, Alison Wonderland and Martin Garrix are among the more than 250 dance and electronic artists announced in this year’s lineup.

Edc 2020 will take place Friday, May 15th through Sunday, May 17th at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway.

“In the 10 years since Las Vegas welcomed Edc with open arms, the city has become a second home to me, my family and many members of our Insomniac team,...

To really turn up in the DJ booth, you’re going to need a turntable. Just take it from Australian DJ Alison Wonderland, who’s remixed tracks by everyone from Justin Bieber to Dua Lipa, and whose latest single, “Peace,” is climbing the dance charts. “I love creating the set off the crowd’s energy and I love treating the decks like an instrument,” she says. “It’s always fun to experiment with two tracks on top of each other.”

A descendent of the classic phonograph, the word “turntable” may...

Chicano indie-pop star Cuco joined forces with electronic producer Dillon Francis to release their new track, “Fix Me.” The two debuted the track on Wednesday, via Zane Lowe’s World Record show on Beats 1.

In true sad- boy fashion, Cuco begs his crush for a shot at love in both English and Spanish — and though he may be fragile, he warns, he’s willing to front all the cutesy texts and FaceTime calls he can to win her heart. The lyric video sees Cuco and Francis, molded like G.I. Joe dolls,...

Chill-bass duo Odesza announced they will be curating their own festival, to Rolling Stone during Acl Fest 2018. Dubbed Sundara, the Odesza-curated music festival will be held at the all-inclusive Barceló Resort in Riviera Maya, Mexico. The four-day/night event will take place March 13th through the 16th.

“It’s a bunch of our friends playing a bunch of exclusive stuff,” Harrison “Catacombkid” Mills says. “We’re doing a bunch of DJ sets. We’re doing a different kind of extended live performance. It’s something we’ve never done before...

Ariana Grande will make a surprise appearance at the Coachella music festival on Friday night, Variety has learned.

The performance will occur on the same day the pop star released her newest single, “No Tears Left to Cry” (read Variety‘s review here). The song was inspired by the May 2017 bombing at a Grande concert in Manchester, England that left 23 people dead, including the bomber.

Headlining Friday’s weekend two lineup is The Weeknd, whose latest album “My Dear Melancholy,” was released earlier this month. The Weeknd and Grande previously collaborated on the hit single “Love Me Harder,” which Grande released in 2014 as part of her album, “My Everything.”

The pair have since made multiple joint appearances to duet on the sultry track, including a performance on “Saturday Night Live” and a viral live acoustic rendition posted to Grande’s YouTube page that has garnered more than 17 million views.

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One of music’s biggest weekends is here, with the annual Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival taking over Indio, Calif. starting Friday.

For the eighth year, YouTube will exclusively stream the festival for free, with three different channels showing acts from Coachella’s various stages. The stream times will not directly correspond with when the artists take the stage this weekend so that overlapping artists can be broadcast.

On Friday, channel one will feature Vince Staples at 7:40 p.m., followed by The War on Drugs at 8:35 p.m., St. Vincent at 9:30 p.m., and Sza at 10:30 p.m., with headliner The Weeknd streaming at 11:25 p.m. Channel two will air Kygo’s performance at 8:45 p.m., then Perfume Genius at 9:40 p.m., and Jamiroquai at 11:40 p.m. TroyBoi takes the 10:30 p.m. slot on channel three, followed by Alison Wonderland at 11:25 p.