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The best 80s music for online slots

With new music constantly being produced, it is easy to forget about music from the past. However, although it has been around 30 to 40 years since the ’80s passed, music from that era still resonates with listeners across all age groups.

In fact, in recent years the music scene has witnessed a resurgence of 80’s music and people of all ages are beginning to re-appreciate it. As the popularity of online casinos has also grown recently, there is a new trend where 80s music and casino games are becoming intertwined.

This means that there has been an emergence of mutually beneficial relationships between artists and casino game providers. 80’s music is being featured especially in online slots with Rainbow Riches as they allow the player to listen to the music whilst they play their favourite casino game.

We cannot discuss 80s music and online slots without mentioning the crazy 80s slot game. This game is heavily inspired by the 1980s and has 5 reels and 3 rows. The catchy soundtrack is one of the best features on the game as it includes recognisable 80s throwback tunes.

Guns n’ Roses were one of the pioneers in being an 80s band featuring on an online slot game. This has resulted in the Guns n’ Roses Slot which was developed by NetEnt. It has been beneficial for the band as it has alerted people to their music.

The slot also has eight bonus features which means that players are certainly entertained. They will be able to recognise such popular tracks as Sweet Child O’ Mine and Welcome to the Jungle while they spin the reels on the slot machine.

Furthermore, the music of Jimi Hendrix is also featured on online slots. The online slot named after this music legend allows his songs to accompany players as they spin the reels in the hopes of winning money. The soundtrack in this game is accompanied by highly visual graphics including flowers and peace signs which truly transports the player into the past.

Moreover, the Motörhead slot game is perfect for fans of the band and it is regarded as being the most popular online slot based on metal music. Players will be able to listen to such songs as Ace of Spades while they play.

Indeed, these types of games can attract those who have never experienced playing online slots before as they are keen to listen to their favourite bands like Motörhead in a new way. This game also has a number of relevant symbols that truly make fans of the band feel as though they connect with the game.

What is even more unique about this game is that the reels are positioned on a live music stage with amplifiers located near the reels. This contributes to creating a more authentic and immersive experience for the player. It feels as though they are present at a real concert without physically being there.

In addition to these types of bands who have been featured on online slots, KISS has also been present in virtual casino games. This is because they have been seeking to remind a contemporary society of their music by making their way into the online sphere.

Having been hailed as one of the greatest rock and roll bands in America, this game features a 5-reel slot with 100 paylines. The game replicates that of a concert stage with the appropriate lighting and equipment. Of course, this game is also assisted by the hit KISS songs that were popular in the 80s in order to make the user experience an extremely entertaining one.

Although Elvis Presley’s music was produced primarily in the 50’s and 60’s, his presence and music continued to have an impact in the 1980s. In fact, nowadays Mississippi’s greatest son has also been immortalized online. If you are a fan of Elvis and are extremely familiar with his discography, it may be time for you to experience the music of the King of Rock n Roll in a new environment.

The Elvis slot game features songs from all of the eras of his career and his fashion throughout the years. It is the perfect way to take a trip down memory lane if you are a fan of this famous musician whilst being in the running for winning big prizes.

It is not just solo musicians or band themes from the 80s that feature on these type of online slots. Online slots also derive inspiration from movies that were produced in the 80s. For example, there are several slots which feature the music from the Ghostbusters soundtrack.

Furthermore, the Top Gun slot game is also popular which gets its name from one of the most popular movies in the 1980s. Including such original music from the movie as ‘Take My Breath Away’, this slot game has been a real hit with both fans of the movie and online slots in general.

There are a whole host of other online slot games which include music from 80s movies such as Gladiator Jackpot which features the Gladiator soundtrack. The triumph of these types of slots lies in their ability to seamless weave 80s films with casino based games without confusing or boring the player.

In summary, the musicians and films listed above are only a small selection of those online slot games that feature sounds from the 80s. When playing online slots like these you should remember to also take into consideration the RTP, slot volatility, jackpots and bonus features. It is clear that featuring music from the 80s in online slots certainly creates a unique experience for the player.

This is because it is entertaining and pleasant to listen to throwback music when you are spinning the reels of an online slot machine. Moreover, it is not just casino operators that benefit from including 80s music on their slots.

By permitting online slot providers to feature their music on their slots, 80s bands are able to increase their influence and become more popular by reaching more people in an unusual fashion.

Miya Folick Shares New Single ‘So Clear’

Miya Folick has shared the new single ‘So Clear’, which is taken from her upcoming album Roach. Listen to it below.

“‘So Clear’ is about pulling yourself out of the wreckage you’ve made of your own life again and again, for the thousands of days we live on this earth and realizing life is so much more expansive than the petty concerns we waste precious time on,” Folick explained in a statement. “An epiphany that I have over and over again is that I am very small, but my actions are very meaningful. So, I have to choose to live truthfully every day. It’s not easy! The song is very dramatic, and I imagined it as a good karaoke song when we were making it.”

In addition to the recent singles ‘Get Out of My House’ and ‘Mommy’, Roach includes six songs from Folick’s 2022 EP 2007. Read our track-by-track breakdown of 2007.

Albums Out Today: Metallica, Feist, The Tallest Man on Earth, Fenne Lily, and More

In this segment, we showcase the most notable albums out each week. Here are the albums out on April 14, 2023:


Metallica, 72 Seasons

Metallica are back with a new album, 72 Seasons. The follow-up to 2016’s Hardwired…To Self-Destruct was produced with Greg Fidelman and includes the early singles ‘Lux Æterna’‘Screaming Suicide’, ‘If Darkness Had a Son’, and the title track. Introducing the concept behind the LP, James Hetfield said: “72 seasons. The first 18 years of our lives that form our true or false selves. The concept that we were told ‘who we are’ by our parents. A possible pigeonholing around what kind of personality we are. I think the most interesting part of this is the continued study of those core beliefs and how it affects our perception of the world today. Much of our adult experience is reenactment or reaction to these childhood experiences. Prisoners of childhood or breaking free of those bondages we carry.”


Feist, Multitudes

Feist has returned with her new album, Multitudes, via Interscope. Following 2017’s Pleasure, the album was produced alongside Robbie Lackritz and Mocky and features contributions from Gabe Noel, Shahzad Ismaily, Todd Dahlhoff, and Amir Yaghmai. “The last few years were such a period of confrontation for me, and it feels like it was at least to some degree for everyone,” Feist shared in a press release. “We confronted ourselves as much as our relationships confronted us. It felt like our relational ecosystems were clearer than ever and so whatever was normally obscured- like a certain way of avoiding conflict or a certain way of talking around the subject- were all of a sudden thrust into the light. And in all that reassessment, the chance to find footing on healthier, more honest ground became possible, and the effort to maintain avoidance actually felt like it took more effort than just handing ourselves over to the truth.”


The Tallest Man on Earth, Henry St.

The Tallest Man on Earth has released Henry St., his first album of original material since 2019’s I Love You. It’s a Fever Dream. Produced by Sylvan Esso’s Nick Sanborn, the 11-track LP features the advance tracks ‘Every Little Heart’, ‘Looking for Love’, and the title track. “Henry St. is the most playful, most me album yet, because it covers so many of the different noises in my head,” Kristian Matsson explained. “When you overthink things, you get further away from your original ideas. And God knows I overthink things when I’m by myself.” The time in isolation also brought him some newfound peace of mind. “Having been away from it taught me that making music and performing is what I’m doing for the rest of my life, and I’m so grateful for it. It has given me new confidence and playfulness. This is what I do. It’s unconditional.” Read our review of Henry St..


Fenne Lily, Big Picture

Fenne Lily has followed up 2020’s BREACH with a new LP, Big Picture, through Dead Oceans. Recorded live in co-producer Brad Cook’s North Carolina studio, the album was mixed by Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and includes contributions from Christian Lee Hutson and Katy Kirby. “Writing this album was my attempt at bringing some kind of order to the disaster that was 2020,” Lily said in press materials. “By documenting the most vulnerable parts of that time, I felt like I reclaimed some kind of autonomy.” The singles ‘Lights Light Up’, ‘Dawncolored Horse’, and ‘In My Own Time’ preceded the record. Read our Artist Spotlight interview with Fenne Lily.


Kara Jackson, Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?

The Chicago poet and singer-songwriter Kara Jackson has come through with her debut full-length, Why Does the Earth Give Us People to Love?. The follow-up to 2019’s A Song for Every Chamber of the Heart EP features production contributions from Nnamdï, Kaina, and Sen Morimoto. “With my EP, while it does feel like me in a lot of ways, I think when I was younger I was really scared to not make something that maybe wasn’t going to be popular, or not make something that people could understand,” Jackson explained in our Artist Spotlight interview. “When I was working on my debut album, I kind of had addressed those fears through just the process of growing up and liking myself more. I was more intent on making something that felt like a true representation of myself and the variation that I think makes me, me.”


ther, a horrid whisper echoes in a palace of endless joy today

ther – the project led by recording engineer Heather Jones, who has worked with They Are Gutting a Body of Water, Sadurn, and Deer Scout – have released their debut LP. a horrid whisper echoes in a palace of endless joy today includes the previously released singles ‘impossible things’ and ‘with you’. Of the former, Jones said: “I was bouncing back from a long, low point in a big and intentional way, ready for the uncertainty and terror of the future, and anchoring my heart around the joy of loving and being loved. i don’t know if i’ll ever feel so aligned again with what normally feels obtuse and impossible, but it’s a comfort to carry this song around in my back pocket, remember that it’s there, and play it with my friends.”


Jesus Piece, …So Unknown

Jesus Piece have dropped their sophomore album, …So Unknown, via Century Media. The follow-up to 2018’s Only Self was previewed by the singles ‘An Offering to the Night’‘Gates of Horn’, ‘Tunnel Vision’, and ‘Silver Lining’. “The making of the record was nothing short of all-consuming. It was an intense and challenging process,” drummer Luis Aponte said in a statement. “The record reflects a lot of confusion, but also, evolution. There was a lot of uncertainty and emotion during the pandemic – we all changed and grew so much. So if there is a single thought or concept to the record, it’s constant metamorphosis. That’s also how we operated as a band on this LP – spending a lot of time songwriting and fleshing things out as a unit, and then upping our game from there. It’s definitely a reflection of us as more mature, playing the best we’ve ever played and feeling like a real band for the first time.”


Dinner Party, Enigmatic Society

Dinner Party – the group composed of Kamasi Washington, Terrace Martin, and Robert Glasper – have issued their sophomore album. Enigmatic Society follows the trio’s 2020 self-titled debut and features guest appearances from Tank, Arin Ray, Ant Clemons, and Phoelix, as well as the lead single ‘For Granted’, which was released last week. Dinner Party will be performing at both weeks of Coachella this month.


Other albums out today:

El Michels Affair & Black Thought, Glorious Game; Xylouris White, The Forest In Me; Poison Ruïn, Härvest; Fruit Bats, A River Running to Your Heart; Natalie Merchant, Keep Your Courage; Frost Children, Speed Run; Chantal Michelle, Broken to Echoes; Petite Noir, MotherFather; Bodywash, I Held the Shape While I Could; Initiate, Cerebral Circus; Natural Information Society, Since Time Is Gravity; Cindy, Why Not Now?Sweet Dreams Nadine, Sweet Dreams Nadine; Nicole Yun, Matter; Sabiwa, Island no.16 – Memories of Future Landscapes; Brian Dunne, Loser on the Ropes; OZmotic & Fennesz, Senzatempo.

Diplo, Dove Cameron, and Sturgill Simpson Team Up for New Song ‘Use Me (Brutal Hearts)’

Diplo has teamed up with Dove Cameron and Sturgill Simpson (as Johnny Blue Skies) for a new track called ‘Use Me (Brutal Hearts)’. It’s the second preview of Diplo’s upcoming album Thomas Wesley: Chapter 2 – Swamp Savant, following ‘Wasted’ (with Kodak Black and Koe Wetzel). The single arrives with an accompanying video starring Sean Penn, which you can check out below.

“To prepare for this new Thomas Wesley project, I went back to my father’s house in Florida and I spent six months learnin guitar, gettin in touch with nature, working his boat when the shrimp were running on full moons at the trailer park,” Diplo said in a press release. “I tried on a lot of cowboy hats. I rode a lot of motorcycles and horses basically reflected on my whole life and career and connection with this music…there was a lot. It all started in the swamps I was raised in. This is the greatest single piece of work I’ve ever done, I can promise you that.”

The follow-up to 2020’s Diplo Presents Thomas Wesley Chapter 1: Snake Oil is out April 28 via Mad Decent.

SZA Enlists Doja Cat for New ‘Kill Bill’ Remix

SZA has teamed up with Doja Cat for a new version of ‘Kill Bill’. The remix arrives two years after the duo’s 2021 single ‘Kiss Me More’, which appeared on Doja Cat’s 2019 album Planet Her. Check it out below.

‘Kill Bill’ is taken from SZA’s December 2022 record SOS. Back in January, the singer shared a Christian Breslauer-directed video for the track.

Jorja Smith Shares Video for New Single ‘Try Me’

Jorja Smith has returned with a new single called ‘Try Me’. Produced by Dame Dame, the track arrives with an accompanying video directed by Amber Grace Johnson. Check it out below.

‘Try Me’ marks Smith’s first solo music since 2021’s Be Right Back EP. Her debut album, Lost & Found, arrived in 2018.

The Lemon Twigs Share New Song ‘Every Day Is the Worst Day of My Life’

The Lom Twigs have unveiled another single from their upcoming record Everything Harmony. This one’s called ‘Every Day Is the Worst Day of My Life’, and it follows previous entries ‘In My Head’, ‘Any Time of Day’, and ‘Corner of My Eye’. Hilla Eden shot the song’s accompanying video, which you can check out below.

Everything Harmony is set for release on May 5 via Captured Tracks.

Magdalena Bay Release New EP ‘mini mix vol. 3’

Magdalena Bay have released mini mix vol. 3, which features seven new songs. Previous iterations of the series arrived in 2019 and 2020, before the release of their debut album, Mercurial World. Listen to the new EP below.

“Our mini mixes delve into eclectic sounds, sometimes pastiche,” the dup said in a statement. “We feel less pressure while making them than with a more serious release so they naturally have a fun spirit to them. The mini mix knows no bounds in terms of genre or stylings. The only rule is we try to keep the songs relatively short, but we don’t really enforce that all too much.”

Last year, Magdalena Bay released the deluxe edition of Mercurial World. Revisit our Artist Spotlight interview with Magdalena Bay.

Alison Goldfrapp Releases New Song ‘NeverStop’

Alison Goldfrapp has released ‘NeverStop’, the latest single from her debut solo album The Love Invention. Check it out below.

“‘NeverStop’ is about always feeling the wonder,” Goldfrapp shared in a statement. “Committing to connect with each other, nature and our surroundings while trying to navigate through the contradictions and complexities of life.”

The Love Invention is due out May 12. It includes the recently released song ‘So Hard So Hot’, as well as solo versions of her collaborative tracks with Claptone (‘Digging Deeper’) and Paul Woolford (‘Fever’).

Jessie Ware Shares Video for New Single ‘Begin Again’

Jessie Ware has shared another single from her forthcoming album That! Feels Good!. Following previous cuts ‘Free Yourself’ and ‘Pearls’, ‘Begin Again’ arrives with a music video directed by Charlie Di Placido. Check it out below.

“On a miserable afternoon during lockdown, James Ford zoomed Shungudzo and Danny Parker in Los Angeles,” Ware said in a statement. “They were just waking up, it was already dark in London. Frustrated yet completely focused, we set about writing in a new – and unnatural – way over the internet. Dreaming of human touch, escapes to Brazil, beach bodies, holiday romances, all of it! I absolutely adore this song and I’m so excited for you to hear it, to hear the beautiful production by James and horns by Kokoroko, it’s the song that I knew I wanted to make as soon as I finished ‘Remember Where You Are’.”

That! Feels Good!, the follow-up to 2020’s What’s Your Pleasure?, will be released April 28 via EMI.