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Lady Gaga Details New ‘Chromatica’ Remix Album

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Lady Gaga Details New ‘Chromatica’ Remix Album

Lady Gaga has announced Dawn Of Chromatica, a full-length reworking of her 2020 album Chromatica that’s out this Friday, September 3. Executive produced by BloodPop®, the 14-track collection features remixes from Arca, Charli XCX and A. G. Cook, Shygirl and Mura Musa, Pabllo Vittar, Rina Sawayama, Bree Runway and Jimmy Edgar, LSDXOXO, Dorian Electra, and many more. Find the full tracklist below.

Earlier this year, Lady Gaga released a 10th anniversary edition of her second album Born This Way featuring six reimagined songs. This October, she’ll be issuing her second collaborative album with Tony Bennett, Love for Sale.

Dawn of Chromatica Cover Artwork:

Dawn of Chromatica Tracklist:

1. Alice (LSDXOXO Remix)
2. Stupid Love (COUCOU CHLOE Remix)
3. Rain on Me (With Ariana Grande) (Arca Remix)
4 . Free Woman (Rina Sawayama & Clarence Clarity Remix)
5. Fun Tonight (Pabllo Vittar Remix)
6. 911 (Charli XCX & AG Cook Remix)
7. Plastic Doll (Ashnikko Remix)
8. Sour Candy (With BLACKPINK) (Shygirl & Mura Masa Remix)
9. Enigma (Doss Remix)
10. Replay (Dorian Electra Remix)
11. Sine From Above (with Elton John) (Chester Lockhart, Mood Killer & Lil Texas Remix)
12. 1000 Doves (Planningtorock Remix)
13. Babylon (Bree Runway & Jimmy Edgar Remix)
14. Babylon (Haus Labs Version)

Lionlimb Announces New Album ‘Spiral Groove’, Releases New Song

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Lionlimb Announces New Album ‘Spiral Groove’, Releases New Song

Lionlimb, the project of Stewart Bronaugh, has announced his new LP Spiral Groove. It’s set for release on November 12 via Bayonet. Along with the announcement, he’s shared the album’s first single, ‘Loveland Pass’. Check it out below and scroll down for the record’s cover artwork and tracklist.

According to a press release, ‘Loveland Pass’ delves into Bronaugh’s experience of having panic attacks for the first time a couple years ago. “It was like a door opened I never knew existed and there didn’t seem to be anything I could do to stop or control them,” Bronaugh explained. “Loveland Pass is one of the highest mountain passes in Colorado that has been the site of numerous avalanches, plane and car crashes. When I wrote this song I felt like I was having my own avalanches. The tiniest thought capable of feeding back into intense fear and panic, similar to an avalanche once something would get knocked loose up there and start to slide there wasn’t really anything you could do.”

Lionlimb started out as the collaborative project of Bronaugh and Joshua Jaeger, two members of Angel Olsen’s backing band. Spiral Groove marks their third album following 2016’s Shoo and 2018’s Tape Recorder. “Right from the start, Spiral Groove pulls us into a rhythmic soundscape, erupting over and over with guitar, piano, synth, drums building and subsiding and returning again with joyful urgency,” Olsen said of the new LP. “Above it all Stewart Bronaugh sings cool and steady about his close experiences with death, what it means to endure your losses and the gift of being able to recognize the most real love in your life.”

Spiral Groove Cover Artwork:

Spiral Groove Tracklist:

1. Electric
2. Everyday
3. Gone
4. Here
5. Lifespan
6. Loveland Pass
7. Nothing
8. Real Life
9. Temporary
10. Ultraviolet

Wiki Announces New Album Produced by Navy Blue, Drops New Songs

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Wiki Announces New Album Produced by Navy Blue, Drops New Songs

New York rapper Wiki has announced a new album called Half God. The record, produced entirely by Navy Blue, is due out October 1 via Wikset Enterprise. Today’s announcement comes with the release of two new tracks, ‘Roof’ and ‘Remarkably’. Check out a Nicholas Stafford Briggs-directed video for ‘Roof’, listen to ‘Remarkably’, and find Half God‘s cover art and tracklist below.

Half God, the follow-up to Wiki’s 2019 solo LP Oofie, features guests appearances from Earl Sweatshirt, MIKE, duendita, Remy Banks, and Jesse James Solomon. Earlier this year, Wiki released his collaborative effort with the Belgium-based drummer and producer NAH, Telephonebooth. 

Half God Cover Artwork:

Half God Tracklist:

1. Not Today (Intro)
2. Roof
3. Remarkably
4. Cant Do This Alone [feat. Navy Blue]
5. Never Fall Off
6. Drug Supplier [feat. Jesse James Solomon]
7. Wik tha God
8. Ego Death
9. The Business
10. Home
11. All I Need [feat. Earl Sweatshirt]
12. Gas Face [feat. Remy Banks]
13. The Promised [feat. Mike]
14. New Truths
15. Still Here [feat. Duendita]
16. Grape Soda

Duran Duran Share New Single ‘Anniversary’

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Duran Duran Share New Single ‘Anniversary’

Duran Duran have shared a new single from their upcoming album Future Past. It’s called ‘Anniversary’, and it follows previous entries ‘Invisible’ and the CHAI collaboration ‘More Joy!’. Take a listen below.

John Taylor said of the new track in a press release:

‘Anniversary’ is a special song for us. Obviously we were conscious of our own impending 40th anniversary of making music together, but we wanted the song’s meaning to be inclusive in the broadest possible way. After playing and working together for so long, we very much appreciate what “being together” and “staying together” can really mean, it’s not something we would have thought song-worthy 40 years ago but we do today! It was also fun to build a track with hints of previous Duran hits, they’re like Easter eggs, for the fans to find.

Future Past, the band’s first release in six years, comes out October 22 via Tape Modern/BMG.

Kamasi Washington Covers Metallica’s ‘My Friend of Misery’

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Kamasi Washington Covers Metallica’s ‘My Friend of Misery’

Kamasi Washington has shared his take on Metallica’s ‘My Friend of Misery’, which appears on the upcoming covers compilation The Metallica Blackilist. The saxophonist performed his rendition live with his band at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles last month, where he was joined by Metallica’s Kirk Hammett and Robert Trujillo onstage. Check out the studio version of his cover below.

The Metallica Blacklist, which features 53 different artists’ takes on songs from Metallica’s self-titled ‘Black Album’, is to arrive on September 10. We’ve already heard covers from the likes of Phoebe Bridgers, Weezer, Rina Sawayama, and more. 

Watch the Trailer for Todd Haynes’ Velvet Underground Documentary

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Watch the Trailer for Todd Haynes’ Velvet Underground Documentary

After premiering at the Cannes Film Festival earlier this year, Todd Haynes’ documentary about the Velvet Underground is coming out on Apple TV+ on October 15. The film explores how the band became a cultural touchstone “representing a range of contradictions: the band is both of their time, yet timeless; literary yet realistic; rooted in high art and street culture,” per its official synopsis. Watch the newly unveiled trailer for The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film by Todd Haynes below.

The film’s release will be accompanied by a soundtrack, The Velvet Underground: A Documentary Film By Todd Haynes – Music From The Motion Picture Soundtrack. Curated by Todd Haynes and music supervisor Randall Poster, the soundtrack comes out the same day via Republic Records and UMe and will feature “both well known and rare Velvet Underground tracks,” according to a press release.

Album Review: Halsey, ‘If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power’

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Album Review: Halsey, ‘If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power’

On ‘Ashley’, the opening track from Halsey’s 2020 album Manic, the alt-pop singer sampled a crucial line of dialogue from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind: “Too many guys think I’m a concept, or I complete them, or I make them alive. I’m just a fucked up girl who’s looking for my own peace of mind. Don’t assign me yours.” Though they’ve always managed to straddle the line between emotional self-awareness and self-mythologizing, that album – the first they wrote as Ashley Nicolette Frangipane rather than their Halsey persona – was a conscious attempt at tearing down the façade and highlighting the confessionalism that was often misinterpreted in their work. Where Manic delved into their experience with bipolar disorder, If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power, which was released just a month after Halsey became a mother, is about “the joys and horrors of pregnancy and childbirth,” while also exploring “the dichotomy of the Madonna and the Whore,” as they put it.

The result is Halsey’s boldest and most compelling work to date, turning the occasional messiness of their previous records into a defiant kind of chaos. Though it might take the form of high drama – the album is accompanied by a Colin Tilley-directed IMAX film of the same name – it strikes a much deeper chord than one might initially expect. Part of its success lies in the fact that, rather than trying to convey the music’s internal complexities by careening between genres, that fluidity is instead projected outward in a much more visceral fashion. Sonically, the album’s unique proposition is that Nine Inch Nails members and Oscar-winning composers Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross handled the album’s production. Beyond contributing to its cinematic mood, however, they also help push Halsey’s wildest musical instincts to the fore, and in turn, If I Can’t Have Love’s spectacular presentation only makes their artistic message all the more clear: “I am disruptive, I’ve been corrupted/ And by now, I don’t need a fucking introduction,” they sing bitingly on ‘Lilith’.

The album’s very first moments, so eerily reminiscent of Nine Inch Nails’ own ‘Hurt’, hint at the most conventional route Halsey and their collaborators could have taken; a relatively straightforward marriage of Halsey’s pop-oriented songwriting and the ominous synth textures the duo employ in their soundtrack work and beyond. Instead, If I Can’t Love stands as a dynamic showcase of the collaborators’ combined strengths – as with Manic, it veers in a few different sonic directions, but the minimalist tracks here have more weight, the angsty rock moments more grit, and the electropop cuts are both catchy and sharp. ‘Bells in Santa Fe’ builds on a wave of pulsating synths – listed as a “menacing beat” in the credits – from The Bug’s Kevin Martin, deftly evoking the central refrain that “All of this is temporary”; Reznor and Ross’ industrial noise threatens to drown out Halsey’s voice, but it immediately leads the charge on its follow-up, the hyperpop-adjacent ‘Easier than Lying’, their presence powerful and captivating.

Though If I Can’t Have Love alternates between different modes, they don’t necessarily contradict one another. The deceptively sweet ‘Girl Is A Gun’, the album’s most direct pop moment but still far from a potential hit, is less of a contrast to the album’s foreboding atmosphere than another way of mirroring its layered personality. The acoustic ‘Darling’ expresses a genuine tenderness that’s no less wrenching for its simplicity: “You have shown me how to love being alive,” they sing against delicate finger-picking from Lindsey Buckingham. It’s the kind of heartfelt, utterly selfless sentiment that’s so rooted in maternal love that it seems capable of shattering any previously held beliefs about having your whole life defined by another human being.

Unfortunately, the album starts to lose focus towards the second half. There are a couple of less impressive moments, including the frenetic pop-punk of ‘honey’, which fails to fully deliver despite featuring Dave Grohl behind the kit. ‘I am not a woman, I’m a god’ is as uncompromising as anything else on the record, but Halsey’s writing is less specific and impactful than usual, obscuring its underlying message. Throughout, they oscillate between themes without necessarily drawing connections or making the grand statements the project implies, but the core feeling always comes through. “You will bury me before I bury you,” they declare on ‘Ya’aburnee’, and in that context, anything less than total devotion and openness would be grossly dishonest: “What’s worse? Tellin’ you my feelings/ Or to die without revealing/ That you crawled inside my head/ And set a fire there instead?” On this album, Halsey’s commitment to both craft and vulnerability is less devastating than it is purely exhilarating. It’s proof that when they take enough liberties with their established framework, the possibilities seem endless.

Album Review: Villagers, ‘Fever Dreams’

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Album Review: Villagers, ‘Fever Dreams’

The title of Villagers’ fifth record, Fever Dreams, may imply a listening experience that leaves you feeling under the weather, but the effect created by lead musician Conor O’Brien is quite the opposite: each track brims with the energy of pirouetting keys and ebullient saxophone solos. Spanning the last decade and earning him an Ivor Novello award, the Choice Music Prize for Irish album of the year, and two Mercury nominations, O’Brien’s previous projects showcase a kind of dusky, earnest indie-folk. This release, however, ventures into altogether more radiant territory, conjuring a sonic dreamworld. 

The opening tracks usher in layers of fantasy by contemplating a “sense of something bigger than you.” O’Brien’s vocals seem mournful at first, backed by reluctant strings and wistful sax melodies, but the sounds gather into churning static that quivers with promise. The next track, early single ‘The First Day’, prolongs this feeling of destabilization until buzzing guitar chords are suddenly abandoned in favour of shimmering xylophone and exultant drums. “Feels like a riverboat as it takes you to the sea/ Feels like floating on the essence of a dream,” O’Brien sings, and a magnificent brass section magnifies his jubilation. The track evokes an image of light erupting from shadows, patterns exploding behind closed eyes, all colour and warmth and wonder.

‘Song In Seven’ offers slow, ambling drums that carve out a wider space for O’Brien’s storytelling. His lyrics are often saturated with metaphor, but he is skilled in crafting narratives that are self-reflective without being saccharine. “It was a very good sea/ And it covered all of me/ My head to my toe/ My heart to my soul,” O’Brien murmurs, “I asked it to breathe/ It answered me.” Whether in dialogue with the sea or himself, there is a sense of elation and buoyancy here; layers of strings and pitched-up vocals establish a sense of spirituality, a feeling of being gently nudged by the tide. More strands of sax eventually take over, providing an indulgent ending that glides into the twinkling xylophone of ‘So Simpatico’. This track is bewitching in its smoothness and almost utopian in its charm, as O’Brien muses, “Little did I know you were here all the time/ In the garden you’d lie/ In the depths of my mind.” Keys and airy backing vocals make for delightfully easy listening but there is no trace of hollowness or inanity. An opulent four-minute sax solo enters and seems to revel in its own extravagance; O’Brien’s portrait of paradise certainly isn’t sketched in pastel colours. The magic exists in the record’s vivid hues, its psychedelic richness.

This isn’t to say, however, that O’Brien does away with reality entirely. He welcomes flashes of frustration and difficulty with an eloquence and candidness that is strikingly comforting. “It’s the little things that devour/ The silly things that burn,” he admits in the opening lines, chronicling an “Underplayed sense of dread” that develops into thoughts of “The forest fire on the front page/ And how we’re all gonna pay.” Sparse piano melodies emerge and recede ominously, but a sense of serenity materializes in the chorus with the declaration, “But I think of you/ And it all goes away/ Momentarily.” In this light, the joyfulness of the previous tracks suddenly feels fragile, and the next song, ‘Circles in The Firing Line’, epitomizes the friction between optimism and anguish. O’Brien wields his poeticism with wit here, trilling, “A united state of demagogic logic awaits” before mourning, “I’m doing circles in the firing line/ And I’m only ever losing time/ In fact I’m late/ I’ve got a date with doom.” Perfectly capturing the entropic truths of modern life, O’Brien rounds off the track with a crazed guitar solo and distorted repetitions of the announcement “They’re fucking up my favourite dream.” 

But the dream is not quite destroyed, or in any case it is resurrected in the remainder of the record. ‘Full Faith In Providence’ is an elegant ballad infused with brightness and hope: “The road is long, but I’ve got my good shoes on,” O’Brien quips in the first verse, and the rest of the track unfolds like a love letter. “May the road rise to meet you, darling/ And you learn to love it all,” he intones, his serenity heightened by the ethereal falsetto of guest vocalist Rachael Lavelle. The title track proffers meandering xylophone melodies and layers of dissonant electronics that create a whimsical underwater feel as O’Brien hums, “Fever dreaming of love/ Fever dreaming of home/ All will be well.” Though the fulfilment he craves may seem elusive, it thrives in these tracks, and it is at once refreshing and utterly hypnotic. Reality casts a long shadow, but the luminosity of this record remains. 

Drake Confirms New Album ‘Certified Lover Boy’ Is Out This Friday

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Drake Confirms New Album ‘Certified Lover Boy’ Is Out This Friday

Following a cryptic ESPN promo a few days ago, Drake has confirmed his new album Certified Lover Boy will be released this Friday, September 3, according to a post o his Instagram uploaded today (August 30). Check it out below.

Certified Lover Boy was first announced last August with the release of the Lil Durk collaboration ‘Laugh Now Cry Later’ and was originally set for release in January. The record will follow 2018’s Scorpion as well as last year’s Dark Lane Demo Tapes. Earlier this year, he dropped the three-song Scary Hours 2 EP in March and teamed up with Smiley and Brent Faiyaz on new tracks.

 

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Most Popular CBD Products and Their Use

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Most Popular CBD Products and Their Use

People have varying reasons for taking CBD products. However, researchers should do more to help the world understand the CBD benefits. Currently, experts know that CBD has little or no threat to human health. What’s more, it might help individuals with different mental and physical health concerns.

A CBD product might also help a person relax without the “high” feeling. That’s because THC is responsible for this feeling. Currently, you can find CBD products almost everywhere. For instance, you can find a wide range of CBD edibles by searching for something like “CBD gummies near me” online.

Some experts argue that cannabidiol products can help with some conditions. However, there’s no evidence to prove their efficacy for some health problems. Nevertheless, people continue to use different CBD products for various purposes. And this continues to boost their popularity.

Perhaps, you already know where to buy CBD gummies, tinctures, and other products. You can also find outlets selling CBD in pet products, lotions, and drinks. Some drugstore chains have also announced their plans to start selling CBD products.

But somebody new to CBD might not know the products to start with when going to a local or online store. This article highlights the most popular CBD products and their use.

Full-Spectrum CBD Oil

CBD oil is currently the most popular cannabidiol product. It contains several cannabinoids from the cannabis plant. In some cases, CBD oil comes with 0.3% THC. Thus, consuming full-spectrum CBD oil can cause a “high” feeling.

Nevertheless, this cannabidiol product is top-rated, especially among new users. Some of the top uses of full-spectrum CBD oil include:

  • Pain relief
  • Anti-seizure
  • Anti-anxiety
  • Muscle spasm relief
  • Antioxidant
  • Psychotic disorders treatment
  • Anti-inflammatory

Research indicates that full-spectrum CBD is more effective for pain relief than CBD isolate. That’s because it provides combined THC and CBD effects. What’s more, full-spectrum CBD oil is more natural and less processed than CBD isolate.

CBD Pills

People that prefer a portable CBD product go for CBD pills. CBD oil enters the bloodstream via the mouth. However, CBD pills go through the digestion process. And some researchers argue that digestion can lower CBD’s potency.

Nevertheless, you can carry CBD pills easily without minding their storage. Most tablets comprise CBD isolate. People use CBD pills to treat different disorders and ailments, including inflammation and pain. Some use them to protect the brain and body from free radicals damage, suppress seizure activity, treat psychotic disorders, and combat depression.

CBD Edibles

The internet is awash with stores selling cheap CBD gummies. Other CBD edibles you can purchase at a local or online store include candies and chocolates. Some brands also produce breath sprays for refreshing the user’s mouth while relaxing their minds and bodies. Since the body must digest CBD edibles, the process may delay or reduce their effects.

Some of the uses of CBD edibles include anxiety and pain relief. Some people also use CBD gummies for depression and as a general remedy because they provide whole-body effects.

CBD Vapes

Vapes are among the most popular CBD products in the market. That’s because they enable the users to control their CBD dosage and are convenient to use. Most people use vapes to ease their transition from smoking traditional cigarettes to vaping.

Research indicates that vaping CBD may be a promising smoking cessation treatment. That’s because it has anxiolytic properties with minimal adverse effects. What’s more, CBD can alter drug cue salience.

Perhaps, the main reason for CBD vapes’ popularity is their capacity to lower nicotine and cigarette cravings. Additionally, some people use CBD vapes to reduce anxiety and depression symptoms and reduce pain.

CBD Salve

CBD salve is also a popular cannabidiol product. CBD products manufacturers add CBD to different oils, like hemp seed oil, and then use it as an ingredient for skin lotions and creams. People use CBD salve by applying it directly to the affected body part. CBD lotions and creams provide relief at the deeper muscle and surface levels.

Some people use CBD salve for relaxation and promoting skin health. Also, some use it to improve skin wrinkles, dry skin, eczema, psoriasis, and acne. There are also cases where patients use it to relieve arthritis pain, sore muscles, and inflammation reduction.

CBD Sprays

CBD sprays made from full-spectrum CBD work like salves. This product has a bottle with a built-in spray nozzle, and it’s a good option for people who want a convenient, cost-effective, easy-to-use, and effective CBD.

People use CBD sprays as a sleeping aid, stress reliever, and pain reliever. Some individuals use sprays to relieve inflammation and pain symptoms. There are cases where people use it to alleviate psychological issues like anxiety.

CBD Pet Treats

The current market also has CBD products for pets. And people use these products to calm anxiety, especially during long drives, trips, and situations that can make a pet nervous. Ideally, these CBD products are for dogs and cats.

The Bottom Line

The current market has a wide range of CBD products that you can find at a local or online store. Although there is no sufficient evidence supporting CBD as a treatment, people say they get relief from pain, anxiety, depression, and other conditions after using it. Today, many people find comfort and ease from different health conditions by using CBD. And you can find a wide range of these products by searching something like “CBD near me” online. Nevertheless, use products from reputable brands to enjoy the potential benefits of CBD without exposing yourself to side effects.

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