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WHO: Anyone experiencing hardship can apply for a Grant. Artists are current, past, and future Groove Cruise Family coming together to support a transparent and legit cause with 100% of every dollar donated going to support those affected.
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WHAT: The Whet Foundation COVID-19 Relief Fund Groove Cruise Virtual Sail Aways live stream charity event will feature artists from all over the world, performing from locations such as London, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and more; plus live visuals will be added to simulate a real in-person show. The Whet Foundation is a 501c3 that was started 8 years ago and all donations are tax deductible.
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WHEN: April 17-19 for approximately 7 hours per day.
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WHY: What’s important during this time is supporting people who need help and keeping the positive vibes high to get through this together.
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HOW: Our tech team has been online streaming collectively for over 20 years and will be having all streams from artist homes going into their mega-center in Florida with added live visuals and then out to the world across all Groove Cruise, artist and media channels.
For the latest Whet Foundation COVID-19 Relief Fund updates, sign up on the Groove Cruise website, and follow the event on Twitch, Facebook, Instagram and Twitter.
About the Whet Foundation
The Whet Foundation is a Florida based 501c3 organization that offers grass roots disaster relief for those experiencing hardships and creates exciting experiences for underprivileged children in South Florida, the Caribbean and Mexico. Through our Community Captains and Destination Donation programs, we strive to excite the lives of those less fortunate in a fun and engaging way while positively affecting an entire generation.
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PRAISE FOR MAX LEONE
“Max Leone, pop’s newest face, is worthy of your attention”
Pilerats
“A thrilling sign of of things to come from this up-and-coming artist”
Earmilk
“Burgeoning pop star”
Billboard
“A real winner, complete with smooth vocals and sticky melodies”
PAPER Magazine
Today, rising Los Angeles-based songwriter-producer Max Leone shares his latest single, ‘The Beach’, the third to be lifted from his forthcoming debut EP. Listen HERE.
Only a few months in and Max Leone is already shaping up as one of 2020’s breakout new artists, with ‘The Beach’ arriving as his third single in as many months, following on from his debut release ‘First Grade’ and his most recent track ‘Cautious‘, which premiered on Good Nights with Bridget Hustwaite locally and Billboard internationally, saw full rotation across triple j and drew acclaim from Pilerats, Purple Sneakers, Best Before, Tone Deaf and more.
Of the track, Max says: “The Beach is about that person you keep going back to, even though every time you give them another chance they let you down. It’s like a flame, the warmth draws you in, but if you try to touch it you’ll get burnt.”
Written and produced by Leone and Alexander 23, ‘The Beach’ is a floating, lovelorn track where everything is filtered through an imperfect perfection, a mixture of lo-fi and polished. Built around a twisting, effects-heavy guitar line, the song is full of subtle details hidden inside its fleeting runtime: the slightly grainy drums, mixed so that they sound distant to the listener, the glitches that interrupt and warp Max’s guitar, the blissful harmonies layering atop one another in the background. Like the subject Max is singing about, it’s difficult to ever fully hold onto ‘The Beach‘, existing somewhere in those in between emotional spaces that he his becoming quickly skilled at constructing.
Born in Portland, Max originally picked up the guitar at age 7, developing a passion for music that soon branched out into experimenting with violin, drums and piano as well. Countless after-school hours spent practicing, composing, learning production through YouTube and pumping out remixes on Soundcloud led Max to the prestigious Berklee College of Music.
Written entirely in the wake of his eventual drop-out from Berklee and his cross-country move to Los Angeles, Max Leone‘s debut EP tells his story of attempting to navigate a new city and a seemingly new life, alone. Threaded through with the tenuous emotionality that comes with this kind of upheaval, it explores themes of self-doubt, isolation, social media, lostness and nostalgia.
Inspired by childhood influences such as Frank Ocean and Nina Simone, Leone’s music is defined by the combination of soulful, acoustic-led songwriting with the left-of-centre production choices of Lorde and fellow Darkroom-signee Billie Eilish, as well as the harnessing the DIY pop intelligence of bedroom stars Omar Apollo and Cautious Clay.
‘The Beach‘ by Max Leone is out now via The Darkroom,
buy/stream it here.
Stay connected with Max Leone:
Twitter | Instagram | Youtube | Soundcloud
Photo Credit: Mik Shida
“channels the rapper’s feminine rage into art that’s challenging, powerful, and conveys Zheani’s truth on her own terms”
– The FADER
“The aesthetic is heavy but I think Zheani evens the balance with this burst of ideas and wavy energy.”
– Dave Ruby Howe, triple j Unearthed
Brisbane rapper, songwriter, and artist Zheani reflects on her past in new single ‘DIRTBIKE’ out today via Entertainment One (eOne). The track demonstrates her signature no-holds-barred approach of raw, emotive lyrics. Harsh themes ride an abrasive beat combining elements of Nu-Metal with contemporary TrapMetal by producer King Yosef. Zheani reflects on her memories of “Donkey Dick Dave Jollow” one of her mother’s boyfriends growing up and painfully describes her father getting involved in drug trafficking before eventually falling into addiction, “he rode that dark horse into nothin’, funny thing is I still love him”.
‘DIRTBIKE’ depicts a larger story for Zheani with the line from the chorus, “I made bad choices, my bed I’ll lay in it, I’ll toss and turn for every regret.” Moments like this highlight the strife Zheani has endured, but also the willingness to cope with her decisions and ultimately move forward.
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Soma present a special collaboration between label heads Slam and another of Techno’s top tier duos, Obscure Shape & SHDW. With both of these acts currently at peak form, Oblique Strategies is the culmination of a shared vision where both styles of production shine through on every track. Starting as a singular idea, shared between the pairings, each then took their turn to put their own stamp on the tracks. The results are plain to see as Strategy 1, 2 & 3 express the very best of what these renowned duos bring to Techno.
Slam, said: “Not too many duos have collaborated before. So when choosing another duo to work with it had to be with our friend’s Obscure Shape & SHDW. We have both had mutual respect for each others productions for quite some time now, and we thought it would be an interesting slant on things to go head to head duo to duo.”
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The disorienting and visceral music video for ‘Gimme Love‘, directed by Joji and Andrew Donoho (Khalid, Janelle Monaé, The Strokes), depicts Joji as a scientist working his way up the ranks, obsessively dedicated to leaving Earth. Just as the song transforms, so do the visuals, from gritty and rapidly-paced to blockbuster pristine and euphoric. Expanding on the themes of’ ‘Run‘ and the RIAA-Certified Gold single ‘Sanctuary‘, ‘Gimme Love‘ presents an in-depth exploration of an artist’s need for escape, both literal and metaphysical.
‘Gimme Love‘ arrives on the heels of ‘Run‘, which was released in February, and landed Joji his highest ever debut on Billboard’s Hot 100, amassing over 120M+ streams in the first three weeks of its release and earning Joji his US TV debut with a performance of the song on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
Joji is one of the most enthralling artists of the digital age. He has a total vision for his work, not just in the writing and producing of his music, but artwork, videos, merch, and live performances as well. It’s a fully realized world that his fans can inhabit and explore—and see themselves in. “My music is not biographical,” he says, but even still, the deep, heavily shaded emotions in his songs are genuine and they speak to anyone who has ever felt stuck on the outside looking in, who knows what it means to not belong. In 2019, Joji sold-out his North America tour within minutes and performed at some of the most coveted festivals across the world, including Reading & Leeds in the UK and Lollapalooza. As Joji surpasses 3.7 billion global streams, 2020 promises to be his biggest year to date.
‘Gimme Love‘ by Joji is out now via 88rising, distributed by 12Tone Music, buy/stream it here.
Pre-Order Nectar here.
Delivered Live kicks in to gear for episode 3 this week, with a lineup to keep you entertained and enlightened while at home during lock down. As always, episodes are free to watch, but tickets are available for purchase and funds will be going back into the pockets of the artists performing on the show, as well as to their nominated venue and crew member of choice, helping to replace some of the live income they have lost.
This week features soulful singer songwriter Didirri, live favourites Kingswood, and much loved Melbourne music icon Mick Thomas, joining our host, Henry Wagons on our custom-made, socially-distanced studio. Rounding out the line up will be comedians Josh Earl and Sami Shah who will provide the laughs to help get us all through this tough time.
For this week’s event the recipients of those funds are as follows:
Mick Thomas nominates – Merri Creek Taven and Stuart ‘Morro’ Morris
Didirri nominates – The Dart & Marlin (Warnambool) and Stive Collins
Kingswood nominates – The Tote and Tom Moore
Mick Thomas
Kingswood
Didirri
Josh Earl
Sami Shah
– Hosted by Henry Wagons
Producers The Handshake Agency thanks its sponsors for getting on board this first event – Victorian Government, The Music, Oztix, Small Time Group, Harry The Hirer.
After premiering via triple j‘s Good Nights last night, Sydney pop-punk favourites Yours Truly are officially lifting the lid on their first new music for 2020 with their anthemic new single ‘Composure’. Yours Truly vocalist Mikaila Delgado explains that ‘Composure’ captures the warp of anxiety that the end of an on-again-off-again relationship left her in last year.“‘Composure’ is about trying to keep your cool at the end of a relationship and how difficult it can be. It’s natural to be upset, angry and a million different other emotions at once,” she says. “I wrote it at a time when I really needed to reclaim my self worth after losing so much of it, I was over being miserable waiting for acceptance.”
Alongside the single, Yours Truly are also revealing a new music video that the band describe as a new flag in the sand for them.
“We really wanted the video to show off the new era of Yours Truly and to take things to the next level,” Mikaila explains, adding: “We wanted this to feel very personal and ‘hand made’ which is why stitch work and embroidery is such a feature in the video. I wanted to have us animated in the video to look like fabric so we called on our friend Georgia (Moloney) who actually created the single artwork to do it on camera!”
Few bands can claim to have the worldwide touring chops Yours Truly do this early in their career. After the release of their critically-acclaimed EP Afterglow (now tipping over a whopping 7.5 million streams) in April 2019, the band – whose average age is just 21 – racked up enviable festival offers from the likes of Download UK, Riot Fest, Slam Dunk, Good Things and Sad Summer Fest, as well sold out hometown shows and support slots alongside scene heroes Sum 41, Senses Fail and State Champs.
Searingly honest and utterly infectious, Afterglow garnered massive nods from outlets including Kerrang! (4/5), Wall of Sound (“Yours Truly are fast becoming one of Australia’s best new exports”) and Depth Magazine, who awarded the release a whopping 10/10. As well as enjoying continued support from global radio including triple j, BBC R1 and idobi Radio, Yours Truly were invited to record segments with media giants including Audiotree and Alternative Press.
With their debut full-length record now in the pipeline, Yours Truly are gearing to solidify their status as one of the world’s most striking acts in pop-punk.
Ending months of speculation about exactly who’s behind one of the year’s most talked-about and sought after club tracks, Jamie xx today releases ‘Idontknow‘. Available via Young Turks / Remote Control Records, ‘Idontknow’ is Jamie’s first solo artist release since his highly acclaimed BRIT and GRAMMY® nominated 2015 debut album In Colour.
Without knowing the artist behind it, people have been raving to ‘Idontknow‘ since late autumn 2019 when Jamie first debuted the track. Since then, the track has taken on a life of its own in clubs and on dancefloors around the world, garnering huge support from the likes of Ben UFO, Four Tet, Caribou, HAAi and Bicep, or via Jamie’s own residency on NTS Radio and the series of last-minute, word-of-mouth parties he threw in aid of the MIND and CALM charities at north London’s the Cause (where he was joined by the likes of Four Tet, HAAi and Koreless) and beyond.
Today, ‘Idontknow‘ finally gets a full release, first through digital services but with a 12” available exclusively via independent retailers coming around 1st May (UK) with the rest of the world to follow. It comes hot on the heels of Jamie’s recent collaboration with Headie One and Fred Again.. on ‘Smoke‘ from their acclaimed GANG mixtape.
Stream / Download Jamie xx – ‘Idontknow’ via jamiexx.ffm.to/idontknow
“Brings the vibes. Brings the smiles.”
– Richard Kingsmill, triple j
“it’s like a solo swim out to sea in a calm ocean. there’s still a pull to it but nothing sinister or strong, it makes you feel safe and at home.”
– Declan Byrne, triple j
“It’s a song that stops you in your tracks and effortlessly commands your attention”
– Emma Jones, Purple Sneakers
Fresh off a premiere yesterday with Purple Sneakers, Mammals has today delivered an abstract and eerie music video for his recent single ‘Mansion’ – a deeply emotive track dedicated to exploring the intricacies of human existence.
Directed by Jordan Lister and filmed at The 1896 in New York, the video beautifully pairs a water-inspired colour palette within the sparse Brooklyn warehouse location. The track itself explores the feeling of “being totally consumed under oceans of powers we can’t control” and the feeling of being lost in a proverbial abyss is reflected back with the clever choreography and use of poly silk. Brooklyn Dancer Kai Paii acts almost as a figure of Guy (Mammals) memory, entangling herself within a moment in time.
Following its release, ‘Mansion’ has already proven a strong addition to Mammals’ catalogue, receiving a premiere on triple j’s Good Nights and landing on the likes of Spotify’s ‘New Dance Beats’ and Apple Music’s ‘New Music Daily’, ‘ALT CTRL’, ‘Future Sounds’ and Heaps Indie’. It is only the latest in his long string of successes, including support slots on the Australian tours of The 1975 and Of Monsters and Men, and a collection of songs spanning over 12 million streams.
The year is still young for this impressive Mollymook local with more music to come and live shows on the horizon. For now, be immersed in ‘Mansion’ from your own mansion as you ponder humanity’s existence in these interesting times.
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Emerging U.K.-based singer, producer and harpist TATYANA has today shared her stunning debut single and video ‘Wild Card’. Born to Russian and English parents, TATYANA is a new signing to Sinderlyn – sister label to Captured Tracks.
Speaking about ‘Wild Card’, TATYANA added “I wrote this song about an imaginary Russian lover I never had. There’s a place in the Russian countryside I used to go to as a kid with a beautiful river and a tiny village. I imagined what it might be like to grow up in a place like that and wanting to break free and go see the rest of the distant, outside world. It’s about first love and believing it will go on forever because you’re bonded by your dreams and your memories.”
In 2018, classically-trained harp player TATYANA walked into an underground rave in London. Thrilled by the sense of community that drove the party, she made it a goal to play her own music in this kind of environment some day. No surprise, that’s exactly what she did the following year. It’s not the kind of show one might expect an artist with her background to play, but this is how things happen in TATYANA’s world – her moves seem surprising until you realize they’ve made perfect sense all along.
TATYANA lived in Holland, Russia, Singapore, and Boston – where she attended Berklee College of Music on a full scholarship – before settling back in her hometown of London in 2017; the transient nature of her upbringing has certainly informed her music. From underground raves to viral YouTube covers to playing harp on tour with Neneh Cherry, there seems to be no scene that she doesn’t thrive in. Her new music is a multi-faceted product of all of that experience, the kind of precisely produced, impossibly catchy pop that takes other artists entire careers to nail.
It makes sense, considering all of this, that when asked to describe her music, TATYANA picks a color instead of a sound. She chooses the color blue, for the sense of peaceful melancholy that underpins even her most upbeat tracks. It’s not quite sad or happy; like everything with TATYANA, it’s content to sit somewhere in between.
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Project 46 returns from 4-year hiatus with their stunning new track “Remember You,” a gorgeous vocal single that exemplifies the progressive house in its heyday. Opening with delicate melodies and soulful vocals, the lyrics of “Remember You” are allowed to shine before Project 46 eases into a goosebump-inducing, euphoric progressive drop. With lines like “dance until the night turns just to remember you,” the record evokes memories of the nights we wished would never end; these are the types of experiences that every dance music fan holds close to their heart and the kind of romanticism that lives at the deep core of the genre. Wistful and inspirational at once, “Remember You” will whisk you away to some of the most serendipitous memories of your life. Project 46 has been hard at work in the studio, and the duo has more singles scheduled for release this year, including another much-anticipated collaboration with Kaskade.
Canadian duo Ryan Henderson and Thomas Shaw, better known as Project 46, is known for their melodic, progressive sound that never fails to inspire and uplift listeners. They began Project 46 in 2011 and were active until 2016, with releases on Ultra Records, Monstercat, Armada, Mixmash, and collaborations such as “Last Chance” with Kaskade (which was featured on Kaskade‘s “Atmosphere” album), “Collide” with Laidback Luke, “Crime” with Avicii, “Daphne” with Paul Oakenfold, and “Home” with Feenixpawl, to name a few. 2020 marks the comeback of Project 46, and they’re already off to a strong start with “Remember You.” We’re looking forward to more beautiful, vocal-driven dance tracks coming from the talented duo later this year!
![The Sailor triple j Feature Album “The best music of his young career” Pitchfork “At just 19, Brian is dropping thoughtful, lyrically dense rhymes.” UPROXX “The 88rising mainstay's sophomore effort effectively solidifies his position in the world of hip-hop, building up his character as a force to be reckoned with.” Hypebeast “[Brian's] biggest artistic leap yet” Highsnobiety “An important step forward" Complex Today, rapper, producer, singer and songwriter Rich Brian - the first Asian music artist to reach #1 on iTunes’ Hip Hop charts, - releases his latest single, 'Bali', via 88rising/12Tone Music. Listen HERE. Having teamed up with Bay Area native and Grammy-nominated rapper, Guapdad 4000, 'Bali' was inspired by modern-day society and the everyday stresses people face. The bouncy summer beat anchored by Brian's vibrant vocals and commanding flow lends itself to the artist’s continuous sonic evolution as he takes the next steps since his critically acclaimed album The Sailor in his musical journey. Speaking on 'Bali', Brian explains, “This song touches on battling against the social construct and not letting the capitalism in this generation make you feel like you have to stress yourself to reach a certain level of status by working so much that you lose touch of everything else in life, the simple things that create happiness, friends, family, love, at the end of the day all that matters is love.” 'Bali' is the first single released by Brian since his musically and culturally transcendent album, The Sailor, which was released last year. The Sailor featured guest appearances from the legendary RZA and rising star Joji, and was co-written with Bekon and the Donuts (Kendrick Lamar, ScHoolboy Q). Since its release, the album has crossed over 400 million streams and pushed Brian’s musical style to a new level – while revealing his personal immigration story and rise to stardom. 'Bali' is out now via 88rising/12Tone Music, buy/stream it here. Stay connected with Rich Brian: Facebook | Instagram | Soundcloud | Twitter | YouTube](https://thepartae.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/RICH-BRIAN-RELEASES-NEW-SONG-BALI-WITH-GUAPDAD-4000-1170x1170.jpg "RICH BRIAN RELEASES NEW SONG ‘BALI’ WITH GUAPDAD 4000")
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