On the new Skrillex album, Fuck U Skrillex You Think Ur Andy Warhol But Ur Not!!, which the iconic EDM producer surprise released earlier this week, fans might’ve noticed the absurdist producer tags sprinkled throughout: Drops delivered by what sounds like a radio host reciting lines like: “Shadow Wizard Skrillex …
Read More »Skrillex Cranks Everything All the Way Up
Dance singles are usually made for DJs to mix into and out of, and tend to array their effects over long running times, the better to guide a room full of dancers to collective peaks. But when Skrillex arrived in 2010, he was having none of that. With him, you …
Read More »Is Gyrofield the Next Enigmatic Star of Electronic Music?
The world first met gyrofield because of a joke. It was 2019, and Kiana Li was a teenage music producer making beats on her computer from her bedroom in Hong Kong. She had 2,000 Soundcloud followers. “That was a good time,” she says with a smile. “I was feeling like …
Read More »Killers Serve Fan Favorites, Skrillex Is Honored, Future x Metro Boomin Draw Big Crowds on Lolla Day Three
Headliners the Killers served up fan favorites, Skrillex got a stage named after him, and Future x Metro Boomin drew so many fans that the audience was asked to take five steps back, twice, during their set on Lollapalooza 2024’s penultimate day on Saturday in Chicago’s Grant Park. Killer Mike, …
Read More »Peter Gabriel's New Song 'This is Home' Inspired By Motown and…Skrillex?
There’s still no release date for Peter Gabriel‘s new LP I/O, which he’s been working on for over two decades, but he’s been releasing individual tracks from it over the past few months, tied to the moon cycle. The newest one is “This Is Home,” a love song inspired by …
Read More »Skrillex Taps Boys Noize for Thumping Summer Banger 'Fine Day Anthem'
Skrillex has reunited with Boys Noize for a new single, “Fine Day Anthem.” The pair recently previewed the track during a show in Berlin and it marks their first collaboration since their dual 2019 EP Turn Off The Lights. The cover art for the single, created by digital artist Thomas …
Read More »Tainy on Who's Pushing Reggaeton Forward, Hanging With Skrillex, and Why AI Music Can't Measure Up
The Future of Music Interview is a Q&A in which our favorite artists and producers share their vision of what’s next, weighing in on everything from AI to emerging scenes to the artists inspiring them the most. You could call Tainy reggaeton’s resident psychic. Since he started making beats at …
Read More »Skrillex Captures the Life of the Party With Fred Again.. and Flowdan in 'Rumble' Video
Skrillex takes TikTok’s “Point of View” trend to a new level in the music video for his Fred Again.. and Flowdan collaboration “Rumble.” The three musicians are smaller parts of a bigger machine as the video pulls together footage of the audience at their third surprise pop-up concert with FourTet …
Read More »Coachella Closers: Blink-182 and a Power Trio of DJs Fill a Void Left by Frank Ocean
A big question hung over the final night of Coachella 2023‘s second weekend: What now? Seven days earlier, on April 16, Frank Ocean had closed out the festival’s first weekend with a performance that he himself acknowledged as chaotic at best. Some fans were devastated by it, while others found …
Read More »Skrillex, Four Tet, Fred Again.. Will Close Coachella Weekend Two
Skrillex, Fred Again.. and Four Tet will play a special set to fill the closing slot for Coachella‘s Weekend Two on Sunday night, Rolling Stone has confirmed. The three acts will play the 10:25 TBA slot currently listed on Coachella’s Sunday lineup after Blink-182’s headlining set, both slots replacing Frank …
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