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Contest: Win Tickets To Amtrac and Hotel Garuda’s Chicago Show

Amtrac‘s Lost In Motion tour, with support from Hotel Garuda, is going strong, and the producers are set to make a stop at Chicago’s MID venue on February 18th. Lucky for our readers, we are giving away a pair of tickets to this highly anticipated show! Check out our contest below for your chance to win. [continued]
Essentials: “Grapefruit (ft. Myrone)” – Owen Bones

Chicago creator Owen Bones is always pushing the boundaries of sound, bringing a wisely nuanced and thoughtful touch to each of his projects that’s rare to hear in young producers. His first single off the Surrender! EP, “Grapefruit,” is another smart addition to this catalogue, a fearlessly triumphant call to fans to wake up and pay [continued]
Gig Review: Wiley at Club 601

I’m not one for downright negative reviews. In every case I try to focus on the positives and present any criticism in a constructive way. But I suppose there’s a first time for everything, and that first time was last Friday night at Club 601 in St Andrews. Refreshers Week concluded with what was a hip-hop [continued]
A Real-Time Review of The Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show

Following the release of their album A Head Full of Dreams, Coldplay headlines the halftime show for 2016’s Super Bowl 50, accompanied by their recent collaborator Beyonce and 2014 headliner Bruno Mars. Read on for a real-time reaction to this year’s SB50 show. “A musical celebration of past, present, and future.” JUST TELL US WHO YOU’RE BRINGING OUT [continued]
PressPlay Mixes #014: Database

Brazilian duo Database explore disco, funk, soul, and house in PressPlay’s 14th guest mix. Get to know Database, and stream their mix on Soundcloud! Hey guys, thanks for chatting with us! What’s the inspiration behind your mix for PressPlay? It’s mostly all the tracks that we like to DJ or listen in our home. It’s [continued]
Humans of Holy Ship

As the MSC Divina set sail for the Bahamian shores, HARD founder and Holy Ship head honcho Destructo (Gary Richards) led artists and fans on yet another fun-filled voyage for the first weekend of Holy Ship. The sold-out January journey of the popular festival cruise hosted artists such as Ryan Hemsworth, Dillon Francis, Ty Dolla $ign, Valentino [continued]
Essentials: “Back It Up” (DrewsThatDude Remix) – THEY.

DrewsThatDude has released his first remix of the year and it’s serious wind-fuel. THEY’s “Back It Up” already heavily features wavy synths, altered vocals and a slower beat, so I at first wondered how much DrewsThatDude would even change since that’s already his style. He mainly exaggerates what’s already there and overflows the soundscape with [continued]
Essentials: “Palms” (feat. Amory) – TastyTreat

It’s an increasingly rare occurrence that someone can describe their sound as ‘future r&b’ without my disinterest following a minute or less into the song. The term is played out and means nothing and meant nothing and aren’t we all just trying to be futuristic at this point? Enter TastyTreat, who laughs at that, produces something ridiculous on [continued]
Essentials: “Honest” – Koji.

This may come off as a bit shady, but I think Abhi//Dijon is better remixed; Sángo’s remix of “Wait” already convinced me and now Koji. has transformed Abhi//Dijon’s “Honest” into a track that actually manages to capture my attention, while complimenting his delightfully gentle and sincere voice. I’ve admired Abhi//Dijon’s vocals since I first heard [continued]
Multi-Instrumentalist Rostam Batmanglij Leaves Vampire Weekend

Vampire Weekend member Rostam Batmanglij has left the band, stating that: “My identity as songwriter + producer, I realized, needs to stand on its own.” The co-founder announced Tuesday that he will leave the band to pursue solo projects and shared the news on social network site Twitter. After forming at Columbia University in 2006 [continued]