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Fresh Pressed [new music friday] – 179
What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from All Time Low & Demi Lovato, New Found Glory, Yungblud, and more.
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What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from All Time Low & Demi Lovato, New Found Glory, Yungblud, and more.
This week: The Disney Holiday Singalong, CMA Country Christmas, His Dark Materials, 88th Annual Christmas in Rockefeller Center, Sound of Metal, Small Axe “Red, White and Blue”, Selena: The Series, Big Mouth, Mank, The Hardy Boys, The Great British Baking Show: Holidays, Euphoria
Just in case you didn’t spend your Sunday night watching the American Music Awards, we got your back. From the awkward to the amazing, let’s get into some of the evening’s highlights.
By now, you should know that idobi is participating in the ADAPT conference, happening this Thursday, October 22nd. But what you might not know is idobi is hosting our very own breakout session with the conference.
This week we chinwag about the lack of well-known female producers in the music industry. Afterward we chat with music producer, Esjay Jones. Esjay is a South African-born producer & songwriter now based between Los Angeles and Joshua Tree, California, who had her first major cut in the U.S. alongside co-writer Justin Tranter in 2013 with the single “I Choose U” by TimeFlies on Def Jam Records. Since then, she has worked with Sean Kingston, Jeffree Star, Olivia Holt, Escape The Fate, Mystery Skulls with Nile Rodgers and Brandy, Chester Rushing (‘Stranger Things’), Alien Ant Farm, and many others.
Esjay has had over a decade of success in the music Industry: during the first part, she cemented herself as one of South Africa’s top rock vocalists fronting Durban-based band, Stealing Love Jones. The band achieved mainstream success with 4 #1 Singles, as well as sharing the stage with major international acts like Fall Out Boy, Violent Femmes, Seether, Jimmy Eat World, and many more.
She is currently a part of the production team for the re-imagined ‘GREY DAZE’ album (Chester Bennington reels from 1994-1997), featuring Head & Munkey from Korn, Ryan Shuck of Orgy, Chris Traynor of Bush, and more.
Eddie Van Halen of Van Halen on 3/4/78 in Chicago, Il. (Photo by Paul Natkin/WireImage) Rock legend Eddie Van Halen has sadly passed away at the age of 65, due to throat cancer, TMZ has reported today. Van Halen had been battling cancer for over a decade but the fight got harder in the past couple of years. Over the past 72 hours, it was revealed that the cancer had spread to other organs. His wife Janie, brother Alex, and son Wolfgang were by his side when he passed. In 1972, he founded the internationally loved band Van Halen and… Read more »
Directed by Jon Nix, Beyond the Barricades: The Story of Anti-Flag will make its debut on Saturday, October 3rd at 5pm EDT via VEEPS.
This week: Michael Mcintyre: Showman, Challenger: The Final Flight, Sing On!, The American Barbecue Showdown, Jurassic World: Camp Cretaceous, Ratched, PEN15, Lovecraft Country
What better way to kick off a weekend than with new music? Featuring new tracks from Seaway, Mike Shinoda, Motionless in White, and more.
A show version of what a lot of people learned a few years back: Racism isn’t gone. The U.S. isn’t past color.
