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    J Balvin Plans to Come Up With Crazy Song in Celebration of Pokemon's 25th Anniversary

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    At the end of the Pokemon Day 25th anniversary virtual concert, the ‘I Like It’ hitmaker is unraveled to be taking part Katy Perry and Post Malone for ‘Pokemon 25: The Album’ special release.

    Mar 1, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Latin superstar J Balvin is drawing inspiration from old TV shows and video games to create a new song to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Pokemon.
    He will join artists including Katy Perry and Post Malone on the special release, “Pokemon 25: The Album”, which will be made up of 14 original tracks, and Balvin is looking to the past to help him pen a tune to appeal to more than just gamers.
    “We’re gonna come up with a crazy song. It’s going to catch everybody’s ear,” he said. “It’s easy to make a Pokemon song if you just want that fan base, but we’re not close-minded. We want everybody to vibe with Pokemon.”
    The album news was revealed at the end of the Pokemon Day 25th anniversary virtual concert on Saturday, February 27, which was headlined by Post Malone.

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    The “Circles” hitmaker released a cover of Hootie & the Blowfish’s “Only Wanna Be With You” from the album and admitted the song was “super fun” to perform.
    He told Rolling Stone magazine, “I’ve always been a fan of the band and Darius (Rucker, lead singer). This song is one of my favorites, and it was super fun to cover. The song was released 25 years ago, which also happens to be when Pokemon got its start.”
    Perry, in the meantime, has not spilled any details about her partnership with the gaming franchise. “It is an honor to be chosen to help celebrate a franchise that has given me so much joy in the last 25 years, and to be able to watch it evolve in the ways it’s provided that kind of electric joy for the kids in my life and around the world,” she simply stated in January when her involvement was announced.

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    Foo Fighters Get Candid About Why They Find It Impossible to Take A Break

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    Dave Grohl admits that he and his bandmates would reconnect with each other shortly after vowing at the end of each album promotion and tour to never put each other through hell ever again.

    Mar 1, 2021
    AceShowbiz – The Foo Fighters find it impossible to take a break, because they “miss each other” too much in between projects.
    The “Learn to Fly” hitmakers always reach the end of each album promotion and tour convinced it will be their “last record”, but it doesn’t take long for the rockers to reconnect and start talking about making new material.
    Frontman Dave Grohl told Guitar World magazine, “We kind of work this cycle where we’ll go into the studio and make a record, then we run around playing clubs and doing promo for a couple of months, and then we release the record and tour for a year and a half.”
    “By the time we’re finished with that cycle, we’re all exhausted and we promise ourselves we’ll never put each other through that f**king hell ever again.”
    “I say it every f**king time. You should ask my wife. She’s like, ‘I hear it every time – ‘I’m exhausted, I’m never doing this again, this is the last record, blah, blah, blah’.”

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    Guitarist Pat Smear added, “We always claim we’re going to take this break and then… we miss it. We miss each other, we miss making music together.”
    “So within two and a half weeks, I’m demoing s**t and sending it to the band,” Dave concluded.

    The rock band, which was formed in 1994, released their tenth album, “Medicine at Midnight,” on February 5. This nine-track record was originally scheduled to be dropped in 2020, but got delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
    Explaining the 37-minute duration of the album, Dave told Guitar World magazine, “We intended on making a record that was short and sweet, because it’s inspired by a certain type of album that we all loved when we were young.” He added, “Like an eighties Bowie record — tight, full of grooves, lots of melodies, that’s it. Let’s go.”

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    Morgan Wallen's 'Dangerous' Continues to Break Record as It Spends 7 Weeks at Billboard 200

    Meanwhile, South Korean superstar BTS’ ‘Be’ returns to the Top 10 as it soars high from No. 74 to No. 7 with 36,000 units following album reissue on February 19.

    Mar 1, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Morgan Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” makes another chart history. The album is named as the only country album to spend its first seven weeks at No. 1 in the 64-year history of the Billboard 200. It earned 89,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending February 25, according to MRC Data.
    Off the number, 80,000 are in the form of SEA units, equaling 110.79 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs. Album sales comprise 7,000, while TEA units comprise 2,000.
    Back to this week’s chart, Ariana Grande’s former No. 1 “Positions” ascends to No. 2 after earning 49,000 equivalent album units, thanks to the album reissue on February 19 featuring five additional tracks. Trailing behind is Pop Smoke’s “Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon” that rises one spot from No. 4 to No. 3 with 43,000 units.

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    Lil Durk’s “The Voice” dips from No. 3 to No. 4 with 38,000 equivalent album units earned. As for Pooh Shiesty’s “Sheisty Season”, it is steady at No. 5 after earning 37,000 units. Meanwhile, The Weeknd’s former No. 1 “After Hours” plummets from No. 2 to No. 6 with just under 37,000 units.
    BTS’ (Bangtan Boys) “Be” returns to the Top 10 as it soars high from No. 74 to No. 7 with 36,000 units following album reissue on February 19 in a new deluxe CD package. Dua Lipa’s “Future Nostalgia” dips from No. 7 to No. 8 with 30,000 equivalent album units earned, while Luke Combs’ “What You See Is What You Get” bounces back from No. 11 to No. 9 with just over 28,000 units.
    Rounding out the Top 10 is Lil Baby’s former leader “My Turn” that rises from No. 13 to No. 10 with 28,000 units.
    Top Ten of Billboard 200:
    “Dangerous: The Double Album” – Morgan Wallen (89,000 units)
    “Positions” – Ariana Grande (49,000 units)
    “Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon” – Pop Smoke (43,000 units)
    “The Voice” – Lil Durk (38,000 units)
    “Shiesty Season” – Pooh Shiesty (37,000 units)
    “After Hours” – The Weeknd (just under 37,000 units)
    “Be” – BTS (Bangtan Boys) (33,000 units)
    “Future Nostalgia” – Dua Lipa (30,000 units)
    “What You See Is What You Get” – Luke Combs (just over 28,000 units)
    “My Turn” – Lil Baby (28,000 units)

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    Artist of the Week: Lil Tjay

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    The ‘Calling My Phone’ hitmaker has dominated Valentine’s Day with his new moody breakup anthem and scored his first ever top 3 single on Billboard Hot 100.

    Mar 1, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Following his top 20 single with the late Pop Smoke last year, Lil Tjay scored another massive hit with his new single. Titled “Calling My Phone”, the single quickly blew up on social media as it became a new favorite on Valentine’s Day and soon climbed up the charts.
    The New York-born and -raised star rapped about trying to shake off a persistent ex who kept calling him while he’s ready to move on with his life. He also made a reference to “Mood Swings”, his hit collaboration with Smoke, through the lyrics, “Get a mood swing, I’ll be gone by tomorrow.”
    With over 7.2 million spins, the 6BLACK-assisted breakup anthem with relatable story became the most-streamed track and highest debut as it bowed at the second place in the U.K. Singles chart and entered the ARIA Singles chart in Australia at the third position.

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    In the U.S, it garnered more than 34 million streams, 1.4 million in radio reach, and 3,000 units sold following a huge buzz on TikTok. It debuted at summit on the Streaming Songs as well as both the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts.
    On top of that, the moody song containing a sample of NBA YoungBoy’s “How I Been” jumped at No. 3 on Hot 100 in its first week. It gave both 19-year-old Tjay and 28-year-old 6BLACK their highest-charting single and their first single to hit the Top 10 on the chart.
    The single is expected to be featured in Lil Tjay’s upcoming sophomore album, a follow-up to 2019’s “True 2 Myself”. He said back in October 2020 before dropping the song, “I’m extremely excited about this project hopefully it helps ya to get to know me a lil better, I decided to open up about a lot.”

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    The Who Get Candid About Reasons Behind Their Reluctance in Making Another Album

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    While Roger Daltrey claims that they made a financial loss on their 2019 record ‘Who’, Pete Townshend admits there is a certain amount of resentment between the two of them.

    Mar 1, 2021
    AceShowbiz – The Who may not make another album because they won’t make any money from it.
    The “My Generation” group – which now comprises of just Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend – are proud of how well-received 2019’s Who was, but they made a loss on the record and there was tension between the two of them, so they are reluctant to do it again.
    Roger told Uncut magazine, “Will there be another Who album? I don’t know.”
    “There’s no record market any more. Everybody talks about streaming, but have you seen what artists get from that? It’s a joke.”
    “It was great to have an album out there, something that the fans liked, and I was really proud of it.”
    “But far too much money was spent making it. It went out of control completely and ended up costing me money. I can’t go on doing that.”
    And Pete admitted the difficulties they had making Who has put him off wanting to make another record “a little bit”.

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    He said, “It was tough. I think it was tough for Roger too. I think he and I have found a sort of common ground over it, but there is still a sense that we only just about got it done.”
    “There’s a certain amount of resentment on both sides. Partly on Roger’s side, perhaps, resentment that we were paid a lot of money for the album and it was all spent making it.”
    “On my side, the fact that Roger was so actively diffident at first.”
    “Now he’s proud of what he did on the record and so he should be because he did such a great job.”
    “But our process is now just me and him and we’re very different – politically, socially, spiritually, different in every respect. But we happen to be in this band together.”
    Despite this, the 75-year-old guitarist admitted he’d still like to make another album.
    He added, “I do want to make another one and I probably will. It’s been on my mind a lot.”

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    Rita Ora: Lockdown Allowed Me to Figure Out Direction for My New Music

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    The ‘I Will Never Let You Down’ singer says, while the Covid-19 lockdown left her feeling ‘musically isolated,’ it helped her figure out what she wanted to do with her music.

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    AceShowbiz – Rita Ora felt “musically isolated” in lockdown.
    The singer was delighted to get back into the studio to record her new EP “Bang” because things had “got a bit weird” when she was forced to spend months at home without physical contact with her collaborators amid the coronavirus pandemic last year.
    Speaking in a behind-the-scenes clip from the making of the EP, she said, “It feels amazing and really good to be back, an actual studio and be around instruments.”
    “I can also bounce off people’s energy. It got a bit weird I’m not going to lie, musically I felt isolated which I’ve never experienced before.”
    However, the “I Will Never Let You Down” hitmaker admitted the time allowed her the opportunity to figure out what she wants to do with her music.

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    “That really made me write and think a lot about what I want to do musically,” she added.
    Rita has teamed up with Kazakh producer and DJ Imanbek for the project and she was “really excited” to try something new with him and is happy with their efforts so far.
    “He is a really exciting new DJ with hits of his own. I just love his sound and I just wanted to get in touch his brain,” she gushed. “It just grew into this, ‘Should we do a project?’ ”
    “And here we are, seven songs in and we’re almost making a mini movie. It’s really exciting, I’ve never done anything like this before.”
    Elsewhere in the video clip, the “Anywhere” singer applied lip gloss so she could “get in the mood” for work.
    “I can’t work in the studio without having a bit of glamour on, do you know what I mean?” she grinned.

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    ¿A qué suena el alma de Guatemala?

    La imbaluna, uno de los instrumentos inventados por Joaquín Orellana que se exponen en la Americas Society.Credit…Victor Llorente para The New York TimesSkip to contentSkip to site indexPara expresar el sonido de Guatemala, él inventó nuevos instrumentosLas creaciones del compositor, inventor y escritor guatemalteco Joaquín Orellana son el tema de la exposición ‘The Spine of Music’ de la Americas Society.La imbaluna, uno de los instrumentos inventados por Joaquín Orellana que se exponen en la Americas Society.Credit…Victor Llorente para The New York TimesSupported byContinue reading the main story28 de febrero de 2021 a las 07:00 ETRead in EnglishNUEVA YORK — En un relato, el compositor, inventor y escritor guatemalteco Joaquín Orellana se imagina a un músico que, insatisfecho con los instrumentos de la civilización occidental, se propone crear el sonido del hambre. Poseído por el deseo de plasmar el sufrimiento de su pueblo, se va matando de hambre poco a poco y luego graba su voz alterada y delirante. En su delirio, ve cómo las partituras cobran vida con gritos angustiosos y violentos: el sonido del hambre.Orellana, de 90 años, es uno de los compositores más respetados de Guatemala y el centro de una cautivadora exposición en la Americas Society, The Spine of Music (La espina dorsal de la música) que da a conocer instrumentos —esculturales, surrealistas y oscuramente sensoriales— de su invención. Como protagonista de su historia, Orellana busca expresar el sufrimiento de un país traumatizado por el genocidio y la guerra civil, mientras evita usar los materiales de la música occidental.Orellana con el herroím, uno de sus “útiles sonoros”Credit…vía estudio de Joaquín OrellanaLa mayoría de los compositores escriben música para instrumentos que ya existen. A excepción de Wagner, quien creó un híbrido entre una tuba y un cuerno para su ciclo del “Anillo”. El compositor experimental Harry Partch inventó instrumentos adaptados a su sistema de afinación poco ortodoxo. En una entrevista en video desde Ciudad de Guatemala, Orellana habló de su proceso como un intento de liberar a la imaginación musical de las formas preconcebidas.“El compositor está imbuido de su realidad social”, dijo. “El compositor es una especie de filtro y su sensibilidad social está insertada en ese filtro”. Agregó que cuando las ideas musicales inundan la imaginación del compositor, “en esa mente auditiva están los conceptos y las imágenes de un contexto social, una realidad sociopolítica; y la música está inevitablemente en deuda con estas cosas”.Orellana comenzó a experimentar con los materiales de producción sonora en los años setenta. Estudió violín y composición en el Conservatorio Nacional de Música “Germán Alcántara” de Ciudad de Guatemala y después obtuvo una beca de dos años en el Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales de Buenos Aires, Argentina. El centro era un imán para los compositores innovadores de todo el subcontinente, y contaba con un estudio de música electrónica de última generación que despertó la imaginación de Orellana.Sebastian Zubieta, director musical de la Americas Society, toca el sinusoido pequeño de Orellana.Credit…Victor Llorente for The New York TimesCredit…Victor Llorente for The New York TimesA su regreso a Guatemala no tenía recursos técnicos comparables y se sintió ajeno a la escena musical centrada en las tradiciones folclóricas expresadas a través de la marimba, el instrumento nacional.Sin embargo, Orellana se sentía fascinado por la marimba. Es muy probable que este instrumento haya llegado a Guatemala a través de las rutas de la esclavitud desde África occidental y que la población rural lo haya acogido como un símbolo de las esperanzas, el dolor y las injusticias de su país. Así que lo deconstruyó y le dio nuevas formas.Orellana llama a sus inventos “útiles sonoros”. “Mediante los útiles sonoros”, explica, “la marimba se extiende en el espacio acústico y físico como en una especie de Big Bang”.La imbaluna, una contracción de marimba y lunaCredit…Victor Llorente para The New York TimesLa primera herramienta sonora que recibe a los visitantes de la galería de la Americas Society es la esquelética imbaluna, con un teclado de marimba en forma de media luna, sustentada por resonadores puntiagudos (los nombres de los inventos de Orellana suelen ser portmanteaus poéticos, en este caso, compuesto por el prefijo “imba” de la palabra “marimba” y la palabra luna).El circumar tiene la forma de una gran tetera con teclas de marimba suspendidas en sentido perpendicular al suelo. Para el sinusoido, suspendió las teclas de la marimba siguiendo la forma de una curva sinusoidal, parecida a una montaña rusa. Ambos instrumentos se tocan pasando una baqueta por su interior en un movimiento continuo, una acción que exige al intérprete mover todo el brazo y el torso y que produce sonidos tintineantes. Sebastián Zubieta, director musical de la Americas Society, comentó que en las creaciones de Orellana “es el gesto el que da la forma”.Estos instrumentos —y otros con formas similares, que usan carillones de metal o cañas de bambú— pueden tener un sonido increíblemente parecido a la música electrónica. Zubieta comentó que no era casualidad que los sonidos creados en un instrumento con forma circular o sinusoide se parezcan a los creados a través de los bucles y la secuenciación electrónica. “Es como una pieza de cinta antigua”, dijo. “Es una solución de baja tecnología para un deseo vanguardista”.El herroímCredit…Victor Llorente para The New York TimesEl cirlum pequeñoCredit…Victor Llorente para The New York TimesEl periominCredit…Victor Llorente para The New York TimesThe prehimulinho.Credit…Victor Llorente for The New York TimesEl ingenio de los inventos de Orellana oscila a menudo entre el juego y la crueldad. El periomin es una especie de perchero mecedora que, cuando se pone en movimiento, hace que los carillones o campanas de viento se balanceen de un lado a otro a lo largo de cuerdas de cuentas de plástico, que producen el sonido de una cascada vidriosa. El pinzafer consiste en una enorme lámina de hierro con forma de cola de langosta, suspendida de un armazón de hierro. Al pasar un arco, encordado con cuerda de piano, por un recorte dentado, se produce un gemido oscuro y metálico. Al pasar el arco (esta vez con cuerdas de acrílico) por el tubarc, un tubo de aluminio con un orificio en el centro montado sobre un marco rectangular, se produce un silbido que de tan agudo hace rechinar los dientes.En sus composiciones, Orellana suele utilizar sus inventos junto con cantos corales, sonidos ambientales grabados e instrumentos occidentales. En 2017, compuso “Sinfonía desde el Tercer Mundo” para la edición número 14 de la Documenta, la exposición de arte contemporáneo en Atenas; llenó el escenario con coros de adultos y niños, una orquesta sinfónica y sus útiles sonoros. Fue una réplica a la Sinfonía n.º 9 de Dvorak, subtitulada “Desde el Nuevo Mundo”.Un instrumento llamado CF A.Credit…Victor Llorente para The New York TimesPara la exposición de la Americas Society, compuso una nueva pieza exclusivamente para sus creaciones. La pieza, titulada “Puntos y efluvios”, estaba pensada para ser interpretada por cuatro percusionistas dentro de la galería y tenía la intención de invitar a los miembros del público a participar en ciertos momentos con gritos, aullidos y llantos en un lenguaje inventado por Orellana.Debido a las limitaciones de la pandemia, Zubieta grabó por su cuenta cada parte de su composición; la pieza editada, con sus tintineos de alfileres y sus ráfagas de estruendos, ahora ronda por la galería a intervalos regulares. Un video de acompañamiento alterna entre tomas del intérprete inmerso en los gestos ritualistas de la música e imágenes de la partitura gráfica de Orellana, que, con garabatos rítmicos, grupos de puntos y diagramas coreográficos, remite a la visión de su relato de los pentagramas de las partituras que se derriten.Zubieta toca lenguatón.Credit…Victor Llorente para The New York TimesAl rememorar su carrera, Orellana hace una reflexión: “Hacer música para mí nunca fue un proceso determinado, sino una forma de liberarme de las obsesiones: la obsesión por manifestar el sonido y una cierta necesidad compulsiva de sacarlo de mi ser”.“He llegado a la conclusión de que lo que intento es liberar el sonido”, resumió.AdvertisementContinue reading the main story More

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    Charlie Puth Set to Perform at First-Ever Interactive Livestream

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    The ‘I Warned Myself’ hitmaker has been scheduled to perform a collection of his songs at his first-ever live interactive livestream concert late next month.

    Feb 28, 2021
    AceShowbiz – Charlie Puth will treat fans to old favourites and unexpected tunes during his first-ever live interactive global eConcert on 31 March (21).
    The “How Long” star will perform live from the Yoop eSpace at Microsoft Theater, and said in a statement, “It’s been really fun getting to know my fans even better through social media this past year, and I am excited to perform live for them in this interactive virtual concert experience.”
    During the gig, Puth will be able to see and hear fans, and will even be inviting a select few to join him on the virtual stage. He will also be attending a virtual afterparty, which organisers teased is a “secret of its own” – and one that will “push the creative envelope.”
    “I’ve missed performing for you guys so I’m excited to announce my live virtual concert with Yoop on March 31st!” Charlie said in a post on his Instagram page.

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    Tickets are available for the concert here: yoop.app.
    Meanwhile, another artist Billy Strings will kick off another set of livestream shows in New Orleans on 24 March (21).
    The guitarist and singer isn’t taking much of a break following the end of his Deja Vu Experiment at The Capitol Theatre, and will perform at the Tipitana’s on 24 and 25 March. He’ll then head to Austin, Texas, to perform at Austin City Limits Live on 26 March.
    The shows, which kick off at 10pm ET, will be streamed via nugs.net, and will raise money for local organisations – Save Tip’s in New Orleans and the SIMS Foundation in Austin.
    For more information or to buy tickets, visit: nugs.net.

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