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Tomorrowland will invite a roster of young DJs to showcase their skills at Tomorrowland Belgium next month in collaboration with the Tomorrowland Academy.

Seven DJs ranging from 9 to 17 years old will have the opportunity to perform on several of Tomorrowland’s 16 total stages, including Atmosphere, Rise, House of Fortune and the Rose Garden. Performances will be split across both weekends of the festival, July 19-21 and July 26-28.

The youngest talents on the bill include 9-year-old drum & bass selector DJ Archie, who became the youngest-ever performer at Glastonbury last year, and 14-year-old progressive house performer DJ Daan, who will return to play Tomorrowland for a second consecutive year after opening the festival’s Rise stage alongside Dimitri Vegas in 2023.

Check out the full list of invitees below.

Launched in 2022, the Tomorrowland Academy, the festival’s DJ and music production school for kids, teens and adults alike, comprises two locations in Antwerp and Hasselt, Belgium. These flagship schools organize educational bootcamps throughout the year and on-site at the festival in an effort to inspire young and rising talents to produce, release, and perform music.

Earlier this year, Tomorrowland also launched the Online Tomorrowland DJ & Producing Academy, offering subscription-based online courses, masterclasses, Q&A’s live feedback, DJ competitions, and more.

In the build-up to Tomorrowland Belgium 2024, the Tomorrowland Academy will host a “Start to DJ Kids Camp” from July 8-12, giving kids and teenagers aged 8 to 16 professional mentorship in week-long workshops at Boom, Belgium’s Den Oven events space, located just 200 meters from the festival site at De Shorre Park.

After the bootcamp, the participating kids and teenagers will have the unique chance to perform at Tomorrowland’s Neighborhood Part on July 24.

Tomorrowland Belgium will return to Boom’s De Schorre Park this July 19-21 and July 26-28, with Armin van Buuren, Swedish House Mafia, Amelie Lens, Tale Of Us, Alok, Dom Dolla, John Summit, David Guetta, Tiësto, Afrojack, Vintage Culture and hundreds more.

Featured image from Tomorrowland.

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Lesibu Grand (pronounced Le-SEE-boo), has announced their hotly anticipated debut album Triggered due out August 16 via Kill Rock Stars. Using modern sounds of celestial pop, punk, and surf rock, each song of the new collection is a poignant reflection of the myriad challenges and triumphs that shape our lives. New wave punk lead single ‘Anarchy,’ arriving alongside a vibrant Jetsons-themed official video, serves as a going-against-the-grain anthem strapped with socio-political commentary on workers’ rights rebellion.

With Triggered, Lesibu Grand offers a melodic remedy for the soul, delving into the raw emotions and visceral reactions that define the human experience. Over the course of three years, the Atlanta-based band, comprised of vocalist Tyler-Simone Molton, bassist John Renaud, guitarist Brian Turner, drummer Lee Wiggins, and keyboardist Warren Ullom, meticulously sculpted an album that encapsulates the essence of our tumultuous society, weaving together threads of personal introspection and societal commentary.

Triggered:

Scary Mary

Hot Glue Gun

Ordinary Girl

Anarchy

Bad Romance

Not Sweet Enough (String Version feat. The Punk Cellist)

I’m Not Sorry

Oh Erica…

Heartbreak Blue

Emotional Disguise

Pull the Trigger

Jennifer, My Girl

We Fuckin’ Suck

Not Sweet Enough

Friends With My Friends

Party, Party, Party People

Photo credit: Nathan DuCongé

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Classic set of eleven new songs from Mr Americana.

Where do you begin with Jim Lauderdale? Thirty-four albums to his name and a host of songwriting credits and collaborations.  A radio DJ with his Buddy & Jim show with Buddy Miller.  A performer in pretty much every element of American roots music and dubbed ‘Mr Americana’.

Lauderdale’s latest album sees him return to classic country mode with the core of the Game Changers following last year’s bluegrass record, ‘The Long And Lonesome Letting Go’ with The Po’ Rambling Boys.  ‘My Favorite Place’ was recorded at Nashville’s Blackbird Studios with Jeremy Cottrell and co-produced by Lauderdale and Jay Weaver.

Weaver played bass on most of the record.  Other musicians included Orkney’s Craig Smith on guitars, Mischa Hulscher on keyboards, Dave Racine on drums and Lillie Mae Rische on backing vocals along with a long list of class players.  Lauderdale was the sole writer for eight of the album’s eleven songs with the others being co-writes with Bob Minner, Cowboy Jack Clement and Gayle Dean Wardlaw respectively.

The album opens with the title track setting the scene for much of the rest of the record with a George Jones-style sound and Tommy Detamore’s pedal steel and Tim Crouch’s fiddle prominent. The second track, ‘Mrs Green’ (the Minner co-write) evokes the sound of 1969 both musically and lyrically.  ‘Lightning Tree’, credited to Lauderdale and Clement, takes the album into folk territory as Lauderdale tells the tale of the eponymous tree and its place in the narrator’s history.

Lauderdale slows things down with ‘You’ll Be Gone By Then’, its plaintive vocal framed by Smith’s twang and Steve Hinson’s pedal steel. Hulscher’s piano roll then leads into the swing of ‘Sweethearts Remember’  with some delightful jazzy guitar from Smith and sweet harmony from Rische.

Rocker ‘Don’t You Treat ‘Em That Way’ leads into the country soul of ‘Baby Steps’ (the Wardlow co-write) each driven in their way by Racine’s drums and more impressive guitar work from Smith. As the title implies ‘I’m A Lucky Loser’ returns to the classic country style accompanied by a longer list of musicians and with Rische being joined by brother Frank on the backing vocals while ‘We Ought To Celebrate’ is another twangy rocker with a bouncy bass line from Weaver. The rocking is stepped up for the penultimate song ‘You’ve Got A Shine’ with some funky piano from Hulscher and twin leads from Smith and Chris Scruggs.  The album closer ‘What’s Important After All’ has a cowboy campfire song feel to it and brings the record to quite an intimate close.

‘My Favorite Place’ is very much a classic Jim Lauderdale record with well-written songs and impressive performances.  They should make a great addition to his live repertoire.

My Favorite Place by Jim Lauderdale

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Stray Kids have announced their long-awaited comeback with a new mini-album, ‘ATE’, due out next month.

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JYP Entertainment revealed today (June 19) that Stray Kids will be releasing ‘ATE’ on July 19 at 1pm KST or midnight EST. Alongside the announcement was a brief trailer, where the eight-piece parody a commercial for a fortune cookie named after the mini-album, said to bring good fortune.

When the trailer switches to reality where the Stray Kids members gather to open their fortune cookies, they discover that the cookies come with a twist if you end up with a slip that says ‘Your luck will no longer last from now on’. Stray Kids have since release more teasers that expands on the concept of the fortune cookie, focusing on different duos from the group.

The respective 18-second teasers spotlight Bang Chan and Hyunjin, Lee Know and Felix, I.N and Changbin as well as Han and Seungmin. However, additional details such as the album’s lead single, track list and more will be announced at a later stage.

According to South Korean outlet OSEN, the mini-album will “contain Stray Kids’ unique cheerful energy and bold ambition to dominate the domestic and international music market this summer”. The title is also a double entendre that ties back to the number of members in Stray Kids.

The forthcoming release of ‘Ate’ will both mark Stray Kids’ first record since they released the mini-album ‘Rock-Star’ – led by ‘LALALALA’ – in November 2023. Last month, they released their first English single ‘Lose My Breath’, which featured American singer-songwriter Charlie Puth.

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The 21-year-old rapper Shareef releases his new single “TNT” via Universal Music. This marks his second new release of the year, following his debut single “OMG! Freestyle,” which was an immediate showcase of Shareef’s superstar potential, witty bars, and quick-paced flows.

Alongside “TNT,” the rising rap star also releases two new songs today: “Dominican” and “Type Shii.” The former highlights his melodic versatility, and the latter is a percussion-driven Jersey Club-influenced track that Shareef seamlessly slides on with fun, confident, and stylish lyrics.

“TNT” is written by Shareef and produced by FTP and Peradise5. The rising rap star assertively starts the song with a statement that he’s going to “walk on the beat,” which is precisely what he does. Throughout the two-minute runtime, he taps into his zone and unlocks boastful new flows, rapping, “I came out of nowhere, blowing up just like a TNT” and “All of the sh-t I be rocking is flawless, gave me her number but I didn’t call it. // Continue to the full article