April 17th Weekly Roundup Feature
Happy April 17th! The Festival Voice is back with our weekly roundup feature. Check back in with The Festival Voice next week!
All Day I Dream World Tour
Each Summer for the past eleven years, All Day I Dream’s Summer season has helped forge beautiful memories that last a lifetime. Forty cities, hundreds of parties, and countless miles later, the eponymous daytime brand has crafted both a legacy as well as a worldwide musical movement.
Apr 16 – Itajai, BR
May 12-15 – All Day I Dream Festival – Oakdale, CA
Jun 2 – London, UK
Jun 5 – Brooklyn, NY
Jun 9 – Mykonos, GR
Jun 16 – Ibiza, ES
Jun 17 – Barcelona, ES
Jun 23 – Ibiza, ES
Jun 30 – Ibiza, ES
Jun 30 – Mykonos, GR
Jul 7 – Ibiza, ES
Jul 14 – Ibiza, ES
Jul 14 – Mykonos, GR
Jul 21 – Ibiza, ES
Jul 23 – Toronto, ON
Jul 31 – Denver, CO
Aug 6 – Chicago, IL
Aug 11 – Ibiza, ES
Aug 12 – North Coast, Egypt
Aug 18 – Ibiza, ES
Aug 25 – Ibiza, ES
Sep 1 – Ibiza, ES
Sep 8 – Ibiza, ES
Sep 15 – Mykonos, GR
Sep 15 – Ibiza, ES
Sep 17 – Montreal, QC
Sep 18 – Brooklyn, NY
Sep 22 – Ibiza, ES
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Bicycle Day
For nearly a decade Bicycle Day SF has fostered community and connection in the San Francisco and greater Bay Area with their unique annual art & music festival. In celebration of the “Good Doctor” Albert Hofmann, his invention of LSD and his infamous bike ride home after intentionally ingesting the substance – Bicycle Day SF was born. Following a two year pause of public celebration, Bicycle Day SF will return bigger and better than ever before. For the first time, Bicycle Day SF will include daytime programming with keynote panel discussions with leading experts in the field of psychedelia in addition to a night of music and art festivities. Bicycle Day SF will take place on Tuesday, April 19th at the Midway.
VIP & General Admission tickets now on sale at http://www.bicycledaysf.
Create Music Group Acquires Majority Stake in The Nations
Create Music Group, the fastest growing privately held music and media company in the U.S., announced today that it will dramatically expand the company’s global audience with the acquisition of a majority interest in The Nations, the number one voice for curated music on YouTube whose multiple channels reach an audience of more than 60 million people around the world. The deal also includes the acquisition of the independent record label Lowly., whose artists have benefited from direct access to The Nations’ audience and have generated over 200,000,000 global streams in the last 12 months across DSP’s.
CruCast Street Party
UK bass institution CruCast have lined-up a mouthwatering and supersized Street Party party for 4000 people as part of the Queen’s Jubilee Weekend on Friday, June 3rd. Over 30 artists will play Birmingham’s Lab11 including Skepsis, Darkzy, Kanine, Zero, Problem Control, Window Kid, Hedex, and many more.
Tickets HERE
deadmau5- OSC/PILOT NOW AVAILABLE FOR IPAD
World-renowned electronic music producer deadmau5 has announced his technical product OSC/PILOT is now available for iPad. Using the simple and sleek UIs built using OSC/PILOT to iPad is now possible using the free OSC/PILOT iPad app. This app allows loading any project file created via the desktop version of OSC/PILOT (both Windows and macOS). Support for MIDI as well as up to 5 OSC destinations is supported, just like the desktop version.
AVAILABLE NOW AT WWW.OSCPILOT.COM
Dirtybird Birtyverse & Birdhain
You can enter and explore the new Birdyverse by connecting any NFT in your metamask wallet. You are currently able to jump, walk, chat and explore the mysterious island shaped like a cracked egg in the middle of the sea. With its strict door policy, the new Birdhain club is exclusive to Dirtybird Flight Club bird holders, (Elon Musk still can’t get in) but the Birdyverse is free to everyone.
Birdhain is a 24/7/365 metaverse night club with DJ sets running every day and night all year round. Music by your leader Claude VonStroke, who will kick off with a launch party DJ set on April 13th @ 7pm PST, 2AM UTC, is complemented by sets by all of the Dirtybird roster including Nikki Nair, Catz ‘n Dogz, John Tejada, Justin Jay, Nala, Mz Worthy, Walker & Royce and more.
Enter the Birdyverse
Ikarus Festival
Ikarus Festival can finally bring back the magic you have been waiting for as it announces that the largest and most impressive open air camping festival in southern Germany returns to the old military airfield in Memmingen. From June 2nd – June 6th 2022, this whitsun weekend allows you to celebrate, rave, camp and live once more with headliners like Adam Beyer, Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin, Sven Väth, Steve Aoki, Robin Schulz, Amelie Lens, Len Faki, Dubfire and many more.
Tickets HERE
Lost in a Moment
On the Beach Brighton
Music News
Anjunabeats
Above & Beyond- Gratitude feat. Marty Longstaff
Above & Beyond release their long-awaited collaboration with anamē, ‘Gratitude’ feat. Marty Longstaff) on April 14 through Anjunabeats.
This collaboration marks the debut of anamē: a new alias from Swedish hitmaker Marcus Schössow and production partner Thomas Sagstad. ‘Gratitude’ also marks the return of Sunderland singer-songwriter Marty Longstaff to Anjunabeats, the voice of Above & Beyond’s ‘Tightrope’ and ‘Flying By Candlelight.’
Stream HERE
Anjunadeep
OLAN- Wake and Return
OLAN (real name Luzana Flores) has announced that her debut album ‘Contra’ will be released June 10 via independent record label Anjunadeep. The announcement comes alongside the release of the powerful lead single ‘Wake And Return’, out now.
Stream HERE
Creator-Destructor Records
A Wilhelm Scream- Figure Eights in My Head
Massachusetts-based punk band A Wilhelm Scream are excited to present the music video for “Figure Eights In My Head,” a track lifted from the Thursday, April 14 release of the band’s first full-length offering in nine years, Lose Your Delusion (pre-order). A song about building friendships, the Rich Ferri-directed music video focuses on a group of kids skateboarding, playing in a band, causing chaos, and living out their best childhood.
Stream HERE
Deadbeats
Zeds Dead x Blunts & Blondes- Think Of You
Blunts & Blondes is skyrocketing into stardom at the crossroads of hip-hop and electronic music, garnering attention across the spectrum of the festival scene as he rolls out his debut album, Story of a Stoner – a hip-hop forward project backboned in dubstep production.
They just released the final album single, “Think of You,” which features Deadbeats label bosses, Zeds Dead.
Stream HERE
Dim Mak
Callie Reiff & Aviella- Scream It Out
Dim Mak’s next generation of all stars are here – and ready to break the mold. Channeling the cathartic energy that is screaming and singing in the car, Aviella sings about just that on “Scream It Out,” which features energetic and bass-boosted production from Callie Reiff.
Stream HERE
Quix- Enter With Caution feat. Alix Robson
Press play on “Enter With Caution” and you know you’re listening to drum n bass perfection. With an alluring and melodic dnb production from QUIX, it seems like Alix Robson’s vocals were made for an anthemic tune like this. The bright and melodic dnb single has an energetic bassline with an orchestral background and driving pianos, which matches the passion behind Alix’s vocals on the track.
Stream HERE
Dirtybird White Label
Nala & Nikki Nair- The World Is Always Ending
Nikki’s futuristic productions (including live drums and bass) alongside Nala’s dynamic vocal range highlight these two songs on opposite ends of the spectrum. The frenetic, breakbeat and filtered vocal of “Escape” is a combo of nasty electro and hardcore jungle distortion. The title track, “The World is Always Ending”, is a modernized twist on Sneaker Pimps and Chemical Brothers resulting in one of the stand out singles on the label this year.
Stream HERE
Dum Dum Records
Taleen Kali- Flower of Life
Taleen Kali is pleased to share “Flower Of Life, the first look at her debut full-length album out later this year. The song debuted on KEXP and is available now at Bandcamp and on all streaming services. Produced by Jeff Schroeder of The Smashing Pumpkins and Josiah Mazzaschi (Bizou, Light FM, Child Seat), the forthcoming album is loaded with sheets of fuzz and swirling guitars, with vocals that amass the range of femme punk to shoegaze siren. Fans can support the album’s release via her Kickstarter campaign.
Stream HERE
Electric Hawk
LoTemp- Crowd Pleaser
After a quiet 16 months, Kansas City-based duo LoTemp is returning with a vengeance. “CrowdPleaser” – coming April 12 – does exactly as its name suggests. This long-awaited ID is a bass-heavy track that gets the crowds rowdy. The LoTemp boys are so grateful for their friendship with DATA_BYTE, who is the mastermind behind all visual assets for “CrowdPleaser.”
Stream HERE
Etage Noir Recordings
Parov Stelar- Fire
Parov Stelar returns with ‘Fire’, a new lead single that directly follows up the revered Austrian creative force’s recently-released track ‘Toxic Lover’. With releases such as ‘Candy Girl’ and it Late Night Mix already under his belt, the talent primes himself for his forthcoming full-length album ‘Moonlight Love Affair’, slated to drop at the tail end of this month. Out now via his own imprint Etage Noir Recordings, ‘Fire’ is available to listen to across all streaming platforms.
Stream HERE
Fat Cat Music Group
Virus Syndicate- The Resistance
The new EP boasts features from renowned industry tastemakers the likes of Ace Aura, Ecraze, Graphyt, Hairita
Stream HERE
George Records
Bobby Halvorson- Function
Sacramento-based singer-songwriter Bobby Halvorson is pleased to release his latest single “Function,” the lastest single to be lifted from his album Parasympathy out May 13 (pre-save). Parasympathy, which will be released on up-and-coming label George Records, will include many of the songs he’s recently released in addition to five more unreleased tracks.
Stream HERE
HARD Rexs
Capozzi- No One / AI Love
Independent
Esseks- Justice Served
In modern music, visual art has never been more inherent to sonic storytelling. Following last month’s single, “The Uncertain Future,” Brooklyn’s Esseks offers an immersive serving of hand crafted art and sounds on his latest effort, “Justice Served.” With it, the producer unveils the next visual and sonic chapter of his forthcoming EP due out later this Spring.
Stream HERE
Strange Parade- Bag of Blood
“Bag of Blood,” the second single from The Watchers, is an amped-up storytelling affair that marries early 80’s new wave with a 60’s girl group beat, landing somewhere between The Chiffons and Echo & The Bunnymen. The story paints a picture of an individual’s paranoia, starting with a social incident, blowing out into a paranoid vision of a chemically-fueled sleepover/
Stream HERE
Insomniac Records
HoneyLuv- Your Tongue Video
Kannibalen Records
Kai Wachi- All Your Lies feat. Lexi Norton
Kai Wachi is back once again with “All Your Lies” featuring vocalist Lexi Norton. The latest offering serves as the first single off of Wachi’s upcoming ‘SKINS’ EP, due for release in June. Building anticipation for the imminent release of his EP, the new track delivers emotionally-driven lyrics with a palpably raw sonic atmosphere. Out now via Kannibalen, “All Your Lies” is available to listen to across all streaming platforms.
Stream HERE
Mobilization Recordings
Savage Republic- Stingray Video
Savage Republic is pleased to share the official video for their single “Stingray” featured on their album Meteora out May 20 in North America via Mobilization Recordings (order). On the song Savage Republic’s Ethan Port says, “Tapping into the energy of our local surf break, ‘Stingray’ echoes ‘eastern’ cinematic surf inspirations from our 1986 Ceremonial album, but more ferociously – capturing the sonic complexity and power of the current lineup.”
Stream HERE
Monstercat
Papa Khan- Get To U
Indonesian bass prodigy Papa Khan returned to Monstercat today, unveiling his new colour bass single, “Get To U.” Void of his usual darker motifs, the affectionate single conveys his dedication and willingness to go all-in for love. While still maintaining Papa Khan’s angsty edge, the track serves as the antithesis to his previous brooding cut, “Never Cared.” The bright synth stabs, warm chords, and gritty bassline drive the energy forward with his pop-punk-inspired lyrics adding a layer of heartfelt emotion.
Stream HERE
STMPD RCRDS
Martin Garrix- Good Morning feat. Matisse and Sadko
Dropping one fan-favorite after the other, Martin Garrix is releasing ‘Good Morning’ with good friends and frequent collaborators Matisse & Sadko today.
Stream HERE
Martin Garrix- Starlight feat. DubVision & Shaun Farrugia
Anticipated by many, the sixth release in a row from Garrix finally makes place for his collaboration with DubVision and Shaun Farrugia on ‘Starlight (Keep Me Afloat)’. Mixing their chord progressions seemingly with the powerhouse production qualities, ‘Starlight’ is a track that possesses some incredible magnitude. The heartfelt vocals of Shaun Farrugia complete the ensemble.
Stream HERE
Clér Letiv – Made For Each Other
Clér Letiv is making his STMPD debut with his track ‘Made For Each Other’. Starting a new chapter with this release, Letiv is ready to take over dancefloors worldwide this summer.
Stream HERE
Seth Hills feat. Lucky Lou – For U
Seth Hills is back to bless us with another banger and this time he’s teaming up with Lucky Lou on ‘For U’. The authentic Seth Hills sound design shines through on this brand new track while blending seamlessly with Lucky Lou. Working hard in the studio, Hills has a lot more new music lined up that will see the light of day in the coming months.
Stream HERE
Subsidia
YDG- Death & Glory
Death & Glory from YDG is out now! This latest EP features five insane tracks, including collabs with Dr. Ushuu and Perry Wayne, that will have your heart racing like you’re in a horror thriller! Press play if you dare.
Stream HERE
Thrive Music
No Thanks- Sober feat. Dirty Radio
Ahead of their anticipated US festival debut at Beyond Wonderland PWN in June, No Thanks cooks up a dance floor heater with Dirty Radio just in time for the start of their tour in May.
Stream HERE
Ultra Music
The Crystal Method- The Trip Out
The Trip Out, released today, April 15 on Ultra Records, has pioneering American electronic act The Crystal Method (Scott Kirkland) looking to the future and embarking on collaborations with some of today’s most exciting and musically diverse artists.
Stream HERE
Universal Music Germany
Stefy De Cicco & FAULHABER – Things That You Said feat. Cris O’Carroll
The four-on-the-floor offering serves as an updated rework of The Police‘s 1980 hit ‘Voices Inside My Head‘, and is, from start-to-finish, a stellar reimagining that ups the ante in all the best ways possible. A fast pace, hard-hitting production, and commanding vocal characterize the majority of the energetic masterpiece.
Stream HERE