Mumbai-based Indian musician SCayos recently announced his next album, Whatever Happens, Happens. As the 20-year-old artist and producer indicates, the album is about dealing with grief.
He elaborates, “Loss is experienced in so many ways and everyone copes very differently, but there are 5 main stages of it which I chose to express through the album: denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance. Each track is my take on these stages, how I felt during the times of loss, and how I got through them.”
His latest single is called “Under The Stars”. This track sums SCayos’ his lo-fi style.
Listen to the song and follow SCayos on Instagram.
Capturing the euphoria in the moment where affection turns to obsession, the independent Czech songwriter, DJ and producer Goshok let the evocative floodgates open in his entrancing EDM mix, On My Mind.
Never one to pigeonhole himself under the EDM umbrella, the Dance music producer gives himself free rein to experiment and amalgamate elements from other subgenres, and that more than shows in the naturally powerful progressions in On My Mind.
The arrestingly ardent single pulls you safely through the heart-in-mouth drops and the tension-fraught build-ups that leave you in galvanised anticipation for the stylishly produced beat to drop. If you want to hear an artist at the top of their game, hit play.
On My Mind was officially released on December 9th. Check it out on Spotify and SoundCloud.
It’s been just over a year since we lost Young Dolph, but the late rapper’s estate isn’t letting his memory fade. Along with Paper Route Empire, the world is being blessed with a new album called Paper Route Frank.
Equipped with 13 tracks, including “Old Ways,” the posthumous release boasts features from Key Glock (of course), Gucci Mane, 2 Chainz, Big Moochie Grape, and Snupe Bandz; over production from PRE’s own BandPlay, Drumma Boy, Dun Deal, Sosa 808, and DJ Squeeky.
Love For The Streets (prod. Dun Deal)
Blind Fold (prod. BandPlay)
Woah (prod. Sosa 808)
Uh Huh (prod. BandPlay)
That’s How ft. Key Glock (prod. BandPlay)
Old Ways (prod. BandPlay)
Roster ft. Gucci Mane (prod. BandPlay)
Smoke My Weed (prod. Drumma Boy)
Always (prod. CEOO)
Beep Beep ft. Gucci Mane (prod. DJ Squeeky)
Hall Of Fame (prod. BandPlay)
Infatuated With Drugs ft. Big Moochie Grape & Snupe Bandz (prod. BandPlay)
Get Away (prod. Sosa 808)
Press play and add Paper Route Frank wherever you get music.
The Estate of Young Dolph Releases ‘Paper Route Frank’ Album was last modified: December 16th, 2022 by Shake
The singer began teasing the follow-up to 2020’s ‘Plastic Hearts’ with a series of posters featuring the strapline ‘NEW YEAR, NEW MILEY’ appearing around Los Angeles. Later, Cyrus updated her Spotify bio to contain the phrase, while the words have also since appeared in her Twitter bio.
Check out one of the posters spotted in L.A. below:
Fans have speculated that Cyrus could be once again working with Mike Will Made It, who produced her 2013 album ‘BANGERZ’. The two of them recently appeared together in a photo posted to Instagram post by Rae Sremmurd with the caption ‘EAR DRUMMERS & HEAD BANGERZ’.
Cyrus released her first live album, ‘Attention: Miley Live’ earlier this year, which featured two unreleased songs, ‘Attention’ and ‘You’ as well as 20 live versions of songs from across her career.
“My fans have been asking me for a live album for a long time & I am so exxxited to give it to them!” Cyrus said in a post announcing the album. “This show was curated BY the fans FOR the fans! I asked my audience what songs they’d like to see me perform at upcoming shows and this is the set list YOU created!”
Cyrus has also been confirmed to have a guest feature on Morrissey‘s upcoming album ‘Bonfire of Teenagers’. The album will be released in the US via Capitol Records in February 2023. A UK release has not yet been scheduled as Morrissey currently does not have a UK record deal.
Google-owned music streaming platform YouTube Music will soon give users the ability to create a custom radio.
YouTube Music already lets users customise their current queue directly from the Now Playing screen by genre, familiarity, mood and energy level.
Now YouTube will soon give users the freedom to create a custom radio in an in-depth manner.
The tech company is currently testing the upcoming feature as a few YouTube Music users on Friday started seeing ‘Create a radio’ option in the main feed.
The feature, supposed to “tune your music”, shows a grid of artists for you to select from, which appears similar to YouTube Music’s initial setup process.
According to reports, after users have made their selections, YouTube Music will give them three “Song selection” options — Familiar, Blend, and Discover.
Similarly, ‘Filters’ will include — Popular, Deep cuts, New releases, Pump-up, Chill, Upbeat, Downbeat, and Focus, according to the report.
In July, YouTube Music tested a new feature — Dynamic queue, which helped get queue and radio updates based on users listening behaviour.
YouTube Music will change the playback queue if users skip to a new track while still halfway through the current song.
Moreover, in June, YouTube Music’s web app added a new feature that allowed users to manage songs in bulk more easily, particularly when adding them to specific playlists.
As per reports, YouTube plans to make the feature available in the coming weeks across the world as this will add advanced level of customisation compared to what YouTube Music and algorithm offers naturally.
Australian pop sensation Chymes delivered a new anthem last week. She named the song “I Think I Made You Up”.
It’s a buoyant break-up song.
Chymes says: “When you break up finally realise that they actually suck, you play this song. ‘I Think I Made You Up’ is about the moment you figure out that this person you were with wasn’t actually perfect and you made it all up in your head. Sometimes it’s easy to fool ourselves into thinking the person we’re dating is so amazing and great and everything you ever wanted but you’re actually just ignoring all the bad shit and trying so hard to just focus on the good. ITIMYU is fun and laid back, not overly serious, just a moment to laugh at yourself for being dumb and being glad you broke it off because, well, they suck lol.“
Listen/dance to “I Think I Made You Up” and follow Chymes on Instagram.
For his latest single, Tonight, the up-and-coming artist, Lyfe, served a potent cocktail of pop, funk, disco, and soul. Rather than evoking nostalgia from one era, the artist, who is dominating more and more of the metaverse with every subsequent release, simultaneously took us to the 60s, 70s and 80s in a dizzying feat of sonic time travel.
While you time-hop through the funk-chopped guitars, glistening piano glissandos and heady four-to-the-floor beat, Lyfe creates collaborative alchemy with the celestially timbered backing vocalists who pour a profound level of euphoric soul into the feverish with disco track.
Each song from Lyfe’s 20-track debut album has its own virtual world in the Metaverse. Before the debut LP, Lyfe founded YXY ODY Studios to create a series of NFT drops and The Odyssey Metaverse. He also deployed one of the biggest virtual concerts yet, with over 40,000 attendees.
Watch this space because Lyfe is about to revolutionise it.
Tonight will officially release on December 16th. Check it out on his official website.
During the hotter months of 2022 Diddy dropped “Gotta Move On,” the first single from his R&B-focused imprint Love Records with Motown Records. A “vintage Diddy”-esque remix of the track, would soon follow.
Now, Sergio Roma (another gold star if you get the reference) links with PARTYNEXTDOOR (where has he been?) for the imprint’s second focus track, “Sex In The Porsche.” The track is rather blunt and to the point… and I’ll leave it at that because it’s too easy to joke about Diddy’s personal life right now ha.
The Dids also connected with Rick Ross for the video “Watcha Gon’ Do,” which is a mini-clip of their 2017 track.
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Many people listen to music while working, exercising at the gym, or simply relaxing. But how does music affect your brain?
Along with triggering a release of the feel-good hormone dopamine, science has shown that listening to music may boost our cognitive function, potentially relieve symptoms of anxiety and stress, and help us to stay focused. It’s no wonder that many of us choose to listen to music before, during and after workouts. To get the most out of that listening experience, check out our list of the best running headphones.
“When you hear a song, your auditory cortex — the part of your brain responsible for processing sound — is activated,” Desiree Silverstone (opens in new tab), a psychotherapist based in London, England, told Live Science. “This activates other areas of your brain, including the limbic system — responsible for emotion — and the motor cortex, which controls movement.”
Silverstone added that as more areas of the brain are activated, we may start to feel the effects of the music. If you’re listening to fast-paced music, for example, you may start to feel more alert and energetic. If you’re listening to relaxing music, you may start to feel calmer and more relaxed.
Cognitive performance
How many times have you remembered the lyrics to a song, but couldn’t recall what you did over the weekend? Music goes a lot further than just filling a void. In a 2008 study, published in the journal Perception and Motor Skills (opens in new tab), researchers discovered that rhythm with or without musical accompaniment may be able to “facilitate recall of text”, meaning listening to music could help us to remember pieces of information.
In addition, a 2010 study in Perceptual and Motor Skills (opens in new tab) found that music may be able to improve our cognitive function outside the context of memory tasks. The experiment, which tasked 56 male and female university students with completing a linguistic and spatial processing task while listening to 10 excerpts of Mozart symphonies, found that background music was linked to an increase in the speed of spatial processing (how fast we recognize the shapes, patterns and positions of objects) and the accuracy of linguistic processing (our ability to process words).
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But why is this? According to a 2007 study published in the journal Aging Clinical and Experimental Research (opens in new tab), this improvement in our brain function could be explained by the “arousal-and-mood hypothesis.” The hypothesis asserts that music enhances our level of arousal, meaning how awake and alert we feel, and this puts us at an optimal level to enhance memory recall. In particular, the theory suggests that adding entertaining auditory backgrounds makes a learning task more interesting and therefore increases the learner’s overall level of arousal.
Anxiety and depression
According to a 2017 review published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology (opens in new tab), music may be beneficial in reducing symptoms of depression. In 26 out of 28 studies the researchers analyzed, there was a significant reduction in depression levels over time in the groups that listened to music compared to the control groups that didn’t. In particular, older individuals (without a specific condition) showed improvements when they listened to music or participated in music therapy. Music therapy can involve listening to, playing, composing, or interacting with music.
According to psychotherapist Jordan Vyas-Lee (opens in new tab), co-founder of the Kove Clinic, a therapy clinic in London, England, listening to upbeat or happy music can help to light up neural networks that store positive and personal memories. “This is the sort of information that gets blocked during bouts of depression and which needs unlocking to stimulate problem solving skills and adaptive, positive behavioral repertoires,” Vyas-Lee told Live Science.
Vyas-Lee is a psychotherapist and the clinical director of Kove Clinic in London, England. He completed his undergraduate degree at the University of Birmingham, England, and postgraduate studies at King’s College London’s Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, and University College London.
Vyas-Lee emphasized that music alone is unlikely to “cure” depression, but it “can act as an aid to recovery.”
A 2022 review published in the journal Musicae Scientiae (opens in new tab) found that listening to music had a significant effect on alleviating diagnosed anxiety in a range of groups. The most common “session time” was 30 minutes, said the authors, although they suggested comparing different durations would be useful for drawing further conclusions as to how long one must listen to music to experience anxiety relief.
Stress
Prolonged periods of stress can wreak havoc on your body. But just like yoga, meditation and exercise, experts say that listening to music can also lower physical and psychological stress.
Music “fundamentally affects the release of neurochemicals in the brain, increasing the release of serotonin and dopamine and reducing the effects of cortisol,” Vyas-Lee said. He pointed to a 2015 study published in the journal The Lancet (opens in new tab) that showed how listening to music before, during and after surgery reduced pain and stress associated with medical procedure.
“But evidence here is patchy,” he cautioned. Based on the current evidence, it seems that “music stimulates physiological and psycho-emotional responses, opening up brain pathways that link to positive memories and feelings, in turn reducing stress.”
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Dopamine production
Dopamine is a signaling molecule that acts as a chemical messenger in the nervous system and as a hormone that can affect many tissues in the body; it performs many roles in the body, but is best known for its association with feelings of pleasure and happiness. And according to Silverstone, music can trigger the release of this feel-good hormone.
“When dopamine levels rise, we feel good and our mood improves,” she told Live Science. “Dopamine is also involved in the brain’s reward system, which explains why we often feel pleasure when listening to music.”
A 2019 study in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (opens in new tab) appears to support this mechanism. Researchers orally administered a dopamine precursor (levodopa), a dopamine antagonist (risperidone), and a placebo (lactose) to three different groups who were tasked with listening to 10 pop songs and five of their favorite musical excerpts . They found that the dopamine precursor, levodopa, compared with placebo, increased the body’s pleasure responses. Those given the dopamine antagonist experienced a reduction of both.
The negative effects of music
It’s been shown that music can improve our frame of mind, but it can also lower our mood — especially when we are already in a negative state of mind. In a 2019 article published in the Psychology of Music (opens in new tab), researchers found that 17% of all participants taking part in the experiment reported feeling sadder as a consequence of listening to sad music when they were already feeling low. However, 74% of participants were not saddened by sad music.
“Listening to sad or anger-filled music for too long can increase the release of cortisol and stimulate brain areas associated with negative emotion,” said Vyas-Lee.” It can even switch on the threat detection systems in the brain.
“How somebody listens to music, how they interact with their choice of music, and how repeatedly they listen to a certain music type is probably key in the resulting effects on their emotional health.”
This article is for informational purposes only and is not meant to offer medical advice.
Amazon Music announced Wednesday (Dec. 14) that 21 Savage will perform on the upcoming season finale of Amazon Music Live.
The superstar rapper will take the stage on Dec. 29 for the new series’ final show of the year, which will be hosted as always by 2 Chainz following Amazon’s Thursday Night Football. According to a release, the Grammy winner is expected to perform songs from Her Loss, his new collaborative album with Drake, as well as debut new and unreleased tracks.
Premiering in October on both Prime Video and Amazon Music’s Twitch channel, the inaugural season of the Thursday night concert series has also included performances by — and exclusive interviews with — Lil Baby, Megan Thee Stallion, Kane Brown, Lil Wayne and Anuel AA. Plus, Anitta is slated to take over for this Thursday’s episode (Dec. 15) ahead of 21 Savage’s finale.
Her Loss debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and spent four weeks atop the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart after its release in early November via OVO Sound and Republic Records.
Following his new album with Drake, Savage — who was named an honorable mention in Billboard‘s Greatest Pop Stars of 2022 — also collaborated with Nas on their fiery single “One Mic, One Gun.”
