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Yahoo
a day ago
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- Yahoo
Demi Lovato Is Finalizing a ‘Celebratory Dance-Pop Album' Produced by Zhone
Demi Lovato is in the final stages of her ninth studio album. A source close to the project tells Rolling Stone Monday that Lovato is embracing the electronic sound of some of her biggest pop hits on her next record, which is expected to drop later this year. 'Over the past few years, Demi has found love, joy, and newfound confidence, making the choice to approach life with much more lightness and fun,' the source tells Rolling Stone, referring to her recent marriage to Jordan 'Jutes' Lutes. 'She took this sentiment into the studio, which can be felt in every track on this celebratory dance-pop album.' More from Rolling Stone Madi Diaz Will End Trio of Heartache Albums With 'Fatal Optimist' Blood Orange Previews First Album in Six Years 'Essex Honey' With Two New Singles Justin Bieber Finally Had '100% Creative Freedom' on 'Swag' After Scooter Braun Split: Source Lovato tapped Zhone — the music maker behind 'Someone for Me' by Kylie Minogue, 'Rush' by Troye Sivan, and 'Joyride' by Kesha — to executive-produce the upcoming project. 'It's been so inspiring working with Demi and experiencing her journey of continued leveling up,' Zhone tells Rolling Stone about their work together. 'She is such a master in the studio. This album is about letting inhibitions go, and we had so much fun making this music! It really comes across throughout.' Fans have already started to get a taste of DL9 with teasers posted by Lovato of the album's lead single, 'Fast.' The music is a significant step away from the rock-leaning energy of her two last projects, 2022's Holy Fvck and 2023's Revamped, which reimagined her pop hits as rock tracks. When she announced Revamped with Rolling Stone, she said she was considering a return to pop. 'I was listening to a bunch of metal. And now, I'm trying to wrap my brain around more pop-sounding stuff, just in case my music wants to take that direction,' she said at the time. On the new project, she'll tap into the sound she's explored on some of her chart-topping EDM collaborations, such as 2018's 'Solo' with Clean Bandit, 2017's 'No Promises' with Cheat Codes, and 'Instruction' from Tell Me You Love Me with Jax Jones. Her electropop goes back to 2013, when she included fan favorite 'Neon Lights' on her self-titled record Demi. Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
The Citizen
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Citizen
Recipe of the Day: Weekend Sundowners Delight
This cocktail is a perfect companion for leisurely sundowners. There's nothing quite like the refreshing taste of a cocktail to elevate your weekend vibe. Enter the Don Julio blood orange paloma, a delightful twist on the classic paloma that combines the smoothness of premium tequila with the vibrant, zesty flavour of blood orange. Perfectly balanced with a hint of sweetness and tartness, this cocktail is a perfect companion for leisurely sundowners or afternoons indoors. Whether you're lounging by the pool or enjoying a cozy evening on the patio, the Don Julio blood orange paloma is sure to make your weekend truly memorable. Cheers to good times and great flavors! Ingredients 1.5 oz Don Julio Blanco Tequila 0.75 oz Fresh Squeezed Grapefruit 0.5 oz Fresh Squeezed Lime 0.5 oz Agave Nectar 3 oz Blood Orange Soda Garnish Chili Salt Dusted Blood Orange Wheel Method Garnish with blood orange Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker Fill completely with ice and shake passionate Strain into glass and top with soda Recipe supplied by Don Julio.
ABC News
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- ABC News
Blood Orange guest programs rage (2012)
This week's Vault Guest Programmer is none other than English singer, songwriter, record producer, composer and director Devonté ('Dev') Hynes, better known as Lightspeed Champion or Blood Orange. Recorded back in 2012 whilst on tour with Florence + The Machine, he delved into some of his favourite clips and artists of all time (with some quality soul searching and storytelling to boot!). With a playlist that spans across countries and decades, this is an episode for the fans of pop music's true greats. Catch Blood Orange on the red couch this Friday night from 10:57pm on ABC Entertains (or stream live on ABC iview!).
Yahoo
21-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Blood Orange Previews First Album in Six Years ‘Essex Honey' With Two New Singles
Last month, Dev Hynes returned as Blood Orange for the first time in three years with 'The Field,' a Caroline Polachek-assisted single about grief and escapism. As it turns out, the musician has been thinking a lot about these themes in the six years since his most recent studio album. The grief that comes with living, but also growing up, leaving home, and turning to music to make sense of it all works as the foundation of Essex Honey, the new album from Blood Orange, out August 29. Hynes leaned on an expansive list of collaborators across Essex Honey, including Polachek who also appears on the newly-released single 'Mind Loaded' alongside Lorde and Mustafa. Hynes recently produced tracks for Lorde's new album Virgin. He also contributed vocals on Turnstile's 'Seein' Stars,' and the band's frontman Brendan Yates will repay the favor on Essex Honey. More from Rolling Stone Justin Bieber Finally Had '100% Creative Freedom' on 'Swag' After Scooter Braun Split: Source Kid Cudi Drops New Song 'Grave' From Upcoming Album 'Free' Deftones Announce First Album in Five Years, Drop New Song 'Mind Loaded' arrives alongside 'Somewhere in Between,' a solo entry from Hynes that repeats the mournful and pleading refrain, 'Light was just for hope and it's keeps flickering/I just want to see again.' The album artwork for Essex Honey calls back to the musician's upbringing just outside of London. The image captures a young boy walking in his school uniform, striped tie blowing in the wind, while holding a basketball in one hand and a CD in another. 'Essex Honey is an album tinted with grief and loss, working towards acceptance and resolution, at a time when the culture is collectively feeling grief and loss, collectively trying to work towards resolution and acceptance,' a release about the album reads. The voice of the collective expands on the album with appearances from Daniel Caesar, Tariq Al-Sabir, the Durutti Column, and author Zadie Smith, marking the first time she has lent her singing voice to an album. Ian Isiah, Tirzah, Eva Tolkin, Wet's Kelly Zutrau, actors Naomi Scott and Amandala Stenberg, and Liam Benzvi also appear on Essex Honey. Best of Rolling Stone Sly and the Family Stone: 20 Essential Songs The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked Solve the daily Crossword
NZ Herald
19-07-2025
- Entertainment
- NZ Herald
Listener's Songs of the Week: New tracks by Blood Orange featuring Lorde, Nine Inch Nails, David Byrne, and more
Lorde's choirmaster Dev Hynes, aka Blood Orange. Photo / Michael Lavine Reviews Mind Loaded by Blood Orange, featuring Caroline Polachek, Lorde & Mustafa UK producer-songwriter-multi-instrumentalist Blood Orange (Devonté Hynes) arranges himself quite a choir on this dreamy, airy, melancholy bit of chamber pop, driven by a gently arpeggiating piano before talking a harsh left-turn with a minute to go. It's one of two advance tracks from his first solo album since 2018, Essex Honey. The Lorde vocal cameos follow Hynes' cello, bass, synth, and guitar playing on the Virgin track Favourite Daughter and him being a support act on her forthcoming Ultrasound world tour. – Russell Baillie She Explains Things to Me By David Byrne, Ghost Train Orchestra Byrne's amusing ode to male befuddlement might be partly inspired by Rebecca Solnit's 2014 book Men Explain Things to Me which popularised the phrase 'mansplaining.' But it could also be read as a sweet love song from this spry 73-year-old's coming solo album, one that sounds like it will be fun to put on the gramophone right after Talking Heads' Remain in Light at my next rest home happy hour. – Russell Baillie As Alive as You Need Me to Be by Nine Inch Nails Welcome to a brief sub-section of this week's column devoted to bands you might have once seen at a Big Day Out (younger readers, ask an uncle). Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross have had a dignified parallel career as creators of movie soundtracks since the BDO era, while Reznor has occasionally dusted off his old Nine Inch Nails band-brand. Here, under the NIN banner, they unleash the first song off the soundtrack to the new Tron film – Daft Punk did the last one – and the instantly anthemic As Alive as You Need Me to Be should have fans of Reznor's electro-goth-rock beginnings from his Pretty Hate Machine era wondering where the time has gone? – Russell Baillie My Mind is a Mountain by Deftones And now for your daily dose of angst-filled, shouty, head-crunching, decibel-abusing Californian metal from a band which played the BDO a couple of times. Claustrophobic consciousness metal? 'The storm remains and my heart's entrenched. Fate explores me now. Why do we bathe in this psyche?' It's a good, loudly delivered, question. – Graham Reid Desire by Georgia Knight Like a sensual trip-hopped Kate Bush, this steamy single from Melbourne-based expat Knight is a deep and smoky dive into interesting new territory. She tours with Folk Bitch Trio in September, and it'll be interesting to see how something like this slice of nightclub/noir art-pop plays out live. Meantime check it out. If it signals a new album let's hope she gets on with it. – Graham Reid Sundog by Babe Martin Babe Martin (Auckland's Zoe Larsen Cumming) possesses an extraordinary voice which here opens high and lonely then just keeps pushing upward as this confident piece becomes a swelling slice of something beyond folk and moves into evocative art music. If we judge people by the company they keep it's worth noting in her circle is Jazmine Mary, that's good company. Debut EP Not a Bee, but a Wasp coming soon. Definitely one to watch out for. – Graham Reid Give Into My Fears by Jamaica Moana As on previous singles Living Out West and Keep It Real, this Sydney-based, Samoan-Māori, queer artist – with links to the Hokianga and Waikato – keeps the backing stripped right back so her rap messages come through with clarity. It's about creating herself, assertion, the drive towards fame ('I've been doing this for years') and never compromising. She's convincing. Six-song debut EP Bud & Deni (named for her parents) out August 1. -- Graham Reid Death in the Family by The Sophs Who would have thought 'WEEZER-like' would become a thing? But here the LA-based alt-pop Sophs tap into a Weezerness with a song which is droll and disturbing ('I need a death in the family to turn my page') which cleaves a bit too close to Weezer to be totally satisfying. But the message of seeking redemption for past mistakes is interesting. Too soon to send flowers, and this only their second single (their previous Sweat was more convincing) so maybe that Next Big Thing description could go on hold for a while. – Graham Reid Time by Curtis Harding Vocally, American soul man Harding can deliver from the tradition of classic Motown and Stax artists (Temptations, Rufus Thomas, and other raw singers). But on this drum-driven single he initially dispenses with horns and backing vocals which means he immediately catches attention. When those other elements arrive there's tension and a sense of desperation which cleverly winds down into a moody second half. A crafted and quietly compelling notice of a new, as yet unscheduled, album. – Graham Reid Fine by Meg Washington, featuring Paul Kelly Seasoned Brisbane singer-songwriter Meg Washington ropes in wise elder Paul Kelly for a tight-harmony duet that runs a fine line between subdued country folk ballad and uplifting ode to surviving the storm. 'Everything's going to be fine,' they sing on a gentle song that snowballs into something Cohen-esque and hymn-like. Would suit a choir treatment which brings us to … – Russell Baillie Didn't It Rain by the New Zealand Youth Choir, Karen Grylls conductor We've always produced good choirs. It's not surprising – famously, more New Zealanders sing in choirs than play rugby. Our leading choirs, though, are much better than good. They proved it again recently during the NZ Youth Choir's Northern Hemisphere tour, where, under the stewardship of music director David Squire, they've won two major competitions. They took top honours at the Grand Prix of Nations at the European Choir Games in Denmark, and a few days later were named Choir of the World at the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod in Wales. It's not the first time they've claimed the latter title – they won in 1999, too. It's from that competition that this recording of NZ composer David Hamilton's Didn't It Rain comes. Go Kiwi. – Richard Betts Dig Deep by Fat Freddy's Drop You could spend a long time looking for a track that showed what the late Chris Faiumu brought to Fat Freddy's Drop. This, from 2021's album Wairunga and accompanying concert film (see below) shows him effortlessly busy in the electronic engine room that he built and powered the band with. – Russell Baillie
