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Juan Mendez, the techno musician and member of the Sandwell District collective known for productions under the name Silent Servant, has died.His UK press representative confirmed his death. He was in his mid 40s but his exact age and the cause of death have not been given.Celebrated for his dramatic, sometimes malevolent but darkly beautiful production style which drew from industrial music, Mendez was born to Cuban and Mexican parents and raised in Los Angeles. He began DJing in his mid-teens. “I was never a punk. Ever.…

Issa Rae recently revisited her experience while filming for the dance sequence on Dua Lipa's song from her Barbie movie. Rae was discussing the predictions for the upcoming 2024 Grammy Awards with The Hollywood Reporter. She was joined by the stars of her Max comedy series Rap Sh!t, KaMillion, and Aida Osman. Issa Rae at the 75th Emmy Awards on January 15, 2024.(AFP) "Dancing to it was my worst nightmare. It was the worst day of my life," she told the publication. The actress stressed that the best day of her…

One of Barbie’s most memorable qualities has to be the music. Audiences cried hearing one of Billie Eilish’s “best vocal performances” singing “What Was I Made For?” and Ryan Gosling’s “I’m Just Ken” was one of the best moments in the movie. But the scene that brought us to our feet was Dua Lipa’s “Dance the Night” when the Barbies and Kens of Barbieland danced to the top-tapping song at the Barbie Mansion. This infamous dance sequence may have gotten a lot of praise, but I felt like I was going to lose it after…

20. Demon vs Heartbreaker – You Are My High (2000)For the uninitiated, French touch is a wondrous style of French dance music from between the mid-90s and (debatably) the late 00s, based around house rhythms, funk/disco basslines, chopped-up vocal samples and heavy use of EQing so that the sound gets psychedelically compressed and expanded. All those elements are in the quintessential You Are My High, with the titular snatch of Stevie Wonder deployed for shameless hair-stroking, eyes-closing, “no mate I love you more”…

I used to hate raves. As a Deaf woman, I rarely felt comfortable in clubs and parties. After too many experiences of being excluded or subjected to unwanted attention, sexual harassment and assault, I had come to view those spaces as dangerous and unsafe. Many of my Deaf and disabled friends felt the same.But I have always loved dancing. I started when I was six years old and would skip and twirl everywhere I went, from walking down the street with my parents and waiting in the town pool queue. I obsessively watched dance…

Ella Henderson is starting 2024 with a bang thanks to her dance banger drum’n’bass collaboration ‘Alibi’ with Rudimental. The high-octane dance track samples Coolio’s iconic hit ‘Gangsta’s Paradise’ (feat. L.V.). It was written by Henderson alongside RuthAnne (Britney Spears), Maegan Cottone (Kylie Minogue) and Olivia Sebastianelli. With its infectious chorus and Henderson’s powerhouse vocal performance, ‘Alibi’ serves as a reminder as to why she has become one of the UK’s most in-demand singer-songwriters,…

Is this the year we can finally stop talking about the “post-Covid landscape?” Actually, no, but the arts and entertainment world in 2024 nonetheless seems determined to return to something at least approximating normalcy, with full schedules and ambitious programming. Hollywood is releasing a full slate of theatrical films this year, after recording an impressive $9 billion for 2023, even if thousands of theaters around the country have shuttered since Covid. The concert world roared to record attendance/box-office…

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Lythgoe stepped down a week after Paula Abdul and two other women sued him over sexual assault allegations Producer Nigel Lythgoe is stepping down from his judging and producing roles on So You Think You Can Dance amid lawsuits from Paula Abdul and two other women that detailed allegations that he sexually assaulted them. “I have informed the producers of ‘So You Think You Can Dance’ of my decision to step back from participating in this year’s series,” Lythgoe said in a statement to Rolling…

Last year, Kenya Grace began documenting her music production on TikTok. Her pairing of pop songwriting with dance instrumentals, performed from her bedroom with a simple mic and Midi-controller setup, soon attracted thousands of followers, and the comment sections were inundated with requests for covers, collaborations and official releases.But some – generally male – viewers were unconvinced, littering her posts with variously sexist, patronising and mansplaining comments. “I’ve had people ask if someone else made the…