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Coachella 2024, with the festival marking his first show since receiving cancer treatment.The London DJ and producer played a set at the Indio, California event last Saturday (April 13), marking his first performance of the year.Prior to the appearance, Bibi wrote on X/Twitter: “One year ago I was given a 30% chance of survival, today I’m packing to perform at Coachella… Never give up on your hopes or dreams.”The artist last year underwent treatment for CNS Lymphoma, a rare form of cancer which forms in the lymph tissue of the brain or spinal cord. His diagnosis was confirmed in June 2023, with the update stating that he would not be performing for the “foreseeable future”.Bibi then played a surprise set in Ibiza last October, and said he was in remission in December.One year ago I was given a 30% chance of survival, today I’m packing to perform at @coachella ….never give up on your hopes or dreams— Michael Bibi (@MichaelBibi1) April 8, 2024one life, live it pic.twitter.com/IFM8Dwh5sl— Michael Bibi (@MichaelBibi1) April 15, 2024Speaking to BBC Newsbeat after his Coachella 2024 show, Bibi explained: “It was emotional, it was intense – there was happiness, there was some sadness.

As Standing Rock Sioux writer and theologian Vine Deloria Jr. once said, “Religion is for people who're afraid of going to Hell.

James Blake has said major labels “should be required to provide a therapist to their artists”.In a new X/Twitter thread, the musician has called for labels to provide therapy for their artists. In response to a tweet posted by Butterz label head Elijah, Blake wrote: “Labels should be required to provide a therapist to their artists.

Here’s a Valentine’s Day hot tip for all you lonely hearts out there: get on the apps and send Fever Ray‘s “Shiver” video to your matches. Only the ones who respond positively are worth spending any of your precious time on.

Logic1000 has opened up to NME about how an intensive period of therapy has transformed her ability to tour and perform on stage.The producer and DJ, real name Samantha Poulter, is this week’s star of NME’s The Cover, a renewal of our commitment to supporting emerging talent across the globe on a weekly basis.In the interview, she explained that a 10-month pause in live performance in 2023 allowed her time to engage in a revelatory spell of professional therapy, which allowed her to re-engage with touring in a healthier and more fulfilling way.“It changed me – it was a total paradigm shift,” Poulter explained. “I look back on the person I was before all of this therapy this year and it’s a very different person to who I am now.

HEALTH have shared new song “HATEFUL.” The typically brutal track was co-written with Sierra and features backing vocals from Leo Ashline of Street Sects. It features as part of the latest update of first-person shooter game Ultrakill.

Chicago-based duo DRAMA — lyricist Via Rosa and producer Na’el Shehade — make music that blossoms in life's in-betweens. Earlier this year, they put out their long-anticipated debut LP Dance Without Me on Ghostly International, and today, they're debuting a new video for the glossy and propulsive "Forever And A Day," a song in which Rosa finds liberation in the impermanence of a partnership: “I wanted to describe the importance of communication in relationships and how forever works.”

The Son Lux and Landlady producer Ian Chang is a bit of a nomad. He was born in Hong Kong, lived in New York for 10 years, and is now a resident of Dallas. His first album 属 Belonging is the summation of a life spent on exploring new sounds in new place. It's heavily percussive and mostly instrumental, showcasing an expert light touch in using drums as a melodic tool.

Like so many others, DJs everywhere have suddenly been left with no work and no income because of restrictions brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. With some health officials and politicians now predicting that large public gatherings may not return until the fall of 2021—or at least until there’s both herd immunity and a vaccine—it’s unlikely that DJs will be getting back into the booth anytime soon.

Canadian electro-pop band Austra are preparing to release their fourth album HiRUDiN on May 1, but self-isolation has pushed them off the road and back to their homes. They still want to debut new music though, so for Digital FORT Katie Stelmanis sent us a previously unreleased song, "All I Wanted," from the confines of her parents' basement.

It’s the end of Day 1 of FADER Fort. If we were all in Austin, that would mean it’s way past midnight and time to stumble out exhausted onto the heaving streets. At Digital FORT, that means it’s time to watch Grammy-winning Swedish electronic stars Little Dragon play “Hold On” and “Another Love” from an impressively neon-lit soundstage while you wind down for the day. We’ll be back tomorrow, bright and early, for Day 2 of Digital FORT.

Friday, March 13 was a significant day for Aaron Maine, the producer and vocalist behind electronic project Porches, for two reasons. The most obvious reason, of course, is that it was the day he released Ricky Music, his warm and compelling follow-up to 2018’s The House. The second reason: it was also the day he realized the coronavirus pandemic was going to affect his life more than he initially thought. “I don’t think a lot of people believed it was going to end up being like this,” he tells me over the phone from his Manhattan apartment. “I went out to dinner with one friend that night, and that was the last outing I’ve had... It’s such an unimaginable scenario. Here we are inside, making this shit up as we go along.”

After vaguely teasing new music on his Instagram last week, Bladee has shared a new collaboration with Drain Gang producer Ssalvia, "Undergone." The murky track arrives with an equally crepuscular video, which has Bladee decked out in a full grim reaper ensemble, scythe and all. Check it out above.