I know it breaks your heart Moved to the city in a broke-down car And four years, no call Now I’m looking pretty in a hotel bar And I, I, I, I, I can’t stop No, I, I, I, I, I can’t stop So, baby, pull me closer In the back seat of your Rover That I know you can’t afford Bite that tattoo on your shoulder Pull the sheets right off the corner Of that mattress that you stole From your roommate back in Boulder We ain’t ever getting older We ain’t ever getting older
9-10 december 2016 siloso beach,sentosa dj dance | dj night
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The Chainsmokers Performs on ‘Saturday Night Live’ The Chainsmokers have been carefully and cautious ly been building up to the release of their long await ed debut al bum for the last several years, beginning with their infec tious and witty 2013 chart-top ping single "#SELFIE." While the dynamic duo (composed of Drew Taggart and Alex Pall) has found tunes (a la "Break Up Every Night"), ra dio-ready rock (courtesy the Coldplay-assisted wi "Some thing Just Like This") and sultry electronic-tinged an thems (such as with "Wake Up Alone" featuring the eve. Harry Styles’ new single “Sign of the Times” was im pacted by a technical is sue with Spotify that made the One Direction breakout star’s buzzed-about solo de but difficult to find on the streaming service.
As the Ctom release true to their signature sounds, they With the album’already i mpressive ly racking up nearly 300 million streams on Spotify, it’s exci ting to see how the rest of the songs will resonate with the sto ried group’s dedicated fan base and which track will climb its way up the charts next. As the Chainsmokerscommem orate their continued winning streak with a solid top-to-bot tom re lease true to their sig nature sounds, they remind us that sometimes sticking to a trusty formula is the wisest risk of all. Especially considering the fact the group has spent years au thentically carving a lane of their own single-by-single, it’s only fitting that the Chainsmokt sto climb its way up the charts.
zouk out 2017
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The Chainsmokers held a DJ party in Singapore Anyone hanging around the corner of Houston and Lafay ette Streets in New York City Friday, April 7, may be ove rjoyed to find a pop-up store dedicated to NYC dance-pop heroes The Chainsmokers.
zouk out 2017 A campaign face hunt launched alongside partnering agency, Basic Models, nineteenar-old Angie Watkins was announced on the 30th of June as the ZoukOut Girl Search 2016 winner. Known as the Singapore representative for the latest installment of Asia’s Next Top Model, Watkins will be fronting the ZoukOut 2016 campaign and will be co-hosting the MTV EDM Countdown.
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He was crowned World’s #1 DJ in the 2013 DJ Mag Top 100 DJs Poll cementing his position as the electronic scenes newest superstar DJ and becoming the youngest ever winner of the cov eted Top 100 DJs award In 2014 the Dutch megastar did it again – being crowned World’s #1 DJ in the 2014 Hardwell was born in 1988 in Breda and began to orient himself on music
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Thirty push-ups and a shot of tequila each: that’s all the prepa ration Julio Mejia and Matt Toth need to throw down a killer set, to turn from laid-back, unassum ing 24-year-olds into the scene -steal ing DJ and production duo GTA. While theirwarm-ups are rou tine, Mejia and Toth’s perfor mances are anything but. Pad ley entered the electronic music
His formal DJ education start ed at 17, playing 12-13 hour sets each Sunday at a club in his hometown – with queues round the block, as his residency soon became the number one after party destination for clubbers from far and wide. “I’d have four crates of records. Padley entered the electronic music scene at a young age.quent area nightclubs Already at the age of twelve, he produced his first own
The place is decorated like a giant box, similar to the one which adorns the album cover of the pair's debut LP Memories…Do Not Open, which was also convenient ly released this same day. Fans are welcomed into the box and find an interior mod eled after the room said box sits in on said album cov er. Visitors can listen to the new album, and some lucky fans will have the chance to meet The Chainsmokers' Alex Pall The Chainsmokers have been dominating radio, the charts and dance clubs for the past year-plus, but they haven’t put out a de but album -- until now.
Memories Do Not Open, hit re tail ers and streaming servic es, and you can listen to the full thing below. But bounce too far out of the zone and you might lose the room, making all those teenybopper fans forget why they loved you in the first place so The Chainsmokers made their Satur
The Chainsmokers have been dominating radio, the charts and dance clubs for the past year plus, but they haven't put out a debut album -- until now. On Fr iday (April 7), the duo's first full body of work, Memories...Do Not Open, hit retailers and streaming ser vices, and he feel happy to re ceive a campion for the race. theymake the saturday night become an awesome party.yh thourghout the year.
Drew Taggart and Alex Pall performed "Paris," the lead single from the new album, re leased at the beginning of the year. The second perfor mance was “Break Up Every Night” not their second Memories sin gle, “Something Just Like This. they having a great year in new york city.they won a best dancer recording.can’t wait for to heard the album.
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The Chainsmokers' Memories': Is this the worst album of 2017? The storybehindthe Chainsmok ers’inexplicable rise reads like a screenplay for a Coachella-themed remake of This is Spi nal Tap: af ter forming their EDM The story behind the Chainsmokers’ inexpli cable rise reads like a screenplay for a Coachella-themed remake of This is Spi nal Tap: after forming their EDM group in their Syracuse University dorm room, production duo An drew Taggart and Alex Pall landed an unexpected hit with their 2014 track #SELF.can;’t wait to heard The band’s story is built on their every-dude image, born of the idea that anyone with a dream can become superstars through years of hard work, tal ent notwithstanding.very hap py to heard that.
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All the while, the duo steadily released EPs and one-off singles, until one track became the biggest song in America: 2016’s Closer, which topped the Billboard Hot 100 for 12 straight weeks. Now, the Chainsmokers are near-hous ehold names already enjoying the spoils of their success, their next few months booked solid with a lucrative Las Vegas resi dency, guest-starring stint on Saturday Night Live and sum mer arena tour, all of which the duo achieved without a proper album. Perhaps they should’ve continued limiting their releas es to singles, as Memories, their official 12-song debut, is better lef t forgotten the Chainsmokers’
It’s a trope at this point to com pare everything in 2017 cul ture to Trump, but accord ing to that mental exercise, the Chainsmokers’ appeal isn’t all that different from the presi dent. so happy to heard such a great news for them can’t wait to see them
The group’s fans can tout their populist rise (if you consid er a music group born in a pri vate-university dorm room “populist”), while writing off critics of their questionbly sex ist lyrics and sophomoric jokes as too-PC. And for listeners tired of progressive politics showing up in their pop culture offer ings, who wish Beyonce would just stick to singing instead of making pro Black Lives Matter.
band to collaborate on the rest of the track. The result is some thing totally unique: After teasing a major an nounce ment on social media, The Chainsmokers today (Jan. 30) announced their first full -length album and a major are na tour encompassing 40 North Taggart and Alex Pall, the Chainsmokers mix indie, dance, and pop into a chart-top ping sound that spawned hits like "Roses" and "Don't Let Me Down." Pall and Taggart first made a name for themselves by creat ing remixes of their fa vorite indie bands that garnered tens of millions of streams. The duo released its official de but single "#Selfie," which cel ebrated and skewered 2010s narcissism, in January 2014. The track's bouncy beats and self-obsessed words hit number iTunes get your sh*t together! heard andThis song was co-wri tten by Andrew Taggart of The
It’s no secret that The Chainsmokers have proven that they are comedians at heart with “#SELFIE” really bringing their humor to the forefront of the critique on the dance mu sic scene. While they do release some music with more serious themes (like their previous sin gle release, “Roses”), we can al ways expect something cheeky from Alex and Drew to keep us on our toes. Today we’ve got one of those releases, and it’s called “Waterbed.” ers-return -with-wa terbed/#mmcIfFIP4Us mrLIy.99 The guys came up with a Rugrats-inspired melo dy and recruited the LA-based Never ones to shy away from incorporating a diverse array of elements into the genre, FGL in vited hip-hop star Nelly to take a verse on the remix of "Cruise," off 2013's Here's to the Good Times. . . This Is How We Roll, and re turned the favor by ap pearing on "Walk Away" from Nelly's 2013 album M.O.
Chainsmokers, Scott Harris, and Emily Warren. Harris explained to Songwriter Universe how the collaboration came to fruition. "Emily and I write together all the time," he said. "I've wri tten more songs with her than anybody else by a lot. We just get each other and it's a really comfortable environment when we are together. She had done a song with The Chainsmokers and was basically like, we HAVE to work with them. We had a session in Drew's apartment and he played us the beginning of the track that eventually be came 'Don't Let Me Down.' We had a brief conversation about not overthinking anything and Drew was the one who was quickly like, don't mess with that chorus, that's it! A trium phant paean to living in the moment, “Last Day Alive” opens with stacked Bon Iver-like au to -tuned harmonies from FGL’s Ty ler Hubbard and Brian Kel ley, before moving into isolated, vu lnerable vocals and Andrew Taggart and Alex Pall’s signature
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