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After years of existing only in fragments and unauthorized online leaks, Avicii's long-awaited song "Let's Ride Away" is officially releasing as part of a new compilation, Avicii Forever.

Due out May 16th via Interscope, Avicii Forever will feature many of the Swedish EDM icon's most prized anthems alongside the previously unreleased track, which features vocals from Grammy-nominated artist Elle King. The record represents one of Avicii's final creative endeavors prior to his tragic death by suicide in 2018 at the age of 28.

"Let's Ride Away" originated from a collaboration between Avicii, whose real name was Tim Bergling, and country music superstar Kacey Musgraves. Though the original version featured Musgraves' vocals, it never made it onto an official release.

The new version has been finalized by Carl Falk, a longtime collaborator of Bergling's, who completed the mixing and recorded King's vocals. Multiple versions of the song had leaked online prior to this official release.

Avicii Forever celebrates Bergling's enduring legacy by curating a selection of his most beloved songs, including 2011's breakthrough "Levels," which defined a generation of EDM, and 2013's "Wake Me Up" and "Hey Brother." The compilation also draws from 2019's posthumous album Tim.

Avicii Forever is a collaborative effort between Bergling's estate, Interscope and Pophouse, which in 2022 acquired 75% of his recording and publishing rights. It marks another chapter in the investment firm's ongoing efforts to preserve and celebrate the musical contributions of the late DJ, whose blend of EDM with elements of folk, country and pop helped redefine contemporary music in the 2010s.

Pophouse is also currently developing a musical about Avicii, whose life was the subject of a recent high-profile, intimate Netflix documentary released on New Year's Eve 2024. Another documentary from the Academy Award-winning filmmaker Lawrence Bender is currently in production and will feature "previously unreleased footage" recorded around the time of Bergling's discovery and rise to fame.

The reveal of Avicii Forever arrives just ahead of the seventh anniversary of Bergling's death on April 20th, 2018. His collaborator on "Wake Me Up," Aloe Blacc, has announced a streaming event in remembrance.

Avicii Forever is due out May 16th, 2025. You can view the compilation's trailer and full tracklist below.

“Wake Me Up”
“Levels”
“Let’s Ride Away (feat. Elle King)”
“The Nights”
“Waiting for Love”
“Without You” (feat. Sandro Cavazza)
“SOS” (feat. Aloe Blacc)
“Hey Brother”
“Lonely Together” (feat. Rita Ora)
“I Could Be the One” [Avicii vs Nicky Romero]
“Silhouettes”
“Fade Into Darkness”
“You Make Me”
“The Days”
“For a Better Day”
“Addicted to You”
“Friend of Mine” (feat. Vargas & Lagola)
“Broken Arrows”
“Heart Upon My Sleeve” (feat. Imagine Dragons)
“Heaven”

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YouTube is expanding its Creator Music platform with an AI-powered feature that allows users to generate custom instrumental music for their videos. The tool, Music Assistant, is gradually rolling out to creators across the U.S. who are part of the YouTube Partner Program, according to TechCrunch.

After a beta phase in late-2024, Music Assistant is now officially launching to allow creators to generate background music without worrying about copyright claims, offering a cost-effective alternative to licensed music.

Users can enter text prompts describing the exact kind of music they want, specifying the mood, instruments, video type and other criteria, before the AI generates a copyright-free track available for download. Suggested prompts are also provided to help guide the creative process.

Music Assistant builds on YouTube's earlier "Dream Track" experiment, which used DeepMind’s Lyria model to create 30-second AI-generated tracks in the style of specific artists. Unlike Dream Track, which was limited to Shorts and short-form content, Music Assistant is being integrated into the broader Creator Music marketplace for long-form content.

YouTube says the goal is to give creators more flexibility and control over their soundtracks while simplifying the music licensing process. For more information, check out the video below published on YouTube’s Creator Insider channel. 

Aloe Blacc is once again hosting a poignant tribute to honor Avicii, inviting fans around the world to take part in a special livestream to celebrate the life and legacy of the late EDM legend on the seventh anniversary of his passing.

The stream is scheduled for place Sunday, April 20th at 12pm ET (9am PT) via Instagram Live. The event will feature special guests, reflections on Avicii's enduring impact on electronic music and candid conversations about mental health.

Blacc has encouraged fans to submit their own stories and memories about what Avicii's music meant to them, which he will read and respond to live. "Tell me what Avicii meant to you," he wrote in an announcement on Instagram.

The renowned singer-songwriter has long been dedicated to celebrating Avicii's legacy. The two famously joined forced on the global dance hit "Wake Me Up," a generational dance anthem released back in 2013. Blacc's vocals also featured on 2019's "SOS," the first posthumous single to release after Avicii’s tragic death by suicide at the age of 28.

Blacc has led annual tributes through livestreams and global fan gatherings. He performed at the massive Avicii Tribute Concert in the DJ's home of Stockholm in 2019, which brought together over 50,000 fans. On the fourth anniversary of the DJ's death in 2022, he recorded his vocals from "Wake Me Up" in Mandarin and Spanish as a tribute to Avicii’s global impact.

Fans can tune into the livestream on April 20th, 2025 via Instagram and submit their Avicii memories ahead of time here.

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ALLEYCVT is officially entering her next era, one where she's not only performing on stages, but building worlds on them.

The surging singer, songwriter and bass music producer today announced her first-ever curated event series, "SUPERSONIC." Kicking off December 6th, 2025 with a headline of Denver's famed Mission Ballroom, the series promises custom visuals, stage design and surprises tailored to her evolving sonic identity.

Known for her fusion of emotive alt-pop hooks and wobbly dubstep drops, ALLEYCVT is part of a new wave of hybrid producers redefining what it means to be a "DJ" in 2025. With "SUPERSONIC," she’s staking her claim as a performer, curator and storyteller.

"The only reason I drive myself a little crazy is because I care so much about it," ALLEYCVT told EDM.com in an intimate February interview. "I care so much about the people who listen to my music and try to get better as an artist. I care a lot."

The announcement comes amid a breakout for the genre-bending artist, who was recently named to the EDM.com Class of 2025 before making her debut at Miami's legendary Ultra Music Festival. Now, she's turning her attention toward an ambitious debut in Denver designed to mirror the magnetic energy of her sound and aesthetic.

You can watch ALLEYCVT's announcement below and purchase tickets to her "SUPERSONIC BALLROOM" show in Denver here. A pre-sale will begin April 16 at 12pm MT before the show's general on-sale April 18th at 10am MT.

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Electronic music at its most profound creates worlds rather than just sounds, and there's no universe that expands with each listen quite like BICEP's.

The Northern Irish duo today revived their DOVE project for a haunting new single, "CHROMA 009 KR3," a crystalline collaboration with Kehina. The alias has always been BICEP's sandbox for abstraction, and this release suggests they're drawing from deeper emotional reservoirs.

Typically known for turning warehouse euphoria into a kind of spiritual journey, BICEP trade the grand crescendos of Isles for a darker, more hypnotic sound in "CHROMA 009 KR36." Like a long-lost reel of VHS footage, the track is grainy, intimate and eerily soothing.

Kehina's lilting vocal swells glide atop BICEP's textured synthscapes in the track, the second DOVE single to drop as part of the duo's ongoing CHROMA project. There's a melancholic glamor to it, like stumbling out of a festival at 4am and finding the world still turning in soft hues.

Listen to "CHROMA 009 KR36" below and find the new single on streaming platforms here.

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If there’s one thing Miami doesn't need more of, it’s opulence. But MËSTIZA, the red-hot Spanish DJ duo known for fusing flamenco with house music, found a way to elevate even this city's standards during a sizzling Miami Music Week appearance at Queen.

Headlining a special edition of the club's "Queen Wednesdays" series at the former Paris Theater, the duo commanded the room with unmistakable presence. Clad in their signature cordovan hats and noir outfits, they exuded a matador-meets-mystery vibe and practically possessed the place.

MËSTIZA's dramatic DJ set oozed with the sultry sounds of their Latin American heritage as Palmas handclaps and flamenco guitar strums slithered through sumptuous four-on-the-floor beats. It's a seductive sound entirely their own, and at this decadent South Beach staple, it felt like the soundtrack to some sort of futuristic bullfight in Andalusia.

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But the setting was just as decadent. As guests toggled between fine dining and full-body dancing, servers floated by with rare Wagyu cuts, sashimi bouquets and gilded Japanese-style cocktails. They also got in on the action, gyrating to MËSTIZA's music and pumping up clubbers like the most elegant pep rally we'd ever seen.

Queen itself defies easy categorization. Equal parts gourmet dining establishment and pulsating nightclub, its dual identity served as the perfect backdrop for MËSTIZA's own boundary-blurring sound. The duo's DJ set built methodically over the evening, allowing attendees to transition from appreciating Queen's culinary offerings to surrendering to the dancefloor's gravitational pull.

Miami Music Week is no stranger to over-the-top moments, but this was something rarer. It was worldly, fashion-forward and rooted in cultural pride, a reminder that sometimes the most compelling experiences are those that honor their roots.

You can find out more about Queen Miami Beach and reserve a spot here.

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Most people leave behind a will or a family recipe. Alvin Lucier left behind instructions to regrow his brain and let it keep making music.

Inside a dimly lit gallery in Perth, metallic clangs echo through the room like Morse code, yet no musicians are present—just 20 golden brass plates, a network of wires and a small, pale mass of living brain tissue pulsing with electric activity.

It's not science fiction. It’s "Revivification," an ambitious collaboration that has literally brought a piece of a composer back from the dead.

Four years after his death, Lucier is, in a sense, still composing. His living remains, a cluster of brain matter grown from his own reprogrammed blood cells, are suspended inside a central plinth, feeding off the sounds of the room and generating haunting, improvised compositions in real time.

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The installation is the brainchild of artists Nathan Thompson, Guy Ben-Ary, Matt Gingold and neuroscientist Stuart Hodgetts, who connected through a now-defunct science research laboratory, according to The Art Newspaper. They began collaborating with Lucier in 2018, captivated by his trailblazing use of brainwaves in 1965’s "Music for Solo Performer," which turned neurological activity into live sound. 

That same fascination with internal impulse now fuels "Revivification," only this time, Lucier's mind is no longer metaphorically in the music. It is the music.

"The central question we want people to ask is: 'Could a filament of memory survive this transformation?'" the team said in a statement. "Can Lucier’s creative essence persist beyond death?"

The "in-vitro brain" was developed using Lucier’s white blood cells, which were donated before prior to hi 2021 death and ultimately transformed into stem cells at Harvard Medical School. The cells were then cultivated into neural clusters mimicking a developing brain and embedded on a mesh of electrodes. The setup captures the organism's spontaneous electrical impulses and converts them into signals that activate transducers and mallets behind the brass plates.

Each neural spark is rendered into sound, and those sounds bounce back into the brain via microphones, closing a feedback loop that allows Lucier’s synthetic brain to listen and react. As gallery visitors move and speak, their presence is woven into the performance like unknowing collaborators in a living score.

The team hopes their work continues to evolve. Future plans include adapting the installation for extreme environments like Antarctica, or even space. But for now, Lucier’s last concert plays on in a gallery in Perth, a strange and stirring performance from a musician whose mind refuses to go silent.

A bomb threat made Saturday at a casino just miles from Coachella's sprawling festival grounds prompted a region-wide manhunt that ended with a man's arrest in Palm Springs, USA Today reports.

Davis Darvish, 40, is being held on $1 million bail after allegedly threatening to bomb the iconic festival, according to the Cathedral City Police Department. The incident unfolded on the morning of April 12th, when Darvish approached security staff at the Agua Caliente Casino in Rancho Mirage. Authorities say he claimed he would be responsible for a bombing at the nearby ongoing Coachella festival.

The threat prompted immediate coordination between local agencies and festival security teams. Law enforcement used automated license plate recognition technology to track Darvish's vehicle through the Coachella Valley. Within about 90 minutes, Palm Springs police had located and detained him without incident.

Officials confirmed that no weapons, explosives or bomb-making materials were found in Darvish's possession or vehicle. Nonetheless, he was booked into Indio's John Benoit Detention Center on suspicion of making false bomb threats, pending further investigation.

Cathedral City detectives have since launched a broader inquiry into Darvish’s actions leading up to the threat, focusing particularly on his interaction with the Rancho Mirage casino. No formal charges had been filed as of Sunday evening, but authorities continue to encourage public tips related to the case.

In the meantime, authorities have stated that there is no ongoing threat to public safety. Coachella's second weekend is set to begin April 18th as scheduled. 

For most, Telluride conjures images of sweeping ski runs and summer bluegrass jams. But this August, the historic mountain town will transform into an alpine sanctuary where electronic music meets panoramic wilderness, thanks to Of The Trees.

The EDM.com Class of 2024 artist has unveiled the full lineup for his first-ever curated event, Camp Alderwild, a two-day concert and camping experience set for August 22-23 in Telluride Town Park. The rare weekender marks the first large-scale electronic music event in the town in nearly a decade.

Headlining both nights, Of The Trees will be joined by a cadre of genre-defying artists. Friday’s bill includes the intricately textured bass of Jade Cicada, a live band performance from Thought Process, UK genre-blender Taiki Nulight and ambient trap producer Curra. Saturday will expand into cinematic territory with a set from Tycho along with Air Castles and the psychedelic dub soundscapes of Ott. Meanwhile, experimental electronic virtuoso EPROM is intriguingly billed as "underclock," debuting a new live show.

"My team and I are incredibly excited to bring a concert experience to a location where the natural beauty is perhaps an even bigger centerpiece to the experience than the show itself," Of The Trees said in a statement. "This is the beginning of realizing the dream I’ve always had of hosting events that bring people together to a place where nature and music are intertwined in a way such as this."

The event is being co-produced by Planet Bluegrass, whose reputation for sustainable festivals is unmatched in Colorado, alongside the live music powerhouse AEG Presents. A presale is scheduled to begin Thursday, April 17th at 10am MT before the general on-sale the next day at the same time.

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Electronic dance music claimed the lion's share of Coachella's 2025 music programming, according to new data analysis from ROSTR.

Published by Boardroom, the media company co-founded by NBA superstar Kevin Durant and business partner Rich Kleiman, the findings revealed that dance and electronic artists comprised a commanding 39% of the total lineup for this year's edition of the legendary California festival. That figure is nearly double the next most-represented genre grouping, 21% for indie, rock and alternative acts.

Zedd, Sara Landry, Above & Beyond, The Prodigy and EDM.com Class of 2025 stars Beltran and Layton Giordani only scratched the surface of Coachella's massive 2025 electronic music billing. This significant presence marks a notable pivot in the talent booking strategy of the festival's organizer, Goldenvoice, which historically trended toward pop and rock music.

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EDM enthusiasts could read the tea leaves in 2024 after Goldenvoice launched the groundbreaking Quasar stage, which now locks horns with longtime Coachella favorite Do LaB in an Empire Polo Club turf war over which is the festival's top raving hub.

While nearly four in 10 acts booked for the 2025 festival represented electronic dance music, none were headliners, with that distinction going to Lady Gaga, Green Day, Post Malone and Travis Scott. However, Gaga's lone onstage guest was the French electronic music icon Gesaffelstein.

Prior to 2023's surprise last-minute headlining set by Skrillex, Fred again.. and Four Tet, Goldenvoice counted only Calvin Harris and Swedish House Mafia as Coachella's only other DJ headliners in the last decade. But that may soon change.

CAA's Alex Becket, who became the powerhouse agency's first electronic music agent over a decade ago, prophesied the genre's swelling influence in major festivals prior to last year's Coachella.

"Festivals want big shows and big moments so it factors in a lot for them," Becket told EDM.com at the time. "Big production was an essential part of the "EDM" boom in the early 2010s and has always been a big part of the EDM experience. 'Underground' shows with no production emerged in response to that, and now you're seeing the pendulum swing back the other way in many cases with underground artists building big shows. In this way we're seeing big productions with better music and it's a winning combo."

Elsewhere in ROSTR's Coachella 2025 lineup analysis was a 4% increase in indie, rock and alternative acts compared to previous iterations, with famed outfits like Green Day and The Misfits appearing alongside contemporary stars such as Sam Fender, Still Woozy and beabadoobee.

Hip-hop and rap also saw modest growth with a 2% increase from last year, maintaining substantial representation across all three days of the festival with Travis Scott, Missy Elliott, Megan Thee Stallion, Mustard, T-Pain, Ty Dolla $ign and more holding down the fort.

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