Zedd - Spectrum

Zedd (Anton Zaslavski) was born 23 years ago in Russia but has been living in Germany since he was a baby.
Zeed is a electronic-dance music producer and the first CD he had was Discovery by Daft Punk and they were the only source of electronic music he had for several years. Later on, Zedd discovered Justice and these two bands were the ones that got him into the electronic music.

So far Zedd produced several remixes including remixes of Born This Way and Marry The Night (hits of Lady Gaga), Scary Monsters and Nice Sprites (Skrillex) and Save The World (Swedish House Mafia).

Zedd's debut album is called Clarity and it was released in October by Interscope Records.

Spectrum was released as the second single featuring Matthew Koma (the song was wrote by the two artists) and reached umber one on Billboard's Hot Dance Club Songs.

Breathing you in when i want you out

Finding our truth in a hope of doubt

Lying inside our quite drama, A-A-Ah

Wearing your heart like a stolen dream

Opening skies with your broken keys

No one can blind us any longer.

Zedd about his music: I hope that I can touch people with my music. It is electronic dance music, which is usually made for clubs, but I want to reach and touch everyone with my music! I want people to be able to just listen to it when they’re at home, in the car or whenever they like to listen to music. I don’t want to make music that is only made for clubs.

News // Artists confirmed in Portuguese festivals

During the last days more names have been added to the number of confirmed artists performing in Portugal - in festivals.

After the confirmation of Kaiser Chiefs on Marés Vivas in Porto on July 19, the band has confirmed their presence on the very known Rock In Rio 2012 - Lisbon edition performing on June 3 on the same day as Bruce Springsteen, James and the Portuguese Xutos & Pontapés.

Check the confirmed names and dates, besides all the information here.

The three-Grammy winner Skrillex is performing in Meco on Super Bock Super Rock. His performance is scheduled for July 7, the same day as Regina Spektor, Little Dragon and Flying Lotus.

Follow the link for further information.

Two names have been added to the EDP Paredes de Coura festival happening between August 13 and 16.
Friends and Gang Gang Friends are going to perform respectively on August 14 and 16.

Read the confirmed names on this tag.

SOJA, Richie Campbell and Booka Shade are the three confirmed names for the two-day festival Sumol Summer Fest - known for being dedicated to Reggae music.
The Portuguese Richie Campbell is performing on first day, June 29, on the same day as Alpha Blondy and Ponto de Equilíbrio.
SOJA and Booka Shade are performing on June 30, along with Gabriel, O Pensador and Barrington Levy.

Find more details here.

On Optimus Alive! the English Tricky is presenting his 1995 successful album Maxinquaye inviting Martina Topley-Bird to perform with him.
The performance can be seen on Palco Heineken on July 14 - artists like The Antlers and Katy B perform on the same day.

More about this festival on this link.

News // Grammy Awards: See who won the main categories

The 54th Grammy Award Ceremony was marked with Whitney Houston's death - counting with a tribute from Jennifer Hudson with I Will Always Love You.

The big winners of the night were Adele - the English singer went home with 6 brand new awards - and Foo Fighters - receiving 5 awards, most of Rock and Hard Rock/Metal categories.

The performers for the 54th Grammy Awards were:

• Adele (Check her performance below)
• Jason Aldean and Kelly Clarkson
• The Beach Boys - with Foster The People and Maroon 5
• Tonny Bennett and Carrie Underwood
• Chris Brown
• Glen Campbell - with the Band Perry and Blake Shelton
• The Civil Wars
• Coldplay and Rihanna (Also below)
• Chris Brown, Deadmau5, Foo Fighters, David Guetta and Lil Wayne - Dance / Electronic segment (See an excerpt below)
• Foo Fighters
• Jennifer Hudson - tribute to Whitney Houston
• Alicia Keys and Bonnie Raitt
• Diana Krall
• Bruno Mars  (Check it below)
• Paul McCartney 
• Nicki Minaj
• Maceo Parker
• Katy Perry 
• Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band
• Taylor Swift
• Joe Walsh

Read some of the nominees and respective category winners.

GRAMMY NOMINATIONS

Record Of The Year: Adele — 21
Bruno Mars — Doo-Wops & Hooligans
Foo Fighters — Wasting Light
Lady Gaga — Born This Way
Rihanna — Loud

Song of The Year:
Kanye West featuring Rihanna, Fergie and Kid Cudi — “All of the Lights”
Mumford & Sons — “The Cave”
Bruno Mars — “Grenade”
Bon Iver  — “Holocene”
Adele — “Rolling in the Deep”

Best New Artist:
The Band Perry
Bon Iver
J. Cole
Nicki Minaj
Skrillex

Best Pop Solo Performance:
Adele – “Someone Like You”
Lady Gaga – “You & I”
Katy Perry – “Firework”
Bruno Mars – “Grenade”
P!nk – “Fuckin’ Perfect”

Best Pop Duo/Group Performance:
Tony Bennett Feat. Amy Winehouse – “Body And Soul”
The Black Keys – “Dearest”
Coldplay – “Paradise”
Foster The People – “Pumped Up Kicks”
Maroon 5 Feat. Christina Aguilera – “Moves Like Jagger”

Best Pop Instrumental Album:
Jenny Oaks Baker  - “Wish Upon A Star”
Daniel Ho  - “E Kahe Malie”
Booker T. Jones  - “The Road From Memphis”
Dave Koz  - “Hello Tomorrow”
Brian Setzer  - “Setzer Goes Instru-Mental!”

Best Pop Album:
Adele - “21″
Cee-Lo Green - “The Lady Killer”
Lady Gaga - “Born This Way”
Bruno Mars - “Doo-Wops & Hooligans”
Rihanna - “Loud”

Best Traditional Pop Album:
“Duets II” – Tony Bennett & Various Artists
“The Gift” – Susan Boyle
“In Concert On Broadway” – Harry Connick Jr.
“Music Is Better Than Words” – Seth MacFarlane
“What Matters Most – Barbra Streisand Sings The Lyrics Of Alan And Marilyn Bergman” – Barbra Streisand

Best Dance Recording:

Deadmau5 & Greta Svabo Bech  - “Raise Your Weapon” –
Duck Sauce - “Barbra Streisand”
 David Guetta & Avicii - “Sunshine”
Robyn - “Call Your Girlfriend”
Skrillex - “Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites”
Swedish House Mafia - “Save The World”

Best Dance/Electronica Album:
Cut Copy - “Zonoscope”
Deadmau5 - “4×4=12″
David Guetta - “Nothing But The Beat”
Robyn - “Body Talk, Pt. 3″
Skrillex - “Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites”

Best Rock Performance:
Coldplay - “Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall”
The Decemberists - “Down By The Water”
Foo Fighters - “Walk”
Mumford & Sons - “The Cave”
Radiohead - “Lotus Flower”

Best Hard Rock/Metal Performance:
Dream Theater - “On The Backs Of Angels”
Foo Fighters - “White Limo”
Mastodon - “Curl Of The Burl”
Megadeth - “Public Enemy No. 1″
Sum 41 - “Blood In My Eyes”

Best Rock Song:
Mumford & Sons - “The Cave”
The Decemberists - “Down By The Water”
Coldplay - “Every Teardrop Is A Waterfall”
Radiohead - “Lotus Flower”
Foo Fighters - “Walk”

Best Rock Album:
Jeff Beck - “Rock ‘N’ Roll Party Honoring Les Paul”
Foo Fighters - “Wasting Light”
Kings Of Leon - “Come Around Sundown”
Red Hot Chili Peppers - “I’m With You”
Wilco - “The Whole Love”

Best R&B Performance:

Marsha Ambrosius  - “Far Away”
Ledisi  - “Pieces Of Me”
Kelly Price & Stokley - “Not My Daddy”
Corinne Bailey Rae - “Is This Love”
Charlie Wilson - “You Are”

Best R&B Song:
Marsha Ambrosius - “Far Away”
Cee LoGreen & Melanie Fiona - “Fool For You”
Kelly Price & Stokley  - “Not My Daddy”
Ledisi - “Pieces Of Me” –
Charlie Wilson  - “You Are”

Best R&B Album:
Chris Brown - “F.A.M.E.”
El DeBarge - “Second Chance”
R. Kelly - “Love Letter”
Ledisi - “Pieces Of Me”
Kelly Price - “Kelly” 

Check the winners for ALL the categories here. 

Skrillex, First Of The Year (Equinox)

Skrillex (previously known on the internet as Twipz) is the artistic name of the American electronic dance music producer Sonny John Moore.
He is also the former frontman for From First To Last.

Sonny Moore started his solo career as Skrillex around 2007 and is known for songs like My Name Is Skrillex, Cinema or Ruffneck.

With 3 solo EP's under his artistic name - My Name Is Skrillex (2010), Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites (2010) and his last More Monsters and Sprites (2011).
In 2009, he released Gypsyhook EP as Sonny.

Moore is also known for his producing work, lending his service to Bring Me The Horizon or Korn. He has toured with All Time Low or Forever The Sickest Kids as Sonny Moore and with Deadmau5 as Skrillex, also participating at the very prestigious Coachella.
He has his own label - OWSLA - created in August 2011.

First Of The Year (Equinox) is a track that belongs to Skrillex last EP More Monsters and Sprites, released in June 7,2011 as a single.
The exclamation from this song is "Call 911 now!" was taken from a Youtube video of a lady yelling to a crowd she supposed to be of illegal photographers.

The song is followed by a strong video which is about an older man stalking a little girl. He follows her into her "dark chamber" and unexpectedly she screams "Call 911 now!" and starts torturing the man, being eventually killed by the girl's powers and the video ends with her making off a tally on a wall with 75 other tallies - leaving the doubt that either she killed 75 men or has being doing this for 75 years, inspiring the song title.

"Call 911 now!"