G-Eazy

G-Eazy

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One Take: G-Eazy On "The Next Episode," Drake & More

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The rapper takes the One Take challenge, revealing his Bay Area roots and admiration for Dr. Dre, Kanye West and Pharrell Williams
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
Jan 31, 2018 - 1:51 pm

Gerald Gillum aka G-Eazy is a force as a producer and artist, with an impressive list of collaborations, chart success, and solo releases under his belt. The rapper stopped by Recording Academy headquarters to take the One Take challenge and see how many rapid-fire questions he could answer in 60 seconds.

Jan 31, 2018 – 1:28 pm

Watch G-Eazy Take On One Take

From learning the Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg GRAMMY-nominated 1999 track "The Next Episode" — the first lyric he ever memorized — to his least favorite thing about touring (the hangovers), G-Eazy's  One Take answers give a closer look at what makes the beatmaster tick.

G-Eazy's Bay Area roots aren't always in evidence, but they have been behind his raps with Britney Spears on 2016's "Make Me" and with Kehlani on "Good Life," featured on the 2017 Fate Of The Furious soundtrack.

G-Eazy's 2017 album The Beautiful And Damned sports hits with Cardi B and Halsey and shows the young superstar's confidence and maturity. In addition to creativity as an artist, he is also quite skilled as a producer.

In this episisode of One Take, G-Eazy revealed that Dr. Dre, Kanye West and Pharrell Williams are his heroes as producers, that he hopes to work with Drake some day, and what his favorite mic is to use for recording vocals.

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David Guetta

David Guetta

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David Guetta's Stacked '7' Tracklist Commences Countdown To New Album

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With names like Bieber, Sia, Derulo, Minaj, Rexha, and more, the GRAMMY winner's upcoming album is filled with landmark collaborations and next-gen stars
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
Aug 23, 2018 - 12:59 pm

Long in the business of exceeding expectations, EDM super-artist David Guetta has announced the tracklist for his upcoming album 7, and the vista of the album's lineup is breathtaking. Due out Sept. 14, 7 is bound to excite. Let's take a closer look, track-by-track.

7 leads off with "Don't Leave Me Alone" featuring Anne-Marie, who has been opening for Ed Sheeran this summer. Its official video was released Aug. 20, but we wrote about the lyric video when it surfaced late last month and that's already racked up more than 24 million YouTube views. The second track is "Battle" featuring the less-known up-and-comer Faouzia, winner of last year's Unsigned Only competition.

Third up in this more-than-a-showcase is GRAMMY nominee Sia's collaboration on "Flames." "Anything she does, I love," said Guetta in our exclusive interview. "It's almost hard for me not to like anything that she's singing." The lyric video was a hot appetizer and its official video took the action over the top. It's followed on 7 by "Blame It On Love" with Madison Beer, and fifth on the list is "Say My Name," Guetta's collaboration with J Balvin, who has been nominated for many Latin GRAMMY Awards, and Bebe Rexha. Such great talents in a mix that's bound to spark stamina for more to come.

Position six is Guetta's collaboration "Goodbye" with Jason Derulo, to be released on Aug. 24, featuring Nicki Minaj and Willy William. It's followed in auspicious position seven on 7 by "I'm That Bitch" with rapper Saweetie. Next stop is the "Like I Do" collaboration with Martin Garrix and Brooks, which was released in Feb. — the lyric video for that has already topped 78 million YouTube views.

Rounding out the single-digit slots at position nine is "2U" in collaboration with GRAMMY winner Justin Bieber. That track made it to No. 16 on Billboard's Hot 100 last year. GRAMMY winner Jess Glynne and Stefflon Don are featured on Guetta's tenth track "She Knows How To Love Me." Next up with two GRAMMY nominated artists is the "Motto" collaboration with Steve Aoki featuring Lil Uzi Vert, G-Eazy and Mally Mall.

The final four on this 15-track spectacular begins with "Drive" — out on Aug. 24th — in collaboration with Black Coffee and featuring Delilah Montagu. Lucky thirteenth is a Spanish-language track featuring J Balvin titled "Para Que Te Quedes." It means "for you to stay" and this track lineup is keeping us glued. Up-and-comer Ava Max is featured on the penultimate "Let It Be Me" and then the finale is another collabo with Sia titled "Light Headed." Not everyone might feel light-headed here, but this tour is talent-packed enough to be tiring if it weren't so inspiring. This will be fun.

David Guetta's album 7 is available for pre-order now and tomorrow, as mentioned above, "Drive" and "Goodbye" will arrive. It is certainly part of the power of EDM that it provides a platform for artistic talent to combine with unexpected energy, like particles in an accelerator. It's not like it's really the big bang but this is a great look at what's new and we expect 7 to deliver more dance-tacular booms to come.

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Deva Mahal

Deva Mahal

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One Take: Deva Mahal On Robyn, Willie Nelson & Listening In Bed

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The daughter of Taj Mahal also reveals her preference for Instagram and dogs — but is it enough to send her to the top of the One Take leaderboard?
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
May 23, 2018 - 4:37 pm

At SXSW 2018, Deva Mahal caught our attention with her soulful voice and lyrics. Her debut album, Run Deep, was released days later on March 23. But all of that was before she landed the top spot on the One Take leaderboard with 16 answers completed. Now we know so much more about her.

May 23, 2018 – 4:24 pm

Watch: One Take With Deva Mahal

Among the answers Mahal revealed during our fun 60-second question-and-answer game, we learned her favorite city to visit on tour. Mahal replied, "Paris." Guess where New Morning is, the place she is playing July 20? Earlier this month she was also Apple Music France New Artist Of The Week, so we know there's a mutual love in France.

Among the other tidbits we learned from her One Take answers was that Mahal enjoys listening to music in bed and that the last song she listened to was "Dancing On My Own" by Robyn, which happens to be Mahal's same answer to, "Song you wish you'd written."

Taken from Robyn's 2010 album Body Talk, that song was nominated for Best Dance Recording at the 53rd GRAMMY Awards, which seems a great point of inspiration as Mahal builds her own soulful music career.

With early childhood experience gigging and writing in the music world at first opened up for her by her father Taj Mahal, Deva Mahal's singular personality rings clearly and independently in her music. We look forward to the many directions she'll be inspired to travel as inspirations continue to move her … and we hope she enjoys Paris.

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Lights

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One Take: Lights On Audience Energy, Arena Ambitions And U2

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Canadian recording and comic book artist keeps the words she draws in bubbles, and the words she sings in measures, but flows over the lines as she takes on the One Take challenge
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
Mar 14, 2018 - 12:04 pm

Self-made star Lights came out of high school with a Sony/ATV publishing contract, won Canada's 2009 New Artist Of The Year Juno Award, and has gone on to learn comic illustration for her 2017 concept album Skin & Earth. Clearly she knows how to throw herself into her work, and as words and thoughts come pouring out of her, she tries to focus it all on GRAMMY.com's One Take challenge, a fun rapid-fire question-and-answer series.

Mar 14, 2018 – 12:02 pm

Watch: One Take With Lights

As the heroine of Skin & Earth, both the comic book series and the album, Lights' new saga begins with "Skydiving," casting her down to earth. "It all starts here, with a rush of blood to the head," is its intro lyric. The lovely natural setting where she lies resembles where Lights likes to write songs, as she told us in One Take. Through the other songs on the album, moods follow stylish adventures through a post-apocalyptic world while Lights seems to be having a blast.

As her One Take with host Anthony Vincent also revealed, Lights may have found her latest adventures by combining comic book art with musical narrative, but her ambitions are to play Madison Square Garden like her beloved band U2. The multi-medium artist reminds us that if it isn't big, then why throw yourself into it?

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Deerhunter's Bradford Cox

Deerhunter's Bradford Cox 

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Deerhunter's Bradford Cox: "I'm The Closest Thing That Our Age Has To A Bowie"

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The enigmatic frontman goes deep on the psych-pop band's latest and greatest album, Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? 
Philip Merrill
GRAMMYs
Jan 21, 2019 - 8:43 am

Psych-pop modernists Deerhunter released their eighth studio album, Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared?, this past week to much critical acclaim. In support of the record, singer-songwriter and frontman Bradford Cox has been making the interview rounds, leading to some highly quotable soundbites. "I'm the closest thing that our age has to a Bowie. Take it or leave it," he told Rolling Stone. "Look around. Our culture has twisted itself into really poor shape."

As no doubt can be expected, Cox is a huge fan of Nicolas Roeg's 1976 sci-fi classic The Man Who Fell To Earth, which stars David Bowie as the titular extraterrestrial.

Cox also touched on his grief over the death of Deerhunter's former bassist (he left the band in 2012), Josh Fauver, who died in Nov. 2018 at the age of 39. Looking back at how Fauver left Deerhunter, Cox admitted, "I don’t like change. Superficial changes, aesthetic changes, I like. But not permanent change. I hated it when he quit, and I find his death so unsettling. It’s the most disturbing thing."

But Deerhunter are still looking ahead. Guitarist Lockett Pundt praised the band's finished product, saying, "We definitely went through some ups and downs of morale, but I’m ecstatic with the end result. We pretty much always have a mid-album crisis. Like, literally every time. Perhaps it wouldn’t be a Deerhunter album if we didn’t."

Why Hasn't Everything Already Disappeared? is out now via 4AD.

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