Tiësto

About Tiësto

Tiësto is a Grammy® Award-winning, platinum-certified, international icon. The DJ and producer is the only artist to ever hold the titles of “The Greatest DJ of All Time” courtesy of Mixmag, “#1 DJ” according to Rolling Stone, and “The Godfather of EDM,” as proclaimed by Billboard. From his underground dance floor bangers to his high-profile Las Vegas residency and crossover success, Tiësto created the blueprint that defines what it means to be a success in today’s dance music world. In Tiësto's true fashion, he continues expand across genres, always evolving his craft. With over 36 million albums sold, 8 Billion cumulative streams, and a social platform with an audience exceeding 30 million fans spanning the globe, he continues to revolutionize the dance music landscape. Tiësto’s first release since signing with Atlantic Records, "The Business” has dominated airplay and charts worldwide since its September 2020 release, garnering over 1 billion streams to date. It has also held a steady position on Apple & Spotify’s “Today’s Top Hits” & “Today’s Hits” playlists, and hit #1 at US Dance Radio. “The Business” is certified Platinum in 15 countries and gold in 8 countries and has held a place on the Top 10 official singles chart in 10 countries as well as Top 50 on Spotify in 31 countries. Tiësto made history with single “Don’t Be Shy” with Karol G, which marked the first English song ever for Karol G, and the first Latin Artist collaboration for Tiësto. The third single from Tiësto’s upcoming album, “The Motto” with Ava Max is out now.

Dog Blood

Swedish House Mafia

In 2008, a trio of individual artists, DJs, and producers united to unassumingly break every rule in electronic music...

Zara Larsson

Zara Larsson is a Swedish singer and songwriter.

Website: http://zaralarssonofficial.com/

Twitter: @ZaraLarsson

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Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ZaraLarssonOfficial

Snapchat: zaralarsson

Four Tet

Four Tet is the electronic outlet for the solo work of Kieran Hebden.

Tove Lo

Crafting a raw, confessional brand of pop shaped by her love of grunge as well as the pristine sounds of her Swedish homeland, Tove Lo is an award-winning performer and Grammy-nominated songwriter. The way her 2013 single "Habits (Stay High)" swung between joy and despair and frankly depicted drug use and sex made it a distinctive, relatable, multi-platinum hit and a fitting introduction to her uncensored style. She followed it with more uninhibited, autobiographical music: Her 2014 debut album Queen of the Clouds and 2016's Lady Wood upheld her reputation for confronting the darker side of love and relationships with thoughtful, provocative, and catchy songwriting. On 2019's Sunshine Kitty, she took a slightly more lighthearted approach without losing any of her edge or candor. Lo also established herself as an in-demand collaborator by working with the likes of Coldplay, Charli XCX, and Nick Jonas; as a songwriter, her credits include songs for Lorde and Icona Pop, as well as Ellie Goulding's Grammy-nominated hit "Love Me Like You Do."

Tove Lo was born Ebba Tove Elsa Nilsson on October 29, 1987 in a suburb of Stockholm. When she was three, her godmother gave her the nickname Tove Lo after a lynx the young Nilsson loved at the local zoo ("lo" is Swedish for lynx). She began writing poetry and short stories at a young age, and had written her first songs by the time she was 11. While growing up, she was fascinated by the rawness of Courtney Love and Kurt Cobain's music and by their relationship, and also found inspiration in the work of Robyn, Lykke Li, Jeff Buckley and Charlotte Gainsbourg. She went on to study at the famous Rytmus Musikergymnasiet -- a music-oriented high school comparable to the U.K.'s BRIT School -- where she befriended Caroline Hjelt, a future member of the duo Icona Pop. After graduation in 2006 Lo began making music with other Rytmus alumni in the math-rock band Tremblebee. When the quintet broke up in 2009, Lo decided to focus on her own songs, spending six months in her shed studio recording her demo while working as a session singer.

At a party celebrating Icona Pop's first record deal, she used the opportunity to give her demo to a staff member at their label, leading to a publishing deal with Warner Chappell and a trip to L.A. to work with fellow Swede and pop songwriting/production supremo Max Martin, who became a mentor and frequent collaborator. In October 2012, Lo self-released her debut single, "Love Ballad," a catchy, beat-driven pop track that showcased her powerful voice. It was followed in 2013 by "Habits (Stay High)," a dark breakup anthem that generated such Internet buzz that it led to a deal with Universal. "Habits" and its follow-up, "Out of Mind," which was in much the same vein, appeared on her debut EP for the label, Truth Serum, in 2014. The EP reached number 13 on the Swedish Albums Chart, while "Habits" peaked at 13 on the Swedish Singles Chart and hit number six in the U.K. During this time, Lo also established herself as a songwriter, collaborating on tracks for Icona Pop and Victoria Justice.

In September 2014, her debut album Queen of the Clouds arrived, featuring "Habits" -- which reached number three on the Billboard Hot 100 -- as well as other raw, confessional songs about love and heartache. The album was a Top Ten hit in Sweden and a Top 20 hit in the U.S. and U.K., and the subsequent single "Talking Body" was a similar success. Her 2014 collaboration with Alesso, "Heroes (We Could Be)," was another hit, reaching the top of the U.S. dance chart and becoming a Top Ten hit in Sweden and the U.K. In late 2014, she contributed a song to The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Pt. 1. She also Martin's Wolf Cousins songwriting collective and co-wrote songs for Cher Lloyd, Lea Michele, and the Saturdays.

In January 2015, Lo underwent surgery for cysts on her vocal cords and couldn't sing for two months while she recovered. That month also saw the release of Ellie Goulding's "Love Me Like You Do," a song Lo co-wrote with Martin and others for the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack. It became a number one hit in the U.K. and a Top Ten hit in the U.S., and later earned a nomination for Best Song Written for Visual Media at the 58th Grammy Awards. Lo also won a pair of her homeland's Grammis in 2015, Artist of the Year and Song of the Year for "Habits (Stay High)." Following the release of a deluxe version of Queen of the Clouds, she embarked on her first headlining tour. Late that year, she lent her vocals to Coldplay's seventh album A Head Full of Dreams.

Lo's busy 2016 included collaborations with Broods and Flume, while her single with Nick Jonas, "Close," became a Top 20 hit in Canada, New Zealand and the U.S, where it was certified Platinum. She also co-wrote another song for Goulding, "Still Falling for You," from the soundtrack to Bridget Jones' Baby, and contributed the song "Scars" to The Divergent Series: Allegiant soundtrack. In October 2016, she returned in 2016 with her second album, Lady Wood, which delivered more of her signature mix of cool synth pop and frank lyrics. Buoyed by the singles "Cool Girl" and "True Disaster," the album hit number one in Sweden, and landed at number 11 on the U.S. Billboard 200.

In 2017, Lo contributed the song "Lies in the Dark" to the Fifty Shades Darker soundtrack and co-wrote the Lorde song "Homemade Dynamite." That November, she released her third album, BLUE LIPS, a companion piece to Lady Wood that featured the single "Disco Tits." The album reached number 138 on the Billboard 200 and number 15 in Sweden. Lo created two short films featuring songs from BLUE LIPS, Fire Fade and Fairy Dust. In December, she appeared on "Out of My Head," a track from Charli XCX's mixtape Pop 2. In June 2018, Lo returned the favor, releasing a remix of BLUE LIPS' "bitches" that featured XCX along with Icona Pop, Alma, and Elliphant. Lo's fourth album, Sunshine Kitty, arrived in September 2019. Featuring collaborations with Kylie Minogue and Jax Jones, its songs reflected Lo's happier, more confident frame of mind. The video for single "Glad He's Gone" was nominated in the "Best Music Video" category of the 62nd Grammy awards. ~ John D. Buchanan, Rovi

Soulwax

SOULWAX - ALL SYSTEMS ARE LYING

2025 and what's an album to do?

Stephen and David Dewaele, being the brothers from Belgium who are the permanent, fixed members of the group Soulwax, and both of them being in the room for the making of this press release about their new album All Systems Are Lying. This is, after all, how they made the record, the pair of them together in their DEEWEE studio in Gent... a supergroup of two.

Then, of course, as has been widely experienced around the world, there is Soulwax live, the full band of Stefaan Van Leuven, Laima Leyton, and the three (yes, three) drummers: Iggor Cavalera, Blake Davies and Aurora Bennett. And when theatres, festivals and whole audiences are reverberating to the rhythm, Soulwax is truly a supergroup of you.

Stephen: "Supergroup of you is great."

David: "Yeah. One thing I think we're fortunate to have, when fans come up and speak to us, they say, that to them, whatever journey we're on, they're on as well."

Stephen: "But isn't the purpose of this interview to say something to people who don't even know we exist, or who have no idea what we did the last 20 years. Just to... fuck with them a little bit?"

Indeed, because perhaps we do know that they have made five previous Soulwax albums, enjoyed Grammy nominations for the world famous remixes of everyone from The Rolling Stones to Wet Leg, co-created the Despacio Sound System with James Murphy, produced and mixed every release on their own DEEWEE label... that we should be concentrating on All Systems Are Lying, and the question of what does it mean?

Stephen: "The recurring theme is: Is it real? Is it not real? All Systems Are Lying is a phrase we were using while making the record. Whenever the computer crashed, whenever there was fake news, this was our phrase. Eventually, we were like, okay, this is the record."

David: "It felt like the studio was an antenna."

Stephen: "Is it real what I see? Is it true what they say on the news?

David: Is this really real money? Do I have a tangible thing?"

The conversation replays like lyrics from a lost Laurie Anderson record and you you get some idea of what All Systems Are Lying feels like. It feels, and sounds, like the time we are in right now, as experienced by two people who have made records before and know that now is not then. So it is knowing, yes. But also knowing when to let go and let the music make the moment.

Stephen: "It wasn't like we set out to be like, okay, let's make an album about how the world feels right now. It's kind of the reverse, at the end of the process, we were like..."

David: "...oh, all this stuff… all the stuff that was around us… reached the surface."

How do they think the record will be received?

David: "It's making it and achieving it that is the thing for us. Anything else, once it goes out into the world, we have no… it's like winning the lottery, like, great if you do, but you have no control over it. The only thing that we can control is making something that we get goosebumps off."

There are highly dynamic goosebump songs on the record. Run Free, Gimme A Reason, Idiots In Love stand out as genre-defying electronic rock songs - the new ERS acronym has been chosen carefully as, when asked what is different about this album from any previous Soulwax record, the short answer was...

Stephen: "It's made without any electric guitars."

The songs are already live crowd favourites.

Stephen: "Gimme A Reason. Yeah, that's a big one. Gimme A Reason just kills."

David: "And also, even on the record, we don't… It's really hard to capture the feeling of three drummers going for it at the end part."

Stephen: "But when we do it live, it just totally makes sense."

David: "It's like ABBA."

Yes, it is true that if you love Soulwax, you'll love this record. And not because it sounds like Soulwax, but because sometimes it doesn't. And the best thing about following the Dewaeles, whether through Soulwax or their world class remixes, or via 2manydjs, Despacio or their DEEWEE studio and label, is knowing not what to expect. They do things differently - different to everybody but themselves that is.

So when you are banging your head to the very rock-guitar-sounding synths on Idiots In Love, and forgetting for a few minutes how crazy the world has got, remember that only one thing is known to be true: All Systems Are Lying.

And if you have never bought a Soulwax record before this moment in 2025,

be safe in the knowledge that you have picked one hell of a time to start.

Despacio

Tiësto @ Pier 80

Tiësto @ Pier 80

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