EXID Hit #1 On Domestic Music Charts With 'Hot Pink' Comeback

On Nov. 18 at midnight, EXID dropped the music video for their highly anticipated comeback single 'Hot Pink', their first release since 'Ah Yeah' topped charts in back in May 2015.

The music video features the five girls working as gas station employees, refilling customer's cars with "Pink Oil" instead of gasoline while singing, dancing, and striking sexy poses. The members continue until the police arrive, when they scatter. The final scene shows the slowly members walking towards the investigating police officers while holding wrtenches behind their backs.

At 8 AM on the morning after the song was released, it had already reached #1 on 5 music charts: Genie, Olleh Music, Bugs, Soribada,and Monkey3. It is also highly ranked on other charts, reaching #2 on Naver Music and #4 on Melon and Mnet.

EXID performed 'Hot Pink' live for the first time on Show Champion on Nov. 18th.

Before the release of the single, EXID held a live V app broadcast titled "ALL DAY EXID Lightning Party" where they greeted and answered fan questions. Watch the music video below!

CMJ weekend: Weaves, Diet Cig and Donovan Wolfington audition as indie's 'great hope'

CMJ’s final days were both more refined and ecstatic than its start; it seemed just as the festival was gathering a kind of fluency and velocity, it was over. On Saturday in the Pianos upstairs alcove Weaves singer Jasmyn Burke walked toward her microphone in a hat and veil, looking as if she were about to tend bees. The Toronto band’s music accordingly swarms in and out of elastic shapes. Songs that could function as straightforward indie rock have been warped and distended until they seem to obey a kind of flawed gravity.

Burke’s delivery contrasts with the ecstatic backing, but it also contains a kind of neutral chaos that’s reminiscent of Jonathan Richman. I had also seen Weaves on Wednesday (they’d played Pianos every day this week), where the frustrations of a deflating microphone stand caused Burke to eventually inch across the floor of Cake Shop on her back. They’re easily the most exciting band I saw at CMJ.

Afterwards I walked to Webster Hall in order to see New Orleans punk band Donovan Wolfington in its adjacent Studio. Neil Berthier and Matthew Seferian played a granular and occasionally obscure form of pop-punk that was also melodically and personally accessible; they looked as if they were playing for a group of their friends. (Berthier later clarified, they were; several friends from the band’s past were in attendance).

When I took the train into Brooklyn to see Liverpool trio Stealing Sheep at Knitting Factory, I made a pleasant discovery which seems unique to the atmosphere of CMJ: every band I wanted to see was playing in the same place. Stealing Sheep themselves were delightfully oblique; their songs refused to resolve, built out of gleaming, phosphorescent synth tones and delayed blurs of guitar, and they walked onstage in leotards and sunglasses, appearing as alien as their music.

The Album Leaf, a collective formed in the late 90s around musician Jimmy Lavalle, played afterward, and the Knitting Factory seemed filled to near-capacity for the first time I can remember. They traded mostly in gentle, electronic textures, occasionally grazed by the curve of a violin or a weightless voice. The bands I had seen that day were either willfully loud or shattered and digressive enough in structure to require constant focus, so this kind of modest glacial drift was both welcome and extremely pleasant in experience.

Half of the Knitting Factory emptied out before Eternal Summers, which was a shame; their starry, restlessly shimmering guitar pop reawakened the space atomically. Singer and guitarist Nicole Yun sang in phrases both gentle and forceful, a quality shared by the music, a warming sun. The final band to play the Knitting Factory on Saturday, Diet Cig, went on at 1.30am. Guitarist Alex Luciano encouraged everyone in the audience to stretch and awake, and the simple yet emotionally exposed guitar pop she makes with drummer Noah Bowman pulled the crowd into an entirely new velocity; it suddenly felt like one in the afternoon. “This stage is so big,” Luciano remarked before leaping across it in stunning arcs.

Her energy transferred to everyone else, and the entire space became animated. I saw them do this again the next night; even though CMJ was technically over, an unofficial showcase was held at Palisades by Father/Daughter Records and Miscreant, the theme of which was “homecoming”. Just before their set the soundman played Shake It Off, which everyone, including Luciano, danced to almost symphonically. When they played, Luciano performed the same elastic moves in an inelastic, flowing gown; behind her homecoming decorations fell in glittering tendrils. It was an appropriate, atomically charged ending to a CMJ that almost organically acquired dynamic force.

Bob Dylan's latest Bootleg Series release to cover his classic 1965/66 recording

Bob Dylan … Whole lotta listening. Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS

The latest instalment of Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series looks set to be most exciting set yet. Ultimate Classic Rock reports that The Cutting Edge 1965-66: The Bootleg Series Vol 12 will include demos, unheard versions and outtakes from Dylan’s “thin, wild mercury sound” period, which saw him release the albums Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde.

Though there has been no official statement from Dylan’s camp or from Sony Legacy, the label that releases The Bootleg Series albums, the report seems credible, based on information the Guardian has seen. Ultimate Classic Rock reports that the set will come in three different versions – a two-CD set, a six-disc edition, and an 18-disc package, which will include comprehensive coverage of the sessions for Like a Rolling Stone.

If the18-CD set manages to come anywhere near 80 minutes of music per disc, it will include around 21 hours of recordings, which would allow scope to include an enormous amount of the material Dylan recorded in during an incredibly fertile period.

The report says the set will include one of the great unreleased sessions of Dylan’s career – the original recordings for Blonde on Blonde, made with the Band, before Dylan scrapped that version of the album and decamped to Nashville to record it with session musicians from the city.

UPDATE: Since the Ultimate Classic Rock report was published, Sony Legacy has confirmed the release.

    The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 - Deluxe Edition brings together for the first time many of the most sought-after recordings of the entire Dylan canon. Here, across 6 CDs, are previously unheard Dylan songs, studio outtakes, rehearsal tracks, alternate working versions of familiar hits – including the complete Like a Rolling Stone session – and more.

    The Best of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol.12 is available in a 2CD or 3 12” vinyl LP set and brings together some of the musical high points of the deluxe and super-deluxe collections.

    An 18CD Collector’s Edition of The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12 will be available exclusively on BobDylan.com. Limited to a worldwide pressing of only 5,000 copies, this 18CD edition will include every note recorded during the 1965-1966 sessions, every alternate take and alternate lyric. All previously unreleased recordings have been mixed, utilizing the original studio tracking tapes as the source, eliminating unwanted 1960s-era studio processing and artifice. The 18CD edition includes Dylan’s original nine mono 45 RPM singles released during the time period, packaged in newly created picture sleeves featuring global images from the era. The limited edition includes rare hotel room recordings from the Savoy Hotel in London (May 4, 1965), the North British Station Hotel in Glasgow (May 13, 1966) and a Denver, Colorado hotel (March 12, 1966) as well as a strip of original film cels from “Don’t Look Back.”

Girls' Generation's Taeyeon's Solo Album Confirmed With No Release Dat

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Girls' Generation's leader, Taeyeon will be releasing her first solo album after debuting.

On September 10th, a media group said, "Taeyeon is preparing to release a solo album within the year. Until now, she has recorded a lot of OSTs and digital albums but this is the first time she has recorded an album of her own."

According to this report, Taeyeon's release date will depend on how quickly she could film the music video and when the editing portion can be done.  She is working her hardest to get the help from her staff members in hopes it will add some momentum to the album.

When SM Entertainment was asked to comment on a possible release date, they have also confirmed there isn't a definite release date set in stone.

The Velvet Underground's Loaded gets the six-disc reissue treatment

The Velvet Underground … This would be the last time Lou Reed smiled for 23 years. Photograph: Everett Collection / Rex Feature/Everett Collection / Rex Feature

The last few years have seen the Velvet Underground’s career comprehensively overhauled, with a series of album rereleases featuring scores of bonus discs containing unreleased live recordings and demos. Now the process has reached the group’s final album with Lou Reed, Loaded, which is to emerge in a six-disc edition on 30 October.

Loaded was already given an overhaul in 2004 with the 2CD set Fully Loaded, which featured alternate, unreleased versions of every song on the album, but the new one goes much, much further. As well as studio outtakes, single versions, demos and alternate mixes, the new edition contains two live albums, the first a version of Live at Max’s Kansas City, the album compiled from tapes the Andy Warhol associate Brigid Polk had made of Lou Reed’s last shows with the band. Curiously, this version is contracted from the 2CD edition of the album released in 2004.

The second album captures the group live at Second Fret in Philadelphia in May 1970, a show that has been much bootlegged. The group played at Second Fret three times that year, and many bootlegs pick from the three shows. This release captures the whole 11-song set.

The full tracklisting for the set is:

Disc One: Loaded Remastered

1. Who Loves The Sun
2. Sweet Jane – Full Length Version
3. Rock & Roll – Full Length Version
4. Cool It Down
5. New Age
6. Head Held High
7. Lonesome Cowboy Bill
8. I Found A Reason
9. Train Round The Bend
10. Oh! Sweet Nuthin’

Session Outtakes:

11. I’m Sticking With You – New Remix
12. Ocean
13. Love You
14. Ride Into The Sun

Disc Two: Loaded Remastered: Promotional Mono Version

1. Who Loves The Sun
2. Sweet Jane – Full Length Version
3. Rock & Roll – Full Length Version
4. Cool It Down
5. New Age
6. Head Held High
7. Lonesome Cowboy Bill
8. I Found A Reason
9. Train Round The Bend
10. Oh! Sweet Nuthin’
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Singles and B-Sides

11. Who Loves The Sun
12. Oh! Sweet Nuthin’
13. Rock & Roll *
14. Lonesome Cowboy Bill *

Disc Three: Demos, Early Versions and Alternate Mixes

Demos
1. Rock & Roll – Demo
2. Sad Song – Demo
3. Satellite Of Love – Demo
4. Walk And Talk – Demo
5. Oh Gin – Demo
6. Ocean – Demo
7. I Love You – Demo
8. Love Makes You Feel Ten Feet Tall – Demo Remix
9. I Found A Reason – Demo

Early Versions
10. Cool It Down – Early Version, Remix
11. Sweet Jane – Early Version, Remix
12. Lonesome Cowboy Bill – Early Version, Remix
13. Head Held High – Early Version, Remix
14. Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ – Early Version, Remix

Alternate Mixes
15. Who Loves The Sun – Alternate Mix
16. Sweet Jane – Alternate Mix
17. Cool It Down – Alternate Mix
18. onesome Cowboy Bill – Alternate Mix
19. Train Round The Bend – Alternate Mix
20. Head Held High – Alternate Mix
21. Rock & Roll – Alternate Mix

Disc Four: Live At Max’s Kansas City Remastered

1. I’m Waiting For The Man
2. White Light/White Heat
3. I’m Set Free
4. Sweet Jane
5. Lonesome Cowboy Bill
6. New Age
7. Beginning To See The Light
8. I’ll Be Your Mirror
9. Pale Blue Eyes
10. Candy Says
11. Sunday Morning
12. After Hours
13. Femme Fatale
14. Some Kinda Love
15. Lonesome Cowboy Bil” – Version 2

Disc Five: Live At Second Fret, Philadelphia, 1970*

1. I’m Waiting For The Man
2. What Goes On
3. Cool It Down
4. Sweet Jane
5. Rock & Roll
6. Some Kinda Love
7. New Age
8. Candy Says
9. Head Held High
10. Train Round The Bend
11. Oh! Sweet Nuthin’

*previously unreleased

Disc Six: Audio DVD

96/24 Hi-Resolution Surround Sound Remix
96/24 Hi-Resolution Stereo Downmix
96/24 Hi-Resolution Original Stereo Mix