After finishing up his run with Entourage last month, HBO music supervisor Scott Vener now puts his excellent taste and fine ear for what's hip and happening to good use for the new season of How To Make It In America. The show follows the lives of Ben Epstein (Bryan Greenberg) and his friend Cam Calderon (Victor Rasuk) as they try to succeed in New York City's fashion scene with their Crisp brand of street wear.
Music is an integral part of the show and Vener does a superb job mixing and mashing tunes for the Playlist Generation, including tracks ranging from hip hop to European dance pop. On tonight's first episode a bunch of great tracks were featured including Martin Solveig's "Big In Japan" and Avicii's original mix of "Levels" that was played during the show's end credits.
Upbeat and packed with energy, "Levels" sets the perfect tone for the entire season of the show. The Avicii tune is already a massive smash on dancefloors everywhere but is now slowly but surely seeping into the mainstream with the support of How To Make It In America.
Grab a totally guilt-free mixtape featuring a selection of tracks from this new season of How To Make It In America, including tracks by Kid Cudi, Theophilius London, Little Dragon, M83, Blood Orange and Future Island. Listen to the Avicii's "Levels" below to give you a good taste for this must-have freebie courtesy of HBO, Scott Vener and Mick Boogie.
Looking infinitely graceful and styled immaculately, Florence Welch graces this week's cover of Billboard Magazine. The gorgeous cover comes along with an extensive feature story and interview in which the GRAMMY nominated Florence & The Machine singer talks about her rise to fame and her forthcoming new album "Ceremonials" that will be released in the U.S. on November 1.
Welch collaborated on this new album with producer Paul Epworth who is currently celebrating success for his work on Adele's chart juggernaut "21." The article describes "Ceremonials" as a "more confident, bigger and better version" of Welch's debut "Lungs."
The singer explains, "The first album was so much about the vocals carrying it. This time I really wanted to give the music space to breathe and for the band to be able to experiment."
"I'm excited to play it live but I am nervous about what the reaction to the record is going to be," Welch admits. "It's as if the scrapbook of 'Lungs' has been given a beginning, middle and an end and made into a whole story. It's taken the sound that I found about halfway through making 'Lungs' and really gone with it. I think I have taken it to the apex."
For a moment she was tempted to go into a totally different musical direction. "I love big, American pop music. I'm a total sucker for it. So the label said, 'Do you want to go over to America to work in that scene?' And I was like, 'Yeah, OK. Maybe I could bring my own take on it.' It got put in the diary to go out for a week, to start writing the new record."
And then the diary got sent to me and I looked at it and just went, 'No. No. No. No. No! I can't do that. This is too weird. I can't just suddenly leave behind everything that made 'Lungs.'"
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