NEAR TRUTHS: REALIGNMENT AND RECOGNITION
Underscoring the year's biggest stories (11/19a)
NEAR TRUTHS: THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
Nervous time in the music biz and beyond. (11/16a)
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NOW WHAT?
We have no fucking idea.
COUNTRY'S NEWEST DISRUPTOR
Three chords and some truth you may not be ready for.
AI IS ALREADY EATING YOUR LUNCH
The kids can tell the difference... for now.
WHO'S BUYING THE DRINKS?
That's what we'd like to know.
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WHAT IT IS: A household name in his homeland of Brazil, Vintage Culture boasts 3b career streams to date. Voted #10 in DJ Mag’s Top 100 DJs of 2023, the producer has collaborated with John Summit and Sonny Fodera while remixing RÜFÜS DU SOL and Bob Moses. “Weak,” with Maverick Sabre and Tom Breu, which arrived on 1/16, has since been used 6m+ times, hitting double-digit growth each week.
ALBUM: Promised Land
RELEASE DATE: 5/23
SINGLE: “Nothing Ever Changes”.
LIVE: Headlined Ultra Miami, performed at Coachella and Burning Man; residencies in Las Vegas and Ibiza; Vintage Is a Festival in Brazil (25k tickets); performed at the U.K.’s Creamfields and Printworks, more
INTERNET: 10m+ Instagram followers, 200k+ TikTok followers, 1.1m+ YouTube subs; 1.1b views; 9.5m+ Spotify listeners; 70k global Shazams, #1 Brazil Dance, more
RADIO: “Weak” impacting U.S. Dance/Mixshow radio, early support from SiriusXM’s Diplo’s Revolution; 2.5k plays on 146 stations globally, BBC Radio 1
PRESS: Grammy.com, Rolling Stone (Brazil, cover), Forbes (30 Under 30), Mixmag, Time Out, GALORE, more
BOOKING: Jonas Schumann & Stephanie LaFera (N.A., S.A. ex-Brazil), David Levy & Brendan Long/WME (rest of world)
MANAGEMENT: Guga Trevisani/Entourage Artists (Brazil); Sebastian Bohnenberger & Jay Pidgeon/Purple Wall Management (rest of world)