I always enjoy seeing DJ/music producers who use their influence to promote up-and-coming artists. Ben Maxwell takes the new pop track by XYLØ and ever so gently twists it into the dance track he sees potential in. This one begs to be turned up on your sound system 🔊.  If trap/electronic isn’t your scene, the original track stands up on it’s own, the official music video below:Original: iTunes, Google Play, Amazon, Spotify, SoundCloud

 Zara Larsson has another #1 single on her hands. Building off the success of her single last year, Never Forget You in collaboration with MNEK, earlier this year Tinie Tempah released one of my favorite tracks of 2016: Girls Like featuring Zara on vocals (mega post there on Tinie Tempah if you need a catchup). Then in June, Larsson was featured in the official song of UEFA Euro 2016, David Guetta’s This One’s for You. “Ain’t My Fault” is the first single off her upcoming 2nd studio album, name and release date TBD. There’s also a killer remix by R3hab if you’re looking for a more club version of the song below. Download: iTunes, Google Play, Amazon Stream: Spotify, SoundCloud, Tidal

Tove Lo said the music video was inspired by the “cool girl” monologue from the movie “Gone Girl”. Her next album “Lady Wood” comes out October 28th. Besides “Cool Girl” no other tracks from the new album had been released until this morning, Tove Lo released “Influence (feat. Wiz Khalifa)”. Listen below: http://dopefile.pk/mp3embed-6bp7qxy46qdd.mp3Tove Lo’s last hit was Moments last year. If you enjoyed that one, since then a Felix Snow – Moments (Remix) came out we recommend checking out.Download Cool Girl: iTunes, Google Play Listen to Cool Girl: Spotify, Apple Music,

Ria Mae is a pop/alternative artist from Halifax, Canada to keep an eye on. We recommend turning it up a couple extra clicks when listening to her latest music video “Gold”. Ria Mae enjoyed some spot light last year with her 2015 hit Clothes Off (produced by Classified), which has over 2 million views on YouTube now. I’ve been following Ria Mae since her first single Under Your Skin in 2011 off her first album, which is still one of my favorite unique tracks from her. Besides Gold and Clothes Off, other tracks to check out off her 2016 self titled album include Ooh Love, as well as it’s more upbeat remix Ooh Love (Neon Dreams Remix), and how can I resist plugging her collab track with Classified – Thoughts on Fire.Download: iTunes, Google Play Listen: Spotify

I first heard this song a couple months ago while Pat was in town on the speakers in a clothing store and shouted across the store for him to Shazam it. I keep coming back to it so I figured I’d share. It was “Part of Me” by Phases, is an indie pop band from LA. When I checked out their Youtube channel, I discovered they gained some popularity with their debut music video last year; I’m In Love With My Life, but not too much since then. Like Part of Me, a lot of their beats have an almost circa-michael-jackson sound, eg. see Cooler, and Betty Blue. None of which I like quite as much as this one, so I’m hoping they put out more like this.Download: iTunes, Amazon, Google Play Listen: Spotify

DJ Earworm (Jordan Roseman) is back with his yearly United State of Pop mashup to wrap up the year. This year he managed to mashup the top 50 songs into a single track (previously it was only the top 25). Personally, we think this year's version isn't quite as good as last year's United State of Pop 2014, you'll notice it's a little slower pace. "Music has been going through a softer phase than it was a few years ago so there's that return of adult contemporary" said DJ Earworm. Still, it's always amazing he's able to merge that many hits into one; you can get a copy of the track to download free here.

Demi Lovato released the music video for the title track on her new album, Confident, which hits shelves tomorrow. The music video also features Michelle Rodriguez of Fast & Furious fame. I’ll be honest, I still feel weird posting a Demi Lovato, Selena Gomez or Miley Cyrus track. Each being previously Disney teeny-bopper status who’ve now grown up and sufficiently change their image, they’re putting out some pretty damn catchy music. Her previously released lead single for the album, Cool For The Summer, was pretty good too.Download: iTunes, Google Play, Amazon

This morning Ellie Goulding released the music video for the lead single off her upcoming new album Delirium, out November 6. The song appeared online last Friday on Apple Music and Spotify, but deliberately not posted to Youtube or SoundCloud by the label to encourage user’s to buy the track (lame in our opinion). The last time we posted about Ellie was for her collaboration with Calvin Harris last year on Calvin Harris – Outside ft Ellie Goulding. The album will also include her hit from last year Love Me Like You Do (which we didn’t really like, but you may if you like her softer stuff) off the Fifty Shades of Grey soundtrack. You can find links to pre-order the album below.Download: iTunes, Amazon, Google Play Listen: Spotify, Apple Music

We wanted to send a little love across the pond to the UK for Shakka’s new single Say Nada. Shakka hails from London, England and broke out onto the music scene in 2013 when he did the vocals for Wretch 32’s hit Blackout. He’s known for having a dub reggae/hip hop/pop sound. This new single is off his upcoming EP titled The Lost Boys which drops October 16. This one sounds good turned up in those headphones.Download: iTunes | Amazon | Google Play Listen: SoundCloud | Spotify

DJ Earworm has released his annual mashup United State of Pop video for 2014, this year titled “Do What You Wanna Do”. Every year he takes the 25 biggest pop songs from billboard.com and combined them into what’s bound to be a very popular mash-up video, based on previous year successes. You can find the list of songs used in this year’s in the youtube description. Mashing 25 unique songs into a single is no easy feat, you can read about what it takes to create such a thing in his interview on billboard.com. You can revisit the mashups from 2008 to present on his youtube playlist. Shoutout to Ragen for sending us this one. Update: DJ Earworm has made the mp3 available to download for free on SoundCloud.

David Guetta’s latest music video is more like a short film, the song doesn’t really even start till 4 minutes in to the video. The video shows Guetta at a Formula One racetrack dueling another driver, JP, in their quest for league domination. His last music video Lovers on the Sun was pretty over the top as well. You can checkout the Dangerous remixes on SoundCloud. His new album Listen is out November 24th. Download: iTunes | Spotify

Majid Jordan, the duo comprised of Majid Al Maskati and Jordan Ullman from Toronto, first came on the scene with their collab with Drake titled Hold On, We’re Going Home. How'd this young duo score a collab with a big name like Drake? Well besides that their both from Toronto, Majid Jordan is signed to OVO Sound, a record label co-founded by Drake. Their premier EP containing 5 tracks and is available on iTunes and Spotify. The video is created by a neat Toronto video production company called Common Good. Download: Soundcloud | iTunes | Spotify

Our free download today comes from Toronto Artist/Producer Tep No. Even before I heard he was from Toronto I thought he had a bit of a The Weeknd sound to him. Tep No gained some traction when his Promises single took off with 2800+ upvotes on Hypem and 400,000 listens when it was posted on MrSuicideSheep’s youtube channel here. He’s also got a couple video’s up on his Youtube channel. La Belle Musique tossed together some neat visuals to this single you can check out here. Shout out to Toronto native Ann Liao for tipping us off to this one on twitter. Download: Soundcloud

Up-and-coming house remix artist Glastrophobie from Germany may have another hit on his hands. With the chorus and hand-clapping beat, the track has a (slightly more upbeat) feel of something that could be from the band Fun. He got some serious attention with his free remix of Anna Graceman – Words which has over 600,000 listens now. I’ll be honest, we weren’t even able to track down Born Cages‘ original track online, maybe the remix is just overshadowing it.

The Hoosiers are a popular UK rock band, released a new album "The Illusion of Safety", this robo-pop song (as they call it) is the lead single

Now this is pretty damn cool! The Gorillaz have realeased a 15 minute featurette called Journey To Plastic Beach. This is like a short movie and the animation is phenomenal!

The short animation, from the award winning Jamie Hewlett, sees Gorillaz mastermind Murdoch tell the story behind the album 'Plastic Beach'. The film combines previous Gorillaz videos with new and unseen footage, and finally it all makes sense. The Gorillaz characters even come face to face with their real life counterparts!

Music video by Young Artists For Haiti performing Wavin' Flag. (C) 2010 Universal Music Canada Inc.

A mashup of top 25 billboard hits of 2009 (mp3 download)

Andy Warhol's "Marilyn" is one of the most recognizable pieces of art produced in the last century. In this clip, another artist recreates Warhol's work with a squadron of paintball gunners.