Benny Blanco’s OPEN WIDE: A Cookbook For Friends debuts on major Bestseller Lists

OPEN WIDE, the debut cookbook from artist, record producer, songwriter, and actor Benny Blanco, made its entry onto The New York Times Best Sellers list at #6 in Nonfiction: Advice, How-to and Miscellaneous. Published by Dey Street Books, the cookbook also reached #7 on USA TODAY’s Bestselling Booklist and #9 on the Los Angeles Times bestselling hardcover nonfiction list. OPEN WIDE became available for purchase upon its release.

Co-authored with recipe developer and bestselling cookbook author Jess Damuck, OPEN WIDE serves as Benny’s guide to food and entertaining, offering readers tips on cooking, impressing guests, and throwing unforgettable dinner parties.

While best known for his work in the music industry, Benny Blanco’s passion for food had become widely recognized in recent years. He hosts some of L.A.’s “most coveted” (The New York Times) dinner parties and collaborates with chef Matty Matheson on two cooking shows. Benny also shares viral cooking tutorials alongside well-known food personalities like Half Baked Harvest, Andy Hearnden, Uncle Roger, and Laurent Dagenais.

The cookbook offers something for everyone, from kitchen basics and expert advice from friends such as Eric Andre, Jess Damuck, Ben Sinclair, and Emile Haynie, to Benny’s own mind-blowing recipes designed to leave guests satisfied and entertained.

 

MORE ABOUT THE AUTHOR benny blanco is a record producer, songwriter, artist, actor, record executive, and cookbook author. benny has contributed to the sale of hundreds of millions of albums worldwide through his work with artists including Ed Sheeran, SZA, Justin Bieber, Rihanna, Katy Perry, The Weeknd, Maroon 5, Juice WRLD, Sia, and many more. As a solo artist, benny has released two albums—FRIENDS KEEP SECRETS and FRIENDS KEEP SECRETS 2—that have been streamed more than 11 billion times to date and have featured multiple multiplatinum hits. benny made his TV debut playing a fictionalized version of himself on the FXX series “Dave” with Lil Dicky, which has become the #1 comedy on FX and FXX. His longtime friendship with acclaimed chef Matty Matheson has spawned two massively viral online food series, “Matty & Benny Eat Out America” and “Stupid F*cking Cooking Show.” OPEN WIDE is his first book.

MUSIC VIDEO: Sabrina Carpenter – TASTE

If you never thought you would see Jenna Ortega in a Sabrina Carpenter music video, then think again. But it has happened!

In her new music video “Taste“, Sabrina is after the “other woman”, who proves to be as equally capable of dishing out her own level of rather graphically violent menage a trois retribution in this viral horror-themed music video .

 

Watch closely, and you might see it as a modern homage to the classic horror comedy, “Death Becomes Her,” which starred Meryl Streep, Goldie Hawn, Bruce Willis and Isabella Rossellini.

Directed by Dave Meyers

EP / Producer – nathan scherrer
Producers – aiden magarian & collin druz
Creative Director – sarah carpenter
Label – island records
Production Company – freenjoy

MUSIC VIDEO: Don’t Go Yet by Camila Cabello

It’s not a brand new video, but the vibe in Don’t Go Yet is definitely evergreen! We love this energetic and diverse multi-generational music video from Camila Cabello, which celebrates her Cuban roots, family, and friends. The catchy tag line, the vibrant colors, the food, the fashion, the hair, and of course, the dancing!

Even though this song and music video sort of flew under the radar as far the music chars, see why Don’t Go Yet stays on our playlist

 

Directed by Philippa Price and Pilar Zeta
Epic Records, a division of Sony Music Entertainment

MUSIC VIDEO RELEASE: “Anyways, I Love You” by Wild Rivers

“Anyways, I Love You,” the new song from platinum-selling trio Wild Rivers, has debuted with the official music video, directed by Hannah Gray Hall and produced by Weird Candy.

Reflecting on the track, the group—Khalid Yassein, Devan Glover and Andrew Oliver—shares, “‘Anyways, I Love You’ is a song about loving someone through thick and thin. It’s saying that no matter what you do that annoys the hell out of me, you are still mine for the long haul. I think that often someone’s ‘worst’ traits are usually what makes them so special too, and seeing the whole of someone is true love. This song is meant to be a love song, but a realistic one. We aren’t perfect but I love you anyways. I think of this song as kind of an alternate universe version of our song ‘Thinking ‘Bout Love,’ where the couple stayed together and made it last through all the hardships.”

Produced by Gabe Wax (Soccer Mommy, Adrienne Lenker) and recorded in Joshua Tree, CA, “Anyways, I Love You” finds Wild Rivers’ introspective lyricism imbued with a new level of confidence and an energized creative perspective.

Formed during their time at Queen’s University in Ontario, Wild Rivers has released two full-length albums to date including 2022’s Sidelines, which landed at #9 on the U.S. Spotify Debut Album Chart. Released to critical acclaim, Under The Radar praised, “expertly straddles the lines between folk and indie, offering an empathetic and enveloping comfort and a piece of poignant pop beauty,” while American Songwriter declared, “Soul-stirring…rich male/female harmonies bring the emotional lyrics to life.” Since the release of Sidelines, Wild Rivers has been nominated for Breakthrough Group of The Year at the 2023 JUNO Awards, seen their breakout single, “Thinking ‘Bout Love,” certified Gold in Australia and Platinum in Canada and garnered over 450 million global streams and 4 million monthly listeners on Spotify. The group has also spent much of their career touring across the world including countless headline shows as well as dates supporting artist such as The Chicks and Noah Kahan.

French band L’Impératrice releases new Music Video for “Love from the Other Side”

L’Impératrice has released a new single, “Love from the Other Side,” along with an accompanying music video. The Parisian band also just wrapped their international sold out “Double Trouble Tour,” and riveting performances at Outside Lands and Coachella, which saw them hailed as an “artist to watch” by the likes of Entertainment Weekly, Los Angeles Times and Grammy.com. They were also praised for their live show from the likes of Billboard, Paper Magazine and more. .

“Love from the Other Side” is the first English-language single from their upcoming album, Pulsar, via Microqlima. “The first time I heard the instrumental, I thought, ‘That’s the vibe,’ even though it’s really different than what we do,” says the band’s founder Charles de Boisseguin of encountering a piece that began with Achille Trocellier and Tom Daveau, the most rock-oriented members of L’Impératrice. “There is a British side to it, like Gorillaz with a bit of MGMT.” Frontwoman Flore Benguigui and Nicky Green wrote the melody and lyrics together, building off the idea of “the good ghosts that are around you” and the sense of slight spookiness she heard in the bassline.

“Love from the Other Side” follows the album’s early singles “Danza Marilú (feat. Fabiana Martone),” an electrifying homage to Italo-disco and is an anthem for women of all ages for freely moving on the dancefloor; and “Me Da Igual,” three words in Spanish that roll off the tongue, a perfect title for a track of heightened sensuality. These early singles from Pulsar give listeners a look at what to expect throughout the the focused but far-reaching new record, influenced by the band’s travels around the globe in support of 2021 album Tako Tsubo, including shows across the U.S., Mexico and Europe.

Pulsar sees L’Impératrice move freely among the sounds they love, bridging hip-hop, kosmische, and modern pop with their most unabashed embraces of French Touch and international house ever. It is their first album to feature guest vocalists including folk / pop singer Maggie Rogers and rapper / producer Erick the Architect, among others.

The new album is also a record where L’Impératrice made every decision, a set of songs that truly captured the band’s spirit both onstage and off. The self-produced album radiates the energy and wisdom of a band that has helmed so many dance parties around the world on the way to finding itself and its sound. Throughout, vocalist Benguigui boldly sings of self-empowerment, or of shirking beauty standards, ageism, and drab normalcy. These are apt messages for these incandescent anthems of experience, of being yourself instead of anyone else’s version of it.

While writing the album, L’Impératice also tried a novel approach – splitting into two teams of ever-interchanging members to explore new ideas, led by de Boisseguin. It was a way of incorporating every voice into writing like never before, pulling from idiosyncratic upbringings and enthusiasms. They then passed the tracks to Benguigui, a longtime jazz singer who would sometimes write two-dozen vocal melodies for a song just to see which one fit best. It was an arduous and exciting process and saw the band go from writing through to recording the album in about nine months. This was the sort of self-determination they’d wanted and now found.

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