New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Following previous collaborations with
Underoath ("Wasted Space") and XO Sad ("FAKE FAKE FAKE"), the next collaboration in line from KAYZO is "
Alone" with New England-based post-hardcore band Our Last Night. The song is out today (January 30) on Ultra Music. Listen to "
Alone" now here:
"I first heard about Our Last Night through Spotify actually way back when and I listened to some of their old albums and I fell in love with their original music first," says KAYZO. "I had no idea that they did covers of electronic music which I found later on and I thought was super cool. They did covers of Marshmello, ZEDD,
Kendrick Lamar and Drake-all awesome covers and I thought that was really cool because it kind of helps tie the electronic to rock from a rock side, while I do the electronic to rock from the electronic side. They understand the relationship between the two worlds and yeah that's kind of how I found out about them from Spotify. Power of Spotify. Loved their music ever since and now we've got a song together."
With lyrics like "I bury my love beneath the snow / It's hard for me to be vulnerable," "
Alone" aims to tug at one's heartstrings while KAYZO builds a hard-hitting electronic frame around them. "The lyrics are a vow to be more emotionally present and supportive for somebody you love. It's not always easy to truly empathize with the people closest to you, especially in the way that they receive it best," says Our Last Night's front man Trevor Wentworth. "We as a rock band don't get the opportunity to work on as many collabs as we would like, so when this somewhat fell into our laps we were beyond excited. It gave us a chance to really branch out and write a song that's a little outside our normal box. Although the song isn't your normal OLN song, there is still so much about it that still sounds and feels like the band, so it will not only resonate well with our fans, but I think it will help gain tons of new fans."
To support all of his new music, look for KAYZO to head out on tour this spring. Already dates in Houston, Chicago, San Francisco, Montreal and NYC have been announced. In April, he will make his debut appearance at Coachella. All tour dates follow here:
Sat 3/9 Houston, TX Revention
Music Center
Sat 3/16 Chicago, IL Aragon Ballroom
Sat 3/23 San Francisco, CA Bill Graham Civic Auditorium
Fri-Sun 3/29-31 Miami, FL Ultra
Music Festival
Sat 4/05 Montreal, QC MTleus
Sat 4/6 Queens, NY Knockdown Center
Fri 4/12 Indio, CA Coachella
Music and Arts Festival
Fri 4/19 Indio, CA Coachella
Music and Arts Festival
Houston-born, Los Angeles-based producer/DJ KAYZO, née Hayden Capuozzo, is one of the fastest-rising electronic artists of this decade. His versatile sound-high-energy melodies bestrewn with pummeling beats-defies genres and challenges sonic boundaries: in one single song, he'll traverse heavy metal via shredding guitar solos, dubstep-heavy bass, hardstyle-fueled aggression, and hypnotizing psytrance loops. His flexibility as a producer has earned him official releases with all the top dogs in electronic music and has garnered him collaborations with and remix duties for electronic giants like DJ Snake, Steve Aoki, and SLANDER, among many others. Taking the electronic-rock hybrid to new ground, he remixed the 2000 alt-metal smash hit "
Last Resort" from nu metal icons Papa Roach. Dubbed a "real smasher" by Billboard, the remix has amassed more than 5 million Spotify streams. Elsewhere, the dubstep monster "Wake Up," his collaboration with RIOT, counts more than 13 million streams on Spotify, with an additional 3 million on SoundCloud. His bass-fluid, shapeshifting sound and bold take on production has come to define KAYZO's electrifying style and creatively experimental direction, as best captured on OVERLOAD, his debut artist album. Released January 2018 on his own Welcome Records imprint, distributed by Ultra Music, and counting more than 7 million streams on Spotify alone, OVERLOAD encapsulates the new KAYZO sound: a stimulating, cross-genre blend of rock theatrics and electronic futurism. His formal debut single with Ultra Music-"Forever," a collaboration with Gammer-followed this past summer. A tastemaker in his own right, KAYZO founded his own artist-run imprint, Doghouse Recordings, in 2016, which he later relaunched as Welcome Records in 2017. He also hosts his biweekly Doghouse
Radio show, which airs every other Friday at 4pm PT/7pm ET on SiriusXM Channel 730 as part of Insomniac Radio. Recognized as one of Billboard Dance's 100 Artists of 2018, KAYZO is today a bona fide global act.
