FDA Grants Psilocybin Second Ever Designation As Breakthrough Therapy Drug

This time last year, the FDA was designating psilocybin as a breakthrough therapy for depression for the very first time. “It really does represent a significant development in the whole history psychedelic research,” said Charles Grob at the time, psychiatry and behavioral sciences pressor at University California, Los Angeles. Now, the FDA …

Johns Hopkins Is Investing $17 Million Into MDMA & Psychadelic Research

Johns Hopkins is getting involved with the vast and swiftly growing field  psychedelic research. The prestigious university is throwing down $17 million from a group private donors on its Center for Psychedelic and Consciousness Research. It’s the first its kind the United States and the largest in the world — intended to …

Avicii’s Father Dissects His Son’s Mental Health Issues In Hour-Long CBS Special

Avicii‘s father continues to open up about his son’s mental health and hopes to make a change. This Wednesday, CBS is dedicating most its morning programming to a special on mental health — “Stop the Stigma: A Conversation About Mental Health.” During which, Avicii’s father Klas Bergling discusses his son’s own struggle with …

Lindsey Stirling Releases "The Upside" & "Underground" From Forthcoming Fifth Studio Album

Lindsey Stirling is preparing to release her fifth studio album, Artemis, due out September 6. Leading up to the release, she’s dropped two singles, “The Upside” and “Underground.” The two tracks represent vastly different sides Stirling’s still evolving style, the first engaging more with the pumped up electronic, progressive sound and …

Another Major US City Just Decriminalized Mushrooms, Following Denver's Lead

First Denver, now Oakland. The city council in Oakland this week unanimously voted to decriminalize hallucinogenic fungi, otherwise known as “magic mushrooms” or “shrooms,” the active chemical in which is psilocybin. Pursuing leads related to magic mushrooms is hardly an effective use police time, advocates the resolution believe it will allow law …

Alison Wonderland Gets The Weekend Started Early with New Single "Peace" [MUST LISTEN]

Alison Wonderland has never been shy about sharing her inner demons, talking about her depression, or discussing mental illness with her followers. It’s this openness, in part, that engenders such deep devotion from her fans. Her new song out today, “Peace,” speaks directly to the inner demons within all us …

Slushii Drastically Shifts His Sound For Sophomore Album 'DREAM'

Slushii has been conserving his head down, working onerous to convey us his sophomore album DREAM — and it’s lastly right here. Instead the same old bubbly future bass and dubstep, the producer takes a drastic shift along with his artistry, with glimmering reflections his acquainted sound over largely somber …

REPORT: Psilocybin Could Be Legal As Treatment for Depression By 2021

Research into MDMA as a therapy for PTSD has been underway, authorised by the FDA, for the previous couple years. But for the primary time, a psychedelic medication – psilocybin – has obtained approval and a “breakthrough remedy designation” to start trials. Psilocybin is the energetic psychoactive ingredient within the drug …

FDA Approves Magic Mushrooms For "Breakthrough Therapy"

The FDA simply granted “Breakthrough Therapy,” aka the use magic mushrooms for therapy remedy in tough instances. More particularly, the energetic psychedelic drug psilocybin is allowed for testing on sufferers. Which, simply so occurs to be the energetic substance in psychedelic mushrooms. Scientists that recurrently examine psychedelic medication are overjoyed with …

WATCH: Hardwell’s Last Show Before Retiring

Last month, Hardwell that he’d be taking a break from touring and making music for an indeterminate quantity time. “Being Hardwell 24/7 leaves too little vitality, love, creativity and a focus for my life as a standard particular person to take action,” he wrote in an announcement. “This is why …

Illenium Teams With Campaign for Suicide Prevention

Photo cred: Twitter After a string excessive prile suicides in latest reminiscence, from Avicii to Kate Spade to Anthony Bourdain, psychological well being consciousness has been more and more pertinent on everybody’s minds. International DJ Illenium, who has been very public about his battle with despair, has lately joined a …

Getter Addresses His Shift In Sound On New Album

Getter has surprised us all together with his most intuitive launch up to now, . It’s a far cry from the bangers we’re used to listening to from the various producer, however nothing brief unbelievable. As Getter enters a brand new period musical expression, he has fittingly opened as much as followers …

STUDY: Music Industry Workers Face “Astronomical Levels of Stress”

Talk to anybody within the music trade who’s out on a Friday night time and ask them how they’re doing, and also you’ll in all probability get some model the reply, “Eh, simply been actually busy.” This type nonchalant reply belies the truth that they’ve in all probability been too busy, …

The Chainsmokers' Drew Taggart Opens Up About Depression & The Change In Their Songs

The Chainsmokers have taken a darkish, introspective flip with their music, as heard with “Sick Boy” and “Everybody Hates Me.” As it seems, the duo’s music has been considerably an open e-book. Now, Drew Taggart is talking out about his struggles with despair in a letter to followers. “Songwriting is my …

Kygo Donates $30,000 For World Suicide Prevention Day

Yesterday was World Suicide Prevention Day. With the amount lives lost just in the celebrity world this year to depression, drugs, anxiety, and more, awareness and transparency have become more important than ever in the struggle to make asking for help okay. In the interest the day, DJ/producer Kygo chose …

Kygo Donates Hefty Sum Towards Mental Health on World Suicide Prevention Day

As the public incidents involving mental health issues pile up, artists are taking action. We are all aware what happened with Avicii a few months back. Since then, many artists are speaking out on their own struggles. Just yesterday, 26-year old DJ Ookay opened up about his struggles with substance …

Ookay Opens Up About Depression, Drug Abuse In Wake Of Mac Miller's Death

The news on Friday shook our generation. Another artist so young taken away by addiction and drugs, in the wake so many others who have faced the same fate, feels like it can be too much. Many artists Miller’s effect on their lives before his passing, including Ookay who had …

Mike Shinoda Starts Incredible Tribute To Chester Bennington At Major Festival [VIDEO]

It’s still hard to believe that the world lost Chester Bennington more than a year ago. The frontman Linkin Park took his own life last year after battling with depression, anxiety, and addiction, leaving behind a legacy and a group fans who still live by his every word. This past …

EDM's Foremost Photographer Rukes Opens Up GoFundMe For His Parents

We at Your EDM have depended on photos from Rukes for much our coverage, from individual DJ close ups to shots festival main stages to some the most spectacular meetings DJs ever to have happened. Personally, I have over 1,000 Rukes images saved on my computer. Now, it’s ours and …

RL Grime Brings Home His First Billboard No. 1 With 'Nova'

Henry Alfred Steinway, better known by his most-recent stage name, RL Grime, has been undeniably killing the game, especially with his sophomore album NOVA at the end July 2018. Although the talented musician has expressed his struggles with anxiety and depression in the past a Facebook post, nothing has stopped the American …

Benjmn – Complicated

Benjmn – Complicated Today we bring you an incredible debut single titled ‘Complicated’ from a singer/songwriter and producer by the name Benjmn who addresses a common theme in the millenial experience – anxiety and depression. Benjmn has been flying under the radar for most but has quietly become one dance music’s …

James Blake opens up on his battle with anxiety and suicidal thoughts

James Blake has opened up on the stigma surrounding mental health in the music industry in the way expressing his personal battles with anxiety and depression. Speaking at the annual symposium the Performing Arts Medicine Association (PAMA) on a panel called You Got This: Managing the Suicide Crisis in the Arts Population, …