Ricky Mears News Today

After giving thanks this Thursday, count your blessings with shows from Kirk Franklin, The Menzingers and Del Castillo.

Over the past year, the up-and-coming genre-spanning dance-music duo SIDEPIECE, a collaboration between producers Ricky Mears, aka Nitti Gritti, and Dylan Ragland, aka Party Favor, has dropped a slew of charting singles. In the mix: the Grammy-nominated collaboration with 100 million streams on Spotify “On My Mind,” with Diplo, and “Temptation,” a track that debuted in March and has racked up more than two million streams and placed in the top 25 in Beatport’s Top 100 chart. The two a...