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Madi Diaz Shares New Song “New Person, Old Place”: Stream
Nashville-based songwriter Madi Diaz has shared a new song, “New Person, Old Place”, and an accompanying video directed $ECK. Watch it below. Over a sparse acoustic guitar-driven arrangement, Diaz describes the process of moving on from a breakup. “You used to be able to dictate each feeling inside my head / Drag me through every trauma over and over again,” she sings. “Cause if I was crazy then I’d still be yours I’d always come back / You used to be able to, now you don’t do that.” In a press statement, Diaz elaborated on the process, saying “This was a moment I realized I wanted to start to learn how to do it not better, not worse, but just different… and then something shifted. Something in my heart finally knocked loose and I was breathing deeper. It’s hard as hell, breaking patterns ...
Pop Smoke Passes Eminem for Most Weeks at No. 1 on Hip-Hop Album Charts
Late Brooklyn drill rapper Pop Smoke has made history on the Billboard Top Rap Albums chart with his posthumous album, Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon. This week marks the project’s 20th week at No. 1, surpassing Eminem’s previous record of 19 weeks with Recovery. The Top Rap Albums chart first launched in 2004. Drake’s Take Care (16 weeks), Eminem’s The Marshall Mathers LP 2 (14 weeks), and Macklemore and Ryan Lewis’ The Heist (13 weeks) sit behind Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon and Recovery in the history books. Shoot for the Stars is the second-longest-running No. 1 album on the separate Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart at 19 weeks, solely trailing MC Hammer’s 29-week reign with Please Hammer Don’t Hurt Em in 1990. Pop Smoke was killed at age 20 during a home i...
Gibson Unveils Tom Petty SJ-200 Wildflower Acoustic Guitar
Gibson has announced the new Tom Petty SJ-200 Wildflower signature acoustic guitar. The beautiful instrument is inspired by the Gibson acoustic commissioned by the late rock legend in 1996 and used on the Wildflowers album — hence the guitar’s name. “It is so incredible to see the SJ-200 design our Dad worked on so long ago, lovingly brought to fruition with his longtime guitar tech and friend Alan Weidel and the craftsmen and women at Gibson guitars,” commented Tom Petty’s daughter Adria Petty in a press announcement. “There has been much effort made to make certain this guitar lives up to Tom’s musical standards and the specs he wanted for a best-in-class instrument,” she continued. “Alan Weidel has put this instrument through its paces as he has with all Tom Petty signature guitar model...
Here Are New Fan Photos Of Graves Of PANTERA Legends DIMEBAG And VINNIE PAUL
Recently uploaded fan photos of the graves of legendary PANTERA guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott and his brother, PANTERA drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott can be found below. Last year, a protective fence was erected around the Abbott brothers’ graves at the Moore Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Arlington, Texas, presumably to guard them from vandalism. Vinnie Paul‘s grave marker at Moore Memorial Gardens was officially installed in May 2019. That same day, two pictures of the gravesite were released via PANTERA‘s social media, along with the message: “We ask that you please be respectful when visiting the brothers’ graves.” A message engraved on Vinnie Paul‘s grave marker reads: “Don’t ever think it’s not a good time, if you...
Dave Grohl Loves the Misfits Now, All Thanks to His Daughter
Dave Grohl has a confession to make: he never liked the Misfits, and he’s not even sure why. But times have changed, and he’s fallen in love with the band after his daughter convinced him to give the horror-punk legends another try. “Now, when I was young I never really liked the Misfits,” Grohl said on Anders Bøtters’ Tiny TV. “I loved all these other hardcore punk rock bands but I never really liked the Misfits, and I don’t know why. So my daughter starts listening to the Misfits, and now she’s turning me on to the Misfits. She’s 14-years-old. She’s like, ‘No, no, no Dad, you have to listen to this.’ So now I love the Misfits. My daughter made me love the Misfits.” <!– // Brid Player Singles. var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ “div”: “Brid_10143537”, “ob...
PAPA ROACH Singer On Upcoming Album: ‘We Did Our Best Job At Trying To Push Rock And Roll Into The Future’
PAPA ROACH singer Jacoby Shaddix spoke to spoke to Matt Pinfield of KLOS‘s “New & Approved” series about the band’s upcoming follow-up to 2019’s “Who Do You Trust?” album. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I’ve gotta say this music is very inspired. Taking the opportunity while we were in lockdown and jumping into the studio and making music, it gave me some… I was feeling trapped, and to be creative and focus all this dark, negative energy and bring it to the music… The band, everybody, was so inspired when we were creating, and so there’s elements that are super heavy and in your face and just loud, brutal moments. And then there’s funky, just out-of-the-box, wacky, weird music. It’s kind of all over...
BRANT BJORK Says He Reached Out To JOSH HOMME About Possible KYUSS Reunion
Brant Bjork has revealed that he tried to reach out to Josh Homme about a possible reunion of KYUSS‘s classic lineup. The former KYUSS drummer said that he attempted to repair his relationship with the group’s leader after Homme said in an interview last summer that he would be open to playing with his former bandmates again in order to rewrite KYUSS‘s final chapter. At the time, it had been eight years since a nasty legal dispute ensued when Bjork, singer John Garcia and bassist Nick Oliveri reunited in 2011 as KYUSS LIVES! While Homme initially supported his ex-bandmates’ decision to tour under that moniker, he and bassist Scott Reeder sued Garcia and Bjork in early 2012 for “trademark infringement and consumer fraud” when Garcia and Bjork allegedly at...
SYSTEM OF A DOWN’s SHAVO ODADJIAN: I Used To Be Very Good Friends With KANYE WEST’
In a new interview with Puraphy, SYSTEM OF A DOWN bassist Shavo Odadjian was asked if he has ever had any personal encounters with reality stars Kourtney, Kim, Khloé and Rob Kardashian, who are all also of Armenian descent. He responded: “Oh, I know the Kardashians quite well. I used to be very good friends with Kanye [West, Kim Kardashian‘s ex]. Though this was a few years ago now, I’ve been to their house a lot. They’re just like you’d imagine they’d be: very cool, personable people. In fact, when SYSTEM OF A DOWN was asked to play in Armenia in 2015, come to find out that Kanye had just played the same venue a week before we did. Yeah, I like the Kardashians a lot.” Odadjian is not the only member of SYSTEM OF A DOWN to publicly praise the Karda...
VH1’s ‘Black Ink Crew: New York’ Announces Official Return In April
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: VH1 / VH1 Black Ink Harlem may have closed indefinitely but that’s not stopping the rowdy VH1 collective from setting it off this spring. Get ready for a whole lot of hollering and carrying on when the newest season of Black Ink Crew premieres on Monday, April 19. The group reconvenes in Brooklyn after the COVID-19 quarantine, in hopes of setting up shop while managing the drama of their personal lives. Not sure how deep Ceaser is willing to dive into his life at home after a very public beef that recently went down between himself, his daughter and his latest girlfriend. Either way, the rest of the crew is on hand to tackle their share of mess. Donna and Alex are now engaged and Ted (TED!) is married and working on music. Puma’s being held to the t...
OnePlus Unveils OnePlus 9 & OnePlus 9 Pro Smartphones, Here’s What’s New
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: OnePlus / OnePlus 9 & OnePlus 9 Pro When you think of smartphones, Samsung and Apple usually come to mind thanks to the companies flagship devices, the iPhone and Galaxy models. OnePlus isn’t on many people’s radars, but the company is hoping its newest smartphones will put them in the discussion. Tuesday (Mar. 23), the Chinese-based company announced its newest models, the OnePlus 9 and the OnePlus 9 Pro. OnePlus’ devices are usually best known for their value, but for the 2021 lineup of smartphones, the company lets other companies know its smartphones are no longer just budget models. The OnePlus 9 Pro flagship model is built to compete with Apple’s iPhone 12 Pro Max and Samsung’s Galaxy S21 Ultra. The OnePlus 9 is a lower-specced offering that doe...
Woman Who Rallied To Get Black ‘Teen Vogue’ Editor Fired Over Problematic Tweets Has Racist Past of Her Own
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ed Rode / Getty A Teen Vogue staffer who opposed the hiring of former editor-in-chief Alexi McCammond, was discovered to have tweeted the n-word three times over 10 years ago. According to Newsweek, Christine Davitt, who works as a senior social media manager for Teen Vogue called a white friend the n-word in two posts on Twitter in 2009, reports Fox News. “I love the contradictory nature of the phrase ‘white n—a,” she wrote in a third post written in 2010. Davitt identifies as having white and Filipino ancestry. Funny how people like @christinedavitt forget the language they’ve used in the past but don’t mind chastising others for doing so. pic.twitter.com/79phxDSpcz — Crystal&Rob Janosek (@crystal_janosek) March 21, 2021 Alexi McCammond, who was sla...
Master & Dynamic’s New MW08 Wireless Earbuds Have A New Look & ANC Feature
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Master & Dynamic / MW08 Wireless Earbuds Master & Dynamic’s popular wireless earbuds have finally been upgraded. Tuesday (March 23), the New York-based headphone company that boasts Brooklyn Nets superstar Kevin Durant as an investor unveiled its newest product, the MW08 true wireless earbuds. It’s been some time since the company has launched a new product, 2019, to be exact, mainly blessing fans of the brand with collections like the Durant Nike KD 13 inspired one it dropped back in January. Users of the previous model, the MW07, should be excited to learn about the MW08 that keeps the same similar design but is sporting some significant upgrades and made from new materials. Like its predecessor, the new model costs $299 at launch and feature hy...
