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Mirrors – PUPIL SLICER
RATING: 8.5/10 Three months into an already shitty year, what the world really needs is a debut album guaranteed to knock your teeth out through the back of your head. And here it is. PUPIL SLICER seem destined to be one of this year’s success stories, if only because “Mirrors” is one of the most stupidly exciting records to be released in a long time. A sustained barrage of warped, dissonant grind, lurching, bug-eyed mathcore and muscular, death metal oomph, this trio’s sound may not be unprecedented, but it’s hard to recall anyone making such an instantly addictive and unerringly explosive racket out of those ingredients. Many will nod to CONVERGE and DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN as obvious reference points, but really PUPIL SLICER are another few unsavory mutation...
Corey Taylor Compares Gen Z Attempt to Cancel Eminem to the Salem Witch Trials
Eminem was recently the target of a cancellation attempt for a lyric from “Love the Way You Lie”, his 2010 hit featuring Rihanna. After seeing the story, Slipknot singer Corey Taylor compared the situation to the Salem witch trials. As the story goes, a group of Generation Z TikTok users apparently attempted to cancel Eminem for “Love the Way You Lie” line, “If she ever tries to f**king leave again/ I’mma tie her to the bed and set this house on fire.” Eminem responded by sharing a lyric video for his 2020 song “Tone Deaf”, which contains the lyrics, “I won’t stop even when my hair turns grey (I’m tone-deaf)/ ‘Cause they won’t stop until they cancel me.” Taylor, seeing the story make headlines this week, brought up the topic when speaking with Matt Pinfield on Los Angeles’ 95.5 KLOS radio....
Disney CEO Defends Gina Carano Firing, Says Company Stands for “Values of Inclusion”
Last month, The Manadalorian actress Gina Carano was fired by Lucasfilm for a series of abhorrent tweets, including one that compared being a Republican today to being a Jew during the holocaust. She quickly doubled-down and became an anti-cancel culture crusader. Now, Disney’s CEO has chimed in to defend her departure from the Star Wars TV series. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Walt Disney Co. CEO Bob Chapek was on a call during an annual shareholders meeting when someone asked him if Carano was on Disney’s “black list” for her openly conservative politics. Chapek responded with the type of corporate vagueness that you’d expect from a major entertainment executive, saying that he doesn’t see Disney as “left-leaning or right-leaning.” However, he did say that Disney st...
Schitt’s Creek’s Annie Murphy Tapped for Russian Doll Season 2
Last year, Annie Murphy and her Schitt’s Creek co-stars swept the 2020 Emmys in a historic feat that saw them take home W’s in all major categories. Murphy’s performance as the character Alexis Rose surely made her a desired player in Hollywood, because she’s now been cast for the second season of Netflix’s Russian Doll. The follow-up the show’s first season, which hit the streaming service in 2019 and quickly became a cult favorite, is still in the development stages, and we have no idea what Murphy’s character will entail. However, given what we saw in the first season of the show, which starred its co-creator Natasha Lyonne, it’ll probably be weird as hell. Lyonne created and executive produced the show alongside Amy Poehler and Leslye Headland, and that inaugural season saw h...
Azealia Banks Sold an Audio Sex Tape as an NFT for $18,000
What’s that fucking sound? Why, it’s “I FUCKED RYDER RIPPS”, an audio-only sex tape by rapper Azealia Banks that just sold as a blockchain NFT for over $18,000. (Via Vice.) The Non-Fungible Token (NFT) was created by the titular Mr. Ripps and posted on the Ethereum blockchain for 10.00 ETH. At the time of this writing, 1.00 ETH is worth about $1,827.08, which brings the total haul for the heavy breathing to $18,270.80. Now, that 24 minutes and 22 seconds of light cardio belongs to Bond villain user Rulton Fyder, who has the right to do anything they want with it, from whacking off, to helping others whack off, to playing it at parties while passing out drinks. As Banks and Ripps wrote in the product description, “This sale is for the full rights and sole access to the first audio...
Corey Taylor Speaks Out Against ‘Cancel Culture’ After Eminem Backlash
Corey Taylor, noted lead mask-wearer of Slipknot, is the latest rocker to speak out about concerns regarding “cancel culture,” but unlike System of a Down’s drummer and some of the others who have run their mouths on podcasts and such, Taylor actually brought up some good points. In a discussion on Los Angeles radio station KLOS surrounding TikTok users “canceling” Eminem due to a lyric in “Love the Way You Lie,” Taylor had strong words on the current state of things. <!– // Brid Player Singles. var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ “div”: “Brid_10143537”, “obj”: {“id”:”25115″,”width”:”480″,”height”:”270″,”playlist”:”10315″,”inviewBottomOffset”:&#...
Lady Gaga & Adam Driver Are All Bundled Up in ‘House of Gucci’ First Look
Gaga and Driver play Patrizia Reggiani and Maurizio Gucci, respectively, in the Ridley Scott-directed biographical crime film, which tells the story of how Reggiani was tried and convicted of organizing the assassination of her ex-husband and former head of the Gucci fashion house. Roberto Bentivegna’s script is based on Sara Gay Forden’s book The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed. Joining the all-star cast is Al Pacino as Aldo Gucci, Jared Leto as Paolo Gucci, Jeremy Irons as Rodolfo Gucci, and Camille Cottin as Paola Franchi. Filming for House of Gucci began in Rome in February. The Chromatica singer’s latest acting gig serves as a follow-up to her feature film debut in A Star Is ...
Harry Connick Jr. on the ‘Thrill’ of His 15th Grammy Nod & Going It ‘Alone’ for New Album
He jokes, but in actuality, the New Orleans crooner now has three Grammy Awards to his name (he won again in 2002) and 15 total nominations — including one at Sunday’s show: best traditional pop vocal album for True Love: A Celebration of Cole Porter. While his first priority is making great music, Connick admits the nominations never get old. “I’m not really thinking about Grammys when I’m recording, but when Grammy time comes around, I think we all think about that and what an incredible thrill and honor it is,” he says. “So I pinch myself. It’s a really big deal.” Looking back on his early wins, Connick remembers just how massive Music’s Biggest Night truly felt back then. “You have to understand, that was before cell pho...
‘Selena,’ ‘Judy,’ ‘Harriet’ & More Among Redbox’s ‘Fierce Female’ Picks
Harriet and Hidden Figures also are featured on the “Black Girl Magic” list, which also includes 2019’s The Hate U Give and What Men Want. “Ladies of a Certain Era” offers classics such as Mamma Mia, Pride & Prejudice and Sound of Music, while “Modern Woman” features the star-studded Hustlers and Ocean’s 8, plus Promising Young Woman and Bombshell. Check out all of the Fierce Females films here, which are all available via the Redbox kiosk, on demand, through Free Live TV and more. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the...
Gwen Stefani Needs You to ‘Slow Clap’ for Her Upcoming Single
A “Slow Clap” is required for Gwen Stefani‘s latest announcement: Her new single is coming on Thursday. Stefani giddies up for the single’s cover in her bedazzled and diamond-fringed cowgirl getup. A couple of Easter eggs, such as a boombox, basketball, alarm clock that reads 5:44, ice cream cone, cassette tape and bicycle, surround the iridescent star, some of which she’s already shown fans before. The pop star teased her single on Monday with a picture of her inserting the “Slow Clap” cassette tape into a boombox, and on Sunday, Stefani posted a photo of an alarm clock with the time 5:44 on it. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power....
Cast Of ‘Snowfall’ Talks Season 4 & The Importance Of Telling Authentic Black Stories
Source: FX / Snowfall Snowfall is now in the midst of its fourth season and the hit crime drama from the late John Singleton has managed to eclipse an already amazing story arc. Earlier in the week, Hip-Hop Wired had the pleasure of joining a video call with members of the cast and writing team and the importance of telling authentic Black stories. The Zoom was held on Tuesday, March 2, and was attended by leading stars Damson Idris, who stars as drug lord Franklin Saint, Carter Hudson, who plays the intense Teddy McDonald, Angela Lewis as the hard-loving Louie, Isiah John, who plays Franklin’s friend Leon, Michael Hyatt, who stars as Franklin’s mom Cissy, Amin Joseph as Uncle Jerome, Kevin Carroll as Franklin’s dad Alton, and executive producers and writers Walter Mosley. and Dave Andron....
The Notorious B.I.G.’s 10 Best Freestyles & Guest Verses
Source: TIMOTHY A. CLARY / Getty Today (March 9) marks the 24th anniversary of the death of the OG King of New York and Hip-Hop icon, The Notorious B.I.G. Only 24-years-old at the time, Biggie had ascended from a revered New York MC to global superstar in just a matter of a few short years and to this day is considered by millions to be the greatest rapper of all-time. Classic hits like “Juicy,” “Big Poppa” and “One More Chance (Remix)” propelled him to a stratosphere few artists experienced in the age of beepers, pay phones, and snail mail. In other words, Biggie didn’t have nor need social media to crown him king in Hip-Hop’s golden era of legendary rappers, crews, and producers. To celebrate the life and memory of The Notorious B.I.G. a.k.a. Biggie a.k.a. Big Poppa a.k.a Frank White a.k...
