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Vinyl Just Had Its Best Sales Week in History
We already knew vinyl was making a tremendous comeback, but the format has downright shattered records this month. The most important of them all: vinyl just had its best sales week ever. As Billboard reports, there were 1.842 million (!) LP’s sold in the US during the week leading up to Christmas, ending on December 24th. That’s the biggest week the format has had since Nielsen/MRC Data began tracking sales information in 1991. The previous record was achieved just a week prior, when 1.445 million vinyl records were sold between December 10th and December 17th. These gargantuan figures arrive at the end of a year that’s been historically great for vinyl. For the first time in 34 years, LP sales outpaced CDs during four separate weeks in 2020 (all of them since September), w...
Lil Pump Reportedly Banned by JetBlue for Not Wearing Mask, Says “Corona’s Fake”
A recent JetBlue flight ran into some unexpected turbulence when rapper Lil Pump refused to wear a mask. Now, according to TMZ, the Trump-loving MC has been banned from flying JetBlue. On Saturday, December 26th, Lil Pump boarded a plane bound for Los Angeles from Fort Lauderdale. Audio recordings from the flight deck reveal that midway through the trip, Lil Pump not only removed his mask, but became verbally abusive with the poor flight attendants tasked with getting it back on. Still maskless, he began coughing and sneezing into a blanket, perhaps purposefully trying to make his fellow passengers uncomfortable. The flight deck apparently requested that police meet them at LAX, since the rapper had to be dealt with “firmly.” TMZ reports that Lil Pump eventually calmed down and put his mas...
Norman Mailer on Mike Tyson: Our 1988 Feature
This article originally appeared in the September 1988 issue of SPIN As an arena for boxing, the Convention Hall at Atlantic City is not one of the happier architectural palaces of the world. It drops the kind of pall an audience that would come from witnessing a cockfight in a bank. Lyndon Johnson was nominated there in 1964 with two identical sixty-foot close-up photographs of himself on either side of the podium. The Hall looked on that occasion like a coronation chamber for a dictator. Now on the night of June 27, 1988, thousands of seats were laid out on the great flat floor and people in the seventeenth ringside were paying $1,500 a ticket to see Tyson-Spinks heavyweight championship. Since the gala glitz of Trump Plaza was but a connecting corridor away from Convention Hall, the Tru...
Iggy Effect: Playboi Carti Shares Pics & Videos Of His Son, Onyx
Source: Matt Jelonek / Getty Depending on who you ask, Playboi Carti seems like a loving and caring father. After a very public social media squabble with his baby mama, Iggy Azalea, Playboi Carti looked to dispel the notion that he’s a “deadbeat” dad and over the weekend took to social media to show that he’s indeed spending time with his mini-me. Posting a video and selfie of himself with his baby boy, Onyx, the “Woke Up Like This” rapper is trying to show the world that he’s very much involved in the life of his son and even has his seed already working in the studio alongside him. 💋 stUDio > bABY mE pic.twitter.com/bMSteOpQrP — 💋🧛🏿♀️ (@playboicarti) December 28, 2020 No Sl33p pic.twitter.com/4KsMrN2VrK — 💋🧛Ἷ...
Donald Trump Fully Pardons Snoop Dogg’s Former Producer Of Drug Charges
Source: Adriana M. Barraza/WENN.com / WENN Even though his time in office is ticking down the current POTUS is feeling generous with his power. He has now given one of Snoop Dogg’s associate a get out of jail free pass. Digital Music News is reporting that the West Coast legend’s former producer has been fully pardoned by none other than Donald Trump. On Tuesday, December 22 the reality television turned politician signed off on papers that let Weldon Angelos be a free man. In 2004 the Los Angeles native was arrested for attempting to sell $350 dollars worth of marijuana to an undercover police officer. The lawmen also found a pistol on his person. He was hit with 13 charges including drug possession, money laundering and unauthorized firearm violations. In 2004, Angelos was sentenced to 5...
HHW Gaming: Ex-Nintendo President Reggie Fils-Aimé Details Meeting With Kanye West
Source: Neil Mockford / Getty Kanye West and Nintendo? Ex-Nintendo President Reggie Fils-Aimé detailed a discussion about a possible collaboration that took place. Nintendo Life reports that in a recent Talking Games With Reggie and Harold podcast, Fils-Aimé detailed a meeting with the “free-thinking” rapper plus Super Mario Bros and Legend of Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto at an E3 show several years ago. The former president and COO of Nintendo of America would eventually end up at West’s fashion business office where the rapper tried to sell him on a piece of video game content he was working on, and he ultimately told West that the idea of Nintendo working on a Kanye collaboration “just wasn’t there.” Per Nintendo Life: “Part of it was talking about what he was up to. He was ...
Utah Freshman Running Back Ty Jordan Dead At 19 After Accidental Shooting
Source: Icon Sportswire / Getty The gridiron world has lost one of their most promising talents. A star running back has lost his life to gun violence. As spotted on ESPN Ty Jordan is no longer with us. On Saturday, December 26 his school, the University of Utah, confirmed his passing via Twitter tribute. The Denton (Texas) Police Department say that on Friday, December 25 they responded to a shooting incident. Upon arrival they discovered a victim with gunshot wounds. The staff treated Ty with all the necessary live saving tactics but unfortunately he was pronounced dead upon arriving at a local medical facility. “Following a preliminary investigation, we do believe that this was an accidental shooting, where the victim accidentally shot himself,” Denton Police Department public info...
Larry Gaaga – Nneka The Pretty Serpent Album Download
Here is a brand new album from Larry Gaaga – ‘Nneka The Pretty Serpent’ album mp3 download out now. Nigerian music entrepreneur Larry Gaaga unleashes a new album ‘Nneka The Pretty Serpent‘. It is actually the official soundtrack for the movie of the same title. Larry Gaaga has been in the business of making Nollywood film soundtracks for a while now. Just a while ago he released an album soundtrack for ‘Rattle Snake; The Ahanna Story’. The album has 11 tracks with a handful of features from Peruzzi, Victor AD, Ceeza Milli, Zoro, Spotless etc. The movie is out and could be seen at any Nigerian cinema. Listen & enjoy Larry Gaaga – ‘Nneka The Pretty Serpent’ below. [embedded content] Share this: You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimag...
Dance Music Artists Soundtrack Stories from Award-Winning Journalist’s Book, “The Outlaw Ocean”
Multi-decade journalist Ian Urbina has launched a music project to soundtrack his investigations throughout international waters, what he calls the world’s “last untamed frontier.” According to Urbina, there are 56 million people who work offshore. However, their work is rooted in a harsh environment that most are unfamiliar with. The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, who has written extensively for The New York Times and has contributed to The New Yorker and The Atlantic, among others, puts specific focus on the lifestyles led by those working at sea and the underreported crimes that take place. Titled after his book by the same name, The Outlaw Ocean Music Project came to form through a simple premise—to create a musical interpretation of the written work. What st...
Dance Your Way Into 2021 With Insomniac’s Four-Day “Virtual Flashback” Streaming Event
Despite vaccines slowly being rolled out across the world, it’s sadly still not safe to have a big, in-person New Year’s Eve celebration. In light of this disappointing reality, Insomniac has whipped up a collection of replay sets—packaged into a New Year’s Eve countdown livestream—perfect for socially distanced partying at home. The iconic promoter recently unveiled a lineup for the online event, which they dubbed “Virtual Flashback.” Set to be featured on the stream this week are archival performances from Dillon Francis, Kaskade, Kill The Noise, Moore Kismet, Subtronics, deadmau5‘s TESTPILOT alias, and the late i_o, among others. Each of the sets took place at one of Insomniac’s “Virtual Rave-A-Thon” events this y...
Lights Stars in Netflix Remake of “The Magic School Bus”
In an effort to inspire copious amounts of nostalgia and entertain the younger generation is a new Netflix remake of the popular 90s show, The Magic School Bus. Released just in time for the holidays, The Magic School Bus Rides Again in the Zone sees the class attend a New Year’s Eve concert and learn about timezones. Providing her voiceover and musical talent to the educational program is none other than Lights, who naturally plays the role of the pop star who the class goes to see and later adventures with. On Twitter, Lights shared a goofy and wholesome video of herself and her family watching one of her scenes from the film. While you’ll have to stream the full movie to see her full involvement, the social media footage gives a brief glimpse of one of t...
Stephanie LaFera, WME’s Head of Music, on Racial Injustice and Planning Concerts During a Pandemic [Q&A]
2020 will certainly go down in the annals of music history as not only one of the most difficult, but also among the most seminal. The music community—and the entertainment industry at large—have had to completely rethink their strategies in order to stay afloat. AEG, Live Nation, and a number of other music industry giants have struggled to remain in business. But deep within the roots of music, innovators like Stephanie LaFera, WME’s Head of Music, have used these unprecedented times to reshape the music industry. LaFera oversees a team of agents whose roster includes major dance music acts such as Calvin Harris, Kygo, Steve Aoki, TOKiMONSTA, Martin Garrix, Marshmello, Eric Prydz, Grimes, and many more. In the midst of the devastating COVID-19 pandemic, LaFera has succeedi...
