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H.E.R., Ella Mai, Brandy and More Bring the Sizzle to the 2020 Soul Train Awards
H.E.R.’s acceptance speech was just one in a series of memorable show moments. Taking place at The Lot Studios in West Hollywood, Calif., the telecast mixed videos with live performances, the latter on a stage resembling an intimate club setting complete with a small band and a few socially distanced tables and sofas occupied by no more than two people — and all wearing masks. Tichina Arnold and Tisha Campbell, former co-stars on the TV series Martin, returned for the third time as hosts. While keeping the show on pace with quick and easygoing banter, T and T also lit up the proceedings with their own brand of fireworks beginning with the opening sequence. In prefacing the opener, the pair proclaimed 2020 “the year of Black women” in the wake of the country being ravaged by racial injustic...
AC/DC’s ‘Power Up’ Plugs In For Second Week Atop Australia’s Albums Chart
BE features the track “Fly To My Room,” produced and co-written with Sydney electronic duo Cosmo’s Midnight, while album track “Life Goes On” is the highest new entry on the Australian singles survey, at No. 27. Homegrown artist, comedian and playwright Tim Minchin bows at No. 3 with Apart Together, his debut solo studio album. It’s not Minchin first appearance on an ARIA chart. He appeared on the singles survey at No. 11 with “Come Home (Cardinal Pell)” in February 2016. Reunited Melbourne trio Something For Kate return to the albums tally with The Modern Medieval, their first LP in eight years. The follow-up to Leave Your Soul To Science (No. 5 in October 2012), Medieval is new at No. 4 It’s the group’s seventh studio album and their sixth Top Ten on the ARIA Albums Chart. Rounding out t...
Ariana Grande’s ‘Positions’ Chasing Sixth Week at No. 1 In U.K.
Ariana Grande is on track for a sixth week at No. 1 in the U.K. with “Positions,” while Liam Gallagher is dreaming of his own career high. Gallagher’s new charity single “All You’re Dreaming Of” is the most downloaded track in the early part of the week, and is heading for the week’s highest debut. The former Oasis and Beady Eye frontman starts at No. 12 on the Official Chart: First Look, which tallies sales and streaming data from the weekend. 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 process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Utah’s 2001-Like Monolith Mysteriously Disappears
A week after the bizarre discovery of a metal monolith in the Utah desert, the mysterious object has disappeared. The three-sided structure was found on November 23rd, while a helicopter from the Utah Department of Public Safety was conducting a survey of bighorn sheep. Located in a remote area of Red Rock County, it reminded film fans of Stanley Kubrick’s sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey. Standing ten to 12 feet tall, it had been installed with “some type of concrete-cutting tool or something to really dig down… and embed it really well,” a spokesman told The New York Times. It’s unclear who put it there, when they’d done so, and why. Now, it’s gone. On November 28th, Utah’s Bureau of Land Management said in a statement that “an unknown party” had “removed it on the evening of No...
Juicy J Unveils New Album The Hustle Continues: Stream
Juicy J has unveiled his new album The Hustle Continues. Stream it below via Apple Music and Spotify. As one of the founding members of Three 6 Mafia, J is a principal architect of the southern hip-hop sound. The Memphis MC’s last solo album, 2017’s Rubba Band Business, was a star-studded affair. But it’s follow-up packs even more guests into the house, cramming 15 features onto 16 tracks. In addition to fellow Mafia-alumn Lord Infamous, The Hustle Continues boasts contributions from Logic, Megan Thee Stallion, Ty Dolla $ign, Conway, NLE Choppa, Jay Rock, Project Pat, Keyglock, Young Dolph, and A$AP Rocky. The record is Juicy J’s first indie effort in ten years. A former signee of Columbia, J has reunited with the first label exec to ever offer him a record deal: Alan ...
Miley Cyrus’ Plastic Hearts Lovingly Mashes Up Rawk Influences: Review
The Lowdown: For her post-divorce album, Plastic Hearts, Miley Cyrus deploys big synth energy in full ’80s-rawk drag. Over six uneven albums, Cyrus has dabbled across pop genres, but she’s always held a penchant for the era and attitude of mainstream glam, new wave, and hair rock, dropping covers of Joan Jett and Blondie in live sets and covering Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” as early as 2010’s Can’t Be Tamed. Now 28 years old, Cyrus leans fully into these influences, enlisting heroes like Stevie Nicks to have a blast with her while ripping themselves off. Even without her current incarnation’s spunky sneer and platinum shag, Cyrus still has teeth, though this algorithmic “rock” can filter out her bite at times. Still, this might be Cyrus’ most successful pastiche yet. [embedded...
STATIC-X Still Doesn’t Want To Publicly Reveal New Singer’s Identity Even Though ‘Everyone Knows’ Who He Is
STATIC-X bassist Tony Campos says that he knew “there would be some negativity” in response to the band’s decision to reunite without its late frontman Wayne Static. STATIC-X‘s recent tour celebrated the 20th anniversary of the band’s platinum-certified “Wisconsin Death Trip” album and paid homage to Static, who died six years ago. While the identity of STATIC-X‘s touring singer — who goes by the name Xer0 — has not been officially revealed, strong rumors suggest that DOPE frontman Edsel Dope is performing alongside Campos, drummer Ken Jay and guitarist Koichi Fukuda. Campos discussed STATIC-X‘s comeback during a recent appearance on “The SDR Show”. Speaking about how the idea of Xer0 wearing a mask in the likeness of Static...
BILLY SHEEHAN Says New TALAS Studio Album Is Shaping Up To Be ‘Really Cool’
Billy Sheehan spoke to the “Music Matters” podcast about the progress of the recording sessions for the new studio album from TALAS, the 1970s upstate New York band which initially earned its name while performing gigs in the Buffalo and Rochester scenes. Although TALAS started out by playing covers, it eventually introduced originals to its setlist. “We’re just about to finish [the] new TALAS record,” Sheehan told “Music Matters” host Darrell Craig Harris (see video below). “That’s the version of TALAS that I left in ’85 to go join Dave [Lee Roth‘s solo band]. And instead of rewriting the songs better and smarter, because I know a lot more now than I did then, [we wanted] to do it like we did it when we did it. And so we...
Former TROUBLE Singer ERIC WAGNER Is Preparing To Record Debut Solo Album
In a new interview with Heavy Culture, former TROUBLE singer Eric Wagner revealed that he has been working on his debut solo album for the last few years. “[It’s completely] written [and I’m] just getting ready to record it,” he said (see video below). “I always wanted to do something like that. Friends that I grew up with [will] play on it, and [I will get some] guest guitar players to do the solos, [people] that I respect and consider friends for all these years. So it should be fun. And I’ve been looking forward to doing this. Like I said, that one’s written, and I’m just kind of waiting to record it. It’s [something] I’ve been wanting to do for a long time. It’s just me — it’s just me.” Wagner went on to say ...
PAUL STANLEY Blasts Republicans Not Speaking Against TRUMP: ‘Not Sharing Their Opinion Is A Coward’s Way Out’
Paul Stanley has blasted Republican senators for not speaking out against Donald Trump as Trump claimed that President-elect Joe Biden must prove that the votes he received in the presidential election were not “illegally obtained” in order to enter the White House. The KISS frontman criticized GOP senators for not publicly recognizing Biden‘s win and for not countering the promotion by Trump and his campaign of unfounded claims that voter fraud disrupted the presidential election. “Republican politicians who now cower before this president are the same ones that ridiculed & dismissed him in the 2016 primaries,” Stanley tweeted. “Their silence IS a choice & not sharing their opinion IS a coward’s way out. It feeds the mistrust that eats at ...
The Most Influential Artists: #7 Run-DMC
As part of our 35th anniversary, we’re naming the most influential artists of the past 35 years. Today, we’re at #7. From Queens, New York, here are Run-DMC. CREDIT: Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images Hip-hop had to go through rock in order to become the driving force of American popular music. And more than anyone else, it was Run-DMC and Jam Master Jay, with assists from producer Rick Rubin and tourmates the Beastie Boys, who piloted that journey. “Rock Box” was an outlier on Run-DMC’s 1984 self-titled debut, much like “Roots, Rap, Reggae” was the novel genre experiment on their second album. But the screaming guitar riffs — and the video in which Joseph “Run” Simmons and Darryl “DMC” McDaniels rap to punk rockers at New York City club Danceteria — made “Rock...
BTS Earns Fifth No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 Chart With ‘Be’
Of Be’s 242,000 units earned in the tracking week ending Nov. 26, album sales comprise 177,000, TEA units comprise 35,000 and SEA units comprise 30,000 (equating to 48.56 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs). The Be album is a mostly-Korean-language release, but does feature the group’s first all-English song, “Dynamite.” The track marked the act’s first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated Sept. 5. It also recently garnered the group its first Grammy Award nomination, for best pop duo/group performance. Be is the 11th mostly non-English album to hit No. 1. Of the 11 leaders that were recorded mostly in a language other than English, five have been by BTS. The album’s first week is the largest for an album by a group, both in terms of equivalent album units and album ...
