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Disney Honors Chadwick Boseman on Birthday With New ‘Black Panther’ Opening Credits
“To all fans of #BlackPanther: watch the film on #DisneyPlus late tonight, for a special tribute to someone that was and will always be near and dear to our hearts,” Disney chairman Bob Iger said Saturday. Boseman died Aug. 28 of cancer. He had never spoken publicly about his diagnosis, and his passing both shocked and devastated Hollywood and fans around the globe. Marvel is now readying Black Panther 2 for a shoot that will start in Atlanta in July and last for upwards of six months. Mexican actor Tenoch Huerta, who was one of the stars of Netflix’s Narcos: Mexico, is in talks to play one of the antagonists. Letitia Wright, Lupita Nyong’o, Winston Duke and Angela Bassett are expected to return for the new feature. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates ...
BTS ARMY Reacts to ‘Be’ Topping the Billboard 200
BTS‘ Be album landed at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, and the group’s devoted ARMY celebrated the happy news on social media on Sunday (Nov. 29). Be made its debut with 242,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Nov. 26, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It is the group’s fifth No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 chart, an accomplishment they’ve achieved in just a little over two years and six months. Out of the 11 mostly non-English language albums to ever top the Billboard 200, five of them have been by BTS: Be, Map of the Soul: 7, Map of the Soul: Persona, Love Yourself: Answer and Love Yourself: Tear. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a datin...
Chris Brown Is Top Winner at 2020 Soul Train Awards: Complete List of Winners
Summer Walker’s debut album, Over It, which reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200, won album of the year. Megan Thee Stallion, whose “Savage” reached No. 1 on the Hot 100 (via a remix featuring Beyoncé), won the rhythm & bars award for that smash. Beyoncé shared the video of the year award for “Brown Skin Girl” with her eight-year old daughter, Blue Ivy, as well as Saint Jhn & Wizkid. That video is also nominated for a Grammy for best music video. Snoh Aalegra, a Swedish singer/songwriter based in Los Angeles, took best new artist. Aalegra’s 2019 sophomore album, Ugh, Those Feels Again, reached No. 73 on the Billboard 200. Brandy and Monica, who teamed to record the 1998 classic “The Boy Is Mine,” each received an award. Brandy took the Soul Train certified award. Mon...
Alison Wonderland Sets Date for 2021 Red Rocks Show, Preps for Return to Live Music
With the release of a COVID-19 vaccine on the horizon in the United States, EDM artists are rescheduling cancelled 2020 tour dates at a dizzying pace, particularly at Colorado’s storied Red Rocks Amphitheatre. Alison Wonderland is the latest to join the ranks of artists announcing 2021 shows at the venue, along with Galantis, Zeds Dead, REZZ, and RÜFÜS DU SOL, among others. As musicians and fans alike anxiously await the full-scale return to live shows, these announcements are serving as a silver lining during the monotonous days in quarantine. Scheduled to perform September 15th, 2021, Alison Wonderland’s concert is set for exactly one year after the original 2020 date. It will follow up her hugely successful pair of “Temple of Wonderland” show...
Steve McQueen’s Lovers Rock Is Joyfully Intoxicating: Review
This review originally ran in September 2020 as part of our coverage of the 2020 New York Film Festival. The Pitch: In London’s West Indian community in 1980, a house party brews. The men haul furniture out to the backyard and bring in huge speakers to replace it, while the women crowd into the kitchen, cooking goat curry and plaintains while singing and laughing with each other. Men and women file in one at a time, paying the bouncer while the DJ pumps in the songs of Carl Douglas, Sister Sledge, Janet Kay — romantic reggae, “Lover’s Rock”. This is the setting for Steve McQueen‘s Lovers Rock, a glimpse into the Blues parties that served as an important space for Black Londoners of the ’60s, ’70s, and ’80s to find community, solidarity, and love, as a rotating ensemble of characters s...
How JUDAS PRIEST Debunked Existence Of Hidden Messages In Its Songs
JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford says that he still doesn’t know why he and his bandmates were subjected to a subliminal-message trial in Reno, Nevada more than three decades ago. In August 1990, a judge ruled that JUDAS PRIEST was not liable for the deaths of two young men who cited the band’s music as the reason they killed themselves. Just before Christmas, 1985, 19-year-old James Vance watched his best friend Ray Belknap shoot himself to death with a .12 gauge shotgun in a churchyard outside Reno, Nevada. Then Vance pulled the trigger on himself. He survived but was severely disfigured. Vance later claimed his actions had been influenced by the heavy metal music of JUDAS PRIEST, prompting his family to sue the band. At the heart of the lawsuit was the claim that JUDAS PRIEST...
SEVENDUST’s MORGAN ROSE Explains How He Ended Up Making Solo EP
SEVENDUST drummer Morgan Rose released his debut solo EP, “Controlled Chaos”, on November 27 via Rise Records. Morgan co-wrote the EP with SEVENDUST bandmate Clint Lowery. With Clint on guitar and Jason Christopher (COREY TAYLOR, PRONG) on bass, Morgan tracked six songs in less than ten days at The Lair in Culver City, California. Rose discussed how the idea for the EP came about during a recent interview with Alicia Atout. He said (see video below): “I came to California in the very beginning of March, and I was supposed to be here for, like, two or three days. I had just started dating a girl, and she lived out here. So I was, like, ‘Okay, cool. We’ll take that step and we’ll spend some time in somebody’s house.’ So I was supposed to be her...
IVAN MOODY Reacts To News That JEREMY SPENCER And JASON HOOK Have Collaborated On New EP: ‘Challenge Accepted’
FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH singer Ivan Moody has reacted to the news that two of his former bandmates, Jeremy Spencer and Jason Hook, worked together on the new EP from Spencer‘s theatrical rock band PSYCHOSEXUAL. On Friday, PSYCHOSEXUAL surprise-released a covers EP, “Songs To Stalk You By”, featuring a guest appearance by Hook on two songs: the KISS classic “Watchin’ You” and QUEENSRŸCHE‘s “Gonna Get Close To You”. The recordings mark the first time Spencer and Hook have collaborated since they parted ways with FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH. Moody, who is active on Instagram, took to the social media platform on Saturday to share a two-minute video message in which “congratulated” Spencer and Hook for reuniting on the PSYCHOSEXUAL ...
PHILIP ANSELMO’s SCOUR Releases Music Video For ‘Flames’
SCOUR, the extreme metal supergroup featuring Philip H. Anselmo (PANTERA, DOWN, EN MINOR), John Jarvis (AGORAPHOBIC NOSEBLEED), Derek Engemann (PHILIP H. ANSELMO & THE ILLEGALS), Mark Kloeppel (MISERY INDEX) and Adam Jarvis (PIG DESTROYER, LOCK UP) has just released its long-anticipated record “The Black EP”. The official music video for the EP’s latest single, “Flames”, can be seen below. Forged in 2015, SCOUR made its debut with the ferocious single “Dispatched”. “The Grey EP”, released via Anselmo‘s Housecore label, dropped in 2016, followed by “The Red EP” in 2017. Faster and tighter than ever, this year’s “The Black EP” serves as the final release of the EP trilogy and is inarguably the band&...
Quando Rondo Show Canceled By The Authorities, Deletes Instagram?
Source: Thaddaeus McAdams / Getty Quando Rondo needs to get some things in order. One of the rapper’s recent shows was cancelled by the authorities, and he seems to have deleted, or at least suspended his Instagram account. As Complex reports, Quando had a show schedules in Macon, GA on Friday night (Nov. 27), which was abruptly cancelled by the mayor and the polic. Quando has been in the news due to he and his crew’s alleged involvement in the death of rapper King Von in Atlanta. According to Quando Rondo and his team, rapper 600 Breezy called up the mayor asking to cancel the show. 600 Breezy, who is out of Chicago like the late Von, has been calling out Quando for his involvement in Von’s death, and took offense to the song the rapper dropped called “End Of Story” that spoke on the inci...
Snoop Dogg’s Commentary Was the Real Winner of Last Night’s Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. Fight
Last night’s highly anticipated bout between retired boxers Mike Tyson and Roy Jones Jr. may have ended in a draw, but there was a winner: Snoop Dogg. The rapper gave commentary during the night’s events, which also included YouTuber Jake Paul versus NBA veteran Nate Robinson, and social media couldn’t get enough. “This shit like two of my uncles fighting at the barbecue,” the rapper quipped during the Tyson-Jones Jr. match, which featured more clutching and hugging than actual punching. “’Meet me in the backyard, I’m tired of this shit.’” He also went full-on gospel during the undercard match. “Oh, my God, Lord have mercy! Oh, Jesus!” Snoop shouted when Paul knocked Robinson to the ground. He then broke into a spiritual hymn as Robinson stumbled around the ring in an attempt to ...
Kaskade Teases Rocket League Collaboration and Monstercat Debut
Since its inception, popular vehicular soccer game Rocket League has been known to feature a wide range of music from a medley of dance producers due to their partnership with Monstercat. Now, the game and label are teasing a collaboration with one of EDM’s biggest artist’s, Kaskade. On Twitter, both Kaskade and Rocket League shared a teaser video announcing their joint effort. The video shows Kaskade pick up a record emblazoned with the logo from the game and the label “Season 1” before flipping it over to reveal “Season 2” and place it on a turntable. Fans have begun to speculate everything from a new title song for the game to a virtual concert. While the latter hasn’t been ruled out, the former seems more likely as Monstercat rep...
