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Chadwick Boseman to Be Memorialized with a Statue in His Hometown
After the news of Chadwick Boseman’s tragic passing, fans quickly launched a petition to replace a Confederate statue in his hometown of Anderson, South Carolina with a new memorial honoring the Black Panther actor. Unfortunately, the Confederate statue can’t be removed without first acquiring a two-thirds vote from state legislature due to South Carolina’s Heritage Act law, but local officials are working on creating the next best thing: a statue of Boseman for permanent placement elsewhere in the city. According to Terence Roberts, the mayor of Anderson, South Carolina, the city is already “enthusiastically working on a permanent public tribute to honor the late actor,” reports TMZ. The statue will include “a mix of sculpture with mural or art elements.” While an initial sketch has not y...
Jim Carrey Pens Striking Political Essay Urging Americans to Vote Out Trump
In a new essay for The Atlantic, Jim Carrey set his silly jokes aside in order to focus on a more pressing matter: the tyranny of Trump. “Untold American lives have been ruined by the presidency of Donald Trump,” he wrote, painting the last four years in very bleak terms. Carrey’s concerns go beyond Trump’s mishandling of the coronavirus pandemic. The comedian, author, and illustrator laid a series of charges on the President’s head, including making the country less safe for its Black citizens and breaking the law in search of re-election. “I’ve spent much of my career trying to reach audiences through humor,” Carrey said, adding, “At this moment, the best anyone can offer is gallows humor. The truth is, we should all be seriously concerned.” Trump’s Republican backers did not escape...
Chicano Batman on Challenging Heritage: “American Culture is Very Ahistorical”
Kyle Meredith With… Chicano Batman Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSS Chicano Batman vocalist Bardo Martinez catches up with Kyle Meredith to discuss their new album, Invisible People. Martinez also digresses on larger topics such as being Latino during the Black Lives Matter era, challenging racial identifiers, immigration, and geographical privilege. Martinez also discusses the importance and impact that Daniel Quinn’s book Ishmael has had not only on his outlook, but also the lyrics for the new record and his love of Black music. Kyle Meredith With… is an interview series in which WFPK’s Kyle Meredith speaks to a wide breadth of musicians. Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday,...
‘Less Instruments, More Feelings’: Leonel Garcia’s ‘Amor Pasado’ Pays Homage to Ranchera Classics
Putting the spotlight on lyrics, vocals and emotions, Leonel García‘s stripped-down versions of ranchera classics such as “La Media Vuelta,” “En el Último Trago” and “Tu Recuerdo Y Yo” on his new album Amor Pasado inject new life to the songs of an older generation. Paying tribute to the melancholic songs made famous by musical icons like José Alfredo Jiménez and Chavela Vargas, García began recording this album nearly three years ago. “I wanted to do an homage to ranchera music, to Mexican music because it has been a part of my life since I was little,” García tells Billboard. “I don’t sing the genre but still it has influenced my way of singing.” For Amor Pasado, García recruite an array of artists such as Natal...
From SZA & Ty Dolla Sign to Big Sean, Which New Music Release Is Your Favorite This Week? Vote!
This week’s supply of new music is full of surprises galore by everyone from SZA and Big Sean to DJ Khaled and Drake, and with so many to choose from, Billboard wants to know which new release is your favorite! Is SZA’s glorious return with some help from Ty Dolla $ign hitting different three years after Ctrl? Were you living for DJ Khaled and Drake’s high-concept “Popstar” video starring none other than Justin Bieber? Perhaps you’re living for the veritable dream team of rising stars — we’re talking Doja Cat, City Girls and Mulatto — assembled by Chloe x Halle for their “Do It” remix or Finneas‘ latest single, “What They’ll Say About Us” has you all up in your feels. And that’s not all! Big Sea...
Is A Marshmello/Demi Lovato Collaboration Coming?
Update (Sept. 4): Marshmello took to social media to share a teaser video with Demi Lovato. Check it out: It seems everyone has a taste for Marshmello. Still riding high on his Juice WRLD collaboration “Come & Go” the Mello man posted a cryptic teaser that seemingly references Demi Lovato on Monday (Aug. 3). On Instagram, the producer posted an image of himself on the phone with a caption reading simply “hello? demi?” As it seems unlikely that he’s referring to Demi Moore, we’re betting that we see a new single with Lovato in the coming weeks. In what could be a clue about the themes of the track, the image shows Marshmello sitting in a dark room littered with liquor bottles and a knocked over lamp, with an obscured mystery woman linge...
First Out: New Music From Bright Light Bright Light, Fletcher, Flavia & More
If you’re in need of some queer additions to your Labor Day weekend playlists, look no further; Billboard Pride is here to help with First Out, our weekly roundup of some of the best new weekly music releases from LGBTQ artists. From a colorful new video courtesy of Bright Light Bright Light and Caveboy to Fletcher’s new single, check out some of our favorite new releases from this week below. Bright Light Bright Light & Caveboy, “It’s Alright, It’s OK” With their brand new music video for their track “It’s Alright, It’s OK,” pop singer Bright Light Bright Light and indie star Caveboy shifted the focus away from themselves. Instead, the entirety of the new clip focuses on New York drag performer and activist Glo...
Eddie Vedder on ‘Democratic Process’ While Recording Gigaton, Admiration for Bandmates
Eddie Vedder opened up on a variety of topics — including working on new music during the global pandemic, why he finally joined Instagram and why the “democratic process” of recording Pearl Jam’s Gigaton makes it one of his favorite records — on a special fan-driven Q&A session with SiriusXM, Faithful Forum with Eddie Vedder, on Wednesday (Sept. 3). Vedder has been deemed Pearl Jam’s frontman, but he points out how PJ co-founders Jeff Ament and Stone Gossard’s longtime musical partnership has paved the way for the foundation of the band. “I think at some point we functioned without a leader,” he said in the interview. “If I ended up in that situation, I think it was reluctantly. It was by no means a hostile takeover. It was their world that started all this. It was Green River. A...
David Bowie’s The Man Who Sold the World to Be Reissued for 50th Anniversary
David Bowie’s seminal The Man Who Sold The World album is getting the 50th-anniversary treatment and will be released under its originally intended title, Metrobolist, on Nov. 6 on Parlophone Records. As with the Space Oddity 50th anniversary vinyl, as well as a 180g black vinyl edition, it will come in 2020 limited edition handwritten numbered copies on gold vinyl (numbers 1971 through 2020) and on white vinyl (numbers 1 through 1970) all randomly distributed. The 2020 re-release of the album under its Metrobolist moniker has been remixed by original producer Tony Visconti, with the exception of the track “After All,” which Visconti considered perfect as is and is featured in its 2015 remaster incarnation. Bowie personally d...
SZA, Ty Dolla $ign, And The Neptunes All ‘Hit Different’ On Vibey New Single
Way back in January, SZA revealed that we’d be hearing new music from her this year — and when her Trolls World Tour collab with Justin Timberlake dropped the following month, fans were hoping there was plenty more where that came from. Today (September 4), despite some previous (deleted) tweets where SZA had characterized the relationship between her and TDE label president Punch as “hostile,” a gorgeous new SZA song has arrived. It features Ty Dolla $ign, was produced by The Neptunes, and is called “Hit Different.” While “The Other Side” stayed firmly in the pop realm, “Hit Different” is patented SZA R&B, undulating and seemingly with its own gravitational pull. Over a bass-heavy beat courtesy of Pharrell and Chad Hugo, SZA unspoo...
Justin Bieber Stars As Drake In DJ Khaled’s Trippy New ‘Popstar’ Video
Drake and Justin Bieber are perhaps the two most famous Canadians in the history of pop music. Right now, though — during a time of unprecedented travel restrictions due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, there’s one key element that separates them: Drake’s been in Canada (which means he can’t travel to the United States), and Bieber’s already here, in Los Angeles. In the realm of music videos, this means Bieber is free to take Drake’s place at the center of the “Popstar” visual, helmed by Director X (Julien Christian Lutz), which dropped on Friday (September 4). In it, Bieber is the very embodiment of the title, carrying a bottle of champagne around a mansion that’s simultaneously in both party and after-party mode, lip-synching Drake’s...
NAPALM DEATH Releases Music Video For New Song ‘A Bellyful Of Salt And Spleen’
U.K. grindcore pioneers NAPALM DEATH will release their new studio album, “Throes Of Joy In The Jaws Of Defeatism”, on September 18 via Century Media Records. To further demonstrate the wide stylistic array explored on the LP, NAPALM DEATH has launched a single/video clip for the closing track, “A Bellyful Of Salt And Spleen”. Check it out in a video clip created by Sam Edwards and Khaled Lowe of A-Side Films. NAPALM DEATH vocalist Mark “Barney” Greenway commented about the song/video as follows: “‘A Bellyful Of Salt And Spleen’, you could say, is about building and breaking down in the same discordant breath. The building came in the sense of many layers of coruscating industrial ambience, all marching to the beat of a home-made drum k...
