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Cardi B Clowns Conservative Pundit Ben Shapiro For Slandering “WAP”
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz It has only been a couple of days since the release of Cardi B’s controversial single and people are still very mad. One analyst got gathered together personally by the Bronx bombshell. As spotted on Insider all types of right wing personalities are clutching their pearls after the release of “WAP”. The new song finds Bardi and Megan Thee Stallion talking that talk and not everyone can comprehend the vibes. One stiff shirt in particular is Ben Shapiro. The co-founder and editor of the conservative website The Daily Wire took time during his program to read the lyrics to the song verbatim. Naturally his very dry delivery resulted in a clip that had all the cringe worthy feels. “Wet a– P-word, P-word is female genitalia,&#...
100 Black Men Sign Letter Urging Joe Biden To Select A Black Woman As His VP
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz A group of 100 Black prominent from all walks of life are standing in solidarity with the #WinWithBlackWomen campaign. In a letter signed by names like Sean “Diddy” Combs, Chris Paul, Charlamagne Tha God, Michael E. Dyson, Nick Cannon, and more, they are urging the former vice president and current Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden to choose a Black woman as VP pick. They all feel that without a doubt that a Black woman deserves the job being that the Black women on Biden’s shortlist for the job have been “unfairly criticized and scrutinized.” Washington Post reporter Matt Viser shared the letter on Twitter, in it, it explicitly highlighted the scrutiny that Senator Kamala Harris has faced since news broke that ...
HHW Gaming Preview: ‘Marvel’s Avengers’ Beta Left Us Cautiously Optimistic About The Game
Source: Bernard Smalls / Crystal Dynamics Crystal Dynamics Marvel’s Avengers is easily one of the year’s most anticipated titles dropping this year on consoles. PlayStation 4 players, including us, got a chance to take the game for a spin during its closed beta over the weekend first, and we walked away with some mixed reactions. After spending hours with the game, we are still cautiously excited to play the game revolving solely around Earth’s mightiest heroes, but the game’s multiplayer aspect has us a bit worried. Before you jump into the game’s multiplayer experience, Crystal Dynamics gives you a crash course by allowing you to play the game’s Golden Gate Bridge mission. The mission which will be in Marvel’s Avenger’s promising story camp...
ARMORED SAINT To Release ‘Punching The Sky’ Album In October
ARMORED SAINT‘s new single and video, “End Of The Attention Span”, will make its online debut tomorrow (Wednesday, August 12). The song is taken from the band’s eighth full-length studio album “Punching The Sky”, which is due on October 23 through Metal Blade Records. The follow-up to 2015’s “Win Hands Down” was tracked with veteran producer/engineer Bill Metoyer and bassist/producer Joey Vera and was once again mixed by Jay Ruston (STONE SOUR, STEEL PANTHER, AMON AMARTH). Speaking about the song and video, bassist Joey Vera said: “We’ve teamed up with video director Robert Graves for our first single, ‘End Of The Attention Span’. Robert got the lyrical content right away and together we delved into society’...
Gift of Sacrifice – KING BUZZO featuring TREVOR DUNN
Roger ‘Buzz’ Osborne, aka King Buzzo, is the ringleader of the groundbreaking musical anomaly known as the MELVINS. He has established a fruitful musical relationship with bass maestro Trevor Dunn, best known for his work with the genre-hopping oddball band MR. BUNGLE. The two have shared time together in the MELVINS and as bandmates in the spastic, left-field, metallic grind project FANTOMAS. This creative union carries forth now in the form of KING BUZZO‘s second solo release, “Gift of Sacrifice”, the long-awaited follow-up to 2014’s “This Machine Kills Artists”. It should be of little surprise that “Gift of Sacrifice” does, indeed, deliver the kind of bizarre, heavy music that longtime followers would hope for in the best manne...
ANTHRAX And DEATH ANGEL Members Cover U2’s ‘City Of Blinding Lights’ (Video)
ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante has teamed up with ANTHRAX bassist Frank Bello and DEATH ANGEL singer Mark Osegueda to record a cover version of U2‘s “City Of Blinding Lights”, filmed while they were in quarantine. Benante uploaded a video of the performance to his YouTube channel, writing in an accompanying message: “There was a station in NY called WLIR, one of the first ‘alternative’ stations and that’s where I first heard @U2 . The song I always remember hearing first was 11 O’clock tick tock. I remember sitting on my back porch in the Bronx, bringing out speakers and listening to the radio. “I would Listen to WLIR and try to get a good enough signal for WSOU too. WLIR exposed me to not only @u2 but the @thecure, @depechemode and mo...
BUTCHER BABIES To Release New Single In September
BUTCHER BABIES will release a new single in September. The song will be the first taste of the band’s forthcoming fourth studio album, tentatively due in early 2021 via an as-yet-undisclosed record label. Asked in a new interview with Syfy Wire‘s “Metal Crush” how BUTCHER BABIES‘ new LP differs from 2017’s “Lilith”, singer Heidi Shepherd said (see video below): “It differs a lot. You still have the classic BUTCHER BABIES metal behind us, but I found myself wanting to sing more. “When I first started BUTCHER BABIES, I was an angry young girl, and I had a lot to scream about. I’m a happy 35-year-old woman now, so I have a lot that I wanna sing about.” BUTCHER BABIES next album will be the band’s first since its spl...
Tchami Remixes Justin Martin’s “Stay” Into Tech-Funk House Thumper
“Stay” is from Martin’s newly minted What To Do label. Future house boss Tchami stepped in to remix Justin Martin‘s recent single “Stay,” featuring Dalilah. “Stay” was Martin’s release this year from his newly minted What To Do label. Martin, a Dirtybird pioneer, diverged from his known wonky bass beats to launch the deep house imprint back in January. Tchami gives the song a lighter, upbeat house iteration, twisting the original track’s heavy bass with some funk. Amped percussion drives the familiar voice to a faster pace and higher octave. It’s a dance floor-perfected house track that rings true to Tchami’s signature energetic style. “My new label What To Do is all about exploring uncompromised creativity...
Seven Lions is Streaming a Set from the Iconic Gorge Amphitheatre This Weekend
A can’t-miss stream filmed at one of the world’s most scenic venues. Seven Lions is touching down in Washington for a can’t-miss livestream event at one of the world’s most scenic venues, the Gorge Amphitheatre. This Saturday, the melodic dubstep and trance maven will air a special livestream performance that was filmed at the Gorge. Considering the amphitheatre’s unquestioned status as one of the most highly coveted performance venues the music industry has to offer due to its idyllic setting, the two-hour set has the potential to be one of the best to emerge from the COVID-19 epoch. Insomniac took to social media to announce the event, inviting fans to “Get ready to dance, cry & headbang as we experience these surreal moments together....
Trini Lopez, ‘If I Had a Hammer’ and ‘Lemon Tree’ Singer, Dies of COVID-19 at 83
Trini López, the singer and guitarist who in the 1960s had hits with the songs “If I Had a Hammer” and “Lemon Tree” and appeared in the classic war movie The Dirty Dozen, has died. He was 83. López died Tuesday of complications from COVID-19 in a hospital in Palm Springs, songwriting and business partner Joe Chavira told The Hollywood Reporter. The good-natured Dallas native and son of Mexican immigrants was signed by Frank Sinatra to his Reprise Records label, and he worked with the Gibson Guitar Corp. to design a pair of signature guitars. He recorded more than 60 albums and was a popular headliner in Las Vegas. López’s version of “If I Had a Hammer,” written by Pete Seeger and Lee Hays, reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1963. It had been...
Pentatonix’s Kirstin Maldonado & Kevin Olusola Share Their Quarantined Recording Process — And What’s Next for the Group
Pentatonix’s Kirstin Maldonado remembers when she called her bandmate Kevin Olusola in a mild panic, as she was setting up her new home studio as the group was settling into quarantine earlier this year. “I was like, ‘Kevin, I have this, this and this. What cords am I missing? What do I need? What am I doing? Like, what is happening?,’” she now recalls, laughing. Eventually, Maldonado got her studio together, and her and Olusola — along with the other three members of Pentatonix: Mitch Grassi, Scott Hoying and Matt Sallee — dived into recording their new covers EP, appropriately titled At Home. The six-song project, which was released on June 24, includes the group’s takes on Billie Eilish’s “When the Party’s Over,” The Weeknd’s “Blinding Lights” and Dua Lipa’s “Break My Heart,” and came a...
How Harry Styles’ ‘Watermelon Sugar’ Became His First No. 1 Single on the Hot 100
This year was already an incredibly fruitful one for Harry Styles on Billboard charts, thanks to the consistent success of his Billboard 200 No. 1 album Fine Line and its top 10 Billboard Hot 100 hit “Adore You.” But now, he’s scaled to new heights – garnering his first No. 1 on the Hot 100 with the Fine single “Watermelon Sugar.” On the latest Pop Shop Podcast (listen below), the team reviews just how “Watermelon Sugar” surged from No. 7 to No. 1 on the Aug. 15-dated chart, the tune’s wild success at radio over the past few months and what helped make “Watermelon Sugar” such a smash hit. So far, since Fine Line’s release last December, the set has yet to depart the top 25 on the weekly Billboard 200 chart, and has earned over 1.6 million equivalent album units in the U.S., according...
