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Brooklyn Nets Baller DeAndre Jordan Test Positive For COVID-19, Out For Season
Source: Harry How / Getty While America continues to reopen cities local officials are seeing to see their efforts backfiring. The National Basketball Association might be speeding too. As spotted on TMZ DeAndre Jordan has announced that he has contracted COVID-19. On Monday, June 29 he confirmed the news via his official Twitter account. “Found out last night and confirmed again today that I’ve tested positive for Covid while being back in market. As a result of this, I will not be in Orlando for the resumption of the season” he wrote. The announcement came to fans and his inner circle as a surprise given the Brooklyn Nets will commenced practicing today. Additionally his teammate Spencer Dinwiddie has also tested positive for the Coronavirus. In a statement to The Athletic ...
Kanye West Talks Gap Partnership & God With Cody Enterprise
Source: Will / Getty With his partnership with the Gap officially underway, Kanye West continues to branch out his fashion vision for the masses and live out the dream he’s had since he was an employee at the clothing retail company. In a recent interview with Cody Enterprise, Yeezus touched on his latest “business enterprise” venture between his Yeezy brand and the decades old clothing brand and revealed his plans to have local production of his line by the end of 2020. While the Gap may seem like an old choice to new school Hip-Hoppers whom seem to gravitate towards more hypebeast brands such as Supreme, Off-White and whatnot, us older heads remember the time when Gap clothing was a hot item in these streets, and Kanye does as well. “I loved folding clothes at the Gap too, that was an as...
Spring Awakening Announces Virtual Music Festival This Weekend
Following its postponement due to the impact of COVID-19, beloved Chicago music festival Spring Awakening is going virtual. Organizers of the fest announced its foray into the digital concert space today via social media, announcing that virtual version of Spring Awakening will take place this weekend on July 4th and 5th. Moreover, they announced a lineup featuring a litany of dance music’s finest artists. The lineup has something for everyone, as many sub-genres of electronic music are present. Holding down the house fort on the bill are Claude VonStroke, Dr. Fresch, SNBRN, Destructo, and Shiba San, among others, while Krewella, Bear Grillz, Ookay, and Chicago’s own Birthdayy Partyy rep the bass music scene. Other notable artists include funk-house artist J...
deadmau5, ODESZA, Flume, More to Perform at “Party In Place” Virtual Concert This Friday
In what looks more like the headlining roster of a major music festival, RADIO.COM has unveiled the lineup for its forthcoming “Party In Place” livestream event. The stream, which will take place this Friday, July 3rd, flaunts a staggering lineup of EDM’s crème de la crème. deadmau5, Disclosure, Flume, Major Lazer, ODESZA, Porter Robinson, REZZ, RÜFÜS DU SOL, and Toro Y Moi are all set to take the virtual stage to kick off this year’s July 4th weekend in style. During the broadcast, RADIO.COM will be fundraising for their media partner When We All Vote, a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization launched in 2018 by co-chairs Michelle Obama, Tom Hanks, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Janelle Monae, Chris Paul, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw that aims to close the ...
Disclosure Drops New Hip-House Single and Video, “My High” with Aminé and slowthai
The hype surrounding Disclosure‘s forthcoming Energy LP is on the cusp of bubbling over. As the duo prepares for the August 28th, 2020 release of their third studio album, they have dropped the curtain on one of its most ballyhooed collaborations. The Grammy-nominated tandem today revealed Energy cut “My High,” a rollicking hip-house tune featuring renowned British hip-hop artist slowthai and blossoming “Caroline” rapper Aminé. In a press release issued to announce the track’s unveiling, Disclosure waxed poetic about their desire to work with more rappers. “We always wanted to work with rappers, we just didn’t know any and we had no means of contacting them… there aren’t a lot of rappers in Reigate,” the...
ODESZA and Golden Features Unveil the Latest BRONSON Masterstroke, “DAWN”
Back in April 2020, ODESZA and Golden Features set the EDM world ablaze with the announcement of their collaborative project, BRONSON. The genesis of the BRONSON sent ripples through the community, which were only magnified following the debut of the powerhouse electronic outfit’s first official music video, a hauntingly visceral visual for their single “HEART ATTACK (feat. lau.ra).” BRONSON have now uncloaked their latest electronic masterstroke, a unique future bass and breakbeat hybrid called “DAWN” that features renowned British artist Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs. A 7-minute, 23-second journey through the peaks and valleys of BRONSON’s gripping sound, “DAWN” oscillates between heart-pumping drum patterns and airy soundscapes remini...
Refused Share New Song “The Ballad of Buck Ravers” from Cyberpunk 2077 Video Game: Stream
Refused have released a new song, “The Ballad of Buck Ravers”, under their video game guise Samurai. The hardcore punks will appear as the fictional band in the upcoming video game Cyberpunk 2077, which is now due out on November 19th. “The Ballad of Buck Ravers” is the third Samurai track we’ve heard following “Chippin’ In” and “Never Fade Away”, both released last year. Fortunately for Refused fans, the band only changed in name for Cyberpunk 2077, which took the idea of The Shape of Punk to Come quite literally, even tabbing Refused to be its in-game band. Musically, this is classic Refused, with frontman Dennis Lyxzén shouting and wailing above aggressively smashed chords: “Lost another day to pointless drudgery / The slow chipping away/ Of my autonomy”. Refused’s vision of 2077 sounds...
R.I.P. Johnny Mandel, Composer of the M*A*S*H Theme Song Dies At 94
Johnny Mandel, the Oscar and Grammy-winning composer who wrote the M*A*S*H theme song , has died at the age of 94. According to The New York Times, Mandel’s daughter Marissa confirmed that he passed away on Monday (June 29th) at his home in Ojai, California. Mandel was born in New York City on November 23rd, 1925. His father was a garment manufacturer and his mother was an opera singer who noticed early on that her son had perfect pitch. After picking up trumpet and trombone as a child, Mandel would go on to study at both the Manhattan School of Music and New York’s esteemed Juilliard School. In the 1940s, he played the aforementioned brass instruments in groups with jazz greats like Joe Venuti, Jimmy Dorsey, Buddy Rich, June Christy, and many others. Although Mandel was a well-known ...
Disclosure Enlist slowthai and Aminé for New Single “My High”: Stream
Disclosure continue to edge closer to the release of their first new album in five years, ENERGY. Following up on last month’s title track, the electronic duo is now sharing a second single called “My High”. For the Lawrence brothers, who are used to weaving together house-inflected club tracks, this latest offering incorporates a new fabric: hip-hop, courtesy of guest rappers slowthai and Aminé. Disclosure talked about the collaborative process in a statement: “We always wanted to work with rappers, we just didn’t know any and we had no means of contacting them… There aren’t a lot of rappers in Reigate. Writing ‘My High’ with Aminé was a lot a fun, he’s hilarious and may as well be a comedian. He writes so quickly and it’s amazing to watch. He brought so much energy to this already very e...
Carl Reiner on His As Yet Released Book: “The Finest Work That I’ve Ever Been Involved In”
“The most serious films are comedies. They look easy to come by, but they’re hard to come by. Even Shakespeare knew that. For the most part, comedies are done by people with great senses of humor — and you can’t fake that.” Carl Reiner was always busy. Even in December of 2019, months from his 98th birthday, Reiner showed zero signs of stopping. At night, he spent time with his best friend of 70 years, Mel Brooks. But during the day, he was always writing. Always. If he wasn’t working on a new book, he was tweeting — and he tweeted nearly every day. About his life, about his work, about the work of those he admired, and, of course, about Trump. He tweeted about his disdain of Trump so much that he was able to take all of those tweets and turn them into a book called The Downing of Trump. S...
Alanis Morissette and Jagged Little Pill Cast Join Forces on ‘Smiling’ Video
Being stuck in quarantine can really make you focus inward, reflect and sometimes get emotional, and those are just some of the emotions that play out in Alanis Morissette’s new video for “Smiling.” Teaming up with members the Broadway cast of Jagged Little Pill, the visual gives us a deep look into how people are doing at home — with some beautiful choreography from frequent Beyoncé collaborator Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui. From close-ups to silhouettes of figures by the window, this video aims for viewers to feel. And we really do. “Smiling” is off Morissette’s upcoming album, Such Pretty Folks in the Road, which is set to release July 31. She has also previously shared “Diagnosis.” And to celebrate her birthday and the 25th anniversary of Jagged Little Pill, she released a digital re...
The 101 Best Albums of the 2010s
Why now? Because — and there’s no reason to ignore the elephant in the room: SPIN stewardship has changed hands many, many times since we made the online jump — we got our chance. Because plenty of our favorite albums of the last 10 years could still use a boost. Because some of the already unanimously beloved music on this list still merits further praise. Because we relish excuses to sound off on the music that’s affected us the most and to enlist some of our favorite writers to do so. Because the works of art below serve as a reminder that the 2010s weren’t all bad. Because lord knows we need the distraction. Because it’s fun. There’s a lot of music that isn’t on this list. Which, duh, but plenty of artists whose work defined the decade for many, many people, including many of us, ...
