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QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT: Third Episode Of ‘Roadies In Lockdown’ Video Series Now Available
QUEEN‘s official YouTube channel’s behind-the-scenes “Lockumentary” series “Roadies In Lockdown”, which explores the roles of various QUEEN + ADAM LAMBERT crew members on the road and catches up with them in lockdown continues its weekly outing with episode three. Sam Augustus sheds light on his role as lighting BlackTrax engineer in the show production and in doing so helps us understand why he has earned the moniker of Harry Potter among the crew. Conceived and produced by long-standing tour video director Steve Price, who is hardly ever seen on and off-show without a camera on his shoulder, the series captures illuminating insights into what it is like being a member of the “Rhapsody” road crew, no matter the weather conditions. A limited ...
Toots and the Maytals Send Out a “Warning Warning” on New Single: Stream
Reggae legends Toots and the Maytals will return next month with their first proper album in over a decade, Got to Be Tough. After offering fans a peek at the record with the title track, the group is now sharing a new single titled “Warning Warning”. Much like “Got to Be Tough”, this new song continues to showcase leader and founder Frederick “Toots” Hibbert’s enduring commitment to social justice issues. On “Warning Warning”, Toots specifically calls on us to not only recognize the corrupt systems at play in 2020 — such as those upholding racism and white supremacy — but to also remember to stay focused on the fight against them, no matter how long it takes. “I’m giving you a warning/ Don’t take it for granted,” Toots advises on the song. “I want to ask everyone to keep their focus in th...
Static-X’s Project Regeneration Vol. 1 Properly Cements Wayne Static’s Legacy: Review
The Lowdown: In the late ’90s and early 2000s, Static-X were one of the bands the helped define that industrial/nu-metal era. Their debut album Wisconsin Death Trip went platinum with the video for “Push It” earning rotation on MTV (back when the channel still played videos). Over the next decade, Static X would release five more albums before drifting apart in 2009. When the band’s singer Wayne Static tragically passed away in 2014, it seemed to signal the end of Static-X forever; that was until original bassist Tony Campos uncovered demos of material that Wayne had been working on. Campos got together with fellow original members Ken Jay (drums) and Koichi Fukuda (guitar), and reworked the unearthed demos along with outtakes from previous albums. While there was an initial plan to recrui...
Robert De Niro Says He’s Going Broke Due to Coronavirus
Not even a celebrity whose last name translates to “money” is safe from coronavirus-related pay cuts. Over the last few months, Robert De Niro has allegedly lost millions of dollars because the pandemic temporarily closed both Nobu and Greenwich Hotel, a restaurant chain and an upscale lodge that the actor has stakes in. De Niro revealed his financial losses in court where his estranged wife, Grace Hightower, called for an emergency order to bump her monthly American Express card credit limit from $50,000 to $100,000, reports Page Six. The divorce case took place over Skype where The Irishman actor had to explain why he was cutting back on her allowance. According to Caroline Krauss, his lawyer, De Niro is only required to pay Hightower $1 million a year if he’s making $15 million or more....
Kataklysm Announce New Album Unconquered, Unleash Lead Single “The Killshot”: Stream
Canadian death metal institution Kataklysm have announced their 14th studio album, Unconquered, which arrives on September 25th. As a preview, the band has shared the music video for the lead single, “The Killshot”. As the album title suggests, Kataklysm cannot be stopped, releasing album after album of consistent extreme metal. “The Killshot” adds another worthy piece to their already brimming canon of brutality. “‘The Killshot’ is very Machiavellian at its base meaning,” the band comments in a press release. “The song deals with revenge and planning it out, [we] wrote the song in an open interpretation because everyone has their own story that they can attach to it. “In general, the album deals with pain or setbacks, overcoming them and fighting back — especially in today’s situation, th...
Darius Rucker Announces ‘Darius & Friends’ Livestream Concert to Benefit St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Darius Rucker is heading to the Grand Ole Opry stage with Clint Black and Tracy Lawrence for a virtual edition of his 11th annual “Darius & Friends” concert. The event, which raises money for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, will air as a pay-per-view live stream event available on LiveXLive.com/Darius and on LiveXLive’s app. “Even though we can’t all get together for a normal concert right now, it’s important that we continue to support St. Jude and the amazing work that they do,” said Rucker in a statement. “I hope we can bring a fun night of music to everyone watching from home while also raising money for this important cause.” Tickets to the event start at $15 with VIP options offering limited-edition and signed posters priced at $50 and...
Yeasayer Drop Copyright Lawsuit Against The Weeknd & Kendrick Lamar for ‘Black Panther’ Hit ‘Pray For Me’
Yeasayer voluntarily dismissed the copyright lawsuit against The Weeknd and Kendrick Lamar over their Black Panther: The Album highlight “Pray For Me.” In this dismissal obtained by Billboard today (July 10), the indie rock band and its record label We Are Free “confirmed to their satisfaction that no copyright infringement occurred” by the defendants The Weeknd (real name Abel Makkonen Tesfaye), Lamar (Kendrick Lamar Duckworth), Canadian producers Doc McKinney (Martin “Doc” McKinney) and Frank Dukes (Adam King Feeney), and labels Universal Music Group, Interscope, Aftermath and Top Dawg Entertainment. In February 2018, “Pray For Me” propelled both The Weeknd and Lamar into another echelon of superstardom when it...
First Spin: The Week’s Best New Dance Tracks From Tiga & Hudson Mohawke, Hayden James, DJDS & More
New Music Friday is intense. Hundreds of songs drop from artists around the world, and you’re supposed to somehow find the best ones. It’s fun work, but it’s time-consuming — so we at Billboard Dance want to give you a hand. Each week, we sift through the streams and dig in the digital crates to present the absolute must-hears from the wide breadth of jams. Once again demonstrating the endless variety of the dance scene, this week we got an excellent new album from the always excellent French producer CloZee, the debut solo LP from psybient legend Simon Posford of Shpongle, an equine-centric new video from Diplo and Noah Cyrus, an incisive conversation about diversity and the creative process from Coco & Breezy, DJ Sliink and Aluna plus the launch of a new ...
Vampire Weekend Drops ‘Live in Florida’ EP: Stream It Now
Vampire Weekend dropped a new live EP today (July 10) titled Live in Florida because the indie rock band misses the Sunshine State as much as fans miss concerts. Live in Florida features six songs from their two tour stops last year at the St. Augustine Amphitheatre and Miami’s James L. Knight Center because Vampire Weekend wanted to “revisit some of our favorite shows from last year and put together a little something based around two beautiful nights in the Sunshine State,” according to the Instagram announcement yesterday (July 9). The EP includes “A-Punk” from its eponymous 2008 debut album, “White Sky” from the 2010 album Contra, and “Sunflower,” “2021” and “How Long?” from the most recen...
Kehlani “Bad News,” Fredro Starr “Punk MCs” & More | Daily Visuals 7.9.20
Source: Photo: @Fredro_Starr Twitter Though the nationwide quarantine is basically over (for worse much more than better), Kehlani continues to drop new visuals with the quarantine theme behind them and we ain’t mad one bit. Her latest “Quarantine Style” visuals have been applied to her slow jam “Bad News” which features the songstress in a bridal photoshoot with the toast in one hand and a flask in the other. That’s a bad combination, b. Someone alert YG that sh*t looks like it’s about to get real-real. Back in Queens everyone needs to “Bacdafuqup!” cause the Onyx is here! Well, one third of them anyway as Hip-Hop OG Fredro Starr hits the beach with a blunt and a bottle to reflect on the game for his clip to “Punk MCs.” Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Big Havi feat...
Simpin’ Ain’t Easy?: NYT Breaks Down The Word Simp For The Masses
Source: skynesher / Getty In the sometimes virulent world of social media, one may have come across the word simp, which is almost universally said as a pejorative. However, the history of the word itself dates back and the New York Times is the latest publication to tackle the word and its apparent rise in modern culture. Ezra Marcus and Jonah Engel Bromwich tackled the root history of the word in a feature-length piece that published earlier this week, following in the footsteps of Metro, Inside Hook, and University of Stirling’s Brig Newspaper before it. In, ahem, simple terms, the word “simp” dates back to the early 20th Century and was explained then as the shortening of the word simpleton. However, as the Times notes in its piece, the word itself took on new life in the 1980s when To...
Gucci Mane ft. Key Glock, Foogiano & Ola Runt “Lifers,” Blueface ft. Coyote “Yea Yea” & More | Daily Visuals 7.10.20
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz If y’all didn’t already know it’s become hella obvious that Guwop about his guap regardless of what issues may be going on at his record label and with the recent release of his latest LP, the Machine continues to grind for that paper. Coming through with some new visuals for “Lifers,” Gucci links up with Key Glock, Foogiano and Ola Runt to show off some big boy toys and an iced out grill. No, we don’t mean diamond encrusted fronts, we mean diamonds on his actual teeth. From the South to the West, Blueface keeps things icey himself in the streets of LA with his mans and ‘em, Coyote while getting harassed by po-po for their clip to “Yea Yea.” Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Dee Mula, The Audible Doctor, and more. GUCCI MANE FT....
