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Bill and Ted 3 Release Date Delayed Two Weeks
It’s been almost thirty years, but the third installment of the Bill and Ted franchise will have to wait a little longer. Bill & Ted Face the Music has been pushed back two weeks to avoid sharing the calendar with Tenet. Both movies have been shuffling around release dates. Most recently, Tenet was scheduled for July 31st, but it was delayed yet again amidst a surge of COVID-19 cases. Now Christopher Nolan’s latest mindbender is hoping to land sometime between August 12th and 14th. Bill and Ted had planned to Face the Music on the 14th, but rather than compete with a sci-fi blockbuster juggernaut, Bill & Ted’s producers are content to catch the next dance on August 28th. As a sequel to 1989’s Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure and 1991’s Bill & T...
The Rolling Stones Threaten to Sue Donald Trump Over Unauthorized Use of Their Music
The Rolling Stones have no sympathy for the devil. The legendary rock band is threatening to sue Donald Trump and his campaign over the continued unauthorized use of the band’s music. According to a statement released on Saturday, The Rolling Stones and the performing rights organization BMI have served Trump with a final warning to cease playing the band’s music at official campaign events and rallies. “If Donald Trump disregards the exclusion and persists then he would face a lawsuit for breaking the embargo and playing music that has not been licensed,” the statement reads. As BMI explained to Deadline, the Trump campaign has a Political Entities License which provides them with access to more than 15 million musical works in BMI’s repertoire. However, the license includes a provision t...
Song of the Week: BLACKPINK’s “How You Like That” Illuminates the Darkest Places
Song of the Week breaks down and talks about the song we just can’t get out of our head each week. Find these songs and more on our Spotify New Sounds playlist. A year ago, we were admittedly still trying to make sense of K-pop. We wondered how artists we had never heard of — or only recently came to know — were selling out arenas in record time. We tried to figure out what the deal was with those guys (BTS, btw) teaming with Lil Nas X at the Grammys. Finally, our own Alexis Hodoyan-Gastelum, a longtime K-pop fan and writer, broke it down for us: “K-pop is not a genre. A type of music? Sure. An industry? Yes. A musical scene? Definitely. But not a specific genre. Boom, now we can move forward.” Whether it was the bands, the fans, or the scope of the music itself, we were trying to fit some...
Miley Cyrus Covers the Beatles ‘Help!’ for Global Goal Livestream
Miley Cyrus’s song choice was an apt one for the Global Goal: Unite for Our Future livestream on Saturday. The pop star put her own twangy twist on the Beatles’ 1965 classic “Help!” to an empty Spieker Field at the Rose Bowl during the virtual concert, which was organized to help communities disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic. Aside from the performance, Cyrus also discussed how her generation is helping incite change. “My generation is hungry for change and is leading that charge in many ways,” the singer told Global Citizen. “I’ve just been a student, over the last few months and especially over the few weeks in my home country. I’ve been a student of these organizers and being able to learn and educate myself. That’s kind of what my time is fille...
Rolling Stones Threaten Lawsuit If Donald Trump Continues Using Their Music at Events
The Rolling Stones are threatening Donald Trump with a lawsuit after the president ignored their previous cease-and-desist letters demanding him to stop using their music at events. After publicly telling him to stop using “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” during his 2016 presidential campaign, Trump played the song during his lightly attended rally in Tulsa last Saturday. Now, the Stones’ legal team and performing rights organization BMI have sent a firmer message to the president’s team, threatening a lawsuit if he continues to play the band’s music without permission. “BMI have notified the Trump campaign on behalf of the Stones that the unauthorized use of their songs will constitute a breach of its licensing agreement,” the Rolling Stones rep said in a statement. “If Donald T...
DaBaby ft. Roddy Rich “Rockstar,” Blueface “Finesse The Beat” & More | Daily Visuals 6.26.20
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz One thing we’ve always wondered is what would we as the Hip-Hop culture do in the event of a zombie apocalypse? We know how things would go down in the burbs given all the Hollywood movies but what would someone like DaBaby do? Well in his latest visuals to the Roddy Rich assisted “Rockstar” he gives us an idea of how he’d be living with the undead walking the earth. Running around commando style with all kinds of toast and heat, DaBaby and Roddy body every zombie in sight who isn’t vibing to their track. Pretty entertaining ish. Back in LA Blueface keeps his name buzzing with a new clip for “Finesse The Beat” which finds the rapper balling from the garage to his bathroom. That “Thotiana” paper musta been hella long. Check out the rest of today’s dro...
LeBron James & Maverick Carter’s SpringHill Entertainment Signs New ABC Deal
Source: Jerritt Clark / Getty LeBron James and Maverick Carter are positioning themselves as power players in the media and entertainment space, and just signed a new deal that bolsters that fact. The pair’s SpringHill Entertainment has signed a two-year deal with ABC Studios to develop scripted series for the Disney-owned property. Deadline reports that James and Carter have been shopping around with various networks and platforms for a new distribution home for SpringHill after signing with Warner Bros. in 2015. The company has its hands in a number of anticipated projects, including a limited series focused on the life of Madame C.J. Walker, and producing the upcoming season of Top Boy. “SpringHill Entertainment makes the shows LeBron and I want to watch. We look at every project as a w...
Milton Glaser, Designer Of “I Love NY” Logo, Dead At 91
Source: picture alliance / Getty Milton Glaser, a graphic designer responsible for the iconic “I Love NY” logo, has died. Mr. Glaser was also behind several logos and art, including the log for DC Comics among other works. TMZ reports that Glaser died Friday, (July 26), his 91st birthday by way of a stroke and renal failure according to still developing reports. From Glaser’s bio section from his website: Milton Glaser (b.1929) is among the most celebrated graphic designers in the United States. He has had the distinction of one-man-shows at the Museum of Modern Art and the Georges Pompidou Center. He was selected for the lifetime achievement award of the Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum (2004) and the Fulbright Association (2011), and in 2009 he was the first graphic designer to recei...
Symone Sanders Joins My Black Is Beautiful For Its #HowWeWin Initiative
Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Symone Sanders is, without question, one of the most dynamic Black voices on the political front as evidenced by her years as a political strategist and advising presidential campaigns. Partnering with My Black Is Beautiful, Sanders spoke with Hip-Hop Wired about the importance of the vote, the energy of the youth, and how voters this fall and beyond will have to tackle both voter disenfranchisement and racism while COVID-19 also still looms. For background, My Black Is Beautiful is a growing digital platform founded by Black women in 2016, and has amassed over 2.5 million followers via their Facebook group page, 52,000 followers on Twitter, and over 60,000 followers on Instagram. Since the top of the month, MBIB has launched a series of conversations with som...
Demi Lovato Sends A Message Of Love On Stonewall Day: ‘I Treasure Everything That You Are’
“I want everyone in the LGBTQIA+ community to know that I treasure everything that you are, and everything you do to make this world more inclusive, more creative, and more beautiful.” That’s how Demi Lovato put her personal message of hope, optimism, and resilience while addressing the virtual crowd for Stonewall Day, the superstar Pride Live event honoring the anniversary and legacy of the 1969 Stonewall Inn Uprising and the continued fight for LGBTQ+ equality. “As a member of the queer community, I feel so much pride joining you to celebrate Stonewall Day, a day we celebrate to honor the spirit of rebellion and to continue the conversation of equality,” she said to kick off her message. In the minute-long address that followed, Lovato called for people to d...
Hayley Kiyoko Brings Surging LGBTQ+ Anthem ‘Girls Like Girls’ To Stonewall Day
It might not be 20GayTeen anymore, but Hayley Kiyoko is still on top. As she took the virtual stage at Pride Live’s Stonewall Day to perform her gauzy take on The Killers’s “Mr. Brightside” and “Girls Like Girls,” the artist known to her fans as Lesbian Jesus made sure to shout out her peers in the LBGTQ+ community as she stood in front of a rainbow. “I’m so proud of my LGBTQIA+ community, especially on Stonewall Day,” she said. “We can see the energy and rebellion of 1969 still alive to this day, and it has to be because it is our job for our generation to continue the fight and to finally get lasting safety and equality for our community.” Her dreamy vocals for both tunes were backed up — via the magic of virtual technolog...
Taylor Swift Voices Support For Equality Act In Candid Stonewall Day Speech
“The Stonewall Inn has been such a symbol of rebellion in the face of oppression, and such a safe place for people,” Taylor Swift said on Friday (June 26), addressing a virtual audience during Stonewall Day. The celeb-stacked Pride Live event honored the legacy of the six-day riots that took place at the New York gay bar in 1969, which launched the gay liberation movement — and today, Pride Month. In recent weeks, Swift has been especially vocal about her support of the LGBTQ+ community, as well as those taking to the streets to demand justice for Black lives in the wake of the police killings of unarmed Black citizens George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade, and many more. In her candid, nearly two-minute-long speech, she reiterated her excitement about the Supreme Cour...
