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10 Famous Beatles Locations You Can Visit
On Location is a new series that brings to life the places you know from songs, album covers, and music history. Consider it a blur between travel guide and liner notes to your favorite albums. The Beatles: you’ve heard the songs, seen the footage, and heard about the places. What you may not have done yet, though, is step into their world. The Midas touch of the Fab Four has turned everyday locations from London to Liverpool — such as a crosswalk, an office building, a local street, and a pub — into some of the most iconic locations in music history. To see these locations in person for the first time is like finally being in the same place as a partner with whom you’re in a long-distance relationship: they’re always there, but to be able to actually see them adds an almost indescri...
Charli XCX Releases New Single “I Finally Understand”: Stream
Perhaps no one has been more productive in quarantine than Charli XCX: the pop singer is literally using the time to record a brand new album. In case you haven’t heard, it’s called How I’m Feeling Now and is due out next Friday — May 15th. So far, she’s unveiled two teaser singles in “Forever” and “Claws”. Now, she’s back with a third preview: a punchy electro-pop track called “I Finally Understand”. Take a listen below. Charli is working on How I’m Feeling Now with assistance from PC Music leader A. G. Cook and BJ Burton (Bon Iver). She’s been documenting the entire recording process on social media, and has gotten fans involved by letting them vote on artwork and other creative aspects of the project. How I’m Feeling Now marks the pop musician’s fourth album to date...
Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods Receives Netflix Premiere Date
There’s a new Spike Lee joint heading to your home. Today, the legendary filmmaker announced that Da 5 Bloods, his highly anticipated follow-up to 2018’s BlacKkKlansman, will premiere on Netflix on Friday, June 12th. Starring Chadwick Boseman, Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Paul Walter, and Jean Reno, the film follows four veterans who return to Vietnam searching for the remains of their fallen squad leader — and some treasure. Lee directed and co-wrote the script with Danny Bilson, Paul DeMeo, Matt Billingsly, and Kevin Willmott, the latter of whom aided Lee and Charlie Wachtel on their Oscar-winning script for BlacKkKlansman. Editors’ Picks Check out Lee’s announcement below, followed by its swanky poster, and revisit our 2018 Filmmaker of the Year interview in which the legend dis...
Saturday Night Live to Air New “At-Home” Episode for Season 45 Finale
Much like everything else, Saturday Night Live’s 45th season was thrown for a loop when COVID-19 effectively shut down the entire world. The cast and crew have twice filled the Saturday night airwaves normally reserved for SNL with “At-Home” episodes, and they’ll do so again this weekend in what marks the season’s finale episode. The two previous “At-Home” episodes have featured celebrity cameos from Tom Hanks, Brad Pitt, Paul Rudd, Adam Sandler, and Larry David, as well as musical performances from Coldplay’s Chris Martin and Miley Cyrus. You can probably anticipate a similarly celebrity-filled episode this weekend, but SNL is of course keeping things close to the vest for now. This weekend’s episode could also mark the final turn for several veteran cast members: in particular, Colin Jos...
Country Music Is Enjoying a Streaming Boom During the Pandemic: New Data
“It’s the soundtrack of our lives whether our lives are going great or going terribly,” explains Pandora head of country Beville Dunkerley. As Americans continue to shelter in place, they are turning to country music to keep them company in record numbers. Over the last two weeks, country music has enjoyed a streaming bonanza, with on-demand audio streams growing 10.7% to a record high 1.26 billion for the week ending April 23. The next week ending April 30, a new record was set as streams grew 14.3% to 1.3 billion. This is versus the baseline weekly audio average of 1.138 billion for the eight-week period Jan. 17 through March 12, according to MRC Data/Nielsen Music. A number of factors contribute to the rise. Among them are the release of new albums from Kelsea Ballerin...
Patton Oswalt Promises to Host Virtual Webby Awards While ‘Sitting Around in Pajamas’
This will be Oswalt’s fourth time hosting the show, which extends his record as the Webbys’ most frequent host. Patton Oswalt will host the 24th Annual Webby Awards on May 19. The show, typically held in New York City, will instead be an Internet celebration with a focus on those using the Internet to respond to the impact of COVID-19. This year’s show has been dubbed WFH: Webbys From Home. In a statement, Oswalt joked: “It’s going to be the same as every other night lately — sitting around in my pajamas, marveling at amazing stuff on the Internet — except I won’t even have to find it myself.” “No one on this planet gets the Internet and can make it funny quite like Patton Oswalt,” said Claire Graves, executive director of t...
DMX Wants to Go Head-to-Head With Jay-Z in a ‘Verzuz’ Battle
Swizz Beatz and Timbaland’s Verzuz series might serve as the battleground for a potential heavyweight bout between Jay-Z and DMX. During an interview with Drink Champs on Wednesday (May 7), the question of who DMX would be interested in competing against in Verzuz came up. With no hesitation, The Darkman replied “Jay.” Bemused by his answer, N.O.R.E. and DJ EFN promptly sought clarity, and when asked again, X doubled down and said, “Yeah! Who you think, n—a?” In the late ’90s, Jay-Z and DMX were Def Jam’s most successful stars. The friendly rivalry includes several rap battles between the legendary MCs, including their Backstage Freestyle match in 2000. In 1999, they also created the infamous supergroup Murder Inc, which starred both rappers ...
Travis Scott & Kid Cudi’s ‘The Scotts’ Blasts in at No. 1 on Streaming Songs Chart
It’s Scott’s fourth No. 1 and Kid Cudi’s first. Travis Scott earns his fourth No. 1 – and Kid Cudi his first – on Billboard’s Streaming Songs chart with “The Scotts,” which debuts atop the list dated May 9. “The Scotts,” credited to The Scotts, Travis Scott and Kid Cudi, bows at No. 1 with 42.2 million U.S. streams in its first week, according to Nielsen Music/MRC Data. It’s Scott’s fourth leader and third as a lead artist. He first reigned in October 2018 as a featured artist, alongside Offset, on Kodak Black’s “Zeze,” for three weeks, followed by a one-week reign with “Sicko Mode” (January 2019) and the three-week leader “Highest in the Room” (October 2019). Three of those songs – “Zeze,” “Highest in the Room” and now “The Scotts” – debuted at No. 1, making Scott just the second artist t...
Kevin Gates “Still Hold Up,” MC Eiht “Once Upon A Time” & More | Daily Visuals 5.6.20
While some music artists are giving concerts from home and getting back into the groove of home living during the COVID-19 lockdown, Kevin Gates seems to have gone a different route and turned his house into a money making machine. At least one room of his home anyway. Keeping with the shelter-at-home orders that we depend on to save lives, Kevin Gates decided to have himself a casino night in his crib for his clip to “Still Hold Up” where the stakes are high one person at a time. That’s responsible hustling. Back on the West Coast, triple OG MC Eiht brings back the lowriders with the hydraulics that us older heads appreciate for his visuals to “Once Upon A Time.” Fitting title. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Quando Rondo, Kenny Muney, and more. KEVIN GATES – “STIL...
DJ D-Nice To Go Live On Instagram With Budweiser To Ask “WHASSUP!”
Source: BUDWEISER / Budweiser A month and change ago when the US went into quarantine mode and we ain’t know what to do with ourselves, DJ D-Nice gave an impromptu Instagram Live session that had social media vibin’ and the culture clubbing at home like it was the 90’s all over. Now that the world finally recognizes the talent this man possesses in his finger tips, Budweiser has recruited the OG DJ to join their rejuvenated “Whassup” campaign and get dialed up by some of his celebrity pals. Joined by Dwayne Wade, Gabrielle Union, Candance Parker and Chris Bosh, D-Nice partakes in some good ol social distancing loving from his friends while they belt out the first question on everyone’s mind when calling a friend: How you doing? Nah, y’all know whasssuuup! Check out the new spot below and d...
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Benzino Has Had Enough Relationship Advice In Teaser For Season Finale of ‘Love Goals’ [Video]
Source: OWN / OWN From his sex tape in the 00’s to his days on Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta, Benzino‘s love life has been all kinds of struggle hot tea that viewers just can’t get enough of. With that being the case, the Made Man took his relationship troubles to OWN’s Love Goals where he and his pimp-handed babymama Althea have been working on their years long relationship. In the season finale to the relationship show, Benzino and Althea will find themselves the focus of the episode as they try to repair the foundation of their love which has gone through some damage over the years. In this exclusive teaser to Saturday night’s season finale, Althea and Benzino confront their issues (namely Zino’s temper). But after Althea promises to learn to be a “friend to Benzino. To care about his fee...
Neil Young Plays More Rarities in Fireside Sessions 4 Livestream
After nearly a month, Neil Young has shared his latest Fireside Sessions livestream. Like its previous three editions, the fourth one was shot and directed by Young’s wife Daryl Hannah and it took place at the couple’s home in Colorado. Starting at sunset and standing in front of a campfire, Young kicked off the set with a version of “One of These Days” from Harvest Moon before going indoors (in front of a fireplace), grabbing his harmonica and busting out “Good to See You” from 2000’s Silver & Gold. After the song, Young told Hannah that he “could never get it right” and “it seemed like a simple little song.” Young also performed the Zuma rarity “Through My Sails,” which according to Setlist.fm, is the first time he’s played the song. It was also the first version of fellow ...
