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Christian Nodal’s ‘Vivo En El 6’ Crowns Regional Mexican Airplay Chart
Christian Nodal extends his record for the most No. 1s on Billboard’s Regional Mexican Airplay chart thanks to “Vivo En El 6” as the song lifts from No. 4 to rule the July 30-dated survey. “Vivo En El 6” leads with 8.1 million in audience impressions, up 32%, earned in the U.S. in the week ending July 24, according to Luminate. “Vivo” ensures Nodal’s unbroken record of rulers among solo acts on Regional Mexican Airplay with 14 No. 1s. Gerardo Ortiz, with 11, has the second-most No. 1s. Among all acts, Calibre 50 continues to lead with 22 champs. [embedded content] As “Vivo” jumps 4-1, it captures the week’s Greatest Gainer honor within the 40-deep title ranking. Here’s a recap of Nodal’s No. 1s since his first Regional Mexican Airplay win in 2017: Peak Date, Titile, Artist (if other than N...
Iggy Azalea Gushes Over 2-Year-Old Son Onyx In Sweet Photo
Iggy Azalea is sharing just how much she loves her son. The 32-year-old rapper shared a photo of her two-year-old son, Onyx, via Instagram Story on Monday (July 25). The picture featured Onyx — whom Azalea shares with ex-boyfriend Playboi Carti — wearing a gray t-shirt featuring Toy Story‘s Buzz Lightyear and Woody, grey shorts and white sneakers and holding up his pointer finger for his mother. “Onyx is such a cutie I can’t handle it,” Azalea captioned the sweet snap. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The Instagram Story update is a rare one for Azalea — in 2021, the rapper stated via Twitter that she would no longer be sharing images or updates about Onyx after people started bullying him on the social media while he was an infant. “I’v...
‘Weird Al’ Yankovic Biopic Gets Nov. 4 Release Date on Roku Channel
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story finally has a release date. The tongue-in-cheek “Weird Al” Yankovic biopic will arrive Nov. 4 for free streaming on The Roku Channel, with Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe portraying the beloved pop music parodist. Yankovic recently announced that Quinta Brunson (Abbott Elementary) will play Oprah Winfrey in Weird, joining Evan Rachel Wood as Madonna. Yankovic co-wrote the script with Eric Appel, who is directing the film. [embedded content][embedded content] Also arriving in November is The Illustrated Al songbook (Z2 Comics), which will highlight a career-spanning selection of Yankovic’s music in comic form. Among the artists participating are Drew Friedman, Danny Hellman, Fred Harper, Sam Viviano and Felipe Sobriero. Yankovic is in the mist of his Unfortun...
Megan Thee Stallion Confirms New Album Is Officially Finished
Less than a week after Megan Thee Stallion dropped her new collab with Future, the “Hot Girl Summer” artist has taken to her Instagram Story to announce that her new album is officially finished. While the artist has recently been named in a copyright infringement lawsuit with Big Sean, the Houston hottie is showing no signs of stopping when it comes to the hustle. In her post on her Stories, Megan wrote over an image of a soundboard, “So happy abt my album [fire emoji] it’s finished [fire emoji] it’s for the hotties [fire emoji] it’s honest [fire emoji] it’s me [fire emoji] it’s real [fire emoji]” teasing that whatever she has in store is sure to be hot. In another Story post, she teased a feature with fellow Houston artist Sauce Walka, “Ya spill me.” Megan Thee Stallion did not divulge a...
Pinkshift Announce Fall 2022 North American Tour
Baltimore punks Pinkshift are gearing up to release their debut album, and now, they’ve announced a run of 2022 North American tour dates, marking their first-ever headlining trek. Kicking off October 20th in their hometown, Pinkshift — singer Ashrita Kumar, guitarist Paul Vallejo, and drummer Myron Houngbedji — will perform in cities like DC, Detroit, Austin, and Brooklyn before wrapping up in Boston on November 18th. Jigsaw Youth and Yasmin Nur will provide support. What’s more, before they begin their headlining dates, Pinkshift will open for Destroy Boys at a few East Coast shows and perform alongside 100 Gecs and Bring Me the Horizon at Emo Nite New Orleans Vacation. See all of the band’s upcoming tour dates below. Tickets go on sale Friday, July 29th at 10:00 a.m. local time; grab yo...
Pinocchio Comes to Stop-Motion Life in Trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s New Film: Watch
Netflix has cut loose the first trailer for Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio, the auteur’s new stop-motion adaptation of the classic tail. Directed by del Toro alongside Mark Gustafson from a script by the former with Matthew Robbins (Crimson Peak), the movie marks del Toro’s first feature-length animated movie. He’d been trying to get the project financed since 2010, and fans of Hellboy II: The Golden Army know stop-motion has been a passion of the filmmaker for some time. It finally all came together when Netflix revived the film in 2018, and now we get to see the fruits of del Toro’s labor of love. As the first trailer shows, del Toro’s Pinocchio sees Sebastian J. Cricket (Ewan McGregor) narrating the tall about “imperfect fathers and imperfect sons, about loss and love.” I...
Charli XCX Drops New Track “Hot Girl” for A24’s Upcoming Murder Film ‘Bodies Bodies Bodies’
Tapped by A24 to produce a track for its upcoming murder-mystery film Bodies Bodies Bodies, Charli XCX has dropped off a new single, titled “Hot Girl.” Notably, the cut was created in collaboration with The 1975‘s George Daniel. The track is intended to be the theme song for the slasher entry, which follows a group of rich, nihilistic 20-somethings who throw a deathly party at a remote mansion. The film, directed by Halina Reijn, stars Pete Davidson, Maria Bakalova, Amandla Stenberg, Myha’la Herrold, Chase Sui Wonders, Rachel Sennott, and Lee Pace. Bodies Bodies Bodies first premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival 2022 and will hit theaters on August 5. “Hot Girl” follows Charli’s last full-length effort, CRASH, which was released in March. The 12-track record, which ma...
Metallica Took a Quantum Leap on Ride the Lightning
The first four Metallica albums are among the genre’s most powerful and enduring documents, and while the band’s debut LP, Kill ‘Em All, was a landmark for thrash metal, Ride the Lightning presented a quantum leap in terms of songwriting and structure. Kill ‘Em All leaned heavily on elements of boogie beats nabbed from ’70s Judas Priest and the heavy swung feel to fast-paced riffs that Dave Mustaine would eventually take with him to Megadeth, but Ride the Lightning, released July 27th, 1984, almost wholly struck the swung-boogie vibe from its mostly slower-paced riffs, focusing instead on a near neo-classical sense of grandeur plucked more from the pages of groups like Rush, Rainbow, Blue Öyster Cult and even Priest’s more grandiloquent epics than bands like Sweet or even the more rock ‘n’...
Sam Fender on First Mercury Prize Nomination, Summer Festivals, and “Bawling” Over Bruce Springsteen
It just keeps getting better for Sam Fender, one of England’s biggest songwriters. With his second album, the brilliant and personal Seventeen Going Under, released in November 2021, Fender cemented his place in the pantheon of great British songwriters, earning praise from Adele, Elton John, and many more in the process. And it didn’t stop there — since the release of Seventeen Going Under, Fender was awarded the prestigious Ivor Novello songwriting prize for “Best Song Musically and Lyrically,” supported The Rolling Stones at a show in London’s Hyde Park, headlined dozens of festivals around Europe, and, most recently, was nominated yesterday (July 26th) for the Mercury Prize, which awards the best album released in the UK. It’s clear that the personal and therapeutic direction of S...
Joe Strummer’s Mescaleros Albums, Rarities Bundled for New Boxed Set
In honor of what would have been his 70th birthday next month, late Clash co-founder Joe Strummer will be celebrated with the boxed set Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years, which rounds up his three studio albums with that band plus a disc of 15 previously unreleased tracks. The project arrives Sept. 16 from Dark Horse Records, the label founded by George Harrison in 1974 which now oversees not only the late Beatle’s archival releases but Strummer’s as well. Joe Strummer 002 follows the 2018 release of the 32-song compilation Joe Strummer 001, which included 12 previously unreleased tracks. Strummer died of a heart attack in 2002 at the age of 50, leaving behind a vast archive of music and memorabilia dating back to his time in The Clash. “There’s so much great music that Joe left us in...
Teenage Zola Jesus Read Cooler Books Than Any of Us
Book Club is a new monthly series from Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis, exploring the literature that inspires some of our favorite musicians. Whether it’s a music biography that got them through the slog of tour, the poetry collection that eked into their most poignant lyrics, or the novel that sparked a rock opera, we’ll get to the bottom of it so you can add it to the top of your book stack. This month, we speak to Nika Roza Danilova, the songwriter and producer behind Zola Jesus. Over her 14-year musical career, Zola Jesus’ Nika Roza Danilova has recorded and toured six ethereal albums touching on baroque pop, industrial goth, and art rock, including this June’s Arkhon. As I discovered while researching for our conversation, almost every interview she’s given along the way has included a h...
ISOxo Announces Massive “Nightrealm” Stage Takeover at HARD Summer 2022
In the midst of a bona fide breakout year, ISOxo has announced a potentially career-defining move. The esteemed EDM.com Class of 2022 member will helm a stage takeover at HARD Summer, where he’s bound to shock and awe with his patented “Nightrealm” experience. The takeover, which takes its name from ISO’s breathtaking Nightrealm EP, will go down on Saturday, July 30th. It’s a double whammy for the young bass music virtuoso, whose hotly anticipated appearance at HARD Summer also marks his first-ever music festival performance. The takeover of the festival’s Corona Stage will offer his second DJ set of the night after his official debut earlier on the Green Stage, where he’s promised an appearance from an “incredibly special guest....
