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Justin Timberlake Sells Entire Music Catalog to Hipgnosis Sounds for $100 Million USD
Justin Timberlake has officially sold his whole song catalog to Hipgnosis Sounds for around $100 million USD. According to reports, the London-based firm acquired only Timberlake’s publishing rights, meaning that Hipgnosis Sounds now owns the copyrights of all the 200-something tracks Timberlake both wrote and co-wrote. This includes No. 1 hits such as “SexyBack,” “Can’t Stop the Feeling” and “Mirrors,” but not NYSYNC hits like “Bye Bye Bye.” “I am excited to be partnering with Merck and Hipgnosis — he values artists and their creative work and has always been a strong supporter of songwriters and storytelling,” Timberlake in a press release. “I look forward to entering this next chapter.” David Lande and Mitch Tenzer of Ziffren Brittenham LLP, the artist’s lawyers, added, ”Justin’s i...
M.I.A. Announces New Album ‘MATA’ With Single “The One”
M.I.A. is finally back with her brand new single “The One” and an announcement for her upcoming album, MATA. Clocking in at approximately two-and-a-half minutes, the cut is produced by T-Minus, Rex Kudo, Charlie Handsome and Heavy Mellow and was created by M.I.A. when she “was in a really happy place.” Speaking to Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1, she explained, “And I know that it was the pandemic, and kind of everything was hitting the fan, but I’d got to a place that was really happy. I did want to make that nice, happy record. Almost like the record that everyone wanted you to make when you made Paper Planes. Then everyone’s like, “Why the hell did you make Maya? That was such a depressing record.” In hindsight, it makes sense to people, but at the time everyone was like, “That’s the worst r...
Sneaker Reseller Zadeh Kicks Allegedly Scams Victims Out of Millions, FBI Now On His Ass
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: zadehkicks.com / ZadehKicks.com For a while now sneakerheads have been saying that the sneaker game is a “cold game.” One infamous reseller known as Zadeh Kicks has left many of his customers frost bitten as he’s allegedly snaked them out of millions of dollars. Earlier this week the infamous reseller came under fire when he suddenly dissolved his LLC and allegedly ran off with millions of dollars in pre-orders that will now be going unfulfilled. Knowing that he’d have a target on his back, Zadeh had police protect him as he cleared out his warehouse of merchandise that he’ll no doubt sell elsewhere and make a killing off of. Related Stories Nice Kicks reports the outcry from the sneaker community has reached the FBI who’ve decided to investigate the...
Young Thug and Dua Lipa Join Calvin Harris for New Song “Potion”: Listen
Young Thug and Dua Lipa have joined Calvin Harris for a new song. It’s called “Potion” and you can hear it below. The song appears on Harris’ forthcoming album Funk Wav. Bounces Vol. 2. It also marks the first new single to feature Young Thug since the rapper was indicted on racketeering charges, as well as drug and gun possession charges earlier this month. Harris spoke of his upcoming LP in a new interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe. “I wanted the original essence and I want the layers and the grit and the dirt and I don’t want everything to be mixed perfectly,” he told Lowe. “I want things to be too loud and I want things to be like, you know, I want things to be like Sly and the Family Stone when it’s just mixed on the fly.” Harris previously worked with Dua Lipa on “On...
Kanye West and XXXTentacion’s “True Love” Gets Official Release: Listen
Kanye West has released one of his Donda 2 collaborations with the late XXXTentacion. Until now, “True Love” had been available only on the Stem Player, along with the album’s other unreleased tracks. The song also appears on XXXTentacion’s posthumous record Look at Me: The Album. The single’s cover art, which you can see below, features handwritten notes scanned from a journal found by XXXTentacion’s mother, with design by West. Check out the track, released via Columbia Records, below. XXXTentacion, who was killed in 2018 at the age of 20, is the subject of the new documentary Look at Me: XXXTentacion. “True Love” plays over the end credits of the film. Donda 2 came out as a Stem Player exclusive in March, billed as V2.22.22 Miami. (That version featured a second collab with XXXTentacion...
Kali Uchis Covers Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto’s “Desafinado”: Listen
Kali Uchis has shared a cover of Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto’s “Desafinado.” The single will appear on the upcoming Minions: The Rise of Gru soundtrack, which was produced and curated by Jack Antonoff. Check out Uchis’ update on the Bossa Nova classic below. The star-studded Minions soundtrack also features tracks by Tame Impala and Diana Ross (the previously shared “Turn Up the Sunshine”), as well as covers of 1970s classics from St. Vincent, Phoebe Bridgers, Brittany Howard, and more. The album arrives Friday, July 1 to coincide with the movie’s theatrical release. Revisit Pitchfork’s 2018 Song-by-Song feature “Kali Uchis Breaks Down Every Song on Her Debut Album, Isolation.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Liam Gallagher Unveils New Solo Album C’MON YOU KNOW: Stream
Liam Gallagher has released his third solo album, C’MON YOU KNOW. Stream it below via Apple Music and Spotify. After a steady stream of singles including the Dave Grohl-assisted “Everything’s Electric,” “Better Days,” and the album’s title track, the former Oasis superstar finally rips the cover off songs that he’s been teasing since last fall, like “I Wish I Had More Power,” which he’s cheekily dedicated to his brother and bandmate, Noel, saying: ‘It’s a naughty little tune, but it’s lovely.” His latest solo LP follows 2019’s Why Me? Why Not. and his 2017 debut As You Were. The Consequence review of C’MON YOU KNOW notes: “the record is far from a bad listening experience, but fans hoping to hear the beginning of a new era will have to wait. Fans simply excited for another crop of ro...
Wilco Unveil Double Album Cruel Country: Stream
Wilco have unveiled their new double album Cruel Country via dBpm Records. Stream it below on Apple Music and Spotify. Cruel Country is the band’s follow-up to 2019’s Ode to Joy, and features lead single “Falling Apart (Right Now)” and “Tired of Taking It Out on You” among its sprawling twenty-one tracks. The two-disc studio set finds the indie rockers fully leaning into the country music rumblings that have followed them since their 1995 debut album A.M. “I think there’s been an assumption over the years that Wilco is some sort of country band,” frontman Jeff Tweedy wrote upon announcing the album. “There’s a lot of evidence to support that way of thinking about our band because there have been elements of country music in everything we’ve ever done. But to be honest, we’ve never been par...
Bright Eyes Share Three EPs of Re-Recorded Old Music Featuring Phoebe Bridgers, Waxahatchee & More
We hope you have a box of tissues nearby, because Bright Eyes have today unveiled reworked versions of some of their earliest songs. To accompany the recent reissues of their 1998 debut A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997, 1998’s Letting Off the Happiness, and 2000’s Fevers and Mirrors, Conor Oberst and company have released a companion EP for each album, each comprising re-recordings of five album tracks plus a cover of a song that especially inspired them when they originally made that album. But Bright Eyes didn’t embark on this ambitious project alone: To help them, the band enlisted pals like Phoebe Bridgers, Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield, and M. Ward to contribute. In addition to hearing Oberst covering Simon Joyner, Lullaby ...
Kanye West Releases XXXTentacion Collaboration “True Love”: Stream
Ye, aka Kanye West, has dropped his collaborative track with the late Florida rapper XXXTentacion, titled “True Love,” which originally debuted on Donda 2, the elusive Stem Player exclusive released in February. Stream the single below. Originally announced this week by Columbia Records and X’s estate, the track will now apparently belong to both Ye’s Donda 2 and the forthcoming Look At Me: The Album, a companion music compilation for the new documentary Look At Me: XXXTentacion that premiered on Thursday, May 26th via Hulu. There’s been no word yet on whether this spells an impending widespread release for West’s latest album though, and no release dates were given for either project. “True Love” opened West’s Donda 2 listening event in Miami in February and subsequently underwent several...
‘Dedicated To The Memory Of Elliot Angel Soto’: Madisson Opens Up About Her Son On Siesta Key
Madisson and Ish had the “most magical and beautiful wedding” — and as the nuptials concluded during tonight’s Siesta Key season finale, the couple sweetly spoke about going home to Los Angeles and “having their baby.” Then, a heartbreaking message appeared on the screen: “Two weeks before his delivery date, Madisson and Ish’s baby boy, Elliot Angel Soto, suffered a rare complication in the womb. He did not survive.” Madisson returned to Florida a few months after the stillbirth and met up with Juliette, Amanda, Cara, Chloe, Jordana, and Kelsey. The women embraced her as soon as she arrived on the beach, and the sorrow was palpable. After exchanging greetings, Madisson admitted that Ish was struggling and feeling “anger with the w...
Brymo – For You
The Bail Music Company presents a brand new song titled “For You”. Brymo drops a brand new single he calls “For You” from his latest anticipated project tagged “Theta“. It contains a 10-tracks record. The new piece of music is an interesting vibe to enjoy yourself. Brymo’s last music appearance was on his 2021 albums “Harmattan & Winter” & “Esan“. However, it deserves a spot on your playlist. Listen and share Brymo – “For You” below. [embedded content]
