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Help Decide Who Will Take Home an Electronic Dance Music Award This Year
Welcome to the Electronic Dance Music Awards, an international celebration of all things dance music. The EDMAs honor this year’s standout electronic dance music artists, events, labels, and executives. To show appreciation for stellar talent and contributions to the industry, awards will be given out across a number of select categories. This includes Dance Song of the Year, Label of the Year, Best Festival Series, Remix of the Year, and a whole lot more. Oftentimes, the winners of awards are picked by a few individuals behind closed doors, but this is not the case for the EDMAs. This expansive celebration will be decided entirely by fans all over the world. Every category can voted on by ravers, festival-goers, techno-lovers, house heads, and everyone in-between. Check out the enti...
Count It Up: J. Cole Signs Deal With Canadian Pro Basketball League
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 It looks like J. Cole will get another stint on the hardwood, as it’s confirmed that he will be playing another season as a professional, this time in Canada. On Thursday evening (May 19th), the Canadian Elite Basketball League sent out a tweet announcing that the “No Role Models” rapper signed a deal to play for the Scarborough Shooting Stars. The news was first reported by Shams Charnia of The Athletic minutes beforehand. Related Stories The deal marks the second year in a row that the 37-year-old has signed on to be a professional basketball player. Cole made headlines when he signed a deal to play shooting guard with the Rwanda Patriots B.B.C. in the Basketball Africa League in May of last year. The North Carolin...
Quavo & Takeoff Debut ‘Unc and Phew’ Visuals To “Hotel Lobby”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Motown Records / Motown Just days after rumors that the Migos were breaking up shook the Hip-Hop world, Quavo and Takeoff debut their “Unc and Phew” personas by dropping their first Offset-less visual in “Hotel Lobby.” Using a Fear and Loathing In Las Vegas theme for their new video, Quavo and Takeoff hit the desert in search of drug fueled adventure before getting lit with some not-so-thick white women in a hotel room where things get a tad bit out of control. Whether or not we’ll ever hear or see three Migos on the same track or in the same video is anyone’s guess but with Offset unfollowing with ATLien brethren, it looks like “Unc and Phew” is going to be the new move for the trio turned duo. You do have to wonder if Cardi B had anything to do with the...
Jack Harlow & Brandy Mock Meat Beef Continues, Pair Share Playful Jabs
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Stefanie Keenan / Getty Jack Harlow was recently in the center of a mild firestorm of controversy regarding Brandy and her brother, Ray J. The Louisville rapper discovered that Brandy is the older sister of the business entrepreneur, which sparked a playful back and forth. Jack Harlow & Brandy Beef Explained Last week, Jack Harlow appeared on Hot 97’s Ebro In The Morning program in support of his new album, Come Home the Kids Miss You. During the chat, the hosts tested Harlow’s R&B ear by playing a tune from Brandy. After failing to guess who it was, even with the clue that Ray J was her brother, the hosts revealed the answer much to Harlow’s shock. Related Stories The moment was caught live on air, and sparked a debate about Harlow’s place in the...
New Nipsey Hussle Doc ‘The Marathon Cultivation’ Focuses On The Late Rapper’s Weed Ambitions
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @BeanzGotGamez The late Nipsey Hussle was known not only for his bars but also for his entrepreneurial spirit. The Marathon Cultivation, a new documentary, highlights Neighborhood Nip’s successful legal weed business. The Marathon Continues. Premiering Friday (May.20) on YouTube, the nearly 40-minute documentary focuses on Nipsey Hussle’s humble beginning’s selling the magical plant with his homies in his stomping grounds of Crenshaw before becoming decriminalized. The Marathon Cultivation not only features footage of Nipsey Hussle but commentary from his brother Blacc Sam, friends, and other Hip-Hop stars like Snoop Dogg, touching on how marijuana was an integral part of Nip’s success. The documentary’s release comes on the heels of The ...
Kim Gordon, Erica Dawn Lyle, and Vice Cooler Share New Song: Listen
Erica Dawn Lyle, Vice Cooler, and Kim Gordon have collaborated on a new track. It’s titled “Debt Collector” and it’s the second cut from a forthcoming compilation benefiting the Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust. Land Trust: Benefit For NEFOC is out June 3. Check out “Debt Collector” below. “Debt Collector” follows Land Trust’s “Mirrorball,” which Lyle wrote with her Bikini Kill bandmate Kathleen Hanna. Cooler, the current drummer for the Raincoats, directed the new “Debt Collector” music video, juxtaposing shots of new condo developments with those of houses with tenants being evicted. Gordon shared her perspective on the song in a brief statement. “I’m a bit obsessed with what’s happening with these big financial corporations like Blackrock and Blackstone buying up houses, becoming l...
Beck, Animal Collective, Jeff Tweedy, Karen O, Kamasi Washington, and More Join Birdsong-Inspired Compilation
Animal Collective, Jeff Tweedy, Karen O, Kamasi Washington, and Nick Cave & Warren Ellis are among the more than 200 contributors to a forthcoming compilation inspired by birdsong. For the Birds: The Birdsong Project will arrive in five monthly stages through September, with the first volume landing in full today. Randall Poster produced the full collection, and Lee Ranaldo is one of the set’s other executive producers. All proceeds from The Birdsong Project will benefit the National Audubon Society. Listen to For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, Vol. I, and watch videos for a few tracks from For the Birds, below. The Birdsong Project will be released in a massive vinyl set, too, spread across 20 LPs. The deluxe set also comes with a photo book that features an essay by Loma and Shearw...
Marina Herlop Shares New Video for “Abans Abans”: Watch
Barcelona-based experimental artist Marina Herlop has shared a new video for the song “Abans Abans.” The single is from her new album, Pripyat, out today (May 20) via Pan. Directed by Invernomuto, the clip finds the singer and composer exploring a cave, encountering a trio of llamas, and more. Check it out in full below. Pripyat is Herlop’s third album and first for Pan. It includes the previously released track “Miu.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Pitchfork to Host Livestream Panel About the Future of Jazz
Pitchfork is hosting a panel next week about jazz artists pushing the genre forward, in conjunction with the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. The livestreamed conversation will feature Cécile McLorin Salvant, Samora Pinderhughes, and Jen Shyu, with Pitchfork staff writer Allison Hussey moderating. It happens on Tuesday, May 24, at 7 p.m. Eastern. Tune in live via Pitchfork’s homepage or on YouTube. Earlier this year, Salvant released Ghost Song, her first LP since winning a Doris Duke Artist Award and being named a MacArthur Foundation Fellow in 2020. Pinderhughes’ latest album is April’s Grief, which he launched with a “Tiny Desk (Home) Concert” in his ongoing exhibition The Healing Project (at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts); he also shared the short film for “Masculinity.” Shyu most r...
Lojay & Sarz Release Brand-New Remix Of Global Hit “Monalisa” Featuring Chris Brown
Lagos-based Afro-fusion artist Lojay and internationally renowned super-producer Sarz release a brand-new remix of recent smashsingle Monalisa, featuring R&B superstar Chris Brown. Taken from their joint LV N ATTN EP last year, the original version of Monalisa became an early standout due to its hypnotic beat and infectious hooks, becoming not just one of the biggest releases in Nigeria, but a global hit that put Lojay on the map as one of Nigeria’s fastest-rising cultural exports and cemented Sarz’s reputation as the most significant name in Afrobeats. With over 100m plays, it’s safe to say that Monalisa became something of a cultural phenomenon last year. The track not only won applause from the likes of The Face,Hypebeast, NoMon, GRM Daily, Pause & The Fader (where it ranked as N...
Netflix Unveils First Eight Minutes of Stranger Things Season 4: Watch
Pack your bags, because we’re heading to Hawkins, Indiana: Netflix has shared the first eight minutes of the highly-anticipated fourth season of Stranger Things today. The sneak preview arrives just ahead of its premiere next Friday. Here, we’re dialing the clock back to 1979 and taking a closer look at the inner workings of Hawkins National Laboratories, where Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) first escaped way back in the show’s pilot episode. Throughout the rooms of the lab are fleets of children with hospital gowns, shaved heads, and numbers marked on their wrists — just like Eleven when we first met her. But as Dr. Brenner (Matthew Modine) begins his routine examinations on Ten, the young test subject detects disaster unfolding in Hawkins Lab — and one familiar face appears particularly gui...
GWAR Kick Off “Death Rager” Tour, Unveil New Sour Delta-8 GWARtridge
Ahead of their upcoming album, The New Dark Ages, the mighty GWAR kicked off the spring US leg of their 2022 “Black Death Rager World Tour” at Piere’s Entertainment Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana, on Thursday night (May 19th). Per usual, the intergalactic barbarians laid waste to the venue and the audience. GWAR’s US outing, which features support from Crowbar (joining the tour beginning May 23rd), Necrogoblikon, and The Native Howl, runs through a June 17th show in Reading, Pennsylvania — with tickets available here. At last night’s show, GWAR gave the New Dark Ages song “Mother F**king Liar” its live debut, performing it alongside favorites from such albums as Scumdogs of the Universe, Ragnarök, and more. Advertisement Prior to taking the stage, GWAR warned fans of what was to come via Tw...
