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Shaun King Deactivating Twitter Over Elon Musk Rumor Seemingly Debunked, MAGA Twitter Still Celebrating
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images / Getty Shaun King is a great many things to people, some of which might be considered unsavory depending on where one stands, but he never figured to be one to prematurely silence himself. After a conservative Trump stan and certified MAGA nutball shared that King deactivated his Twitter page, the rumor was swiftly debunked. This past Monday (April 25), conservative alt-right figure Jack Posobiec posted a tweet declaring that King deactivated his Twitter account, presumably due to Elon Musk’s pending purchase of the popular social media tool. “BREAKING: @ShaunKinghas deleted his Twitter account,” read the tweet. With immediacy, the MAGA faithful chimed in with their unoriginal commentary and slander, u...
Warner Bros. Announces ‘The Batman 2’ Is Officially A Go
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jonathan Olley™ & © DC Comics / The Batman Matt Reeves’ The Batman surprised many fans not only with an admirable performance from Robert “Twilight” Pattinson as the Caped Crusader, but also with a gritty and enticing three-hour storyline that left viewers wanting more of this version of Gotham City the director conjured up. Well, everyone’s about to get their wish as Deadline is reporting that Warner Bros. has officially announced that a sequel to The Batman has been greenlit by the movie studio and yes, “Edward Cullen” will be reprising his role as the Dark Knight. During a Cinemacon presentation in Las Vegas yesterday (April 26), Motion Picture Group Boss Toby Emmerich revealed that The Batman 2 was officially in the works and director Matt ...
Michael Bivins Joins Harlem Festival of Culture As Creative Director
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty The eagerly anticipated Harlem Festival of Culture has just gotten a big boost, as the iconic Michael Bivins has been tapped to be its creative director. On Tuesday (April 26th), news broke that one of the founding members of New Edition and a highly respected industry executive would be joining the group behind the Harlem Festival of Culture in the role of creative director. Bivins, who has been lauded as a community ambassador, spoke about the new role as he was being interviewed for an upcoming documentary on his life and career, The Hustle of @617MikeBiv. Bivins issued a statement about his new role, saying: “My role as Creative Director of the Harlem Festival of Culture came about because I work closely with Yvonne McNair, CEO o...
R.I.P. Klaus Schulze, German Electronic Music Pioneer Dead at 74
Electronic music composer Klaus Schulze has died at the age of 74. According to a statement, Schulze passed away on Tuesday, April 26th. He had been suffering from an undisclosed illness, but his death was described as “sudden” by Frank Uhle, the managing director of his record label, SPV. “We were shocked and saddened to hear the news of Klaus Schulze’s sudden death,” Uhle said in a statement. “We lose and will miss a good personal friend – one of the most influential and important composers of electronic music – a man of conviction and an exceptional artist. Our thoughts in this hour are with his wife, sons and family. His always cheerful nature, his innovative spirit and his impressive body of work remain indelibly rooted in our memories.” A pioneer of the krautrock and techno genres, t...
Every Sam Raimi Movie Ranked From Worst to Best
Welcome to Dissected, where we disassemble a band’s catalog, a director’s filmography, or some other critical pop-culture collection in the abstract. It’s exact science by way of a few beers. The time, we enter the hyperkinetic geek-friendly mind of Sam Raimi. For quite a few years, it seemed like audiences would never get to see another Sam Raimi film ever again. Sure, he’s produced an extensive catalog of horror movies over the past decade and has directed episodes of Ash vs. Evil Dead and the Quibi original 50 States of Fright. However, it’s been since 2013 that we’ve had a full-length feature by Raimi, whose low-budget shocker The Evil Dead is considered a hallmark of the horror genre. While he’d been in talks to helm various movies in the years since his last one, they even...
Angel Olsen Goes “Big Time” Country on New Song: Stream
Angel Olsen isn’t just dabbling in classic country tropes, she’s embracing her inner Patsy Cline on “Big Time,” the title track from her upcoming album of the same name. “Big Time” is full of golden era country references, from the dignified warble of a pedal steel guitar, to a keyboard that sounds like the kind of tack piano that used to squawk through honky tonk bars. The lyrics are full to the 10-gallon-brim with yearning, but it’s a playful yearn, horny to suite a Saturday night but still chaste enough for Sunday morning. “And I’m living, I’m loving, I’ve loved long before,” Olsen coos. “I’m loving you big time, I’m loving you more.” Advertisement Related Video The song comes with a music video directed by Kimberly Stuckwisch. It shows Olsen performing in a wood-pan...
Arcade Fire Share Uplifting New Song “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)”: Stream
With Arcade Fire’s new album, WE, dropping next week, the band has unveiled the latest single, “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid).” Stream it below. Debuted during Arcade Fire’s show at New York City’s Bowery Ballroom back in late March, “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)” is filled with plenty of “doo doo doos” and is intended to inspire listeners to keep chugging forward in the face of the adversity we’ve particularly had to face over the past few years. “Look out kid, trust your mind/ But you can’t trust it every time,” Win Butler sings. “You know it plays tricks on you/ And it don’t give a damn if you are happy or you’re sad/ But if you’ve lost it, don’t feel bad/ ‘Cause it’s alright to be sad.” Advertisement Related Video “Unconditional I (Lookout Kid)” follows the first single, “Th...
Justin Bieber Drops Comical “I Feel Funny” Music Video
Justin Bieber has released a new track dubbed “I Feel Funny,” alongside a comical music video directed by Cole Bennett under his Lyrical Lemonade banner. The visual, which was shot on iPhone, sees the Justice vocalist wearing a bright orange ski mask while hilariously dancing around a film set and singing the catchy tune, “I feel funny / Laugh it up, chuckles.” “Justin randomly texted me this song one day and said ‘should we do a visual to this? song straight to number 1.’ We joked around about doing a video for it but never did,” Bennet wrote in the video’s description on YouTube. “A few weeks later we were doing a pick up day for a video we had recently shot, but never finished (Honest). We had a bit of time switching over from scene to scene. So, I went into his trailer and said, ‘...
‘Sifu’ Is Adding More Difficulty Levels So Players Can Actually Finish the Game
Just three months after the game’s original launch, Sloclap is now updating its critically acclaimed roguelike action game Sifu with more difficulty options so more fans can complete the game. Revealing its upcoming content roadmap for 2022, the French indie studio announced a series of free updates coming for players through the remainder of the year. Aside from more difficulty levels to make the game more accommodating to casual players, Sloclap is also introducing a new outfit and advanced training systems this spring, followed by even more outfits, a gameplay modifier and enhancements to scoring in summer. Later in the year, fans will be receiving a replay editor alongside more outfits and modifiers once again in the fall before getting a completely new game mode in the winter called A...
Razer Shareholders Agree for Company to Go Private at $3.17 Billion USD Valuation
Razer is now planning to go private again after it obtained approval from an overwhelming majority of shareholders. According to a new report from Reuters, the gaming peripheral giant is looking to purchase all remaining shares and take the company private under chairman and founder Min-Liang Tan and non-executive director Kaling Lim, who own roughly 57% of the company. The deal would value the Hong Kong-listed company at $24.7 billion HKD (approximately $3.17 billion USD) and translate to a purchase price of $2.82 HKD (approximately $0.36 USD) per share for the remaining shares. The current offer price marks a 44% premium over the company’s closing price on October 28, 2021, a day before Razer went into a trading halt due to discussions of a deal. It’s also 5.6% above market close on Wedn...
2K Is Reportedly Developing ‘Rocket League’ Competitor Called ‘Gravity Goal’
2K Games is reportedly developing a competitor to Psyonix‘s Rocket League. Named Gravity Goal, new reports suggest that the NBA 2K developer is looking to tap into the automotive football genre by taking Rocket League and slightly changing up its gameplay. While the core premise of the game remains the same, 2K’s version will apparently feature Tron-like bikes instead of cars, and players will also be able to throw discs around to attack other opponents instead of simply crashing into them in Psyonix‘s game. The discs will also vary in damage and power depending on how fast you’re going, and they’ll either slow down your enemy or stun them for a short while. So far, it seems the game is in its alpha stage and 2K will reportedly officially reveal the title...
Sony Is Asking Developers to Build Time-Limited Demos to Pad Out Its PlayStation Plus Service
Sony‘s revamped PlayStation Plus service is set to launch on June 13 for the Americas, and the company is now reportedly asking game developers to create time-limited demos to pad out the upcoming Game Pass alternative. While the top tier of the new PlayStation Plus will offer gamers more than 700 titles at launch, it’s important to note that the service won’t be getting any day-one releases like Microsoft‘s Xbox counterpart. In hopes of persuading more fans to subscribe, reports are now suggesting that the Japanese gaming giant is asking video game developers to make longer, exclusive demos for its subscribers to try out. New games that are priced above the $34 USD mark and not VR releases will be required to satisfy this requirement from Sony, and the demo must be released within three m...
