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New York Music Workers Seek Eligibility for Pandemic Relief Grants
New York touring musicians – led by the Music Workers Alliance – are seeking additional pandemic relief from the state after a tumultuous touring season this winter. Musicians including Esperanza Spalding and Marc Ribot are advocating on behalf of New York’s touring workers to be included in the New York State Legislator’s Small Business Recovery Grant — included in the New York State Senate’s budget proposal — as micro-businesses. Inclusion in the grant program would give music workers — or “independent arts contractors,” as they’re described in the budget — access to possibly hundreds of millions of dollars in relief funds. Pandemic Unemployment Assistance (PUA) ended in September 2021. Shortly thereafter, touring musicians were inundated with another wave of cancellations due to the unp...
Mariah Carey & DJ Khaled to Join Latto on ‘Big Energy’ Remix
Latto is adding that real “Big Energy” to her 2021 breakout hit with an upcoming remix featuring Mariah Carey and DJ Khaled. The rapper revealed that the new take on “Big Energy” is set to drop on Monday (Mar. 28). The announcement comes following a not-so-subtle Twitter exchange between Latto and Carey, in which the duo hinted at a collaboration through clever emojis. The collaboration between Latto and Mariah Carey makes sense, as “Big Energy” samples Tom Tom Club’s 1981 single, “Genius Of Love,” which most fans will recognize from Carey’s “Fantasy.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The song, released via StreamCut/RCA Records in September, hit No. 14 on the latest Billboard Hot 100, marking the 23-year-old Atlanta native’s first top 40 hit. T...
Prime Video To Produce James Bond Competition Show
Amazon Prime Video has announced plans to produce its first James Bond series titled 007’s Road to a Million. The eight-part show, which will follow a Bond-inspired race around the world, will be produced by 72 Films, MGM Television and Bond guardians and producers Barbara Broccolo and Michael G. Wilson. The project has been in development for approximately four years at Prime Video, according to sources via Variety, meaning the series has been in the works long before Amazon’s $8.5 billion USD deal with MGM closed last week. Production will officially begin later this year. Contestants on the series will compete for a £1 million EUR ($1.3 million USD) cash prize in a series of intelligence and endurance-based tests in several iconic Bond locations across the globe. Additionally,...
Joe Budden & Royce Da 5’9 Address Slaughterhouse Beef
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: John Ricard / Getty Slaughterhouse, the rhyming quartet consisting of some of the brightest lyricists of their era, enjoyed the limelight under what was later viewed as a troubled major label deal under Eminem‘s Shady Records. Two of its members, Joell Ortiz and KXNG Crooked, recently released The Rise and Fall of Slaughterhouse, causing division between the group and some bitter feelings to boot. During episode 517 of The Joe Budden Podcast, Royce Da 5’9 visited the program to continue the conversation regarding group tensions, which exploded in grand fashion during an Instagram Live session featuring Ortiz. Nickel Nine, like Budden, took umbrage with the fact that Crooked I and Quick (Ortiz) decided to go their own way and air out grievances on wax. “I’...
NBA Star Zach LaVine Signs With New Balance
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New Balance / New Balance With its growing popularity out in these sneaker brand-dominated streets, New Balance is on a mission and are continuing to grow their NBA athletic roster with some of today’s rising sports stars. Already having a crew consisting of Kawhi Leonard, Jamal Murray, and Dejounte Murray, New Balance has now added the Chicago Bull’s superstar Zach LaVine to their growing roster of talent and we can’t say we’re mad at the pickup at all. Averaging 24.6 points this season for the surprisingly successful Chicago Bulls, Lavine seems like a pretty solid addition for New Balance who keep on signing and collaborating with some of today’s hottest names in sports and entertainment. Related Stories Will you be supporting New Balance now that they’...
‘Love & Hip-Hop’ Star Apple Watts Hospitalized After Severe Car Accident
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: VH1 / VH1 Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood star Apple Watts was in a crash on early Wednesday morning (March 23) in Baker, California. She has been hospitalized and unfortunately, she is reportedly “unresponsive.” According to reports, the vehicle Watts was traveling in, a black Mercedes, flipped multiples after crashing with a Ford F250 pickup truck on the I-15 while travelling between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Watts, who appeared on Season 5 and 6 of Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood is said to have suffered “major injuries,” per the California Highway Patrol. TMZ adds that a passenger who was inside the F250 assisted Watts in getting out her car, which was lit on fire. She was then air-lifted to a nearby hospital in Nevada. According to the Shade Room, which...
Feet Flasher Doja Cat Quits Music After Paraguay Twitter Battle Goes Full Racist
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: JAVIER TORRES / Getty Doja Cat has quit music, allegedly. The rapper who has been doing more crooning more than spittin’ lately has allegedly called it a career after getting into a Twitter battle with what seems like all of Paraguay that quickly went racist. Apparently, a Doja Cat performance was canceled in Paraguay. Despite it being due to flooding, it seems that people had a problem with her not interacting with fans outside her hotel room as if it was disrespect. She did perform in Brazil, but after tweeting that the show wasn’t up to snuff and she would do better, which caused Paraguay Twitter to go nuclear in her mentions. Know what, we’ll let TMZ recap the struggle: Doja copped to not putting on “a good enough show,” but promised she’d...
FOREIGNER Partners With American Red Cross To Donate And Raise Funds For Ukrainian Relief Efforts
Legendary rockers FOREIGNER have announced that they will partner with the American Red Cross to donate and raise funds for Ukrainian relief efforts during their exclusive headlining residency show at The Venetian Theatre inside The Venetian Resort Las Vegas beginning Friday, March 25. FOREIGNER will donate $5,000 from each residency show at The Venetian Theatre to the American Red Cross Ukrainian relief efforts, and also invite concertgoers to join in donating in any denomination large or small to the American Red Cross representatives on site. The show, “The Best Of Foreigner 4 Live”, is a celebration of the 40th anniversary of FOREIGNER‘s biggest-selling album. The LP was released on July 2, 1981 and spent more weeks at No. 1 than any other album in the history of Atla...
IN FLAMES’ BJÖRN GELOTTE: Why We Used Same Production Team For Upcoming Album
IN FLAMES guitarist Björn Gelotte has confirmed that the band’s upcoming album was once again recorded with Grammy-nominated producer Howard Benson and Howard‘s longtime engineer Mike Plotnikoff. Gelotte discussed the progress of the recording sessions for IN FLAMES‘ fourteenth studio album while taking part in an online video chat on “The Metal Tour Of The Year” Instagram on March 14. “We just recorded [our new album], actually,” Björn said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “We came home three days before we came [to Germany to start rehearsing for the currently ongoing U.K. tour]. We worked [in Los Angeles] with Howard Benson and his team. It’s really, really good, and it suits us perfectly. The weather — January in Sweden is not ...
Police Investigating KORN Tour Bus Shooting Outside Iowa Hotel
According to TMZ, one of KORN‘s tour buses was hit by gunfire while parked outside a hotel in Davenport, Iowa on Thursday (March 24). A spokesperson for the Davenport Police Department told the tabloid site that they got a call Friday morning around 7:41 a.m. for a vehicle that had been hit overnight. A single bullet pierced the exterior wall of the bus — which was parked on the street outside a hotel — and was found inside the cabin. No one was on board at the time of the shooting and no other damage was reported. The incident is currently under investigation. KORN — with support acts CHEVELLE and CODE ORANGE — is scheduled to play Friday at TaxSlayer Center in Moline. The three bands performed in Saginaw, Michigan on Wednesday. KORN is touring in support of its latest album, “...
SLIPKNOT Is ‘Turning Up The Dials On Experimentation’ On Upcoming Album, Says Drummer JAY WEINBERG
SLIPKNOT drummer Jay Weinberg spoke to Decker of Wisconsin’s WZOR (Razor 94.7/104.7) radio station about the musical direction of the band’s upcoming follow-up to 2019’s “We Are Not Your Kind” album. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I would say we kind of turned up the dials on experimentation. And there’s some new things happening that are really exciting, really interesting, stuff that maybe I wouldn’t have even expected us to pull out of our hat. We’ve got a song that’s like the heaviest blues song on earth, and stuff like that that’s super exciting to hear what the guys are doing. Then, once we’re working on the instrumental for a while, then we get to hear what Corey [Taylor, vocals] brings to the ta...
Majeeed – Tough Love
Don’t miss this brand new single from Majeeed titled “Tough Love”. Dream Empire Music act Majeeed comes through with a brand new tune he calls “Tough Love” for his fans and supporters. The new record “Tough Love” is an impressive single taken off his extended play “Bitter Sweet”. It fills in as a follow-up to his song “How I Care“. However, this certainly deserves a spot on your playlist. Listen and share Majeeed – “Tough Love” below. https://www.naijamusic.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Majeeed_-_Tough_Love_NaijaMusic.com.ng.mp3 Download
