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Rivers Cuomo Announces Weezle, a Wordle for Weezer Fans
Rivers Cuomo has announced a new word game for Weezer fans. “If you like Wordle and Weezer, you’ll probably like Weezle,” the veteran songwriter wrote on Twitter today, March 3rd. Like Wordle, the viral sensation that was recently bought by The New York Times, Weezle gives players six cracks at guessing a five letter word, using color blocks to indicate the right letter in the right place (green), a correct letter in the wrong place (yellow), or a total miss (gray). While Cuomo hasn’t fully explained the word list, today’s Weezle is certainly Weezer-adjacent. Get it right and you’ll be treated to a Weezer song. You can play for yourself here. This is just the latest technological venture for Cuomo. In January he unveiled Weezify, a Spotify for Weezer fans that held over 3,500 demos. L...
Diplo Talks New Solo Album, Why He Didn’t Join Neil Young’s Spotify Exit and His Misinterpreted Taylor Swift Diss
If you’ve spent even one minute on Diplo‘s socials you know he takes NGAF to stratospheric levels on the regular. But in a new interview with Input magazine in which he explained why he’s releasing his first solo album in 18 years (Diplo) and the reason he didn’t follow Neil Young‘s exit from Spotify over Joe Rogan’s spreading of disinformation, the EDM star also served up a on-brand shruggy response to a nearly decade-old tweet in which he joked, “someone should make a kickstarter to get taylor swift a booty.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I don’t take it that seriously. When I first started using social media, it was a big joke for me,” he explained. “On Twitter, I was an unabashedly crazy person. And I didn’t realize that there was power ...
Inside Madonna Biopic Auditions & Top Contenders | Billboard News
At the moment, the biggest role available for some young actresses is one of pop music’s biggest icons: Madonna. Everyone from Emmy winners and Oscar nominees to signers turned actresses has been seen for the role, with some advancing on to what can be best described as a Madonna Bootcamp. [flexi-common-toolbar] [flexi-form class=”flexi_form_style” title=”Submit to Flexi” name=”my_form” ajax=”true”][flexi-form-tag type=”post_title” class=”fl-input” title=”Title” value=”” required=”true”][flexi-form-tag type=”category” title=”Select category”][flexi-form-tag type=”tag” title=”Insert tag”][flexi-form-tag type=”article” class=&...
Virgin Music President Jacqueline Saturn on Navigating COVID, a Rebrand & the Distribution Craze
Before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020, Caroline Distribution staffers were able to renovate their floor of the famed Capitol Tower to meet their particular needs: open floor plan, no offices, a collaborative environment where sharing ideas freely became paramount. So when office life shut down, president Jacqueline Saturn did what she could to try to preserve some of that open-air feel in which her team had begun to thrive: she invited the staff to her back yard, where a friend had a banner made with the division’s logo that hung above an area where her team could work outside. “People really needed a safe space, so that’s how it started — we could have people spaced here, people could wear their mask and be six feet apart and that was the beginning of it,” she tells Bill...
Randy Newman Broke His Neck & Is Rescheduling His Tour to Recuperate
Randy Newman is putting his 2022 U.K. and European tour dates on hold after a serious injury. On Wednesday (March 2), the early Americana singer best known for songs “You’ve Got a Friend in Me,” “Short People” and “I Love L.A.” announced the rescheduling of his upcoming tour due to a broken neck, and is taking time off to recover before hitting the road again. Explore See latest videos, charts and news “Recently, I noticed I was shrinking. People over whom I had towered now towered over me. Could this be payback for having written Short People? Turns out, my neck was broken. They operated on me successfully, I think. For even now, I look less like an anteater and more like a folk rock artist from the early sixties,” Newman said in a statement to his official website and Instagram account. ...
Robert Smith Reveals Upcoming The Cure Album Title
At the BandLab NME Awards on Wednesday night, Robert Smith unveiled the title of the long-awaited, upcoming The Cure album. The Cure frontman spoke to NME backstage at the show and said that one of two forthcoming The Cure records is set to be released “real very soon.” “So I’ve been working on two Cure albums, and one of them is finished,” Smith told NME. “Unfortunately, it’s the second one that’s finished. [On the other] I’ve got to do four vocals, and there are 10 songs on each album. We’re mixing next month on April 1, so I’ve got three weeks left.” He continued: “I know what it’s called – it’s called Songs of A Lost World. It’s got artwork, it’s got a running order, it’s almost done! They’re so slow because of vinyl, but it might come in September. I’d rather it just came out. I ...
Boulevards: Riding Through the Mud High on Funk
Two years ago, Jamil Rashad decided after three studio albums, he was done playing small. “I wanted to be in the conversation of artists like Leon Bridges, Black Pumas, the Thundercats of the world,” Rashad eagerly shares with SPIN. So in the summer of 2020, the North Carolinian soul-singer who goes by the name Boulevards, fired off a string of direct messages to artists he admired with his new music and an invitation to collaborate. “I felt like I was on the verge of something good,” Rashad says. “It took me records to get to this point.” The faith and persistence paid off when Blake Rhein, the guitarist of Durand Jones and the Indications, sent a DM in response, agreeing to produce his new record. Electric Cowboy: Born In Carolina Mud, was released via New West Records’ imprint Normaltow...
Madonna, Sickick and Fireboy DML Remix Her 1998 Hit ‘Frozen’
Madonna and Sickick teamed up with Fireboy DML in their latest remixing of the pop legend’s hit “Frozen.” She had been teasing the remix for days on her social media platforms. Producer Sickick’s initial remixing of the song exploded on TikTok last year, and the duo invited Nigerian singer Fireboy DML, who recently released his own hit “Peru,” to bring in some soulful vocals. (“I thought you loved me / I thought you trusted me,” he croons. “I tried to take care of your heart / but it’s frozen.”) The pop queen teased the remix’s official video on her Instagram, which we all hope will arrive soon. The new remix is available now wherever you stream music via Artist Partner Group / Warner Records. Madonna and Sickick’s initial “Frozen” remix amassed over 50 million streams globally and so...
The Weeknd Unveils ‘After Hours Til Dawn’ North American Tour Dates
The Weeknd has unveiled the official tour dates for his long-postponed North American After Hours Til Dawn Tour, which is set to kick off this summer. The chart-topper’s first-ever stadium tour begins on July 8 with a hometown show at Toronto’s Rogers Centre before heading to 17 additional destinations including New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Boston, Las Vegas and San Francisco, with a final stop at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium on September 2. Dates for Mexico, South America, Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Europe, Africa and the Middle East will be announced in the coming weeks. Doja Cat, who recently enlisted The Weeknd for “You Right” on Planet Her, will accompany the Dawn FM vocalist on the tour. Tickets for the tour will be available for purchase beginning March 10 at 1...
The Lemonheads Headline Official SPIN SXSW Showcase With 30th Anniversary Set of It’s a Shame About Ray
Today, SPIN announces its official SXSW Showcase at the 2022 festival in Austin. The event will take place on Thursday, March 17 at Stubb’s Bar-B-Q. The Lemonheads will headline the showcase with a set celebrating the 30th anniversary of the band’s career-defining record It’s a Shame About Ray. SPIN’s lineup will also feature rising acts spanning all genres, representing essential artists from indie rock, hip hop, punk, electronic, and soul. The SXSW lineup features Bass Drum of Death, Pom Pom Squad, Dead Tooth, Robot Sunrise, Cassandra Jenkins, YUNGMORPHEUS, Laundry Day, BLACKSTARKIDS, Boulevards, Mattiel, and As You Were. Doors open at 7 PM. SXSW Platinum and Music Badges receive primary access to these events. Interactive Badges, Film Badges, and Music Festival Wristbands receive s...
Samuel L. Jackson Believes He Should Have Won an Oscar for ‘Pulp Fiction’
As Samuel L. Jackson prepares to receive his Honorary Oscar at the 2022 Governors Awards this month, he revisited his Pulp Fiction Oscar loss and sole nomination — an award he believes he should have taken home. “I should have won that one,” the veteran actor simply told The Times, adding that he was in shock to know that Bugsy was nominated after he and his wife went to see the film. “Damn! They got nominated and I didn’t? “. Like Denzel [Washington] for being a horrible cop in ‘Training Day.’ All the great stuff he did in uplifting roles like ‘Malcolm X?’ No — we’ll give it to this motherf*cker. So maybe I should have won one. But Oscars don’t move the comma on your cheque — it’s about getting asses in seats and I’ve done a good job of doing that.” Jackson continued, “The...
AMC Theaters Is Charging More for ‘The Batman’ Tickets Than Other Films
AMC Theaters CEO Adam Aron has confirmed that the company will be selling The Batman tickets at a higher price in comparison to other films shown in cinema. The company is using the movie to experiment with a variable pricing method. According to Deadline Aron said in a quarterly earnings webcast, “Currently, our prices for The Batman are slightly higher than the prices we are charging for other movies playing in the same theaters at the same time. This is all quite novel in the United States, but actually AMC has been doing it for years in our European theaters. Indeed, in Europe we charge a premium for the best seats in the house — as do just about all sellers of tickets in other industries — take sports events, concerts and live theater, for example. Aron has also added that he thinks t...
