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EARTHGANG Enlists Musiq Soulchild for New Single “AMEN”
EARTHGANG and Musiq Soulchild have joined forces for “AMEN,” the newest single from the Dreamville duo’s upcoming album GHETTO GODS. Clocking in at just a little over three minutes, the track hears Olu, WowGr8 and Musiq Soulchild in both a lovesick and confident mindset, revealing their desires for their partners and their careers with shoutouts to Dreamville and J. Cole. “We spent so much time outside during the pandemic – Atlanta low-key never shut down,” the duo told Zane Lowe on Apple Music. “Every where we went we was having a good time and enjoy ourselves. So we want people to enjoy themselves when they heard this record. Never waste a moment to celebrate life. We was living it up the whole time.” In January, the pair addressed the GHETTO GODS delay and revealed that the album didn’t...
‘I Know NIGO’ Album Sets Are Available for Pre-Order
NIGO has started 2022 off with a sprint, delivering his first collection for KENZO as creative director, staying active through his label Human Made, and now reigniting his music career after an almost two-decade hiatus. The upcoming album I Know NIGO features Pharrell as co-executive producer and promises collaborative tracks with Kid Cudi, A$AP Rocky, Lil Uzi Vert, Pusha T, Famlay, Teriyaki Boyz, Tyler the Creator, and more. An “Arya” music video featuring A$AP Rocky and “Want it Bad” track featuring Kid Cudi were released earlier this year giving fans a glimpse of what lies in store. [embedded content] Four I Know NIGO box sets are available, offering CDs and different styles of black and white T-shirts printed with Human Made graphics featuring a duck and dog flying on a magic carpet. ...
The Ghost of Ultra Past: Here’s Why Everyone Thinks Hardwell Is Returning In 2022
In a lineup akin to the EDM version of the Met Gala, it’s a blurry smudge on Ultra‘s 2022 flier that’s causing the dance music hive mind to come unglued. When Ultra organizers announced the first phase of the lineup, they also revealed a secretive closing performance by “one of the most iconic artists in electronic music history.” And one name instantaneously became the consensus. Considering his illustrious history with the brand, all signs point to Hardwell. The storied Dutch DJ performed at Ultra every year from 2012 to 2018, when he shockingly stepped away from the electronic music industry at the age of 30. In many ways, Ultra’s mythos runs through him. When Ultra announced a third wave of artists by posting a flier with the festival’s he...
GOJIRA’s MARIO DUPLANTIER Praises METALLICA’s ROBERT TRUJILLO: ‘He’s Such A Cool Dude’
Drummer Mario Duplantier of French progressive metallers GOJIRA spoke to Art Of Rock about his obsession with bodyboarding, a water sport in which the surfer rides a bodyboard on the crest, face, and curl of a wave that is carrying the surfer towards the shore. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “It’s not like surfing. Bodyboarding is like a smaller board. Since I’m a kid, I’m bodyboarding. So yesterday I was in the water during wintertime. I try to go every day. I’m truly addicted to the ocean and to bodyboarding. [The water is] super cold [right now here in France]. And outside it’s cold as well. But I have a good wet suit and all the gear.” Duplantier went on to say that he has gone surfing with METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo on a ...
JEFF SCOTT SOTO Explains How He Dealt With Racist Attitudes Early In His Music Career
In a new interview with the “(Don’t) Quit Your Day Job” podcast, Jeff Scott Soto, the acclaimed American hard rock singer of Puerto Rican descent, was asked if he ever felt like he didn’t get a fair shake or people treated him “shitty” just because of the slightly darker hue of his complexion. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Absolutely. Of course I went through it, especially in the ’80s when this style of the hair bands, or whatever you wanna call them, and even the genre was flooded with so many bands that were… a lot of their frontmen were of Caucasian descent and had green eyes or blue eyes and they had blond hair. I didn’t fit in that mold… Of course, there were exceptions. Stephen Pearcy [RATT] is Spanish. I be...
Rock Believer – SCORPIONS
RATING: 8/10 The list of rock bands that have managed to release a brand-new album fifty years after their debut record is not exactly overflowing with names. The list of bands that have released a new album fifty years later and managed to not sound like tired retreads of past glories or sad attempts at modernizing their music is even shorter. SCORPIONS have avoided both pitfalls with “Rock Believer”, their first new album in seven years. The rock icons revisit many of the sounds that fueled their superstardom’s peak. The level of energy and songcraft present though keep those tracks from feeling tired, and perhaps for the first time in several records, there are even a few anthems that hold up next to the classics we’ve been re-purchasing on multiple formats over ...
Lil Baby Confirms New Album Is Almost Done, “New Music” On the Way
Lil Baby officially announced that his new album is in its final stages, and that fans can expect new music to drop soon. Taking to Twitter to make the announcement, the young rapper simply stated, “Album Almost Done, New Music Otw Tho.” Fans responded with excitement, with many expressing the long wait between the upcoming album and its predecessor, My Turn. My Turn dropped almost two years ago to the date and featured guest appearances from Gunna, 42 Dugg, Future, Lil Uzi Vert, Lil Wayne, Moneybagg Yo, Young Thug and Rylo Rodriguez. The 20-track record debuted at No. 1 and went on to become platinum certified on its first anniversary. Earlier this month, Chart Data revealed that the album has never left the Billboard 200 and was still in its top 20, spending 100 total weeks on the chart....
Dave Grohl Discusses His Hearing Loss: “I’ve Been Reading Lips for 20 Years”
All those years playing in Foo Fighters and Nirvana have caught up with Dave Grohl. During his recent appearance on The Howard Stern Show, the 53-year-old rock veteran discussed his hearing loss and how it affects his life both on and off the stage. “If you were sitting next to me right here at dinner, I wouldn’t understand a fucking word you were saying to me the whole fucking time,” Grohl said, motioning about a foot away from his left ear. “There’s no way. In a crowded restaurant — that’s the worst.” Up until mask-wearing became the norm, however, Grohl’s hearing loss didn’t pose too much of an issue in his day-to-day life. He insisted it’s “not that bad,” but now that mask-wearing is the norm, Grohl has had a harder time conversing in public. Advertisement Related Video “The ...
25 Years Later, David Lynch’s Lost Highway Remains an Underappreciated and Nightmarish Neo-Noir Gem
David Lynch is rightly considered among the most impenetrably bizarre and allegorical filmmakers of his generation; however, there’s always a resolutely singular sense of authorship and intention to his work (even if he’s literally the only person who knows what he’s trying to say). That’s as true of 1977’s pioneering Eraserhead and 1986’s revered Blue Velvet as it is 1999’s comparatively conventional The Straight Story and 2006’s maligned Inland Empire. It’s certainly also valid for what’s perhaps his most unjustly disparaged creation: 1997’s Lost Highway. Celebrating its 25th anniversary this week, Lost Highway arrived in the midst of a career slump for Lynch. Neither 1990’s Wild at Heart nor 1992’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me earned the same kind of accolades as his 1980s run of films...
EARTHGANG Unleash New Song “AMEN”: Stream
EARTHGANG’s long-delayed album GHETTO GODS is finally slated to drop this Friday. To hold fans over, the Atlanta duo have dropped their new single “AMEN” featuring R&B singer Musiq Soulchild. Stream it below. Featuring soul-sampling production, “AMEN” sees Jonny Venus celebrating their success and shouting out their record label. “Shoutout Dreamville, know it kills you to see us up,” he raps. “When I hit the scene, rock more boats than Aaliyah/ This shit for my people, I ain’t got no equal.” Meanwhile, WowGr8 boasts about his prowess in the bedroom: “Gon’ throw it back and buss it open like you ‘posed to/ Arch your back and take it like I owe you/ You ain’t never seen a n**** like me, nothin’ close to.” Advertisement Related Video In an interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe, EART...
Porridge Radio Announce New Album, Share “Back to the Radio”: Stream
Porridge Radio have a new album on the way called Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky, which is set for release on May 20th via Secretly Canadian. As a preview, they’ve shared “Back to the Radio” as the lead single. Co-produced by Tom Carmichael, Porridge Radio singer Dana Margolin, and drummer Sam Yardley, Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky follows 2020’s Every Bad. In a statement, Margolin said she wanted the band’s third album to be stadium-epic’—like Coldplay.” First single “Back to the Radio” previews this cinematic quality with a slow-building ballad about fighting for a one-sided relationship in decline. Choppy, droning downstrokes buzz in the single’s feedback intro before Margolin begins chanting. “We cannot get better if we can’t talk about it,” she sin...
Conway The Machine Raps Over Kanye West’s “Jail,” Baby Keem’s “family ties” and More on ‘Greetings Earthlings’ Mixtape
With his Shady Records debut album God Don’t Make Mistakes set to drop this Friday, Conway The Machine delivered his mixtape Greetings Earthlings to tide fans over until February 25. Clocking in at 50 minutes, the 14-track record hears the rapper spit bars over the beats of Baby Keem’s “family ties,” Kanye West’s “Jail,” Young Thug’s “Hot” and more. Joining Conway The Machine are Griselda‘s Benny the Butcher and Westside Gunn, 2 Chainz, Goose and Jae Skeese. “I spent my birthday [c]ooking up a plate for y’all and it’s All [S]tar weekend too so I’m in a good mood,” he wrote on Instagram. “[H]ere’s Something to hold y’all over until the 25th.” Prior to Greetings Earthlings, Conway The Machine confirmed that he is no longer part of both Shady and Griselda Records — the latter of which he co-f...
