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How Taylor Swift Inspired Priscilla Block to Quit Her Job and Pursue Music
An unexpected run-in with Taylor Swift made a huge impact on Priscilla Block‘s life. The rising country singer behind “My Bar” was just about ready to leave Nashville when she had a chance meeting with Swift — while she was actually wearing a Taylor Swift T-shirt. “I’m about a year into town and just crumbling, day by day, and I call my sister one day and I was like, ‘Hey, I have no clue what I’m doing out here.’ It was just the whole ‘If you come home, you didn’t fail. It’s OK,’” Block, whose debut album Welcome to the Block Party just arrived, recalled on an episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show last week. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news She continued, “And that day, Taylor Swift was driving by. I was leaving work, and I was wear...
RZA and DJ Scratch Drop ‘Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater’ Single “Fate of the World”
RZA and DJ Scratch have officially released their brand new single “Fate of the World,” which is set to appear on their forthcoming joint record Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater. Clocking in at approximately three-and-a-half minutes, the cut arrives with an accompanying music video produced by Danny Hastings and The RZA. The Abbot stars as Sifu to his school of students and teaches them the Tao of the Wu, shaping them as warriors that can protect the world. Saturday Afternoon Kung Fu Theater is billed as “a love letter to the kung fu movies that aired each Saturday on local tv channels when there were only 5 channels to choose from. The films inspired fantasy and imagination for a legion of young people and showcased gloriously violent lessons of good vs. evil.” Watch RZA and DJ Scratch’...
Walton Goggins Joins Amazon Prime Video’s Live-Action ‘Fallout’ Series Adaptation
Walton Goggins has been cast in Amazon Prime Video‘s live-action Fallout series adaptation. While details of the veteran actor’s character were not revealed, Deadline reports that Goggins will take on a lead role as a Ghoul — a human or animal that have mutated due to prolonged exposure to radiation. He is the first actor to be announced in the cast. The Fallout series adaptation is expected to begin production in 2022 with Geneva Robertson-Dworet and Graham Wagner serving as showrunners. Amazon Prime Video, Kilter Films, Bethesda Game Studios and Bethesda Softworks will all work in tandem while Westworld creators Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, Athena Wickham and Todd Howard will executive produce. Amazon Prime Video first announced the series adaptation in July 2020, with Nolan and Joy...
Jim Jones & Maino ft. Lyrivelli “Lobby Boyz Anthem,” Conway The Machine ft. Benny The Butcher & Westside Gunn “John Woo Flick” & More | Daily Visuals 2.18.22
HipHopWired Featured Video For the past few weeks Maino and Jim Jones have been sharing some hilarious posts on Instagram in which they get on each other for the outfits they were to the gym (Fab got some slander too), but today the two get together to put it down for the streets. Linking up with Lyrivelli in the visuals to “Lobby Boyz Anthem,” Jim Jones and Maino lay it down for the hardcore and get things lit with some pyrotechnic effects in the backdrop as they get down and gritty with their style and icey pieces on their chests. Speaking of hardcore, Conway The Machine reunites with his Griselda brethren in his clip for “John Woo Flick” where he kicks it with Benny The Butcher and Westside Gunn in an empty warehouse where he holds a baby in one hand and brandishes the toast in the othe...
Dr. Dre’s ‘2001,’ Eminem’s ‘Curtain Call’ Both Return To Billboard 200 Top 10
Dr. Dre and Eminem are returning to the top 10 of this week’s Billboard 200 following their Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show with Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige and Snoop Dogg. According to HITS Daily Double, Em’s Curtain Call: The Hits and Dr. Dre’s 2001 — both released under Aftermath/Interscope Records — moved up to Nos. 7 and 8, earning 30,635 and 30,274 in equivalent album units, respectively. Of Curtain Call’s 30,635 total units, 25,674 is credited to streaming equivalent album units, 3,611 in track equivalent album units and 1,350 in album sales, while 2001 earned 21,534 streaming equivalent album units, 5,101 in track equivalent album units in 3,639 in album sales. Meanwhile, Mary J. Blige’s newest record Good Morning Gorgeous is at No. 14 and Lamar’s good kid, m.A.A.d city an...
Steve Aoki Says He Made More Money From NFTs In 1 Year Than a Decade of Streaming Royalties
The most fervent purveyors of NFTs have remained adamant in the technology’s ability to spark a paradigm shift in music, whereby the silos of power transfer from centralized companies and labels back to the artists. Now, Steve Aoki, one of the earliest adopters of the Web3 blueprint, has shared some eye-opening comments illuminating how his bets on NFTs are paying off. At a private Gala Music event, Aoki said he’s made more money from NFTs in the past year than he has through streaming royalties over the last decade, Decrypt reports. “But if I was to really break down, okay, in the 10 years I’ve been making music…six albums, and you [combine] all those advances, what I did in one drop last year in NFTs, I made more money,” Aoki explained. Released last year on ...
David Guetta Drops “Trap House” Remix of Kodak Black’s “Super Gremlin”
David Guetta‘s earliest international hits saw the synthesis of dance-pop and hip-hop. The superstar DJ’s innovation yielded “Memories” alongside Kid Cudi and “I Gotta Feeling” with The Black Eyed Peas, among other timeless classics. Guetta is now revitalizing his winning formula for a new generation of hip-hop fans. Teaming up with Kodak Black to remix the rapper’s “Super Gremlin,” Guetta pumps the song into overdrive with an electro production chock full of nostalgia. The forebear of Future Rave has always had a sixth sense for defining new creative lanes, and with his latest remix, he is fittingly defining the sound as “Trap House.” Preserving the menacing chord progression of the original, Guetta plays up the omino...
Idris Elba Says He’ll “Lean Away” From Acting to Focus On Electronic Music
The multi-talented Idris Elba has reached a critical creative juncture. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the Golden Globe-winning actor said he intends to “lean away from the acting work” and pursue his career as a DJ more concertedly. Elba’s upcoming year on the big screen is slated to be a busy one. He is set to star in George Miller’s fantasy romance film, Three Thousand Years of Longing and Beast, which will see him portraying a widowed father who must fight to protect the lives of his children against a wild lion on a South African game reserve. Elba will also voice the part of Knuckles in Sonic the Hedgehog 2, out in April. Although he’s continued to enjoy a steady schedule as an actor, Elba has recently found himself weighing the risk of d...
Watch GEOFF TATE Sing QUEENSRŸCHE’s ‘Queen Of The Reich’ On MONSTERS OF ROCK Cruise
Fan-filmed video footage of Geoff Tate‘s performance aboard this year’s Monsters Of Rock cruise can be seen below. The show saw Tate playing many of QUEENSRŸCHE‘s biggest songs, including early classic “Queen Of The Reich”, which originally appeared on the band’s debut EP. Tate had previously expressed his reluctance to perform “Queen Of The Reich” at his live concerts, telling Rock Show Critique in a 2012 interview: “It’s funny, actually — a lot of people don’t know about that song. A lot of people don’t care about that song. It’s an early song that was written and it shows. It’s funny the reaction you get, because it’s a lot of blank stares. In fact, it’s the same stare you get when you play a...
HALESTORM’s LZZY HALE On Playing Concerts During Pandemic: ‘Everyone’s Going To A Show Like It’s Gonna Be Their Last Show’
In a new interview with Meltdown of Detroit’s WRIF radio station, HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale spoke about what it has been like for her and her bandmates to perform live again during the pandemic. She said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We did a quote-unquote secret show here in Nashville [in July 2021] at a local club as our first show back. It had been the longest I’ve ever gone without doing a live show, and my panic mode started at soundcheck. It wasn’t just, like, 10 minutes before we go on, ‘Oh, God.’ It was just all day of, like, ‘Oh my Gosh. We’re really doing this.’ “It feels so good to be doing shows again and it feels great to just see everybody in the audience really living in the moment,” she continue...
Late PANTERA Drummer VINNIE PAUL: Collection Of Facebook Live Videos From 2010-2017 Posted Online
YouTube channel Aaros Compilations has uploaded a 44-minute collection of all the Facebook Live videos late PANTERA drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott shared on the HELLYEAH Facebook page from 2010 to 2017. Check it out below. Vinnie passed away on June 22, 2018 at his home in Las Vegas at the age of 54. He died of dilated cardiomyopathy, an enlarged heart, as well as severe coronary artery disease. His death was the result of chronic weakening of the heart muscle — basically meaning his heart couldn’t pump blood as well as a healthy heart. Vinnie Paul and his brother “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott co-founded PANTERA. When PANTERA broke up in 2003, they formed DAMAGEPLAN. On December 8, 2004, while performing with DAMAGEPLAN at the Alrosa Villa in Columbus, Ohio, Dimebag was shot and k...
BODY COUNT Begins Recording New Album ‘Merciless’
BODY COUNT, the metal band fronted by hip-hop legend, actor and director Ice-T, has apparently commenced the recording process for its new album, “Merciless”. The follow-up to 2020’s “Carnivore” is tentatively due before the end of the year via Century Media. Earlier today (Saturday, February 19), Ice-T took to his Twitter to write: “I’m proud to say we just finished the FIRST day of writing, recording and track selection for the New BC Album ‘MERCILESS’ Only one goal… It’s gotta be HARDER than the last…. It already is. @BodyCountBand @centurymediaeu”. “Carnivore” continued the path of its uncompromising and critically acclaimed predecessors, “Bloodlust” and “Manslaugther”, in pairing Ice-...
