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Edges-Lacking Candace Owens Barks On Australia’s COVID-19 Policies, Twitter Hands Her Ls From Down Under
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Jason Davis / Getty Candace Owens is back to her normal schedule of minding business that is not her own, this time turning her attention to the COVID-19 policies of Australia of all places. But just as Sen. Ted Cruz recently found out, Aussies are a proud people and they’ve been giving the conservative pundit the business from down under. During a segment on her eponymously named talk program, Owens took a moment to attack the Land Down Under by calling its COVID-19 restrictions “tyranny” and suggesting that the United States invade the nation for reasons we’re still not able to fully determine. Before launching her missive, Owens shared that her husband has family members who shared with him what they’ve endured during the country’s battle w...
Lil Durk & India Royale Squash Rumors of Infidelity With Photo of Passionate Kiss, Twitter Still Suspicious
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Aaron J. Thornton / Getty Lil Durk and India Royale let the world know they are still very much together. The Chicago rapper and popular Instagram model/entrepreneur had to fend off pesky rumors of cheating on social media Thursday (Oct.22). Allegedly, Durk was caught out here cheating on Royale with an unidentified transgender woman. According to the website Parle Magazine, the woman accused Durk of cheating with her and made her case with a series of blurry photos. Durk allegedly posted a photo of himself in the same hallway that can be seen in the pictures and then quickly deleted them, but that gave many enough time to make a “connection.” Fueling the cheating rumors was Durk briefly deleting his Instagram account and India Royale archiving phot...
The NBA’s 75th Anniversary Greatest Players List Has Expected Names, Several Snubs #NBA75
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Michael Reaves / Getty The new NBA season launched this week and much of the celebration of its return was centered around the league’s 75th anniversary, along with a list of the 75 greatest players of all time. While there are some expected names on the list, there have been several snubs and #NBATwitter definitely had something to say. The league has done similar lists before, most famously its 50 all-time greats list that was released on the league’s 50th anniversary. All of the names from the previous list were grandfathered to the current one, with the additional 25 being a mix of names that should’ve been on the first iteration and plenty of snubs abound this time. The complete list can be viewed below: KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR RAY ALLEN GIANNIS AN...
Frank Edwards – Ayamma
Respected Nigerian gospel singer & songwriter releases a new song called “Ayamma” out now. Rock Town Music presents “Ayamma“, a song from its lead music act and award-winning artiste Frank Edwards. The new single is a song of gratitude and thanksgiving for all that God has done. Next time you seek a song to worship and thank God during your quiet time, this might just be the song for you. The production of the song is beautiful and would get you hooked with the chants from Frank. Listen, enjoy Frank Edwards – “Ayamma” & be blessed. https://www.naijamusic.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Frank_Edwards_-_Ayamma_NaijaMusic.com.ng.mp3 Download You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you...
Xenia Rubinos: Una Rosa
Xenia Rubinos didn’t think she’d be able to make music again. After a period of extensive touring and personal hardship, she visited a curandero, who saw in her a “pérdida de espíritu”—loss of spirit. It’s now been five years since her last album, Black Terry Cat, and her third project, Una Rosa, isn’t a neat bookend to the period in between, nor is it a balm or salve. It’s better, truer to the joy and pain of the past that flicker into the present like unwelcome thoughts. In its shades of love and grief, Una Rosa sounds like life as it arrives. It’s also a record steeped in Caribbean texts that have influenced Rubinos’ musicianship, alongside the jazz, hip-hop, and R&B that shaped her first two albums. And it’s her first project to cite its Latin sources so consistently and directly, ...
VOIVOD Completes Recording New Album
Canadian innovative metallers VOIVOD have completed recording their new album at RadicArt studio in Notre-Dame-du-Mont-Carmel, Quebec with producer Francis Perron. The LP, expected for release in 2022 via Century Media Records, is now being mastered at Maor Appelbaum Mastering in Los Angeles. On Thursday (October 21), VOIVOD guitarist Daniel “Chewy” Mongrain shared a few photos from the studio on his Facebook page and he included the following message: “New VOIVOD album is done and at the Mastering with Maor Appelbaum Mastering! “Crazy intense past 4 months of writing demoing recording mixing! “Thanx to the Francis Perron, RadicArt Recording Studio for his total dedication, hard work and passion! Thanx to Lapointe amplification for the amazing guitar tone I go...
SCORPIONS’ New Single, ‘Peacemaker’, Will Now Arrive In Early November
SCORPIONS‘ new single, “Peacemaker”, which was originally scheduled for release on October 21, will now arrive on November 4. “Peacemaker” is the first single from SCORPIONS‘ 19th studio album, “Rock Believer”, which will be issued on February 11, 2022. During the pandemic the band retreated to the studio in their German hometown in Hanover and started working on new songs. “The album was written and recorded in the SCORPIONS DNA with core [Rudolf] Schenker/[Klaus] Meine compositions,” said singer Klaus Meine. “We recorded the album as a band live in one room, like we did in the ’80s.” “Rock Believer” was recorded primarily at Peppermint Park Studios in Hannover, Germany and was mixed at the legendary...
DREAM THEATER’s JAMES LABRIE Addresses JOHN PETRUCCI’s ‘Frustration’ Over Tour Postponement
Last month, progressive metal giants DREAM THEATER announced that they were postponing their previously announced North American tour to early 2022 due to COVID-19 concerns. The trek was scheduled to kick off on October 28 in Mesa, Arizona and conclude on December 14 in St. Petersburg, Florida. In a new interview with The Metal Voice, DREAM THEATER singer James LaBrie spoke about the band’s decision to push back the tour, saying (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “It just came down to how comfortable we were with going out. We were getting kind of mixed messages from promoters and our agencies. Our management was looking into it across the board with people that were out there, tours that were going on, tours that had come down. “When you put together a tour, the amoun...
JOHN 5 Withdraws From YNGWIE MALMSTEEN U.S. Tour ‘Out Of An Abundance Of Caution’
John 5 has pulled out of his previously announced U.S. tour as the support act for legendary Swedish guitarist Yngwie Malmsteen. The trek, also featuring IMAGES OF EDEN and SUNLORD, was slated to kick off on November 16 in Atlanta, Georgia and conclude on December 18 in Houston, Texas. John 5 announced his withdrawal from the tour in a statement posted on social media on Friday (October 20). The former MARILYN MANSON and current ROB ZOMBIE guitarist wrote: “Due to unforeseen circumstances and out of an abundance of caution I am sad to announce that i will no longer be joining Yngwie on the upcoming US tour. “The health concerns for artists and their crew that come with travelling extensively from city to city during this time have meant that myself and my team feel this is the ...
Microsoft and AMD are Giving Away a ‘Halo Infinite’-Themed Radeon RX 6900 XT Graphics Card
To celebrate the upcoming launch of Halo Infinite, Microsoft has now teamed up with the game’s exclusive PC partner AMD to give away several units of the Radeon RX 6900 XT graphics card specially designed as a tribute to the game’s protagonist Master Chief. Drawing inspiration from the legendary Spartan himself, the new GPU comes dressed in a military green shade matching the tone of the Chief’s Mjolnir armor, with gold iridium accents replicating the suit’s reflective visor. Elsewhere on the card you’ll find Halo Infinite branding as well as John’s classic 117 number in white, along with blue illumination as a nod to Cortana. Aside from the special giveaway, Microsoft is also tapping into AMD’s technology to bring ray-tracing into Halo Infinite shortly after its release. Since t...
Caetano Veloso Tells the Story of How His New ‘Meu Coco’ Album ‘Just Happened’
To the rhythm of Márcio Vitor’s percussion and the arrangements by Thiago Amud, names like Luana and Janaína inspired the album’s title track. “It starts with Simone Raimunda from Bahia, a very young and beautiful model I met in the ’60s who now lives in Paris and whose artistic name Luana became very common for baby girls. The other one is Janaína, the daughter of a very famous actress whose name belongs to a goddess of African religion, the goddess of the seas, in Brazil. The curious thing is that the parents never knew the African origin of the names.” On Meu Coco’s first single, “Anjos Tronchos,” Veloso brings out his most risky vein, a tune with rock nuances that provokingly tackles the technological wave and its negative effects, a subject he was somewhat oblivious of. “It...
Here’s Where Genre-Bending Albums From Lil Nas X, Halsey, Miley Cyrus & More Landed for 2022 Grammys
Grammy voters have until Nov. 5 to make their choices. Even before first-round voting for the 64th annual Grammy Awards opened on Friday (Oct. 22), we knew that some albums wouldn’t be in the expected genre categories. Kacey Musgraves’ star-crossed was moved from best country album to best pop vocal album, while Bo Burnham’s Inside (The Songs) was slotted in best compilation soundtrack for visual media, not best comedy album, as had been expected. These were hardly the only albums that wound up on the Grammy ballot in places you might not expect. That’s bound to happen as artists increasingly cross genres. Albums often wind up right on the border between two or more genres. In those cases, the Recording Academy’s screening committee endeavors to put it in the most suitable category. Here a...
