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This LEGO Artist Recreates Iconic Album Covers From Daft Punk, deadmau5, The Prodigy, More
Adnan Lotia is immortalizing the world’s most iconic albums using everyone’s favorite colorful bricks. Lotia is living out a kid’s wildest dream by making masterful designs using LEGOs alone. He began by sharing his impressive LEGO designs of industrial robots and exotic cars, but once he pivoted towards re-creating album art in LEGO form, things really began to take off. It all started with Pink Floyd’s iconic The Dark Side Of The Moon. Lotia considered whether the album cover’s triangular prism and beaming rainbow lights could be recreated using the popular toy. Turns out it could, but he would need to use a specialized software, BrickLink Studio to get the job done. In just 25 weeks Lotia has amassed a collection of over 100...
TikTok Enters NFT Arena With Creator-Led Collections From Grimes, Lil Nas X, More
Your favorite TikTok creators’ videos might soon have a price tag attached. TikTok is opening its arms to the NFT movement with its new TikTok Top Moments initiative, which will see popular creators minting NFTs for auction featuring some of the most recognizable and sharable moments to happen on the platform thus far. According to a press release issued by TikTok, the company sees NFTs as an untapped growth vector in its ongoing efforts to help drive content monetization for creators. The first drop, consisting of six unique one-of-one NFTs, will allow users the potential to buy a historical TikTok moment. One example is Rudy Willingham’s stop-motion cutout video featuring a dancing Lil Nas X. Willingham was tasked with creating 81 unique cutouts—one per frame—in o...
“Nirvana Reimagined As House & Techno” Album Highlights Kurt Cobain’s Support for LGBTQ+ Causes
Previously, imagining what Nirvana would sound like as a dance music act was only a pie-in-the-sky thought, but today producers Jonathan Hay, Cain McKnight, and 41X have made the concept a reality. Their collaborative album, Nirvana Reimagined As House & Techno is not only a musical tribute to Kurt Cobain’s musical legacy, but also a tribute to his social and cultural impact. The inspiration for this seemingly outlandish idea is rooted in the artists’ desire to highlight Cobain’s fervent advocacy for LGBTQ+ rights. Given the vital role the queer community played in facilitating the rise of dance music culture, the producers felt that reimagining the musical world of Nirvana in an electronic music context would be an engaging way to highlight this infrequentl...
Electronic Music Artists Pay Tribute to Cookie Monsta on One-Year Anniversary of Tragic Death
A year ago today, the world said goodbye to one of the foremost thinkers in dubstep. Cookie Monsta‘s label, Circus Records, shocked the dance music community at large with the tragic news that the 31-year-old producer had passed away suddenly. Now, a year later, the scene continues to mourn the renowned bass music producer’s absence, while appreciating the legacy he left behind with his music. Cookie Monsta was nearly in on the ground floor of Circus Records, one of the most impactful imprints which would dramatically shape the trajectory of modern dubstep. The label’s co-founder Doctor P didn’t have to wait long to realize taking a chance on Cookie was one of the best business decisions he could have made. His debut record on the label, Ginger Pubes...
David Lee Roth Says He’s Retiring After Las Vegas Shows in Early 2022: ‘I’m Throwing in the Shoes’
The iconic frontman added, “I’m not going to explain the statement. The explanation is in a safe. These are my last five shows.” Billboard has reached out to Roth’s representatives for further comment. Roth is scheduled to perform at House of Blues in Las Vegas between Dec. 31 and Jan. 8, 2022. Tickets are currently on sale. After leaving Van Halen, Roth was one of the highest profile rock stars of the mid 1980s. At the second annual MTV Video Music Awards in 1985, he had two of the five nominees for video of the year — “California Girls” and “Just a Gigolo”/”I Ain’t Got Nobody.” (The award went to Don Henley’s “The Boys of Summer.”) During the interview, Roth also reflected on the passing of his form...
Britney Spears Says She Has ‘A Lot of Healing to Do’ After Dad’s Suspension as Her Conservator
Earlier in the week, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny agreed with a petition from Spears and her attorney that Jamie Spears needed to give up his role as conservator. The decision comes months after the 39-year-old singer pleaded for her father’s removal in dramatic court hearings. Spears has been actively celebrating the decision on social media, recently sharing NSFW photos from a tropical vacation with her fiancé Sam Asghari. On Thursday, she took to Instagram to share a series of posts, including videos and photos of her topless or fully nude on her beach vacation. “A beautiful day here in paradise celebrating!!!!!!” Britney captioned a video set to Prince and the New Power Generation’s sexy 1991 Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Cream.” In the cli...
Producer Frank Marshall on Why ‘Diana: The Musical’ Opened on Netflix Before Broadway
Before long, Marshall and his collaborators got restless. He recalls, “It seemed to me, as a movie producer, we’ve got the sets, and we’ve got the cast ready to go — everything was kind of in place at the theater. And it had just been announced that Hamilton [the filmed version for Disney+] had been moved up a year. I thought, ‘Maybe we could try to do this ourselves.’ So Beth [Williams, one of Marshall’s Broadway partners] and I called [Come from Away Tony winner] Chris Ashley, our director, and he said, ‘I’m in.’ And then I called Netflix.” The streamer signed on, and then it was up to Marshall and his team to carry out a safe shoot. As it turned out, his work as a producer of major motion pictures helped him to prepare. “At that same time,” he says, “we were trying to get Jurassic...
This Is What Harry Styles’ ‘Watermelon Sugar’ Is About
Styles shared that “Watermelon Sugar” tidbit while starting to sing the Grammy-winning, chart-topping track from Fine Line with the audience’s help. “Watermelon Sugar” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2020, becoming Styles’ first song to do so. Previously, when asked about the song’s sensual undertones — Apple Music’s Zane Lowe once made a reference to “the joys of mutually appreciated oral pleasure” — Styles had simply responded, “Is that what it’s about? I don’t know.” His rescheduled Love on Tour trek has been one brimming with live music and memorable moments — like the time he helped a pregnant fan reveal the sex of her baby in front of the crowd earlier this week, and the time h...
David Lee Roth Announces Retirement: ‘I Am Throwing in the Shoes’
David Lee Roth is retiring. The lauded showman revealed the news during a conversation with the Las Vegas Review-Journal that the outlet described as “more a spoken-word performance than interview.” “I am throwing in the shoes. I’m retiring,” he said. “This is the first, and only, official announcement. … You’ve got the news. Share it with the world.” Roth is ending his 50-year career with five shows at House of Blues in Las Vegas’ Mandalay Bay on Dec. 31, Jan. 1, Jan. 5 and Jan. 7-8. “I’m not going to explain the statement,” he added. “The explanation is in a safe. These are my last five shows.” Elsewhere in the interview, the singer said he’s been thinking about “the departure of my beloved classmate recently,” referring to the death of his Van Halen bandmate Eddie Van Halen, ...
Savatage Frontman Jon Oliva Arrested for Cocaine Possession and DUI
Savatage and Trans-Siberian Orchestra frontman Jon Oliva was arrested this week and charged with driving under the influence and felony possession of cocaine. According to a Florida Highway Patrol arrest report, police and EMS responded to a single vehicle crash on US Highway 41 shortly before 1:00 a.m. local time on Thursday, September 30th, in Pasco County, Florida. Witnesses told police that Oliva’s pickup truck had swerved into the wrong lane before driving off the road and striking a tree. The force of the crash ripped off the truck’s passenger side door. Upon searching the vehicle, officers found empty vodka bottles and a clear bag of cocaine. A second bag of cocaine was found in a bag belonging to Oliva. Advertisement Related Video Oliva was treated at the scene by paramedics, but a...
Austin City Limits 2021 Day 1 Live Gallery: Machine Gun Kelly, George Strait, Black Pumas and More
Austin City Limits returned to Zilker Park in Austin, TX on Friday, October 1st after a year off due to the pandemic. Consequence will be on the ground all weekend, soaking up the early fall sunshine and good tunes. Check out our visual recap of Day 1, which featured sets from Machine Gun Kelly, George Strait, Black Pumas Finneas, recent Artist of the Month Tkay Maidza, Skip Marley and many more, below. Advertisement Related Video Share this: 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 back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Halle Bailey Performs “Can You Feel The Love Tonight” At Disney World’s 50th Anniversary
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Rich Fury / Getty Halle Bailey is just 21 but already, she is considered one of the top vocalists of her generation alongside her big sister, Chloe Bailey. After performing a moving rendition of “Can You Feel The Love Tonight” song at Disney World’s 50th anniversary special, fans on Twitter are singing Halle’s praises at the moment. Bailey, who is set to play the lead role of Ariel in Disney’s live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid, sang one of the standout songs from the classic 1994 film, The Lion King. Some might not know but the singer who vocalized the original song was Kristle Edwards, a Black gospel vocalist and the smash hit was composed by Elton John with lyrics from Tim Rice. The song won an Academy Award in 1995 for Best Original So...
