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Inside Track: Labels’ Back-to-Office Plans Include Massages, Mediation, Free Lunch & Concerts
As COVID-19 restrictions ease, music companies are welcoming back employees with a wide range of healthy perks to lessen the stress of returning to the office after two years of working from home. Warner Music Group and publishing arm Warner Chappell offer staffers massages, reiki sessions and even sound baths in their Los Angeles, New York and Nashville offices, as well as complimentary lunches and smoothies. Baristas also man coffee stations to encourage face-to-face conversation and collaboration among returning workers who may have only seen each other over Zoom for months. There is also a full slate of virtual programs ranging from yoga, wellness classes and meditation. WMG’s recorded music division began welcoming staffers back in late February, while the publishing company and corpo...
First Listen: Check Out This Trippy, Ambient Remix First Heard In “Dexter: New Blood”
Dexter‘s Michael C. Hall isn’t a name you’d typically find on EDM.com. But the award-winning actor is also an accomplished musician and the lead vocalist of Princess Goes to the Butterfly Museum, an electronic rock band he fronts alongside keyboardist Matt Katz-Bohen and drummer Peter Yanowitz. The trio have now released a remix of their debut, “Ketamine,” which originally aired during an episode of Dexter: New Blood. The remix was created by Brandon Bost, a prodigious music producer and audio engineer who Hall called “the fourth member of our band” in a statement provided to EDM.com. Take a listen to Bost’s remix below, exclusively via EDM.com. Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles Bost did a remarkable job of capturing the mesmeric, ...
Nicki Minaj and Coi Leray Drop New Track and Music Video “Blick Blick”
Nicki Minaj and Coi Leray have joined forces for their new single “Blick Blick.” On the track, the rap duo delivers back-to-back verses in a high-energy performance. “I’m about to put some Louis seats inside my Lambo,” Minaj raps. “You know you bad when you can pose from any angle.” The new song arrived with an official music video showing the two rappers dropping bars in a bright pink set. The video is cut with shots of Leray dancing in a car yard with a backup crew. On Thursday, ahead of the “Blick Blick” release, Minaj and Leray shared a photo of them wearing pink bob wigs to promote the song. “Pleasure working with you liddle sista,” Minaj said to Leray in the caption. Stream Nicki Minaj and Coi Leray’s “Blick Blick” everywhere now and watch the official music video above. In other mus...
Amber Ali Drops Statement Calling Out Joseline Hernandez & Husband For Alleged Reunion Show Assault
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bryan Steffy / Getty Former Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta star Joseline Hernandez and her husband have found themselves in some trouble following an alleged violent incident during the reunion show for Joseline’s Cabaret. Joseline Hernandez has found reality television greatness again thanks to her hit Zeus Network reality competition show Joseline’s Cabaret. The show follows a bunch of aspiring pole dancing professionals competing against each other to win $10,000 and to be featured in the Hernandez’s Cabaret in Vegas. Clips of the show featuring Hernandez scolding the girls for their behavior or hygiene have gone viral numerous times on Twitter. But, following a reunion show for the recent season, Hernandez and her husband Balistic Beats could be in troub...
Champion Announces Saweetie As First Ever Global Culture Consultant, Launches “Get It Girl” Campaign
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Courtesy of Champion / Champion Saweetie is teaming up with Champion to take over the globe. According to reports, the Icy Queen has been revealed as sportswear brand Champion’s new Global Cultural Consultant in a newly-created role, which finds her starring in the company’s “Get It Girl” campaign, inspired by her song of the same name from HBO’s Insecure. Source: Hannah Lux Davis / Champion Circle The campaign puts a spotlight on 12 female college athletes demonstrating the “confidence to play by their own rules and look good doing it.” Starring alongside Saweetie, the women serve as brand ambassadors for Champion and are also being provided with mentorships. “My relationship with Champion runs deep, as an athlete and lover of streetwear,” Saweetie said ...
Trevor Noah Responds To Kanye West’s “K**n” Remark
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Earlier this week Kanye West was suspended from Instagram for 24 hours for his continued harassment of Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson, but also because he called Daily Show host, Trevor Noah a racial slur, and in the process violating Instagram’s policies on hate speech and bullying. Now Trevor Noah has responded to Kanye’s slander and instead of clapping back with viciousness, Noah empathetically explained why it hurts him to see how far Kanye has fallen over the years. According to the Huffpost, the comedian took the high road in this situation and commented on Ye’s post before it was taken down due to the suspension and in it he poured his heart out about why it hurt to see Ye come for him especially in the racial tone he did. Rel...
Careless Biting: Tory Lanez Hit With Allegations Of Illegal Sampling, Again
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chelsea Guglielmino / Getty Tory Lanez has been hit with another accusation of illegally sampling an ‘80s musical great – this time, after his initial request to do so was denied. According to reports, the estate of the late George Michael has taken action to have a song from the rapper’s Alone At Prom album removed from streaming services, which was inspired by music from the 80s and was widely released last year. The estate claims that “Enchanted Waterfall” interpolated the melody and the chorus from the Wham! hit single “Careless Whisper”, which Michael singer wrote with bandmate Andrew Ridgeley and was released in 1984. In a statement that was sent to Variety, the estate alleges that “requested permission for this use had been declined in June 2021 so...
“Get Your Body Movin” to 3VERYNIGHT’s Groovy Tech House Jam
It’s safe to say the pandemic is in the rearview, and rising house music producer 3VERYNIGHT wants to get everyone back on the dancefloor. His latest single is called “Get Your Body Movin,” and it’s a groovy tech house jam that moonlights as a call-to-action. Driven by a soulful refrain, the kinetic track was designed for clubs and would also fit right into 2022 festival sets. Disco-inspired sound design and quirky plucks run roughshod through the drop, which whips with the four-on-the-floor magnetism of a house anthem from Cloonee or Biscits. But the unquestioned highlight of “Get Your Body Movin” is its thick and thumping bassline, which churns throughout the arrangement. It acts as a bedrock, resolutely chugging through while 3VERYNIGHT...
Claptone Releases Remix Pack for “Feel This Way” Ahead of Huge Masquerade Events
When it comes to writing songs that get dancefloors moving, there’s no one quite like Claptone. On “Feel This Way,” the second track off his album Closer, he yet again demonstrated his songwriting and sound design mastery. With the release of a brand new remix pack, Claptone invited longtime collaborators Andhim and Gettoblaster to breathe new life into the song. “The first time I asked Andhim for a remix was around 2015 for a track on my first album Charmer and I’ve been asking and pushing them ever since,” Claptone said. “I’m very happy that they said yes to remix ‘Feel This Way.’” Gettoblaster takes Claptone’s sophisticated sound and infuses a Detroit underground vibe with a pulsing bass line. “We are so excited abou...
Denzel Curry’s ‘Melt My Eyez See Your Future’ To Feature JPEGMafia, Rico Nasty and More
Denzel Curry has shared the tracklist for his long-awaited album Melt My Eyez See Your Future. Alongside a previously released collaboration with slowthai, entitled “Zatoichi,” the LP packs in guest appearances from Thundercat, T-Pain, Robert Glasper, JPEGMafia, J.I.D, Kenny Beats, Rico Nasty and more. Spanning 14 tracks in total, “Melt Session #1” serves as the lead single and features both guest verses and production from Glasper. JPEGMafia produced “John Wayne,” featuring Buzzy Lee, the stage name of Sasha Spielberg. Later in the album, 6lack, Rico Nasty, JID and Jasiah all appear together on “Ain’t No Way.” “I like traditional hip hop, I like drum and bass, I like trap, I like poetry, so a lot of that is going to be interwoven in this album including jazz and a lot of genres that I cam...
NIGO and Lil Uzi Vert Deliver New Track “Heavy”
BAPE founder NIGO has enlisted Lil Uzi Vert for a new collaborative track, titled “Heavy,” off of his upcoming project I Know NIGO. The track is the fourth to arrive off of NIGO’s forthcoming full-length effort, following “Arya” featuring A$AP Rocky, “Want It Bad” featuring Kid Cudi and “Hear Me Clearly” featuring Pusha T. NIGO previously teased his Lil Uzi Vert collaboration on Instagram with camcorder footage of Uzi playing a beat produced by AXL and speaking to the camera alongside A$AP Rocky. “Pull up in twin Lambos I’m with Bubba like they Chevys,” Uzi raps on the track. “I don’t think that b*tch was ready / Spent five hunnid thousand at starlets, my heart got heavy / Then I thought about it, that money was just so petty.” I KNOW NIGO will arrive as the KENZO creative director’s ...
Oso Oso Surprise Releases New Album Sore Thumb: Listen
Weeks after sharing the single “Pensacola,” Jade Lilitri has surprise released a brand new Oso Oso album: Sore Thumb is out now via Triple Crown. Listen to the follow-up to 2019’s Basking in the Glow below. Lilitri recorded Sore Thumb over the course of one month with his late cousin Tavish Maloney at Billy Mannino’s Two Worlds Recording Studio in Queens, New York. (Mannino engineered, mixed, and produced Oso Oso’s The Yunahon Mixtape.) Maloney died less than a month after the recording, and Lilitri chose to keep the songs mostly intact, other than getting the album mixed by Mike Sapone. “The making of this record is a now a memory of a time that I hold closer to my heart than anything,” Lilitri said in a press release. “Regardless of how I feel about these songs in the years to come, I am...
