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Red Bull BC One World Finals Makes Triumphant Return To New York #RedBullBCOne
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Red Bull BC One / Red Bull Red Bull BC One, the global breaking competition series, will make its way back to the birthplace of Hip-Hop, New York City, this coming fall. Some of the world’s best b-boys and b-girls will converge in Big Apple at the 19th Red Bull BC One Finals, paving way for the glory of the gold at the end. Hip-Hop Wired had the honor of covering the U.S. Red Bull BC One World Finals in 2021, and we’re excited to share with readers that the competition is coming back to the city where breaking was born and refined. Red Bull BC One will host over 60 qualifier events across 30 countries, with winners of the respective competitions earning entry into the World Red Bull BC One Finals. Source: Red Bull BC One / Red Bull Last year, the World Fi...
Grammys 2022 Performers Announced: Billie Eilish, BTS, Lil Nas X, Olivia Rodrigo, and More
The first batch of performers for this years Grammys has been announced, Variety notes. Billie Eilish, BTS, Lil Nas X with Jack Harlow, Olivia Rodrigo, and Brandi Carlile are set to perform at the event, which takes place at the MGM Grand Arena in Las Vegas on April 3. The event airs live at 8 p.m. Eastern on CBS and livestreams on Paramount+, where it will remain available on demand. Trevor Noah will once again host the show. Jon Batiste is the most nominated artist, with 11 nods, followed by Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, Justin Bieber, and H.E.R. receiving eight each. Read “6 Takeaways from the 2022 Grammy Nominations,” check out all the nominees, and follow all of Pitchfork’s Grammys coverage. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Mike Mora, Kelis’ Husband, Dies at 37
Mike Mora, the photographer who married Kelis in 2014, has died of stomach cancer, a representative for the singer confirmed to Pitchfork. In a statement to Entertainment Tonight, Steve Satterhwaite of Red Light Management said, “Sadly, it’s true that Mike Mora has passed away. We would ask all to respect Kelis and her family’s privacy as of right now. Thank you.” Mike Mora was 37 years old. After marrying in 2014, Kelis and Mike Mora welcomed their son Shepherd in November 2015. Nearly five years later, in September 2020, Kelis announced the birth of her second child with Mora. A year after his daughter was born, Mora publicly revealed his cancer diagnosis. In the summer of 2020, Kelis and Mora sold their Los Angeles home and moved to a farm outside the city, as revealed in a Harper’s Baz...
Mavis Staples Announces Album With Levon Helm, Shares New Video: Watch
Mavis Staples has announced Carry Me Home, a new album of live music recorded with the Band’s Levon Helm in Woodstock, New York in 2011. It’s due out May 20 via Anti-. Check out a performance of “You Got to Move” below. Carry Me Home was recorded at Helm’s studio and it’s among Helm’s final recordings. The album captures the pair’s last-ever performance together, too, as Helm died in April 2012 at the age of 71. In a statement, Staples said: It never crossed my mind that it might be the last time we’d see each other. He was so full of life and so happy that week. He was the same old Levon I’d always known, just a beautiful spirit inside and out. Last year Staples, featured prominently in Questlove’s Summer of Soul documentary, which focused on the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival; Staples per...
Muna Announce New Album on Phoebe Bridgers’ Label, Share Video for New Song: Watch
Muna have announced their self-titled new album. It’s out June 24 via Phoebe Bridgers’ label Saddest Factory Records. The album includes the Bridgers-featuring single “Silk Chiffon,” and today, Muna have shared a new single called “Anything But Me.” The band has also announced a North American tour. Find those dates and watch the video for their new song below. “In the past we’ve stayed in relationships for a long time, waiting until we hit low lows to admit it was over,” the band said in a statement. “‘Anything But Me’ is a song about leaving a partnership simply because it doesn’t feel right. It’s about trusting yourself and your instincts enough to walk away from someone while you still have love for each other and before it gets too bad.” All products featured on Pitchfork are independ...
Five Burning Questions: Camila Cabello and Ed Sheeran’s ‘Bam Bam’ Debuts at No. 23
Camila Cabello ended the 2010s with a pair of Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit singles and a Billboard 200 albums chart-topping debut LP, one of the most promising solo breakout stories of the decade. It’s been success she’s had a little trouble matching a couple years into the 2020s — but the trend may be reversing with the release of her latest single, the Ed Sheeran-featuring “Bam Bam.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news With a tear-stained music video and lyrics seemingly addressing her breakup with fellow pop star Shawn Mendes, “Bam Bam” nonetheless rides an umptempo, salsa-inflected acoustic groove — and has proven a pretty easy sell on radio and streaming, rising to No. 22 on Billboard‘s Pop Airplay chart and debuting at No. 13 on Streaming Song...
Makin’ Tracks: Michael Ray Delivers a Classic Story Song With the Swampy ‘Holy Water’
When the video for Michael Ray’s “Holy Water” debuts March 16, some of the footage will take viewers to the Cassia Baptist Church — a little white house of worship in Eustis, Fla., that the singer attended three times a week during his youth. The preacher’s goal on many a Sunday is to define the line between right and wrong, though in practice, it’s not always so easy. That gray area in between is fertile ground for drama, and that’s a big reason that Ray recorded “Holy Water” in the first place. Explore See latest videos, charts and news “That’s what I love about the story,” he says. “It’s like a movie in your ears.” A short movie, though: The typical film lasts around two hours, while the action in “Holy Water” takes place in a scant three-and-a-half minutes, exploring a man of the cloth...
Kelly Clarkson Gets ‘Nostalgic’ With New Performance of an Old Song: Watch
Kellyoke is typically a place for Kelly Clarkson to pay tribute to other artists, but in the Tuesday (March 15) installment of The Kelly Clarkson Show‘s live music cover series, she dusted off one of her own songs. Throwing her audience back to 2015, the three-time Grammy winner took the stage with her band Y’all for a sentimental performance of her fittingly titled seven-year-old track “Nostalgic.” Though Clarkson usually adapts hit songs from all generations to fit her signature power vocals, singing an original track meant opportunities for belted riffs and sustained high notes were already built in — opportunities she took with a graceful power only Kelly Clarkson could deliver. Explore See latest videos, charts and news And though this was a rare instance of the “Stronger” s...
‘Phoenix Rising’ Doc Offers Harrowing Look at Evan Rachel Wood Abuse Allegations Against Marilyn Manson
[Trigger warning: this article contains descriptions of domestic violence, as well as sexual and physical abuse.] Sometimes the film you set out to make is not the one you end up with. That’s the case with director Amy Berg’s intense two-part HBO documentary Phoenix Rising. The veteran filmmaker originally set out to document actress Evan Rachel Wood’s successful drive to lengthen the statute of limitations for domestic violence felonies in California from three to five years. As Wood was fighting for the Phoenix Act — which was signed into law in 2019 — Berg realized that any potential film would have to delve into Wood’s allegations against her former fiancé/boyfriend, shock rocker Marilyn Manson (born Brian Warner). That story makes up much of the first part (“Don’t Fall”) of the nearly...
Migos, Jack Harlow and More To Headline 2022 Life Is Beautiful Festival
Las Vegas’ three-day music festival Life Is Beautiful has revealed its 2022 lineup, with headliners including Jack Harlow, Migos, Lorde, Gorillaz, Kygo, Arctic Monkeys, Calvin Harris, Cage the Elephant and Beach House. Elsewhere at the festival, which is scheduled to take place from September 16 to September 18, Isaiah Rashad, Young Nudy, Coi Leray, Rico Nasty, Big Boi, JPEGMafia, Charli XCX, Gryffin, Alison Wonderland, Oliver Tree, Big Boi, Alessia Cara and several others are slated to perform, with more acts expected to be added. This year’s festival will mark the second iteration of Life Is Beautiful since the onset of COVID-19, following the event’s triumphant return last year. “We believe in the power and connection that comes with live experiences and we’re thrill...
Tiësto and Ava Max Launch Global Search for the Best Remix of “The Motto”
Music producers, let’s get down to business. Tiësto and Ava Max are opening up “The Motto” to remix treatment, and awarding one artist a career-launching grand prize. Part of “The Motto Global Remix Challenge,” the stakes are astronomical as the contest’s top honor includes an official remix release on Atlantic Records. On top of that, the combined forces of Loopcloud, LabelRadar, Spinnin’ Records, and Musical Freedom have assembled to give away $10,000 in production gear and access to software tools such as Arturia plugins, Beatport LINK, Loopcloud Pro, and Reason. Three runners-up will receive promotion on their remixes from Beatport while also taking home “The Next Beat” controller, a DJ performance tool developed in partn...
Programmer Creates One-of-a-Kind Daft Punk “Word Clock”
It’s incredible to think about how one of the most impactful electronic songs in history, “Harder Better Faster Stronger,” only has 18 unique words. It was a discovery made by Daft Punk fan Ben Combee, who says the realization of the song’s catchy simplicity inspired him to create a one-of-a-kind piece built around the legendary robots’ generational dance anthem. Combee created an art display similar to a word clock, a device capable of playing back the song’s audio while lighting up the appropriate lyrics with perfect timing. Combee explained that all the lyrics were able to be fit in a 12×7 combination matrix after duplicate lyrics were excluded. Then, he programmed a series of cue points tagged to specific timestamps in the track s...
