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2022 NHL All-Star Game: How to Watch Machine Gun Kelly’s Performance
All products and services featured are independently chosen by editors. However, Billboard may receive a commission on orders placed through its retail links, and the retailer may receive certain auditable data for accounting purposes. Machine Gun Kelly will perform at the 2022 Honda NHL All-Star Game in Las Vegas on Saturday (Feb. 5). The “Emo Girl” rocker will hit the T-Mobile Arena stage during the second intermission, prior to the final game in the three-game tournament. Hosted by Vegas Golden Knights and the city of Las Vegas, the all-star game and event will take place from Feb. 4-5. The festivities include the 2022 Honda NHL All-Star Skills event airing Friday (Feb. 3) at 7:30 p.m. ET on ESPN. Jon Ham as well as hockey legends Paul Coffey and Mark Messier are among the celebrity gue...
Turnpike Troubadours Signs With TMWRK for Management Ahead of 2022 Reunion Tour
Turnpike Troubadours have signed with Andrew McInnes‘ TMWRK for management ahead of the group’s 2022 reunion tour. TMWRK’s Sydney Clark will serve as day-to-day manager for the group, while longtime agent Jon Folk with Red 11 Music in Nashville will continue to book their live performances. McInnes tells Billboard that he and TMWRK senior vp Paddy Scace were introduced to the band by David Macias at Thirty Tigers and that they eventually agreed to manage the six-person group after meeting the members in Oklahoma. He said Scace will manage the band’s touring business, while the staff at TMWRK will work with the group to develop a strategy around their independent record label, Bossier City Records. “They’ve always released their own records, and we excel at that business,” McInnes tell...
Ciara & Her Son ‘Roll’ in Style With Matching Bronco Trucks
Ciara took mother-son matching to the next level on Thursday (Feb. 3) when she shared an adorable video to Instagram showing off their matching rides. In the clip, the singer is smiling for the camera while chilling out the roof of her black Ford Bronco SUV. One-year-old Win Harrison is right next to her in an appropriately sized, mini replica Bronco of his own. Explore Explore Ciara See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “How We Roll,” Ciara captioned the post, giving video credit to her husband Russell Wilson. CiCi and Wilson are also parents to four-year-old daughter Sienna, and seven-year-old Future, whom the “Level Up” singer shares with ex-fiancé Future. Back in November 2021, baby Win stole the show at the White House, when he began crawling acro...
A$AP Rocky and $NOT Pay Tribute to Virgil Abloh in New “Doja” Music Video
A$AP Rocky and $NOT have released a music video for their new song “Doja.” Directed by Hidji and produced by Rocky’s creative agency AWGE, the visual follows the rappers and their friends around New York City, from a tattoo parlor to an underground subway tunnel. As the video closes, the camera pans out to show a mural of the late designer Virgil Abloh painted on the side of a brick apartment building. The track is included on $NOT’s forthcoming LP, Ethereal, which is due for release on February 11 via 300 Entertainment. The project follows $NOT’s 2020 sophomore album, Beautiful Havoc, and also packs in features from Kevin Abstract, Joey Bada$$, Juicy J, Trippie Redd and Teddi Jones. The album cover art also stands out as it sees the rapper in an angelic texture, rocking CGI’s heavenl...
Netflix’s Kanye West Documentary ‘Jeen-Yuhs’ Gets Another Trailer
Netflix has given viewers a closer look at the Kanye West documentary Jeen-Yuhs in a new trailer. Directed by filmmaker duo Coodie and Chike, the first act of the three-part series is scheduled to premiere on Netflix on February 16. The preview consists of a montage of footage from Ye’s early years as a rapper in Chicago. Asked how he would describe the album that he’s currently working on, a young Ye calls it “a breath of fresh air.” “It felt like the bigger Kanye got, the farther we grew apart,” Coodie narrates. “But there was more to Kanye’s story I needed to tell.” Netflix bills Jeen-Yuhs as an inside look into Ye’s path to becoming the influential rapper and tastemaker he’s known as today: Twenty-one years ago, Clarence ‘Coodie’ Simmons met Kanye West and saw something so special that...
$not and A$AP Rocky Share Video for New Song “Doja”: Watch
Florida rapper $not has released a new single with A$AP Rocky. It’s called “Doja,” and, as the title suggests, has references to Doja Cat. The video, directed by Hidji and produced by Rocky’s creative agency AWGE, closes with a tribute to the late Virgil Abloh. Watch below. “Doja” is taken from $not’s forthcoming album Ethereal, due out February 11 via 300 Entertainment. In addition to Rocky, the full-length includes features from Kevin Abstract, Joey Bada$$, Juicy J, Trippie Redd, and Teddi Jones. Ethereal follows $not’s 2020 record Beautiful Havoc. A$AP Rocky issued Testing in 2018. Last week, the Harlem rapper joined Nigo for the track “Arya.” And, earlier this week, it was revealed that his girlfriend Rihanna is pregnant. Revisit Pitchfork’s “The Best Music Videos of 2018,” featuring A...
Thurston Moore Announces Instrumental Album, Shares New Songs: Listen
Thurston Moore is releasing an album of instrumental tracks that he recorded during the summer of 2020. The record, titled Screen Time, is out digitally on February 25 via Southern Lord. Below, listen to two new songs from the album: “The Station” and “The Walk.” Lasse Marhaug mastered Screen Time for Southern Lord. The full-length follows Moore’s 2020 LP By the Fire. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Screen Time: 01 The Station02 The Town03 The Home04 The View05 The Neighbour06 The Walk07 The Upstairs08 The Dream09 The Parkbench10 The Realisation All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, ...
Conway the Machine, Benny the Butcher, and Westside Gunn Share New Song “John Woo Flick”: Listen
Conway the Machine has shared a new song, “John Woo Flick.” Featuring his fellow Griselda members Benny the Butcher and Westside Gunn, the title pays homage to the legendary Hong Kong action movie director. It’s a single from the Buffalo rapper’s new album God Don’t Make Mistakes, due out February 25. Check out the new track below. God Don’t Make Mistakes will feature Conway the Machine’s Alchemist-assisted single “Piano Love” and a sprawling roster of guests, including Lil Wayne, Rick Ross, Jill Scott, Beanie Sigel, and more. The album will be Conway the Machine’s full-length debut on Shady Records. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Kanye West Documentary Jeen-Yuhs Gets New Trailer: Watch
Netflix has shared a new trailer for the Kanye West documentary Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy. The first installment of the film premiered during Sundance’s virtual festival last month, and it’s slated to hit nationwide theaters Thursday (February 10). Act 1 will stream on Netflix February 16. Check out the new trailer below. Jeen-Yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy is directed by Clarence “Coodie” Simmons and Chike Ozah (aka Coodie & Chike), who worked with West (now legally known as Ye) on his “Through the Wire” visual, as well as the third version of the “Jesus Walks” video. The film has been in the making for over two decades. Prior to its Sundance premiere, Ye asked for “final edit and approval” on the documentary via Instagram. The directors later told Variety that West was not given final cut. R...
End-To-End Burners: MTA Reports Sharp Rise In Graffiti On NYC Subway Trains
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Hulton Archive / Getty With all of the media hype claiming that New York City is heading back to its past when it comes to crime, according to the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, graffiti has already made a significant comeback on its subway trains. In a recent article from the New York Daily News, there’s a resurgence in graffiti appearing on the city’s subway trains, powered by a new generation of taggers and their crews. For those MTA workers in train yards throughout the city, the sight reminds them of that time period in the 1970s and 1980s where elaborate murals decorated every running train. One caveat? These new graffiti writers are working much faster. “It’s coming back strong,” said a veteran transit worker who opted to remain anonymous t...
Nicki Minaj Drops Visuals For Lil Baby Featured “Do We Have A Problem?”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @PhotosByBeanz / @PhotosByBeanz After weeks of anticipation, Nicki Minaj finally dropped her highly anticipated record with Lil Baby, “Do We Have A Problem?” and even dropped a new visual to go along with the cut. Featuring Joseph Sikora (Tommy from Power), the visuals find Nicki as Agent Barbs interrogating a hitman who seems to have history with Nicki before he spills the beans on the location she’s been looking for. Going undercover at an illegal auction, Nicki runs into a Lil Baby who’s there to bid on some ill gotten items before she set’s it off and pulls out the toast on a bunch of uppity white folk breaking the law. Ultimately she makes off with Lil Baby to Cuba and reveals herself to be a double-agent. Bell Biv DeVoe always said never trust a big...
Black Man Amir Locke Shot And Killed In Raid By Minneapolis Police
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kent Nishimura / Getty The case of Amir Locke, a Black man shot and killed by Minneapolis police in a dawn raid, is rapidly gaining national attention as another example of reckless behavior by law enforcement in a city still dealing with the aftermath of the murder of George Floyd. Locke, a twenty-two-year-old Black man, was asleep on the couch in an apartment in the Balero Flats building downtown on Wednesday morning (February 2nd) in Minneapolis. According to a statement released by the department, police entered the apartment at 6:48 A.M. acting on a search warrant on three apartments in the building. In a follow-up press conference held later that day, interim police chief Amelia Huffman asserted that the officers “loudly and repeatedly announced ‘po...
