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Jana Rush Announces New Mini-Album Dark Humor, Shares New Song “Lonely”: Listen
Chicago footwork producer Jana Rush has announced a new mini-album called Dark Humor. It’s due out March 25 via Planet Mu. She’s celebrating the news by sharing the lead single, “Lonely,” which features DJ Paypal. Check that out below. Accompanying “Lonely” is a music video directed by Wills Glasspiegel (who has also contributed to Pitchfork). Filmed on the labyrinthian roads of Chicago’s Lower Wacker Drive last year, the clip overlaps shots of dancers stepping in slow motion, trading places along the river, and sprinting up steps at night. Dark Humor follows Rush’s full-length album Painful Enlightenment from last year, released just a few years after the veteran producer’s long-awaited debut LP, Pariah, in 2017. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Dark...
Nick Cave and Warren Ellis Doc This Much I Know to Be True Gets First Trailer: Watch
A new documentary on the creative partnership between Nick Cave and Warren Ellis premieres at Berlin Film Festival this month, and the first trailer is out today, as Deadline notes. Check it out below. This Much I Know to Be True, which documents Cave’s Ghosteen (with the Bad Seeds) and Carnage (with Ellis), is directed by the musicians’ Australian compatriot Andrew Dominik, who enlisted the duo to score his 2007 movie The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford and later shot the documentary One More Time With Feeling. The film, due for U.S. release later this year, is “a portrait of the lives of all of us as we move from innocence to experience, attune to the world and its attendant loss, and eventually confront our own mortality,” according to press materials quoted by De...
Circuit des Yeux Announces Tour, Shares New Song: Listen
Circuit des Yeux has announced a lengthy 2022 tour that brings her across North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom this spring. To coincide with the news, she also released a new song called “The Manatee (A Story of This World Pt. III)” that was recorded during the same sessions as her 2021 album -io. Give it a listen below. “At 4:30 A.M. on February 4th, 2020 a manatee popped out of the sea and stared directly at me. It was a charged 10 seconds. The experience stuck with me so much that I wrote a song about it,” explained Circuit des Yeux’s Haley Fohr. “The music video, directed by Rudy Rubio, is a depiction of my own kind of manatee. I play a wet sea creature trying to make it work in a dry-land society… The manatee is my reminder that intuition and two legs might be all a person ne...
Flume Drops Trippy “Say Nothing” Visual Featuring MAY-A
Flume has dropped off a new music video for his latest track “Say Nothing” featuring MAY-A, which arrives as the lead single from the Australian electronic artist’s forthcoming third album, Palaces. The visual sees Flume donning a bleach-blonde hairstyle and posing on motorcycles, while MAY-A becomes submerged in black sand between several psychedelic shots. “Say Nothing” marks Flume’s first release since Quits and Hi This Is Flume, both of which debuted in 2019. “This song is about feelings of post-relationship clarity,” Flume said in a statement. “We wrote the song midway through 2020 while the pandemic was still pretty new. I was really excited about the initial idea but it was only once I got back to Australia in early 2021 and linked up in the studio with MAY-A that the...
Wiz Khalifa “Wiz Got Wings,” Method Man “The Last 2 Minutes” & More | Daily Visuals 2.2.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Rick Ross may have a Wing Stop franchise, but apparently Wiz Khalifa got wings in general and that’s good enough to keep him happy and high. At least that the general consensus that we get in Khalifa’s visuals for “Wiz Got Wings” in which the rapper with the Muay Thai martial arts skills blazes some KK and stands in front of his exotic car while kicking his bars. Sometimes simplicity is the way to go. Just sayin. Back in Shaolin, Method Man keeps the Wu-Tang flag waving high and in his clip to “The Last 2 Minutes” takes over a bar with a gang of goons sporting Purge inspired masks to let y’all know they ready for all the ride-or-die smoke. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Philthy Rich, BIG30, and more. WIZ KHALIFA – “WIZ GOT WINGS” [embedde...
History Is A Choice: Kanye West Wants To Rebrand Black History Month As ‘Black Future Month’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Mike Coppola / Getty Kanye West wants to rebrand Black History Month, and he declared it via Instagram on the first day of February. “February is now Black Future Month,” Kanye posted along with the #BFM hashtag his stans are sure to get trending. As HypeBeast pointed out, Yeezus first proposed making “Black Future Month” a thing in November last year during an appearance on N.O.R.E. & DJ EFN’s Drink Champs show. “I’m tired of seeing us getting hosed-down. I’m tired of talking about slavery,” he said. So, a couple things: First, Ye really should be “tired of talking about slavery” after his loud, wrong and largely ahistorical comments about slavery being a choice. He should also keep slavery and Black history all the way out o...
Four Charged After Michael K. Williams Overdose
Four men face charges that they were members of the drug distribution crew that supplied a deadly mix of narcotics to Michael K. Williams, the renowned actor from The Wire who overdosed just hours after buying fentanyl-laced heroin in a deal recorded on security camera video. The man seen on camera handing Williams the drugs on a Brooklyn sidewalk, Irvin Cartagena, was charged with directly causing the actor’s death, authorities said. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Williams’ death was investigated by the New York City police department, but the charges were brought by federal prosecutors in Manhattan, who revealed that the suspects had been under surveillance even before the actor’s fatal overdose last September. It was a sting that bore a striking resemblance to the kind ...
John Legend Dives Into NFTs With Our Happy Company’s ‘OurSong’ Platform
John Legend, the great-allrounder who has already completed an EGOT, the youngest person to do so, is spreading his wings into NFTs. The R&B star is named co-founder and chief impact officer at Our Happy Company, which today (Feb. 2) launches OurSong, its social NFT platform. With Legend in his dual-capacity, Our Happy Company has ambitions for OurSong to “build a better system for creators to be discovered, monetize their work, and engage with fans through NFTs,” reads a statement. The new platform is meant to appeal to those of us who don’t possess a degree in computer science, or have, at the very least, a lifelong tech habit. One of its points of difference is ease of use, for artists and consumers. OurSong users don’t need to hold a separate cryptocurrency wallet outside the...
Sony Creating Joint Venture In India For Film and Music Ventures
Sony Group is leveraging its music and movie entertainment divisions to create a joint company focused on developing investment ventures for media talent in India. The new venture, to be named Sony Entertainment Talent Ventures India (SETVI), will draw from a “vast pool of commercial talent and star-power in India to build investment opportunities, partnerships, metaverse solutions and more,” the company says in a press release. Sony Music Entertainment is already a leading record label in India, with a strong presence in Bollywood and Tamil OST, across multiple genres that include national and regional pop. Sony Pictures Entertainment includes Sony Pictures Networks, a broadcast division with over 700 million viewers from 170 million households in 8,000 cities across India; Sony Pictures ...
Worldwide Independent Network Appoints Maria Amato as Chair
Maria Amato, CEO of the Australian Independent Record Labels Assn. (AIR), is appointed chair of Worldwide Independent Network (WIN), the organization that brings together local independent music trade bodies across the globe. Based in Melbourne, Amato becomes WIN’s first female chair and the organization’s first from the southern hemisphere. Amato is one of several new changes to the board of WIN for 2022. She’s joined by new directors Jeffrey Chiang (Fluxus Inc./LIAK, South Korea), Paul Pacifico (AIM, U.K.) and Sandra Rodrigues (ABMI, Brazil), who replace outgoing directors Carlos Mills (ABMI, Brazil), Chan Kim (Fluxus Inc,/LIAK, South Korea), and Kees van Weijen (IMPALA, Europe). “Today’s news marks the first time that WIN has been chaired both by a woman, and by someone from outside Eur...
Röyksopp Announce New “Conceptual Project” Profound Mysteries
Röyksopp have announced their new conceptual project Profound Mysteries with a new “installment” called “Impossible” (featuring Alison Goldfrapp). It’s paired with a new “artifact and visualizer” designed by Australian artist Jonathan Zawada. Profound Mysteries is available in full on April 29. Check out “Impossible” below. “Impossible” follows two previously released Profound Mysteries installments. Röyksopp dropped the short film “(Nothing But) Ashes…” on New Year’s Day, later sharing “The Ladder” alongside a short film by Kasper Häggström. Alison Goldfrapp is “the first human voice“ featured on Profound Mysteries. Of the collaboration, Goldfrapp said in a statement: It’s been great working with the wonderful Svein [Berge] & Torbjørn [Brundtland] from Röyksopp. I’ve been a ...
Musicians Criticize HitPiece Website That Appears to Sell Unauthorized NFTs
A number of musicians and record labels have expressed anger over a company called HitPiece, which has listed single and album artwork as non-fungible tokens (NFTs). The allegations began to circulate on social media yesterday and have been reported by Mashable’s Amanda Yeo. Artists like Amber Coffman, Ted Leo, Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis, and many others have taken to social media stating that they had no part in their songs being listed as NFTs on HitPiece. Dupuis, who has written multiple posts on Twitter decrying the website, stated: “hey you stupid fucks @joinhitpiece, we don’t have any deal with you or any NFT site and there SURE DOES LOOK like an active auction going on for a Speedy Ortiz song.” Leo posted a photo of HitPiece’s listing for an NFT of the Pharmacists’ song “Come Baby ...
