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Calexico Announce New Album El Mirador, Share Video for New Song: Watch
Calexico have announced their new album El Mirador with a video for its title track. The record is due out April 8 via Anti-. Check out the video for “El Mirador” below. In a statement, Calexico’s Joey Burns said of the new album: El Mirador is dedicated to family, friends and community. The pandemic highlighted all the ways we need each other, and music happens to be my way of building bridges and encouraging inclusiveness and positivity. That comes along with sadness and melancholy, but music sparks change and movement. In 2019, Calexico shared Years to Burn, the follow-up to their 2005 Iron & Wine collaboration In the Reins. The two groups scheduled a tour with Andrew Bird for summer 2020 before the pandemic forced its postponement. All products featured on Pitchfork are independent...
Mickey Guyton to Sing National Anthem at Super Bowl 2022
Mickey Guyton will sing “The Star Spangled Banner” at this year’s Super Bowl LVI, ahead of a halftime show that features Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, and Eminem. She confirmed the news with a tweet on Tuesday (February 1), writing, “I am shook, I am grateful, I am praise dancing.” The event airs at 6:30 p.m. Eastern on February 13 on NBC, with the Los Angeles Rams facing off against the Cincinnati Bengals. Watch a 2021 Guyton performance of the national anthem below. As Rolling Stone notes, Guyton has said that watching LeAnn Rimes perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” before a baseball game was a significant inspiration behind her own decision to pursue country music. The singer-songwriter released her debut full-length, Remember Her Name, last year. The record is up f...
My Idea (Lily Konigsberg and Nate Amos) Announce Debut LP, Share New Video: Watch
Palberta’s Lily Konigsberg and Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos have announced Cry Mfer—their debut album as My Idea—with a video for the title track. It’s due out April 22 via Hardly Art. Check out the video for “Cry Mfer” below. Konigsberg and Amos have said the album represents their “collective breaking point,” and that they each decided to quit drinking after recording it. “In the moment I thought I was needing a big life change and shift, like I had been stuck in something, and I was right, I just went about it in a very wrong way,” Konigsberg said in a statement. “And now the thing that I’m needing, I’m getting, actually, which is through being sober and getting my life together. I was telling myself a lot of stuff through those lyrics that was subconscious. I thought I was talking t...
Khruangbin Announce Spring 2022 U.S. Tour
Khruangbin have announced a new stretch of springtime tour dates. Toro y Moi and Men I Trust will join them on different legs the U.S. tour, which begins in late April and wraps in mid-July. See the full list of dates below. Khruangbin’s next release is another EP with Leon Bridges, who joined them for 2020’s Texas Sun EP. It’s titled B-Sid, and it’s out February 18. After Texas Sun, the band released its third full-length album Mordechai. Khruangbin issued the mixtape project Late Night Tales at the end of 2020. All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Khruangbin: Space Walk Tour 2022 Khruangbin: 04-29 Cincinnati, OH – Andrew J Brady Music Center ^04-30...
Missy Elliott Officially Has The Most Platinum Records Amongst All Female Rappers
Missy Elliott now has the highest number of platinum records amongst all female rappers. Chart Data announced that all six of the hip-hop legend’s studio albums are certified platinum or higher, as her 2005 record — and her latest album so far — The Cookbook sold over one million units in late January. Elliott acknowledged the feat on Twitter and shared her support to all her “sisters in hip-hop” to continue their work. “This is a HUGE MILESTONE! No matter how long it took to get here I am here & I AM HUMBLY GRATEFUL,” she tweeted. “To all my SISTERS in HIP HOP y’all keep doing y’all thang & SHINING.” Over the past two years, Elliott has been given major awards for her influential and decade-spanning career. In 2019, she became the first female rapper to be inducted into the Songwr...
Tomorrowland Confirms Three Festival Weekends In 2022: Details
The world’s biggest electronic dance music festival just got a little bigger. In an effort to make up for lost time after a tumultuous string of cancellations contrived by the impact of the pandemic, the organizers of Tomorrowland have confirmed an unprecedented three 2022 events. The fabled Belgian fest is now set for three consecutive weekends in the month of July: July 15-17, July 22-24 and July 29-31. The lineup for each will be announced soon, according to a press release shared with EDM.com. Tomorrowland. Anosov1505/Wikimedia Commons Recommended Articles Rumors of the expansion began to gain steam as early as September 2021, when Tomorrowland spokesperson Debby Wilmsen said the festival had to “cushion the financial hangover” of the successive postponements. After B...
DJ Premier Reveals Release Date of Benny The Butcher’s ‘Tana Talk 4’
DJ Premier has announced the supposed release date of Benny The Butcher‘s upcoming project, Tana Talk 4. Taking to social media to share the news, the esteemed producer revealed that the album is set to drop on February 11. DJ Premier also tweeted a clip of him going to Benny The Butcher’s studio to listen to the album, adding, “@BennyBsf Got Me A Preview Listen…” while teasing fans with an unreleased track that involves work from Daringer and The Alchemist. The Griselda titan himself did not announce nor affirm the February 11 release date, but he did confirm that DJ Premier dropped by his studio. He also tweeted that he could be stopping by Power 106’s L.A. Leakers again for another freestyle. Tana Talk 4 will mark the first release in the Tana Talk series in almost four years. The ...
Black Twitter Passionately Kicks Off Black History Month As Expected #BlackHistoryMonth
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: BojanMirkovic / Getty Black History Month got off to a grand start Tuesday morning (Feb. 1) via social media, most especially among the cultural innovators collectively known as Black Twitter. Via the hashtag #BlackHistoryMonth, folks are kicking off the month-long celebration with passion and pride as expected. Via Twitter’s Explore tab, most will note that the #BlackHistoryMonth hashtag is the top trending topic at the moment. Underneath the tag, Twitter users shared memes, jokes, short clips, historical facts, and much more. First established at Kent State University in 1970, the celebration extended to other parts of the nation in 1976 when President Gerald Ford recognized the month as part of the nation’s Bicentennial. The celebration is held i...
Allen Iverson Got Emotional Signing A Picture Of Himself & Kobe Bryant
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: JEFF HAYNES / Getty We’ve just passed the second anniversary of the tragic passing of NBA icon/legend, Kobe Bryant and while the thought of him not being here still hurts millions of his fans, Allen Iverson also seems to get all the feelings when memories of Kobe are brought up. TMZ is reporting that recently “The Answer” got lowkey emotional when a fan presented him with a picture of AI and Kobe Bryant standing side-by-side at a signing event last weekend. Seemingly surprised that the picture even existed, Allen paused to say “Daaamn! Whose is this? This is yours? After the fan said it was indeed his, Allen bluntly asked “Man, you going to give me one? You got another one for me? Man, I need one of these!” The fan said he had a few in the stash and would...
Nicki Minaj, Lizzo & More Congratulate Rihanna & A$AP Rocky
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Sean Zanni / Getty Rihanna broke the internet yesterday when it was revealed that she and A$AP Rocky were expecting their first child together and though neither of them actually confirmed that there was a bun in the oven, that baby bump pic was enough confirmation for us.Now the couple’s celebrity friends have taken to social media to congratulate the happy couple on their upcoming bundle of joy and while Drake and Chris Brown have remained silent on the matter (those memes of them crying have been hilarious), Nicki Minaj, Lizzo, and others have posted their excitement and well wishes on their personal pages. Naturally the posts have come from all women (y’all men are haters), but it was still nice to see so much support coming from Riri’s celebrit...
Blxst “About You,” Doja Cat “Get Into It” & More | Daily Visuals 2.1.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Lately it feels like LA artist Blxst has been featured on quite a few hit records that’ve dropped over the past few months, but today the rapper/singer drops a solo joint to show and prove he can more than hold his own on a dope cut. In the black-and-white visuals to “About You” Blxst finds himself in some relationship drama before wooing his woman off her feet and getting back to Black Love. If it were only that easy sometimes. Doja Cat meanwhile finally releases a clip for her hit “Get Into It” and uses a sci-fi theme to that Star Trek fans will probably appreciate. Real random but it is what it is. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Yo Gotti featuring FBG Cash, Icewear Vezzo, and more. BLXST – “ABOUT YOU” [embedded content] DOJA CAT – “GET...
The Best Gifts for Harry Styles Fans
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. Happy birthday, Harry Styles! If you’re a fan of the One Directioner-turned-solo pop star then you’ll definitely want to peruse our list of items that loyal Styles supporters will appreciate. The “Treat People With Kindness” singer’s website is packed with apparel and accessories, including merch for another leg of the Love On Tour, but as any real fan knows, variety is the spice of life. For those who want to stock up on a wider selection of Styles-related gear, we’ve got you covered. See below for the best gifts for Styles’ fans. Explore See latest videos,...
