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Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST Organizers on the Blessings of Returning to a Virtual Event
On Tuesday night (Jan. 18), globalFest will premiere its second annual digital festival in partnership with NPR Music. Starting at 8 p.m. ET for the next three evenings, four-time Grammy winner Angelique Kidjo will once again host the Tiny Desk Meets globalFEST series with nine artists from around the world, including South Korea, Mali, Finland and Mexico. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Since 2003, the annual festival has been a one-night, in-person celebration that promotes global and American regional music traditions and creates touring opportunities for artists of all genres. But in late December, it became clear to organizers that an in-person festival was no longer viable for its staff and artists. The annual event was scheduled to take place Jan. 16 at the renovat...
Britney Spears Says She Should Have ‘Slapped’ Jamie Lynn & Her Mother ‘Right Across Your F—ing Faces’
Britney Spears is continuing her rant about her unhealthy family dynamic in a since-deleted Instagram post on Tuesday (Jan. 18), where she recalled going home following her public split from Justin Timberlake in 2002. “I flew home to Jamie Lynn on the couch watching her tv shows right after Justin and I broke up… I was a ghost there [ghost emoji] !!!!!” she said of her sister’s lifestyle compared to her own. “I had worked my whole life and I didn’t know how to be served by Mamma … Sit there and get served the chocolate milkshakes with the perfectly crushed ice with the secret chunky sugar meanwhile Jamie Lynn is 12, she indulges with the TV for hours then goes to lay out on a raft at the pool … I’m in shock because this was never my life !!!!” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See...
Jenny Hval Announces New Album Classic Objects, Shares Video for New Song “Year of Love”: Watch
Jenny Hval has announced that she has a new record on the way, sharing a track from the project. The new song is titled “Year of Love” and it appears on the forthcoming Classic Objects. The album arrives on March 11 and it’s her first for 4AD. Check out “Year of Love” and the rest of the tracklist below, as well as the itinerary for a tour of Europe and the United States that extends through the spring. “Year of Love” is the second song that Hval has shared from Classic Objects, following November’s “Jupiter.” Last year, she released Menneskekollektivet with Håvard Volden as Lost Girls. Classic Objects is Hval’s first album under her own name since 2019’s The Practice of Love. All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something thro...
11 Songs You Should Listen to Now: This Week’s Pitchfork Selects Playlist
The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our writers are playing obsessively and highlighting some of the Pitchfork staff’s favorite new music. The playlist is a grab-bag of tracks: Its only guiding principle is that these are the songs you’d gladly send to a friend. This week’s Pitchfork Selects playlist features Soul Glo, Aldous Harding, Pavement, Binker and Moses, Raveena, and more. Listen below and follow our playlists on Apple Music and Spotify. (Pitchfork earns a commission from purchases made through affilia...
Key Glock Shares New Song From Young Dolph Tribute Album: Listen
Memphis rapper Key Glock has shared his track that will appear on the forthcoming compilation Paper Route Empire Presents: Long Live Dolph. The new song, “Proud,” arrives with a music video that has footage of Young Dolph, the newly renamed Adolph “Young Dolph” Thornton, Jr. Avenue, and Makeda’s Butter Cookies, where Dolph was fatally shot in November 2021. On the track, Key Glock raps about Dolph and his grief. Listen to the new song “Proud” below. Paper Route Empire Presents: Long Live Dolph, a tribute to the late Young Dolph, arrives this Friday, January 21. Key Glock and Young Dolph were cousins and prominent collaborators, working together most famously on Dum and Dummer and Dum and Dummer 2. Shortly after Dolph was killed last year, Key Glock honored his late friend with a tattoo and...
Grammys 2022 Rescheduled for April in Las Vegas
After being postponed from their originally scheduled date of January 31 due to “uncertainty surrounding the Omicron variant” of the coronavirus, a new date and location for the 2022 Grammy Awards ceremony have been announced. The ceremony is now scheduled for Sunday, April 3 at MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The broadcast will begin at 8 p.m. Eastern on CBS. Trevor Noah remains the host of the 2022 Grammys. It’s the second year in a row that the Grammy Awards have been postponed due to pandemic concerns. In November, the Recording Academy announced the nominees for the 2022 show: Jon Batiste is the most nominated artist with 11 nods total, followed by Olivia Rodrigo, Billie Eilish, Doja Cat, Justin Bieber, and H.E.R. all receiving eight. Read “6 Takeaways from the 2022 Grammy Nomina...
Grammys Set New Date and Location for 2022 Awards Show
The Recording Academy has announced that the 2022 Grammy Awards will take place on April 3 at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas. The show, which begins at 8 p.m. ET, was rescheduled from its original January date due to concerns surrounding the COVID pandemic. The event will mark the first time that the award show has been held in a location outside of Los Angeles or New York since 1973, when the Grammys took place in Nashville, Tennessee. The telecast will also mark the first time the Grammys have been held in a location where the Recording Academy does not house a chapter. This year’s Grammys will occur at the latest point in the calendar year since the seventh annual award show, which was held on April 13, 1965, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. The show, w...
Former DJ Turned Skiier Benjamin Alexander to Make Olympic Debut Next Month
Benjamin Alexander’s decision to put down the decks and pick up the poles has begun to pay off. Alexander, formerly a DJ and resident of Burning Man’s iconic Robot Heart community, made a dramatic lifestyle change in 2018 when he opted to retire his DJing career in order to focus on skiing full-time. After a ski trip in early 2018, Alexander became consumed with the idea of pursuing the sport in a professional capacity. After subsequently traveling to Pyongyang to view the 2018 Winter Olympics, he set his sights high. “I ended up going to the Winter Olympics in Pyongyang as a spectator and noticed that there were only three Jamaican athletes, which I was shocked by,” Alexander told Resident Advisor. “The kernel of this idea was formed. Maybe I could ...
msft’s Debut EP Is a Dose of Nostalgia for Fans of 2010 Electro Music
After we recently received a sneak preview of msft’s debut EP by way of Alison Wonderland‘s recent “Wonderland Radio” broadcast, the emerging producer’s Hands EP is out now in full force. msft, who has produced incendiary remixes for QUIX and Louis The Child while simultaneously stirring up the bass music world with his unique brand of quick-witted breakbeat, sparkling future bass and trap infused originals, felt it was time to put it all together. The young Italian producer’s Hands EP provides four good reasons why he’s on a path to disrupting the current state of bass in 2022. With “Bring / Up,” msft comes out swinging with an intricately arranged trap original driven by grungy growls, detuned pianos, and synths with la...
Miami Bitcoin Conference to Conclude With Music Festival Featuring deadmau5, Steve Aoki, More
Several of dance music’s biggest names are ready to celebrate “hyperbitcoinization” with performances to close out the upcoming Bitcoin 2022 Conference. Since the advent of Miami Music Week and Ultra Music Festival, Miami has always been a cultural hub for dance music. In even more recent times, however, the city has positioned itself as the future crypto capital of the U.S. The effort has been fostered through the leadership of Miami’s Mayor Francis Suarez, who has opted to take his own salary in Bitcoin and has facilitated the creation of Miami’s own dedicated blockchain asset, MiamiCoin. Becoming the home to the annual Bitcoin Conference, the largest celebration of the world’s most popular digital asset has proved a boon to Miami’s rep...
Escape Reality With Aluna’s Kaleidoscopic “Forget About Me” Music Video
Aluna has invited us to “escape reality” and enter her psychedelic dream world in the music video for her latest single, “Forget About Me.” Out now via Mad Decent, the video takes us to a kaleidoscopic Palace of Versailles where Aluna, clad in a towering electric blue wig, hosts a decadent tea party and travels to an animated dimension with her VR headset. It’s all set to the feel-good dance pop tune of “Forget About Me,” which features Diplo and Durante and is embedded with a future house, four-on-the-floor bass beat and bright tropical house percussion. Aluna’s piano skills also make an appearance, as does Diplo on the bass guitar. Recommended Articles “Forget About Me” also came paired with 69 corresponding ...
Peep The Official Trailer For Marvel’s ‘Moon Knight’ Series
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Marvel / Disney+ Disney+’s MCU spinoff series are a perfect 5 for 5 as shows from WandaVision to Hawkeye have exceeded expectations and left fans wanting more Marvel related content. Well, get ready cause y’all about to get some more come March. Last night (Jan. 18), Marvel Studios debuted the first official trailer to their new superhero series Moon Knight and fans aren’t just happy with how the series is looking, but they’re already calling for the MCU to create the Midnight Sons team which consists of Moon Knight, Blade, Punisher and Ghost Rider amongst other supernatural heroes. Related Stories Starring Oscar Issac as Stephen Grant, the Moon Knight trailer showcases the gift-shop employee who suffers from a sleeping disorder that has him questioning h...
