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Pitchfork Listening Room on Vans Channel 66 Returns With Wiki
Pitchfork’s Listening Room series with Vans Channel 66 returns soon, featuring an interview and DJ set from New York rapper Wiki. It happens on Tuesday, January 11 at 11 a.m. Eastern. Tune in here. Listening Room is hosted by Elia Einhorn and features a rotating lineup of Pitchfork staff discussing new songs and albums. Next week’s episode will include a Listening Room session with associate staff writer Matthew Ismael Ruiz and contributing editor Jenn Pelly. Wiki’s new album Half God was released last year. Read Pitchfork’s feature “Live From Wiki’s New York, With Love.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Jessie Lee Daniels Of The Force MD’s Dies At 57
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Raymond Boyd / Getty It’s a sad day for Staten Island Hip-Hop and R&B, and the world. Jessie Lee Daniels of The Force MD’s has reportedly died at 57. The singer’s management confirmed his passing on Facebook. “Please put a heart up for him. He was loved!!!!!!!!!! TO the family, friends and fans today we lost a real talent. Our condolences goes out to his siblings, kids and the Force MDs,” reads the post as reported by The Mirror. Hailing from Staten Island, the Force MD’s were originally known as the Force MC’s. However, at the height of their popularity they were an R&B vocal group with hits like the Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis-produced “Tender Love” and “Love is a House” that are certified classics. Daniels, who was the uncle of members...
Juice WRLD “Already Dead,” Drag-On “So Fly” & More | Daily Visuals 1.5.22
HipHopWired Featured Video It’s been a few years since the untimely and shocking death of Juice WRLD and while millions of his fans still mourn him they must be a little happy to know a second posthumous album, Fighting Demons, was released just last month. For the album’s latest visuals to “Already Dead,” animation was used to bring Juice back to life in the form of a samurai taking on an alternate version of himself before stock footage of WRLD enjoying his life cuts in to remind us of his time on this earth. Rest In Power, King. Drag-On meanwhile keeps the Ruff Ryders legacy going and in his clip to “So Fly” politics on a yacht with his mans and ‘em and a single white female. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from NBA YoungBoy, Nino Man, and more. JUICE WRLD – “ALREADY ...
President Joe Biden Addresses U.S. Capitol Insurrection, Slams Donald Trump #January6th
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Pool / Getty President Joe Biden addressed the nation on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Capitol Insurrection in a scathing Thursday morning (Jan. 6) speech and didn’t withhold any punches towards former President Donald Trump. President Biden framed insurrection as an attack on democracy, echoing the messaging of his 2020 presidential campaign of bringing America back together. It was known as recently as last week that President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were both prepared to deliver remarks all connected to a day of remembrance for those who lost their lives defending the U.S. Capitol and to drum down on the need to preserve democracy in the nation. Naturally, Biden’s salvo was the first and perhaps loudest moment thus far of th...
The Louis Vuitton x Air Jordan 1 Is Amongst Us
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @ready2cop / Instagram The Dior x Air Jordan 1 collaboration was really one for the books as sneakerheads and collectors went bananas for the highly sought after collaboration, but can the Louis Vuitton x Air Jordan 1 collabo achieve the same level of hype and success? We’re about to find out. Recently pics leaked of the upcoming collaboration (thanks Virgil. Rest In Power), and the joints will definitely stand out like a MF. Looking like they’re coming with a higher than usual ankle collar, the sneakers feature the classic Louis Vuitton monogram adorning the base and toe box of the kicks while the soles are reworked and feature the Louis Vuitton emblems on the heel. Coming in two different colorways the Air Jordan x Louis V collaboration will surely be o...
UK Music Sales Up 8.7% as Vinyl Outpaces Streaming Growth
LONDON – Vinyl sales grew twice as fast as streaming in the United Kingdom last year, helping drive an 8.7% rise in overall music spending, according to year-end figures from the Entertainment Retailers Association (ERA). Vinyl album sales rose by 23% to £136 million ($184 million) in 2021, compared to 10.9% growth in subscription streaming revenue over the same period. Overall music spending rose to £1.68 billion ($2.3 billion), the organization says in its preliminary annual figures published on Wednesday (Jan. 5). While vinyl sales outpaced streaming, digital music services like Spotify, Amazon Music, YouTube Music and Apple Music account for almost 80% of recorded music spending in the U.K., with subscription revenues climbing to a record high of £1.3 billion ($1.8 billion), up 10.9% f...
Adele, Justin Bieber, Olivia Rodrigo, Drake and The Weeknd Top MRC Data’s 2021 Canadian Year-End Report
Adele, Morgan Wallen, Justin Bieber, Drake, Olivia Rodrigo and Dua Lipa top MRC Data’s 2021 Canada year-end report in a year when the nation saw on-demand streams hitting an all-time high as total album consumption was up almost 10% and vinyl sales ticked up more than 21%. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news As was the case all over the globe, Adele’s eagerly anticipated return album, 30, topped the charts, debuting at No. 1 on the Canadian Billboard 200 chart with 70,000 first-week equivalent album units for the week ending Nov. 25. The album’s lead single, “Easy On Me,” topped three pop formats at Canadian radio (CHR, Hot AC and Mainstream AC) shortly after its debut, and almost beat Olivia Rodrigo’s record for the biggest one-week streaming tota...
Dua Lipa’s ‘Levitating’ Is Most-Streamed Song of 2021 In U.S., Morgan Wallen’s ‘Dangerous: The Double Album’ Is MRC Data’s Top Album
Morgan Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album rounds out 2021 as the most popular album of the year in the U.S., according to MRC Data. Meanwhile, Dua Lipa’s “Levitating” was the most-streamed song and most-heard song on the radio. View the complete U.S. 2021 MRC Data Year-End Report, and see the year’s top 10 albums chart, along with other year-end rankings, below. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Dangerous: The Double Album is Wallen’s second full-length studio album and was released on Jan. 8, 2021. It finishes the year with 3.226 million equivalent album units earned in the U.S. Most of that sum was driven by streaming activity of the set’s sprawling 30-song tracklist. Dangerous is the first country music release to be MRC Data’s year-end top ...
Band of Horses Rides to Its First No. 1 Song With ‘Crutch’
Band of Horses achieves its first No. 1 on a Billboard songs chart, as “Crutch” rises to the top of the Adult Alternative Airplay list dated Jan. 8. The ruler follows two top five Adult Alternative Airplay hits for the band, “Casual Party” (No. 4, 2016) and “In a Drawer” (No. 5, 2017). Band of Horses first reached the tally in 2010, when “Laredo” peaked at No. 16. Concurrently, “Crutch” lifts 31-27 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 1.3 million audience impressions, up 11%, according to MRC Data. It’s Band of Horses’ second highest charting hit on the survey; “Party” peaked at No. 19, aided by alternative radio spins that also sparked a No. 23 peak on Alternative Airplay. The Ben Bridwell-fronted group has notched two No. 1s on album rankings: ...
Spoon Cover David Bowie’s “I Can’t Give Everything Away”: Listen
Spoon have shared a cover of the late David Bowie’s Blackstar song “I Can’t Give Everything Away.” Spoon recorded the song for Amazon Music’s month-long [RE]DISCOVER campaign celebrating Bowie’s 75th birthday this Saturday. Check it out below. “‘I Can’t Give Everything Away’ is a tune Alex and I have been playing since we learned it for an acoustic and piano show in Mexico City in 2016,” said bandleader Britt Daniel in a statement. “It’s just a fantastic song, and as the last song on Bowie’s final album it doesn’t disappoint. We recorded this version live in December 2021.” On February 11, Spoon will release Lucifer on the Sofa, the follow-up to 2017’s Hot Thoughts. Last year, they released a cover of the Beatles’ “Christmas Time (Is Here Again)” for Spotify. Read Pitchfork’s recent interv...
Jill Scott Sex Tape Rumor Runs Wild, Hairy Palms Twitter Was Way Too Excited
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Grace Cary / Getty Jill Scott is one of the most glamorous women in the music business but beyond that, she’s also a God-tier vocalist and performer. That said, rumors of a sex tape featuring the Philadelphia native went wide and a certain segment of Twitter nearly broke the service searching for this mythical footage. We’re already well aware that Miss Scott isn’t afraid to talk about sex and even demonstrated her, ahem, microphone skills during a performance that is still one of the most intense moments in live show history. Prior to that, Scott was struck by a phone photo hack with leaked images making their way to the Internet and that too garnered a flurry of reactions. Scott’s name began trending across Twitter heavily on Tuesday (Jan. 4) afte...
Jason Derulo Blessed Two Men Who Mistook Him For “Usher” With The Fade
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: TMZ / TMZ There was a time more than a decade ago that if someone was confused for being Usher, it would be considered a compliment. But in 2021 it seems to be a sign of disrespect as far as Jason Derulo is concerned, and he’ll put the paws on you if you accidentally confuse him for the “My Way” crooner in a trolling manner. According to TMZ, two men found out the hard way that Jason Derulo got them hands on him when they decided to call him “Usher” and a “b*tch” at a hotel in Las Vegas. Unfortunately for them they paid for their transgression as the “Savage Love” singer put the beats on both of them immediately after being mistaken for another R&B singer and a female dog in heat. Related Stories “Eyewitnesses tell us Derulo and one of the men were pa...
