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Björk Sits Against a Raging Volcano in “Sorrowful Soil” Music Video
Today, Björk released the music video for “Sorrowful Soil” from her new album, Fossora. The song serves as a eulogy to the Icelandic singer’s late mother and the video brings it to life against a raging volcano. Directed by Viðar Logi, the video is shot with an interesting oval-shaped frame – warping what the viewer can see of the singer and her surrounding environment. But as Björk slips in and out of the frame, the video reveals different cuts of the Fagradalsfjall volcano, which erupted for six months in 2021 and began erupting again in August of this year. “for me, sorrowful soil and ancestress are the 2 songs on fossora written for my mother … ancestress is my take on funeral-music but sorrowful soil is written 2 years before and mirrors more that last chapter,” said Björk in a releas...
Watch BTS‘ RM Recreate NPR ’Tiny Desk’ Studio For Intimate 3-Song Set
Dedicated ARMY veterans will likely be dissecting the set of RM’s NPR Tiny Desk concert for the rest of the month. To celebrate the release of his solo album, Indigo, the BTS rapper born Kim Nam-joon recreated an amazingly detailed replica of the Washington, D.C.-based Tiny Desk office set in South Korea, complete with shelves packed with tasty Easter eggs. But the focus, of course, was on the vocals, which the 29-year-old star delivered on with ease, beginning with the jazzy opening track of his three-song set, “seoul.” The chilled-out bilingual song from RM’s 2018 mono mixtape set a mellow mood for the 18-minute mini-show, complete with warm keyboards and restrained beats from drummer JK Kim. After the opening track, RM said it was about his second home town in South Korea, before introd...
Toby Keith Gives Promising Update After Stomach Cancer Battle: ‘We’ll Look at Something Good in the Future’
Toby Keith is opening up about his battle with stomach cancer in a new interview with the CMT Hot 20 Countdown. The 61-year-old country legend revealed earlier this summer that he was taking a break from music to undergo chemotherapy, radiation and surgery after getting a stomach cancer diagnosis in the fall of 2021. “I’m thinkin’ about getting back in fighting shape,” Keith said in a preview of the interview posted earlier this week. “I need a little bit of time to rest up, heal up… it’s pretty debilitating to have to go through all that. But as long as everything stays hunky dory then we’ll look at something good in the future. The full interview will air on Saturday (Dec. 3) at 9 a.m. ET. “Last fall I was diagnosed with stomach cancer,” Keith tweeted in June. “I’ve spent the last 6 mont...
Triller Removes Music From Universal, Sony, Warner and Merlin
Try using some of your favorite songs on the short-form video app Triller, and you’ll be hard pressed to find what you’re looking for. On Thursday, the music catalogs for Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Sony Music and Merlin — which provides digital licensing to many top independent labels and distributors — were removed from the platform. A Triller spokesperson says the platform is “reassessing each of our label deals as they come due as our catalogue music usage is a small fraction of our overall business with creators. “Some labels are more used than others and if we can make financial arrangements which make sense for the platform, on a label by label basis, we will. In other cases the usage does not justify the cost.” The news follows a lawsuit filed by Sony Music Entertain...
SZA Is Worried About Bowen Yang in ‘SNL’ Promo Where He Calls Her ‘Scissors’
Bowen Yang just can’t get it straight in this week’s Saturday Night Live promo featuring SZA and host Keke Palmer. “Hi, I’m Keke Palmer and I’m hosting Saturday Night Live this week with musical guest SZA,” Nope star Palmer says in the first video bit. “And I’m Brown Yang and we’re gonna have such a… did i just say ‘Brown Yang?’,” an embarrassed Yang asks this week’s guests as they laugh nervously. “I can’t even read my own name. Sorry Guys! I am Bowen Young and we’re gonna… oh my God. Brown Yung! What’s happening right now?,” a melting down Yang stammers. “Are you okay Bowen?,” a concerned Palmer asks. He assures her he’s totally fine and repeats his first name as evidence, before inexplicably calling himself “Cohen Yang” and then insisting that he’s Bravo star Andy Cohen and then, once a...
Best New Tracks: Metro Boomin, A$AP Rocky, RM and More
As the week in music comes to a close, HYPEBEAST has rounded up the best projects for the latest installment of Best New Tracks. This week’s lineup is led by Metro Boomin, RM and A$AP Rocky, who each released the albums Heroes and Villains and Indigo and the single “Shittin’ Me.” Also joining this selection are offerings from YSL’s Yung Kayo, RINI, Saucy Santana, MIKE with Sister Nancy, Louis The Child, Wallice and Pheelz. Metro Boomin – Heroes and Villains [embedded content] Metro Boomin delivers his sophomore studio effort Heroes and Villains, a brilliant and star-studded affair featuring the likes of Travis Scott, 21 Savage, Future and more. The 15-track project serves as the producer’s first solo full-length album since 2018’s Not All Heroes Wear Cap...
100 gecs Reveal 10,000 gecs Release Date, Share Surprise New Snake Eyes EP: Listen
100 gecs are back. More than two years after releasing their debut album 1000 gecs, the Los Angeles–based duo has released a surprise EP called Snake Eyes. The three-track effort includes a guest feature from Skrillex on the song “Torture Me.” Listen to the EP below. Accompanying the EP, Dylan Brady and Laura Les have also announced that their sophomore album is coming this winter: 10,000 gecs is out March 17, 2023, via Dog Show Records and Atlantic Records. The long-teased record is set to include the songs “MeMeMe” and “Doritos & Fritos.” In 2020, the duo issued 1000 gecs & The Tree of Clues, a star-studded remix album of 1000 gecs. Revisit Pitchfork’s Cover Story “This Is Your Brain on 100 gecs.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Content Thi...
BTS’ RM Enlists Erykah Badu for New Song “Yun”: Listen
BTS leader RM has released the new solo album Indigo. The first song on the record, “Yun,” is a collaboration with Erykah Badu, produced by Logikal J and Ghstloop. Take a listen to “Yun” and Indigo below. Indigo follows RM’s mixtapes RM (2015) and Mono. (2018). Additional contributors to the new album include Anderson .Paak, the British singer-songwriter Mahalia, and the electronic duo Honne. The latest BTS album, Be, got released in November 2020. The band’s members are currently pursuing solo endeavors. Over the years, outside of BTS, RM has collaborated with Fall Out Boy, Wale, Lil Nas X, Honne, and others. Read about Erykah Badu’s Baduizm in Pitchfork’s feature “The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. All products featu...
Jack Harlow Ends 2022 With 12 New RIAA Certifications
Jack Harlow is closing out his 2022 with 12 new certifications from the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The six-time GRAMMY nominee seven new platinum certifications and five new gold ones; his viral hits “WHAT’S POPPIN” and “First Class” are now 7x and 2x platinum, respectively, while the cuts “Nail Tech,” “Way Out” with Big Sean, “Already Best Friends” with Chris Brown and “I Wanna See Some Ass” are platinum and “Tyler Herro” is 2x platinum. Harlow also took home gold certifications for the Drake-assisted “Churchill Downs,” “Dua Lipa,” “Face of My City” with Lil Baby,” “Thru The Night” with Bryson Tiller and for his latest album COME HOME THE KIDS MISS YOU. The rapper’s new full-length effort debuted at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 and is currently nominated for Best...
You Sure?: Nike Says It’s Doing Its Best To Stop Sneaker Bots From Eating Products
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nike / NIke For the past few years, sneaker bots have really soured the sneaker game for heads who simply want a personal pair of grails to rock on their toe. It seems like Nike has finally heard our cries and are doing what they can to combat bots in anyway they can. At least that what they say they’re doing. A few weeks ago, Nike announced that they were going to war against sneaker bots, and in the following weeks those sneaker bots made copping kicks on the Nike SNKRS app that much more worst. It’s almost like the people behind those bots took it as a personal challenge and went Super Saiyan mode on the SNKRS app. Though it was obvious that sneaker bots made the Air Jordan 1 “Lost and Found” Chicago colorway thee worst drop in SNKRS app history, Nike ...
Ab-Soul Teases JAY-Z Feature on Upcoming Album
Fans may be getting an Ab-Soul x JAY-Z collab on the former’s upcoming album, Herbert. The Top Dawg Entertainment stalwart took to Instagram to share a photo of him and Hov, who is one of his favorite rapper, linking up in Barclay’s Stadium with the caption “SOUL DID.” TDE went on to essentially confirm that JAY will be appearing on Herbert with their own post with a caption that reads, “Hov x Soulo #Herbert Dec. 16th,” but it wasn’t until label founder Anthony “Top Dawg” Tiffith confirmed on his own Instagram that he was the one who connected Ab-Soul and JAY-Z. “aye soul did u do ur part ? I guess we will find out when the album drop,” he wrote as the caption. “Y’all think he got it ? #TDE[.]” Herbert will mark Ab-Soul’s first full-length studio in six years and will follow up Do What Tho...
RM Releases Debut Solo Album ‘Indigo’: Stream It Now
RM finally unveiled his long-awaited debut solo album Indigo on Friday (Dec. 2) via Big Hit Music. For his first full-length effort sans his BTS bandmates, the rapper enlisted a diverse slate of guests assists from the likes of Erykah Badu (opener “Yun”), Anderson .Paak (“Still Life”), Epik High leader Tablo (“All Day”), Paul Blanco and Mahalia (the Honne-produced “Closer”) and more. “Indigo recounts the stories and experiences RM has gone through, like a diary,” a press release revealed ahead of the album, promising to “present a different charm” to the South Korean rapper. Earlier, on Nov. 22, RM teased the album’s themes in a preview video that read, “Record of RM: Indigo. From the colors of nature, human, etc. Documentation of my youth in the moment of independent phase. Sun-...
