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Martin Garrix Is Launching a Music Academy to Help New Artists
Martin Garrix has announced the launch of a three-day program to help foster new electronic music talent. The Martin Garrix & JBL Music Academy will invite invite 40 musicians, songwriters, vocalists and producers for a global initiative designed to equip young artists with tools to navigate the music industry. Garrix himself will host masterclasses at his STMPD Studios complex in Amsterdam, among other esteemed industry pros. According to a press release issued to reveal the three-day program, it’ll teach participants about branding, music business, public relations and mixing and mastering records. The Academy will also teach artists how to manage bookings, handle distribution for their releases and manage legal affairs. “I’m super excited about t...
Future “712PM,” Westside Gunn ft. Black Star “Peppas” & More | Daily Visuals 11.30.22
HipHopWired Featured Video It’s been seven months since Future dropped his last LP, I Never Liked You but the Toxic King isn’t done giving y’all videos from the album and today gets an assist from another huge name in Hip-Hop. Coming through with some new visuals to “712PM,” Future taps Travis Scott to direct his latest video and in it the breaker of women’s worlds gets all in his celebrity complete with mink furs, ice on his shirtless chest, and having strippers work the pole on a patch of grass out in the middle of nowehere.If it rains it’s really gonna rain on them. Back in NY, Westside Gunn links up with some Brooklyn legends and for his clip to “Peppas” hits the block with Black Star and drops off bars with Mos Def and Talib Kweli. This is the collaboration we didn’t know we want...
DJ Vlad Says He’ll “Choose Violence” After Saweetie’s Publicist Curves Interview
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: WWD / Getty It isn’t always very clear what DJ Vlad’s talent is outside of being messy. Vlad decided to spend his Thanksgiving weighing in on the subject of recording artist Saweetie and the disappointing sales produced by her new EP, The Single Life. Essentially, Vlad claimed her new project would have done better if Saweetie hadn’t declined to do an interview with him. “If Saweetie did a VladTV interview she would have easily done 10x her first week sales, which was 2000 copies,” Vlad tweeted. “We actually reached out through one of our people and were told ‘she won’t do Vlad’. Her loss.” Obviously, the tweet got Vlad the attention he was clearly looking for because Saweetie responded saying that she has “been a big fan & have screen recorded m...
A Bear On Blow? The ‘Cocaine Bear’ Trailer Is As Wild The True Story
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Universal / Universal Bears in the wild are already dangerous enough to deal with for the any human being, but what happens when the majestic beast sticks it’s nose into a brick of blow? Looks like we’re about to find out. A new film dubbed Cocaine Bear is set to hit theaters next year and it’s about exactly what the title states it is, a bear hopped up on cocaine. Inspired by the true story of a bear eating a brick of coke that ended up in the woods after a cocaine runner’s plane crashed in 1985, the dark comedy film takes all kinds of liberties with the story and reimagines what would’ve happened after the bear went Tony Montana in the sticks. In the first trailer to Cocaine Bear we find Ray Liotta (RIP), O’Shea Jackson, Jr., and Keri Russell amongst ma...
Brett Favre Requests Dismissal From Mississippi Welfare Lawsuit
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 1 hour ago @dlchandler123 D.L. Chandler is a veteran of the Washington D.C. metro writing scene, working as a journalist, reporter, and culture critic. Initially freelancing at iOne Digital in 2010, he officially joined the iOne team in 2017 where he currently works as a Senior Editor for Cassius Life and Hip-Hop Wired. D.L. covers a variety of topics including breaking news, politics, Hip-Hop music and culture, fashion, and Black history. He currently heads the SPIRIT.ED column for Cassius Life, which focuses on adult beverages and their history. D.L. has worked in the past for MTV News, Billboard, and several other publications. His first big break in journalism came with the now-defunct Politically Black in 1999, the nation’s first B...
Fela Kuti Tribute Album Red Hot + Riot Released on Streaming for the First Time: Listen
In 2002, AIDS-awareness nonprofit Red Hot released Red Hot + Riot: A Tribute to Fela Kuti. The album included covers of the Nigerian star’s music, by a wide range of artists such as D’Angelo, Questlove, Kuti’s son Femi Kuti, and more. Now, to honor World AIDS Day (December 1), Red Hot has shared the record on streaming platforms for the first time ever. The reissue also includes two hours of bonus material, including recordings from Sade, Roy Hargrove, Nile Rodgers, Kelis, Archie Shepp, and others. Notably, it also features Bilal, Zap Mama, and Common’s previously unreleased “Sorrow Tears & Blood” cover. Find the album below. Head to YouTube to watch studio footage. Fela Kuti died of causes related to HIV/AIDS in 1997. Red Hot + Riot is one of multiple music projects put out by Red Hot...
The War on Drugs Announce Philadelphia Benefit Shows
The War on Drugs have announced the return of their annual A Drugcember to Remember benefit concert series. The shows will take place from December 19-21 at the band’s favorite hometown club: Johnny Brenda’s in Philadelphia. Proceeds from the gigs will benefit the Fund for the School District of Philadelphia. Tickets go on sale Friday (December 2): Head here for the first show, here for the second, and here for the third. Additional funds will be raised with an auction hosted by Julien’s Auctions in January. Auction items will include a pair of tickets to any headline show from the War on Drugs for the next five years, signed memorabilia from Philadelphia professional sports teams, signed instruments from the War on Drugs, and more. Each concert will also feature an in-person live raffle w...
The Clean’s Hamish Kilgour Is Missing, New Zealand Police Say
Hamish Kilgour, the drummer who co-founded the Clean with his brother David, has been missing since Sunday, November 27. Kilgour was last seen at Palms Shopping Mall in Christchurch, New Zealand police said on Facebook, adding that his family and friends were concerned for his wellbeing. Click the link for an up-to-date photo of Kilgour. Anyone with information can notify police online using the “Update My Report” link, quoting file number 221128/8475. Those in New Zealand can also call 105. Formed in Dunedin in the late 1970s, the Clean took the indie-rock underground to the upper echelons of the New Zealand singles chart the following decade, helping build a legend around then-fledgling label Flying Nun. Thanks to a partnership between Flying Nun and Rough Trade, the band released ...
The Cinematic Orchestra to Reissue Every Day for 20th Anniversary
The Cinematic Orchestra will reissue Every Day for the first time on March 24, 2023. The landmark Ninja Tune album will get a 3xLP release with new artwork and photography, along with four bonus tracks: “Oregon” and “Horizon” [ft. Niara Scarlett] from the original sessions, and “Semblance” and “Flite (Original Version),” which are coming to wax for the first time. Every Day (20th Anniversary Edition) also comes with liner notes from Gilles Peterson. The Cinematic Orchestra returned in 2019 with their first album in 12 years, To Believe. It featured Moses Sumney and longtime collaborator Roots Manuva, among others. 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....
Here Are the Best Spotify Wrapped Memes of 2022
It’s Spotify Wrapped season, that wonderful time of the year when a multi-billion dollar corporation tricks its users into running a global marketing campaign for free. With quirky graphics, completely made-up genres and plenty of opportunities to publically shame your friends, it’s tough to refrain from sharing your top songs and artists of the year and flexing your greatness—or cringiness. In honor of this brazen display of data harvesting, we’ve compiled the best Spotify Wrapped memes of 2022. Obliterating your parents’ computer for a YouTube rip of a song was so worth it Let’s get this out of the way right now: there’s absolutely nothing wrong with listening to 225 hours of Skrillex in a year Can’t tell if we’re supposed to laugh or cry? ...
Metro Boomin Enlists Future, Travis Scott and More for ‘Heroes & Villains’
Ahead of the premiere of his sophomore solo LP Heroes & Villains, Metro Boomin has dropped off the project’s official tracklist. The record, which features 15 tracks, includes guest appearances from Travis Scott and 21 Savage on “Niagara Falls (Foot or 2)” and Chris Brown and Future on “Superhero (Heroes & Villains). Savage also appears on “Umbrella” with Young Nudy and “Walk Em Down (Don’t Kill Civilians)” with Mustafa. Earlier this week, Metro shared a cinematic trailer, narrated by Morgan Freeman, that sets the scene for the artist’s follow-up to 2018’s Not All Heroes Wear Capes. In it, he shares snippets of his collaborations with Savage, Brown and Future, with appearances from Young Thug, Gunna, LaKeith Stanfield and more. For the album cover, Metro pays homage to Pink Floyd’s...
Morgan Wallen Repeats as Top Country Artist in 2022: The Year in Charts
Just as the 29-year-old singer-songwriter did in 2021, Sneedville, Tenn. native Morgan Wallen reigns as Billboard’s Top Country Artist of 2022. Concurrently, he finishes first as top country male artist. Billboard’s year-end music recaps represent aggregated metrics for each artist, title, label and music contributor on the weekly charts dated Nov. 20, 2021 through Nov. 12, 2022. The rankings for Luminate-based recaps reflect equivalent album units, airplay, sales or streaming during the weeks that the titles appeared on a respective chart during the tracking year. Any activity registered before or after a title’s chart run isn’t considered in these rankings. That methodology details, and the November-November time period, account for some of the difference between these lists and the cale...
