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Wilko Johnson, Influential Dr. Feelgood Guitarist, Dies at 75
Wilko Johnson, the influential guitarist who spearheaded the United Kingdom’s pub rock scene with Dr. Feelgood, died Monday (November 21) at the age of 75, BBC News reports. Although no cause of death was given, Johnson received a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer in 2013 before making an unlikely recovery, as documented in the 2015 film The Ecstasy of Wilko Johnson. Formed in Essex’s Canvey Island in the early 1970s, Dr. Feelgood played no-frills R&B characterized by Johnson’s playful riffs and juddering guitar stabs. He wrote several songs for their first two albums, 1974’s Down by the Jetty and 1975’s Malpractice, which heavily influenced the Sex Pistols, the Jam, Gang of Four, and generations of British punk and post-punk musicians. In the United States, Johnson’s influence i...
Warehouse Summer, Posthumous Album From DJ and Producer i_o, Released: Listen
We’d like to thank all who have patiently and lovingly stood by waiting for us, G’s family, to say yes to releasing these last tracks. Thank you to the i_o management for bringing together all the teams necessary to release these last tracks of music produced by Garrett & Lights. We are grateful to them and so many others for their regular “check-ins” with us, allowing us time and space to miss him and grieve his absence. We loved hearing from so many, as each of us remember Garrett in different ways. Some of your stories made us laugh or smile, others made us cry, for it is in those stories we relived much of what Garrett was about as a person and in the many ways his life impacted each of us. Thank you for sharing yourselves with us, it has truly helped in the healing. We hope with t...
U.S. Senators to Investigate Ticketmaster’s Dominance Over Concert Ticket Sales
U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Mike Lee will lead a new subcommittee investigating the lack of competition in ticketing markets. Klobuchar stressed the need to scrutinize Ticketmaster’s dominance over the concert ticket market in light of chaotic Taylor Swift Eras Tour sales last week. “Ticketmaster’s website failed hundreds of thousands of fans hoping to purchase concert tickets,” Klobuchar said. “The high fees, site disruptions, and cancellations that customers experienced shows how Ticketmaster’s dominant market position means the company does not face any pressure to continually innovate and improve.” Ticketmaster blamed unprecedented demand and a “staggering number of bot attacks” for the Eras Tour fiasco, ultimately canceling a scheduled on-sale date for the remaining tickets. The c...
Nas “Michael & Quincy,” Meek Mill “God Did” & More | Daily Visuals 11.22.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Just last week Nas blessed the Hip-Hop culture with his latest banger, Kings Disease III, and now we get hit with a new visual in support of the Hit-Boy produced album. Coming through with a new video for the standout cut “Michael & Quincy,” the Queensbridge king takes it back to some humble beginnings and rides a bike through the hood at night before landing in the studio with Hit-Boy, where he lays down his verses. The Kings Disease series has been amazing, but we still waiting on that Nas and DJ Premier album. Just sayin.’ Back in Philadelphia, Meek Mill seems to be living his best life and in his clip to “God Did” hops in and out of luxury helicopters and Maybach’s before breaking bread and toasting to the life with his people...
Julia Fox Says She Dated Kanye West To Stop Him From Harassing Kim Kardashian
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jacopo Raule / Getty Actress Julia Fox explained to her social media followers recently that her short-lived dating situation with Ye aka Kanye West was more show-mance than romance, or maybe even more of a hero-mance as she says she was only trying to distract Yeezus from harassing Kim Kardashian. [embedded content] According to Dlisted, Fox made the TikTok in response to a commenter who wrote that they wished she hadn’t dated “a famously violent misogynist and antisemite.” She said she was planning to write about her relationship with Kanye in her upcoming book, but she might as well explain herself now since, according to her, folks are all up in her business. So now she’s saying that Kanye was acting normal when in the short time they were together, t...
Balenciaga In Trouble Over Ad With Children Showing BDSM Elements, Child Porn Court Papers
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 35 mins 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 ...
NBA YoungBoy Drops Fiery New Track and Video “Hi Haters”
Following the release of his latest project Ma’ I Got A Family, NBA YoungBoy has returned to share a new single, titled “Hi Haters,” alongside a music video directed by Isaac Garcia. The track offers a mood-lifting, guitar-fronted beat, while the accompanying visual sees the Baton Rouge rapper flex his expensive cars and jewelry. As the single’s moniker suggests, YoungBoy delivers a message to his haters across his bars. “And I speak, I got to put my daughter to sleep, and just like Peak, I named my son after a Jeep/ Ain’t been respondin’ to these n***as, I know I’m way more rich, I know they see,” he raps. “On my life I’m spending millions, I put some diamonds on my wrist, I dont made it out the cage/ Saw me down but I’m still up, I don’t give one f**k, God I say thank you/ Hit your artis...
Summer Walker Breaks Into Rap With New Single “Sense Dat God Gave You”
Summer Walker is trying out their hand at rapping. The R&B singer teamed up with Sexxy Red for a new song called “Sense Dat God Gave You,” which arrived with a lighthearted music video. After pulling up to a gas station, the two artists joke around in the aisles of a convenience store and twerk in the parking lot. “Put that cash straight in my hand / If you got the sense that God gave you,” Walker raps on the chorus. “Don’t leave me ’round your man / We finna tear down them all / You know we got a plan.” While fans are excited to see Walker, who typically sticks to vibe-heavy R&B, venture into a new genre, the vocalist said they don’t have any plans to take rap too seriously. “I’m NOT a rapper lmao I just wanted to do hood rat stuff with my friend,” they joked on Twitter. Regardles...
Here Are the Groups or Duos With the Most 2023 Grammy Nominations
When the 65th annual Grammy nominations were announced last week, 12 groups or duos received two or more nods. They include some of the biggest bands in the world — but the group that received the most nods may surprise you. The groups represented on this list hail from a wide range of genres – alternative music, dance/electronic, R&B, rock and metal, Americana, contemporary Christian and gospel and contemporary instrumental. There are three duos on the list (Wet Leg, Nova Wav and DOMi & JD Beck). The largest ensembles on the list are the nine-member Maverick City Music and the seven-member BTS. Two of these acts – Wet Leg and DOMi & JD Beck – are nominated for best new artist. Two more – Idles and Turnstile – vied for nominations in that category but fell short. Some of these ...
NBC’s ‘The Voice’ Selects Its 10 Finalists: Watch
And then there were 10. There was no shortage of drama on Tuesday night’s episode of NBC’s The Voice, as four contestants were put through their paces for the instant save. After Monday night’s live show (Nov. 21), America voted. Four were selected, one would be saved. And that’s where the action starts. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news On the latest edition, Kique performed The Weeknd’s “Earned It,” Devix hit the Killers’ “When You Were Young,” Alyssa Witrado performed Billie Eilish’s “ocean eyes” and Eric Who tackled Miley Cyrus’ “The Climb.” As the closing credits rolled out, America, we learned, had saved Kique. Devix, in particular, can feel unlucky. But his journey on the show, along with those of Witrado and Who, is finished. “Let’s deal ...
Offset Posts Touching Tribute to Takeoff: ‘Missing Everything Bout You’
On Thanksgiving Eve eve, Offset counted the things he’s thankful for, but also something he’s missing: his cousin and late Migos bandmate Takeoff. “Missing everything bout you specially that smile,” Offset wrote on Tuesday (Nov. 22) in a post that featured an image of a slyly smiling Takeoff. The post came as police still have not named a suspect (or suspects) in the early-morning Nov. 1 killing of Takeoff (born Kirsnick Khari Ball), 28, who was shot outside a downtown Houston bowling alley in an as-yet-unsolved attack. The shooting took place at a private party attended by Takeoff and his uncle, third Migos member Quavo, who was not injured in the incident. Shortly after a public memorial service for Takeoff in the trio’s home town of Atlanta earlier this month, Offset’s wife, Cardi B, sh...
BTS‘ Jungkook Explores Qatar in ’Dreamers’ Video Featuring Flying Whales
BTS‘ Jungkook dropped the video for his solo track “Dreamers” on Tuesday (Nov. 22), a kind of travelogue in which the singer explores Qatar, the site of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. The dreamy song that is part of the official soundtrack of the global football classic that kicked off this week in the tiny Middle Eastern country features Jungkook singing alongside Qatari artist Fahad Al-Kubaisi. The clip opens with a stunned-looking Jungkook wandering through a brightly lit corridor before emerging into a space filled with pulsing lasers as dancers in a market join him on a stroll through the city. Meanwhile, Al-Kubaisi sings his bits from the deck of a huge schooner as Jungkook croons from atop a skyscraper amid images of children watching digital whales break free from the bonds of the ocean ...
