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Kelly Clarkson Slows It Down for Alec Benjamin ‘Kellyoke’ Cover: Watch
Kelly Clarkson kicked off the Friday (Oct. 14) episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show with a beautiful and mellow rendition of Alec Benjamin‘s2018 Billboard Hot 100 hit “Let Me Down Slowly,” featuring Alessia Cara, for “Kellyoke.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The American Idol winner looked stunning under blue lights, rocking a black T-shirt, cheetah-print skirt and black boots while singing her heart out with her piano player in the background. “Could you find a way to let me down slowly?” Clarkson sang. “A little sympathy, I hope you can show me/ If you wanna go, then I’ll be so lonely/ If you’re leavin’, baby, let me down slowly.” Clarkson earned a standing ovation from her impressed crowd for her powerhouse vocals on the cover. “Let ...
The Ledger: How Streaming Platforms Are Looking Beyond Music to Boost Their Margins
The Ledger is a weekly newsletter about the economics of the music business sent to Billboard Pro subscribers. An abbreviated version of the newsletter is published online. The 2004 documentary Super Size Me took a humorous look at the health consequences of fast-food restaurants’ practice of up-selling customers to higher-priced, larger-portioned items – a super-sized cup of Coca-Cola rather than a large, for example. To the customer, up-selling looked like a good deal: the additional soda or food cost only a few cents more. For restaurants, the tactic padded margins because the difference in price dwarfed the cost of goods. Super Size Me comes to mind when looking at music subscription services and their quest to improve their margins. Those services have the equivalent of a super...
Jimmie Allen to Guest-Star on ‘The Conners’
Country singer Jimmie Allen has announced that he’ll appear on the new season of ABC’s The Conners. “This is gonna be a good time,” he tweeted. “Learning my lines as I type.” The sitcom — a sequel to the 1988-97 series Roseanne, which was briefly revived in 2018 before creator Roseanne Barr was fired over controversial tweets — is now in its fifth season. It’s yet to be revealed whether Allen is playing a character on the show or himself. Allen has appeared on other television shows this year too, performing on American Idol and serving as an advisor to Blake Shelton on The Voice. The singer got his start on season 10 of Idol back in 2011 but was cut before the show’s live voting rounds; he signed a deal with Wide Open Music shortly thereafter. More than a decade after his time on American...
Newly-Formed Indie Promoter Restless Presents Launching With L.A.’s Substance 2022 Festival
Veteran Los Angeles concert promoters and talent buyers Brian Tarney and Liz Garo have joined forces to form Restless Presents, an indie promotion company that’s producing the upcoming Substance 2022 festival. Previously produced by Tarney’s ticketing and marketing company Restless Nights and Live Nation, the annual celebration of dark rock, industrial, electronic post-punk will feature one of its strongest lineups to date, with performers including Jesus And Mary Chain, The Chameleons, Clock DVA, Cabaret Voltaire co-founder Steven Mallinder, electro-royalty ensemble Miss Kittin And The Hacker, Boy Harsher, Light Asylum, Youth Code, SEXTILE and Kontravoid. The festival is slated for Oct. 21 and 22 at the Los Angeles Theater. Tarney and Garo have...
Best New Tracks: Stormzy, Diddy, Lil Baby 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 a long-lost track from Queen featuring vocals from late frontman Freddie Mercury. American pianist and producer Robert Glasper tapped Mac Miller for a posthumous collaboration, appearing on the forthcoming deluxe edition of his new LP Black Radio III. Elsewhere in music, Lil Baby dropped his highly-anticipated third studio album It’s Only Me with features from Young Thug, Future and more, while Stormzy shared the first single from his first project in three years. Additional new offerings come from $NOT, Diddy, Tee Grizzley, Russ, Kembe X and Marshmello with Juice WRLD. Stormzy – “Hide & Seek” [embedded content] Stormzy slows it d...
Crunchyroll Is Developing a Special “Anime Music Experience” at Porter Robinson’s Second Sky Music Festival
Porter Robinson and Crunchyroll are teaming up for a bespoke “anime music experience” at Second Sky, the electronic music star’s curated music festival in the Bay Area. According to a press release shared with EDM.com, the “Anime Shelter” experience will feature DJs from Tokyo’s iconic Akihabara anime nightclub, MOGRA, who are set to return to the states for the first time since 2019. Ravers will also be able to gulp down anime-inspired drinks at the pop-up, which takes its name from Robinson’s 2016 hit, “Shelter.” “MOGRA is one of my favorite places in the world—the all-night anisongs and incredible live VJing is an experience that has become rightfully famous worldwide and it’s somewhere I go every time I’m in Japan,”...
Floatie Races, Firetruck DJ Sets and More: Anything Goes at Dirtybird Campout
For the uninitiated, it can be difficult to describe a weekend at Dirtybird Campout. Sure, the generalized depiction can be epitomized as a music festival, but that would be a disservice to the team at Dirtybird and everyone in attendance. It’s not just another music festival. Ivan Meneses At its core, Campout is the antithesis of the cliché festival formula. The three-day camping experience differentiates itself from the rest thanks to its ability to forgo all the rules, allowing artists and fans alike to relinquish their egos in the name of fun. Teamwork and good old-fashioned fun are the name of the game at Dirtybird Campout. Of course, music plays a major role at Campout as well. The weekender featured an array of talent from the esteemed Dirtybird label, with a mix of genr...
Brent Betit Drops Explosive Future House Track, “Haunted”
Veteran DJ Brent Betit is back with “Haunted,” a brand new track which arrives just in time for spooky season by way of TURNT Music Media. With over a decade of experience behind the decks, Betit has been sharpening his skills inside the studio, drawing inspiration from some of dance music’s greatest artists, like Don Diablo, Laidback Luke, Oliver Heldens and David Guetta. And while his prowess as a DJ is undisputed and has enabled him to perform alongside the likes of Party Favor, Cheat Codes, 4B and more, Betit’s ever-expanding production skillset has led to releases on a number of established labels. Following his earlier 2022 single “Smooth Operator,” Betit has now returned with “Haunted” right ahead of Halloween. And it’s a future house stunner. The track ...
Listen to Disclosure’s Gritty House Remix of Kim Petras and Sam Smith’s “Unholy”
We’re currently latching onto the idea of another Disclosure and Sam Smith collab, but in the meantime, their new track is on repeat. Disclosure have released a huge remix of “Unholy,” a high-profile collab between Smith and Kim Petras. The Grammy-nominated duo twisted the song into a powerful club record, producing a thumping pre-chorus with thunderous 808s before a gritty house drop. Disclosure had debuted the song, which hit streaming platforms shortly after the 10-year anniversary of the timeless “Latch,” during their performance at London’s All Points East. Take a listen to the new remix below. Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles MUSIC RELEASES Listen to Disclosure’s Gritty House Remix of Kim Petras and Sam Smith’s “Unholy” The ...
Video Of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Surface From Jan. 6 Attack, Twitter Reacts
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 3 hours 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 ...
Megan Thee Stallion Gives Us A Taste of Her Comedic Skills In New ‘SNL’ Promo
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NBC / Getty While the girls (Nicki Minaj and Latto) are throwing shots at each other on Twitter, Megan Thee Stallion is prepping to show off her comedic chops and hit a twerk or two on SNL. Ahead of her hosting debut and performance on SNL, a funny promo featuring Megan Thee Stallion and SNL alum Heidi Gardner arrived on Thursday, Oct. 13. In the clip, the Houston rapper reacts to Gardner revealing that show will be awesome, but it hasn’t been written yet. “Wait… the show ain’t written yet?” The “Her” rapper asks Gardner with the comic, adding, “nope.” “But it’s already Thursday,” Thee Stallion points out, asking, “we got people working on that, right?” and Garnder confirms, “nope.” In another take, Gardner adds Thee to her name, which leads to Megan hila...
50 Cent Trolls 25-Year-Old Son, Marquise, After Being Offered $6700 For A Sit-Down
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Recently 50 Cent’s son, Marquise Jackson, has made it known that he’s looking to repair his relationship with his father, but unfortunately for him, his father is in fact 50 Cent. According to TMZ, the son that 50 Cent once proudly presented to countless crowds at his G-Unit shows back in the early 2000’s has been trying to convince his father to talk things out and even offered one month’s worth of child support ($6,700) to get things rolling. Marquise tells TMZ Hip Hop he meant what he said, in a now-viral post, about putting up $6,700 — Fiddy’s monthly child support payment — for the one-on-one, and says he’ll actually pay more than that if necessary. Unfazed and uninterested in any kind of reconciliation with the son he...
