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Prodigious Producer Illangelo Unveils New EP Under Electronic Music Alias, Joy Odyssey
Prolific contemporary music producer Illangelo has officially made his foray into electronic dance music. Illangelo, who has amassed over 25 billion streams across his catalog, has produced music for the likes of Drake, Post Malone, Alicia Keys, Grimes and many more while operating as one of the leading creative forces behind a slew of The Weeknd’s chart-topping hits over the past decade. Illangelo unveiled his new electronic music alias, Joy Odyssey, late last year with his debut EP, Feels Like Heaven / Drifting, a mind-bending record combining trap rhythms with ethereal vocals. Now, he’s back with his second body of work, moving into a dancefloor-heavy direction with Energy / Divine Perfection. Joy Odyssey. c/o Press Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles The upbeat...
The Weeknd Announces Rescheduled Los Angeles Concerts After Mid-Show Cancellation
The Weeknd has announced two new dates in Los Angeles next month, one of which is a reschedule of his scuttled show from early September. He’s added another night in the city, too, and he’ll hold court at SoFi Stadium on Saturday, November 26 and Sunday, November 27. Kaytranada and Mike Dean will open both shows. The Weeknd cut his September 3 Los Angeles show short due to losing his voice, leaving the stage after stopping “Can’t Feel My Face” to explain the situation to the sold-out crowd. That postponement was the second derailment of his tour in support of January’s DawnFM: In July, the Weeknd had to reschedule the opening date in Toronto due to a massive telecom network outage in Canada.
Watch Run the Jewels, Greg Nice, and DJ Premier Do “Ooh La La” on Kimmel
Run the Jewels were featured on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, playing their song “Ooh La La.” Killer Mike and El-P also brought featured guests Greg Nice and DJ Premier. Watch the performance below. Run the Jewels recently wrapped up the first leg of their North American tour opening for Rage Against the Machine with five-night run at Madison Square Garden in New York. They resume the tour in February in Las Cruces, New Mexico. In August, Run the Jewels appeared with A$AP Rocky on Danger Mouse and Black Thought’s “Strangers.” Earlier this month, they shared the new theme song they wrote for the upcoming movie Aqua Teen Forever: Plantasm. Their last LP, RTJ4, dropped in June 2020. Check out Pitchfork’s feature “El-P on the Music That Made Him.” Content This content can also be viewed on t...
Post Malone Continuing Tour, Gives Post-Hospitalization Update
Post Malone has given an update after being forced to cancel his concert in Boston on Saturday night. He explained in a note over the weekend that he was hospitalized after “having a very difficult time breathing” and dealing with “a stabbing pain whenever I breathe or move.” He’s now clarified that his tour, which is set to continue through November, will continue starting with tonight’s show at the Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse in Cleveland. “Cleveland, I will be singing the FUCK outta some songs tonight,” he wrote. “see y’all tonight.” Post Malone’s tour in the United States behind Twelve Carat Toothache made headlines earlier this month when, during a concert in St. Louis, the singer tripped and fell into an opening onstage. After the show stopped for about 15 minutes, Post Malone continu...
Denzel Curry Announces Extended LP, Pilots “X-Wing” in New Video: Watch
Denzel Curry has announced an expanded edition of his 2022 LP Melt My Eyez See Your Future with a new video for “X-Wing,” in which he pilots matte black copy of the titular Star Wars Rebel fighter spacecraft. Melt My Eyez See Your Future: The Extended Edition is due out September 30 via Loma Vista, and comprises a single take of the original LP performed by Curry backed by the Cold Blooded Soul Band. Check out the full track list, album art, and video for “X-Wing” below. Curry will premiere the record on a livestream September 29. He has previously performed with the Cold Blooded Soul Band on the Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and NPR’s Tiny Desk. He’s so far released videos for the Melt My Eyez See Your Future tracks “Walkin” and “Zatoichi.” Check out Pitchfork’s “Moodboard” fea...
John Cena Makes Guinness World Records By Granting 650 Wishes For Make-A-Wish Foundation
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: John Lamparski / Getty We may not be seeing John Cena on any WWE programming these days, but that isn’t keeping the fan favorite wrestler from paying visits to children who ask for a portion of his valuable time. According to NPR, John Cena just made history and made the Guinness World Records by granting a record 650 wishes for the Make-A-Wish foundation. Making his 650th granted wish this past July 19th, Cena has been very active with the foundation ever since he was rapping his way to the wrestling ring back in 2002. Though many in the Hip-Hop culture found his whole “Professor of Thuganomics” shtick hella corny (yet entertaining), children loved it and have been asking to meet him for decades. Requests that Cena has happily made and we’re all for it. ...
Relatives Of Jeffrey Dahmer Victim Blast Netflix For New Series
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Marny Malin / Getty The latest Netflix series focusing on the serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer has received criticism, some coming from relatives of those he murdered who feel “retraumatized” by the project. DAHMER – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story series was released Sept. 21 and it has encountered a wave of mixed reactions, with many expressing their anger and disgust over the way the streaming platform put the series together. Eric Perry, who is related to Errol Lindsey, one of Dahmer’s numerous victims, voiced his displeasure in a post on Twitter: “I’m not telling anyone what to watch, I know true crime media is huge rn, but if you’re actually curious about the victims, my family (the Isbell’s) are pissed about this show. It’s retraumatizing over and ov...
HHW Gaming: Netflix Is Launching Its Own Video Game Studio
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: INA FASSBENDER / Getty Netflix is very serious about stepping into the world of video games, so serious that the streaming service will launch its own gaming studio. Spotted on Polygon, the streaming giant is building its own video game studio from the ground up, joining the three other studios the movie streaming giant already owns. Per Polygon: Related Stories The new studio — the fourth games studio owned by Netflix — will be based in Helsinki, Finland, and will bolster Netflix’s efforts to bring “engaging original games” to their hundreds of millions of subscribers around the world, vice president of Netflix’s Game Studios said. So far, the company has focused on buying pre-existing studios to invest in game development. This is Netflix’s most s...
DaBaby “Boogeyman,” Trippie Redd “Above (Suge)” & More | Daily Visuals 9.27.22
HipHopWired Featured Video As of late DaBaby has been going hard dropping off new visuals for his latest cuts and seems to be having a good time dressing up as different characters for entertainment purposes in each new video. For his latest clip to “Boogeyman,” DaBaby gets his into horror mode and uses makeup to look like an iced-out demon who terrorizes a group of “teens” who stumbled upon his haunted mansion. DaBaby’s videos are anything but boring these days. Related Stories Meanwhile, Trippie Redd seems to be following in 2000 Cam’ron’s footsteps and in his visual to “Above (Suge),” rocks a pink fur coat while using all kinds of pink animation to keep his video colorful. Cam really had heads rocking hella pink gear back in the day. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work fr...
Post Malone Announces Return to Tour After Fall From Stage: ‘See Y’all Tonight’
Post Malone is ready to return to the stage. On Tuesday (Sept. 27), the rapper took to Twitter to assure fans his show in Cleveland was moving ahead as planned. “Cleveland, I will be singing the F— outta some songs tonight…see y’all tonight,” he tweeted hours before the concert was set to begin at Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse. Posty’s return to tour follows his brief hospitalization after falling through an open trap door on the stage during his Twelve Carat Tour stop in St. Louis earlier this month. As a result of the “stabbing pain” he was experiencing, the nine-time Grammy nominee was forced to cancel his Sept. 24 show in Boston. Following his discharge from the hospital, Malone posted an amusing shot of himself flipping off the trap door in question and also explained how the mishap occu...
John Coltrane’s ‘Blue Train’ Reissue Tops Multiple Billboard Album Charts
John Coltrane’s Blue Train, first released in 1957, charges in at No. 1 on multiple Billboard album charts (dated Oct. 1) following its 65th-anniversary expanded reissue on Sept. 16. The album debuts at No. 1 on both the overall Jazz Albums chart and Traditional Jazz Albums chart (Coltrane’s seventh leader on both). It also scores the jazz legend, who died in 1967, his first leader on the 11-year-old Vinyl Albums chart. It’s also the first jazz title to reach No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums tally in nearly five years. Blue Train additionally enters at No. 7 on Top Album Sales, No. 6 on Tastemaker Albums and No. 95 on the Billboard 200. The set earned 11,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending Sept. 22, according to Luminate. Essentially all of that sum was driven by traditional...
BLACKPINK’s Jisoo & Rosé Hit Paris Fashion Week in Style
Paris Fashion Week is officially in full swing, and BLACKPINK, among K-pop’s most fashionable stars, have been in attendance at some of the most sought-after shows. On Tuesday (Sept. 27), members Jisoo and Rosé both sat front row at Dior and Yves Saint Laurent, the brands that they are global ambassadors for, respectively, and were the the talk of K-pop Twitter once pictures of them hit the Internet. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news At Dior, Jisoo went viral for her appearance — she donned a simple black minidress in a crinkle fabric that featured a bubble hem and large bow cinched at her waist. To accessorize the look, the singer donned a pair of black fishnet tights, black platform heels and a printed Lady Dior bag. On the way into the...
