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New Joe Strummer Box Set Announced
Ahead of what would have been his 70th birthday (August 21), Dark Horse Records has announced a new box set of albums by Joe Strummer and his post-Clash band the Mescaleros. Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years arrives September 16, and will feature remastered editions of all three of the band’s studio albums, plus 15 rare and unreleased tracks spanning the first demos Strummer wrote for the group. Today, Dark Horse has shared an animated visual for the previously unreleased track “The Road to Rock ‘N’ Roll.” Check it out below. Joe Strummer 002 marks the first-ever comprehensive collection of the Mescaleros’ work. The set features the band’s three studio LPs: Rock Art and the X-Ray Style (1999), Global a Go-Go (2001), and the posthumous Streetcore (2003). All of the albums are remastere...
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Gets Release Date
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story has finally been given a release date. The “Weird Al” Yankovic biopic, which stars Daniel Radcliffe, will premiere on the Roku Channel on Friday, November 4, 2022. The release date was announced with an official poster for the film, which depicts Yankovic below the Hollywood sign with the film’s title emblazoned across the back of his jacket. Check it out below. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story was directed and co-written by Eric Appel and co-produced by Funny or Die and Tango. In addition to being the film’s subject, Yankovic was involved as a writer and producer. Earlier this year, Roku shared a teaser trailer for the film, which features Yankovic’s 1985 Madonna parody “Like a Surgeon.” In May, Z2 Comics announced a new “Weird Al” Yankovic graphic novel.
Rosalía Shares New Song “Despechá”
Rosalía has shared a new one-off single she’s been performing during her world tour behind her new album Motomami. It’s called “Despechá.” Give it a listen below. “There are many ways to be Despechá, in this theme it is from the freeness or the craziness, moving without reservations or regrets,” Rosalía said in a translated statement. “This is the place from where I make music, from where I did it when I first started and where I will continue to until God says so. I’m grateful for having been able to travel in recent years and have learned from music from other places including the DR, where artists like Fefita La Grande, Juan Luis Guerra and Omega have inspired me and without them this song would not exist.” Read Pitchfork’s feature “Work Hard, Play Hard: How Rosalía Makes Her Musi...
Calvin Harris Shares Stacked ‘Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2’ Tracklist
Calvin Harris has unveiled the official tracklist of his upcoming record, Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2. The 14-track project set is set to feature a star-studded list of guests, namely 21 Savage, Dua Lipa, Young Thug, Stefflon Don, Chlöe, Coi Leray, Charlie Puth, Shenseea, Normani, Tinashe, Offset, Busta Rhymes, Halsey, Justin Timberlake, Jorja Smith, Lil Durk, 6LACK, Donae’o, Snoop Dogg, Latto, Swae Lee and Pusha T. Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 will serve as the followup to 2017’s Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1, which debuted at No. 2 and featured Frank Ocean, Migos, Schoolboy Q, PartyNextDoor, DRAM, Young Thug, Pharrell Williams, Ariana Grande, Future, Khalid, Travis Scott, Snoop Dogg, John Legend, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Big Sean, Kehlani, Lil Yachty and Jessie Reyez. Check out the tracklist below. Cal...
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Calvin Harris Reveals Star-Studded Tracklist for “Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2”
Over five years after its predecessor, the release of Calvin Harris‘ Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 album is just about a week away. The last few months have been tantamount to torture for fans of the chart-topping “Summer” producer, who had been cryptically teasing the follow-up to 2017’s influential Vol. 1, saying back in March that it’s the “maddest album” he’s ever produced. And if its tracklist is any indication, he wasn’t kidding around. If the crossover potential of Funk Wave Bounces Vol. 1 was hot, that of its successor is downright volcanic. The tracklist, which Harris revealed today, is brimming with monster collaborations. Highlights include “New To You” (with Normani, Tinashe and Migos’ Offset) and R...
“Race to the Bottom”: U.S. Representative Drafts Letter to Congress for Music Streaming Royalty Reform
The hammer may soon come down on digital service providers. It’s an axiom among music industry professionals that royalties generated from streaming services are abysmal. While these companies rake in record profits and lease luxury office spaces for their employees, the musicians who constitute their userbases often bemoan their business models for practices many deem to be exploitative. Rashida Tlaib, the U.S. representative for Michigan’s 13th congressional district, has written a letter to Congress proposing that musicians should be fairly compensated for their work distributed by digital service providers like Spotify and Apple Music. Tlaib says she has been working closely with the Union of Musicians and Allied Workers (UMAW) to advocate for royalty reform. “W...
Alison Wonderland, REZZ, Rusko, More to Play EDC Orlando 2022: See the Full Lineup
Insomniac has revealed a staggering lineup of over 100 artists set to take the stage at the 11th iteration of EDC Orlando. Welcoming the return of the promoter’s fan-favorite kineticBLOOM production, this year’s EDC Orlando features one of its largest lineups to date. Spread out over four stages, the festival is set to host both established dance music veterans and fiery young DJs. The 11th installment of Insomniac’s EDC Orlando saga will take place November 11-13, 2022 at Tinker Field. Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased here. Alison Wonderland performs at EDC Orlando 2019. Alex Perez Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles This year’s EDC Orlando lineup covers nearly every electronic sub-genre out there. Mainstage favorites Above & Beyond, Afrojack, A...
Avicii, Skrillex, DJ Snake Make Rolling Stone’s “Greatest Dance Songs of All-Time” List
Rolling Stone has published its list of greatest dance songs of all-time. Dance music has evolved immensely over the years and is now paramount to today’s contemporary music ecosystem. In order to land on their high-profile list, the songs “had to be part of ‘dance music culture,'” according to Rolling Stone. “It’s a more specific world, but an enormous one too, going back nearly fifty years and eternally evolving right up to today and into the future,” the outlet writes. Covering 200 tracks, the list features electronic dance music classics like Avicii‘s “Levels” (#52), Nero‘s “Promises” (#42), DJ Snake‘s “Turn Down For What” (#22) and Disclosure‘s “Latch” (#10)...
Young Dolph Receives First Posthumous Single “Hall of Fame”
Young Dolph has received his first posthumous track, “Hall of Fame.” Released by his team, the song’s premiere lands on what would have been the late rapper’s 37th birthday. Young Dolph, whose real name is Adolph Robert Thornton Jr., was shot and killed in hometown of Memphis in November 2021. The track arrived with an official visualizer honoring Young Dolph’s legacy. The video opens with a car speeding down the road. Its license plate reads “PRE” for Paper Route Empire, the independent label Young Dolph founded in 2010. The visual cuts to a stone bust of the rapper’s likeness sporting sunglasses and a diamond-encrusted chain. The bust is surrounded by the covers of albums he put out over the span of his career. At the beginning of this year, Paper Route Empire released a compilation albu...
Black Trump Supporter Sentenced To 5 Years In Prison For Assualting Police Officer During Capitol Riots
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty Robert Ponder, a Black Donald Trump supporter, is going to jail for a few years after participating in the saltine-fueled Capitol riots on January 6. Robert Ponder Learned The Hard Way NBC News reports that Mark Ponder, one of the few people from the Washington area arrested for participating in the Capitol riots, is heading to jail. U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan sentenced Ponder to 63 months, that’s five years, for assaulting a police officer during the January 6 insurrection that went down in the nation’s capital. According to NBC News, ponder’s jail sentence ties him with Robert Scott Palmer, who attacked a law enforcement officer with a fire extinguisher during the riots. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell testified at...
Cincinnati Karen Cop Busted Using N-Word On Video, Tries “Not All” Struggle Defense
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NBC News / NBC News A Cincinnati, Ohio police officer is in hot water after being caught on video using the N-word. She claimed to investigators afterward that she wasn’t referring to all African-Americans at that moment. According to reports, Officer Rose Valentino was attempting to pull into the parking lot of the police department’s district office in the West Price Hill neighborhood on April 5th. She got agitated because of the traffic backup due to parents picking up children from Western Hills University High School nearby. Her body camera was on, capturing her putting on sirens to compel drivers to move. Valentino then rolled down her window and shouted at a driver, who was Black, to move their vehicle. A 16-year-old student walking by fl...
