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Goodbye Mike? Peep The Trailer To ‘Halloween Ends’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Universal / Universal Michael Meyers is still running around in a white man mask killing people but apparently his number is about to be up as Halloween Ends promises to be his final swan song. Yesterday fans of the classic horror film franchise got the first trailer to the David Gordon Green directed film and it looks like Michael will once be throwing down with his sister, Laurie Strode (Jamie Lee Curtis), but this time it’s for all the marbles that Mikey’s lost over the decades. Taking place three years after the events of Halloween Kills (which dropped last year actually), the trailer to Halloween Ends doesn’t offer much in plot details other than that Michael Meyers is once again terrorizing the citizens of Haddonfield, Illinois, but given the film’s...
Ne-Yo Capes For R. Kelly After Previous #MuteRKelly Stance
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Ne-Yo is, without question, one of the most talented R&B singers and songwriters, and his knowledge of the genre has few peers. The “So Sick” artist previously joined the #MuteRKelly movement in support of one of his children but shared in a recent interview that he still enjoys playing R. Kelly‘s music. Ne-Yo sat down with The Independent to discuss the release of his eighth studio album, Self Explanatory and shared some of the personal ups and downs he’s endured in while in the public eye. Talk of the singer’s announced divorce opened up the chat with the outlet in which Ne-Yo explained that he and his wife reconciled after filing for divorce in 2020 at the height of the pandemic. “We really used to be bad about letting things ...
Trevor Noah Throws Shade At Secret Service For Deleted Jan. 6 Texts
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NICHOLAS KAMM / Getty The recent controversy over the United States Secret Service stating that it had no text messages from January 6th as insurrectionists stormed the Capitol has raised many eyebrows – including that of Trevor Noah. The host of The Daily Show touched upon the incident in his opening monologue during the episode that aired Tuesday night (July 19th). “Wow, this is so sad. The Secret Service lost all the texts from January 6th because they were doing a ‘device replacement program.’ What a perfect ― I mean terrible ― thing,” he quipped. “Why do I feel like this is the same kind of device replacement program you do when your partner asks you to explain where you were the other night?” Related Stories He continued, “It’s interesting how they ...
Diddy ft. Bryson Tiller “Gotta Move On,” Latto “P*ssy” & More | Daily Visuals 7.20.22
HipHopWired Featured Video It feels like it’s been decades since P. Diddy done dropped any new music as he’s been living his best life away from the game, but today Brother Love returns to the rap scene with some new work in hopes of dominating the club scene like it was 1999. Linking up with Bryson Tiller in the visuals to “Gotta Move On,” Diddy takes to the club with his entourage on confront his shorty on the dance floor before taking his anger out on the bathroom sink. Good thing he has more than enough money to pay for repairs. Related Stories Latto meanwhile puts on for her gender and in her clip to “P*ssy” calls out misogynistic men and their ways and actions while letting a house filled with cats enjoy the good life and eat all the seafood on the table. Check out the rest of today’...
Joe Budden Claims JAY-Z Asked for $250,000 USD to Appear on “Pump It Up” Remix
JAY-Z‘s team supposedly gave Joe Budden a $250,000 USD price tag if he wanted the Roc Nation founder to appear on the “Pump It Up” Remix. During a recent appearance on the Flip Da Script Podcast, Budden explained that he was a young rapper who understood that it was an expensive price tag only for him and not Hov. ”I don’t think that was a big number, I think that was his number. ‘That’s my number to rap on this new artist’s remix.’ It was just big in my world, but it wasn’t a big number,” he said. “Listen, again, I’m super young in that moment. I wasn’t in the studio when [Jay and Budden’s A&R Skane] had the conversation. I knew that they had some type of relationship,” Budden added. “It was a Just Blaze beat and I was green behind the ears. I just thought that it would get done....
Japanese Breakfast Shares Video for Korean Version of “Be Sweet”
Japanese Breakfast has shared a video for a Korean language version of her Jubilee track “Be Sweet,” featuring guest vocals from So!Yoon! of Seo So Neon. Yaeji helped translate the original lyrics from English to Korean. Check it out below. Of the new version, Japanese Breakfast’s Michelle Zauner said in a statement: We thought it would be fun to put out a special Korean version of “Be Sweet“ preceding our upcoming performance in Seoul. Im very grateful Yaeji helped me with the translation over a year ago. So!Yoon! is one of my favorite indie artists in Seoul right now and I’m so happy we got to collab. Japanese Breakfast released Jubilee last year. In September, Zauner shared the soundtrack to the video game Sable. Last weekend (July 16), the band played Pitchfork Music Festival 2022 in C...
Skullcrusher Announces Debut Album Quiet the Room, Shares New Song
Skullcrusher, the project of singer-songwriter Helen Ballentine, has announced today that she’s releasing her debut album this year. Quiet the Room is out October 14 via Secretly Canadian. Check out the video for the lead single “Whatever Fits Together” below. “I wrote ‘Whatever Fits Together’ while reflecting on my past and wondering how I might begin to explain it to someone,” Ballentine said in a statement. “I viewed my younger self through a wash of emotions: anger, sadness, pity, confusion, all reaching for a kind of compassion. I tried to capture the contradictions that comprise my past and define who I am now. As I looked back, I saw my life in pieces: some moments blacked out, some extremely vivid, some leading nowhere. Through the song I attempt to piece it together in some non-li...
Watch Big Thief’s “Tiny Desk (Home) Concert” Performance for NPR
Big Thief have shared their “Tiny Desk (Home) Concert” performance for NPR. Filmed by Adam Gundersheimer and Vanessa Haddad, the band played “Change,” “Dried Roses,” and “Certainty” from its latest LP Dragon New Warm Mountain I Believe in You. Big Thief also performed an unreleased track called “Happiness” that has been woven into their recent live sets. The band members played while perched around a small coffee table. Watch it all go down below. In 2020, Adrianne Lenker played a solo “Tiny Desk (Home) Concert.” Big Thief’s latest performance for the series features the full band: Lenker, guitarist Buck Meek, bassist Max Oleartchik, and percussionist James Krivchenia. Big Thief also performed for “Tiny Desk” as a group back in 2016. Big Thief issued their new album Dragon New Warm Mountai...
Minneapolis’ First Avenue Cancels Dave Chappelle Show Amid Backlash, Apologizes for Booking Him
On Monday, storied Minneapolis venue First Avenue announced tickets for a Dave Chappelle show set to take place tonight (July 20). Following backlash stemming from Chappelle’s recent history of telling transphobic jokes, the venue announced today that tonight’s show has been canceled. It will instead take place at a different venue, the Varsity Theater, which is hosting more shows from Chappelle later in the week. First Avenue also issued an apology for booking the comedian. Pitchfork has reached out to Chappelle’s representatives for comment. “To staff, artists, and our community, we hear you and we are sorry,” the statement begins. “We know we must hold ourselves to the highest standards, and we know we let you down. We are not just a black box with people in it, and we understand ...
This Nonprofit Is Handing Out Free Narcan at Music Festivals to Combat Fentanyl Poisoning
LISTEN UP, a project launched by non-profit organization This Must Be The Place, is touring around the United States this summer to hand out free Narcan kits and combat opioid overdose. The Columbus, Ohio-based organization was started by Ingela Travers-Hayward and William Perry. Travers-Hayward is an Emmy Award-winning producer who formerly worked with MTV News Canada, and Perry is a reformed felon and victim of opioid addiction who served 10 years in prison after getting caught up in the opioid epidemic. Considering the importance of harm reduction in the dance music scene, the two formed TMBTP with the goal of “harnessing the arts to help in the fight against substance abuse and behavioral disorders.” This summer, Travers-Hayward and Perry want to hand ...
The Chainsmokers to Become First Artists to Perform In the Stratosphere
The Chainsmokers are ascending to new heights. We mean that quite literally, as the duo have just signed up for the most unique live performance of their career. The venue? A pressurized capsule floating 20 miles above the earth’s surface. The stunt is being made possible as part of an initiative by World View, an innovator in the emerging space tourism sector. The company has demonstrated an early track record of success operating at the edge of the stratosphere, most notably as evidenced by their efforts to engineer a record-breaking skydive performed by Alan Eustace in 2014. Now World View is set to break another barrier after announcing The Chainsmokers as the first artists to perform at the edge of space, per AP. “We have always dreamed of going to space and are stoked to ...
Steve Lacy Hits No. 1 on Emerging Artists Chart, Thanks to ‘Bad Habit’
Steve Lacy jumps to No. 1 on Billboard‘s Emerging Artists chart (dated July 23) to become the top emerging act in the U.S. for the first time, thanks to his new single, “Bad Habit.” The song surges from No. 100 to No. 50 in its second week on the Billboard Hot 100 with 9.7 million U.S. streams (up 82%, good for the chart’s top Streaming Gainer award) in the July 8-14 tracking week, according to Luminate. The song is Lacy’s first Hot 100 entry as a soloist. “Bad Habit” concurrently ranks at No. 4 on Hot R&B Songs (after reaching No. 3), No. 5 on both Hot Alternative Songs and Hot Rock Songs and No. 7 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs. [embedded content] Lacy first appeared on Billboard‘s charts in 2012 as a member of The Internet, which scored two entries on the Billboard 200 albums c...
