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Paramore Announce Fall 2022 North American Tour
Paramore have announced a fall tour of North America. The 12-show run begins in Bakersfield, California, and includes dates in various U.S. cities, as well as a Toronto date. Their previously announced headline set at When We Were Young festival in Las Vegas falls in the middle of the tour. Check out the itinerary below. Paramore’s last album was 2017’s After Laughter. In the meantime, Hayley Williams has released last year’s Flowers for Vases / Descansos and the previous year’s Petals for Armor. Paramore: Fall 2022 Tour Ticketmaster Paramore: 10-02 Bakersfield, CA – Mechanics Bank Theater10-04 Magna, UT – The Great SaltAir10-06 Omaha, NE – Orpheum Theater Omaha10-08 Oklahoma City, OK – The Criterion10-09 Austin, TX – Austin City Limits10-11 Chesterfield, MO &...
Happy Mondays Bassist Paul Ryder Dies at 58
Paul Ryder, whose house-inspired basslines anchored Happy Mondays, died this morning (July 15), the band said on Facebook. A representative confirmed the news to Pitchfork. No cause of death was given. Paul Ryder was 58. Ryder co-founded the Happy Mondays in 1980 with his brother Paul and Gary Whelan, Paul Davis, and Mark Day, with Mark “Bez” Berry later joining on tambourine and percussion. The famously hedonistic group peaked in the late ’80s, when its blend of dance and psychedelic rock—dubbed “baggy”—aligned with the rave movement and fed into the Madchester scene. Their 1990 album, Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches, and follow-up Yes Please!—both released on Factory—achieved commercial success while the band collapsed amid internal strife and drug use. A comeback in 1999 drew huge crow...
YoungBoy Never Broke Again Found Not Guilty in Federal Case
YoungBoy Never Broke Again has been found not guilty of a federal weapons possession charge, Andrew Flier, an attorney for YoungBoy, confirmed to Pitchfork. Formally, YoungBoy had been indicted by a federal grand jury in California on a charge of being a felon in possession of a firearm and ammunition. The California case against YoungBoy stemmed from a September 2020 arrest in Louisiana on drug and firearm charges. Several months after the arrest, YoungBoy was indicted by a federal grand jury in Baton Rouge on firearm possession charges. Due to the indictment, there was a federal warrant for the rapper’s arrest. In March 2021, police in California arrested YoungBoy after a short pursuit. According to another indictment, the rapper possessed a pistol at the time of the California arrest, l...
Billy Corgan Announces Benefit Show for Highland Park Shooting Victims
Billy Corgan is stepping up for his community. The Smashing Pumpkins frontman and his partner Chloe Mendel announced Thursday (July 14) that they are hosting a livestream charity show to benefit the victims of the July 4 Highland Park, Ill., shooting. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “About a week ago, we had the horrible tragedy here on July 4 that took so many lives and injured so many people and really have affected us as a community,” the rocker, who has lived in Highland Park for about 20 years, said in an Instagram video. “So what we want to do on the evening of July 27 is we’re going to have a very special charity concert. Jimmy Chamberlin’s going to be part of the concert, other parts of the Pumpkins family.” “There are so many people he...
Cardi B, Ye & Lil Durk’s ‘Hot S–t’ Debuts at No. 1 on Top Triller U.S. Chart
Cardi B, Ye and Lil Durk’s “Hot Shit” starts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Triller U.S. chart, debuting atop the July 16-dated survey. The Top Triller U.S. and Top Triller Global charts highlight the biggest songs on Triller based on a formula blending the amount of views of videos containing a respective song, the level of engagement with those videos and the raw total of videos uploaded featuring each song, according to Triller. Data for the charts is represented on a Friday-Thursday tracking week, with the latest period running July 1-7. “Hot Shit” becomes her fifth No. 1 on Top Triller U.S., the most among any act since the ranking began in 2020. Cardi B also ruled the list alongside Kay Flock, Dougie B and Bory300 on “Shake It” (May 2022), as a featured artist on City Girls’ “Twerk” (Oc...
First Country: Zach Bryan, Zac Brown Band, Cody Johnson, LeAnn Rimes & More
First Country is a compilation of the best new country songs, videos & albums that dropped this week. Zach Bryan, “Summertime Blues“ [embedded content] Just months after topping the Billboard Country Albums chart with his whopping 34-track album American Heartbreak in May, this prolific, country and Americana-synthesizing artist returns with the nine-track EP Summertime Blues. The slow-burning, demo-like title track makes great use of Bryan’s craggy, weathered voice and the song finds the singer-songwriter staring into a summer sunset, musing that he has no one to share it with as the summer months stretch long before him. This year, Bryan has had successful sets at Stagecoach Country Music Festival and at its newly-minted, more Americana-leaning cousin, Palomino Festival. Meanwhile, h...
Years & Years’ Olly Alexander Wishes Himself a Happy Birthday With a Lil Nas X Cover: Listen
It may be Olly Alexander’s birthday, but the Years & Years frontman decided to switch things up and give his fans a gift. On Friday (July 15), Years & Years unveiled their brand new cover of Lil Nas X‘s smash-hit single “Montero (Call Me By Your Name).” Taking the Latin-tinged pop stylings of the original and stripping them down to a quieter pop track featuring a simple acoustic guitar and piano melody throughout, Alexander lets his effortless vocals do the heavy lifting while the original lyrics keep the hedonistic vibe fully intact. “a while back i made a lil cover of ‘Montero’ by king @LilNasX and it’s now available across all streaming platforms,” Alexander wrote in a post on the Years & Years Twitter account, alongside two emojis of a smiling purple devil and some water dr...
Calvin Harris Drops “Stay With Me” Feat. Justin Timberlake, Halsey and Pharrell
Calvin Harris is back with another high-energy track to brighten up your summer days. Titled “Stay With Me,” his latest single enlists Justin Timberlake, Halsey and Pharrell. Off of Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2, the new track marks the third single released from the upcoming album. With a pulsating beat and a disco-like rhythm, the song details all-around fun, love and celebration. “This one’s for tonight and beyond (Come here, girl)/We’re toastin’ and we cheers, all your girls are here/Something ain’t right if you yawn (Yeah, girl)/As crazy as it sounds, wanna take you down,” sings Pharell in the song’s pre-chorus. In line with the bouncy beat, the accompanying music video is filled with psychedelic colors, plants, kaleidoscope visual effects, neon lights and more. Check out the summer-ready t...
CloZee, Rusko, LSDREAM, More Announced on Wobbly Wakaan Music Festival 2022 Lineup
Liquid Stranger is serving up all sorts of weird and wonky bass at the long-awaited return of Wakaan Music Festival. In the wake of a two-year hiatus due to the impact of COVID-19, fans have been waiting for the return of Wakaan’s flagship music festival since its stunning debut in 2019. Stranger used his popular record label to cultivate a home for the best in freeform bass and beyond, and he’s now announced the 2022 lineup of DJs set to rock the Arkansas fest to its core. Alongside two sets from the Swedish bass music superstar, fans will be able to enjoy performances from LSDREAM, Rusko, CloZee, Wreckno, A Hundred Drums, Emancipator, Of The Trees, Buku, STS9 and Claude VonStroke’s alter-ego, Barclay Crenshaw, among others. Wakaan Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles...
Tomorrowland Festival’s 21-Day Streaming Event Is Now Live: Watch
Tomorrowland season is upon us. With the Belgian EDM festival finally kicking off, this year’s edition is guaranteed to be bigger than ever. The iconic fest expanded to three weeks of action and so too has its programming, starting with 21 days of broadcast on One World TV & One World Radio One World TV is capturing all of the action happening on and off the Tomorrowland 2022 stages via three channels. The first will is primed on the marquee event: The Reflection of Love main stage. The second channel will flip between the Atmosphere and the Freedom stages while the third will feature backstage conversations as artists drop in and out of the hot seat for exclusive interviews and more. You can stream Tomorrowland 2022 below. Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles TOMORROWLAND 202...
GOP Sen. Josh Hawley Gets Owned By Berkeley Professor Khiara Bridges For Transphobic Questioning
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Tom Williams / Getty Berkeley law professor Khiara Bridges owned fist-pumping, insurrectionist supporting Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) during a hearing Tuesday (Juy 12) about the overturning of the Supreme Court decision to overturn Roe v Wade. During the hearing, which veered off into conversations about trans persons and their ability for pregnancy, Bridges gave back Hawley everything he asked for and more. “You’ve referred to ‘people with a capacity for pregnancy’,” he said. “Would that be women?” Bridges replied: “Many women, cis women, have the capacity for pregnancy. Many cis women do not have the capacity for pregnancy. There are also trans men who are capable of pregnancy, as well as non-binary people who are capable of pregnancy.” While...
Thom Yorke Soundtracks New Greenpeace Ad With Solo Version of Radiohead’s “Bloom”
Thom Yorke has shared a solo rendition of Radiohead’s “Bloom” for a new Greenpeace ad. Check out the video, which is part of Shark Week, a campaign to protect the oceans, below. “In the last 50 years the global shark population has plummeted by 70 percent,” the video description notes. “Sharks are being wiped out by overfishing for profit. But our oceans can recover if we protect them.” The rendition is taken from a 2019 Yorke solo performance. Back in 2017, Radiohead collaborated with Hans Zimmer to rework “Bloom” for the BBC series Blue Planet II. That version, recorded with the BBC Concert Orchestra, was retitled “Ocean (Bloom).” Earlier this year, Yorke shared new solo songs “5.17” and “That’s How Horses Are,” as well as his album with Jonny Greenwood and Tom Skinner, the Smile’s A Lig...
