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Indigo Sparke Announces New Album Hysteria, Shares Video
Australian singer-songwriter Indigo Sparke has announced her sophomore album: Hysteria is out October 7 via Sacred Bones. The follow-up to last year’s Echo was produced by Aaron Dessner of the National. The lead single, “Pressure in My Chest,” comes with a music video directed by Madeline Clayton. Watch below. Sparke began work on her new album while in quarantine in Australia and awaiting a visa to return to the United States. She finished working on Hysteria in spring 2021 and she recorded the LP with Dessner in upstate New York. “Aaron is such an incredible person, to feel his generosity and to feel him in my corner is a true gift,” she said in a statement. Read about Echo in the feature “The Best Underrated Albums of 2021, According to Pitchfork Staff.” All products featured on Pitchfo...
Donald Glover, Stranger Things, Netflix’s Kanye Documentary, Adele: One Night Only, and More Nominated for 2022 Emmys
The 2022 Emmy Awards will air September 22 on ABC, and today, the nominations have been announced. In addition to the categories honoring some of the best TV series, actors, writers, and directors of the past year, the awards celebrate technical achievements. Donald Glover, Adele, Lizzo, and Stranger Things are among this year’s honorees. Donald Glover was nominated for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for his role in Atlanta, putting him against Ted Lasso’s Jason Sudeikis, Barry’s Bill Hader, and The Great’s Nicholas Hoult, plus Steve Martin and Martin Short for their roles on The Only Murders in the Building. Atlanta earned two more nominations for Outstanding Cinematography for a Single-Camera Series (Half-Hour) and Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series. Among the nominees ...
Tegan and Sara Announce New Album Crybaby, Share Video for New Song: Watch
Tegan and Sara have announced their new LP Crybaby with a video for its second single “Yellow.” Their 10th studio album—and first since signing with Mom + Pop—is due out October 21. Check out the Mark Myers-directed clip for “Yellow,” which pays homage to Coldplay’s video for their 2000 song of the same name. Crybaby was co-produced by Tegan and Sara with John Congleton at Studio Litho in Seattle and Sargent Recorders in Los Angeles. Of the new single “Yellow,” Sara said in a statement: “[The song] was written after we began to take steps to heal the bruises we have both carried with us since adolescence and early adulthood – wounds that never quite healed right and flare up seasonally, sending us spiraling backward in time. Are we doomed to remain forever 15, breaking up and b...
Unwound Reunite After 20 Years, Announce 2023 Tour
Unwound are back. The Pacific Northwest post-hardcore band haven’t played live shows in 20 years, and, today, the group has announced a 2023 tour. Find those dates below. The band formed in 1991, and, across its 10-year-run, released seven albums. Unwound’s final album, Leaves Turn Inside You, came out in 2001. On September 2, the band’s final recording Live Leaves—a live album from their final tour—will be reissued by the Numero Group. (The label has reissued the band’s extensive catalog in multiple box sets across the past decade.) In the liner notes of those reissues, the band’s members dismissed the idea of a reunion. “When we put Unwound on the shelf in 2002, we never thought we’d return to the project,” drummer Sara Lund said in a statement with today’s announcement. The band held it...
HHW Gaming: Teyon Games ‘RoboCop: Rogue City’ First Gameplay Trailer Gives Us Hope
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nacon/Teyon Games / RoboCop: Rogue City Based on the gameplay reveal trailer, Robocop: Rogue City might be the game featuring the cyborg cop we have been waiting for. RoboCop: Rogue City Looks L I T It’s been a year since Teyon Games first announced it was working on a new video game featuring Robocop and gave us a teaser trailer that didn’t show off too much. Well, that was then. This is now. We got our first gameplay trailer, and listen, RoboCop: Rogue City looks L I T. The nearly two-minute trailer comprises in-game cutscenes and gameplay and showcases for the first time what a first-person shooter featuring Alex Murphy looks like, and it’s promising. RoboCop deals out his brand of justice throughout Old and New Detroit, which is currently experiencing...
South African Netflix Star Busisiwe “Busi” Lurayi Has Died
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Busi Lurayi / @busi_lurayi Busi Lurayi, a South African movie and stage actor, suddenly died over the weekend according to a statement from the agency that repped her. Lurayi might be best known to American audiences for her star turn in the Netflix comedy series, How To Ruin Christmas. As reported via Sowetan Live, a South African outlet, reported on Lurayi’s passing after the actor’s talent agency, Eye Media Artists, issued a statement on behalf of the Lurayi family. From Eye Media Artists: Busisiwe passed away suddenly and was pronounced dead at her residence on Sunday by medical personnel. The reason for her death is still unknown as we await the results of the autopsy report. “We humbly request that you allow us as the family to come to terms with th...
Jill Biden Upsets The Latino Community By Comparing Them To “Tacos”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SAMUEL CORUM / Getty Well, it looks like Joe Biden‘s wife Dr. Jill Biden just stepped in it as far as the Latino community is concerned. On Monday (July 11), the current First Lady of the United States drew outrage from Latinos across the country when she used a stereotypical metaphor to describe Latino children in a speech she gave at the annual conference of UnidosUS (formerly known as the National Council of La Raza) in San Antonio, Texas. According to Reuters, Jill Biden’s speaking event was going accordingly until she decided to praise OG civil rights activist, Raul Yzaguirre only to refer to Latino’s “as unique as breakfast tacos” in her speech. “Raul helped build this organization with the understanding that the diversity of this community, as dist...
Young Thug & YSL Records Subject Of ‘Rolling Stone’ Doc
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty Young Thug and YSL Records have been heavily scrutinized, and now a new documentary from Rolling Stone will shed light on the rapper and the recent criminal allegations against him and his label. It was announced last Thursday (July 7th) that Rolling Stone’s film division is partnering with Jigsaw Productions, the company helmed by Academy-Award-winning filmmaker Alex Gibney, to develop a series of documentary projects on the Atlanta rapper and his rise to fame. There will also be a focus on the current criminal case against Young Thug and fellow rapper Gunna along with 26 other individuals for involvement with the Young Slime Life street gang. The aim of the documentary project will look to capture the investigation and the crimin...
Meek Mill Responds to Reports of Leaving Roc Nation
Just yesterday, reports indicated that Meek Mill is officially parting ways with JAY-Z‘s Roc Nation Management after a decade on their roster. The Philly rapper has been a staple with Roc Nation over the years, even joining forces to create Meek’s Dremachasers label as well as teaming up with Hov to launch a non-profit organization, Reform Alliance. In the course of the year, Meek had previously expressed his frustrations with the label for not promoting his latest album Expensive Pain. Back in February, around the time of the album’s launch, Meek was very vocal on Twitter, sharing, “They didn’t put nothing into expensive pain and then said I can’t drop another project for 9 months at the end of my contract after I made them 100’s of millions…how would can anybody survive that…most rappers...
Rico Nasty Drops New Track and Music Video “Skull Flower”
Rico Nasty has released a new track titled “Skull Flower” from her upcoming LP, Las Ruinas. Coming on the heels of previously released tracks Las Ruinas tracks “Intrusive,” “Vaderz” and “Black Punk,” the new track discusses her approach to life and confident demeanor. “Can’t see you, my vision is tunneled/If you step on my toes and turn to a foe, then, I promise you, gonna get humbled/I only survive, I’m the rawest of all/When I’m on stage, they throwin’ me bras/You throwin’ a tantrum, I sleep in a mansion.” Shot in a German sunflower field on her way to perform at Splash Festival 2022, the video showcases Nasty frolicking around the field. What stands out about “Skull Flower” and the previously released tracks are its sonic and lyrical evolution as Nasty plays with her sound, which the ar...
SZA Announces New Doja Cat Collab on Upcoming Track “Shirt”
While performing at Mad Cool Festival in Madrid, Spain, on Sunday, SZA revealed that she is collaborating with Doja Cat on an upcoming track titled “Shirt.” “Want to know a secret? You all want to know who’s on this song? It’ll be like our secret, right?” the “Good Days” vocalist asked the audience during her performance. “The hint is we already have a song together. Her name starts with a ‘D’ and it rhymes with Soulja.” SZA announces Doja Cat will be featured on her highly anticipated track “Bloodstain/Shirt.” pic.twitter.com/fFNc6Qhubo — Rap Alert (@rapalert6) July 9, 2022 SZA and Doja previously joined forces on the latter artist’s Planet Her track “Kiss Me More,” which took home the Grammy for best pop duo/group performance during this year’s awards ceremony. The track also r...
Zack de la Rocha Soldiers On After Hurting Foot During Rage Against the Machine Show: ‘We Came Too F—in’ Far’
Rage Against the Machine fans waited more than a decade for their favorite musical molotov cocktail to hit the road again. And after kicking off their reunion tour on Saturday in Alpine Valley, Wisconsin, there was no way incendiary shouter/rapper Zack de la Rocha was going to let a little foot sprain deter him from serving up the fiery goods to a packed house at Chicago’s United Center during Monday night’s (July 11) second show of the Public Service Announcement Tour. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Unfortunately, early in the set of Monday’s show, de la Rocha appeared to injure his foot after jumping around during “Bullet in the Head” and he had to resort to sitting on a stage monitor to rest. A short time later during “Testify” he explained...
