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Watch Bright Eyes Perform “Falling Out of Love at This Volume” on Corden
Bright Eyes stopped by The Late Late Show With James Corden to perform “Falling Out of Love at This Volume,” a song that Conor Oberst wrote and released in his teens. Check it out below. Earlier this year, Bright Eyes reissued of their first three albums: A Collection of Songs Written and Recorded 1995-1997 (which includes “Falling Out of Love at This Volume”), Letting Off the Happiness, and Fevers and Mirrors. The band’s last studio LP was 2020’s Down in the Weeds, Where the World Once Was. Bright Eyes are currently on a North American tour. In May, frontman Conor Oberst walked off stage two songs into their set at the Lawn at White Oak Music Hall in Houston. The band then opened up the stage for fans to perform “Bright Eyes karaoke” until staff members announced the show was canceled. Re...
Pusha T Extends 2022 Tour
Pusha T has extended his 2022 tour in support of It’s Almost Dry. There are 29 new dates across the United States. The trek kicks off in Philadelphia on September 3 and will run until October 30 when he performs in Connecticut. “Just so you remember who you dealing with… It’s Almost Dry tour phrase 2,” Pusha T wrote on Instagram when announcing the news. Check out the full itinerary below. Pusha T released It’s Almost Dry back in April. It shot to No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart, making it his first-ever LP to do so. Comparatively, Daytona peaked at No. 3 and My Name Is My Name hit No. 4. Pusha T released a gory music video for “Call My Bluff” back in April and performed “Let the Smokers Shine the Coupes” live on Jimmy Kimmel Live! earlier this month. It’s Almost Dry also inc...
Johnny Depp Going on European Tour With Hollywood Vampires
Fresh off his headline-making defamation trial, Johnny Depp will be joining his Hollywood Vampires bandmates on a tour of Europe. The band announced the six-date run, which kicks off almost exactly one year from now, on Wednesday (June 22). “The Hollywood Vampires are BACK!! We’re coming to Germany and Luxembourg Summer 2023! Tickets go on sale Monday 27 June at 11:00am CET. Keep an eye out for more to come…,” the group captioned the post on social media. Depp, Alice Cooper, Joe Perry and Tommy Henriksen will kick off the tour June 20, 2023, at Rudolf-Weber Arena in Oberhausen, Germany, followed by shows in Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg’s Rockhal; Olympiahalle in Munich; Stadtpark in Hamburg; Berlin’s Zitadelle Spandel; and Zitadelle Mainz in Mainz, Germany. Explore See latest videos, chart...
Maná Returns to Latin Airplay Top 10 Thanks to ‘Te Lloré Un Río,’ With Christian Nodal
Maná is back in the top 10 on Billboard’s Latin Airplay chart for the first time since 2016, as “Te Lloré Un Río,” with Christian Nodal, improves 14-6 on the June 25-dated ranking. “Te Lloré Un Río” ascends with 7.54 million in audience impressions, up 29%, earned in the U.S. in the week ending June 19, according to Luminate. Maná’s new version of the song returns the group to Latin Airplay’s upper tier for the first time in over five years, when the band took over the throne with “Rayando El Sol,” with Nicky Jam, for one week in Oct. 2016. The group has accumulated a total of 18 top 10s dating back to its first in 1995. The new version of “Te Lloré Un Río” with Nodal’s vocals tinted with mariachi and banda sinaloense sounds, is the sixth song from Maná’s collaborations project which launc...
Dua Lipa Sued (Again) for Posting Paparazzi Photos of Herself to Instagram
Dua Lipa is being sued for posting paparazzi photos of herself to Instagram for the second time in a year, according to court documents filed in U.S. District Court in California. This time, a New York-based photographer named Robert Barbera is claiming the singer committed copyright infringement after posting photos he took of her in July 2018 to the social media platform. “Without permission or authorization from Plaintiff, Defendant volitionally selected, copied, stored and displayed each of Plaintiff’s copyright protected Photographs,” the complaint, written by attorney Craig Sanders, reads. The photos in question, which were also taken in July 2018 and attached as an exhibit to the suit, show Lipa wearing a black sweater bearing the word “HEROES” in large capital letters. As in the pr...
Elton John’s ‘Madman Across the Water’ Reissue Hits Top 10 on Top Album Sales
Elton John’s 50th-anniversary reissue of Madman Across the Water makes a splash on Billboard’s album charts (dated June 25), as the set debuts in the top 10 on both Top Album Sales and Vinyl Albums. The set also arrives on Top Rock Albums and Catalog Albums, and it charts on the Billboard 200 for the first time in nearly 50 years. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Madman Across the Water was first released in 1972 and peaked at No. 8 on the Billboard 200 in February of that year. The set contained the hit singles “Levon” and “Tiny Dancer.” Also in the top 10 on Top Album Sales: new releases from BTS, Motionless In White and Carrie Underwood debut, while Seatbelts’ Cowboy Bebop soundtrack hits the top 10 for the first time after a vinyl re...
Gorillaz Tag Thundercat for New Single “Cracker Island”
Gorillaz and Thundercat have teamed up to deliver the brand new collaborative track “Cracker Island.” Clocking in at approximately three-and-a-half minutes, the single is produced by Greg Kurstin, Remi Kabaka Jr. and the band themselves, and hears an electronic, funky offering with Damon Albarn‘s raspy vocals seamlessly complementing Thundercat’s falsetto. A press release states that Murdoc, Noodle, Russel and 2D have relocated to Silverlake, California where they supposedly found out that “the one truth to fix the world is to invite fans to join The Last Cult,” which is led by Murdoc as the self-appointed Great Leader. “It’s nice to be back, I’m well into our new tune, it brings back weird and scary memories of stuff that hasn’t happened yet,” 2D shared. Stream Gorillaz and Thundercat’s “...
Watch Swedish House Mafia’s Full Coachella 2022 Headlining Performance
There is no performance that encapsulates Swedish House Mafia‘s comeback like the group’s Coachella 2022 set. They broke the internet with their historic performance at the iconic Indio festival, which counts Calvin Harris as its only other DJ headliner in the last decade. It was a big moment not only for the iconic trio, but also for the electronic dance music community at large. Left to right: Steve Angello, Axwell and Sebastian Ingrosso of Swedish House Mafia perform at Coachella’s 2022 edition. brphoto.co Sharing the festival’s top slot with The Weeknd, Swedish House Mafia put on a show for the Coachella faithful. Fans were blitzed with a breathtaking latticework of generational anthems like “Miami 2 Ibiza” and music fr...
Pusha T Announces Second Phase of ‘It’s Almost Dry’ Tour Dates
Pusha T is extending his It’s Almost Dry tour with a second batch of dates. The second phase will feature a total of 29 dates, kicking off on September 3 for a festival in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Fans can then catch the artist in areas like Baltimore, St. Louis, Phoenix, Houston, Atlanta, Miami, Boston and a festival in Queens before closing it out on October 30 in Wallingford, Connecticut. King Push’s announcement arrives as the first phase of the tour comes to an end in Philadelphia. He began his first phase in late May in Seattle, and has since performed in areas like San Francisco, Chicago, Detroit and New York. Check out the full list of tour dates below. In case you missed it, Pusha T and No Malice reunited as Clipse at Something in the Water. Read Full Article
Jury Awards Bill Cosby Accuser $500K After Finding He Sexually Abused Teen
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images / Getty Early last month, we reported that Bill-with-the-puddin’-pill Cosby was being sued by 64-year-old Judy Huth, who accused Cosby of forcing her to perform a sex act at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 when she was 16. Cosby’s legal team denied the allegations, of course, but a Los Angeles County jury ruled in favor of the plaintiff and awarded her half a million of the disgraced comedian’s money. The Associated Press reported that “jurors found that Cosby intentionally caused harmful sexual contact with Huth, that he reasonably believed she was under 18, and that his conduct was driven by unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in a minor.” And while Huth wasn’t granted any punitive damages to go along with th...
Grammy-Winning Artist H.E.R. Sues Label for Release
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Scott Dudelson / Getty Singer-songwriter H.E.R. is suing her record label for release citing a California statute that limits contracts to seven years. H.E.R. née Gabriella Sarmiento Wilson filed for declaratory relief and violation of the business and professions code and is seeking to be released from MBK Entertainment. The company is owned by her manager Jeff Robinson who signed her in 2011 at the age of 14. Related Stories According to documents reviewed by The Blast, H.E.R. is named as an ‘exclusive employee’ for an initial period which “ended the later of 15 months after May 19, 2011 or 12 months after the commercial release of Wilson’s first album under contract, and up to five additional option period of more than one year each.” Wilso...
French Montana & Harry Fraud ft. Jadakiss & Benny The Butcher “Bricks & Bags,” Lil Durk ft. Doodie Lo “Did Sh*t To Me” & More | Daily Visuals 6.22.22
HipHopWired Featured Video With French Montana and Harry Fraud’s Montega project about to hit the streets, Montana is on his grizzley to get some buzz building and gets some help with his effort courtesy of some Hip-Hop heavyweights. In his latest visuals for “Bricks & Bags,” French links up with Benny The Butcher at the club before ending up at the studio where Jadakiss was residing and ready to go with the kind of bars that earned him the Verzuz MVP award. Still undisputed too. Related Stories From New York to Chicago, Lil Durk gets some studio time in himself and in his clip to the Doodie Lo assisted “Did Sh*t To Me,” Durk and Doodie get lit in the lab before taking to the road to break all the speed limits. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Soulja Boy, BLK Ody...
