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Chance The Rapper “A Bar About A Bar,” M.I.A. “The One” & More | Daily Visuals 6.1.22
HipHopWired Featured Video For a minute there it seemed like Chance The Rapper was going to be a Hip-Hop mainstay and rack up all kinds of platinum plaques and accolades for the foreseeable future. Then he won some Grammies and fell back from the spotlight. But the Chicagoan is still doing his music thing and recently dropped a new visual for “A Bat About A Bar” in which he showcases what a night at a bar can consist of such as a black cowboy, long lines, and a bathroom that’s out of order. Real random but entertaining. M.I.A. meanwhile makes her return as well and in her clip to “The One” takes to the lake to become one with nature and possibly get ready for the next Avatar film, The Way of Water. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Z-Ro, The Homies, and more. CHANCE T...
HHW Gaming: Amazon Allowing Customers To Request An Invite To Buy PS5
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SOPA Images / Getty Are you still looking for a PlayStation 5 console? Amazon might be your saving grace in your years-long search. In a move the company should have done a long time ago, Amazon is now launching a more “orderly” way to secure a PlayStation 5. Usually, when you visit the PlayStation 5 landing page, you’re greeted with the dreaded “currently not in stock” message, but that’s changing. Amazon allows shoppers to request an invite to buy the highly coveted next-generation video gaming console. A request button can now be seen in the spot to the right where the “buy” button would typically be located. According to Amazon, if chosen, you will receive a link via email, and you will have 72 hours to scoop up your PlayStation 5 console. Oh, and the...
The 25 Best Pride Songs of 2022 (So Far): Staff Picks
2022 has already proven to be a year in which popular, newly-released singles are fewer and further between, especially when it comes to the Billboard Hot 100. But that doesn’t mean there haven’t been plenty of incredible new songs to jam out to this year. That goes double for LGBTQ artists — even just halfway through the year, dozens of queer and trans stars have already released career-defining songs, with some even upending their entire public personas in favor of releasing something that is honest about their sexualities. Exceptionalism in queer art has also spanned genres; pop, R&B, rock, folk, and even some country has seen major singles by queer artists hit the market in 2022. So, to celebrate the work these artists put into their songs this year, check out Billboard’s...
Did Angel Olsen Just Show the Music Industry How to Make Vinyl Green?
Could there be a simpler way for the music industry to go green? While acts like Coldplay and Justin Bieber have been focused on bicycle-powered stadium shows and kinetic dancefloors, for her new album Big Time (out Friday on Jagjaguwar) Angel Olsen took a more straightforward approach that’s replicable for artists of all sizes. Each vinyl or CD copy of the album purchased from her label’s website has carbon offsets built into the pricing, meaning the environmental impact that went into producing — and will go into consuming — the vinyl album (for $1 each) or CD (50 cents each) is effectively neutralized. All the proceeds from these surcharges go to Native, a public benefit corporation specializing in carbon offsets, which will use the money to purchase carbon offsets supporting the Medfor...
Just A Gent Signs Global Administration Deal With Angry Mob
Australian electronic artist and producer Just A Gent is the latest addition to the Angry Mob Music Group roster, Billboard can exclusively reveal. Hailing from Newcastle, New South Wales, the electro music-maker (real name Jacob Grant) has been releasing music as Just A Gent since 2013, and has amassed more than 300 million streams with such cuts as “Limelight (NGHTMRE Remix),” “Rolling Dice,” “The Change (featuring DMA’S) [Remix],” “Iris in the Dark,” and others. His 2016 cover of Kid Cudi’s “Day N Nite” for triple j’s Like A Version series has garnered almost 3 million plays. [embedded content] Over the years, he’s had nods from some of the top guns in electronic music, from Skrillex to Diplo, Dillon Francis, What So Not, and others, and dropped his debut full-length album project Plane...
Brandi Carlile Is a Queer Icon — And She’s Making the Music Business Better, Too
Brandi Carlile is happy to expound upon bad wine. Bad wine gives her a hangover. The pretension of wine culture leaves a bad taste in her mouth. “Without sounding like I’m judging wine as a concept, it’s annoyingly bougie and culturally hetero,” she says with a laugh. “It’s like golf.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news So when it came to developing her own boutique wine label, XOBC, she knew what she did want. It would be a wine for folks who are “a little left of center.” Something a bit rugged — maybe for a camping trip, to be sipped out of a Solo cup — “but it’s not going to give you a f–king headache.” And like everything Carlile does, it wouldn’t just be good — it would do good, too. Because Carlile and her wife, Catherine Shepherd, ...
Yeah Yeah Yeahs Announce First Album in 9 Years, Share Video for New Song: Watch
Yeah Yeah Yeahs are back. They’ve announced their new album Cool It Down with a video for the new song “Spitting Off the Edge of the World,” featuring Perfume Genius. The album is due out September 30 via Secretly Canadian; the Dave Sitek–produced single marks Yeah Yeah Yeahs debut for the label and their first piece of original music since 2013’s Mosquito. Watch the Cody Critcheloe–directed video for “Spitting Off the Edge of the World” below. Cool It Down shares a title with a song from the Velvet Underground’s 1970 album Loaded. In a statement, Yeah Yeah Yeahs’ Karen O said: “To all who have waited, our dear fans, thank you, our fever to tell has returned, and writing these songs came with its fair share of chills, tears, and euphoria when the pain lifts and truth is revealed. Don’t hav...
Creem Returns With Website and Quarterly Print Magazine
Creem magazine has relaunched as a website and quarterly print magazine. The new site features an archive of every issue from the magazine’s original 1969-1989 run and a weekly newsletter called “Fresh Creem”; the print magazine is set to launch in the fall. The new Creem Entertainment is be led by Chairman JJ Kramer (son of original Creem co-founder & publisher Barry Kramer), CEO John Martin (a former Vice publisher), and Jaan Uhelszki (one of Creem’s original editors). Editorial staff for the new Creem magazine includes vice president of content Fred Pessaro, senior editor Maria Sherman, and editor at large Zachary Lipez. Founded in Detroit, Michigan, Creem earned a reputation throughout the 1970s and ’80s as an irreverent tastemaker and foil to its main competitor Rolling Stone, hel...
Florist Share Video for New Song “Sci-Fi Silence”: Watch
Florist: 07-30 New York, NY – Bowery Ballroom07-31 Pittsburgh, PA – Club Cafe08-01 Ferndale, MI – Otus Supply08-02 Chicago, IL – Sleeping Village08-03 St. Paul, MN – Turf Club08-05 Denver, CO – Lost Lake08-06 Salt Lake City, UT – Urban Lounge08-07 Boise, ID – Kin08-08 Seattle, WA – Madame Lou’s08-09 Portland, OR – Polaris Hall08-11 San Francisco, CA – Bottom of the Hill08-12 Los Angeles, CA – Zebulon08-13 Santa Ana, CA – Constellation Room08-15 Tucson, AZ – Hotel Congress08-16 Santa Fe, NM – Meow Wolf08-18 Austin, TX – The Ballroom08-19 Fort Worth, TX – Tulips08-20 Kansas City, MO – Record Bar08-22 Nashville, TN – Drkmttr08-24 Washington, D.C. – DC908-25 Philadelphia, PA ...
Of Montreal Announce New Album Freewave Lucifer Fck, Share Video for New Song: Watch
Freewave Lucifer F<ck F^ck F>ck: 01 Marijuana’s a Working Woman02 Ofrenda-Flanger-Ego-à Gogo03 Blab Sabbath Lathe of Maiden04 Après Thee Dèclassè05 Modern Art Bewilders06 Nightshift07 Hmmm Of Montreal: 09-08 Athens, GA – 40 Watt #09-09 New Orleans, LA – Howlin’ Wolf #09-10 Austin, TX – Mohawk #09-12 Albuquerque, NM – Sister #09-13 Phoenix, AZ – The Crescent Ballroom #09-14 Los Angeles, CA – Regent #09-15 Berkeley, CA – UC Theatre #09-16 Eugene, OR – WOW Hall #09-17 Portland, OR – Wonder Ballroom #09-18 Seattle, WA – Neumos #09-19 Missoula, MT – The Wilma #09-20 Salt Lake City, UT – Metro #09-21 Englewood, CO – The Gothic #09-22 Lawrence, KS – The Granada #09-23 St. Louis, MO – Red Flag #09-24 At...
Bad Bunny Ties the Knot in “Tití Me Preguntó” Music Video
Bad Bunny has dropped off an accompanying music video for his Un Verano Sin Ti cut, “Tití Me Preguntó.” Helmed by his longtime collaborator Stillz, the visual begins with a young boy getting rejected by a girl he likes. Bad Bunny then appears, presumably as the older version of that young boy, enjoying a life that doesn’t see him chained to just one woman. At one point he gets kidnapped by unknown men who dress him up and drop him off at his wedding, where he meets Gabriela Berligeri — his girlfriend in real life — at the altar. Un Verano Sin Ti debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and briefly overtook Future’s I NEVER LIKED YOU as 2022’s most-streamed artist. That record was taken by Kendrick Lamar’s Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, then by Harry Styles’ Harry’...
Police Suspect Drug Overdose As Master P’s Daughter’s Cause Of Death
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paul Archuleta / Getty Master P took to social media to break the sad news that his daughter, Tytyana Miller had passed away. Ahough he didn’t reveal exactly how she died, Tytyana Miller had battled substance abuse problems and many suspected that might’ve played a part in her passing. Now TMZ is reporting that police are indeed pointing to an overdose as the cause of death for the 29-year-old as drug paraphernalia was found where Miller had passed away. However, drug substances weren’t present on the scene. Because of that police think Miller might’ve OD’d on whatever she might’ve been using. We’re told the autopsy has been completed, but toxicology results will take several weeks. As we’ve reported with other cases, fentanyl has been a silent kille...
