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Zedd Reveals One-Time-Only “Clarity” Ten Year Anniversary Performance in San Francisco
Fans will have one chance to relieve Zedd‘s debut album that started it all. This fall, Zedd will transport fans back to 2012 for a special performance dedicated to the ten-year anniversary of his first album, Clarity. On Twitter, Zedd sent out a message addressing fans after one of his previously-announced shows sold out. He explained that the night before the sold-out event, he will be hosting the very special show that will never happen again. In the announcement tweet, he revealed that the performance will include every single track from his debut offering. It’s also shown that Joel Corry, shallou, and DJ Dials will be joining him on stage at the celebratory outing. Furthermore, he then goes on to state that there will be “special surprises” in-st...
QUIX Enlists Cyclops and Crooked Bangs for Intricate Trap Anthem, “Pompeii”
Over the past few years, QUIX has cemented himself as one of the most exciting names to watch in dance music with his eclectic takes on trap and bass music. Directly following his anthemic drum & bass single, “Enter With Caution,” the acclaimed producer has now returned to Dim Mak to share “Pompeii,” an explosive trap gem that hints at an exciting return back to his roots. A collaboration with fellow producer Cyclops, and vocal contributions from the dark punk rock band, Crooked Bangs, “Pompeii” nicely puts QUIX’s genre-bending style on display. Starting off with playful melodies that quickly transition into full-scale cinematic production, “Pompeii” brings together sharp sound design in the first drop, before exploding into melodic bliss in its second climax. “The way the relationship...
Santigold Shares Video for New Song “High Priestess”: Watch
I had started working on this beat and I didn’t have anything in mind for a topic, I just knew I wanted to do a sort of rap punk song (as dangerous as that sounds). My buddy Ray Brady and I started working on something, trying to add in all the elements that made sense, kicks, subs, new wave synths. Boys Noize ended up bringing something super cool that really built the song and made me get even more excited about it. It was coming along quickly, until it wasn’t. The punk rock energy, the angst, that I wanted to come across wasn’t quite there. I tried adding guitar and a live drum kit, and that was a big red buzzer “X.” I ended up tagging in Psymun (Simon Christensen) who brought in Ryan Olson, and they brought the final missing element. The energy I was looking for couldn’t be the old ver...
Rina Sawayama Announces New Album Hold the Girl, Shares New Song “This Hell”: Listen
I had so much fun writing “This Hell.” The past couple of years I’ve been listening to lots of female country singers and wanted to write a euphoric and tongue-in-cheek country-pop song. Country music at its core to me represents comfort, brilliant storytelling and authentic expression of the writer’s reality. I’ve been dreaming of working with Paul Epworth my entire career so I knew it was meant to be when we finished this song in a day. I put in as many iconic pop culture moments as I can, but the song is more than that. It’s an important song for me given the human rights that are being taken away from minorities at a rapid rate in the name of traditional religious beliefs, more specifically I was thinking about the rights being taken away from the LGBTQ community when I wrote thi...
Taylor Swift Delivers Commencement Speech for NYU Class of 2022: Watch
This has not been my experience. My experience has been that my mistakes led to the best things in my life. And being embarrassed when you mess up is part of the human experience. Getting back up, dusting yourself off and seeing who still wants to hang out with you afterward and laugh about it? That’s a gift. The times I was told no or wasn’t included, wasn’t chosen, didn’t win, didn’t make the cut… looking back, it really feels like those moments were as important, if not more crucial, than the moments I was told “yes.” Not being invited to the parties and sleepovers in my hometown made me feel hopelessly lonely, but because I felt alone, I would sit in my room and write the songs that would get me a ticket somewhere else. Having label executives in Nashville tell me that only 35 year old...
Sky Ferreira Announces New Song “Don’t Forget”
Sky Ferreira has new music on the way, her first new material in three years. Capitol Records shared the news in a since-deleted tweet on Wednesday (May 18). The song is called “Don’t Forget,” and it arrives on May 25. Since the release of her debut album Night Time, My Time in 2013, the pop singer has joined Charli XCX on “Cross You Out” and acted in reboots of The Twilight Zone and Twin Peaks. In 2019, she released the new single “Downhill Lullaby,” teasing “Don’t Forget” at the time. Ferreira has previously said that her second album will be titled Masochism, and it was first slated for release in 2015. Sky Ferreira Returns
NYC Reaches “High-Risk” Level For COVID-19 As Cases Once Again Spike
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Spencer Platt / Getty For the past few summers New Yorkers haven’t been able to enjoy the hot weather due to the pandemic continuously producing variants that caused cases to spike whenever it seemed like we had things under control. Athough we’re once again living life as if COVID was yesterday’s news, think again. Gothamist is reporting that on Tuesday (May 17) New York City’s risk level for COVID-19 was upgraded from medium to high as the rate for positive cases and COVID related hospitalizations have risen in recent weeks thanks to the Omicron variant. Though that doesn’t mean that New York will once again be going on lockdown or mandating vaccines or masks again, they are giving everyone a “strong recommendation” to wear masks whether indoor or ...
HHW Gaming: ‘Saints Row’ Preview Highlights A Lively Santo Ileso & Classic Silly Gameplay
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Deep Silver/ Volition Games / Saints Row Volition Games already showed off Saints Row’s expansive customization suite, now it’s time to focus on the gameplay, and yes, it’s still as silly as ever. Hip-Hop Wired Gaming’s Bernard Beanz Smalls saw roughly 50 minutes of gameplay from the highly anticipated reboot during a hands-off virtual preview. Related Stories Before we got to the action, we got a rundown of the game’s story with a more millennial spin. In the Saints Row reboot, the 3rd Street Saints is in its infancy. The crew features members of rival gangs led by The Boss, who become roommates and resort to crime to make ends meet. The preview went out of its way to show off a good mix of action, missions, side missions, customization, co-op play, and ...
President Joe Biden On Buffalo Shooting: “White Supremacy Is A Poison”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NICHOLAS KAMM / Getty White supremacy became a trending term in the wake of the Buffalo shooting incident, and the incident still looms heavily across the nation. President Joe Biden addressed residents of the upstate New York city, and referred to white supremacy as a “poison.” “White Supremacy Is A Poison” President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden delivered remarks at the Delavan Grider Community Center in Buffalo on Tuesday (May 17). During the speech, Biden referred to the shooting as an act of domestic terrorism, while also condemning the white supremacist leanings among some American citizens. From the speech: Related Stories Look, we’ve seen the mass shootings in Charleston, South Carolina; El Paso, Texas; in Pittsburgh; last year in Atlanta; this ...
HHW Gaming: 3 New PS5 Console Covers Are Dropping In June
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: PlayStation / PS5 Cover Plates Your boring white console is getting some more flavor with the addition of these new PS5 console covers. But it will cost you some coins. PlayStation has three new PS5 console covers — Starlight Blue, Galactic Purple, and Nova Pink — arriving June 17, announcing they are available for pre-order on PlayStation Direct. Related Stories The three new colors join the Cosmic Red and Midnight Black console covers previously released alongside the DualSense Controllers in the vibrant galaxy color options. Last year, PlayStation announced the color options but only released the Cosmic Red and Midnight Black plates. Source: Sony / PlayStation After the PS5 hit shelves, PlayStation obviously intended to allow users to change the ...
Tupac’s Makaveli Album Cover Artwork To Be Auctioned Off With NFT
Compton-based hip-hop visual artist Riskie Forever first painted the album cover art for Tupac’s The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory in 1996. Released posthumously under his pseudonym Makaveli, the record marked the rapper’s fifth studio album and had been recorded in seven days. Over two and a half decades since the album’s release, Forever has partnered with Zelus and Heritage Auctions to auction off the original cover art painting. The auction will not only consist of the physical artwork, which consists of airbrushed paint of canvas, but will also comprise a one-of-one NFT. Forever was introduced to 2Pac by Suge Knight, who had shown his art portfolio to the rapper. “I remember giving ‘Pac the painting officially, I knew then this was something special,” Forever said in a press relea...
Post Malone Drops Stylish “Cooped Up” Video Featuring Roddy Ricch
Following his performance of the track on Saturday Night Live this weekend, Post Malone has dropped the official music video for “Cooped Up” featuring Roddy Ricch. The elevated visual, which was directed by Andre Bato, sees Malone perform his opening bars in a blue suit jacket and turtleneck from a playfully futuristic bedroom, before Ricch enters through a red door to deliver his lines. “I’m about to pull up / Hit switch, pull curtain / And I been waiting so long / Now I gotta resurface,” Malone sings on the chorus. “And yeah! We boutta toast up / All that bread that we burning / ‘Cause I been feeling cooped up / I been fu*king cooped up.” A group of dancers, who are dressed in all red and orange, then abruptly enter the room and circle the two rappers for the final sequence. Posty m...
