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Jack Harlow Explains How He Got Dua Lipa’s ‘Blessing’ for His New Song… ‘Dua Lipa’
Jack Harlow’s debut studio album Come Home the Kids Miss You is out now, and the Kentucky native finally gave fans some inside details behind the making of his viral song “Dua Lipa.” Chatting with The Breakfast Club in an episode that premiered Friday (May 6), the Grammy nominee explained that while Lipa has not publicly addressed the new song, he did reach out to her to receive her approval privately. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “I wanted to get her blessing, so I FaceTimed her and played it for her,” he told the co-hosts. “‘Cause I didn’t want her to be blindsided by that or feel like creeped out or anything. “If she had said, ‘Yo, I hate it. I don’t want it to come out,’ it wouldn’t have come out,” Harlow went on. ...
Childish Gambino Lands First No. 1 on Top Album Sales Chart With ‘Kauai’ Vinyl Debut
Record Store Day 2022’s fingerprints are all over Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated May 7), as six of the top 10 have sales owed to a special release for the annual indie retailer holiday. Leading the pack at No. 1 is Childish Gambino’s Kauai EP, which debuts atop the list with 17,000 sold in the U.S. in the week ending April 28, according to Luminate. It’s his first No. 1 on the chart, and third top 10. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Kauai was originally released in 2014 as digital download at retail, and charted for five weeks that year. It was issued on vinyl for the first time for Record Store Day (April 23) and nearly all of the album’s sales in the week ending April 28 were from its vinyl LP. Kauai was pressed on three surprise co...
Jon Batiste Tests Positive for COVID-19, Postpones ‘American Symphony’ Premiere at Carnegie Hall
Jon Batiste has tested positive for COVID-19 and will be missing his musical appearances on The Late Show as well as postponing the premiere of American Symphony at Carnegie Hall. The Grammy winner, 35, posted news of his diagnosis via Instagram on Friday. “Hey family, I woke up yesterday and tested positive for COVID-19,” Batiste’s message began. “To keep my family, my friends and our loyal fans safe, I will be absent from @colbertlateshow and will also unfortunately have to postpone the premiere of AMERICAN SYMPHONY at Carnegie Hall which – as many of you know – I have been working on for years.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Batiste’s diagnosis comes days after he attended the Met Gala a...
Ace Hood & Killer Mike “Greatness,” Wiz Khalifa & Juicy J ft. Elle Varner “Why Do I Stay High” & More | Daily Visuals 5.5.22
HipHopWired Featured Video We’re already a few months removed from Black History Month but Ace Hood and Killer Mike are taking the time to pay homage to some of the greats from our past and present to keep their memories alive while having viewers reminisce about their legacy. In their visuals to “Greatness,” Ace Hood and Killer Mike find themselves in a spot that houses paintings of some of our greatest trailblazers including Maya Angelou, Arthur Ashe, and Nipsey Hussle while playing black-and-white clips of them while they were alive. Rest in Power to those Kings and Queens. Back on the block Wiz Khalifa and Juicy J link up with Elle Varner to run a “flower” shop that may or may not sell exotics that’ll put you on your ass in their clip to “Why Do I Stay High.” Check out the rest of toda...
Arcade Fire Release New Album WE: Listen and Read the Full Credits
Arcade Fire have released their new album WE. Nigel Godrich produced the LP alongside bandleaders Win Butler and Régine Chassagne. The record also features a noteworthy roster of collaborators: Josh Tillman (aka Father John Misty), Portishead and Beak>’s Geoff Barrow, composer Owen Pallett, and more contributed to the band’s sixth full-length. Listen to WE and check out the full album credits below. WE follows Arcade Fire’s 2017 LP Everything Now. The band recorded the new album in New Orleans, El Paso, and Mount Desert Island. Their studio lineup included Régine Chassagne, Win Butler, Richard Reed Parry, Tim Kingsbury, Jeremy Gara, and Will Butler, although, following the announcement of the new album, Will Butler revealed that he had left the band after recording was complete. The 40-...
Here’s How to Support Abortion Funds on Bandcamp Friday
Today is Bandcamp Friday, which means the platform will once again waive its share of revenue for 24 hours. In response to the Supreme Court’s plans to overturn Roe v. Wade—which would allow individual states to outlaw abortion—a number of artists and labels will donate their portions of proceeds to abortion funds around the country. Below is a list of participants donating to various funds and institutions supporting the right to choose. Merge Records will donate 100% of digital sales to its artists, as well as match those digital sales and donate the amount to the Carolina Abortion Fund Cassandra Jenkins is releasing a new edition of Hard Drive Fund Drive hats with half the profits going to the National Network of Abortion Funds Partisan Records (Fontaines D.C., Idles, Chubby and the Gan...
Flying Lotus Shares New Song for Magic Johnson Docuseries: Listen
Flying Lotus has shared the new song that he made for a new documentary series on Los Angeles Lakers legend Earvin “Magic” Johnson. Listen to “They Call Me Magic (Main Title Theme)” below. Rick Famuyiwa directed the four-part They Call Me Magic, which is streaming now on Apple TV+. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. Flying Lotus shared his latest studio album, Flamagra, in 2019. The following year, he shared Flamagra (Instrumentals). And, in 2021, the musician issued his soundtrack for the Netflix show Yasuke. Read Pitchfork’s Family Matters interview “Flying Lotus and His Grandmother Talk Being in a Family Bound by Music.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Sharon Van Etten Shares New Video for “Mistakes”: Watch
Sharon Van Etten has shared a music video for her song “Mistakes.” The track appears on her new album We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong, which arrived earlier today via Jagjaguwar. In the video, Van Etten can be seen revisiting some of her old Brooklyn haunts, like the Drift and Union Pool. Check out the Ashley Connor-directed visual below. We’ve Been Going About This All Wrong follows Van Etten’s 2019 full-length Remind Me Tomorrow. Van Etten chose to release the LP all at once, without any previously-issued singles. “I wanted to approach this release differently, to engage my fans in an intentional way, in an effort to present the album as a whole body of work,” Van Etten said in a press release when she announced the LP. “These 10 songs are designed to be listened to in order, at on...
Lauren Mia Deepens Her Roots In Melodic Techno With New EP, “Eternal Existence”
Throughout the last few years, Lauren Mia’s self-described “erotic journey through sound” has allowed her to emerge as one of dance music’s most promising acts. The classic pianist and composer has created a space for herself in the burgeoning melodic techno and progressive house arena thanks to her unique take on the genre. Helping to propel that distinctive sound is Mia’s new EP, Eternal Existence. On the heels of her first singles of the year, “Ohm” and “Existence,” Mia spares no time in demonstrating her talents with the two-track release. Eternal Existence contains a one-two punch of powerful records that cement her firmly in the quickly rising tides of melodic techno. In “One”, the sounds...
“Loner”: Alison Wonderland’s Third Album Is the Rallying Call of Our Times
In 2020, Alison Wonderland hit a turning point. “My life was going a certain way before something pulled everything out from under me…I felt like I had hit my rock bottom,” she reflected in a press release. It was a reckoning both personal and professional, as working on new music transformed from an emotional outlet into a rallying call. “I realized that I have always seen myself as the victim of my story,” she recalled. “This time, something shifted in me, and I decided that I didn’t want to be the victim anymore.” Wonderland’s third album, Loner, is out now and it’s the sweeping result of this new awakening. And despite the title of her 2018 sophomore effort, Awake, it’s actually this new 12-track project that...
David Guetta, Marshmello, More to DJ at Summerburst’s Biggest Festival In 10 Years
Ahead of their biggest festival in a decade, the organizers of Summerburst have announced a massive lineup to celebrate the beloved festival’s return to Gothenburg. The 2022 edition of the Swedish dance music fest is scheduled for June 3-4 at Ullevi, one of the biggest stadiums in the Nordic countries with a capacity of 43,000. While the sprawling stadium has historically hosted major sporting events, like the FIFA World Cup and the UEFA Cup Finals, it also doubles as a locus for the world’s best DJs to throw down for Summerburst. And after two years away due to the impact of the pandemic, Summerburst is returning stronger than ever. Summerburst 2022 is scheduled for June 3-4 at Ullevi. c/o Summerburst For the first time, ravers will have access to four stages: the M...
Look Inside the Mayhem of Excision’s First-Ever Paradise Blue Music Festival In Cancún
As Excision continues to expand his festival empire, it was only a matter of time until he went international. His first-ever destination music festival, Paradise Blue, seemingly went off without a hitch in Cancún, where attendees had the opportunity to head-bang in the pool, on the beach and in the club from 2PM to 3AM daily. Paradise Blue offered a refreshing dose of bass music, featuring artists from all over the spectrum to join X on the beach. Ace Aura, Bear Grillz, SVDDEN DEATH, Kai Wachi, Eliminate, Au5 and many more showed out to help curate the signature Excision festival experience. Words alone can’t provide a festival of this caliber justice, though. Check out the clips below for FOMO a glimpse into the inaugural Paradise Blue, where DJs raged in the po...
