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Arcade Fire Announce 2022 Tour
The return of Arcade Fire continues. Following today’s release of WE, the band has announced a batch of North American tour dates, marking its first trek since the second leg of the Everything Now tour finished in 2018. Beck will play an acoustic support set on the North American dates, with Feist supporting in Europe. Find the group’s full schedule below. A dollar, pound, or euro from every ticket sale will go to Kanpe, which supports vulnerable communities in Haiti, thanks to Arcade Fire’s partnership with Plus1. In March, Arcade Fire dropped “The Lightning I, II,” their first official single in five years. The track arrived with a music video directed by Emily Kai Bock. The follow-up to 2017’s Everything Now was produced by Nigel Godrich, Win Butler, and Régine Chassagne. Find the rest ...
Watch Feist Harmonize With an Obnoxious Buzzing Sound in a Theater’s Basement Dressing Room
Feist is wrapping up a series of concerts dubbed Multitudes, which has featured the premiere of new music. During one of the last stops in California, she ended up in the historic Stanford Memorial Auditorium’s basement dressing room with an electrical buzzing sound that persistently and ambiently droned a single note that would irritate the vast majority of humans. Ever the professional, Feist sat down in front of a camera and processed her feelings by harmonizing an impromptu song about the “note of the sad dressing room.” It’s great. Watch it happen below. “Imagine working in this space with this note at all times, telling you that you’re in a basement of a historic theater but this is the backdrop to your life—this note that you have to integrate your thoughts around,” she sings. Feist...
Lady Gaga Shares New Video for “Hold My Hand”: Watch
Earlier this week, Lady Gaga released a new song called “Hold My Hand,” from the new Tom Cruise movie Top Gun: Maverick. Now Gaga has shared a new video for the track, which features the pop star singing on an airstrip, a motorcycle, and more between footage from both the new film and 1986’s Top Gun. The “Hold My Hand” video is helmed by Joseph Kosinski, who also directed Top Gun: Maverick. Check it out below. Gaga first teased the song last week, commenting, “I’ve been working on it for years.” Top Gun: Maverick hits theaters on Friday, May 27. Check out “5 Takeaways From Lady Gaga’s New Album, Chromatica” on the Pitch. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy...
Post Malone Announced as Musical Guest for Selena Gomez–Hosted SNL
Post Malone has been announced as the musical guest on the May 14 episode of Saturday Night Live. Selena Gomez will make her hosting debut on the episode as well. It will be Post Malone’s first time on the show. Post Malone will release his new album, Twelve Carat Toothache, on June 3. He recently previewed new songs on Instagram Live, including collaborations with the Kid Laroi, Doja Cat, Roddy Ricch, and Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold. Gomez, who currently stars on the Hulu series Only Murders in the Building, released her last album, Rare, in 2020. Learning to Love Post Malone
Death Of Kevin Samuels Confirmed By Mother
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Screenshot / Instagram The news surrounding Kevin Samuels is still trending heavily on social media and now, a member of Samuels’ family has stepped forward to offer the most ringing confirmation yet. Beverly Samuels-Burch, the mother of the popular and controversial media figure, confirmed that her son has died. NBC News exclusively obtained confirmation and a statement from Samuels-Burch regarding the passing of her son, sharing that she learned of the news ahead of being notified by the authorities via social media. “That was a terrible thing for social media to put that out. I didn’t even know. I hadn’t even been notified,” Samuels-Burch said to the outlet during a phone call. “All I’m doing is requesting that people pray for us.” Samuels amassed a 1....
HHW Gaming: Method Man Flexes Lyrical Muscle On New ‘Evil Dead: The Game’ Song “Come Get Some”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: CBS Photo Archive / Getty Method Man is lighting up television screens with Power Book II: Ghost performance, but he reminded us he still has bars and flexes his lyrical muscle on the new track for Evil Dead: The Game. Friday (May.6), Saber Interactive and Boss Team Games dropped the new Statik Selektah-produced track “Come Get Some” that features Method Man, his son PXWER and U-God’s son iNTeLL. A fan of the Sam Raimi Evil Dead films, Method Man easily glides over the song while dropping slick references to movies. “Come Get Some” features original voice samples from Bruce Campbell as the iconic Ash Williams and puts a Hip-Hop inspired spin on the film’s 1981 original soundtrack. [embedded content] The arrival of “Come Get Some” follows the release ...
Post Malone Announced as ‘SNL’ Musical Guest With Selena Gomez Hosting
Post Malone will make his Saturday Night Live musical guest debut on May 14, alongside Selena Gomez as host. Malone’s SNL appearance will occur ahead of the release of his next album, Twelve Carat Toothache, which is scheduled to debut on June 3. The rapper recently provided a preview of a few songs from the record while live streaming on Instagram, revealing collaborations with artists including The Kid Laroi, Doja Cat, Roddy Ricch and Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold. Malone and Gomez will follow this week’s host and musical guest: Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness star Benedict Cumberbatch and Arcade Fire, respectively. The episode will mark Cumberbatch’s second stint as host and the band’s fifth appearance as a musical guest. Saturday Nigth Live‘s season f...
NBA YoungBoy and Quavo Team Up for New Track “Don’t Rate Me”
Following last month’s announcement of The Last Slimento album, which saw the immediate release of eleven tracks, NBA Youngboy has returned with a new single. Entitled “Don’t Rate Me,” the rapper tapped Quavo to make a guest appearance on the track. “Know I’m shinin’, but can’t count my pockets,” YoungBoy raps. “They can’t stop me, I got the flu, it’s sick to me” It’s unclear if this new song will be included on The Last Slimento, which is due to hit streaming services on August 5. Regardless, YoungBoy has been keeping up his tendency to drop new music often. Other singles on the album’s tracklist include “I Hate YoungBoy,” “4KT Baby” and “Loner Life.” Listen to NBA YoungBoy’s “Don’t Rate Me” now and check out the eleven songs on the upcoming The Last Slimento on Spotify. In other music ne...
Sabrina Claudio Reinvigorates Her Sound With New Album ‘Based On A Feeling’
R&B/Soul singer Sabrina Claudio has returned with the release of her new album Based On A Feeling. The latest project marks the fourth studio album from the Miami songstress. With Based On A Feeling, Claudio further evolves her sensual, yet soulful sound with 11 featureless tracks. Additionally, the new project includes production from Stint, Blue Rondo, Jonah Christian, Jeff Gitty and more. “I’m so beyond proud of this evolution that is Based On A Feeling,” said Sabrina Claudio. Based On A Feeling stems from the promise I made of only making decisions based on a feeling of love and pure intentions. I took this idea and allowed it to guide me through the creative process of this album in every single aspect and I could not be more fulfilled with the final result.” Also, the album marks...
Zach Bryan & Luke Combs Make Inroads for Country on the Billboard Global 200
The May 7-dated Billboard Global 200 chart includes 21 debuts from a range of artists spanning genres and continents, including Argentine producers, South Korean pop singers and German rappers. Two of the new titles are from American country acts, as Zach Bryan‘s “Something in the Orange” and Luke Combs‘ “Tomorrow Me” arrive at Nos. 107 and 150, respectively. Bryan and Combs bring the latest of just 10 country hits to appear on the Global 200 so far this year. Both songs fall short of the Billboard Global Excl. U.S. chart, which is on trend for their genre as no country artist has yet appeared on the Excl. U.S. tally in 2022. “Orange” and “Tomorrow” yielded 9.6 million and 7.6 million global streams, respectively, in the week ending April 28, according to Luminate. For “Orange,” 92% of tho...
Lil Nas X Celebrates Getting A New BB Gun With Song Teaser: Listen to the Clip
It’s been less than a year since Lil Nas X dropped his debut album Montero, and yet the rapper keeps on offering up teasers of new tracks for his fans — and his latest tease comes along with a cheeky video. In a Twitter post on Friday (May 6), Lil Nas shared a video of himself dressed in full camouflage hunting garb, smiling at the camera with his hands behind his back. He eventually pulls out a tan pellet gun and aims it at the camera … before immediately breaking into a dance. “Guess who got a new bb gun,” he wrote in the caption. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Of course, the more important highlight from the video came from the music playing in the background. Throughout the 13-second clip, a snippet of an upcoming Lil Nas song...
Lady Gaga Soars in Dramatic ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ Video for ‘Hold My Hand’
Lady Gaga dropped the video for her heart-swelling Top Gun: Maverick soundtrack ballad “Hold My Hand” on Friday (May 6), which finds the pop singer embodying the anticipated sequel’s adrenalized vibe. The visual directed by the film’s director, Joseph Kosinski, mixes footage from the high-octane fighter pilot drama starring Tom Cruise, Jennifer Connelly, Miles Teller, Val Kilmer, Monica Barbaro and Jon Hamm with black-and-white footage of Gaga posing next to military jets while dressed in a flight jacket. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The singer also bangs out the soaring power ballad’s emotional chorus — “So cry tonight/ But don’t you let go of my hand/ You can cry every last tear/ I won’t leave ’til I understand/ Promise me, just ho...
