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Run This Town: Jay-Z’s Made In America 2022 Dates Announced
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Mark Makela / Getty Made In America is back for 2022, with new dates for the late summer festival created by Jay-Z having been recently announced. The Made In America Festival is back again for its tenth year, with dates for the 2022 edition being announced on Tuesday (April 26th). The two-day concert event created by Jay-Z and Budweiser will return to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on Labor Day Weekend, September 3rd and September 4th. The festival will be held once more at Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the cultural thoroughfare that runs through the heart of the city and ends at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. “From the inaugural festival in 2012 to now, Made In America has had a home on Benjamin Franklin Parkway. We have seen some of music’s most iconic...
J.J. Abrams’ Bad Robot To Produce A Live-Action ‘Hot Wheels’ Film
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Future Publishing / Getty For generations Hot Wheels have probably been both the most recognizable and probably most under-appreciated toy line on the market, but it’s about to get pushed back to the forefront of the world when it rolls up on the silver screen in its first feature film. Deadline is reporting that Mattel has struck a deal with Warner Bros. and director extraordinaire, J.J. Abrams to produce a live-action film centered around the iconic toy cars that most 80’s babies grew up on. Who asked for this film to be made? No one, but that isn’t stopping anyone from getting it done. How will it play out? Hot Wheels is Mattel’s 54-year-old brand of toy cars, which is billed as the world’s leading vehicle franchise, representing and uniting all segmen...
Something In The Water To Place In Washington, D.C. On Juneteenth Weekend
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Brian Ach / Getty Something In The Water, the music festival founded by Pharell Williams and launched in 2019, still remains one of the top events of its sort some three years later. SITW will mark its triumphant return in 2022, this time outside of Skateboard P’s native Virginia, and instead will take place in the Nation’s Capitol. Pharrell announced the return of Something In The Water on Tuesday (April 26) while sharing that the three-day festival will feature some of the biggest and brightest names across a variety of music genres. Taking place across three stages in the heart of Washington, D.C., Pharrell and Friends, a star-studded affair when it was first rolled out during the first Something In The Water, most certainly stands out. While the...
Real Estate’s Martin Courtney Announces New Album Magic Sign, Shares Video for New Song: Watch
Real Estate frontman Martin Courtney has announced a new solo album—his first since his 2015 debut full-length Many Moons. The new LP, Magic Sign, is out June 24 via Domino. Today, he’s shared a new music video for the lead single “Corncob,” directed by Bráulio Amado and Antonio Vicentini. Watch the video below. “The lyrics are about a specific time, the end of youth, pre-adulthood, scummy kid hanging around your hometown a little too long, smoking weed and driving around the surrounding area with your friends to get as completely lost as possible,” Courtney said of the new song in a statement. He continued: Eventually getting home using these little green signs that are posted throughout the NJ suburbs telling you which way to go to reach different towns. We called them magic signs. You d...
Lil Nas X Announces 2022 Tour Dates
Lil Nas X is going on tour in support of his debut album Montero. The North American leg of the Long Live Montero Tour takes place in September and October. The musician will then play shows in Europe and the United Kingdom in November. Find Lil Nas X’s tour dates, as well as a trailer for the tour, below. Lil Nas X recently performed a suite of Montero songs—including “Dead Right Now,” “Montero (Call Me by Your Name),” and “Industry Baby”—at the 2022 Grammy Awards. He got five nominations at the 2022 Grammys, but did not take home any awards. All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Lil Nas X: Long Live Montero Tour Lil Nas X: 09-06 Detroit, MI – The Fi...
The B-52’s Announce Farewell Tour
The B-52’s have announced a farewell tour, which begins in Seattle on August 22. It wraps up in mid-November in Atlanta, with the Tubes and KC & The Sunshine Band taking support slots along the way. See the full schedule below. In the fall of 2019, band member Fred Schneider told Billboard that they wouldn’t embark on any more tours, but that they’d still make occasional festival appearances. The band’s most recent album is 2008’s Funplex, which arrived 16 years after its predecessor, 1992’s Good Stuff. Read the Sunday Review of the B-52s’ 1979 self-titled debut, and revisit Pitchfork’s feature “The B-52s’ Kate Pierson on the Music That Made Her.” The B-52’s: 08-22 Seattle, WA – McCaw Hall*09-29 Mashantucket, CT – Foxwoods Casino**09-30 Boston, MA – MGM Mus...
Silver Jews’ American Water Artwork Prints and Paintings Being Sold by Original Artist
Chris Kysor is the artist behind the painting on the cover of David Berman’s 1998 Silver Jews classic American Water. Today, starting at 12 p.m. Eastern, Kysor is selling prints and new painting reproductions of that artwork for the first time. In addition to a limited edition run of 225 prints sized 20″ x 16″, there will be multiple paintings available in a variety of sizes. Find them at Cluster Wall Gallery. Kysor was a childhood friend of Berman’s, and in 1998, Berman saw the painting for the first time in Kysor’s Williamsburg, Brooklyn studio. Berman was recording American Water at Rare Book Room at the time and asked Kysor for permission to use the painting as his album’s cover. Berman died in 2019 at the age of 52. That same year, he released his sole album under the name...
Color K Drops Kaleidoscopic Music Video for Uplifting Single, “Traveling Space”
Inviting fans deeper into the orbit of his unique sound, French electronic music artist Color K has unveiled the official music video for “Traveling Space.” Bubbly and buoyant, “Traveling Space” features summery, potent synths and intoxicating sound design. Its central theme is wanderlust, with lyrics exploring our need as humans to seek out adventure in the wake of a heartbreak. “I am traveling space, looking for a better place,” warbles Color K’s warm, vocoded voice. Color K’s music video essentially functions as a kaleidoscope, wherein fans can listen to his new single as they look out into various trippy, animated locales throughout the galaxy. The vantage point is first-person, directly from the seat of a spaceship that speeds thro...
Underground Vibes | 079
“Odeum” – sebjin & High Klassified Returning to Quality Goods Records, Montreal-based artist sebjin has just unveiled his Cliff EP, with “Odeum” alongside High Klassified making up for a bright showcase of his multi-faceted style. “Trojan Horse” – Klasey Jones & Sooski Taken off Klasey Jones and The Wildcatz’s recent collaborative EP Operation Midnight (Part 2), “Trojan Horse” finds the former enlist Sooski for an ethereal drum & bass vibe. “Prove It” – Direct Based in Columbus, Direct has been capturing an international audience’s attention for some time now with his pensive productions, having become closely affiliated with landmark label Monstercat. His latest single “Prove It” combines tasteful UK garage grooves and nuanced melodies. “In My Head” – D...
Benson and Tommy Trash Unite for Colossal Tech House Single, “Spilt Milk”
Joining forces for a collaboration that is bound to start lighting up dancefloors in no time, Benson and Tommy Trash have delivered irresistible tech house grooves on “Spilt Milk.” Hailing from Australia, Benson and Trash have cemented themselves as powerhouses within dance music over the past years, achieving massive global success while receiving ARIA and Grammy nominations, respectively. Infectious and relentless, “Spilt Milk” marks Benson’s first single of 2022 while arriving fresh off Trash’s extended hiatus from the music industry and his North American “Jaguwawa” tour, which followed his eponymous single. Out via Ultra Music, “Spilt Milk” finds the two house virtuosos masterfully combine their unique production perspectives. Starting off with sultry vocals and subtle atm...
GT_Ofice and Britt Lari Deliver Anthemic House Track, “Moving On”
Miami-based producer GT_Ofice has been making strides in the electronic dance music space since emerging in 2019. What makes this producer stand out is his ability to create infectious electro-pop productions alongside sensational vocalists. For his latest offering, “Moving On,” GT_Ofice taps in Britt Lari for their third collaborative track to come out on CAINE Records. The two seem to work well together, once again unveiling a bubbly electronic anthem. The track begins with soft keys and warm chord progressions, setting the tone for the melodic house arrangement that follows. Lari provides a typically strong topline above GT_Ofice’s production, which is as radiant as ever, akin to finally breaking free from a ball and chain. “‘...
Pusha T Speaks on Kanye West and Kid Cudi Feud
Soon after the release of his latest mixtape, It’s Almost Dry, Pusha T sat down with SiriusXM’s Shade45 and discussed in length the feud between Kanye West and Kid Cudi and how it affected his album. King Push divulged about what it is like working with both Ye and Cudi on what appears to be their final collaborative track, “Rock N Roll.” The song garnered a lot of attention since Cudi revealed that this would be the last time he worked with Ye. Push was asked if he thought that their relationship could be repaired and he responded, “I think right now, I’m going to just let them have their space. You couldn’t even imagine the amount of talking I had to do just in regard to getting the record [‘Rock N Roll’] for the album cleared.” Cudi is definitely very strong-willed. He’s sta...
