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Mac DeMarco Covers “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas”: Watch
Mac DeMarco is continuing his annual tradition of covering classic Christmas songs. Following his cover of “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” last year, the Canadian musician is back with a new rendition of “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.” The roughly two-minute track arrives with a new music video, which finds DeMarco and Dan McNeill riding around Los Angeles on motorcycles while wearing inflatable costumes of Santa Claus and a gingerbread man. Check it out below. DeMarco’s latest album, Here Comes the Cowboy, dropped in 2019. Earlier this month, he joined Domi & JD Beck on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, performing “Two Shrimps.” See why DeMarco was included on “The 200 Most Important Artists of Pitchfork’s First 25 Years.” Content This content can also be viewed on t...
Oscars 2023: LCD Soundsystem, Taylor Swift, Mitski, Rihanna, and More Make Shortlist for Best Original Song
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has unveiled the shortlists for several categories at the 2023 Academy Awards. The race for Best Original Song, in particular, features an interesting blend of indie artists and pop stars: LCD Soundsystem, Taylor Swift, Mitski, the Weeknd, Rihanna, Lady Gaga, Giveon, Selena Gomez, and Jazmine Sullivan are all on the shortlist, which you can find in full below. Potentially competing in the Best Original Score category are past Oscar winners Ludwig Göransson, John Williams, Hildur Guðnadóttir, and Alexandre Desplat. Other notable shortlist contenders include Terence Blanchard, Son Lux, Nicholas Britell, and Michael Abels. Find the full shortlist below. The 2022 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film went to Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson f...
TONG Drops Inventive House Remix of Matroda’s “Gimme Some Keys”
Last month, emerging L.A.-based artist TONG was crowned the winner of Insomniac’s 2022 Discovery Project competition for her inventive rework of Matroda‘s house banger, “Gimme Some Keys.” Her massive remix propelled her to the stage of one of the nation’s largest electronic music fests, EDC Orlando, where she threw down a banging tech house set for her first-ever festival performance. For her groovy take on Matroda’s house anthem, TONG opted to add funky guitar elements, quirky vocal chops and a pulsing bassline that rarely relents. It’s clear that this promising dance music producer likes to take risks, experimenting with a wide range of sounds in the pursuit of developing her own unique style of house music. TONG’s rework is part of a colle...
10 Photos That Capture the Jaw-Dropping Production of Time Warp
The fifth U.S. edition of Time Warp was an extraordinary celebration of hard-hitting techno. Following events in Mannheim and São Paulo, the renowned techno brand touched down in New York for a two day festival on November 11th and 12th. Combining global esteem with local acumen, the event was put together in partnership with one of the city’s top dance music organizers, Teksupport. The two-day festival took place at a sprawling warehouse in Brooklyn’s secluded Navy Yard, a regular spot for Teksupport shows and the perfect hideaway for deep, dark dance music. As always, Time Warp brought forth some of the best names in underground dance music. The event starred Drumcode boss Adam Beyer, Afterlife’s Mind Against, “Queen of Techno” Nicole Moudaber, melodic Ukrainian supe...
Listen to Armin van Buuren’s 109-Track “ASOT Year Mix 2022”
Armin van Buuren has unveiled a gigantic mix to honor all the great trance music released in 2022. As fans know, the Dutch DJ and trance icon annually compiles all of his favorite songs into one mix to close out the year. Considering the scale of his platform and the renown of his long-running “A State Of Trance” show, van Buuren is perhaps the genre’s most tenured selector—and that reputation is on display in his “ASOT Year Mix 2022.” Clocking in at just under two hours, the mix features a staggering 109 tracks. “What a year it’s been for Trance and I’m beyond proud to FINALLY bring you the A State Of Trance Year Mix 2022!,” van Buuren tweeted. “I still wonder how I made 109 tracks fit into 2 hours.” Scr...
We Asked the A.I. Program ChatGPT About EDM—It Knew Too Much
Following the release of the now-viral sensation, ChatGPT, it took OpenAI’s eerily sophisticated chatbot just five days to amass over one million users. And it’s become the most successful story at the intersection of artificial intelligence and meteoric tech adoption in the last decade. There’s many reasons why ChatGPT has become an instant hit. Some have called it a creative enhancer, others a search query replacement. But no matter what you think ChatGPT’s future use cases are, there’s no denying it has a tremendous trove of information to draw upon, including niche topics like electronic dance music. Despite our best efforts to stump ChatGPT with absurdly specific questions—and even thought-provoking, nuanced topics—it seems the algorithm has a deeper unde...
Kid Cudi Will No Longer Release a Joint Album With Travis Scott
Kid Cudi has confirmed that he will no longer release a joint album with Travis Scott. On Wednesday morning, Cudi hosted a Twitter Q&A session with his followers, during which one fan inquired about whether his joint record with the Cactus Jack rapper, which was supposed to be called The Scotts, was still in the pipeline. “Is The Scotts album still on the cards,” the fan posted, to which Cudi responded: “Naw im not doin that. The moment has passed.” Though the collaborative album has been axed, Cudi did reveal that he will continue to release more tracks with Scott. “Dam if not an album, are we still going to get collabs with you and Travis?” another fan inquired, to which Cudi said, “Def!!” Naw im not doin that. The moment has passed https://t.co/pxM8yTnbXz — The Chosen One (@KiDCuDi)...
Khloe Kardashian Caused Resale Value Of Air Jordan 1 “Mocha” To Soar, Allegedly
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cassy Athena / Getty Sneakerheads the Kardashian’s are not, but they know the trends that keep people talking. So when Khloe Kardashian showed up to Bronny’s high school basketball game in a pair of Air Jordan 1 “Mochas,” y’all know she knew what she was doing. Though it was seemingly an attempt to show that she was “up on it,” the move has had a negative effect on sneakerheads who might’ve been interested in paying resale prices for the grails as Khloe single-handedly caused the value to blowup overnight. TMZ is reporting that since Khloe wore the highly sought after sneakers to Bronny’s game last week, Remo from Walk Like Us told TMZ that the resale value skyrocketed like a MF. Related Stories Remo tells TMZ … the shoes normally go for a max of $130 for...
Dave Chappelle & Black Star Launch 2nd Season of ‘The Midnight Miracle’ Podcast
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Shareif Ziyadat / Getty The second season of the acclaimed podcast hosted by Dave Chappelle, Yasiin Bey and Talib Kweli has launched with its first episode. Fans of The Midnight Miracle podcast which is hosted by Chappelle, Bey, and Kweli on the Luminary platform, dropped the first episode of their second season Monday (Dec. 19). The episode, entitled “A Magnificent Day for an Exorcism,” follows the same format as the first season where listeners are greeted with an audio collage of hosts and guests. Related Stories The trailer for the launch features Bey conducting a prayer, which serves as the backdrop for a montage of video and images featuring the trio over the past year. Those featured in the first episode of the new season include cinematographer Ar...
#BRUHNews: Mom Delivers Fade To Airport Counter Equipment After Losing Kids
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Miami-Dade Corrections / Miami-Dade Corrections Camila McMillie, a mom of two traveling out of Miami International Airport, was arrested after losing her children and having an outburst this week. In a now-viral video clip, McMillie was seen destroying equipment at the airport after she couldn’t locate her children and faces a number of charges. As reported by the outlet Local 10, Camila McMillie, 25, was traveling to New York out of Miami on Tuesday (Dec. 20) and became irate with American Airlines workers after she couldn’t locate her children. According to reports, the children went to the bathroom without informing their mother, promoting her to request help from the staff. It isn’t known or wasn’t shared in the reporting if airline workers atte...
Cop Who Killed Atatiana Jefferson Gets Nearly 12 Years Behind Bars
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Stewart F. House / Getty The Texas police officer who shot and killed Black woman Atatiana Jefferson in 2019 was hit with an 11-year, 10-month prison sentence on Tuesday (Dec. 20). Forth Worth police officer Aaron Dean entered the home of Jefferson’s mother for a wellness check where the biology graduate was watching her nephew. The tragic shooting of Atatiana Jefferson occurred when a neighbor called in a nonemergency request to check in on the home. Upon approaching the home, Dean, 38, opened fire, striking Jefferson while her 8-year-old nephew was in the room. Days after the shooting, Dean resigned from the Fort Worth Police Department. According to several accounts, Jefferson and her nephew were up late playing video games. Local outlet KERA shared in...
Nicole Scherzinger Is ‘Down for a Collab’ With Taylor Swift
When she grows up, she wannabe famous, wannabe a star, wannabe … Taylor Swift‘s next collaborator. Nicole Scherzinger shared with followers in a Tuesday (Dec. 20) TikTok that the door is definitely open if a certain 11-time Grammy-winning pop star ever wants to get into the studio together. In the TikTok, the former Pussycat Dolls star stands in a recording booth, dressed in a black dress. Singing into a microphone, she jams out to a mashup of Swift’s latest No. 1 single, “Anti-Hero,” and “Buttons,” one of Scherzinger’s own hits. “I’d be down for a collab @Taylor Swift 😏🖤,” she captioned the video. Scherzinger posted the TikTok in response to one fan who thought she had been teasing a Swift collab in a previous video, in which she’d worn another all-black outfit and dark na...
