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HHW Gaming: Lara Croft Will Return In New ‘Tomb Raider’ Game Powered By Unreal Engine 5
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Square Enix / Shadow of The Tomb Raider Lara Croft will return, and her new adventure will be powered by Unreal Engine 5.Honestly, with any game coming to either the PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series S|X, improved graphics should come as no surprise. Nor should the fact that there is another Tomb Raider game in the works, but for her latest world-saving romp, Crystal Dynamics has announced that its new Unreal Engine 5 will be powering it. The video game studio saved this news for last during Tuesday’s (Apr.5) Unreal Engine 5 presentation by Epic Games. If you haven’t gotten a chance to experience Unreal Engine 5, Epic Games gave us a small sample size of what it can do in The Matrix Awakens demo released a few days before The Matrix Resurrections. ...
Lil Uzi Vert Announces Breakup With City Girls Rapper JT Because Of Old Tweet?
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Rapper Lil Uzi Vert appears to have just been dumped by City Girls rapper JT, and their breakup comes with a few lessons. First, it just isn’t smart for young-ish couples who haven’t been together long to get tattoos of each other’s names. You might also want to put off renting out Nickelodeon studios and buying your significant other a McLaren for her 29th birthday if you don’t know if y’all are going to make it to her 30th (It’s like 3 Stacks said, “You can plan a pretty picnic but you can’t predict the weather,” and a lot of folks just kept jamming without heeding the words). Related Stories But anyway, that’s all just a bunch of rich negro sh*t that’s well above most of our pay grades. The real moral to this break-up story is simp...
Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Vini Vici and MATTN Breathe New Life Into 1993 Classic, “Café Del Mar”
In a collab of epic proportions, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Vini Vici and MATTN have joined forces for a rave-ready rendition of Energy 52’s timeless trance hit, “Café Del Mar.” MATTN teamed up with Futuristic Polar Bears back in 2016 for a larger-than-life take on the tune, which received a massive edit at the time from the Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike tandem. They’ve now tapped virtuosic psytrance duo Vini Vici to breathe new life into Café Del Mar via an electrifying rework fit for 2022, when EDM’s biggest stages are returning with a vengeance after the pandemic. The new version of “Café Del Mar” is gritty, euphoric and designed for raving. The big room energy of MATTN and Dimitri Vegas & Like Mi...
Zeds Dead, Seven Lions, Ganja White Night to Headline Interstellar Music Festival 2022
Following the success of its inaugural edition, Interstellar Music Festival is set to expand in a big way in 2022. This year, Interstellar will be doubling its festival grounds, performances and production while offering onsite camping for the first time. Taking place from August 12-14, their sophomore event will be hosted at a new home: the Kentucky Speedway in Sparta. Interstellar organizers have now announced their 2022 headliners: Ophelia Records boss Seven Lions, iconic duo Zeds Dead and renowned dubstep duo Ganja White Night. The undercard is also something to marvel at, with Getter, DROELOE, Mija, Opuio and more. In addition, Interstellar has teamed up with several labels and collectives that will host stages. Zeds Dead’s very own Deadbeats, Mersiv‘s...
Non-Fungible Nightlife: E11EVEN’s Bitcoin Conference 2022 Events Fuel Miami’s Crypto Crusade
In the quest to become the nation’s crypto capital, the city of Miami has pulled ahead—and E11EVEN is one of the keys. The $40 million Ultraclub has torn hell for leather into the DeFi movement, adopting cryptocurrency at a dizzying pace as Miami officials work to incorporate it into the city’s infrastructure. And during a time when Mayor Francis Suarez is hellbent on building “crypto’s version of Silicon Valley,” it seems E11EVEN is angling to be the vanguard of the city’s glitzy foray into the intersection of entertainment and blockchain tech. Since E11EVEN’s groundbreaking move to become the country’s first nightlife establishment to accept Bitcoin as a form of payment, they have since processed over $5 million of it at the venue, accordin...
Fluencee Turns Back Time With Heartfelt Future Bass Anthem, “Before You Were Mine”: Listen
“Can we rewind, turn back time?” Parvané earnestly asks on Fluencee‘s latest single, “Before You Were Mine.” Out now via Circus Records, the enchanting future bass ballad flawlessly captures not only the starry-eyed daydreams of new love, but also the longing for those fantasies once reality inevitably reveals itself. Fluencee expertly pairs those soaring vocals with the track’s anticipative, rich synths, which oscillate alongside futuristic chords. Arpeggios flutter under the surface like butterfly wings. Meanwhile, a hypnotic melody slowly builds in intensity before plunging us into a cathartic, future bass drop. Two years in the making, the final “Before You Were Mine” is like a warm embrace. It welcomes us into its sto...
Florist Announce New Album, Share Video for New Song: Watch
Florist—the quartet of Emily Sprague, Jonnie Baker, Rick Spataro, and Felix Walworth—have announced their new self-titled LP with a music video for the new song “Red Bird Pt. 2 (Morning).” Florist is due out July 29 via Double Double Whammy. Watch the new visual below. In a statement, Sprague said: This song is the introduction to Florist, an album journey very much about the celebration of the people in our lives and the massive importance of connection. It is lyrically and spiritually a continuation of where Florist left off five years ago at the end of If Blue Could Be Happiness. We recorded the song to 1/2″ tape on a screened-in porch in June. The nature sounds are live. The birds really sang along. Florist recorded their new album in June 2019 in Hudson, New York. Florist is a c...
Pusha T and Jay-Z Releasing New Song “Neck & Wrist” Tonight
Pusha T and Jay-Z are releasing a new song called “Neck & Wrist.” The track is produced by Pharrell Williams and it comes out tonight at midnight Eastern. The single artwork was made by Sterling Ruby, who also made the art for “Diet Coke.” “Neck & Wrist” follows Pusha T’s recent singles “Diet Coke” and “Hear Me Clearly.” It’ll mark Jay-Z and Pusha T’s first collaboration since 2016’s “Drug Dealers Anonymous.” Both rappers also appeared on Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy song “So Appalled” in 2010. Pusha T has been teasing his follow-up to 2018’s Daytona. After both of his recent singles got released, Pusha T tweeted that they’ll be featured on the new album. The rapper added in a recent interview with Complex, “I really want to get this album out. I want people to lo...
Tory Lanez Bail Increased for Violating Protective Order in Megan Thee Stallion Case
At a court hearing today (April 5), Tory Lanez had his bail increased and was remanded into custody for violating terms of the protective order in his felony assault case, TMZ and Rolling Stone report. He is expected to be released quickly after posting the new $350,000 bail, according to the reports. Shawn Holley, a lawyer for Tory Lanez (whose real name is Daystar Peterson), confirmed in a statement to Pitchfork, “The D.A. requested that Mr. Peterson’s bail be revoked or, in the alternative, that it be increased to $5 million. We are pleased that the Court rejected those outrageous requests.” Under the terms of the protective order, Lanez had been prohibited from contacting or coming within 100 yards of Megan Thee Stallion, who accused the Canadian artist of shooting her in the foot in 2...
Joyce Manor Announce New Album 40 oz. to Fresno, Share Video for New Song: Watch
Joyce Manor have announced a new record: 40 oz. to Fresno is out June 10 via Epitaph. The follow-up to 2018’s Million Dollars to Kill Me is produced by Rob Schnapf, who previously worked with the band on Cody. Below, watch the Mason Mercer–directed video for lead single “Gotta Let It Go.” 40 oz. to Fresno was mixed by Tony Hoffer and features Motion City Soundtrack’s Tony Thaxton on drums. The album title, according to a press release, comes from an auto-corrected text message about Sublime (who, of course, released their debut 40 oz. to Freedom in 1992). In a statement, Joyce Manor singer and guitarist Barry Johnson said, “This album makes me think of our early tours, drinking a 40 in the van on a night drive blasting Guided by Voices and smoking cigarettes the whole way to Fresno.” Read ...
Pusha T and JAY-Z To Drop New Track “Neck & Wrist” Produced by Pharrell
Pusha T and JAY-Z will drop a new collaborative track titled “Neck & Wrist,” produced by Pharrell, at midnight. The single, which will mark Pusha T and Hov’s first collaboration since 2016’s “Drug Dealers Anonymous,” will be the second track to arrive off of King Push’s long-awaited Daytona follow-up, after February’s “Diet Coke,” produced by Kanye West and 88 Keys. King Push on Tuesday shared a quote from Hov — “We got different Saab stories, save your soliloquies…” — to Instagram, under an image of the single’s cover art made by Sterling Ruby. Last month, alongside the release of his I Know NIGO track “Hear Me Clearly,” Pusha T shared a short anecdote about his forthcoming record and Pharrell’s involvement in the project. “Fun Fact: @pharrell heard this song and told me ‘it...
Kelly Clarkson Offers an Artistic Take on a Don McLean Classic: Watch
Kelly Clarkson opened the Tuesday (April 5) episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show with gorgeous cover of Don McLean‘s “Vincent.” “Starry, starry night/ Paint you palette blue and gray/ Look out on the summer’s day/ With eyes that know the darkness in my soul/ Shadows on the hills/ Sketch the trees and daffodils/ Catch the breeze and winter chills/ In colors on the snowy linen land,” the singer intoned, accompanied by a lone acoustic guitar. The tribute to Vincent Van Gogh was originally released by McLean in February 1972 as a follow-up to his No. 1 hit “American Pie.” Though the track didn’t quite reach the stratospheric heights of its smash predecessor, it did ultimately peak at No. 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 — giving McLean his second consecutive Top 40 hit off his 1971 sophomore album, a...
