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Best New Tracks: De La Soul, PARTYNEXTDOOR, Jacquees x Future and More
As the first week of 2023 in music comes to a close, HYPEBEAST has rounded up the best projects for the latest installment of Best New Tracks. This week’s lineup is led by De La Soul who released the 1989 cut “The Magic Number” on streaming for the first time, PARTYNEXTDOOR who released “Her Old Friends” and Jacquees and Future who share a music video for “When You Bad Like That.” Also joining this week’s selection are offerings from Paramore and Miley Cyrus, along with collaborations from Armani White with Denzel Curry, Benny Sings with Kenny Beats, Fly Anakin with Foisey and SG Lewis with Charlotte Day Wilson and Channel Tres. PARTYNEXTDOOR – “Her Old Friends” [embedded content] PARTYNEXTDOOR follows up his December 2022 single “Sex in the Porsche,...
Hunters Season 2 Review: An Uneven, But Never Boring, Conclusion to the Prime Video Series
The Pitch: If there’s one thing most of us can agree on, it’s that Nazis are bad. But what kind of justice does a Nazi deserve? That’s the ethical question underlying the second and final season of Hunters, the Jordan Peele-produced and very peculiar Prime Video thriller series about a ’70s-era vigilante force formed around one goal: track down all the Nazis who evaded persecution after World War II, and use the efficiency of bullets to stop them for good. Created by David Weil, Hunters is coming to a close after only 18 episodes, which somehow seems simultaneously like too many episodes and too few. But while suffering from writing issues and a lack of consistency in tone, there are moments of dialogue, performances, and in one case an entire episode which reveal the underlying potential ...
Fan Chant: 10 K-Pop Tours We Want to See in 2023
Welcome to Fan Chant, a weekly column for K-pop fans, stans, and newbies alike. Each week, I’ll be rolling out interviews, lists, and all kinds of content to keep you in the loop on the latest and greatest from our friends in Seoul and beyond. Also, make sure to subscribe to my companion newsletter! It’s officially tour announcement season. Between festival rollouts and album news, 2023 feels like it’s starting off with a bang with how quickly tour calendars are filling up. As we all know, K-pop tours are their own special kind of excitement — will our faves be coming to a city anywhere even remotely nearby? Will they even be coming to this country? Will I even be able to score tickets if all of those aforementioned factors also happen to fall into place? Advertisement Related Video With a...
How Many NFL Wild Card Teams Have Won The Super Bowl?
With NFL Wild Card Weekend in our sights many American Football fans are asking – how many NFL Wild Card teams have won the Super Bowl? We take a look at the 2023 Wild Card Weekend match betting, plus answer that burning question and also give you the latest Super Bowl LVII futures betting odds from new crypto sportsbook Lucky Block. Quickly Find: 2023 Wild Card Weekend Matches and BettingSeattle Seahawks @ San Francisco 49ers Money Line Betting & StatsLos Angeles Chargers @ Jacksonville Jaguars Money Line Betting & StatsMiami Dolphins @ Buffalo Bills Money Line Betting & StatsNew York Giants @ Minnesota Vikings Money Line Betting & StatsBaltimore Ravens @ Cincinnati Bengals Money Line Betting & StatsDallas Cowboys @ Tampa Bay Buccaneers Money Line Betting & StatsSu...
Bonnaroo 2023’s Lineup Is the Culmination of All Bonnaroos Past
Putting together a great music festival lineup in 2023 is a much different proposition than it was in the past. Years of market saturation — even with an epidemiological fallow year — have led to homogenous lineups and events competing to remain distinct in order to attract the ever-dwindling consumer dollar. Epitomizing this struggle has been one of the largest, most beloved music festivals in the US: Bonnaroo. The Manchester, Tennessee gathering has been held at Great Stage Park — affectionately known as The Farm — since 2002. Thanks to two years of cancelations, 2023 will mark the 20th edition of the fest, a landmark moment for an event seen as the prototype for large-scale North American festival experiences. Once the gold standard, Roo has had its share of stumbles in the last decade,...
The Last of Us Review: HBO’s Video Game Adaptation Is Too Loyal to Its Source Material
The Pitch: The video game adaptation remains an albatross around the neck of many a film and TV producer. For every Silent Hill, there’s a dozen or so Wing Commanders; TV’s no different, even as recently as last year’s weaksauce Halo series for Paramount+. But HBO hopes to break the mold with The Last of Us, their prestige-drama take on the acclaimed Naughty Dog game of the same name. If you’ve played that game, or its divisive sequel (or watched The Walking Dead or any other zombie media over the past few decades), the premise is pretty familiar: The world has been ravaged by a deadly plague that kills millions and turns them into flesh-eating monsters (covered in mutated Cordyceps fungus), and the desperate survivors scramble to stay alive and maintain their huma...
Dan Streit and Cole Kush of Grin Machine Redefine What “Cool Rap Music Videos” Look Like
“What is Grin Machine?” is a question you’ll find on several rappers’ subreddits. The creative outfit has been incorrectly labeled as an album name and even some “if you know, you know” entity, but the truth is, Dan Streit and Cole Kush are very much real people — they just happen to be the creative brains behind some of the most innovative music videos in modern hip-hop. Streit and Kush are the founders of Grin Machine, a creative production studio — not an obscure album title that rappers hint at during the end of their music videos. Streit often dabbles with creative direction, design and VFX, and started off his career creating music videos for TMWRK Management artists like Diplo and Major Lazer. This led to more work with other record labels and video commissioners and he eventually g...
David Bowie in 10 Songs
This article was originally published in 2016, days prior to David Bowie’s death. It has since been updated in celebration of what would have been his 76th birthday on January 8th, 2023. Ever felt overwhelmed by an artist’s extensive back catalog? Been meaning to check out a band, but you just don’t know where to begin? In 10 Songs is here to help, offering a crash course and entry point into the daunting discographies of iconic artists of all genres. This is your first step toward fandom. Take it. David Bowie is transformation incarnate. He’s been a starman, an alligator, thin white duke, goblin king, a lad insane, a piece of teenage wildlife, a broken man, and most recently a Blackstar. He can’t be held down, held back, and seldom pigeonholed. If he’s never struck a chord with you, then ...
M3GAN Ending Explained: Seriously, What Is Her Deal?
She could be your child’s best friend… If it weren’t for all the murder. The new Universal-Blumhouse film M3GAN is the latest demented idea from Malignant writers Akela Cooper and James Wan, who rote the story of a sentient A.I.-powered android doing whatever she deems necessary to protect a young girl, with some help from her highly-advanced programming and mechanics — her calm kewpie face, fabulous fashion sense, and lethal skills making her both a threat to be feared as well as an instant horror icon. M3GAN is packed with solid jump scares as well as an affecting exploration of how technology affects modern parenting; as the first meme-worthy release of 2023, it’s certainly got people talking. But what is it that makes this a horror movie? Is M3GAN really all that bad? And how does it a...
Song of the Week: Shania Twain Kicks the Dust Up with “Giddy Up”
Song of the Week breaks down and talks about the song we just can’t get out of our head each week. Find these songs and more on our Spotify Top Songs playlist. For our favorite new songs from emerging artists, check out our Spotify New Sounds playlist. This week, say yee-haw to a new track from Shania Twain. In the ’90s, Shania Twain was the undisputed queen of pop country. No one was doing it like her — Shania commanded airwaves and international attention with her blend of catchy hooks, pop culture relevance, incredible fashion, playful music videos, and great vocals. She cranked out hit after hit and sold over 100 million records, making her the best-selling female artist in country music history. To this day, just the utterance of “let’s go girls” can send a ka...
Every Yo La Tengo Album Ranked From Worst to Best
This article was originally published in 2013 and has been updated. Welcome to Dissected, where we disassemble a band’s catalog, a director’s filmography, or some other critical pop-culture collection in the abstract. It’s exact science by way of a few beers. This time, we sort through the best and worst of Hoboken, New Jersey’s trio of Ira Kaplan, Georgia Hubley, and James McNew. On April 30, 1982, Lester Bangs overdosed and died, and took the ‘70s with him. The next day, in Hoboken, New Jersey, an obscure music writer named Ira Kaplan and a former child voiceover actress named Georgia Hubley performed together before an audience for the first time. Eventually, the pair became a band. They adopted a name after the Spanish phrase for “I have it.” Mets fans might recognize as the phrase o...
10 Times Boxers Fought After An Arrest, Including Mike Tyson
In light of Gervonta Davis’ recent arrest just weeks before he was scheduled to fight, we have decided to look back in history at 10 times boxers have went on to fight after being arrested. This list includes the likes of Mike Tyson, Gervonta Davis and of course Bernard Hopkins. It’s safe to say that boxing has had it’s fair share of controversial moments throughout history. Dodgy decisions, people’s ears getting bitten during a fight or even someone landing in the ring on a parachute during a bout are just a few examples of how crazy the sport of boxing can be. With that all being said, we have decided to dive deep into the history books to compile a list of ten times boxers fought after being arrested. 10 Times Boxers Fought After An Arrest Without further ado, here are ten examples of t...
