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Bad Bunny’s Un Verano Sin Ti Is Summer’s Swaggering, Flavorful Soundtrack: Review
After making history with his last album, Bad Bunny is taking a lawn chair to the beach and basking in his success with his new LP, Un Verano Sin Ti (“A Summer Without You”). Across a whopping 23 tracks, the Puerto Rican superstar celebrates the music of the Caribbean with his signature emo flow. In addition to the usual suspects of reggaeton and Latin trap, he explores influences that include merengue, bomba, and dembow music. He continues to push reggaeton forward with alternative acts like The Marías and Bomba Estéreo, adding touches of Afrobeat and house music in mix. With his most fun and colorful album yet, Bad Bunny is ready for the summer season. The rapper released a trio of albums in 2020, culminating in El Último Tour Del Mundo making history as the first all-Spanish language al...
How Co-Creation Will Address the Urgent Need for Digital Transformation in SA
Ria Pinto, General Manager and Technology Leader – IBM South Africa. While organisations in South Africa cannot be entirely ready for the next crisis – to better prepare for future threats requires new way of driving flexibility and delivering innovation. With the rapid changes we’ve witnessed over the past two years, organisations in South Africa now realise they have to be flexible and transform quickly during the next crisis and that this requires collaboration, flexibility and urgency. Key to this approach is adopting and accelerating co-creation and agile ways of working. While digitisation was important before COVID-19 disrupted the world as we knew it, now, it’s non-negotiable. Now, organisations have no doubt that technologies like hybrid cloud and AI are not optional, but essentia...
Song of the Week: Taylor Swift Has Us Falling Into “This Love (Taylor’s Version)”
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, Taylor Swift seems to be signaling that a return to the 1989 era is imminent with her re-release of “This Love.” Sure, there’s no word yet on if we are officially re-entering the 1989 era — but in the meantime, Taylor Swift has shared the re-recorded version of one of the hidden treasures of her pop metamorphosis record. “This Love (Taylor’s Version)” joins “Wildest Dreams (Taylor’s Version)” as the latest 1989 (Taylor’s Version) preview. Featured in the trailer for the upcoming Prime Video series The Summ...
Rap Song of the Week: Doja Cat Gambles on Her Own Bars with “Vegas”
Rap Song of the Week rounds up the hip-hop tracks you need to hear every Friday. Check out the full playlist here. Today, Doja Cat drops her new single, “Vegas.” Recently, Remy Ma stirred the pot when she said Doja Cat isn’t a rapper during an episode of Drink Champs. The veteran Bronx MC added that although Doja makes “dope records,” she doesn’t belong in the rap category at the Grammys, either. It’s been a constant debate over the past several years as Doja has earned mainstream success, as detractors have labeled her a pop singer despite her background in the LA hip-hop underground scene. After a pair of sets at Coachella proving she’s more than capable of being a headliner, Doja Cat dropped her new single “Vegas” today. First previewed at the festival, it’s the lea...
Every Arcade Fire Song Ranked from Worst to Best
Rank and File finds us sorting through an exhaustive, comprehensive body of work or collection of pop-culture artifacts. This time, we celebrate Arcade Fire’s entire catalogue by revisiting all 85 of their anthems. This article originally ran in 2017 and has been updated as of May 6th, 2022 to mark the release of WE. From the very first notes of their debut album — those gleaming wind-chime like synths, the chugging guitar, the regal piano — Arcade Fire became one of those remarkably few life-changing, era-defining bands in indie rock history. Their songs soared, creaked, ached, and roared, breathing vibrant, triumphant life and passion. For over two decades, the New Orleans-by-way-of-Montreal band have continued to push and challenge themselves, drawing from their own confrontation with p...
How eBay Inspired Toro y Moi’s Latest Album
Toro y Moi insists that the most important aspect of his newest album, Mahal, is an obscure eBay purchase he made after months of deliberation. The purchase? A Filipino public transportation vehicle. “I have to say the jeepney is probably the coolest aspect,” Chaz Bear says over Zoom. His eyes light up immediately as he details the personal importance of the jeepney, smiling warmly as he recollected the experience from his home in the Bay Area. “It’s not the music, but again, it’s just such a wow factor. To me culturally, I’m just like I fantasized about this Jeep since I was 10 years old when my mom brought home a toy jeepney from the Philippines.” The jeepney is ever-present throughout the project, gracing the cover of the record and making several appearances in music videos. Bear and E...
5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: Jacoby Shaddix of Papa Roach
Name Jacoby Shaddix, Papa Roach Best known for Cutting lives into pieces since 2000. Current city Sacramento, CA, but actually currently shooting a new music video at the Salton Sea, CA. Really want to be in Sayulita, MX eating tacos on the beach. Excited about Ego trippin’ with my bandmates all year long. My current music collection has a lot of Streaming services have a lot of everything. It’s all at your fingertips and ready to be discovered. And a little bit of All the way from ASAP Rocky to Zeppelin. Preferred format Streaming because my kids broke my record player while I was out on tour — and blew my speakers out. Kids, man. [embedded content][embedded content] 5 Albums I Can’t Live Without: 1 Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers),&nb...
In 2012, The Avengers Was a Huge Risk. In 2022, It’s a Relic of a Lost Era.
There’s an argument to be made that Joss Whedon’s The Avengers is the most important superhero movie of the 21st century. The reasons are numerous, from its proof of concept that a crossover event on this scale could work, to its staggering box office success, to the now-vast media empire which would not exist had this one film fallen apart. The MCU began with Marvel literally using its entire catalog of characters to secure a massive loan to produce its own films, and while the early success of Iron Man and the other Phase 1 films was promising, that huge gamble was still largely dependent on The Avengers succeeding. And that wasn’t necessarily the safest of bets, given that despite Whedon being nerd royalty and an established screenwriter, script doctor, and TV director, the film was onl...
Brian Tyree Henry Talks Culture Shock and Code-Switching on ‘Atlanta’ Season 3
Following a four-year hiatus after the finale of season two, FX‘s Atlanta is back, and actor Brian Tyree Henry has finally returned to the screen in his starring role of Alfred “Paper Boi” Miles. Season three also restores the rest of the burgeoning rapper’s crew — Donald Glover as Earn, Zazie Beetz as Van and LaKeith Stanfield as Darius — and as the latest installment is well underway, HYPEBEAST dove deeper into this season’s pressure points in conversation with Henry. “It’s the come-up season,” Henry said. “Alfred is exalting in the success of what he’s done because everyone is in Europe thanks to him. His tour has gone international, and he is selling out venues all by himself.” Alfred is a “realist,” as the actor puts it. While the past two seasons have chronicled the evolution of the ...
Lorne Michaels Wanted Mike Myers to Remake The Graduate Instead of Making Wayne’s World
This article is part of our coverage of the 2022 Netflix Is a Joke: The Festival. At the first annual Netflix Is a Joke: The Festival in Los Angeles on Wednesday night, Mike Myers sat down with acclaimed director/Mike Myers super-fan David O. Russell for a wide-ranging talk. The two men looked back over Myers’ career up to this week’s premiere of the new Netflix original series The Pentaverate, bringing a few surprise revelations to the Los Angeles crowd — along with some extra insight into the brain of Lorne Michaels. As Myers told Russell, Michaels told him about an idea for an unexpected film remake in 1989, the year Myers joined the cast of Saturday Night Live, after being invited to the SNL creator’s house in the Hamptons. “He pitched me a movie — he said, ‘I want you to do a remake o...
Pearl Jam Mark Return to Road with Joyous Three-Hour Concert in San Diego: Recap + Setlist
“I’m not gonna talk this much at other shows, but this feels like home, and I missed ya,” Eddie Vedder told the San Diego crowd on Tuesday night. The first time I saw Pearl Jam, it was December 1991 and they were the relatively unknown openers for Nirvana and Red Hot Chili Peppers. My friend had bought a Pearl Jam shirt before the concert (even though the “cool” thing was to get Nirvana merch), when suddenly a long-haired Vedder ran up from somewhere and thanked her. More than 30 years later, Vedder is still filled with this kind of enthusiastic gratitude. He showed plenty of tokens of it throughout Pearl Jam’s nearly three-hour set at Viejas Arena in the city he said “feels like home,” the place where he lived before moving to Seattle. Advertisement Related Video This was the first stop i...
