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Father John Misty Releases Lana Del Rey’s “Buddy’s Rendezvous” Cover: Listen
“Buddy’s Rendezvous” is a world unto itself. It is a place out of time. My dream for the video is that it would surrender itself to the power of the song. An unnamed man (played by Craig Stark), fresh out of jail and down on his luck makes his way across the fractured landscape of Los Angeles to meet his daughter (played by Arrow DeWilde). All the while he is beset by memories of a more innocent time. Despite her hesitance, his daughter and her boyfriend (played by Gilbert Trejo) agree to meet her father and find moments of sadness and sparks of tenderness in the connection made. Although the video and the song can be considered love letters to Los Angeles, the themes are universal. Disappointments, regrets, forgiveness, tenderness, perseverance, and love. The incredible performances by Ar...
Phoebe Bridgers Performs “Sidelines” on Fallon: Watch
Phoebe Bridgers stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night (June 15), performing her song “Sidelines” in a skeleton-laden football jersey. She originally released the track back in April for Hulu’s series Conversations With Friends. Watch the performance below. Bridgers is currently on an extensive 2022 tour of North America and will embark on a European string of shows starting next week. She’s also slated to perform at a number of music festivals this summer, including Glastonbury, Roskilde, NOS Alive, and This Ain’t No Picnic. After releasing her sophomore album Punisher in June 2020, Bridgers followed it up that fall with her Copycat Killer EP. Since then, she has covered Tom Waits’ “Day After Tomorrow” as well as Elliott Smith’s “St. Ides Heaven” with Bright ...
Phoebe Bridgers Performs “Sidelines” on Fallon: Watch
Phoebe Bridgers stopped by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night (June 15), performing her song “Sidelines” in a skeleton-laden football jersey. She originally released the track back in April for Hulu’s series Conversations With Friends. Watch the performance below. Bridgers is currently on an extensive 2022 tour of North America and will embark on a European string of shows starting next week. She’s also slated to perform at a number of music festivals this summer, including Glastonbury, Roskilde, NOS Alive, and This Ain’t No Picnic. After releasing her sophomore album Punisher in June 2020, Bridgers followed it up that fall with her Copycat Killer EP. Since then, she has covered Tom Waits’ “Day After Tomorrow” as well as Elliott Smith’s “St. Ides Heaven” with Bright ...
Perfume Genius: Ugly Season
The collision between acoustic instrumentation and crackerjack production makes for a lush and widescreen experience. Mills’ harmonium on “Herem” bubbles with dread from the song’s swirling brew before programmed drums carry the arrangement to a cathartic finish; clarinet swells offer an immense moment of bliss on “Teeth”; Hadreas’ sighing vocals on “Pop Song” turn to playful coos when chimes and percussion bang into the mix. Compared to previous albums, such rousing peaks are less immediate, on tracks that stretch past the seven-minute mark and leave choruses in the dust. Spend time with this music, though, and its glimmers of hooky beauty leave a profound impression, like watching a peacock preen and flash its magnificent plumage for a moment at a time. At points, Ugly Season reminds me ...
TEMS’ Last Year Has Been Historic, The Afrobeat Star Is Just Getting Started
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Burak Cingi / Getty Black women have always stood at the center of all musical movements in this world. From as early as Rosetta Tharpe, Big Mama Thornton, to Betty Davis and Donna Summer, they’ve created and contributed to the direction of Rock, Soul, Disco, Hip-Hop and R&B even when their impact wasn’t acknowledged or respected. The revival of Black music that’s coming from the United Kingdom and the continent of Africa with “Afrobeat” is a continuation of that culture, which began with Fela Kuti, but is now reaching its highest levels with artists like Wizkid, Burna Boy, Davido, and now TEMS. Born Temilade Openiyi, the singer’s guest appearance on Wizkid’s song “Essence” in 2021 brought her international fame, and her guest appearances on Drak...
Gunna, “Banking On Me,” Millyz “Sometimes” & More | Daily Visuals 6.15.22
HipHopWired Featured Video As Gunna stares at the possibility of decades behind bars and Chloe Bailey contemplates different jailbreak scenarios to get her boo out the bing, the man continues to drop music for his fans and today blessed them with some new visual work to hold them down as he deals with his situation. Releasing a new video for his cut “Banking On Me,” Gunna finds himself wooing multiple women throughout his city during a much more carefree time when he didn’t have to worry about lawyer fees and RICO charges. Chloe might rethink her prison break plans after watching this joint. Just sayin.’ Back in Boston, Millyz counts his blessings and for his clip to “Sometimes” gives fans a look at how far he’s come in life as he kicks it with superstar rap peers and politics at MLB ballp...
Rapper Gunna Releases First Statement Since RICO Charges
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Fulton County PD / Fulton County Sheriff’s Department Gunna, who is currently being held in the Fulton County Jail on state RICO charges, is addressing the public for the first time since being arrested along with Young Thug and 20+ other members of YSL by Atlanta police last month. In a statement shared on his Instagram page on his 29th birthday, the rapper wrote, “2022 has been one of the best years of my life, despite this difficult situation. This year I had the whole world pushing P,” he wrote in reference to his hit single by the same name. He added, “Growing up where I come from in a marginalized neighborhood, I never dreamt my art would change my life and the lives of my loved ones. My entire life, I’ve been Black Men, Black Wome...
Tyler Perry Donates $500,000 To The Apollo Theater At Spring Benefit
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Shahar Azran / Shahar Azran The Apollo Theater had a huge night during their annual Spring Benefit raising a record-breaking $3.7 million including a $500,000 gift from Tyler Perry who made the surprise announcement during his acceptance speech. As per Variety the esteemed director, producer and actor gave back to the Black creative community in a major way. When he was accepting the Impact Award presented by Academy Award® winner and The View co-host Whoopi Goldberg he revealed his initiative. “My studio [in Georgia] was once a former Confederate-owned army base where there were 3.9 million negroes and slaves at the time, and there were Confederate soldiers plotting and planning how to keep them enslaved,” Perry said. Related Stories “While now...
Emma Thompson Tosses Insults and Students in Teaser Trailer for Matilda the Musical: Watch
The girl lost in daydreams and the headmistress of nightmares face off in the new teaser trailer for Roald Dahl‘s Matilda the Musical. It’s coming to Netflix this holiday season, and stars a nearly-unrecognizable Emma Thompson as Miss Trunchbull. Adapted from the Tony-winning Matilda the Musical, this Netflix film is directed by Matthew Warchus with original music and lyrics by Tim Minchin. Alisha Weir (Darklands) plays the titular hero, a young girl with a sharp mind and the world’s dullest parents. While her mom (Andrea Riseborough) and dad (Stephen Graham) watch trash TV, Matilda quietly reads. This endears her to her teacher Miss Honey (Lashana Lynch), but draws the ire of Trunchbull (Thompson), a disciplinarian who craves nothing more than to see the children fall in li...
BTS Members Clarify Future of Group: “We Are Not Disbanding”
Following a “family dinner” video that aired as part of BTS’s annual FESTA anniversary celebration on June 14th, the members of Korean pop septet are sharing more details about their next chapter. While the conversation (which spans over an hour) initially seemed to indicate that BTS would be taking a break from activities as seven, including an English translation that used the word “hiatus,” the members and management company HYBE are clarifying that BTS’s “second chapter” will see the septet “remaining active as a group.” This will include filming content like their treasured variety show, “Run BTS,” among other team activities. At the same time, this strategy shift will incorporate more solo work from the members, beginning with J-Hope, who is set to headline the closing night of Lolla...
Chris Evans Slams Homophobic Reaction to Lightyear Same-Sex Kiss: “Those People Are Idiots”
Conservative moviegoers will find infinite (and beyond) reasons to scrutinize more inclusive representation in children’s media. But Chris Evans, who voices the title astronaut in Pixar’s Lightyear, is letting the backlash of the film’s same-sex kiss scene roll right off his back, calling its naysayers “idiots.” “The real truth is those people are idiots,” Evans said in a recent interview with Reuters Television. “Every time there’s been social advancement as we wake up, the American story, the human story is one of constant social awakening and growth and that’s what makes us good.” Lightyear — which serves as a Toy Story prequel of sorts — made some upsetting headlines earlier this year after Pixar employees published an open letter accusing Disney of censoring LGBTQ+...
Sylvester Stallone Plays an Exiled Mob Boss in Teaser Trailer for New Series Tulsa King: Watch
Sylvester Stallone plays a former mob boss who steps out of the penitentiary and into a new kind of prison in the teaser trailer for Tulsa King. Sly’s first recurring TV role debuts November 13th on Paramount+. Tulsa King comes stocked with the kind of writer’s room that usually brings the Emmys to their knees. The series was created by Taylor Sheridan, the don of the Yellowstone-verse, and boasts as its showrunner Terence Winter, award-winning scribe of The Sopranos, Boardwalk Empire, and Martin Scorsese’s The Wolf of Wall Street. Stallone stars as Dwight “The General” Manfredi, and as the trailer opens he’s just finished a 25-year prison stint. “I married this life,” he says, “And now, after keeping my mouth shut, I’m gonna see if it married me back.” He’s q...
