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Digga D Heading For U.K. Chart Title
Digga D is on track for his first U.K. leader with Noughty By Nature (via CGM/EGA). The 21-year-old drill artist is new at No. 1 on the midweek chart with Noughty, his third mixtape. If it holds its position, Noughty will be the London rapper’s first chart topper and second Top 10 appearance after 2021’s Made in the Pyrex, which hit No. 3. Based on the chart blast, a string of hits collections should impact the top tier, including Fleetwood Mac’s 50 Years – Don’t Stop (up 11-4 via Rhino), Little Mix’s Between Us (up 12-6 via RCA) and The Police’s Greatest Hits (No. 9 via A&M), which enjoys a sales lift thanks to a vinyl reissue. Further down the list, U.S. slacker-rock master Kurt Vile is eying a Top 20 berth with Watch My Moves, his ninth studio record and first through Fiction....
Harry Styles Sets 2023 Stadium Tour of Australia and New Zealand
Harry Styles will beat a path to Australia and New Zealand next year for the domestic leg of his long-awaited Love On Tour. The English pop star will play stadiums in five cities, starting Feb. 20 at Perth’s HBF Park, then heading to Marvel Stadium in Melbourne (Feb. 24), Gold Coast’s Metricon Stadium (Feb. 28), Accor Stadium in Sydney (March 3), and wrapping at Auckland’s Mt Smart Stadium on March 7. The dates are, of course, a makeup for Love On Tour shows which were postponed due to the pandemic and finally kicked off in the United States last September. The announcement Wednesday (April 20) of his long-overdue solo tour Down Under follows the release of his comeback single “As It Was,” which blasted to No. 1 on the ARIA Singles Chart. And it comes ahead of the May 20 release of his thi...
Nas and Wu-Tang Clan Announce Co-Headlining “NY State of Mind” Tour
Wu-Tang Clan and Nas are set to hit the road together for their co-headlining “NY State of Mind” tour. The 25-city engagement is produced by Live Nation and is set to kick off on August 30 at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in St. Louis, MO. Fans can catch the hip-hop legends in areas like Toronto, Raleigh, Tampa, Dallas and Irvine before they close out the tour at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on October 4. Tickets are available starting April 26 on the Live Nation website, however American Express Card Members and Citi Card members will have access to presale tickets for select venues from April 19 to April 25. Take a look at the full list of dates below. NY STATE OF MIND TOUR DATES: Tue Aug 30 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre*Thu Sep 01 – Noblesville, IN – Ruof...
Zola Jesus Unveils New Single “Desire”: Stream
Zola Jesus has released “Desire,” the second single from her upcoming album, Arkhon. Stream it below. Although singer-songwriter Nika Roza Danilova announced her solo project’s first full-length in five years by acknowledging that she had embraced an unfamiliar, collaborative spirit and “needed new blood,” her latest song is a sparse, completely internal quest for closure. “‘Desire’ was written in one sitting at my piano at home. The song was an exorcism for my pain and lack of closure around heartbreak,” she shared in a statement. “Sometimes songs are written simply for the cathartic effect of playing them. This is one of those songs. Performing it feels like the most tangible way to experience that closure for myself.” Advertisement Related Video Danilova’s emotional release is...
Killer Mike Says Run the Jewels Have Begun Recording New Album: Exclusive
It’s been seven years since Run the Jewels announced their intention to “run them jewels fast,” and the veteran hip-hop duo show no signs of slowing down. In a new interview with Consequence, Killer Mike says that he and El-P have been in the studio working on Run the Jewels 5, even though they only dropped Run the Jewels 4 in 2020. “I say this with a smile and a wink — me and El-P were in the studio together,” Mike says. “We may have messed around and started Run the Jewels 5. So we’ll see what happens.” He also hints at more music both as a duo and as a solo artist. “I would say look for Run the Jewels to pop up on some guest appearances,” he says. “I’ve done some solo guest appearances as well. So just look for more music to be coming out period.” Advertisement ...
Greta Van Fleet’s Josh Kiszka Acknowledges Appropriation of Indigenous Culture
Greta Van Fleet singer Josh Kiszka has acknowledged that he appropriated Indigenous culture in the past. The vocalist was the target of a recent hashtag campaign (#SpeakUpGVF) calling for him to address and remove a series of photos on his Instagram page showing him and his friends wearing Indigenous garments back in 2017. The mission statement of the #SpeakUpGVF campaign read, in part, “Indigenous fans and those practicing allyship have tried to contact Josh and ask him to remove the photos and address the cultural appropriation, but he continues to stay silent and the photos continue to stay up. Remaining silent on this is upsetting and is ignorant as it upholds racist ideologies that Indigenous cultures are simply a costume, when they are sacred, and not open for appropriation. Fans cre...
Lorde’s “Solar Power Tour” Lights Up Radio City Music Hall: Recap, Photos + Setlist
She has risen. Lorde returned to the stage in New York City — on Easter Monday, no less — just days after postponing a number of shows due to laryngitis. Maybe there was some residual throatiness to the Kiwi pop megastar, but it barely registered. The beauty of her full-fledged “Solar Power Tour” production at the iconic Radio City Music Hall was enough to cure any ill feelings. Talking about “post-pandemic live music” is already becoming cliché, but we can’t discount how the last two years impacted performances. On one hand there are acts like Lorde’s opener, former Artist of the Month Remi Wolf. Here’s someone who broke out during a lockdown where the only music absorption came via streams and TikToks. Now, with touring back in full swing, she’s playing Radio City. Think about the mental...
Mac Miller Drug Dealer Sentenced To 11 Years
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Lake Havasu Police Department / Lake Havasu PD It has been almost four years since the world lost the talents of Mac Miller way too soon. One of the reported drug dealers of the beloved Pittsburgh rapper has been sentenced to 11 years in prison. According to TMZ, the plug who provided the fentanyl-laced Oxycodone that eventually made it into Mac Miller’s possession got hit with a 10 years and 11 months sentence. Related Stories Ryan Reavis will be behind bars for 10 years and 11 months after pleading guilty in November to one count of distributing fentanyl. The sentence is longer than what Reavis himself had asked for — 5 years — but shorter than the 12.5 years prosecutors were gunning for. Remember … the feds say Reavis supplied the deadly oxycodone pill...
Alleged CAP King Louis Pisano Issues Apology For “Reckless” A$AP Rocky Cheating Rihanna Rumor
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Daniele Venturelli / Getty After setting social media ablaze with an unsubstantiated rumor that A$AP Rocky was cheating on a very pregnant Rihanna with close friend and designer Amina Muaddi, the writer who started it all is now apologizing. Taking to Twitter, Fashion influencer, Louis Pisano, issued a statement on social media apologizing for their actions and for stirring up gossip. Related Stories “Hi all, so I’d like to address the situation,” the tweet read. “Last night I made a dumb decision to tweet some information I had received. I’m not going to talk about sources, blame others for a discussion that was started, etc because at the end of the day I made the decision to draft that tweet, press send and put that out with my name on it. So I’d like ...
Suspect NYC Mayor Eric Adams Refuses To Make His Tax Returns Public
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Dia Dipasupil / Getty Eric Adams tenure as the Mayor of New York City is only a few months old but already the man’s ways and actions has his him looking very funny in the light. After making some controversial decisions including participating in nepotism and rubbing elbows with the rich and famous, now Eric Adams is going the Trumpian route and is seemingly hiding his taxes from the public. According to Politico, Adams says he won’t commit to releasing his tax returns, bucking decades of customs but danced around the possibility of one day maybe making his returns public if need be. Related Stories “I will comply with whatever rules are in place, you know we do our disclosure also. I think that’s sometime in May,” Adams said at a press briefing, likely ...
Trump-Appointed Florida Judge Strikes Down Federal Mask Mandate, MAGA Travelers Happy To Spread COVID Freely Again
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty This is another clear-cut case of why elections will always matter. A Donald Trump-appointed Florida judge has done away with the Biden Administrations’ federal mask mandate. As COVID-19 cases are back on the rise due to the BA.2 Omicron variant, US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle decided the one rule-keeping travelers safe as they traveled during an ongoing pandemic was unlawful. Her reasoning, as to be expected, is completely head a**. According to Kimball, the mask mandate “exceeded the statutory authority of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and because its implementation violated administrative law,” CNN reports. In her 59-page ruling, she compared the mask mandate to “detention and quarantin...
UNDEATH – UNDEATH
RATING: 8/10 These are heady days indeed for fans of death metal. Some may question the value of the genre’s ever-expanding diversity, but few would argue that we are experiencing anything other than a new golden age. Pleasingly, for old bastards at least, it is the defiantly uncommercial, old-school wing of death metal that seems to be the healthiest of all, virulent bouts of sonic leprosy notwithstanding. UNDEATH blew lots of people’s heads off with their 2020 debut “Lesions of a Different Kind”, as this Rochester, New York quintet demonstrated an instinctive disregard for repeating the past; eschewing old-school cliches in favor of a highly evolved hybrid of sludgy primitivism and Florida-style technicality that resounds with the spirit of the Ancient Ones. Two y...
