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The Biggest News Out of Coachella? Taco Bell Is Bringing Back Mexican Pizza
This past Easter Sunday, many people celebrated a different kind of resurrection. During her set at Coachella, Doja Cat — herself a quasi-religious figure, as the patron saint of hot girls who are visibly stoned in public — announced that Taco Bell would be bringing the Mexican Pizza back from the dead. “I brought back the Mexican Pizza by the way,” she howled during the performance, before laughing like a supervillain who had just pushed the big red button. The item returns May 19th, nearly one month after April 20th, which many people unofficially celebrate as Taco Bell Day. The Mexican Pizza was first rolled out under a different name in 1985. Since then it’s become beloved by fast-food fans for presenting a slightly different twist on the same seven ingredients that are in everything T...
Adult Swim Unveils Aqua Teen Hunger Force Spinoff Series: Watch
Aqua Teen Hunger Force has returned. Today, Adult Swim announced a new digital short series called Aquadonk Side Pieces, a spinoff that sees beloved ATHF characters facing off against some of the most memorable antagonists of the long-running adult cartoon. All 10 episodes of Aquadonk Side Pieces will be hosted on Adult Swim’s YouTube channel, with a daily release at 12:00 p.m. ET/9:00 a.m. PT; the first episode is live now. The one-shot shorts welcome back Aqua Teen Hunger Force characters Carl, Meatwad, Frylock, and Master Shake, along with their more hostile counterparts The Mooninites, The Plutonians, MC Pee Pants, The Frat Aliens, Happy Time Harry, Handbanana, and The Cybernetic Ghost of Christmas Past. Advertisement Related Video Aquadonk Side Pieces is the second...
Lauryn Hill Urges California Lawmakers To Pass The FAIR Act In Latest Instagram Post
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Theo Wargo / Getty Lauryn Hill is always late, but her push for this one bill is on time. The often reclusive rapper/singer has been quite vocal on Instagram when it comes to pushing California lawmakers to pass the FAIR Act, a labor law that would significantly affect the length of artists could be under contract. The Free Artists from Industry Restrictions Act was first introduced last year by California State Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez and called for artist or label contracts in California to be limited to seven years. Hill is one of the bill’s most prominent supporters and has shared three Instagram posts urging for its passing. In her most recent post, she wrote: Related Stories We would love to believe that businesses at the highest level are alw...
Colin Kaepernick Says He’s Ready To Play Backup QB If Need Be To Get Back In NFL
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jaime Crawford / Getty It’s been five years since Colin Kaepernick was last employed by an NFL team and while most would admit that he’s probably still better than many starting quarterbacks in the league today, the apparent blackballing of the player turned activist doesn’t seem to be letting up anytime soon. Still the 34-year-old isn’t giving up hope of one day getting back in the league and according to TMZ he’s even willing to take the role of backup quarterback if that’s what it takes to take the field again. Recently the Super Bowl playing QB had an in-depth interview with OG NFL stars Chad Johnson, Adam “Pacman” Jones, Brandon Marshall for an episode of I AM ATHLETE and in it stated that he wouldn’t mind playing the bench for a team so long as...
Good As Hell: Lizzo Slays Her ‘SNL’ Hosting Debut
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NBC / Getty Superstar singer and rapper Lizzo capped off a week to remember as she pulled off double duty by hosting SNL in addition to being the musical guest. The Grammy Award-winning artist kicked off the latest episode of Saturday Night Live’s 47th season with a hilarious opening monologue. It was her second appearance on the show after appearing as a musical guest in 2019 performing her hit singles “Truth Hurts” and “Good As Hell” from her debut album Cuz I Love You. Decked out in a shimmery blue dress, she starts off by saying that she’s set on breaking the record for the most times the word “b—-h” has ever been said on television. She then shares that she’s reluctant to do so since her mother doesn’t like her cussing “but now I’m rich, so she’s lik...
Kendrick Lamar New Album Drops In May, Rap Twitter Is Ecstatic
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Allen J. Schaben / Getty This is not a drill. Compton rapper Kendrick Lamar will be dropping a new album in May. K. Dot dropped a tweeted that soon enough set Rap Twitter on fighter. The link to his oklama.com site sent fans to a statement from the offices of pgLang from Mr. Lamar with some details we’ve surely been checking for (in response to a stray tweet prematurely announcing his retirement, no less). Basically, Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers, Kendrick Lamar’s new album, will be dropping on May 13. What more is there to say? Actually, Twitter has plenty considering Kendrick Lamar’s album is easily the most anticipated new album of 2022 in Hip-Hop, and across all genres. His last album, DAMN, was released back in 2017 and it will be his fifth...
RUSH’s GEDDY LEE Says NEIL PEART ‘Didn’t Want Anyone To Know’ About His Illness: ‘He Wanted To Keep It In The House’
Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson of RUSH recently sat down for an interview in Toronto for “House Of Strombo”, a free-form radio talk program hosted by Canadian television and radio personality George Stroumboulopoulos. In this exclusive conversation, Lee and Lifeson talked about the 40th anniversary of their eighth studio album “Moving Pictures”, the loss of RUSH drummer Neil Peart, grieving in public, their new perspective on time, the music industry today, being booed off stage, getting high before rehearsals, Taylor Hawkins and more. Reflecting on how he processed the fact that he would never play with RUSH again after the completion of the “R40” tour, which commemorated the 40th anniversary of Peart joining the band, Geddy said (as transcribed by BLABBERM...
Watch: NIGHTWISH Singer FLOOR JANSEN Performs ‘Fire’ Solo Single Live For First Time
Dutch powerhouse singer Floor Jansen performed her new solo single, “Fire”, live for the first time on Sunday, April 17 at the Paaspop festival at Manegeclub De Molenheide in Schijndel, Netherlands. Fan-filmed video of the concert can be seen below. “Fire” was made available on March 25 via ADA, the division of Warner Music Group dedicated to independent label and artist distribution. Jansen is best known as the frontwoman in the multi-million selling and internationally successful symphonic metal band NIGHTWISH. As part of the band, Jansen has landed two number one albums in Finland, and Top Five albums in Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland. Born in the Netherlands, Jansen joined her first band, one of the wor...
TRIUMPH’s GIL MOORE Admits He’s A ‘Control Freak’, Says It Was ‘Totally’ Difficult To Allow Documentary Makers To Tell Band’s Story
TRIUMPH drummer Gil Moore spoke to “The Hook Rocks” podcast about the band’s documentary, “Triumph: Rock & Roll Machine”, which recently premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and is now available for streaming in Canada. Asked what it felt like seeing the documentary for the first time and having the band’s story told through someone else’s perspective, Gil said: “The film, I think, was so well shot and well directed and well scripted that it has a narrative where I’m looking at it almost looking in through the looking glass going, ‘Gee, that’s the story.’ And I was there, but I was too close to the story. And when I actually watch the film, it’s like being a passenger on the bus and not drivin...
METALLICA’s KIRK HAMMETT Explains Why He Re-Teamed With Producer BOB ROCK For Debut Solo EP
In a new interview with Ultimate Classic Rock, METALLICA guitarist Kirk Hammett was asked about his decision to enlist Canadian producer Bob Rock, who has been responsible for some of the biggest rock and metal albums of the last 30 years, including all of METALLICA‘s studio output during the 1990s and early 2000s, to mix his debut solo EP, “Portals”. “When it came time to get the stuff together, it was last summer,” Hammett, who lives in Honolulu, Hawaii, said. Most of the stuff was recorded. But I still needed to do a few guitar parts here and there to add to the songs. All of it needed to be mixed. The four tracks needed to be mixed and I thought, ‘How am I going to do this?’ You know, I can’t really travel to the mainland and do all of th...
Jack Harlow Flies ‘First Class’ to No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100
Jack Harlow‘s “First Class” takes flight in style, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart. The single starts as Harlow’s second Hot 100 leader and first on his own, as well as his first to debut at No. 1, after Lil Nas X’s “Industry Baby,” with Harlow, ascended to the summit for a week in October 2021. “First Class” – which interpolates Fergie’s 2007 two-week Hot 100 No. 1 “Glamorous,” featuring Ludacris – soars in with the biggest streaming week tallied this year. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The track also marks the second song to debut at No. 1 on the Hot 100 in 2022; Harry Styles’ “As It Was” bounded in on top a week earlier, with the year’s previous best weekly streaming total, and ranks at No. 2 in its second we...
Rosalia to Embark on 2022 ‘Motomami’ World Tour: See The Dates
Rosalía is hitting the road this year, unveiling the dates of her first-ever global tour on Monday (April 18). Named after her third studio album, Motomami, the Spanish powerhouse will visit fans in a tour across 15 countries, and has already confirmed 46 shows set to kick off July 6 at Recinto Ferial de Almeria in Almería, Spain. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The “Saoko” singer is set to make pit stops in Barcelona, Mexico City, São Paulo, Buenos Aires, London, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Amsterdam, and Toronto, to name a few, before finalizing on Dec. 18 at the Accor Arena in Paris, France. During her Motomami world trek, presented by Live Nation, Rosalía will not only perform songs from her new album but also from her 2018 Latin ...
