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Bladee and Ecco2k Release Surprise Album Crest: Stream
Bladee and Ecco2K dropped a surprise on their fans today in the form of their brand new album Crest via YEAR0001. Stream the full project below. Produced by the pair’s longtime collaborator Whitearmor entirely in a tiny red cabin located in the south of their native Sweden, the nine-track album contains tracks like “The Flag Is Raised,” “5 Star Crest (4 Vattenrum),” “Desire Is a Trap,” and “Girls Just Want to Have Fun.” The Stockholm-based hyperpop duo’s collaborative studio set serves as a follow-up to their latest single “Amygdala” as well as Bladee’s 2021 album The Fool. Ecco2K’s most recent albums, E and Trash Island, were both released back in 2019. Advertisement Related Video Stream Crest and check out the album’s artwork and full tracklist below. This week, the duo will also join Wh...
Fiona Apple Shows You How to Call Maryland Lawmakers in Support of Virtual Court Access: Watch
Fiona Apple is no stranger to political activism. In the past couple of years, the musical powerhouse has protested and donated her royalties to charitable causes. This time around, she’s urging fans to call Maryland lawmakers in an effort to keep allowing virtual access in courts. To make it a bit easier, she’s even shared a step-by-step video guide on how to do so. For obvious reasons, remote court hearings and proceedings have spiked in frequency over the past two years. If Maryland’s House Bill 657 and Senate Bill 469 are passed, Apple explains, courts would continue to be more just. Apple added, “We actually have legislation written but we need to have it brought to the floor for a vote… So here’s what we would do. Just make two phone calls. I made two phone calls already, and I have ...
Pixar’s Lightyear Restores Same-Sex Kiss After Staff Revolt over Support of ‘Don’t Say Gay’ Bill
Disney continues to do damage control following reports that the company donated to every sponsor of Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” bill. After Pixar staff publicly accused the House of Mouse of censoring gay affection in their films last week, Variety has learned that a previously-cut same-sex kiss has been restored to Lightyear. Lightyear is a Pixar origin tale starring Chris Evans as the astronaut upon which the Buzz Lightyear action figure in Toy Story is based. Uzo Aduba co-stars as the character Hawthorne, an astronaut in a relationship with another woman. While the movie reportedly always treated her romantic partnership as serious, a kiss between the characters had been cut. Now, it’s back in the film. It’s the latest attempt by Disney to win back LGBT...
BRUCE DICKINSON Was ‘Done’ With The Lockdown After The First Year
In a new interview with Las Vegas Weekly, IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson was asked how he handled lockdown. He responded: “I had just done two spoken-word show in St. Petersburg and Moscow, and that was the weirdest experience, because they were doing simultaneous translation of a semi-comedic show. You’d say what approximates to a punchline and get no response. Then you go, ‘Anyway, on Tuesday,’ and they’d bust out laughing. There was a 30-second lag on the laughter. “I went from there back to Paris where I was staying with my partner, Leana,” he continued. “I got back on Saturday, and then the president of France comes on the TV and says, ‘Tonight, midnight, all bars are shut.’ I went, holy cow, let’s go out and get a ...
MÖTLEY CRÜE’s NIKKI SIXX To Guest On This Sunday’s Episode Of ‘American Idol’
MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx will make a guest appearance on this Sunday’s (March 20) episode of “American Idol”. The episode will feature auditions on Los Angeles’s iconic Sunset Strip where CRÜE got its start during the 1980s. In a statement to Billboard, Sixx said: “It was a lot of fun to team up with ‘American Idol’ upon the show’s return to L.A. After all, MÖTLEY CRÜE are also from L.A., and so many amazing songwriters call Los Angeles their ‘Home Sweet Home’. “Because of ‘American Idol’, a lot of great, timeless, classic songs have not only been re-interpreted by the next generation of talented singers but have also been re-introduced to mainstream audiences and younger generations of music fans for the l...
Culture Of Violence – EXTINCTION A.D.
RATING: 8/10 These are heady days for thrash metal, not least because we seem to be entering a new Cold War. EXTINCTION A.D. released an absolute face-ripper of an EP last year, and since global events have taken yet another turn for the worse, a full-length from these militant destroyers would seem to be exactly what everyone needs. Laudably livid from start to finish, “Culture of Violence” lives up to its title. Maybe it’s a sign of the times, but EXTINCTION A.D. have the same sledgehammer intensity that has propelled the likes of POWER TRIP and ENFORCED to metallic prominence. Everything from the opening title track, replete with brilliantly odd breakdown, to “National Disaster”‘s visceral climax, is delivered with maximum brute force, and a stellar r...
What Do Americans Think Of The War In Ukraine? TED NUGENT Has His Finger On The Pulse
In a new interview with Eric Bolling, the host of Newsmax‘s “Eric Bolling The Balance”, outspoken conservative rocker Ted Nugent was asked to weigh in on what Americans think of the war in Ukraine. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Well, number one, Eric, I’m honored and humbled that you know I actually connect with the pulse of real patriots, working-hard, playing-hard Americans every day. “I’m glad you had Peter Navarro [the longest-serving senior advisor in President Donald Trump‘s White House] on, because his book title [‘In Trump Time: A Journal Of America’s Plague Year’] pretty much says what’s on the minds of great Americans right now, that this is Trump time. And we know that none of this happened ...
KAWS Designs Special ‘I KNOW NIGO’ Cover Art
With NIGO‘s I KNOW NIGO set to release in a week, KAWS joined forces with Steven Victor and the KENZO artistic director to deliver a special cover art. The design arrives on a limited edition CD, and features a KAWS spin on Victor Victor Worldwide‘s famed dog emblem with its eyes replaced with the artist’s iconic XX motif. The traditional “Victor Victor Worldwide” logo found above and below the dog is replaced with the album’s title name, while the CD is delivered with a beige background, a contrasting brown hue of the album title, the Victor Victor Worldwide crest and KAWS’ insignia. The special I KNOW NIGO CD designed by KAWS is available for pre-order now for $12 USD on the webstore. I KNOW NIGO drops March 25. Elsewhere in music, ROSALÍA, Charli XCX and Syd x Lucky Daye lead the week’s...
Nicki Minaj & Coi Leray Team Up For Colorful New Single “Blick Blick”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @coileray / Instagram Coi Leray and Nicki Minaj‘s new single “Blick Blick” has officially arrived. After a slight delay, the world has finally received the highly anticipated single one month after Benzino, father of Coi Leray, announced the collaboration on Clubhouse–resulting in the project almost not happening. Pushing past the premature announcement, the duo’s official colorful announcement dropped earlier this week with Leray dropping the surprise first, captioning her post, “trendsetters loading”—a clear indication the single will appear on her upcoming debut album, Trendsetters; along with the cover art which is splashed with bright pinks and blues and shows Nicki and Coi standing side by side holding prop guns. As previously reported, prior to the...
Just Blaze Shares Griselda Collab, Quickly Disappears
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty On Thursday night (March 17). Just Blaze took to the Internets to share his collab with Griselda; well, Westside Gunn and Conway The Machine. However, if you missed it, the tweet and Soundcloud link is gone. Billed as Griselda and the Blazettes Vol 1., the track sports an ill piano loop and soul vocal hits while WSG and Conway bring their usual bars and bravado. The latter’s opener won’t necessarily fly in 2022, though, just saying. Although the song was taken down, you can still find it if you really want a listen. Related Stories The mythology is that back in 2017, Griselda and Just Blaze linked up and created several songs. A couple of years ago, La Machina, who just dropped his Shady Records debut, God Don’t Make Mistakes, shared ...
NYC Woman Charged In Kidnap, Torture & Ransom Of Online Date
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Facebook / facebook If y’all don’t already know by now them internet streets is a wild place to get caught with your pants down and a hopeless romantic in New York City found that out the hard way thanks to a “love connection” he made via Instagram. According to The New York Post, a 24-year-old man was jumped and tortured after making his way to a Marble Hill Ave apartment in the Bronx at 1 a.m. where he thought he was going to meet a woman he’d been chatting up online. Turns out that 22-year-old Valerie Rosario was a part of a group of sadists and after the man arrived at the apartment, three other men barged in and began pistol whipping him, and that was only the beginning. “Rosario and the accomplices then allegedly stripped the victim, “placed him in ...
Skip Bayless Says Wife Lives In Fear Of Charles Barkley’s Alleged Death Threats
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chris Unger / Getty Skip Bayless is one of the most outspoken sports media personalities in the game today, placing him under disfavor from a number of individuals. Charles Barkley, apparently no friend Bayless, sparked fear in the wife of the Skip and Shannon: Undisputed co-host, saying she lives in fear due to the former NBA star’s alleged death threats. Via The Skip Bayless Podcast, Bayless, 70, says his wife, Ernestine Sclafani, is fearful for her husband’s safety over threats Barkley made regarding killing him. Related Stories “My wife Ernestine has believed for 15 years that Charles Barkley is nothing but a sick individual,” Bayless said. “To her, he is just pure evil, that he is depraved, that he is a scumbag, and she fears that one day, Charles wi...
