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Lena Waithe To Produce ‘Verzuz’ Doc, Swizz And Timbaland On Board
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Triller / Triller The Hip-Hop community is about get a deeper appreciation for Verzuz. Lena Waithe is set to produce a documentary on the battle platform that provided us so much fun during quarantine. As per Complex the Chicago, Illinois native has secured the opportunity of a lifetime. According to the report her company Hillman Grad Productions has been contracted to produce a documentary project on Verzuz in conjunction with Amazon Studios. Titled Gifted & Black the feature film will explore the traditions of Black music from a wide array of angles. Set against the backdrop of the pandemic and the recent racial reckoning, Gifted & Black frames those traditions in the context of the collective resiliency fundamental to the Black ...
Ron DeSantis Weirdly Walks Up To Masked Students And Demands They “Take Them Off”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Orlando Sentinel / Getty Since early on in the COVID-19 public health crisis, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis has been hellbent on running his state with a “don’t listen to the health experts, listen to me” mentality. It’s bad enough that even in the early stages of the pandemic, DeSantis was trying his best to dead social distancing ordinances, but he’s also always shown his contempt for mask mandates—to the point where he’s just being weird about it. According to CLTV, DeSantis was speaking at the University of South Florida Wednesday when he walked up to a group of students who were standing behind his podium to demand that they remove their face masks. Related Stories “You do not have to wear those masks,” DeSantis said. “I mean, please take them off....
HHW Gaming: Dwight Howard Teams Up With Xbox To Suprise Boy & Girls Club With Gaming Space
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Xbox / Xbox News Wire Los Angeles Lakers big man Dwight Howard also has a big heart. He put it on display by teaming up with Xbox to bless well-deserving kids with a state-of-the-art gaming space. Xbox is continuing to power dreams through gaming. It plans to keep that energy by announcing the expansion of its sponsorship with the iconic NBA franchise, the Los Angeles Lakers. To celebrate, the Microsoft-owned video game company teamed up with the Lakers plus philanthropist and NBA All-Star Dwight Howard to remodel part of the Boys & Girls Club of San Fernando Valley. The new state-of-the-art gaming lab features new artwork, custom purple and gold Xbox Series S consoles, gaming PCs, screens, and more to allow the club members to experience the jo...
Judikay – Song of Angels (Ndi Mo Zi)
Judith Kanayo is a Southern Nigerian-born gospel music songstress. She graduated from Redeemer’s University, where she bagged a bachelor’s degree in theatre arts. Judith Kanayo is popularly known by her stage name Judikay. Judikay released a new heartwarming and holy spirit hoisted song which she titled “Song of Angels” (Ndi Mo Zí). This is a piece of wonderful music. The Eezee music concept signee has been phenomenal since she came into the limelight in 2013 following the release of her first record which she titled “Nobody Else”. Song of angels, just like every other gospel hit song sang by her, is a spirit-filled and holy ghost-inspired song that has been nothing less of good music. This particular track happens to be her third record after she had earlier released “Idi mma” and “More T...
Drum & Bass In Ibiza: Sub Focus, Chase & Status, More Announce 2022 Residencies
Drum & bass has found a home on the sun-kissed dancefloors of Ibiza. The White Isle has long been lionized as the spiritual home of house music, but that axiom is coming unglued thanks to Louder Ibiza. The influential drum & bass brand has announced a blue-ribbon residency featuring some of the genre’s most iconic artists, like Andy C and Sub Focus, among others. Louder’s 2022 residency at Eden will take place every Monday for 16 weeks, starting with an epic opening party on June 6th featuring Chase & Status, Hybrid Minds and more. Other residents include drum & bass polymath Dimension and renowned Cognition producer Wilkinson. “Eden are overjoyed to welcome Louder and the extended family to San Antonio,” said a club representative i...
Swedish House Mafia Reveal Release Date of Long-Awaited Album, “Paradise Again”
Swedish House Mafia have dropped the final bread crumb on the trail to their long-awaited debut album, Paradise Again. The album has been a long time coming for Axwell, Sebastian Ingrosso and Steve Angello of the legendary supergroup, whose disbandment a decade ago shook the dance music community to its core. Prior to 2021’s comeback single “It Gets Better,” Swedish House Mafia hadn’t released any new music since 2012’s Until Now compilation, which spawned generational dance anthems like “Save the World” and “Don’t You Worry Child.” According to a press release issued to announce the music video for their recent collaboration with Sting, “Redlight,” Paradise Again will officially drop on April ...
Mysteryland Unveils Stacked 2022 Lineup With DJ Snake, ACRAZE, Alan Walker, and More
With just six months to go until festivities begin, the organizers of Mysteryland have announced one of the festival’s biggest lineups to date. Mysteryland 2022 boasts one of the most robust and ambitious lineups of the year. The fest will feature over 300 artists, who will perform on a staggering 22 stages across three days. DJ Snake, ACRAZE, Alan Walker, Oliver Heldens, Carl Cox, and Dom Dolla are all set for performances, to name a few. Like every music festival on the planet, Mysteryland was forced into hiatus following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Last year, the festival’s organizers joined legions of Dutch event promoters and arts sector professionals in the #UnmuteUs protest to demand transparency on the government’s coronavirus restrictions. Recommended Art...
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Bassist ROBERT DELEO’s Solo Album Will Feature ‘Five Different Vocalists’
Founding STONE TEMPLE PILOTS bassist Robert DeLeo spoke to AXS TV‘s “At Home And Social With” about his upcoming first-ever solo album. The 56-year-old musician said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Through this pandemic, there’s been a lot of time and a lot of free time. And it gave me a chance to pick up all my acoustic instruments and kind of talk to them a little bit and see what they had to say back. And before I knew it, I had a bunch of songs together of my own — acoustic-based songs. And I had some friends of mine, who are very talented, do some vocal stuff. So I have different vocalists — about five different vocalists — through the record, and great, great, very talented people helping me out with this.” Asked if he wanted to name some of...
MESHUGGAH Releases New Single ‘Light The Shortening Fuse’
Swedish extreme tech-metal pioneers MESHUGGAH have released “Light The Shortening Fuse”, the second single from their upcoming ninth studio album, “Immutable”. Due on April 1 via Atomic Fire, the follow-up to 2016’s “The Violent Sleep Of Reason” was recorded at Sweetspot Studios in Halmstad, Sweden; mixed by Rickard Bengtsson and Staffan Karlsson; and mastered by multiple Grammy Award winner Vlado Meller (METALLICA, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS, SYSTEM OF A DOWN). Visionary artist Luminokaya once again created the stunning cover artwork. Full of surprises and yet instantly recognizable as the work of metal’s most idiosyncratic force, “Immutable” redefines and redesigns the MESHUGGAH sound across more than an hou...
BROTHER CANE Reforms For Live Shows, New Music
BROTHER CANE will return to the concert stage next month. The first confirmed performance will take place on Friday, April 22 at The Northern Lights Theater in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Joining frontman/guitarist Damon Johnson will be longtime collaborator Buck Johnson on keyboards, drummer Jarred Pope and original BROTHER CANE bassist Glenn Maxey. BROTHER CANE is an American rock band originally from Birmingham, Alabama. Formed by Johnson and Maxey in 1991, the group released three studio albums, charting several singles including three No. 1s and five top 10 hits. BROTHER CANE found immediate success with the July 1993 release of its self-titled debut album, which delivered three singles: “Got No Shame”, “That Don’t Satisfy Me” and “Hard Act To Follow̶...
Watch: NEIL PEART’s Wife Announces First-Ever Recipient Of ‘Spirit Of Drumming Scholarship’
In memory of RUSH drummer Neil Peart, with the support of his family, Modern Drummer has announced Maxx Rinkus as the first recipient of the annual “Neil Peart Spirit Of Drumming Scholarship”. The scholarship, originally announced at the 2020 Modern Drummer Festival by Peart‘s wife Carrie Nutall-Peart, provides the recipient with 52 weeks of free drum lessons from world-class drum instructor Dom Famularo, along with a one-year subscription to Modern Drummer All Access, plus a selection of classic RUSH album releases from Universal Music Enterprises. In the video below, Maxx is presented with the scholarship by Nuttall-Peart, Modern Drummer CEO David Frangioni, educator Dom Famularo and Dennis Wolfe of Universal Music. Said Carrie: “Education was a big thing for Neil...
Magdalena Bay Share 2022 Tour Dates, AI Music Video for “Dreamcatching”: Watch
Magdalena Bay put out one of the most exciting pop albums of 2021, Mercurial World. Still reeling in its success, the Los Angeles duo have shared the music video for the highlight “Dreamcatching” today. Additionally, Magdalena Bay mapped out a run of US tour dates for 2022. To bring the fantasy of “Dreamcatching” to life, director Felix Geen used VQGAN+CLIP, a pioneering technology that uses a collection of neural networks working in unison to generate images based on input text and images. The result finds Magdalena Bay in a vivid, distorted otherworld that blends the lines between live-action and animation. “‘Dreamcatching’ is about all the places you want to know and all the places you’ll never go,” the band explained in a statement. “The video uses AI neural networks to create the land...
