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Little Simz Reveals New Album NO THANK YOU: Stream
Little Simz has revealed her fifth album, NO THANK YOU, and you don’t have to wait to hear it. The 10-song LP is now available to stream below via Forever Living Originals/AWAL. NO THANK YOU reunites Little Simz, a.k.a. Simbi Ajikawo, with producer Inflo, who helmed her most recent effort, 2021’s Sometimes I Might Be Introvert, and who also leads the prolific London indie-R&B collective SAULT. Just hours before the album’s release, Little Simz unveiled the 10-song tracklist alongside the cover art, which features a candid profile shot of the British-Nigerian rapper. Sometimes I Might Be Introvert ranked No. 5 on Consequence’s Top 50 Albums of 2021 list Related Video NO THANK YOU Artwork: <img data-attachment-id="1259932" data-permalink="https://consequence.n...
Two Kendrick Lamar Songs From ‘To Pimp A Butterfly’ Era Leak Online
Two unreleased Kendrick Lamar songs from his To Pimp A Butterfly album cycle have leaked online. The first song to hit the internet is reportedly entitled “Falsehood,” a “groovy” cut with a total of three verses — the last of which is also the last verse on “i.” One of the lines in the track also supposedly sounds like it was meant for Dr. Dre, with K-Dot temporarily taking over with his best impression of the West Coast rap legend. Meanwhile the second track, titled “Organized Madness,” includes a guest appearance from Thundercat in the ending while some lines were used for “Complexion.” This isn’t the first time Lamar has fallen victim to leaks; back in 2018, some of his collaborative joints with Kanye West were made available on the internet, followed by some others with the likes of SZ...
Metro Boomin Logs His Biggest Debut Week Yet With ‘Heroes & Villains’ at No. 1
Metro Boomin is opening this week’s Billboard 200 at No. 1 with his latest studio album, Heroes & Villains. The star-studded record earns 185,000 equivalent album units in its first week — marking the artist’s biggest debut week yet. The sum includes 179,000 streaming equivalent album units (233.38 million on-demand streams of the tracks), 5,000 album sales and 1,000 track equivalent album units. Heroes & Villains also gives Metro his third No. 1 following Savage Mode II with 21 Savage in 2020 and Not All Heroes Wear Capes in 2018, his fifth top 10 and seventh Billboard 200 entry. Metro effectively dethrones Taylor Swift who moves down to No. 2 followed by Drake and 21 Savage at No. 3, Bad Bunny at No. 4 and Michael Bublé at No. 5. Making up the bottom half of this week’s top 10 ar...
Patti LaBelle Evacuated from Christmas Concert After Apparent Bomb Threat
Patti LaBelle was forced to end her concert at Milwaukee’s Riverside Theatre early on Saturday, December 10th due to an alleged bomb threat. All attendees were able to evacuate without injury. The incident occurred three songs into the Godmother of Soul’s last scheduled performance of 2022. Fan-captured footage posted to Twitter shows LaBelle engaging with the audience and holding a bouquet of flowers before being approached suddenly by three members of her team. Labelle admirably resisted at first by shouting, “Hold Up! Wait!” into the microphone until one of her escorts appeared to whisper in her ear and the group promptly rushed off-stage along with her backing band. Watch the tense moment below. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, the Milwaukee Police Department confirmed...
How to Get Tickets to The Postal Service and Death Cab For Cutie’s 2023 Tour
Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service will come together for a co-headlining 2023 tour celebrating the 20-year anniversaries of their respective albums, Transatlanticism and Give Up, and tickets will treat audiences to full performances of both. Ben Gibbard, who co-founded and fronts both groups, shared in a statement: “I know for a fact I will never have a year again like 2003. The Postal Service record came out, Transatlanticism came out. These two records will be on my tombstone, and I’m totally fine with that. I’ve never had a more creatively inspired year.” Get tickets here, and read on for more details including pre-sale dates. What Is Death Cab for Cutie and The Postal Service’s Next Tour? Advertisement Related Video The 17-date run will kick off in Portland, Maine on September...
Georgia Holt, Actress, Singer and Cher’s Mother, Dies at 96
Georgia Holt, the seven times-married mother of Cher who spent time as a model, actress and singer-songwriter, has died, her daughter announced Saturday night (Dec. 10) on Twitter. She was 96. “Mom is gone,” Cher wrote. A rep for the Oscar-winning singer-actress confirmed Holt’s death to The Hollywood Reporter on Sunday morning. No details of Holt’s death were immediately available. Holt appeared briefly in such films as A Life of Her Own (1950), Grounds for Marriage (1951), Father’s Little Dividend (1951) and Artists and Models (1955) and on TV shows like The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet and, as a “Jacques Marcel” model, on I Love Lucy (in the hilarious 1956 episode “Lucy Gets a Paris Gown”). Holt...
Metro Boomin Scores Third No. 1 Album on Billboard 200 With ‘Heroes & Villains’
Metro Boomin’s superstar-filled album Heroes & Villains debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart (dated Dec. 17), giving the producer his third leader on the list. The 15-song set starts with his biggest week yet: 185,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Dec. 8, according to Luminate — largely driven by streaming activity. Heroes & Villains boasts a cavalcade of heavy-hitters, including 21 Savage, A$AP Rocky, Chris Brown, Future, Gunna, John Legend, Travis Scott, the late Takeoff, Don Toliver, The Weeknd, Young Thung and unbilled spoken word cameos from Morgan Freeman. Heroes & Villains is Metro Boomin’s seventh charting effort on the Billboard 200, and fifth to reach the top 10. He previously hit the region with Savage Mode II (a collaborative alb...
Bomb Threat Disrupts Patti LaBelle Concert in Wisconsin
Patti LaBelle was abruptly rushed off stage just a couple of songs into her Christmas concert in Milwaukee after a bomb threat forced authorities to evacuate the theater. The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports that video from the Riverside Theater on Saturday night (Dec. 10) shows what appears to be two security officers interrupting the 78-year-old LaBelle as she chats with an audience member. They rush her off stage. Shortly after, someone announced that the nearly full 2,500-seat theater had to be evacuated because of a bomb threat. Catherine Brunson, who documented the evacuation on Facebook Live, told the newspaper that the evacuation happened two songs into LaBelle’s concert around 9:24 p.m. “We came out and police had the block taped off. … A whole lot of people were prett...
Miley Cyrus Reveals Some of Her ‘New Year’s Eve Party’ Lineup on ‘The Tonight Show’
Miley Cyrus has announced some of the guests who will ring in 2023 with her and Dolly Parton for NBC’s annual New Year’s Eve special. Cyrus stopped by The Tonight Show this weekend to have a chat with Jimmy Fallon about the upcoming holiday show, revealing that Sia, Latto and Rae Sremmurd are among the other musical artists who will be joining the festivities. “Sia is coming. She’s one of my favorite artists,” Cyrus told Fallon. She continued, “We have Latto.” And Cyrus rounded out the reveal to announce the news that “Rae Sremmurd, who are friends of mine,” will be appearing. Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party is set to air on NBC Dec. 31, live from Miami. “As we get closer to the show, I want to start revealing who else we have. But the lineup is very me. It is curated in a way ...
Lizzo to Replace Yeah Yeah Yeahs as SNL’s December 17 Musical Guest
Yeah Yeah Yeahs have canceled their upcoming appearance on Saturday Night Live due to guitarist Nick Zinner’s current bout of pneumonia. The band announced the news via social media early this morning (December 11). “As many of our fans know Nick has had pneumonia over the past month and it’s been an up and down recovery process,” they wrote in a statement. “The band’s top priority is supporting Nick through a full recovery, as a result we had to pull out from our engagements of KROG’s Acoustic Christmas and Saturday Night Live.” The trio were slated to perform as musical guests on the December 17 installment. Now, SNL has announced that Lizzo will replace Yeah Yeah Yeahs for the episode. Elvis star Austin Butler is still scheduled to host. Elsewhere in their statement, Yeah Yeah Yeahs wro...
Ticketmaster Issues Apology After “Unprecedented” Ticket Fraud at Bad Bunny Concert in Mexico City
Bad Bunny fans with tickets purchased through Ticketmaster were left stranded outside his sold-out concert in Mexico City Friday night (December 9) when security claimed that numerous people had fake, duplicated tickets, or canceled tickets. Vulture and CNN report that hundreds of fans were denied entry to the venue, the 80,000+ capacity Estadio Azteca, and images from the concert on social media depicted large swaths of empty seats at the sold-out show. Pitchfork has contacted representatives for Bad Bunny and Ticketmaster for comment. In a statement posted to the verified Ticketmaster Mexico account, the company apologized to ticket-holders, claiming an “unprecedented” number of false tickets overwhelmed their systems, legitimate ticket-holders were denied entry, and that refunds w...
Patti LaBelle’s Milwaukee Concert Evacuated Following Bomb Threat
Patti LaBelle’s concert at the Riverside Theater in Milwaukee was abruptly shut down last night (December 10), when the venue was cleared out due to a bomb threat. According to reports from The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and Rolling Stone, the singer was transported off of the stage by venue security as she was chatting with a fan between songs. The moment was captured on video by a number of concertgoers. Following LaBelle’s departure, the crowd was evacuated from the venue without incident. Police later confirmed that “no explosive devices were discovered.” Pitchfork has reached out to LaBelle’s representatives for comment. In a statement shared with The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Milwaukee Police Captain Warren E. Allen Jr. wrote: “Regarding the bomb threat in the 100 block of W. Wisco...
