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Frank Turner Rocks to No. 1 on U.K. Midweek Chart With ‘FTHC’
Frank Turner is blasting his way to a first-ever U.K. No. 1 with FTHC (Polydor), the English punk-rock poet’s ninth studio album. FTHC (an initialism for Frank Turner Hardcore) accumulates more than double the weekend sales of its closest competition, according to the Official Charts Company, to take outright leadership on the midweek chart. If it keeps its position when the chart is published this Friday, it’ll give Turner his first leader after two near-misses; his 2013 album Tape Deck Heart (2013), and 2015’s Positive Songs For Negative People (2015) both reached No. 2. One-time Mercury Prize winners Alt-J are at No. 2 on the Official Chart Update with The Dream (Infectious Music), the indie rock outfit’s fourth studio album. If it holds course, it’ll give the group a third Top 10 on th...
yeule: Glitch Princess
Press materials for Glitch Princess describe yeule as a cyborg. Though that idea isn’t explicit in the lyrics, it’s present in the way they fashion themself as if they’re not fully autonomous, as if their identity is the responsibility of some external creator. “Always want but never need/I don’t have an identity I can feed,” they sing on “Friendly Machine.” To begin to understand what’s going on inside their mind, yeule treats their existence as something veritably strange. They rhyme “amphetamine,” a stimulant, with “amitriptyline,” an antidepressant, curious about the ways we can manipulate our bodies though we’ll never be able to fully control them. Modern medicine is full of “couplings between organism and machine” wrote Donna Haraway in her 1985 essay “A Cyborg Manifesto,” a challeng...
Eric André to Join Impractical Jokers on New Episode
Eric André is set to join James “Murr” Murray, Brian “Q” Quinn, and Sal Vulcano on the first new episode of Impractical Jokers since the departure of founding member Joe Gatto. The “supersized” episode of the hidden camera prank show will simulcast on TBS, TNT, and truTV on Saturday, April 2nd, following the NCAA Men’s Final Four. André is just the first of several surprise guests who will appear on Impractical Jokers in the near future. According to a press release, rather than replace Gatto, Quinn, Murray and Vulcano will be joined by a different celebrity guest on each episode of Jokers’ upcoming 10th season, which is set to premiere this summer. Advertisement Related Video In a statement released on New Year’s Eve, Gatto announced his departure from Impractical Jokers so that he could ...
Of Course Snoop Dogg Smoked Weed Right Before the Super Bowl Halftime Show
Did anyone really think Snoop Dogg wouldn’t find a way to smoke weed during his appearance at the Super Bowl for the halftime show? While one of America’s most famous stoners didn’t light up during the actual performance itself, production cameras caught him taking a puff from a joint right before going on stage. It’s probably not a coincidence that Snoop helped Dr. Dre kick off the show by performing their collaboration “The Next Episode,” which closes with the line “Smoke weed every day.” Footage of Snoop’s warm-up was posted to Twitter by Rafa El Alcalde, a play-by-play announcer for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Watch the clip below. Snoop was a heavy contributor to easily one of the best halftime shows in Super Bowl history, performing with his mentor Dr. Dre alongside Mary J. Blige, ...
Amy Schumer, Regina Hall, and Wanda Sykes to Host 2022 Oscars
Amy Schumer, Regina Hall, and Wanda Sykes are teaming up to host the 2022 Academy Awards, according to Variety. The trio of female comics will serve as the Oscars’ first hosts since 2018. Variety reports that the awards show may be split into a three-act structure, with each woman getting their own hour to host. A formal announcement is expected on Tuesday’s episode of Good Morning America. The 2022 Academy Awards will take place on March 27th, 2022 from the Dolby Theatre in Los Angeles, and will be broadcast live on ABC. Advertisement Related Video This year’s leading nominees include The Power of the Dog, Dune, and West Side Story, while Beyoncé, Billie Eilish, and Jonny Greenwood are among the musicians nominated. You can find the full list of 2022 Oscar nominees here, and check out our...
Uncharted Review: An Indiana Jones Riff That Still Delivers Some Unique Thrills
The Pitch: For non-gamers, Uncharted is a remarkably straightforward project: Hot treasure hunters go on an action-packed adventure to track down a centuries-old treasure? Sure, checks out. Maybe these particular treasure hunters aren’t as nobly intentioned as, say, one Dr. Henry Walton Jones Jr., but that doesn’t mean 25-year-old bartender/history buff/aspiring thief Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) isn’t just as dedicated to tracking down some long lost gold. We first meet Nathan as a 10-year-old living with his older brother Sam in an orphanage, though Sam makes his escape from the place after a run-in with the law, leaving his brother with a family artifact (an engraved ring), followed by, in the ensuing years, a trail of vague postcards from exotic locals. Now (ostensibly) an adult, Nate’s ...
HAMMERFALL Guitarist: Why Heavy Metal Concert Livestreams Without An Audience ‘Don’t Work At All’
In a new interview with EMP España, HAMMERFALL guitarist Oscar Dronjak spoke about the band’s upcoming spring 2022 European tour with HELLOWEEN. The “United Forces 2022” trek will kick off on March 25 in Oslo, Norway and conclude on May 5 in London, England. “We’re chomping at the bit to get started,” Oscar said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “This tour can’t start early enough for us. It’s gonna be more than two years off the stage, which is… I don’t know when that happened last time; it was involuntary. So, for us, it’s a big thing. I think just being on stage and being on tour again is gonna be really, really exciting for everybody; people are gonna explode during the shows, basically.” He continued: “T...
ICE NINE KILLS Drops Animated Video For ‘Take Your Pick’ Feat. CANNIBAL CORPSE’s CORPSEGRINDER
The overlords of slashercore ICE NINE KILLS are celebrating the most romantic day of the year by delivering a special Valentine’s treat to their fans in the form of a gore-filled animated music video for their track “Take Your Pick” featuring CANNIBAL CORPSE frontman George “Corpsegrinder” Fisher and inspired by infamous horror movie “My Bloody Valentine”. Speaking about the clip, ICE NINE KILLS frontman and creative visionary Spencer Charnas shares: “To pay tribute to one of the most vicious slashers of the 1980s, we knew we had to cook up a video and musical number with only two things in mind: brutality and poor taste. We are honored to have the legendary Corpsegrinder providing his signature vocal assault which will hopefully disembowel t...
AMON AMARTH Teases New Single/Video ‘Put Your Back Into The Oar’
Sweden’s celebrated Viking overlords and undisputed modern masters of epic heavy metal AMON AMARTH will release a new single and video, “Put Your Back Into The Oar”, this Thursday, February 17. A teaser for the clip is available below. AMON AMARTH will team up with MACHINE HEAD for the “Vikings And Lionhearts” co-headlining European arena tour in September and October. AMON AMARTH‘s latest album, “Berserker”, was released in May 2019 via Metal Blade Records. The disc was recorded at Sphere Studios in North Hollywood, California with producer Jay Ruston, who has previously worked with ANTHRAX, STEEL PANTHER, URIAH HEEP and STONE SOUR. AMON AMARTH enlisted a session drummer, Tobias Gustafsson (VOMITORY, CUT UP), during the recording sessions fo...
JUDAS PRIEST’s RICHIE FAULKNER Says His Heart Surgeons Saved His Life: ‘I Honestly Shouldn’t Be Here’
JUDAS PRIEST guitarist Richie Faulkner opened up about the life-saving surgery he underwent less than five months ago. On September 26, 2021, the 42-year-old British-born musican suffered an acute cardiac aortic dissection during a performance at the Louder Than Life festival, just a short distance from Rudd Heart and Lung Center at UofL Health – Jewish Hospital in Louisville, Kentucky. It took the hospital’s cardiothoracic surgery team, led by Dr. Siddharth Pahwa and also including Drs. Brian Ganzel and Mark Slaughter, approximately 10 hours to complete the surgery, an aortic valve and ascending aorta replacement with hemiarch replacement. Faulkner, who has spent the last few months recovering at home in Nashville, reflected on the episode during an appearance on the “In...
Mary J. Blige ft. Dave East “Rent Money,” 5ive Mic’s & Jim Jones “Going Shopping” & More | Daily Visuals 2.14.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MediaNews Group/Pasadena Star-News via Getty Images / Getty After doing her thing at the Super Bowl Halftime Show alongside Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and Kendrick Lamar, Mary J. Blige reminded us that she’s more than capable of captivating a crowd so it’s only right she comes through with some new music to show us she’s still got the skills to pay the bills. Linking up with Dave East for the visuals to “Rent Money,” The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul finds herself in a casino plotting on a heist that’s about to go down while Dave plays the role of a dealer at a cards table. Related Stories Jim Jones meanwhile banks on his Gucci store rant and in the clip to “Going Shopping” he and 5ive Mic’s going on a shopping spree to show how they blow money on all designer ...
NIGO and Kid Cudi Tease “Want It Bad”
Shortly after releasing “Arya” with A$AP Rocky, NIGO has now returned to tease the second single off of his album I Know NIGO. Also played at his Fall/Winter 2022 debut for KENZO, the upcoming release is just the latest taste of the Japanese streetwear icon’s first music project in nearly two decades. The project dropping through Victor Victor Worldwide is set to feature a host of collaborators including Pharrell, Kid Cudi, A$AP Rocky, Lil Uzi Vert, Pusha T, Famlay, Tyler, the Creator and the Teriyaki Boyz. Taking to Instagram, NIGO shared a teaser for “Want It Bad” with Kid Cudi. The nine-second teaser shows NIGO and Cudi riding around the streets of Paris in a McLaren followed by scenes of the rapper dressed in HUMAN MADE. The post offers a first listen to the track a...
