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Amaarae, Kali Uchis, and Moliy Share New Video for “Sad Girlz Luv Money”: Watch
Amaarae, Kali Uchis, and Moliy have shared a video for their updated version of “Sad Girlz Luv Money,” which was originally featured on Amaarae’s debut project The Angel You Don’t Know. The video was directed by Remi Laudat and in addition to footage of Uchis literally rolling in money, it also has shots of dudes tied up. Watch it below. The new visual includes looks from Mugler, Vivienne Westwood, Yves Saint Laurent, Versace, and Louboutin, plus custom individual pieces from the Lagos-based stylist Daniel Obasi. Thierry Mugler, the founder of the Mugler brand, died earlier this year. Read Pitchfork’s interview “Get to Know Amaarae, Who’s Expanding the Sound of Afropop.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Rolling Stone Acquires Majority Stake In Las Vegas’ Life Is Beautiful Music Festival
After forging a decade of memories, Life Is Beautiful music festival will begin its next chapter with new direction and ownership. Rolling Stone has announced the acquisition of a majority stake in the downtown Las Vegas-based festival. Founded in 2013 by the late Tony Hsieh, former CEO of Zappos, Life Is Beautiful has been a boon to downtown Las Vegas. Most recently, the festival attracted over 170,000 attendees in 2021 with headliners such as Billie Eilish, Green Day, and Tame Impala. Per The Hollywood Reporter, the event has netted $350 million in aggregate revenue since its founding. Rolling Stone and their parent company, Penske Media Corporation, reportedly have plans to develop a broader market footprint for Life Is Beautiful, though the festival property’s fl...
REZZ Reveals Collaboration With Subtronics Is On the Way
REZZ has recruited Subtronics for a new collaboration full of “juicy n disgusting bass noises.” On Sunday, REZZ shared that she’d sent over a track to Subtronics for a healthy dose of his signature bass. Usually when artists do this, the exchange takes a while and the track isn’t released for some time. Luckily, the prolific producers have been working at lightning speed to get this collab wrapped up. Just one day after announcing the collaboration, REZZ returned to tell fans the track was completed and ready to release “fairly soon.” If you’re looking for a preview of the track, you’ll have to be patient as the duo have not yet teased what it’ll sound like. However, REZZ confirmed that both she and Subtronics will be playing ...
SOPHIE’s Legacy Will Live On Through Asteroid Named In Her Honor
SOPHIE‘s music and legacy will continue to live on forever in the universe—literally. The WGSBN (Working Group of the International Astronomical Union) recently made an announcement that an asteroid has been permanently renamed after the late electronic music pioneer, whose death following an accidental fall shocked the music community at large in January 2021. The WGSBN is the association that names minor planets and comets. Shortly after SOPHIE’s tragic death, superfan Christian Arroyo launched a Change.org petition to get a planet named after her. After artist illustrations and renditions of exoplanet TOI 1338 b were shared, fans noticed similarities between the drawings and SOPHIE’s Every Pearl’s Un-Insides album cover art. That’s when Arroyo ask...
Jack Antonoff Calls Damon Albarn’s Criticism of Taylor Swift’s Songwriting “Trumpian”
Last month, Damon Albarn took heat for bluntly — and incorrectly — stating that Taylor Swift “doesn’t write her own songs.” Of course, Swift is one of the most accomplished songwriters of the last two decades, but the Gorillaz/Blur frontman attempted to reduce her to a “co-writer.” “That doesn’t count,” he said in an interview with the Los Angeles Times. “I know what co-writing is. Co-writing is very different to writing.” There was some back and forth on Twitter, with Swift calling Albarn’s “hot take… completely false and SO damaging,” and Albarn eventually issuing a direct apology. Still, the words were said, and many Swifties are still standing up for the musician. That includes Swift’s frequent collaborator Jack Antonoff, who lumped the tenor of Albarn’s remarks in with Donald Tru...
George Miller Considered Casting Eminem and Rihanna in Mad Max: Fury Road
Mad Max: Fury Road might be one of the most acclaimed action movies in recent history, but the journey sure didn’t come easy. George Miller’s 2015 masterpiece spent years in development limbo before it finally came to life, meaning the director had time to consider hundreds of casting options. Apparently, even Eminem and Rihanna weren’t out of the question. Pop culture reporter Kyle Buchanan goes long on the behind-the-scenes drama of Fury Road in his new book, Blood, Sweat & Chrome. In an excerpt of the book published in Vulture, Miller revealed his surprising idea to cast Eminem as Max. “[Eminem had] done 8 Mile, and I found that really interesting — I thought, ‘He’s got that quality,’” Miller said. “We’d done the first Happy Feet with the late Brittany Murphy, a...
The Beths Drop New Song “A Real Thing”: Stream
The Beths are back and pining for lasting change with the new song “A Real Thing.” The New Zealand rockers toggle between dreamy pop-infused guitars and a jarring, fretful chorus. Lead singer Liz Stokes opens with an image of regular people attempting to battle climate change. “Picking up the tires from the side of the road/ Gonna push back the coming tide,” she sings. But the chorus undercuts the sentiment: “Getting rhyme over reason,” she wails, implying that while such actions sound good in theory, they’re not helping in the long run. She continues, “It’s a sinister silly season/ Maybe we can end up meaning a real thing.” “‘A Real Thing’ is a kind of anxiety dream. It’s a bit muddled, a bit frantic, a bit sinister,” Stokes said in a statement. “‘A Real Thing’ is what came out ...
Futurama Revived for New Season on Hulu
The beloved intergalactic cartoon Futurama will return in 2023 with 20 new episodes airing on Hulu. Most of the show’s principal voice cast, including Billy West (Fry), Katey Sagal (Leela), Tress MacNeille (Mom), Maurice LaMarche (Kif), Lauren Tom (Amy), Phil LaMarr (Hermes), and David Herman (Scruffy), are returning for the upcoming reboot. John DiMaggio, who voices Bender, is not currently attached to the project. Deadline reports that DiMaggio felt the contract offer “was not competitive based on the success and name recognition of of the original series.” The role of Bender is being recast ahead of next week’s first table read, but both DiMaggio and 20th Television Animation are optimistic about an eventual deal, according to Deadline. Related Video Futurama initially ran on Fox for fo...
MAMMOTH WVH Releases Music Video For ‘Epiphany’
On the heels of the two recent No. 1 singles at Active Rock radio, “Distance” and “Don’t Back Down”, a Grammy nomination (“Best Rock Song” for “Distance”) and two iHeart Radio Award nominations (“Rock Artist Of The Year” and “Best New Rock Artist”), MAMMOTH WVH has released an official music video for “Epiphany” — the third single from its self-titled debut. “Epiphany” is currently in the Top 15 at Active Rock radio and moving towards bringing band mastermind Wolfgang Van Halen his third Top 10 single. The single version of “Epiphany” was recently released on Spotify. The music video is a live performance compilation that was filmed at two headline shows last October and one of...
METALLICA’s Lyrics Are Focus Of New Book From College Philosophy Professor
ECW Press has set an April 19 release date for the book “The Meaning Of Metallica: Ride The Lyrics”. Join William Irwin, a philosophy professor, literary critic and heavy metal scholar who teaches at King’s College in Pennsylvania, as he traces the lyrical development of the “thinking man’s” metal band and uses the themes in METALLICA‘s work to illuminate topics such as truth, identify, questions of life and death, the mind-body problem, justice and more. More than 40 years since their formation, and 125 million albums later, METALLICA is as relevant as ever. Much has been written about the band, but “The Meaning Of Metallica” is the first book to focus exclusively on their lyrics. Their mighty guitar riffs and pounding drums are legend...
KORN’s RAY LUZIER On Ex-SLIPKNOT Drummer JOEY JORDISON: ‘He Had Such Good Music In Him’
KORN‘s Ray Luzier has reflected on the passing of Joey Jordison, saying the founding SLIPKNOT drummer “had such good music in him.” Joey‘s family confirmed that he died “peacefully in his sleep” last July of an unspecified cause. KORN recruited Jordison in 2007 to join them on tour when drummer David Silveria went on hiatus from the band. Joey also appeared in the music video for KORN‘s single “Evolution”. Speaking to Gigwise, Luzier said that Jordison‘s death was difficult to process. “He had some demons, like a lot of people do, and I lost quite a few band friends, and people who I was quite close to in the music industry across the past two, three years,” the KORN drummer said. “It’s never easy. It’...
DISTURBED’s DAVID DRAIMAN To TREVOR NOAH: ‘You’re A Hypocritical, Self-Righteous, Pathetic Man’
DISTURBED‘s David Draiman has blasted Trevor Noah as “a hypocritical, self-righteous, pathetic man” after “The Daily Show” host implied podcaster Joe Rogan is guilty of racism. Over the weekend, Rogan apologized after a montage of clips showed him repeatedly using the N-word over the years. Rogan also addressed a 2013 clip from his podcast in which he discussed going to see a “Planet Of The Apes” movie in a predominantly black neighborhood. He said that walking into the movie theater was like walking into “Planet Of The Apes”. In Rogan‘s apology, he denied calling black people “apes” and insisted it “wasn’t a racist story, but it sounded terrible,” explaining he was “just trying to be entertaini...
