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Record Store Day’s ‘Improbable’ Success Recounted in New Book for 15th Anniversary
Record Store Day is getting a book-length origin story. On April 12, ahead of the annual celebration’s 15th anniversary, Rare Bird will publish author Larry Jaffee’s Record Store Day: The Most Improbable Comeback of the 21st Century, a book recounting how the long-running event helped save independent record stores across the world and played a major role in relaunching the now-booming vinyl format. The tale is told in the voices of those who were pivotal to the movement, including RSD’s founders, artists who were supportive of the event and independent record store owners, among others. Jaffee is a New York-based journalist who teaches writing at the New York Institute of Technology and Mercy College and serves as co-founder/conference director of the Making Vinyl series of conferences th...
Interscope Records Teams Up With LACMA for ‘Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined’ Exhibit: See the Photos
Interscope Records teamed up with LACMA to host a special preview of their collaborative exhibit, Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined on Wednesday (Jan. 26). To celebrate the label’s 30th anniversary, the exhibit features over 50 pieces of art that reference both albums and songs from Interscope’s impressive roster of musicians including Billie Eilish, Olivia Rodrigo, BLACKPINK, Lana Del Rey, Snoop Dogg, Juice WRLD, Dr. Dre, Lady Gaga and more. Halsey, Shepard Fairey and Takashi Murakami are among the several artists that have contributed original works to the exhibition. Interscope executives Jimmy Iovine (co-founder), Steve Berman (vice chairman), John Janick (chairman) and Josh Abraham (music executive) all conceptualized the idea for the exhibit, later working with Staci S...
Here Are the Lyrics to Adele’s ‘Oh My God’
Adele finally returned to the music scene with her 2021 album, 30, and as expected, it’s filled to the brim with hits. Fan-favorite “Oh My God,” peaked at No. 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart dated October 30, 2021. At the time of publication, the song has remained on the chart for 15 weeks. I ain’t got too much time to spareBut I’ll make time for you to show how much I careWish that I would let you break my wallsBut I’m still spinning out of control from the fallBoy, you give good love, I won’t lieIt’s what keeps me coming back, even though I’m terrified I know that it’s wrongBut I want to have funMmh, yeahMmh, yeah I know that it’s wrongBut I want to have funMmh, yeahMmh, yeah Oh my God, I can’t believe itOut of all the people in the worldWhat is the likelihood of jumpingOut of my l...
Here Are the Lyrics to Gunna’s ‘P Power’ Featuring Drake
Gunna scored his second No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart with DS4Ever, which kicked off 2022 with its January 7 release date. The album is full of high-profile collaborations with fellow hip-hop and R&B stars including 21 Savage, Chris Brown, Future, Lil Baby, Roddy Ricch and Young Thug. However, a 20-track edition of the album, which added “P Power” featuring Drake, was released late in the day on Jan. 13 and helped push the already bubbling excitement over the album. If you need a guide to follow along with Gunna and Drake’s powerful collaboration, find them all below: (If Young Metro don’t trust you, I’m gon’ shoot you) She wanna go viral (viral), keep f—in’ for hours (hours)That p—y got power, that p—y got powerShe wet in the shower (wet), ...
Kanye West Teases Reasoning Behind ‘Donda 2’ Release Date
Kanye West has seemingly hinted as why he chose to release DONDA 2 on “2.22.22.” Earlier this week, Ye posted to Instagram the release date for the sequel to his DONDA album. The image featured a model of the artist’s childhood home, seemingly up in flames. The same model home appeared at the live DONDA listening events hosted in 2021. Across the structure is the date “2.22.22”, indicating the release date of the album will take place on February 22, 2022. Later on, Ye posted another Instagram story that explained the significance of the date February 22, 2022. The picture stated the following, “According to the stars, the United States is finally getting a spiritual makeover with its first-ever Pluto Return on Feb. 22, 2022. Astrologically, a Pluto return is when the heavenly body returns...
Nike’s NBA All-Star 2022 Uniforms Celebrate NBA’s 75th Anniversary & City of Cleveland
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NIKE / NIke The NBA All-Star starters have been announced, so of course, the uniforms to be donned by your favorite pros have as well. Nike NBA All-Star 2022 uniforms will be performing double duty as they pay homage to the NBA’s 75th Anniversary along with the host city of Cleveland. Source: NIKE / NIke While NIKE, Inc. is holding down the uniforms overall, each of its brands—Nike, Jordan Brand and Converse— will deliver for specific games. Jordan Brand will handle the kits for the NBA All Star Game proper, and its typography is a nod to Cleveland’s bridges and its aesthetics are a tribute to uniforms from the 80’s and 90’s. The silver, blue and red colors are a call out to the NBA logo’s 75th anniversary design. Nike handles the Clorox Rising Stars unif...
‘Ant-Man & The Wasp’ Star Evangeline Lilly Opposes Vaccine Mandates
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jun Sato / Getty Looks like another actress from the Marvel Cinematic Universe has decided to side with antivaxxers as Ant-Man & The Wasp star, Evangeline Lilly (The Wasp) has come out against vaccine mandates and confirmed that she was in attendance at the protest against vaccine mandates in Washington D.C. last weekend. Taking to Instagram to once again announce her stance against vaccine mandates, the Lost actress posted pictures of the protest while penning a lengthy caption in which she shared her views on vaccine mandates and why people shouldn’t be forced to take the vaccine. “I believe nobody should ever be forced to inject their body with anything, against their will, under threat of: -violent attack -arrest or detention without trial -loss o...
Kanye West Allegedly Spreading Rumors That Pete Davidson Has AIDS
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Marc Piasecki / Getty Looks like Kim Kardashian’s relationship with Pete Davidson has finally caused Kanye West to crack something ridiculous as the college dropout has resorted to high school tactics to attack his ex-wife’s new beau. According to TMZ, Yeezus has decided that the best way to get payback on Pete Davidson is to allegedly spread the rumor that the SNL comedian got “the monster” a.k.a. AIDS. Kanye West is 44-years-old and has apparently turned to making up gossip to slander his girl’s new boyfriend. Never a dull moment with that man. Naturally Ye’s team denied the claim (Ye could get sued if he admitted to it) and called it “nonsense,” but people close to the situation say it’s true. Related Stories “Sources close to Davidson confirm what DJ ...
HHW Gaming: Dwayne Johnson Reportedly Working On ‘Call of Duty’ Movie
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Kevin Mazur / Getty Is Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson helping bring Call of Duty to the big screen? According to one report, he most certainly is. The former WWE champion turned big-time action movie star isn’t afraid of the dreaded video game curse. He told us that much while speaking to him about his film Rampage, based on the iconic arcade video game of the same name. He also starred in 2005’s Doom, loosely based on the popular first-person shooter that was critically panned and a box office flop. Related Stories Speaking with Men’s Journal, Johnson had video game Twitter buzzing after he revealed he was working on another video game movie. “I can’t tell you which game, in particular, we’re doing, but there will be an announcement this year,” he said. ...
Joey Bada$$ Won’t Ejaculate During Sex to “Preserve My Lifeforce”
Come again? Joey Bada$$ said he prefers not to ejaculate during sex in order to “preserve my lifeforce.” In an interview on the Lip Service podcast, the Brooklyn MC explained, “I’d rather not bust a nut… period.” He added, “Because I would rather preserve my lifeforce. When a man ejaculates, there’s a lot of things that leave your body. There’s blood cells, there’s testosterone, energy, you know, you get depleted. They say it’s like an equivalent to running 20 miles when you bust a nut.” If that were true, some of us would be in much better shape. It should be noted, Joey Bada$$ does have a daughter, so he would seem to be mechanically capable, unless she resulted from some sort of immaculate ejection. Advertisement Related Video According to the rapper, this load of information ...
Our Lady Peace on Reuniting with Futurist Ray Kurzweil, Working with TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Our Lady Peace leader Raine Maida catches up with Kyle Meredith to talk about Spiritual Machines 2, the sequel to their 2000 album of the same name. Related Video The Canadian songwriter first takes us back to the original and how they linked up with futurist Ray Kurzweil, who also guests on both Spiritual Machine releases. Maida discusses all of the predictions Kurzweil made that have come true, and Our Lady Peace’s plans to have him appear in their upcoming live shows holographically. Advertisement Maida then dives into how the new songs speak directly to the tracks from 20 years ago, the new predictions for the future, his ...
Ezra Miller Threatens Ku Klux Klan Members: “I Suggest Killing Yourselves” or “We’ll Do It For You”
Ezra Miller took to social media on Thursday to share a cryptically threatening message aimed at a North Carolina faction of the Ku Klux Klan. Referring to themself as “the Bengal Ghouls” and “the Mad Goose Wizard,” the non-binary actor shared the video speaking directly to the camera. “This is a message for the Beulaville chapter of the North Carolina Ku Klux Klan. Hello! First of all, how are you all doing? It’s me!” they stated. “Umm, look. If ya’ll wanna die, I suggest just killing yourselves with your own guns. OK? Otherwise, keep doing exactly what you’re doing right now, and you know what I’m talking about, and then, you know, we’ll do it for you if that’s really what you want. OK, talk to you soon, OK? Bye!” And while the flippantly violent tone of the video had some viewers raisin...
