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Coachella 2022 Lineup: Kanye West, Billie Eilish & Harry Styles Top the Bill
After a two-year absence, Coachella will make its long-anticipated return over two consecutive weekends — April 15th-17th and 22nd-24th — at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Kanye West (aka Ye), Billie Eilish, and Harry Styles will each close out a night of the festival, topping a 2022 lineup that also includes Phoebe Bridgers, Megan Thee Stallion, Flume, Danny Elfman, Doja Cat, Jamie xx, and Run the Jewels. Other notable acts include Swxedish House Mafia, Lil Baby, Big Sean, Carly Rae Jepsen, Karol G, Disclosure, Spiritualized, Fatboy Slim, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, The Avalanches, Vince Staples, Denzel Curry, Maggie Rogers, Japanese Breakfast, Freddie Gibbs and Madlib, Caroline Polachek, Arlo Parks, Turnstile, IDLES, BROCKHAMPTON, 21 Savage, Baby Keem, BadBadNotGood...
Tupac Shakur’s Sister Sues Executor of Their Mother’s Estate for Embezzlement
Sekyiwa Shakur, the sister of Tupac Shakur, has filed a lawsuit against the executor of their late mother’s estate for embezzling “millions of dollars” and refusing to return items owned by the family. According to reports, the suit alleged that Tom Whalley, the executor of Afeni Shakur-Davis’ estate, committed “blatant violations” in his position as executor. “He has effectively embezzled millions of dollars for his own benefit,” Sekyiwa accused in the suit. “Whalley has unreasonably enriched himself at the expense of the beneficiaries and in bad faith by taking excessive compensation in a position from which he should properly be barred based on the inherent conflict of interest.” The suit adds that Whalley supposedly made himself the manager of Amaru Entertainment — the record label han...
Bow Wow Is Reportedly Working on a Retirement Album
Last year, Bow Wow announced that he was bidding farewell to his 20-year music career. At the time, he spoke with fans in a Twitter Q&A claiming that he has considered retiring after his next album. However, fans were quick to point out that it had been 11 years since the rapper dropped a studio album. Now, it seems that he is truly taking his final bow with a newfound commitment to his final retirement album. After years of speculation, Bow Wow took to Twitter to reveal that Snoop Dogg has been the one to push him to finish it. In a Tweet he wrote, “Snoop told me no way you can retire before me. You owe us one more. Speak on all the real shit that we wanna know you been going through. Put it song and watch it flourish. – nuff said unc! #lastone.” The announcement follows a recent inte...
DAVID DRAIMAN On DISTURBED’s Next Studio Album: ‘We Were Dying To Do The More Aggressive Stuff’
During a recent appearance on “Whiplash”, the KLOS radio show hosted by Full Metal Jackie, DISTURBED frontman David Draiman spoke about the progress of the songwriting sessions for the band’s follow-up to 2018’s “Evolution” album. Regarding what it has been like for him and his bandmates to regroup in person after such a long time apart and once again launch the creative process, he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET) : “There’s really nothing that replaces it. It was a continuing theme of conversation over the course of the week that we had together between our couple of shows we played in Indiana [in early November] and our performance over in Daytona for [the] Welcome To Rockville [festival]. There really is no substitute. There isn&...
W.A.S.P. Announces First U.S. Tour In A Decade; ARMORED SAINT To Support
W.A.S.P. will embark on its first U.S. tour in a decade this fall. The trek will coincide the band’s 40th anniversary and will include support from ARMORED SAINT and MICHAEL SCHENKER on select shows. W.A.S.P. frontman Blackie Lawless stated: “For over 10 years we have not toured on U.S. soil. But starting October 28th, 2022… we return. 10 years I’d want, 10 years I’ve cussed, 10 years I’d lust to return…. To my homeland… and be a Wild Child, a Love Machine, to be Blind in Texas, On Your Knees and Headless.” Joined by bassist Mike Duda and guitarist Doug Blair, who have been in the band 26 years and 18 years, respectively, along with drummer extraordinaire Aquiles Priester, they will take the band and the fans back to where it all started, complete with t...
Original KITTIE Lineup Reunites For Online Chat To Celebrate 22nd Anniversary Of ‘Spit’ Album (Video)
The original lineup of the Canadian all-girl metal band KITTIE — Morgan Lander (guitar, vocals), Mercedes Lander (drums), Fallon Bowman (guitar) and Tanya Candler (bass) — reunited last night (Tuesday, January 11) for an online chat to celebrate the 22nd anniversary of its gold-certified 2000 debut album, “Spit”. You can now watch the discussion below. Candler left KITTIE after the release of “Spit” in order to finish high school and was replaced by Talena Atfield. Bowman exited KITTIE in 2001 and started her own industrial/electronic project, AMPHIBIOUS ASSAULT. In a 2002 interview with Ballbuster Music, Mercedes stated about KITTIE‘s debut album, “I think ‘Spit’ is probably the least polished record I’ve ever heard in my entire life. ...
BRUCE DICKINSON Talks To Former British Army Soldier In Sixth Episode Of ‘Psycho Schizo Espresso’ Podcast
The sixth episode of “Psycho Schizo Espresso”, a brand new podcast from IRON MAIDEN‘s Bruce Dickinson and Oxford University psychologist and best-selling author Dr. Kevin Dutton, has just been launched across all podcast platforms. Check it out below. In this episode, Dutton and Dickinson chat to Andy McNab, the pen name of Steven Billy Mitchell, a former British Army soldier who has authored a plethora of fiction and non-fiction books and is a diagnosed “good” psychopath, about the unique mindset of special forces operatives, discuss what it takes to work undercover in highly volatile and suicidally dangerous war zones and how being a psychopath can definitely help. Kev and Bruce also delve deeper into Andy‘s psychopathic tendencies and hear how a trip ...
House 5: Even Twitter “You Can Only Live In One House” Memes Are Gentrified
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: VioletaStoimenova / Getty A popular Twitter meme floating around that uses the “You can only live in one house” theme leans heavily into one genre while barely giving a nod to Hip-Hop. Despite the dozens of rock and metal bands mentioned in the meme replete with artists across the aforementioned genres, the house centered on Rap acts sticks out like a sore thumb. This is not a diss towards Travis Akers, who was most likely just having a little fun with the meme. But across the nine houses with six artists listed in each, only one is devoted to Hip-Hop. Amid names like Fall Out Boy, Blink-182, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Korn, Nine Inch Nails, and other favorites of the cul-de-sac, the Hip-Hop house offering pales in number and diversity of sound. House ...
Marvel Got A Gang of Movies & Series Dropping in 2022
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Marvel / Disney+ After the COVID-19 pandemic gave millions of fanboys a break from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel has slowly but surely gotten back on track with it’s Disney+ series and blockbuster films in 2021. Now it further plans on making up for lost time with a slew of new movies and Disney+ series in 2022 and we’re as excited as can be. Planning on expanding their already successful cinematic universe by adding more superheroes such as She-Hulk and Moon Knight, Marvel has revealed this year’s slate of series and movies and it’s going to be a doozy. Having ended 2021 with the new classic known as Spider-Man: Far From Home, Marvel Studios will continue to expand on the multiverse aspect of their world in Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Mad...
HHW Gaming: TikTok Star Rory Teasley Allegedly Strangled To Death By Boyfriend Over A Game of ‘Overwatch’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Alex Pantling / Getty Video games are supposed to be fun, but for TikTok star Rory Teasley, an innocent Overwatch match with his boyfriend turned deadly. Per the New York Post, Teasley died after his boyfriend of 10 years allegedly strangled him during a fight over the video game Overwatch, Michigan’s Oakland County Sheriff’s Department report. Local news outlet Click on Detroit reported Officers went to the Pontiac apartment Thursday night (Jan.5) responding to Docquen Jovo Watkins 911 call reporting he and Teasley had a physical altercation. Watkins (31), told the officers he and his boyfriend had gotten into a fight and that Teasley was “sleeping” on the couch. Authorities soon discovered Teasley was not sleeping, he was unconscious and no longer breat...
Nelly Responds To Woman Who Claims She Returned $300K & Only Got $100 Reward
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Scott Legato / Getty We are only a couple of weeks into the new year and the internet is already interneting. Nelly says that a woman’s claims about returning luggage filled with money to him are false. As spotted on Complex the St. Louis, Missouri native has no idea what an unidentified woman is talking about on social media. Last week she took to Instagram and claimed she found a duffle bag that contained over $300,000 dollars in cash. While it isn’t clear where she found it or how she knew it belonged to Pimp Juice, she went on to return it to him and only was awarded a mere $100 dollars. In the clip the woman can be seen with some of her friends and as a man narrates the alleged jig. “We up here at the bowling alley, she found Nelly bag, it had $...
Kanye West’s “Hurricane” Becomes First ‘DONDA’ Song To Go Platinum
Kanye West has earned his first platinum certification for DONDA thanks to the Lil Baby-certified song, “Hurricane.” According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the track’s platinum certification follows its gold achievement from September 2021. In addition, Ye and JAY-Z‘s “Jail” has gone gold while the Cruel Summer remix of Chief Keef’s “Don’t Like,” which West hopped on alongside Jadakiss, Big Sean and Pusha T, went platinum two years after it went gold. It seems like fans can look forward to DONDA 2 as Ye appeared to confirm work on the album in a text message exchange with Moneybagg Yo. “I got to lock in with you on Donda 2[.] Money in front of us[.] Bullshit behind us,” he wrote to the Memphis-born rapper. Take a look at the exchange of messages below and stay t...
