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Atlanta Season 3 Gets 2022 Premiere Date
Donald Glover’s TV series Atlanta finally has a premiere date for its third season, nearly four years after it was renewed. The first two episodes of Season 3 will air on March 24, 2022 via FX and will stream the next day on Hulu. The rest of the 10-episode season will come out weekly. Earlier this fall, a teaser trailer for Atlanta’s third season surfaced online. Season 3 takes place almost entirely in Europe as Earn (Donald Glover), Alfred/Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry), Darius (LaKeith Stanfield), and Van (Zazie Beetz) go on a European tour. While navigating their new surroundings as outsiders in the country, they struggle to adjust to their success. Back in 2019, before production on Season 3 even began, Atlanta was renewed for a fourth season as well. The second season of Atlanta, dubb...
Watch the LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special on Amazon Prime Video
LCD Soundsystem’s new special, the LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special, just premiered on Amazon Music’s Twitch channel and Prime Video. It’s directed by Eric Wareheim (who also stars in the role of James Murphy) and features Macaulay Culkin, Aparna Nancherla, Jon Daly, Christine Ko, a puppet, and others. The special opens with All My Friends, a 1990s-style sitcom starring comedians and actors portraying members of the band. Find a clip below and check out the full thing at Amazon. (Pitchfork earns a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.) Over this past weekend, LCD Soundsystem decided to cancel the final three shows of their 2021 Brooklyn Steel residency after initially planning to carry on despite a rapid increase in COVID-19 cases in New York. “You good people ...
The Best Music Projects of 2021
Getting through the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic is a cause for celebration itself. As music experienced a brief resurgence with festivals and smaller tours, artists like Isaiah Rashad, J. Cole, Lorde, Tyler, the Creator and Vince Staples also made their triumphant return with their well-received albums The House Is Burning, The Off-Season, Solar Power, CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST, and Vince Staples. It would be a tragedy if we failed to highlight the hot debate of Kanye West‘s DONDA versus Drake‘s Certified Lover Boy, which were released within five days of each other and became the world’s talking point for months afterward. 2021 also greeted us with diverse releases from both growing and all-time favorites, including pgLang star Baby Keem with The Melodic Blue, Little...
JAY-Z Claims No One Can Take Him a ‘VERZUZ’ Battle
JAY-Z is very confident in his discography, so much so that he claimed during a Twitter Spaces event with Alicia Keys on Tuesday that no one can compete with him in a musical showdown. our entire convo with alicia keys & jay z in case you missed it (or just want to hear those voices again).❤️ @aliciakeys @sc @robmarkman @kozza @twittermusic #KEYS #KEYsAlbum https://t.co/06llTJXBjw — Genius (@Genius) December 22, 2021 During the discussion, hosted by Genius, the 52-year-old icon was asked if he would ever participate in a VERZUZ livestream — a series produced by Timbaland and Swizz Beatz that brings two legendary artists together to perform their respective hits. “No disrespect. Everyone is amazing and [has] done what they’ve done,” he said. “There’s not a chance in hell t...
Congress Launches Investigation into Astroworld Tragedy
Congress is launching a bipartisan investigation into the tragic circumstances that led to the deaths of ten people at this year’s Astroworld Festival. According to The Washington Post, the probe will examine Live Nation’s role in the Houston-based event, including the company’s pre-show planning and logistics, and how it responded once it became apparent that a large crowd surge had killed or injured scores of concert-goers. On Wednesday, the House Oversight and Reform Committee sent a letter to Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino seeking documents detailing Astroworld’s security and crowd control planning, and requested that Live Nation brief members of the committee by January 12th. “Recent reports raise serious concerns about whether your company took adequate steps to ensure the...
Season 3 of Atlanta to Premiere on March 24th
At long last, FX has set a premiere date for Season 3 of Atlanta. After a three-year hiatus, Donald Glover’s acclaimed series will return with a two-episode season premiere on Thursday, March 24th at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. According to a logline provided by FX, Season 3 finds Earn (Glover), “Paper Boi” (Brian Tyree Henry), Darius (LaKeith Stanfield) and Van (Zazie Beetz) in the midst of a successful European tour, “as the group navigates their new surroundings as outsiders, and struggle to adjust to the newfound success they had aspired to.” The full season runs 10 episodes, and each episode will be available to stream on Hulu the day after its initial broadcast premiere on FX. Advertisement Related Video A new teaser trailer for Atlanta Season 3 will premiere on Christmas Day during ESPN and A...
Chris Martin: Coldplay Will Stop Making Music After 2025
Chris Martin has announced that Coldplay will stop making music after 2025, prompting thousands of Facebook and Twitter users to post in unison, “They weren’t making music before.” Via i News, Martin made the announcement in a conversation with BBC Radio 2 presenter Jo Whiley. The interview will air Thursday, but Whiley teased a clip when she appeared on Wednesday’s The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show. “He’s always very funny and I’m never quite sure if he’s joking or being deadly serious,” Whiley said. “Towards the end of the time we spent together he shared something pretty honest and pretty intimate which was a huge revelation.” In the clip, Martin said, “Well I know I can tell you: Our last proper record will come out in 2025 and after that I think we will only tour.” He ad...
John Wick: Chapter 4 Pushed Back Until 2023
Movie fans planning to catch Keanu Reeves back in action as assassin John Wick next Memorial Day will have to wait another year. Lionsgate announced on Wednesday (December 22nd) that John Wick: Chapter 4 has been delayed once again and shared the new release date of March 24th, 2023. Already pushed back from its announced May 2021 release due to director Chad Stahelski and Reeves’ commitments to The Matrix: Resurrections, Chapter 4 was originally slated to be filmed back-to-back with a fifth installment of the John Wick franchise, but those plans were scrapped due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s unclear what caused this delay, as production began this summer in France and Germany, with additional filming taking place in Japan and New York City. Principal photography wrappe...
Gucci Mane “Long Live Dolph,” Alicia Keys ft. Khalid & Lucky Daye “Come For Me” & More | Daily Visuals 12.21.21
HipHopWired Featured Video It’s been a month and change since the untimely death of Young Dolph and while his fans continue to mourn him, his rap peers are out here keeping his memory alive and his legacy going. To honor his late homie, Gucci Mane has come through with some new visuals for “Long Live Dolph” in which Gucci shares some footage of Young Dolph and some clips of his memorial service while he raps inside of a church. Rest In Peace, Young King. Back on the R&B tip, Alicia Keys returns to warm our hearts and for her Khalid and Lucky Daye assisted clip to “Amazing” takes to the studio with the two artists to create that baby makin’ magic. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Mary J. Blige featuring DJ Khaled, Cyn Santana, and more. GUCCI MANE – “LONG LIVE DOL...
Gucci Mane “Long Live Dolph,” Alicia Keys ft. Khalid & Lucky Daye “Come For Me” & More | Daily Visuals 12.21.21
HipHopWired Featured Video It’s been a month and change since the untimely death of Young Dolph and while his fans continue to mourn him, his rap peers are out here keeping his memory alive and his legacy going. To honor his late homie, Gucci Mane has come through with some new visuals for “Long Live Dolph” in which Gucci shares some footage of Young Dolph and some clips of his memorial service while he raps inside of a church. Rest In Peace, Young King. Back on the R&B tip, Alicia Keys returns to warm our hearts and for her Khalid and Lucky Daye assisted clip to “Amazing” takes to the studio with the two artists to create that baby makin’ magic. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Mary J. Blige featuring DJ Khaled, Cyn Santana, and more. GUCCI MANE – “LONG LIVE DOL...
Cardi B Defends Lil Kim & Givers Her Flowers, Calls Her A “Real F***** Legend”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Cardi B is not here for the blatant Lil Kim disrespect she is witnessing on social media. The Bronx native had time on Tuesday (Dec.22) and addressed the hate Lil Kim has been receiving lately. Following the release of “Big Santa Papi,” a track she worked on for Nick Cannon’s holiday film Miracles Across 125th Street, Bardi hopped on Twitter to give the Queen Bee her flowers, calling her a “real f***** legend.” Playboy’s first-ever Creative Director in Residence responded to a tweet highlighting the “weird hate bandwagon” toward’s the Brooklyn rapper telling her followers she was “tired” of it. In her tweet, she wrote, “I’m tired of it, and it’s heartbreaking… She’s is so sweet ,supportive and a REAL FUCKIN LEGEND ..I...
Cardi B Defends Lil Kim & Givers Her Flowers, Calls Her A “Real F***** Legend”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Cardi B is not here for the blatant Lil Kim disrespect she is witnessing on social media. The Bronx native had time on Tuesday (Dec.22) and addressed the hate Lil Kim has been receiving lately. Following the release of “Big Santa Papi,” a track she worked on for Nick Cannon’s holiday film Miracles Across 125th Street, Bardi hopped on Twitter to give the Queen Bee her flowers, calling her a “real f***** legend.” Playboy’s first-ever Creative Director in Residence responded to a tweet highlighting the “weird hate bandwagon” toward’s the Brooklyn rapper telling her followers she was “tired” of it. In her tweet, she wrote, “I’m tired of it, and it’s heartbreaking… She’s is so sweet ,supportive and a REAL FUCKIN LEGEND ..I...
