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Song of the Week: The 1975 Make Romantic Desperation Sound Fun on “Oh Caroline”
Song of the Week breaks down and talks about the song we just can’t get out of our head each week. Find these songs and more on our Spotify Top Songs playlist. For our favorite new songs from emerging artists, check out our Spotify New Sounds playlist. This week, The 1975 unravel the messiness of love with “Oh Caroline.” “I’ve been suicidal” is a hell of a way to open a song, but Matty Healy and The 1975 have never shied away from blunt honesty. It’s present in the group’s 2016 track “She’s American” (“If she says I’ve got to fix my teeth, then she’s so American”); it’s all over 2018’s “Be My Mistake” (“The smell of your hair reminds me of her feet”); and it’s tucked into various corners of the band’s latest album, Being Funny In A Foreign Language. The album is refresh...
PJ Harvey and Tim Phillips Unveil Bad Sisters Original Series Soundtrack: Stream
PJ Harvey and composer Tim Phillips have shared the series soundtrack to Apple TV+’s Bad Sisters. Stream it below via Apple Music and Spotify. Bad Sisters was co-devoloped by Sharon Horgan and stars Horgan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eva Birthistle, Sarah Greene, and Eve Hewson. It follows a group of sisters as they grieve a family members death while hoping to dodge investigators from a life insurance company. The 13-track OST features 11 original songs and two covers: Leonard Cohen’s “Who by Fire,” which serves as the theme song, and the traditional American folk song “Run On,” which has at times been recorded as “God’s Gonna Cut You Down.” Advertisement Related Video The rest of the tunes were composed in a rather original way. Phillips, who has also scored for ...
Clerks III Is an Invitation Inside Kevin Smith’s Heart
Kevin Smith’s best films have always been his smallest and most personal works; as a filmmaker, his legacy is a fascinating one, as his attempts at more mainstream Hollywood flicks have never been as creatively successful as the films he increasingly makes specifically for his loyal fanbase. This comes out specifically in the Clerks series, which Smith seems to use as a way of processing big turning points in his life: The original Clerks, of course, was all about the malaise of being in your 20s and not being sure about what to do with your life (its success solving that latter problem for Smith, at least initially). Clerks II, arriving during the middle portion of Smith’s career, focuses a lot on what it means to settle down, get married, start a family, and embrace what you love doing, ...
Beck Pulls Out of Arcade Fire’s North American Tour
Beck has dropped off Arcade Fire’s North American tour. The decision was first announced in emails sent to ticket holders, and Beck’s representatives have since confirmed his withdrawal to Consequence. Messages to ticket holders note that veteran Haitian roots band Boukman Eksperyans will be replacing Beck. The emails do not mention refunds, and they do not seem to be available. In an August 27th Pitchfork report, four people accused frontman Win Butler of sexual misconduct. Butler responded, saying, “While these relationships were all consensual, I am very sorry to anyone who I have hurt with my behavior.” Advertisement Related Video Feist subsequently withdrew from the European leg of Arcade Fire’s European tour in early September, citing the allegations and sayi...
Best New Tracks: Stormzy, Diddy, Lil Baby and More
As the week in music comes to a close, HYPEBEAST has rounded up the best projects for the latest installment of Best New Tracks. This week’s lineup is led by a long-lost track from Queen featuring vocals from late frontman Freddie Mercury. American pianist and producer Robert Glasper tapped Mac Miller for a posthumous collaboration, appearing on the forthcoming deluxe edition of his new LP Black Radio III. Elsewhere in music, Lil Baby dropped his highly-anticipated third studio album It’s Only Me with features from Young Thug, Future and more, while Stormzy shared the first single from his first project in three years. Additional new offerings come from $NOT, Diddy, Tee Grizzley, Russ, Kembe X and Marshmello with Juice WRLD. Stormzy – “Hide & Seek” [embedded content] Stormzy slows it d...
Crunchyroll Is Developing a Special “Anime Music Experience” at Porter Robinson’s Second Sky Music Festival
Porter Robinson and Crunchyroll are teaming up for a bespoke “anime music experience” at Second Sky, the electronic music star’s curated music festival in the Bay Area. According to a press release shared with EDM.com, the “Anime Shelter” experience will feature DJs from Tokyo’s iconic Akihabara anime nightclub, MOGRA, who are set to return to the states for the first time since 2019. Ravers will also be able to gulp down anime-inspired drinks at the pop-up, which takes its name from Robinson’s 2016 hit, “Shelter.” “MOGRA is one of my favorite places in the world—the all-night anisongs and incredible live VJing is an experience that has become rightfully famous worldwide and it’s somewhere I go every time I’m in Japan,”...
Floatie Races, Firetruck DJ Sets and More: Anything Goes at Dirtybird Campout
For the uninitiated, it can be difficult to describe a weekend at Dirtybird Campout. Sure, the generalized depiction can be epitomized as a music festival, but that would be a disservice to the team at Dirtybird and everyone in attendance. It’s not just another music festival. Ivan Meneses At its core, Campout is the antithesis of the cliché festival formula. The three-day camping experience differentiates itself from the rest thanks to its ability to forgo all the rules, allowing artists and fans alike to relinquish their egos in the name of fun. Teamwork and good old-fashioned fun are the name of the game at Dirtybird Campout. Of course, music plays a major role at Campout as well. The weekender featured an array of talent from the esteemed Dirtybird label, with a mix of genr...
Brent Betit Drops Explosive Future House Track, “Haunted”
Veteran DJ Brent Betit is back with “Haunted,” a brand new track which arrives just in time for spooky season by way of TURNT Music Media. With over a decade of experience behind the decks, Betit has been sharpening his skills inside the studio, drawing inspiration from some of dance music’s greatest artists, like Don Diablo, Laidback Luke, Oliver Heldens and David Guetta. And while his prowess as a DJ is undisputed and has enabled him to perform alongside the likes of Party Favor, Cheat Codes, 4B and more, Betit’s ever-expanding production skillset has led to releases on a number of established labels. Following his earlier 2022 single “Smooth Operator,” Betit has now returned with “Haunted” right ahead of Halloween. And it’s a future house stunner. The track ...
Listen to Disclosure’s Gritty House Remix of Kim Petras and Sam Smith’s “Unholy”
We’re currently latching onto the idea of another Disclosure and Sam Smith collab, but in the meantime, their new track is on repeat. Disclosure have released a huge remix of “Unholy,” a high-profile collab between Smith and Kim Petras. The Grammy-nominated duo twisted the song into a powerful club record, producing a thumping pre-chorus with thunderous 808s before a gritty house drop. Disclosure had debuted the song, which hit streaming platforms shortly after the 10-year anniversary of the timeless “Latch,” during their performance at London’s All Points East. Take a listen to the new remix below. Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles MUSIC RELEASES Listen to Disclosure’s Gritty House Remix of Kim Petras and Sam Smith’s “Unholy” The ...
Video Of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi Surface From Jan. 6 Attack, Twitter Reacts
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 3 hours ago @dlchandler123 D.L. Chandler is a veteran of the Washington D.C. metro writing scene, working as a journalist, reporter, and culture critic. Initially freelancing at iOne Digital in 2010, he officially joined the iOne team in 2017 where he currently works as a Senior Editor for Cassius Life and Hip-Hop Wired. D.L. covers a variety of topics including breaking news, politics, Hip-Hop music and culture, fashion, and Black history. He currently heads the SPIRIT.ED column for Cassius Life, which focuses on adult beverages and their history. D.L. has worked in the past for MTV News, Billboard, and several other publications. His first big break in journalism came with the now-defunct Politically Black in 1999, the nation’s first ...
Megan Thee Stallion Gives Us A Taste of Her Comedic Skills In New ‘SNL’ Promo
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NBC / Getty While the girls (Nicki Minaj and Latto) are throwing shots at each other on Twitter, Megan Thee Stallion is prepping to show off her comedic chops and hit a twerk or two on SNL. Ahead of her hosting debut and performance on SNL, a funny promo featuring Megan Thee Stallion and SNL alum Heidi Gardner arrived on Thursday, Oct. 13. In the clip, the Houston rapper reacts to Gardner revealing that show will be awesome, but it hasn’t been written yet. “Wait… the show ain’t written yet?” The “Her” rapper asks Gardner with the comic, adding, “nope.” “But it’s already Thursday,” Thee Stallion points out, asking, “we got people working on that, right?” and Garnder confirms, “nope.” In another take, Gardner adds Thee to her name, which leads to Megan hila...
50 Cent Trolls 25-Year-Old Son, Marquise, After Being Offered $6700 For A Sit-Down
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Recently 50 Cent’s son, Marquise Jackson, has made it known that he’s looking to repair his relationship with his father, but unfortunately for him, his father is in fact 50 Cent. According to TMZ, the son that 50 Cent once proudly presented to countless crowds at his G-Unit shows back in the early 2000’s has been trying to convince his father to talk things out and even offered one month’s worth of child support ($6,700) to get things rolling. Marquise tells TMZ Hip Hop he meant what he said, in a now-viral post, about putting up $6,700 — Fiddy’s monthly child support payment — for the one-on-one, and says he’ll actually pay more than that if necessary. Unfazed and uninterested in any kind of reconciliation with the son he...
