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Dead & Company Detail Final Tour With 2023 Concert Dates
Dead & Company have revealed the details of the concerts that will comprise their final tour. The U.S. shows take place in May, June, and July 2023. Take a look at the band’s schedule below. Dead & Company played their first shows in 2015. The lineup for the final tour includes Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, John Mayer, and Bob Weir (with Oteil Burbridge and Jeff Chimenti). Read the 2017 feature “The Grateful Dead: A Guide to Their Essential Live Songs.” All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Dead & Company: The Final Tour Dead & Company: 05-19 Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum05-20 Inglewood, CA – Kia Forum05-23 Phoenix, AZ – Ak-Chi...
Sullivan King and Ray Volpe Drop Metalcore Rallying Cry, “The Dead March”
Coming off of his headlining Lost Lands B2B with Excision, Sullivan King has joined forces with the creator of one of this festival season’s biggest tracks. Two weeks after King and Ray Volpe took the stage at the prehistoric-themed bass music celebration, they’ve returned to keep the party going with a new metalcore record. Released on Monstercat, “The Dead March” fuses both of their distinct sounds to deliver a bone-crunching banger. Heavy-hitting metal drums and sirens introduce “The Dead March” before the arrangement cuts away to focus on King’s isolated guitar riffs. He then lets out a scream and turns the ignition. With a rallying cry, King and Volpe inject the track with screeching synths and roaring bass that build to a thund...
Nicki Minaj Drops Second Remix of Skeng’s “Likkle Miss” Featuring The Fine Nine
Nicki Minaj has delivered a second remix of Skeng’s “Likkle Miss.” The rapper initially offered her take on the single in late August, including the remixed version on her Queen Radio: Volume 1 compilation album. Jamaican dancehall artist Skeng just dropped the original song in July, and Minaj wasted no time in jumping on the beat. This time, Minaj’s latest remix of “Likkle Miss” is noticeably lengthier at approximately six minutes and features a group called The Fine Nine. Alongside Minaj, the girl group is made up of Spice, Destra Garcia, Patrice Roberts, Lady Leshurr, Pamputtae, Dovey Magnum, Lisa Mercedez and London Hill. The rapper has been teasing the collaboration over the past few days, sharing behind-the-scenes footage from the remix’s music video on social media. This appear...
Lauryn Hill’s Daughter Selah Marley Responds To Backlash After Rocking Ye’s ‘White Lives Matter’ Shirt
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Taylor Hill / Getty Bob Marley is rolling in his grave. That’s what some people are saying after his granddaughter, Selah Marley, daughter of Lauryn Hill, doubled down on rocking Kanye West’s atrocious white lives matter shirt. The 23-year-old faced a wave of backlash from activists, celebrities, and more when footage of her walking in Ye’s YZY SZN 9 presentation wearing the now infamous White Lives Matter shirt. Responding to the well-deserved backlash the white lives matter shirts received, Selah Marley basically told everyone up in arms about it to kick rocks while twisting herself in a pretzel, trying to justify the existence of the “fashion pieces.” Spotted on Complex, Marley addressed the situation in a lengthy post via her Instagram Stories. “The p...
6 Things We Learned From Diddy on The Breakfast Club
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Power 105 / Revolt Puff Daddy’s been in the Hip-Hop/R&B game for decades and while he’s not churning out bangers on the constant like he did back in the 90’s, he’s still a force to be reckoned with in the industry regardless to whom or what. Stopping by The Breakfast Club to chop it up with Angela Yee, Charlamagne Tha God and Angela Yee, Puff Daddy a.k.a P. Diddy a.k.a Diddy a.k.a Love speaks on different aspects of his career and his personal life much to the surprise of many. From speaking on Kanye’s “White Lives Matter” shirt to revealing his thoughts on marriage, Diddy keeps things a 100 forreal and isn’t concerned with how people feel about it as he doesn’t need to be. The man is made and doesn’t need anyone’s approval anymore. Here are the 6 thi...
Kanye West Fires Back at Khloé Kardashian Birthday Party Claims
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: JULIEN DE ROSA / Getty Amid the ongoing controversy of sporting a “White Lives Matter” t-shirt at his YZY SZN 9 fashion show—rapper/designer, Kanye West pushed back against his former sister-in-law who criticized his recent social media posts. Khloé Kardashian, 38, commented on an Instagram post of West saying that he was trying to tear her sister “Kimberly down” and using her family to “deflect” from the criticism of the controversial t-shirts. “Enough already,” Khloé wrote, per Page Six. “We all know the truth and in my opinion, everyone’s tired of it.” She added, “YOU wanted separate birthdays. I have seen all of the texts to prove it. And when you changed your mind and wanted to attend, you came.” “You are lying and are liars yall basically...
Diddy Says MA$E Owes Him $3M, MA$E Responds & Says Mogul Is In His Feelings
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Anthony Harvey – PA Images / Getty Diddy is making his promotional rounds and is not ducking any questions. He says MA$E owes him $3 million but the rapper says otherwise. As per Complex the Bad Boy Entertainment CEO recently paid a visit to The Breakfast Club and participated in a lengthy interview with the crew. While he discussed several hot topics, it was his response to allegations that he takes advantage of his artists that got the culture talking. “[It] has really tried to stain my legacy,” he explained. “I don’t like to get in just talking people’s business and things like that… [but] I can’t have y’all following me, because I am here to be a leader and to give some direction, if you think that I’m a scumbag that will ever steal anything...
Adam Lambert Returns to WMG With EastWest Records Deal
Singer-songwriter and Queen collaborator Adam Lambert has returned to the Warner Music fold, signing a global deal with EastWest Records ahead of new music. The American Idol runner-up’s first release under the deal, a cover of Noël Coward’s “Mad About The Boy” for a documentary about the witty playwright, arrives Friday (Oct. 7). According to the label, fans of Lambert can expect more music soon and a new album next year. Lambert’s first pairing with WMG — for flagship Warner Records — resulted in 2015’s The Original High, which peaked at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 chart. That album, his third studio effort, followed a successful run at Sony Music’s RCA, where he scored a No. 1 album for 2012’s Trespassing and top-3 finish for his debut, 2009’s For Your Entertainment. The singer and LGBTQ...
Demi Lovato Loses Voice, Postpones Holy Fvck Concert: ‘It Breaks My Heart’
Demi Lovato is taking a brief pause from touring. On Wednesday (Oct. 5), the “29” singer shared that they needed to reschedule their Rosemont, Ill., Holy Fvck tour date at the Rosemont Theater — which had been set for that evening — after losing their voice. “Rosemont, today I woke up and had absolutely no voice. I’m so so sorry but it breaks my heart to tell you I have to reschedule the show,” Lovato wrote from the Holy Fvck tour’s official Instagram account. “Tickets will be honored for a new date as soon as its announced. This is the absolute last thing I want to do,” they continued. “I’m having so much fun with you all and I can’t wait to see you again. Again, I’m so sorry and I appreciate your understanding. I love you all.” In the post’s caption, the singer made sure to note that fan...
Ahmaud Arbery’s Mother Says Kanye West’s ‘White Lives Matter’ Shirt Helps to ‘Legitimize Extremist Behavior’
The backlash against Kanye West for weaving “White Lives Matter” shirts into his recent YZY SZN 9 Paris Fashion Week show continued on Wednesday (Oct. 5) when the family of Ahmaud Arbery called the artist now known as Ye out for what they described as a hurtful, duplicitous publicity stunt. “As a result of his display ‘White Lives Matter’ started trending in the U.S., which would direct support and legitimize extremist behavior, [much] like the behavior that took the life of her son,” said Arbery’s mother, Wanda Cooper-Jones, in a statement to Rolling Stone through her attorney Lee Merritt. “That is the thing that Wanda and families like hers continue to fight against.” Arbery, 25, was killed in Feb. 2020 when he went for a jog in Georgia and was chased down by three white neighbors and sh...
Death Row’s Blockchain Ambitions Take Shape As Snoop Dogg Manager Joins Gala Music Advisory Board
After buying Death Row Records and promising to make it an “NFT label” earlier this year, those metaverse ambitions are beginning to take shape through an exclusive partnership with Web3 platform Gala Music, where Snoop Dogg‘s manager for brand partnerships, Nick Adler, has joined the advisory board. The newly-created board is rounded out by Tupac’s former manager Leila Steinberg, as well as Grammy-nominated DJ and composer BT, and record label executive DJ EFN. The board will focus on bringing more superstar artists into Web3 and explore crossovers into film and gaming through Gala’s sister companies. “The creation of our advisory board is an exciting next step in Gala Music’s growth,” said Brandon Tatum, vp and global head of music business at Gala Music. “We look forward to leveraging t...
Dandizzy – Bad Boy Szn
Don’t miss this fresh new tune from DanDizzy titled – Bad Boy Szn, out now. Nigerian singer, DanDizzy is back with a brand new music entry titled “Bad Boy Szn“, for his listeners & supporters. The new record is a fantastic piece of music raps with flow delivering good punchlines. It fills in as a follow-up to his song titled Wotowoto, which he yet to release. However, it deserves a spot on your playlist. Listen and share DanDizzy – Bad Boy Szn below. https://www.naijamusic.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Rexxie_-_Abracadabra_ft_Naira_Marley_Skiibii__NaijaMusic.com.ng.mp3 Download
