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Marvel Studios President Explained Why They Didn’t Recast The Role of T’Challa
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NBC / Getty The sudden death of Chadwick Boseman left his fans shocked and in disbelief. Being that he passed away before Black Panther: Wakanda Forever began filming, many wondered if Marvel would recast the role that helped endear him to millions of fans. The answer was a solid “no” and Marvel Studios head honcho, Kevin Feige, explained why they decided against replacing Chadwick Boseman in the Black Panther sequel. In an interview with Empire, Feige basically echoed the sentiment that everyone felt at the time of Boseman’s passing, it would’ve just been too soon. Related Stories “It just felt like it was much too soon to recast,” he says, likening their approach to Marvel’s long-standing ethos in the comics. Stan Lee always said that Marvel represents ...
Big Stepping: Kendrick Lamar Releases Tour Merch Capsule Collection
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jason Koerner / Getty Kendrick Lamar fans are in for a treat. He has released a merch collection for his Big Steppers tour. As spotted on Complex, the Compton, Calif. native is bringing his critically acclaimed album Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers to life in more ways than one. On Monday, Sept. 26 he announced a drop in support of his Big Steppers Tour. Even though he simply wrote “stepper pieces” on the tweet with an accompanying link to shop. Included in the capsule are staple streetwear pieces like tee shirts, hooded sweatshirts, and five-panel dad hats. As expected, each item is branded with references to Mr. Morale & The Big Steppers album songs and tour stops including “Are You Happy For Me?” and “I Choose Me, I Am Sorry.” Related Storie...
Aphex Twin’s New App Transforms Unexpected Sounds Into Samples
Aphex Twin has launched a software program that converts audio files into new sound blocks, which can then be sampled in music or other projects. Available now free of cost through GitLab, the app is called Samplebrain and was developed by Aphex Twin (the stage name of Richard James) in collaboration with engineer Dave Griffiths. In a statement posted via Warp Records, James shared that he first had the idea for Samplebrain two decades ago, around 2002, “when mp3’s started to become a thing.” At the time, Shazam had just debuted, which got James said got him thinking of “all this music sitting there” that had potential for “something else other than just playing or dj’ing.” “I still think Shazam could be re-purposed for something incredible but in the meantime we have Samplebrain. Wha...
Neil Young Appears to Rebuke Beck’s NFL-Sponsored “Old Man” Cover
Neil Young seems unhappy with Beck for releasing an NFL-sponsored cover of “Old Man,” as Stereogum points out. Beck’s cover came out yesterday after trailing a Sunday Night Football game; a few hours later, Young posted a still from his anti-sponsorship video for 1988 song “This Note’s for You.” In the image, shared on Instagram, Young holds a bottle labeled “Sponsored by nobody.” Young has long defied the unnecessary commercialization of his music, and “This Note’s for You” is one of his more explicit rallying cries. “Ain’t singing for Pepsi/Ain’t singing for Coke/I don’t sing for nobody/Makes me look like a joke,” he sings. “This note’s for you.” But, in 2021, the ardently independent singer-songwriter sold half of his catalog to Hipgnosis. That includes the copyright and income interest...
Watch Rina Sawayama Cover Billie Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever”
Rina Sawayama appeared on BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge today (September 27), where she covered Billie Eilish’s “Happier Than Ever” and performed the title track to her second album, Hold the Girl. Check out both below. Hold the Girl, the follow-up to her 2020 debut Sawayama, arrived on September 16 after it was first announced in May. Sawayama said that she received ABBA’s blessing to interpolate their song “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight” on the album’s first single, “This Hell.” Between LPs, Sawayama took on Lady Gaga’s “Free Woman” with Clarence Clarity for Dawn of Chromatica, made a guest appearance on “Follow Me” by Brazil’s Pabllo Vittar, and joined Charli XCX for “Beg for You.” Read Pitchfork’s feature “Rina Sawayama, Pop Therapist.” Content This content can also be viewed ...
Spotify Slow to Remove White Supremacist Content, Report Finds
This past February, Spotify was found to be hosting—and in some cases actively playlisting—an array of white supremacist music. Those findings, by the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism, were not adequately heeded by the platform, according to a follow-up report published last week and picked up by Billboard. In a blog titled “White Supremacist Music Prevalent on Spotify, While Platform Largely Declines to Act,” the ADL found 40 white supremacist artists on the streaming service, many searchable through catch-all genre terms such as “fashwave” and “RAC” (the misleadingly named Rock Against Communism). Many of those artists have verified status, meaning their songs can be corralled in Spotify’s own playlists. As a result, a black metal listener could unwittingly be recommended mus...
Listen to Björk’s New Song “Fossora”
Björk has released Fossora’s title song. The new single, produced by Björk, features Kasimyn. Take a listen below. Björk’s new album, Fossora, is out this Friday, September 30. Before the title song, the musician had released the LP’s “Atopos” (also featuring Kasimyn), “Ovule,” and “Ancestress.” Learn more about Björk and Fossora in Pitchfork’s new interview “Björk: Mother, Daughter, Force of Nature.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
NOFX Announce Possible Final Album, Share “Darby Crashing Your Party”: Stream
NOFX have today announced what will presumably be their final record as a band: Double Album, the aptly-titled counterpart to February’s Single Album, is out on December 2nd via Fat Wreck Chords. Until then, you can listen to the punk band’s new single “Darby Crashing Your Party.” Inspired by his long-running goal to put out his own analogue to Off the Wall or The White Album, NOFX vocalist Fat Mike describes Double Album as “very enjoyable” and “maybe [their] funniest” release. Complete with unfiltered songs about cocky booking agents, a dominatrix, using the bathroom, and Stephen Hawking, Double Album is a perfect way to cap off NOFX’s discography — should they follow through with their plan to break up in 2023. “You have to laugh at everything because the world ...
Guy Pearce Saves All His Movie Scripts, and Other Insights Into His Process
Heads up for future film historians: Guy Pearce keeps the scripts for all his past projects on a shelf in his home, and they sound fascinating. “I end up sticking things all over the script, like a school project,” he tells Consequence via Zoom. “People laugh at me all the time about it, but I say to them, ‘Go into the art director’s room or go into the makeup trailer and look at all the pictures all around the walls of the world [we’re making].’ I need to create the world that we’re in on my script as well, like in the binder. Because it just keeps me in there. It’s great.” He explains his process like so: “I love visual stimulation. So if I can find images — if it’s a historical character then obviously there’s a lot of great historical stuff that I can plunk on the script as well. And t...
Pusha T Commits a McMurder on New McRib Diss Track “Rib Roast”: Stream
Pusha T has compiled enough gritty nicknames to populate a whole gangster movie: The L Ron Hubbard of the Cupboard, Cocaine’s Dr. Seuss, Pusha Thanos, and now, “The boss with the smoky Q sauce.” That’s because King Push has once again partnered with Arby’s to absolutely body a McDonald’s product, this time with the “Rib Roast,” a McRib diss track. The Virginia MC committed his first McMurder earlier this year with “Spicy Fish Diss,” though his feelings about McDonald’s go back much further than that. Pusha T was either the partial or full author of that famous, “Ba da ba ba ba,” in the first “I’m Lovin’ It” commercial from 2003. The actual credit is highly disputed, though marketing CEO Steve Stoute revealed in 2016 that Clipse — that’s Push and his brother No Malice — were ...
Lady Lamb Answers the Consequestionnaire: 15 Years of Staying True to Herself and Loving Sufjan Stevens
It’s Consequence’s 15th anniversary, and all month long we are featuring a series of retrospective features and essays encompassing our publication’s history — as well as the entertainment landscape at large. We’re also giving some of our past CoSigned artists a chance to look back at the last 15 years with our Consequestionnaire; today’s respondent is Lady Lamb. As a part of our Consequence: 15 Years of Sound celebration, we’ve made it a point to check in with stand-out artists that have received our endorsement from the last decade and a half. We sent out our Consequestionnaire to numerous Artists of the Month and CoSigns to get their perspectives on the past 15 years, as well as hear about how their career has changed over this time period. Today, we circle back with March 2011 CoS...
Bizarrap’s 10 Most-Watched Sessions Ranked: Critics’ Picks
The element of surprise is one of the many things that make Bizarrap‘s music and freestyle sessions some of the most watched videos on YouTube. Who will his next guest be? No one really knows, but when the Argentine producer drops a new session, it collects millions of views in a matter of hours. While his latest music session with the Spaniard Quevedo isn’t yet among his most watched, it’s the one that has catapulted him to global success. Their “Bzrp Music Sessions, Vol. 52,” is currently No. 1 on the Billboard Global 200 and Billboard Global Excl. U.S. charts. Additionally, the track is only the second fully Spanish-language song to top the Global 200 in the chart’s two-year history, following Bad Bunny and Jhay Cortez’s “Dákiti” in 2020. “The first ‘session’ back in 2018 wasn...
