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Coachella Reveals Historic 2023 Lineup
Coachella has revealed its 2023 lineup, featuring Frank Ocean, BLACKPINK, and Bad Bunny as headliners, plus Gorillaz, Björk, Rosalía, Chemical Brothers, boygenius, Blondie, Pusha T, Charli XCX, and more. The annual music festival takes place over two weekends – April 14th – 16th and 21st – 23rd — at Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Tickets to Coachella 2023 — including three-day General Admission and VIP passes — go on sale Friday, January 13th at 11:00 a.m. PT. Historic Headliners This year’s trio of headlines is especially historic, as Bad Bunny and BLACKPINK will break barriers as the first Latin and Korean acts to ever headline Coachella. (In fact, Bad Bunny is the first Latin act to headline any major American music festival, for that matter.) Meanwhile, Frank Ocean will make hi...
Gwen Stefani: “I’m Japanese”
Despite all the bops born out of her Love.Angel.Music.Baby. era, we must acknowledge that Gwen Stefani’s objectification, fetishization, and infantilization of Japanese people was really, really weird. But what’s even weirder is that nearly two decades later, the No Doubt singer still stands by her overwhelming Harajuku obsession — going so far as to declare herself Japanese in a bizarre new interview with Allure. For readers who may have been too young at the time, “Love,” “Angel,” “Music,” and “Baby” weren’t just the words Stefani cobbled together for the title of her solo debut; those were the nicknames she bestowed unto the “Harajuku Girls,” Stefani’s crew of four Japanese-American dancers who appeared alongside her on stage, in music videos, and…nearly everywhere she went, almos...
Bonnaroo 2023’s Lineup Is the Culmination of All Bonnaroos Past
Putting together a great music festival lineup in 2023 is a much different proposition than it was in the past. Years of market saturation — even with an epidemiological fallow year — have led to homogenous lineups and events competing to remain distinct in order to attract the ever-dwindling consumer dollar. Epitomizing this struggle has been one of the largest, most beloved music festivals in the US: Bonnaroo. The Manchester, Tennessee gathering has been held at Great Stage Park — affectionately known as The Farm — since 2002. Thanks to two years of cancelations, 2023 will mark the 20th edition of the fest, a landmark moment for an event seen as the prototype for large-scale North American festival experiences. Once the gold standard, Roo has had its share of stumbles in the last decade,...
Coachella Announces Its 2023 Lineup
It’s finally here. Coachella has officially announced its 2023 lineup which will feature Bad Bunny, BLACKPINK and Frank Ocean headlining the main stage at the music and arts festival in Indio, California. Bad Bunny — Spotify’s most-streamed artist in 2022 — is set to play the SoCal-based show for the second time following his appearance in 2019. He is also the first-ever artist from Latin America to be a headliner. BLACKPINK also made its first appearance at the festival in 2019 which made BLINK fans go haywire, so you can already expect that K-Pop stans will show out strong for their set. This also marks the first occasion that artists of Asian descent have been called to headline Coachella. And at last, Frank Ocean is finally coming out of hiding and hitting the Empire Polo Fields stage ...
U2’s New Album ‘Songs Of Surrender’ Will Reimagine 40 Past Hits
U2 has announced a new album, titled Songs Of Surrender, that will feature 40 “reimagined and re-recorded” versions of their past hit tracks. The album’s official announcement follows the sharing of a written letter from U2’s lead guitarist The Edge, which teased the now-confirmed project. In it, he explained that most of the band’s work was written and recorded when they were “a bunch of very young men” and that their songs have come to “mean something quite different” to them over time. “Some have grown with us,” he wrote. “Some we have outgrown, but we have not lost sight of what propelled us to write those songs in the first place. The essence of those songs is still in us. But how to reconnect with that essence when we have moved on and grown so much?” The Edge added that the band had...
Kendrick Lamar, Odesza and Foo Fighters to Headline Bonnaroo 2023
Bonnaroo will be returning to Tennessee’s Great Stage Park for its first iteration since 2019, due to the 2020 pandemic and a Hurricane-related flood the following year. The genre-spanning festival, which held its inaugural event in 2002, will take place on the 700-acre farm across four days in June, beginning on Thursday, June 15 and wrapping up on Sunday, June 18. Electronic music will lead the first day of Bonnaroo, thanks to co-headliners Zeds Dead and Liquid Stranger. Canadian duo Zeds Dead is composed of Dylan Mamid and Zachary Rapp-Rovan, while the Swedish-born Liquid Stranger is an experimental solo dubstep act. Other standouts from the day include Big Freedia and 070 Shake. The second day amps up the roster with headliner Kendrick Lamar. He’ll be joined in the lineup by cous...
Kang Has Arrived: Peep The Latest Trailer To ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Marvel Studios / Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania From The Eternals to Thor: Love and Thunder, the last few films from Marvel’s Phase 4 left much to be desired (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was solid though). Now that Phase 5 will get into full swing with Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, can Marvel make MCU films great again? On Monday night (Jan. 9), Marvel Studios released the latest trailer for the highly anticipated threequel to Ant-Man and it’s looking like it’s going to be a helluva time for MCU fans who’ve been disappointed with their aforementioned projects. Serving as a stepping stone for the forthcoming Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, Quantumania finds Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), The Wasp (Evangeline Lilly), and their family trapped in a Quantu...
Hoping For A Miracle: Tory Lanez Hires Suge Knight’s Former Attorney Following Guilty Verdict
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Scott Dudelson / Getty / Tory Lanez Tory Lanez is ditching the legal team representing him during his criminal trial, where he was found guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion. Now, he is hoping Suge Knight’s former lawyer can deliver a miracle as talk about appeals begins. Meghann Cuniff, affectionately dubbed Meghann Thee Reporter following her excellent coverage of the Tory Lanez trial, shared that Lanez expects to be in court Tuesday, Jan. 10, and his attorney will now be David Kenner. If his name sounds familiar, he also represented Snoop Dogg and Suge Knight. Related Stories “Kenner is a longtime criminal defense attorney whose clients include former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight,” Cuniff wrote in a tweet. “Anyone with actual experience in crimi...
03 Greedo Drops New Mixtape, Gets Prison Release Date
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Unique Nicole / Getty With his release from prison on the horizon, 03 Greedo is in a celebratory mood as his latest mixtape hits the streets. According to reporting, Jason Jackson aka 03 Greedo is set to be released from prison this week. The information was based on a filing by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which was shared by reporter Jeff Weiss on Twitter Sunday night (Jan. 8). Representatives for 03 Greedo were contacted by other press outlets with no official response returned. The news comes as the Los Angeles, California rapper released a new mixtape entitled Free 03 at midnight Monday (Jan. 9). The 14-track project was produced by fellow LA native Mike Free and is his latest since Load It Up Vol. 01, which was done in collaboration wit...
A New Union LA x Air Jordan 1 High OG Colorway Is Rumored To Be Dropping
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jordan / Jordan Another Union LA and Air Jordan collaboration is on the way. After receiving some lukewarm reviews for their Air Jordan 2 and Air Jordan 4 colorways, they’ll be going back to the ones that started it all with another Air Jordan 1 High OG colorway. The sneaker world went into a frenzy earlier this week when word leaked that Union LA and Jordan Brand were working on a new colorway for their revered Air Jordan 1 collaboration they dropped in 2018. Though the actual colorway is still a mystery, it’s said that the new installment will be “unlike anything you’ve ever seen” in both the colorway and details. Regardless of how the sneakers look, best believe hypebeasts will be jumping all over this release as the previous Union x Air Jordan 1s...
Libianca – People
Cameroonian-American Libianca unleashes a fresh new single, “People,” produced by Mage The Producer. The new single from Libianca titled “People” is a fantastic piece of music for your listening pleasure. She dedicates the song to her fans and supporters This fills in as a follow-up to her previous tracks “Woman,” “Everything I Wanted,” “Special Loving,” and “Thank You,” including others. However, we recommend you add it to your playlist. Listen to and share, and enjoy Libianca’s new single – “People” below. https://www.naijamusic.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Libianca_-_People_NaijaMusic.com.ng.mp3 Download
TOMORROW X TOGETHER Shares Daydreams & Nightmares in New ‘Temptation’ Teasers
As the release of TOMORROW X TOGETHER‘s highly anticipated forthcoming EP, The Name Chapter: Temptation, draws nigh, a new concept teaser and multiple photos for the project were shared on Tuesday (Jan. 10). The new teaser, titled “Daydream,” features the TXT boys in a glowing ethereal setting. Filmed in a saturated soft focus, the K-pop stars flit around a forest, interact with the trees, read books in the grass and wade through a shallow pond before the dream comes to an end. The concept photos show the boy band’s duality. In the “Nightmare” theme, members Yeonjun, Soobin, Beomgyu, Taehyun and HueningKai all get a chance to shine. The idols all pose in the midst of a glowing blue set filled with clues such as an hourglass, a chiming bell and stuffed animals decorating the ...
