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Built to Spill Premiere New Album When the Wind Forgets Your Name: Stream
Built to Spill have revealed their new album, When the Wind Forgets Your Name, out September 9th via Sub Pop. Listen to it in full below. When the Wind Forgets Your Name mark’s Built to Spill’s first album in seven years and their debut release with Sub Pop. “I’m psyched: I’ve wanted to be on Sub Pop since I was a teenager,” founding member Doug Martsch said in a press statement. “And I think I’m the first 50-year-old they’ve ever signed.” Martsch started working on the album after meeting Oruã members Le Almeida and João Casaes several years ago. After serving as his new backing band for shows in Brazil, they joined him on tour in the US and Europe, learning new songs Martsch had written. After coming off the road, they recorded the bass and drum tracks at his rehearsal space in Bois...
The Afghan Whigs Share New Album How Do You Burn?: Stream
The Afghan Whigs have revealed their new album, How Do You Burn?, the band’s first release in five years. Greg Dulli and co. first got to work on How Do You Burn? in September 2020. Despite the years apart, the band were able to assemble the album remotely, with frontman Dulli, his co-producer Christopher Thorn and drummer Patrick Keeler together in California, bassist John Curley in Cincinnati, guitarist Jon Skibic in New Jersey, and strings man Rick Nelson in New Orleans. “Once we got the system down, we started flying,” Dulli says in a press release. Dulli also spoke about the album in a recent appearance on Kyle Meredith With…, detailing Thorn’s involvement and the saints and sinners that populate the collection. Listen to the full interview here. Advertisement Related Video The ...
Babyface ft. Ella Mai “Keep On Fallin,’” Ne-Yo ft. Zae France “Layin’ Low” & More | Daily Visuals 9.8.22
HipHopWired Featured Video Babyface isn’t just an R&B verteran, he’s a true R&B OG who’s been dropping baby-makin’ music for decades and now he’s returned to link up with a young crooner who’s been ascending in the game for a minute now. Teaming up with the lovely Ella Mai for his latest visuals to “Keep On Fallin’,” Babyface takes things back to a renaissance era to turn up with Mai in a old school lookin mansion where they enjoy a fancy meal complete with lit candles and bottles of champagne. Speaking of R&B OG’s, Ne-Yo makes a rare appearance and in his latest clip for “Layin’ Low,” links up with Zae France for a pool party that turns into an after-dark affair that’s sure to be used as evidence in his divorce proceedings. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work fr...
adidas Partners With Disney & Marvel For A “Dr. Doom” Stan Smith Colorway
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: adidas / adidas Dr. Doom has yet to make his official debut in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but fans will be glad to learn that the popular supervillain is already getting his own sneaker thanks to adidas. Source: adidas / adidas Nice Kicks is reporting that adidas is prepping for the release of an exclusive Stan Smith x Dr. Doom sneaker that came about thanks to a Disney, Marvel, and adidas collaboration for comic book fans and sneakerheads around the world. Could this be a hint to the comic book world that Dr. Doom will actually be making his debut in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever as is currently rumored? Probably not but the sneakers still go hard with the details. The pair arrives in a sleek chalk white upper crafted from recycled materials. Notewo...
Quavo & Takeoff Announce ‘Only Built For Infinity Links’ Debut & Cover Art
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Prince Williams / Getty There’s finally a release date for the debut joint album by Quavo and Takeoff, and a look at the new cover artwork to go with it with a shoutout to Kanye West. The two members (and relatives) of MIgos announced a release date for their debut joint album, which will be called Only Built For Infinity Links. The album will be available on October 7th through Quality Control and Motown. There is no official tracklist published by the two, but Quavo did release the album artwork via Twitter on Wednesday (September 7th). The cover garnered many positive responses, with some observing the tribute to Southern Hip-Hop pioneers Outkast in terms of the styling. The album title is another homage, inspired by Raekwon The Chef’s classic 1995 rel...
Hyd Announces New Album Clearing and Tour, Shares New Song “So Far” Co-Written With SOPHIE
Hyd, the moniker of interdisciplinary artist and PC Music associate Hayden Dunham (formerly of the QT project), has announced their debut album. Clearing is out November 11 via PC Music. Today they’ve shared the new single “So Clear,” which was co-written with the late SOPHIE as well as Easyfun. Listen below. “The feeling of rejection opened up my own questions about choosing Earth, choosing to make something new here, to be rooted when turbulent winds bend the stems,” Hyd said in a statement. Transmuting a feeling of loss into something fortifying – ripples in the water that become still. ‘So Clear’ emerges from a place of total loss, full collision, and the freedom that comes through surrender.” The new album, which follows last year’s self-titled EP, features the Caroline Polachek...
Jazmine Sullivan Joins John Legend on New Song “Love”
Jazmine Sullivan has joined John Legend on a new song, a track titled “Love.” It appears on Legend’s new album Legend, which is out today (September 8). Rick Ross, Saweetie, Rapsody, and Amber Mark appear elsewhere on the album. Check out “Love” below. After releasing Heaux Tales at the beginning of 2021, Sullivan followed it with Heaux Tales, Mo’ Tales: The Deluxe earlier this year. She’s since picked up two Grammys for Heaux Tales and was named to Time’s annual list of its 100 most influential people. Legend is the first full-length from John Legend since 2020’s Bigger Love. Read Pitchfork’s interview “Jazmine Sullivan on Shamelessness, Heaux Tales, and Her Biggest Year Yet,” and revisit the Sunday Review of John Legend’s 2004 debut Get Lifted. Content This content can also be viewed on ...
Yeat Enlists Lil Uzi Vert for New Song “Flawlëss”: Listen
West Coast rapper Yeat has shared his latest EP. Lyfë is out now via Field Trip/Geffen, and it opens with a track featuring Lil Uzi Vert. Listen to “Flawlëss” below, and scroll down to hear the full EP. Lyfë follows 2 Alivë, which arrived earlier this year, as well as 2021’s Up 2 Më. Yeat also issued 2 Alivë (Geëk Pack), an expanded release that includes nine new songs. The new 12-track record also includes lead single “Talk,” and the BenjiCold-produced cut “Comë On.” The majority of Lyfë is built on top of beats by BYNX. In recent months, Yeat dropped the song “Rich Minion,” which appears on the Minions: The Rise of Gru soundtrack. The single partly spawned the Gentleminions trend, which inspired fans to wear formal attire during theatrical screenings of the film. Lil Uzi Vert’s last solo...
Rosalía Shares Four New Songs
Rosalía has shared some new material on Motomami+, a deluxe update of her March album Motomami. In addition to a live take of “La Fama” and a remix of “Candy,” Rosalía has shared four previously unreleased tracks: “Aislamiento,” “La Kilié,” “LAX,” and “Chiri.” Check them out below. Rosalía announced the arrival of her third LP—the follow-up to 2018’s El Mal Querer—last November. She shared “Saoko,” “Hentai,” “Chicken Teryaki,” and her Weeknd collaboration “La Fama” to preview Motomami, and later released videos for “Candy” and “Delirio de Grandeza.” She shared another new song, “Despechá,” over the summer, which she chased with a video a few weeks later. The Spanish singer has had a world tour underway since July, with a few dates remaining in the United States and a European leg tha...
John Legend’s All-Star Album ‘Legend’ Has Arrived: Stream It Now
John Legend brings out all the legends on his eighth and latest album — the double-disc Legend. Executive produced by the EGOT winner along with OneRepublic’s Ryan Tedder, Legend features collaborations with Rick Ross, Muni Long, Jazmine Sullivan, Jada Kingdom, Rapsody, Ledisi, Jhene Aiko, Ty Dolla $ign and others. Ahead of its release, via Republic Records, the soul man described the recording as being “suffused with an unapologetic spirit of sensuality and joy, informed by the full vulnerability of pain, praise and healing.” Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Until this point, he continued, “I’ve never used an aspect of my name as the title of an album.” “I had to earn that, to live up to it by delivering in the performance and the music...
Elton John Dedicates ‘Don’t Let The Sun Go Down on Me’ to Queen Elizabeth II
Elton John has paid a musical tribute to Queen Elizabeth II and remembered the “bloody hard” work she contributed over the course of her long reign. Speaking to the audience Thursday night (Sept. 8) at his final show in Toronto, the Rocket Man reflected on the late monarch, who died Thursday (Sept. 8) at Balmoral Castle in Scotland, aged 96. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “She was an inspiring presence to be around,” he said, as images of the late royal lit up the big screens either side of the stage. “She led the country through some of our greatest and darkest moments with grace and decency and genuine caring, and warmth.” In February of this year, the Queen became the first British monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee, marking 70...
Nicki Minaj Drops ‘Super Freaky Girl (Queen Mix)’: Stream It Now
Nicki Minaj released “Super Freaky Girl (Queen Mix),” a collaboration-fueled new cut, in the early hours of Friday (Sept. 9). Minaj teased the track Thursday, but didn’t give away her co-stars. It’s a long lineup, including JT & BIA, featuring Katie Got Bandz, Akbar V and Malibu Mitch. “Ayo, this the Queen Mix right here. Miami, Boston, Chicago, Atlanta, New York … stand the f— up!” the star announces on the updated version of her first solo No. 1 hit before the sample of Rick James’ ’80s classic “Super Freak” kicks in and she begins to rap, “I can lick it, I can ride it while you slippin’ and slidin’/ I can do all them little tricks and keep the dick up inside it/ You can smack it, you can grip it, you can go down and kiss it/ And every time he leave me ‘lone, he always tell me he mis...
