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With ‘Help and Persistence’ From Grammy-Winning Friends, Iranian Composer Mehdi Rajabian Risks Prison to Share New Album
A group of Grammy-winning and nominated musicians and artists have come together — virtually — to help Iranian dissident composer Mehdi Rajabian get another shot at the Recording Academy’s highest award. On Sept. 10, Rajabian will once again risk arrest and imprisonment by the Iranian government when he releases his new age composition It Arrives on both his Barg Music label and Grammy-winning conductor and producer Amy Andersson’s Higher Purpose Music label. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Mehdi’s music has sparked international interest, so Grammy-winning and Grammy-nominated musicians from around the world have collaborated with him,” says Andersson of It Arrives. “Many of the featured artists are colleagues and friends of mine, and...
Chris Tomlin & Erica Campbell to Co-Host 2022 GMA Dove Awards
Erica Campbell and Chris Tomlin are set to host the 53rd annual GMA Dove Awards, Billboard has learned. The GMA Dove Awards ceremony will be held in person on Oct. 18 in Nashville and will be broadcast Oct. 21 on TBN. Among this year’s top nominees are for King & Country, Maverick City Music, CeCe Winans, Anne Wilson and more. Tomlin, a 27-time GMA Dove Award winner, has earned 10 No. 1 Billboard Christian Airplay hits and has had eight albums lift to the pinnacle of Billboard‘s Top Christian Albums chart. On Sept. 9, he will release his latest album, Always. In addition to the radio-single title track, the album also features “I See You” with Brandon Lake and “Yahweh” with Elevation Worship. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Campbell is know...
Brian Eno Further Addresses Climate Change on New Song “We Let It In”: Stream
Brian Eno has shared “We Let It In,” the latest preview of his upcoming solo album, FOREVERANDEVERNOMORE. Featuring backing vocals from his daughter Darla Eno, “We Let It In” follows in the footsteps of the first single “There Were Bells” by continuing to address the global climate emergency. As Darla Eno alternates between chanting the words “sun” and “deep,” Brian Eno sings in a lowered delivery reflecting the morose subject matter: “We open to the blinding sky and let it in/ With open hearts through burning fields/ The soul of it in gorgeous flame.” The accompanying lyric video was co-directed by Eno with London-based multidisciplinary artist Orfeo Tagiuri and features handwriting by Eno’s granddaughter Anya. Watch it below. Advertisement Related Video “It’s become a different...
Fan Chant: TWICE Are Talking the Talk
Welcome to Fan Chant, a weekly column for K-pop fans, stans, and newbies alike. Each week, I’ll be rolling out interviews, lists, and all kinds of content to keep you in the loop on the latest and greatest from our friends in Seoul and beyond. Also, make sure to subscribe to my companion newsletter! It feels strange to say that there’s ever a “light week” as someone on the K-pop beat, but this past week was maybe as close as we are going to get for a while. A week without any huge new releases meant I had some space to dig into some recent albums that I hadn’t spent dedicated time with just yet — it’s absurd how good this NewJeans debut EP is! I finally had a moment to venture beyond “Attention” and learned that every track on the mini-album is, in fact, a gem. Similarly, this week gave me...
Surprise! BTS: PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE – LA Is Now Streaming on Disney+
Surprise! As part of the Disney+ Day celebration, BTS’s PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE – LA is now streaming on the platform as of today (September 8th). PERMISSION TO DANCE ON STAGE – LA is described as a “stage-focused” concert film, showcasing the enormous event held at So-Fi Stadium at the end of 2021. The four concerts, November 27th-28th and December 1st-2nd, saw the 70,000-seat arena entirely sold out for all four nights. (Read our recap of the spectacular show here.) While the timing is a surprise, this concert film was announced without a release date in July as one of multiple projects created for Disney+, alongside a spin-off of BTS’s In the Soop (In the Soop: Friendcation, which was released on Disney+ in South Korea) and a still-to-come docuseries called BTS Monuments: Beyond th...
Apple Unveils It’s Worst-Kept Secret, The iPhone 14 & iPhone 14 Pro, Twitter Is Ready To Sell Organs To Buy One
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Apple / iPhone 14 As expected, Apple followed up Samsung’s event with its usual September event to introduce to the world and devoted followers to its new lineup of iPhone 14 flagship smartphones. The company that jobs built also announced two new Apple Watch models and the new AirPods Pro. iPhone 14 & iPhone 14 Plus If your current iPhone is glitching, that only means new models are on the way. Today during its latest “Far Out” event, Apple unveiled the iPhone 14 and iPhone 14 Plus models. If you already own an iPhone 13, this new model isn’t going to blow you away at all with its features. Coming in at $799, it runs on the same A15 system-on-chip from the previous model, but thanks to a 5-core GPU, Apple has managed to improve the iPhone 14’s ...
Meek Mill Offers To Perform At Someone’s Wedding For Free In October
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Aaron J. Thornton / Getty This October will mark the 10th year that Philadelphia rapper, Meek Mill made his entrance into the rap game with his debut album, Dreams & Nightmares and to commemorate his album’s anniversary he’s ready to perform at anyone’s wedding… for free! Yesterday the “War Stories” rapper took to Twitter to make the announcement by writing “If you get married in October … ima commit to performing dreams & nightmares at a wedding for free for the 10 year Anniversary.” Related Stories On the surface the offer seemed like a marketing or promotional ploy, but Meek cleared that notion right up as he went back on Twitter to call his offer a “random thought” and not something for his own personal gain. While many couples who are tying t...
Journalist Jim DeRogatis Fighting Subpoena To Testify At R. Kelly Trial
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jim Derogatis / Jim Derogatis A music writer who has spent years sounding the alarm about sexual misconduct committed by R. Kelly is reportedly fighting an attempt to force him to testify at the singer’s current trial. According to reports, attorneys working on behalf of the Jim DeRogatis have submitted a request to U.S. District Judge Harry Lienenweber to shut down a subpoena sent to their client to testify at the disgraced singer’s federal trial. In the filing that was revealed on Tuesday (September 6th), the lawyers claim that the subpoena is an attempt to “put his newsgathering on trial.” The subpoena was issued by lawyers for Kelly’s co-defendant and former business manager, Derrel McDavid last month. “Virtually all knowledge that DeRogatis...
Lil Yachty Launches New Frozen Pizza Line Dubbed ‘Yachty’s Pizzeria’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Universal Music Group / UMG Months after Lil Yachty and Had Bhabie announced their investment in a new culturally Jewish dating app, Yachty is now giving the Italians a run for their money as he’s launching his own frozen pizza line with the help of Deep Cuts, the U.S. brand for a line of premium frozen pizzas created by Universal Music Group. Dubbed Yachty’s Pizzeria, the new frozen pizza line is already in the frozen food aisle of participating supermarkets and retail for a reasonable $6.98. Why not just add two cents and make them $7 straight is anyone’s guess, but $6.98 it is. In a press release, Lil Yachty explained why he decided to go through with this latest venture. Related Stories “I’ve loved making and eating pizza my whole life, so this is a p...
Jockstrap: I Love You Jennifer B
Imagine I’m Madonna Imagine I’m Thee Madonna Dressed in blue No—dressed in pink! Gabbana, Feather boa, Marie Antoinette, You wanna know her “Greatest Hits” is a sublime model of Jockstrap’s future-retroism. It feels opulent but easy to slip into, like a beaded Halston unearthed at a roadside thrift store. It may be draped in cinema strings, but the song is far from stuffy. Ellery and Skye are playing dress-up, nodding to Old Hollywood glamour and discotheque pomp. Their manner of digesting these references makes “Greatest Hits” feel fresh; it winks at the ’70s by way of the ’90s, and it mashes up biblical imagery with 20th-century pop stars and a certain queen of Versailles. The song title scans as wry self-commentary, while Jockstrap’s detailed productio...
Brian Eno Shares Video For New Song “We Let It In”
Brian Eno has shared a lyric video for his new song “We Let It In,” featuring vocals from his daughter Darla Eno. It’s the latest single from his forthcoming LP ForeverAndEverNoMore due out next month. Check out the video for “We Let It In”—directed by Eno and the multidisciplinary artist Orfeo Taguiri, with handwriting by Eno’s granddaughter Anya—below. Of the new sound on “We Let It In,” Eno said in a statement: “…it’s lowered. It’s become a different personality I can sing from. I don’t want to sing like a teenager, it can be melancholy, a bit regretful. As for writing songs again—it’s more landscapes, but this time with humans in them.” Eno has previously released the ForeverAndEverNoMore single “There Were Bells,” originally recorded for a 2021 performance at the Acropolis ...
Gold Panda Announces New Album, Shares Video for New Song “The Corner”
Derwin Dicker has announced The Work—his first new album as Gold Panda in more than six years—with a video for its second single “The Corner.” The Work is set to drop November 11 via City Slang. Check out the album art and track list for The Work and the video for “The Corner” below. Of the new song, Gold Panda said in a statement: “A number of years back a friend of mine gave me a record by Dean Friedman, I’d been watching The Wire and when I heard the line in ‘Lydia’ I had to loop it up and mess with it. I tried to make it into a beat for some rappers but I could never get it right. When making this album I found the sample again, I had a new way of recording so starting from scratch it all came together. When I made ‘Lucky Shiner’ people used to rap over those tracks and sti...
