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Here’s How to Watch the Creamfields 2022 Livestream With Tiësto, David Guetta, More
The highly anticipated return of Creamfields is finally underway. Over four days and nights, the storied brand is celebrating 25 years of deeply influential dance music festivals. And organizers have once again curated a staggering lineup comprising many of the industry’s most celebrated artists. Boasting performances from electronic music superstars like Carl Cox, Calvin Harris, Alesso, Hardwell and Amelie Lens, Creamfields’ monumental 2022 lineup features over 250 acts. Creamfields is also slated to feature a number of stage takeovers from a bevy of renowned dance labels, among them Axwell’s Axtone, Martin Garrix’s STMPD RCRDS, Above & Beyond’s Anjunabeats and Michael Bibi and Pawsa’s Solid Grooves. In collaboration with Beatport, Creamfields has annou...
NCT 127 Set 2 U.S. Dates in World Tour: Is Your City One of the Lucky Stops?
After months of speculation, NCT 127 is finally making their post-pandemic return to the U.S. this year for two dates in their ongoing world tour. The K-pop boy band announced plans to play shows on both coasts in the U.S. this year. First up, hitting Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena on Oct. 6, followed by an Oct. 13 concert at the Prudential Center in Newark, N.J. The two dates come as part of NCT 127’s “The Link” world tour, first announced in November 2021 and officially kicking off with a three-date run in the Seoul Sky Dome. The trek has also visited Tokyo, Singapore and Manila with a press release sharing that Latin American dates will be announced soon. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The timing of the shows comes just aft...
CNCO, Karol G & More: What’s Your Favorite New Latin Music Release? Vote!
Another Friday, another busy release day in the Latin music space. This week, CNCO dropped their latest album, XOXO, which will be the very last album for the boy band, who in July announced they were splitting. This album is special because it’s one of their last projects together. The group is disbanding after nearly seven years together. “We always thought that if we split, it had to be natural, and that’s how it happened,” the band previously told Billboard. “We’ve lived many things together, and grew together in this industry, and we’re ready to try new things to expand our careers. We’re very excited.” The red-headed Karol G is also back with a new single, “Gatubela” in collaboration with Maldy. Produced by DJ MAFF, the song is an old-school reggaeton track laced with infectious perr...
Twitter Adds Podcasts to Live Audio Tab
Twitter will start recommending and streaming podcasts directly to users as part of a redesigned hub that groups live and recorded audio content by category. The podcast integration, which signals Twitter’s continued expansions into audio, launched Thursday to a select group of English-speaking iOS and Android users via the Spaces tab on Twitter’s mobile app. Categories in the redesigned tab include news, sports and music; each category will include live audio rooms, replays of recorded rooms and popular podcast episodes from those categories that will be personalized based on user interests. To bring the podcast episodes onto the platform, a Twitter spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter that the company is pulling from existing RSS feeds and will tailor the recommendations based on the...
Mark Tuan Gets Introspective, Returns to Rapping on Long-Awaited ‘The Other Side’ Album
After first entering the music scene in 2014 with his K-pop boy band GOT7, Mark Tuan has finally released his first full solo project with his introspective album The Other Side. While Mark was one of the designated rappers in GOT7, the Los Angeles native gets the chance to showcase his true range across the 20-song project. Tuan boasts songwriting and composition credits across every track with most songs spotlighting Mark’s singing abilities front and center. While five vocal-focused singles previewed the album through the past nine months — “last breath,” “my life,” “lonely,” “save me,” and “imysm” — The Other Side also sees Mark return to the rap tracks fans first heard during his time with GOT7 on braggadocio-heavy cuts like “my name” and L...
Lowertown Announce Debut Album I Love to Lie, Share Video for New Song
Lowertown, the Atlanta-based bedroom pop duo of Olivia Osby and Avsha Weinberg, have announced their debut album. I Love to Lie is due out October 21 via Dirty Hit. Today, they’re sharing the lead single, “Bucktooth,” alongside a carnival-themed music video directed by Zev Magasis. Check it out below. Osby said she and Weinberg wrote “Bucktooth” after revisiting old country and folk music while homesick in the London recording studio: “I was really into Johnny Cash’s At Folsom Prison album and wanted to write a cheeky, narrative song similar to ‘Cocaine Blues.’ A bucktooth cowboy with his crew of troublemaker bandits kept popping into my head. The song started as a silly story but ended up being thematically tied with some of the far-right extremism that was happening in America.” I Love t...
Megan Thee Stallion Demands WMG Reveal Documents Regarding Traumazine Leak
On August 11, just hours before releasing her new album Traumazine, Megan Thee Stallion publicly addressed leaked music on her Twitter account. The leak included “[her] cover art, pieces of [her] track list and [her] even hearing a part of a song [she hasn’t] dropped yet,” as Megan put it in her tweet. She continued: “we ALL know who the only ppl who had access to all these PRIVATE links are.” The rapper ended the message saying that she “might as well…lol,” and released Traumazine at 12 a.m. Eastern the following day. Now, Megan’s attorneys are attempting to retrieve documents from Warner Music Group that could reveal who leaked Traumazine, as Billboard reports. Megan’s lawyers filed the paperwork in a Houston court on Monday (August 22) and told a judge that WMG “was one of the few compa...
Kenny Beats Announce Debut Solo Album Louie
Kenny Beats has announced that he’s got a new album on the way, his first solo project. It’s titled Louie and it’s out August 31 via XL. The producer made the record at the end of 2021 while self-isolating in England. Check out a Louie preview along with the album art and track list below. Kenny Beats began working on Louie after getting the news that his father—his namesake—had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. “I always said that I wouldn’t do a solo album because I didn’t have anything to say. Finally, I did,” he said in a statement about Louie. “Something dark turned into something beautiful. This album encapsulated the feeling of that one month.” Kenny Beats has been a busy producer and collaborator in recent years, issuing joint releases with Q Da Fool, Rico Nasty, and 03 Greedo...
Neal Casal Fellowship Launched to Support Mental Health and Wellness in Music
A fellowship has been launched in Neal Casal’s honor to mark the third anniversary of the singer-songwriter’s death. Two nonprofits, the Neal Casal Music Foundation and Backline, are behind the Neal Casal Fellowship, which will allow a Neal Casal Fellow to work within Backline to help provide mental health and wellness resources to members of the music industry and their families. The paid role requires a weekly 10-hour commitment, and applications are open now. Jenn Glickman, a Backline co-founder, said in a press release, “The loss of Neal Casal started a ripple, and a long-overdue conversation across the music industry which led a group of us to form Backline in 2019 to create a stronger safety net for musicians and music industry professionals. Since our inception, we have provided men...
DJ Khaled Drops ‘GOD DID’ LP, Twitter Loves Title Track Verse From Jay-Z
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 11 hours ago @dlchandler123 D.L. Chandler is a veteran of the Washington D.C. metro writing scene, working as a journalist, reporter, and culture critic. Initially freelancing at iOne Digital in 2010, he officially joined the iOne team in 2017 where he currently works as a Senior Editor for Cassius Life and Hip-Hop Wired. D.L. covers a variety of topics including breaking news, politics, Hip-Hop music and culture, fashion, and Black history. He currently heads the SPIRIT.ED column for Cassius Life, which focuses on adult beverages and their history. D.L. has worked in the past for MTV News, Billboard, and several other publications. His first big break in journalism came with the now-defunct Politically Black in 1999, the nation’s first...
Drake Debuts New Sticky Shag Hairdo, Twitter Says He’s Giving “Lunch Lady Vibes”
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: MediaNews Group/Bay Area News via Getty Images / Getty Drake is making his hair a talking point along with his hits and tattoos, and his latest hairstyle has the internet talking. Apparently, the only thing sticky right now is Drake’s hair. Like his flow and accents, Drake loves to switch up his hair. This week, the Honestly, Nevermind crafter debuted his slicked-back shag to his 120 million Instagram followers. While not giving any reasoning behind the new do, the rapper left it up to his friends and fans to give his new persona a name. His famous rapper friends did oblige. Quavo quickly dubbed him “RAZOR AUBREY RAMONE aka SCOTT HALL,” a nod to the late WWE Hall-of-Famer, while Riff Raff pointed out, “You about 3 months shy of a Million Dollar Mull...
HHW Gaming: Everyone Including NFL Pros Are Frying ‘Madden NFL 23’
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: EA / Madden NFL 23 Madden NFL 23 is here, and it’s only been a week since the game’s release, and it is getting dragged by not just fans of the annual sports video game franchise but NFL pros, too. Developers behind the game came into this season riding the momentum off Madden NFL 22, which was an improvement from Madden NFL 21. Reviews for Madden NFL 23 on OpenCritic have the game sitting at its usual fair rating despite new next-gen features like “FieldSense” technology that’s supposed to help improve the game’s feel and improvements to modes. But, there is another damming indicator of just how bad this game and it’s the reactions from players on social media, NFL pros in particular, who are trashing Madden NFL 23. “First game out on Mad...
