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Kevin Hart Isn’t With Channing Crowder Hitting Nudist Colonies With His Wife
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MEGA / Getty Kevin Hart is a man who doesn’t hold his tongue during times when he wants to give his opinion. The comedian was bold enough to use that same stance against ex-NFL player turned media figure Channing Crowder and was shocked to find that the host enjoys visiting nudist colonies. Kevin Hart sat down with The Pivot Podcast with Ryan Clark, Fred Taylor, and the aforementioned Crowder for the show’s typical brand of grown man chat. However, things went left when Crowder shared with Hart that he and his wife like to visit a nudist colony once per year. Related Stories Hart was visibly flabbergasted by Crowder’s admission and asked if the couple get it on with other guests. Crowder shut it down by saying that while activities of that sort have occur...
6th Member Of ‘Central Park Five’ Exonerated Of Lesser Crime. Manhattan DA Apologizes
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty We’ve all heard of the Central Park Five. Many of us know the names Kevin Richardson, Antron McCray, Raymond Santana, Korey Wise and Yusef Salaam—the five men who were boys when they were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman who was jogging in Central Park in 1989 and then exonerated after they spent between seven and 11 years in prison. But you might not be familiar with a sixth victim who was arrested along with the others. Well, that man has now been exonerated. According to NY Daily News, Steven Lopez was exonerated of a crime he pleaded guilty to when he was 14. He had been arrested along with the other five, but he served less time after pleading to a lesser charge. From the Daily News: Lopez pleaded guilty to robbin...
Florist: Florist
It’s a reminder that Florist has always been a collaborative effort, a sensitive group of musicians all equally in tune with the small wonders and moments of connection and disruption Sprague evokes in the lyrics. In these songs, you can hear how their increased intimacy allowed them to locate subtle new textures that conjure these feelings—say, the layered horns in “Spring in Hours,” or the slide guitar in “Feathers.” Listening to the instrumental tracks, like the fingerpicked “Duet for Guitar and Rain,” you gain insight into how they may have landed on these sounds—momentary bursts of inspiration, collected like seashells on a beach. Of course, none of the instrumental tracks would be nearly as interesting if the more traditional songs weren’t among the strongest Sprague has written. Aft...
Lollapalooza 2022 Hulu Livestream Schedule & Details Announced
Lollapalooza 2022 begins tomorrow (July 28) in Chicago, Illinois. Performing on the first day of the festival are Metallica, Tove Lo, Jazmine Sullivan, and others. Additional performers at the festival include Denzel Curry, Machine Gun Kelly, Dashboard Confessional, Tinashe, BTS’ J-Hope, Cordae, Coi Leray, Green Day, Beach Bunny, Djo (aka Stranger Things star Joe Keery), Blxst, Idles, Tomorrow X Together, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever, Banks, YG, and Kygo. Lollapalooza 2022 is streaming live on Hulu. Tune in at Hulu, starting at 3:00 p.m. Eastern on July 28. Find the full streaming schedule below. Channel 1 Schedule (All times listed in Eastern Standard Time) Schedule is subject to change Thursday, July 28, 2022 3:00 PM – Sampa the Great3:30 PM – Bijou4:00 PM – Inhaler5...
New Joe Strummer Box Set Announced
Ahead of what would have been his 70th birthday (August 21), Dark Horse Records has announced a new box set of albums by Joe Strummer and his post-Clash band the Mescaleros. Joe Strummer 002: The Mescaleros Years arrives September 16, and will feature remastered editions of all three of the band’s studio albums, plus 15 rare and unreleased tracks spanning the first demos Strummer wrote for the group. Today, Dark Horse has shared an animated visual for the previously unreleased track “The Road to Rock ‘N’ Roll.” Check it out below. Joe Strummer 002 marks the first-ever comprehensive collection of the Mescaleros’ work. The set features the band’s three studio LPs: Rock Art and the X-Ray Style (1999), Global a Go-Go (2001), and the posthumous Streetcore (2003). All of the albums are remastere...
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story, Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Gets Release Date
Weird: The Al Yankovic Story has finally been given a release date. The “Weird Al” Yankovic biopic, which stars Daniel Radcliffe, will premiere on the Roku Channel on Friday, November 4, 2022. The release date was announced with an official poster for the film, which depicts Yankovic below the Hollywood sign with the film’s title emblazoned across the back of his jacket. Check it out below. Weird: The Al Yankovic Story was directed and co-written by Eric Appel and co-produced by Funny or Die and Tango. In addition to being the film’s subject, Yankovic was involved as a writer and producer. Earlier this year, Roku shared a teaser trailer for the film, which features Yankovic’s 1985 Madonna parody “Like a Surgeon.” In May, Z2 Comics announced a new “Weird Al” Yankovic graphic novel.
Rosalía Shares New Song “Despechá”
Rosalía has shared a new one-off single she’s been performing during her world tour behind her new album Motomami. It’s called “Despechá.” Give it a listen below. “There are many ways to be Despechá, in this theme it is from the freeness or the craziness, moving without reservations or regrets,” Rosalía said in a translated statement. “This is the place from where I make music, from where I did it when I first started and where I will continue to until God says so. I’m grateful for having been able to travel in recent years and have learned from music from other places including the DR, where artists like Fefita La Grande, Juan Luis Guerra and Omega have inspired me and without them this song would not exist.” Read Pitchfork’s feature “Work Hard, Play Hard: How Rosalía Makes Her Musi...
Calvin Harris Shares Stacked ‘Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2’ Tracklist
Calvin Harris has unveiled the official tracklist of his upcoming record, Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2. The 14-track project set is set to feature a star-studded list of guests, namely 21 Savage, Dua Lipa, Young Thug, Stefflon Don, Chlöe, Coi Leray, Charlie Puth, Shenseea, Normani, Tinashe, Offset, Busta Rhymes, Halsey, Justin Timberlake, Jorja Smith, Lil Durk, 6LACK, Donae’o, Snoop Dogg, Latto, Swae Lee and Pusha T. Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 2 will serve as the followup to 2017’s Funk Wav Bounces Vol. 1, which debuted at No. 2 and featured Frank Ocean, Migos, Schoolboy Q, PartyNextDoor, DRAM, Young Thug, Pharrell Williams, Ariana Grande, Future, Khalid, Travis Scott, Snoop Dogg, John Legend, Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Big Sean, Kehlani, Lil Yachty and Jessie Reyez. Check out the tracklist below. Cal...
Beyoncé’s New Album Renaissance Leaks Two Days Early
Apparently Beyoncé fans in Europe did not Bey-have, and so it came to pass that Renaissance, the forthcoming album from arguably the most talented pop star in history, has leaked two days early. Beyoncé’s seventh studio album is due to drop at midnight between Thursday, July 28th and Friday, July 29th. But already high quality FLAC files are not hard to find, if you don’t care about artist compensation and don’t mind potentially downloading some well-deserved viruses. Social media sleuths have traced the leak to Europe, possibly France, where posts seem to show that at least one record store put CDs of Renaissance on the shelf July 27th. “This Beyoncé album finna leak. They already got it at stores 2 days before release,” one person wrote. Advertisement Related Video Beyoncé...
Kendrick Lamar Responds to Viral Video of Security Guard Crying at His Show
Guys love to act tough until they hear “LOVE” by Kendrick Lamar. K-dot himself has responded to a TikTok that went viral over the weekend, in which a security guard on the job at the rapper’s Houston show can be seen openly crying to the DAMN. highlight. Jazlyn Guerra — a Brooklyn-based kid journalist who posts interviews to her Instagram @jazzysworldtv — spoke with Kendrick about the video a few days later at Rolling Loud. “At the end of the day, past all the politics, past all the numbers, [what’s most important is] what music makes you feel, you know?” Lamar told her. “To see that — and shoutout to him, by the way, because I see you, bro — I was like, ‘man, I wonder what he’s going through,’” the rapper went on. “At the end of the day, that’s how you want everyone to receive your music,...
With the “ACT: LOVESICK” Tour, TOMORROW X TOGETHER Are Ready to Level Up
“We tried In & Out Burger!” says Hueningkai, the youngest member of TOMORROW X TOGETHER. Seated next to his bandmates in a suite in downtown Los Angeles, he’s recounting some of his favorite memories from their time in California in late July. “And Panda Express,” he and Yeonjun add in sync. The American experience is in full swing. Assembled comfortably like this the day after a sold-out show at the Microsoft Theater — the last in a string of entirely sold-out stateside dates — there’s a bit of an air of relief among the band, relaxed in each other’s company. But, more than that, the members of the K-pop quintet seem grateful. “In the beginning, we had doubts about whether we could really do this,” Taehyun shares. “But it ended really well.” Soobin, Yeonjun, Beomgyu, Taehyun and Hueni...
Sebastian Stan Is Certainly A Different Man in First Look at New Movie
Sebastian Stan is at work in New York City filming the A24 drama A Different Man, and based on the first look photo he posted to Instagram on July 27th, the film’s name is no exaggeration. In A Different Man, Stan plays a man with neurofibromatosis who undergoes facial reconstructive surgery. Yet when a play is made based on his life, Stan’s character becomes obsessed with the actor who plays him. In the first look, Stan is completely transformed by prosthetics by Mike Marino, the artist responsible for turning Colin Farrell into the Penguin for The Batman and also worked on the Oscar-nominated Coming 2 America, The Irishman, and Joker. Check out Stan as a completely Different Man below. A Different Man is written and directed by Aaron Schimberg, while Stan is exec...
