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U2 to Perform First Concerts at MSG Sphere in Las Vegas
U2 will be the first group to perform at the MSG Sphere at The Venetian in Las Vegas when the $1.8 billion arena opens next year, multiple sources tell Billboard. The performances will be the first dates of a multi-show residency by the band at the high-tech arena, which is being built by Madison Square Garden Entertainment chairman James Dolan near the Venetian off the Las Vegas Strip. Officials with MSGE describe the MSG Sphere at The Venetian as the next generation of live entertainment, offering fans a multi-sensory experience of sound and light inside the largest spherical structure ever created. For concerts, the MSG Sphere at The Venetian can hold 20,000 standing spectators or 17,500 seated guests, with 23 VIP suites. The Sphere will include 160,000 square feet of video vi...
Airbeat One Makes Explosive 2022 Return As Germany’s Premier Dance Music Festival
The verdict is in: Airbeat One is a bona fide dance music lover’s paradise. The colossal festival successfully celebrated its 19th edition this year, following a two-year, pandemic-induced hiatus. Returning to its airfield near Neustadt-Glewe in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Airbeat One 2022 united over 200,000 attendees from over 50 countries through a shared love of EDM. With over 300 international DJs and performers across six stages, as well as a plethora of activities and vendors, this year’s Airbeat One 2022 offered an escape from reality unlike any other. Taking attendees to a different destination around the world in each edition with its curated, thematic designs, the 2022 fest was inspired by the country of Italy, with four of its six stages being redesigned to reflect ...
Nickelodeon Is Throwing a Family-Friendly Music Festival With San Holo, LP Giobbi, More
Get ready to see some of EDM, pop and hip-hop’s biggest stars share the stage with… SpongeBob SquarePants. Nickelodeon has announced NickFest, a family-friendly music festival coming this fall to Southern California. In an effort to cultivate an experience that highlights the lighthearted nature of the brand, every aspect of the fest will be inspired by the iconic children’s cable channel’s programming. Organizers promise food from star chefs inspired by their programs, activities based on fan-favorite Nickelodeon show moments and special appearances from some of the brand’s notable characters like Arnold from Hey Arnold, Tommy and Chuckie from Rugrats, Blue from Blue’s Clues and Bikini Bottom’s SpongeBob and Patrick. And, of course, plen...
Listen to Chris Lorenzo and COBRAH’s Sultry Tech House Banger, “Mami”
It’s no secret that tech house is having a moment, and one of the genre’s leading producers today unveiled one of its most hotly anticipated tracks. Long revered as one of the most gifted sound designers in house music, Chris Lorenzo has dropped “Mami,” a sultry house bomb that has been running roughshod in his live sets this year, including EDC Las Vegas and Lollapalooza. The track features a seductive COBRAH, whose come-hither topline is akin to cognac and satin sheets. Lorenzo says he knew he had an instant hit on his hands when he first heard COBRAH’s lead “Mami” lyric, an unapologetic ode to hedonism. Combined with his signature, thick basslines and an ingenious steel drum pattern, it lends to a bona fide club banger. “I had been listeni...
How Northern Nights Music Festival Stays True to Its Roots
It’s only natural that music festivals would hold music as a central priority, but at Northern Nights, it’s not quite so simple. That’s mostly because as many come to the Humboldt-Mendocino county-line-straddling event for cannabis as they do for music, so attention gets split between the productions onstage and the many varied cannabis offerings at the festival. 2022’s iteration was no exception either. In fact, last weekend the kaleidoscopic forest rave used the very same two-pronged approach to throw its most evolved and integrated event to date. By making more than a few major strides from past editions of the now-paradigmatic music fest, 2022 wasn’t just a triumphant post-pandemic return. For the ragtag band of dance music-loving misfits turned world-class event producers ...
The Best Hip-Hop Projects Of 2022 So Far According To HHW
Source: Westend61 / Getty 2022 has delivered a number of stellar Hip-Hop projects thus far and trying to determine the best releases thus far has been a monumental chore for the Hip-Hop Wired team. Below is our attempt at trying to list out some of the top albums and mixtapes that dropped this year, not ranked but in alphabetical order. Hip-Hop tastes are subjective and varied, so expect to see names and projects in the list below that might not line up with your favorites. We understand that we can’t provide a one size fits all approach to making this list. Our list is compiled of mainstream acts, rising up-and-coming stars, grizzled veterans, underground champions, and all things in between. Names like Saba, Earl Sweatshirt, EarthGang, and Fly Anakin among others will be familiar to thos...
‘Dungeons & Dragons’ And More New Trailers That Debuted At San Diego Comic Con 2022
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paramount | Hasbro / Paramount Pictures The 2022 San Diego Comic Con is officially underway and while many await announcements from Marvel on the next phase of the MCU and rumors that Warner Bros. will announce that Henry Cavill will return as Superman in future DCEU projects, we did get some new film trailers for movies set to drop this year or next. From fantasy films to some reboots of 70’s, 80’s and 90’s classics, the fanboys of the entertainment industry will surely be having a grand ol’ time with the projects slated to release in the future. Unfortunately none of these are MCU or DCEU related but still, it’s a little something for everyone. Check out some of the trailers that debuted at SDCC below and let us know which ones caught your eye in the co...
Say What?: Unvaccinated New Yorker Contracts Polio Becoming The First Known In Case In A Decade
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Smith Collection/Gado / Getty The world just can’t seem to catch a break from these viruses. First COVID-19, then Monkeypox, and now POLIO. An Unvaccinated New Yorker Contracted Polio In A Unique Way The Associated Press reports an unvaccinated young adult from New York contracted polio, becoming the first known case in the United States in a decade, health officials said. The infected individual lives in Rockland County and developed paralysis a month ago, one of the virus’s devastating symptoms it inflicts on its host. Health officials say the person did not travel outside of the country. Health officials are currently trying to determine how the person caught polio, but it appears they had “a vaccine-derived strain of the virus,” possibly catching it f...
Lil Baby & AXE Partner To Keep You Smelling Fresh as Fr*sh
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: AXE / AXE Summer is in full swing, with heat waves across the nation to confirm the time of the year. is upon us So Atlanta rapper Lil Baby partnering with AXE comes very much on time. The team-up includes limited-edition WHAXE Packs, which are a curated selection of products inspired by Lil Baby and AXE and the latter’s Fresh as Fr*sh ad campaign. The pack includes, maybe most importantly, a WHAXE Apollo x Lil Baby Deodorant Stick and Body Wash—we did mention it’s hot out there, and B.O. is forever non-cipher. Also in the kit is a WHAXE four-finger ring and a WHAXE branded toothbrush because halitosis is also not to be tolerated—or you can use it to clean the blinged out ring. Related Stories The WHAXE name is a combo of his WHAM nickname ...
Marvel Reveals First Look at Classic Animated Revival X-Men ’97
Fire up the Blackbird, because the classic X-Men: The Animated Series is back! Marvel announced a revival of the beloved Fox cartoon under the title X-Men ’97 last year, and now they’ve revealed a first look at the Disney+ series during this year’s Comic-Con. As previously confirmed, many of your favorite childhood characters will be back for X-Men ’97, as will some of the voices behind them. This includes Rogue (Lenore Zann), Beast (George Buza), Gambit (Chris Potter), Jean Grey (Catherine Disher), Wolverine (Cal Dodd), Storm (Alison Sealy-Smith), Jubilee, and Cyclops. Cable and Bishop will appear alongside Forge, with Nightcrawler (Adrian Hough) and Sunspot as new additions to the team. Meanwhile, Magneto will serve as leader of the X-Men in a new costume, though it’s uncl...
Nope Ending Explained: Was That Really a UFO? And Other Questions
Opening with a Bible passage from Nahum Chapter 3, Verse 6 — “I will pelt you with filth, I will treat you with contempt and make you a spectacle” — Jordan Peele’s third film, Nope, is a lot of things: an examination of man versus nature, a story of trying to move on after the death of a parent, and, oh yeah, an exhilarating horror-infused romp, focused around a mysterious and deadly invader from (one assumes) outer space. Peele keeps things pretty close to the chest as to the origins of his central creation, instead putting the focus on how Southern California horse trainer O.J. (Daniel Kaluuya), his sister Emerald (Keke Palmer), an electronics store employee named Angel (Brandon Perea), and determined cinematographer Antlers Holst (Michael Wincott) team up to not just survive the attacks...
Nick Cave Pens Letter About Grief and His Favorite Contestant on Love Island
Nick Cave has opened up on his personal website about his surprise connection to a contestant on Love Island and how the young man’s parents helped him and his family grieve the 2015 death of his son, Arthur. The story was the result of two fairly innocuous inquires from a pair of fans named Maisie and Sharon, who wrote in to The Red Hand Files to ask A) who he wanted to win the current season of the British dating show and B) what the main difference is between him and his wife, Susie Bick. “At the moment, the defining difference between Susie and me is that she watches Love Island, and I don’t,” Cave began. “Susie watches Love Island because we know one of the contestants, Luca. Luca was a school friend of our twins, Arthur and Earl. As a consequence, Susie and I became friends with...
