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Here Are the Answers to the Latest Billboard x VersusGame Matchups: Jack White, Harry Styles & More
Last week’s Billboard and VersusGame matchups challenging your chart-predicting prowess featured Jack White’s new album Fear of the Dawn, Camila Cabello’s new LP Familia and Harry Styles’ Billboard Hot 100-topping single “As It Was.” Billboard and VersusGame have joined forces to bring music fans a one-of-a-kind, user-generated experience with games that test knowledge of pop culture for a chance to win prizes. Billboard is hosting bi-weekly head-to-head challenges on entertainment and pop culture gaming app VersusGame, where fans can vote on their favorite artists and songs and wager on who will top the charts and more. VersusGame data shows that fans have predicted correct chart outcomes nearly three out of four times so far. Explore See lates...
Outside Lands 2022 Lineup: Green Day, Post Malone, SZA, Phoebe Bridgers & More
Green Day, Post Malone, and SZA are set to headline San Francisco’s Outside Lands Music Festival in 2022. The San Francisco-based festival returns to its late summer slot at Golden Gate Park from August 5th-7th after 2021’s COVID-delayed Halloween weekend event. Other notable acts include Phoebe Bridgers, Weezer, Jack Harlow, Mitski, Lil Uzi Vert, Kali Uchis, Disclosure, Pusha T, Anitta, Mac DeMarco, Wet Leg, 100 gecs, Best Coast, Kim Petras, Local Natives, Washed Out, Sam Fender, Rostam, Robert Glasper, Zoe Wees, Faye Webster, Briston Maroney, Amber Mark, Pussy Riot, Duckwrth, and more. Advertisement Related Video General admission and VIP passes go on sale starting Wednesday, April 20th at 10:00 a.m. PT. Click here for more details. This year’s Outside Lands will also see the the re...
Andrew Bird Announces New Album Inside Problems, Shares “Underlands”: Stream
Andrew Bird has announced the new album Inside Problems. It’s out June 3rd via Loma Vista Records, and as a preview Bird has shared the new single “Underlands.” Produced by Mike Viola, Inside Problems was recorded by Bird and his four-piece band, with additional vocal overdubbing from Madison Cunningham. Some of the album’s themes were influenced by the great American writer Joan Didion, who inspired the lead single ““Atomized” and whose presence can be felt in other tracks on the album, such as “Lone Didion.” “Underlands” is the LP’s opening statement, beginning with slow-plucked strings before shifting into an upbeat shuffle. “Stars don’t owe you anything,” Bird sings. “Don’t give a damn about your nations/ Feel the slightest obligation. Advertisement R...
Little Simz Cancels US Tour Citing Financial and Mental Strain
Little Simz has cancelled an upcoming US tour, saying such a trek would leave her “in a huge deficit” with too much “mental stress.” The British-Nigerian rapper added that the tour would be rescheduled at a later date. “Hey guys, due to unforeseen circumstances I’ve been left with no choice but to reschedule my US tour,” she wrote in a social media statement. “I take my live shows seriously and would only want to give you guys nothing but the best of me. Being an independent artist, I pay for everything encompassing my live performances out of my own pocket and touring the US for a month would leave me in a huge deficit. As much as this pains me to not see you at this time, I’m just not able to put myself through that mental stress.” The tour was meant to kick off in Portl...
Ari Lennox, Noname and Mereba To Headline AFROPUNK Live: Minneapolis
Ari Lennox, Noname and Mereba are set to headline AFROPUNK Live: Minneapolis this June. Set to take place on June 18 and June 19, this marks the first-ever AFROPUNK live event in the Midwest and will also feature sets from the likes of Sango, Dreamer Isioma, Pink Siifu and rising acts from Minneapolis and Saint Paul. Panels and events across the city will occur on June 18 while the performances will take place on June 19 at Sheridan Memorial Park. AFROPUNK has also announced a partnership with High School For Recording Arts, and promises “an exciting array of unique activations to entertain and enlighten attendees between sets” during the two-day event. Take a look at the lineup below. In other festival news, Green Day, Post Malone and SZA are headlining Outside Lands 2022. Read Full Artic...
Bobby Shmurda Claims Record Labels Are Blackballing Him
Shortly after announcing his upcoming project They Don’t Know, Bobby Shmurda claims that major record labels are now blackballing him. A fan in the comments section of Shmurda’s Instagram post suggested that the rapper should postpone the release and “push it back and market it harder,” but Shmurda replied, “nah F*** that I got major Lables jumping me Blackballing me and shittttt.” He added, “I’m only 27 one year fresh Outta six years they got 400 employees[.] tell them boys stop playing me Homieee and I do no marketing that all my shit natural ahhhhh #FThemPeople I’m gone.” In late March, the rapper publicly confirmed that he signed papers to be released from Epic Records, but he did not specify if it is the same label that is currently supposedly blackballing him. Shmurda will, however, ...
Digga D Heading For U.K. Chart Title
Digga D is on track for his first U.K. leader with Noughty By Nature (via CGM/EGA). The 21-year-old drill artist is new at No. 1 on the midweek chart with Noughty, his third mixtape. If it holds its position, Noughty will be the London rapper’s first chart topper and second Top 10 appearance after 2021’s Made in the Pyrex, which hit No. 3. Based on the chart blast, a string of hits collections should impact the top tier, including Fleetwood Mac’s 50 Years – Don’t Stop (up 11-4 via Rhino), Little Mix’s Between Us (up 12-6 via RCA) and The Police’s Greatest Hits (No. 9 via A&M), which enjoys a sales lift thanks to a vinyl reissue. Further down the list, U.S. slacker-rock master Kurt Vile is eying a Top 20 berth with Watch My Moves, his ninth studio record and first through Fiction....
Harry Styles Sets 2023 Stadium Tour of Australia and New Zealand
Harry Styles will beat a path to Australia and New Zealand next year for the domestic leg of his long-awaited Love On Tour. The English pop star will play stadiums in five cities, starting Feb. 20 at Perth’s HBF Park, then heading to Marvel Stadium in Melbourne (Feb. 24), Gold Coast’s Metricon Stadium (Feb. 28), Accor Stadium in Sydney (March 3), and wrapping at Auckland’s Mt Smart Stadium on March 7. The dates are, of course, a makeup for Love On Tour shows which were postponed due to the pandemic and finally kicked off in the United States last September. The announcement Wednesday (April 20) of his long-overdue solo tour Down Under follows the release of his comeback single “As It Was,” which blasted to No. 1 on the ARIA Singles Chart. And it comes ahead of the May 20 release of his thi...
Nas and Wu-Tang Clan Announce Co-Headlining “NY State of Mind” Tour
Wu-Tang Clan and Nas are set to hit the road together for their co-headlining “NY State of Mind” tour. The 25-city engagement is produced by Live Nation and is set to kick off on August 30 at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in St. Louis, MO. Fans can catch the hip-hop legends in areas like Toronto, Raleigh, Tampa, Dallas and Irvine before they close out the tour at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on October 4. Tickets are available starting April 26 on the Live Nation website, however American Express Card Members and Citi Card members will have access to presale tickets for select venues from April 19 to April 25. Take a look at the full list of dates below. NY STATE OF MIND TOUR DATES: Tue Aug 30 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre*Thu Sep 01 – Noblesville, IN – Ruof...
Zola Jesus Unveils New Single “Desire”: Stream
Zola Jesus has released “Desire,” the second single from her upcoming album, Arkhon. Stream it below. Although singer-songwriter Nika Roza Danilova announced her solo project’s first full-length in five years by acknowledging that she had embraced an unfamiliar, collaborative spirit and “needed new blood,” her latest song is a sparse, completely internal quest for closure. “‘Desire’ was written in one sitting at my piano at home. The song was an exorcism for my pain and lack of closure around heartbreak,” she shared in a statement. “Sometimes songs are written simply for the cathartic effect of playing them. This is one of those songs. Performing it feels like the most tangible way to experience that closure for myself.” Advertisement Related Video Danilova’s emotional release is...
Killer Mike Says Run the Jewels Have Begun Recording New Album: Exclusive
It’s been seven years since Run the Jewels announced their intention to “run them jewels fast,” and the veteran hip-hop duo show no signs of slowing down. In a new interview with Consequence, Killer Mike says that he and El-P have been in the studio working on Run the Jewels 5, even though they only dropped Run the Jewels 4 in 2020. “I say this with a smile and a wink — me and El-P were in the studio together,” Mike says. “We may have messed around and started Run the Jewels 5. So we’ll see what happens.” He also hints at more music both as a duo and as a solo artist. “I would say look for Run the Jewels to pop up on some guest appearances,” he says. “I’ve done some solo guest appearances as well. So just look for more music to be coming out period.” Advertisement ...
Greta Van Fleet’s Josh Kiszka Acknowledges Appropriation of Indigenous Culture
Greta Van Fleet singer Josh Kiszka has acknowledged that he appropriated Indigenous culture in the past. The vocalist was the target of a recent hashtag campaign (#SpeakUpGVF) calling for him to address and remove a series of photos on his Instagram page showing him and his friends wearing Indigenous garments back in 2017. The mission statement of the #SpeakUpGVF campaign read, in part, “Indigenous fans and those practicing allyship have tried to contact Josh and ask him to remove the photos and address the cultural appropriation, but he continues to stay silent and the photos continue to stay up. Remaining silent on this is upsetting and is ignorant as it upholds racist ideologies that Indigenous cultures are simply a costume, when they are sacred, and not open for appropriation. Fans cre...
