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Song of the Week: Tyler, the Creator Returns With the Towering “LUMBERJACK”
Song of the Week breaks down and talks about the song we just can’t get out of our head each week. Find these songs and more on our Spotify Top Songs playlist. For our favorite new songs from emerging artists, check out our Spotify New Sounds playlist. This week, Tyler, the Creator returns with a new offering and an album announcement. After mocking Eminem for choosing the “worst beats ever,” you’d expect Tyler, the Creator to put his samples where his speakers are. Enter “Lumberjack,” the first preview of his just-announced upcoming album Call Me If You Get Lost. The beat drops faster than you can shout “Timber!” with a driving loop cribbed from Gravediggaz’s 1994 cut “2 Cups of Blood.” Throughout, Tyler hits pause and rewind, and for additional variety, the music video and digital versio...
Foo Fighters to Dedicate Madison Square Garden Concert to Late Stage Manager Andy Pollard
Madison Square Garden tapped Foo Fighters to headline its first full-capacity concert since the beginning of the pandemic. Now, that soon-to-be legendary gig will be all the more special because the band has decided to dedicate it to Andy Pollard, their late stage manager. Pollard passed away early in the morning of June 18th. He served as Foo Fighters’ stage manager for a whopping 12 years, during which he helped bring countless tours to life and made sure each detail went safely to plan. According to Pollard’s Linkedin, he also managed acts like Nine Inch Nails, Beck, Arcade Fire, Tenacious D, and Kings of Leon over the past 20 years, in addition to helming the lighting crew for Arctic Monkeys, Bjork, Iggy Pop, and countless others. “We are shocked and devastated by this loss. We can’t i...
Breaking Into the Industry with Bonnaroo’s Co-Founder, HBO Max’s Senior VP, Clairo’s Dad: Watch
Consequence’s partnership with CREATV University continues today with more insight on how to succeed in the entertainment, tech, and media industries. Today, we’re back with more helpful tips about Breaking Into the Industry. As many state, there isn’t a single “path” that anyone can take to get their foot in the door. Instead, there are multiple ways to find the opportunities that can take your career to the next level. It’s always helpful to see where various people came from, the decisions they made, and the chances they took that led to their dream careers. For this week’s set of CREATV U videos, we’re sharing four clips from successful industry professionals outlining the different paths they followed on their way through the industry. In these interviews, you’ll learn about the steps...
DaBaby Drops New Single “Ball if I Want To”: Stream
DaBaby is back with “Ball if I Want To”, his second single in the wake of his 2020 EP My Brother’s Keeper (Long Live G). On the braggadocios track, the rapper unapologetically flexes while running through verses about chartering private jets, name-dropping family members, and boasting about his sexual prowess. “Bitch, it ain’t even my birthday/ But I can ball if I want to/ Pull up, foreign cars if I want to/ Hop out that bitch with that iron in my jumpsuit/ Just do what I say and I love you, kay?” he raps over a sparse beat and an echoing choral sample. The song also arrives with a video directed by DaBaby himself. It finds the rapper goofing off on a college campus, complete with a cheerleading squad, library parties, and a mascot of a giant baby. Watch DaBaby’s self-directed “Ball if I W...
Peruzzi – The Leaktape EP Download
Check out this brand-new music project coming from Peruzzi – The Leaktape EP mp3 download. Davido Music Worldwide huncho, Peruzzi is out with a new music project, an EP which he titles “The Leaktape”. This is coming after the singer offloaded his highly acclaimed “Rum and Boogie” album which is still raving in the Nigerian music industry. This Extended Play consists of just six tracks and he features two artists; Kayswitch in the track “Too Late” and Boj in the “Let Me” track. It’s another major from the talented act who proved that his well of talent is still full with a lot of creativity as he drops this hot EP barely 2 months after his last album reigned supreme. You don’t want to miss out this one. Listen and enjoy Peruzzi – “The Leaktape EP” below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When ...
Angelique Kidjo – Mother Nature Album Download
Check out this new music project coming from Angelique Kidjo – Mother Nature Album Mp3 Download. One of Africa’s high flying songstress, Angelique Kidjo drops her latest album titled “Mother Nature”. It serves as her Fourteenth studio album and crowns her reign as one of the biggest female musical export from Africa to the world. It’s a star-studded album featuring three Nigerians, Yemi Alade, Mr Eazi and co-Grammy winner, Burna Boy. Other acts featured in the album include; Salif Keita, Zeynab, Lionel Loueke, Bluelab Beats, Sampa The Great, Ghetto Boy, and Earth Gang. The album consists of 13 tracks which are all centered on Africanism and the theme of awareness. Angelique Kidjo has won the Grammy Four times and beat Burna Boy to it in 2020 to which she dedicated the album to him. She’s b...
Heavy Culture: Palaceburn Singer Meredith Bell and Hyro the Hero on Juneteenth and Being Black in America
Heavy Culture is a monthly column from journalist Liz Ramanand, focusing on artists of different cultural backgrounds in heavy music, as they offer their perspectives on race, society, and more as it intersects with and affects their craft. The latest installment of this column features Palaceburn singer Meredith Bell and Hyro the Hero and focuses on Juneteenth and other topics. Juneteenth has just been declared a federal holiday in the United States by the Biden administration. The day, marked on June 19th, commemorates the end of slavery as the date the last remaining slaves in Texas learned of their freedom in 1865, two years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation was signed. Philadelphia-based Palaceburn began their music journey with their EPs The Awakening in 2013 and Curs...
H.E.R. Sings The Things We’re Afraid To Say
By Virginia Lowman Music has always been a vehicle for truth-telling for H.E.R. When she reemerged on the music scene in 2016 under the enigmatic three-letter moniker, standing for “Having Everything Revealed,” she did so as a means to exemplify her belief that her “responsibility is to the truth” and that women would be at the forefront of her craft right alongside protest and empowerment. It’s a guiding virtue that’s proved successful, too: She’s racked up four Grammys, including a surprise Song of the Year win for her poignant anthem “I Can’t Breathe” at the most recent ceremony in March, and an Oscar for “Fight for You,” which appeared on the soundtrack for Judas and the Black Messiah. Now, as she releases her first studio album, she’s expanding her musical repertoire and using ho...
Bop Shop: Songs From Remi Wolf, Peyton, Mila Jam, And More
Coin’s Rainbow Mixtape, a three-part EP series fused into one full-length effort, is in the running for the year’s best indie album, a powerfully written kaleidoscope of reflections on finding your way through love, loss, and your own meaning of life. It’s hard to pick the record’s standout moment, but “You Are the Traffic” feels like the one song that pulls it all together, a mellow realization that two people — maybe lovers, maybe friends, likely something in between — are forever connected, whether they’d prefer to be untangled or not. “What a mistake, how there’s no me without you,” singer Chase Lawrence confesses. Like the song itself, the line rings with a faint sliver of hope: Even in this misfortune, maybe the two can find a way out. —Terron Moore You Deserve to Make Money Even Whe...
Courtney Barnett Announces North American 2021-2022 Tour Dates
Courtney Barnett is hitting the road this winter for a North American tour. The late-2021-to-early-2022 trek will feature opening acts Bartees Strange, Julia Jacklin, and Shamir. The 23-date jaunt kicks off on November 29th at Brooklyn Bowl in Las Vegas, Nevada. Barnett and her tourmates will make stops in US cities like Los Angeles, Nashville, and New York City, while also touching down in Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto. The trek closes out at the latter city’s Massey Hall on February 12th. Barnett has partnered with mental health access fund PLUS1 to support Indigenous-led organizations with a portion of proceeds from the tour. Fans can go to Barnett’s website to register for pre-sale tickets, which will be available at Ticketmaster on Tuesday, June 22nd at 10:00 am. local time. The ge...
Hellfest 2022 Lineup: Metallica, GN’R, NIN, Faith No More, Deftones, and Many More to Play Expanded 7-Day Event
We may already have a winner for the most mind-blowing festival lineup of 2022. Hellfest is more than making up for missing the past two years, expanding to a seven-day event and featuring just about every heavy band imaginable. Among the headliners are Metallica, Guns N’ Roses, Nine Inch Nails, Faith No More, Deftones, and more. The massive metal fest will take place June 17th-19th and June 23rd-26th in Clisson, France. Also on the bill are Scorpions, Avenged Sevenfold, Megadeth, Korn, Ministry, Judas Priest, Volbeat, Alice Cooper, Social Distortion, Bad Religion, and Rise Against, among dozens more. You know a festival lineup is stacked when bands like Mastodon, Opeth, The Offspring, Baroness, and more only appear in small print on the poster. Any one of those acts would be at the top of...
Peruzzi – Too Late ft Kayswitch
Check out this brand-new song coming from Peruzzi – Too Late ft Kayswitch. DMW star act, Peruzzi returns again to the scene with this latest piece titled “Too Late” featuring Kayswitch. This is coming off his latest released Extended Play which he titled “The Leaktape” and it’s coming after the release of his last music album dubbed “Rum and Boogie” which is still reigning hot in the streets of the Nigerian music industry. His latest EP consists of 6 tracks and he features Kayswitch and one another act, Boj in the EP. It seems like the DMW star man is not running low on creativity and still has a lot in store for fans. They are yet to digest his latest body of work and he drops off another again. Listen and enjoy Peruzzi – Too Late ft Kayswitch below. https://www.naijamusic.com.ng/wp-conte...
