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Mr. Bungle Unveil Cover of Van Halen’s “Loss of Control” from The Night They Came Home Concert Release: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-19T22:39:10+00:00“>May 19, 2021 | 6:39pm ET Mr. Bungle recently announced the physical and digital release of their acclaimed livestream concert The Night They Came Home, and now they’ve debuted the full cover of the Van Halen song Loss of Control” from the performance. The livestream show aired on Halloween, just a few weeks after the death of Eddie Van Halen in early October. Mr. Bungle singer Mike Patton told us he was a big fan of Van Halen in an interview shortly after the legendary guitarist’s passing. “[Eddie is] right at the top,” said Patton. “That guy’s on the mountain of rock guitarists. And his level of musicianship was off the charts. … We’re gonna miss him.” Regardi...
Casanova Dissed By Troy Ave For Complaining About Lack of Prison Visits
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: New York Daily News Archive / Getty Troy Ave isn’t letting his “beef” with rival Casanova simmer down. Casanova is currently in prison. He is waiting to go on trial for drug trafficking and racketeering charges, but that’s not stopping fellow Brooklyn rapper Troy Ave from taking lyrical shots at him. Monday (May 17), the “All About The Money” rapper uploaded the very disrespectful cover art for his new diss record “Assanova,” aimed at the currently incarcerated Hip-Hop artist. The cover features a gorilla body with a rat head and tail wearing Casanova’s signature 2X chain. Troy Ave shared the lyrics from his track “Richer Than My Haters” off his mixtape Killed or Be Killed in the caption for the post. “Casanova crying folks he jus settin up stage to tell/...
Court Docs Reveal 50 Cent Is Ready To Seize Teairra Mari’s Assets Over Unpaid Legal Fees
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson is a very petty man, so this news isn’t surprising at all. Those who didn’t know, 50 Cent and musician/Reality-TV star Teairra Mari have been engaged in an ongoing legal battle. Documents obtained by Radar Online indicate the “I Get Money” rapper, and his legal team is ready to start seizing Mari’s assets because she has not paid back the $30,000 plus interest in legal fees that she was ordered to by the court. In 2018, Mari filed a revenge porn lawsuit against 50 Cent and her ex-boyfriend Akbar Abdul-Ahad after Abdul-Ahad shared an explicit video featuring her on social media that the Queen’s rapper later reposted; with the caption “get the strap.” During the trial, 50 Cent argued that the ...
BET Awards Will Host Vaccinated-Only Live Audience This June
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: BET Awards 2020 / Getty The annual BET Awards went to a virtual format last year due to the restrictions in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic but with numbers lowering by the day, the program makes a return. This coming June, Los Angeles will play host to the anticipated awards program with a vaccinated-only live audience. According to a report from Deadline, Microsoft Theatre will be the venue to host the 2021 BET Awards event, which should come as a relief to the many entertainers and creators who rely on live events to promote their artistic wares. For audience members who wish to be in attendance, BET said that a registration period for attendees will begin on May 27 and the network will be working in tandem with officials from Los Angeles County to ...
Google Is On A Mission To Improve Image Processing of Photos Featuring Black & Brown People
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Vladimir Vladimirov / Getty As the camera systems on smartphones drastically improve year by year, they still have one glaring issue, capturing and processing Black skin tones properly. During its I/O 2021 keynote, Google announced it was taking some steps to rectify this problem. Capturing Black skin and natural hairstyles in photos and properly processing them has been an issue dating back to when using film was the only option for photographers. Now that we are in the digital age, there have been some improvements, but even with flicks taken on smartphones, the images are still come up flat. Google is well aware of the issue and revealed that it would be making a valiant effort to address the issue in its cameras by focusing on photos of Black and Brow...
Iconic Stockholm Concert Venue Renamed After Avicii
The lasting impression of Avicii is not easily captured in words. The impact he had on his home city of Stockholm alone is seen through monuments and murals spread throughout the city. Now, one of Sweden’s most visited and iconic venues, the Ericsson Globe, has been renamed as the Avicii Arena. The partnership between the Tim Bergling Foundation and ASM Global’s Stockholm Live has transformed the venue into a symbol of the #ForABetterDay initiative, which focuses on helping young people with mental illness and suicide prevention. They kicked off the program last year by asking Sweden’s youth to share their mental health issues, worries, and concerns with the foundation. In August, Sweden’s Prime Minister will present their thoughts and voices to the public.&nb...
2022 Chevrolet Silverado 1500 Expected to Get a Fresh Face
When Chevrolet introduced the current Silverado 1500 in 2018, the internet erupted with various opinions—not many of which were positive. That’s not surprising for the anonymous web world, but it’s clear that the super-slender headlights, big air intakes, and prominent grille form a busy fascia that deviates greatly from the traditional, boxier Chevy front ends of yesteryear. There’s good news on the horizon, however, for those who couldn’t develop a fondness for the current Silverado. According to GM Authority, the Chevrolet Silverado 1500 will receive a comprehensive mid-cycle update for 2022, with less odd styling and a host of small changes inside and out. See all 33 photos Notice that the prominent air-curtain vents would be replaced by smaller, squar...
2022 Toyota Tundra Pickup Foists Its New Face on the World
The next-gen Toyota Tundra is nearly here, so naturally the slow-drip reveal of its basic appearance and details has begun. Toyota is kicking off the run-up to the new full-size truck’s debut with a full-frontal look at the Tundra’s front end. It’s about time: The current Tundra has been on sale in much the same form since 2008. Yes, the image (and accompanying video, below) is smokey, and yes, the truck is backlit like it’s testifying against organized crime—if there were any sound attached, we bet it’d have that voice-garbler robotically altering the Toyota’s engine sound. Even so, one thing’s for sure: The 2022 Tundra will have a lot of interesting front-end lighting. As we predicted, based on spy photos and artists’ renderings, the new tr...
Welcome to Rockville 2021 Lineup: Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Disturbed, Deftones, Rob Zombie, and More
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-19T16:41:34+00:00“>May 19, 2021 | 12:41pm ET The lineup for the 2021 Welcome to Rockville Festival has just been unveiled, and it features some of the biggest names in heavy music. Metallica, Nine Inch Nails, Deftones, Disturbed, Rob Zombie, and many more are on the bill of the four-day fest, which takes place November 11th-14th in Daytona Beach, Florida. Welcome to Rockville usually occurs in the spring, but was moved to the fall this year due to the pandemic. Like other 2021 rock festivals produced by Danny Wimmer Presents — Sacramento’s Aftershock and Louisville’s Louder Than Life — the Florida event will feature Metallica headlining two nights (Friday and Sunday), playing a u...
Oneohtrix Point Never and Rosalía Join Forces on “Nothing’s Special”: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-19T17:09:29+00:00“>May 19, 2021 | 1:09pm ET Back in late 2018, Rosalía tantalized fans with a photo of her in the studio with Oneohtrix Point Never. Today, the duo have finally shared the product of their collaboration, “Nothing’s Special”, a new reworking of OPN’s 2020 track of the same name. Singing in Spanish, Rosalía puts her own spin on the lyrics after staying true to the first several lines of Oneohtrix Point Never’s original. Over OPN’s familiar atmospheric synths, she describes the pain of losing her best friend. “Estoy triste, perdí a mi mejor amigo/ Y la vida que vivimos ya no está,” she painfully sings. “Dicho eso aún me impresiona que no sea tan especial/ Si miras co...
Phoebe Bridgers Eats Jackson Browne’s Heart in Video for New Song “My Cleveland Heart”: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-19T18:11:46+00:00“>May 19, 2021 | 2:11pm ET Jackson Browne has announced his new album Downhill from Everywhere. It’s out July 23 via his own Inside Recordings, and to herald its coming, Browne has shared a music video for the lead single “My Cleveland Heart” that shows Phoebe Bridgers having a bloody good time. For now, few details are known about Downhill from Everywhere, except that pre-orders will start his Friday, May 21st. But Browne did say in a statement on his website that the album had a recurring theme of inclusion. “There’s a deep current of inclusion running through this record,” he said. “I think that idea of inclusion, of opening yourself up to ...
Ben Folds Announces 2021 Tour Dates
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-19T18:33:54+00:00“>May 19, 2021 | 2:33pm ET Ben Folds has announced his “In Actual Person Live for Real Tour,” a 20-date series of solo piano and orchestral performances across the United States. It will run from late August through mid-November. The trek kicks off on August 27th at the Appell Center for Performing Arts in York, Pennsylvania, and will feature a three-date run at Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas, Texas. Folds will also make stops in New York, New York; Tampa, Florida; Charlotte, North Carolina; Portland, Oregon; and Washington, DC. Folds has been isolating in Australia since February 2020, during which his previous tour was cut short. Like many other creatives, ...
