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Over 7,750 Live Music Businesses Have Applied for Shuttered Venue Grants
Over 7,750 independent venues and talent organizations have successfully submitted applications for Shuttered Venue Operators Grants, according to the Small Business Administration. After one week of the grant’s application opening, 4,227 venues and promoters have applied for funding, as well as 1,135 talent representatives and 2,389 live performing arts organizations. The SBA stated they begin reviewing applications upon receipt and that those who qualify as SVOG Priority One applicants — entities that lost 90% or more of their income in 2020 — “will receive notice of awards this month and disbursement by the end of May if they respond in a timely manner to the notice of award.” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking f...
Glass Animals Announce 2021-22 Dates for “Dreamland Tour” of North America
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-04T19:11:32+00:00“>May 4, 2021 | 3:11pm ET Glass Animals have announced the massive “Dreamland Tour” in support of their 2020 album Dreamland. The British outfit will be make 41 stops on this North American odyssey. Like most of the tour announcements we’ve seen this year, “Dreamland” begins at the tail end of August, to better give vaccines time to do their work. The dates include previously-announced stops at Red Rocks, as well as the festivals Bonnaroo, Outside Lands, and Life Is Beautiful. The group has shows through October of this year, before pausing and picking back up again in March of 2022. Tickets go on sale Thursday, May 6th, at 10 am local time through...
J. Cole Announces New Album The Off-Season Arriving Next Week
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-04T19:39:57+00:00“>May 4, 2021 | 3:39pm ET J. Cole’s highly anticipated project, The Off-Season, is almost here. Today, the North Carolina rapper announced he will be releasing the new album on May 14th. While sharing the album artwork, the Dreamville boss tweeted that the follow-up to 2018’s KOD “was years in the making.” Cole originally teased The Off-Season in the description for the music video for his 2018 track, “Album of the Year (Freestyle)”. He wrote, “The Off Season coming soon… All roads lead to The Fall Off.” At the time, fans speculated the project would be a mixtape dropping ahead The Fall Off, an album that’s been teased under Cole’s kiLL edward alter ego...
Smol Data Share New Song “Salaried (Bankruptcy Eve)”: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-04T21:18:54+00:00“>May 4, 2021 | 5:18pm ET Long Island-based musician Karah Goldstein records jangly, emo-leaning guitar pop under the name Smol Data. The artist has just shared the new track “Salaried (Bankruptcy Eve)”, off of her debut LP Inconvenience Store, due out May 14th on Open Door Records and Broken Camera Records. Smol Data’s music sits in the vein of fellow bedroom pop acts like Adult Mom and illuminati hotties, building tracks around simple pop song structures cut with searing guitars and a strong DIY aesthetic. On her new track, Goldstein aspires towards the mundanities of full-time employment. “So honey, tell me, is she salaried? Are her invoices all paid? Does she...
The Weeknd Calls The Grammys Corrupt, Boycott Still In Effect
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: MEGA / Getty The Weeknd is going ten toes down with his feelings towards The Grammys. He has called out the committee as being unscrupulous and more. As spotted on The New Post the Canadian performer is unimpressed by the Recording Academy’s recent announcement. On Friday, April 30 the organization released a statement saying they will no longer choose award winners via secret committees. “Among the changes are the elimination of Nominations Review Committees, a reduction in the number of categories in which voters may vote, two GRAMMY® Award category additions, and more” the press release read. “These updates are a result of extensive discussions and collaboration over the course of the last year amongst a special subcommittee of Recording Academy m...
Drake Accused Of Being A Homewrecker On Instagram
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Vaughn Ridley / Getty Real talk, would you trust your woman to spend time alone with Drake Diesel? Even if it was to get a record deal? We thought not, but someone did and it went exactly as you’d expect it to, allegedly. Over the weekend the Certified Lover Boy artist was accused of being a homewreckin’ snake by a man named Jamie Sun, who said the Canadian crooner slept with his former fiancé, singer Naomi Sharon. Taking to IG to spill the tea (and picked up on Reddit), Sun described how a “world star” celeb hit up Sharon to offer her a record deal and then flied the couple out to meet them, and began recording vocals for Certified Lover Boy. In the IG post Sun described the encounter with the “world star” before revealing that suddenly the trust was gon...
J. Cole Announces New Album ‘The Off-Season’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Well, that took a while. J. Cole just announced that he’s dropping a new album, titled The Off-Season, in May no less. The North Carolina rapper took to Twitter and Instagram to announce the new project will be out Friday, May 14. “Just know this was years in the making. My new album The Off-Season available everywhere 5/14,” reads the caption of the album’s cover. Cole is seen forward in the photo while behind him is a burning basketball hoop. Are his hoop dreams officially a wrap? Is a nod to the cross-burning racism of the KKK in his native state? Late last year. ,the guy was even hinting at retirement. Guess we’ll find out when we get a listen. Referencing that aforementioned IG post from late 2020, The Off-Season will ...
Bag Collection: Martha Stewart & Snoop Dogg Partner With Bic For EZ Reach Lighter
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: JB Lacroix / Getty The unlikely but completely organic connection between Martha Stewart and Snoop Dogg has defied expectations and remains a fruitful partnership. The pair are now entering into a new partnership with BIC for its new EZ Reach lighter to be used for whatever activity calls for portable fire. BIC, which provides far more than lighters with a portfolio that includes razors, pens, and more, joined forces with Auntie Stewart, Uncle Snoop, and Marquee Brands to bring forth the EZ REACH lighter, which they say is the “ultimate lighter for all lighting occasions,” and we should know what that means. Wink Wink. The collaboration is part of the “Pass It” campaign that will run through next year and makes it debut on Tuesday (May 4). The EZ Reach li...
Martin Garrix Teases Release of New Music for UEFA Euro Tournament
Martin Garrix appears set to deliver on his role as an official UEFA Euro artist, teasing fans with the release of an original anthem he produced to celebrate the kickoff of the tournament. Martin Garrix was originally selected to fill the role for the 2020 tournament edition back in late 2019. Due to the pandemic, however, the tournament, which was booked to take place across 12 different European cities, was ultimately postponed. Garrix dropped a pleasant surprise on fans today, however, teasing the release of new music for the tournament set to arrive on his birthday, May 14th. During the Season 4 finale of the Dutch EDM superstar’s Martin Garrix Show, Garrix revealed his music will be used to soundtrack players walking out onto the field, their goal-scoring celebrations, and...
Rostam Shares ‘From the Back of a Cab’ Single and Video Featuring HAIM, Charli XCX and More
Vampire Weekend founding member Rostam has released “From the Back of a Cab,” a new single that comes with a video featuring collaborators and friends HAIM, Charli XCX, Kaia Gerber, Seth Bogart, Remi Wolf, Bryce Willard Smithe, Samantha Urbani, Wallows, Ariel Rechtshaid and Nick Robinson. The tune is off Rostam’s upcoming album Changephobia, out June 4 on Matsor Projects/Secretly Distribution. He shared his thoughts about the song via a press release: From the Back of a Cab” is probably my favorite song that I’ve written. It started with the 12/8 drums — something you find in Persian music and African music. I built the song around those drums over time, writing the piano part in my living room, the melodies and lyrics on foot walking in New York and Tokyo, on California’s highways, and on...
Red Hot Chili Peppers to Sell Entire Song Catalog for $140 Million
Forget “Give it away give it away give it away now,” the Red Hot Chili Peppers have sold the rights to their song catalog — which includes the hits “Scar Tissue,” “Under the Bridge” and “Californication” — to Hipgnosis Songs Fund. Over the past year, the fund has also purchased stacks in the catalogs of artists like Tom DeLonge, Neil Young, Lindsey Buckingham, LA Reid among many, many more. Singer Anthony Kiedis won’t be able to sing “Give It Away’s “I can’t tell if I’m a kingpin or a pauper” lyric with a straight face, as the band reportedly netted $140 million for the tunes, Billboard reports. Kiedis, bassist Flea, drummer Chad Smith and guitarist John Frusciante are the Chili Peppers’ main writers, and their songs generate between $5 million to $6 million a year for publishers,&nbs...
The Bamboozle Festival to Return in 2023 Following 11-Year Absence
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-04T14:24:36+00:00“>May 4, 2021 | 10:24am ET The Bamboozle Festival, which became one of the premier events for emo bands and their fans during its run from 2003 to 2012, will return to New Jersey in 2023 for its first staging in 11 years. While few details have been announced, the event will take place May 5th-7th, 2023, at an undisclosed venue to mark the 20th anniversary of the first edition of the festival. Over the years, The Bamboozle boasted My Chemical Romance, Fall Out Boy, Blink-182, Taking Back Sunday, Newfound Glory, and countless other bands. While it became known as an emo destination, the New Jersey fest also featured such varied acts as Linkin Park, Foo Fighters, D...
