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HHW Gaming: Basketball & Video Games Collide With ANTA x HyperX’s Gordon Hayward Limited-Edition Bundle
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / ANTA x HyperX Athletic wear and gaming have gone hand in hand as of late, so this latest collaboration between ANTA and HyperX makes all the sense in the world. The two companies have one thing in common, they both work with Boston Celtic forward Gordon Hayward, so the decision to work together on this limited-edition box was a no-brainer. It brings together the two things that Hayward love’s to do, and that is playing basketball and gaming. Source: Bernard Smalls / ANTA x HyperX Inside the box is a limited-edition pair of Hayward’s signature basketball sneakers from ANTA, the GH2 “HyperX” and HyperX Cloud Alpha gaming headset. The sneakers feature some unique gaming-inspired details that help them easily stand out from other shoe silhoue...
Framing Britney Spears Producers Making Doc on Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl “Nipplegate”: Report
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-27T15:02:41+00:00“>April 27, 2021 | 11:02am ET Left/Right TV is gonna have you questioning everything you knew about the term “wardrobe malfunction” by the end of this doc. The production team behind the Framing Britney Spears documentary are reportedly at work on a new film about Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake’s infamous 2004 Super Bowl Halftime show and what became known as “Nipplegate”. “It’s going to be all about the fallout and the suits who fucked over Janet [at] Viacom,” a source told Page Six. “They’re reaching out to everyone who was involved: dancers, stylists, directors. Everyone.” For those unaware of how “wardrobe malfunction” entered the lexicon, it was how Tim...
Leonardo DiCaprio in Talks to Star in English-Language Remake of Another Round
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-27T15:20:50+00:00“>April 27, 2021 | 11:20am ET Leonardo DiCaprio‘s production company, Appian Way, has emerged victorious in a bidding war for the Oscar-winning Danish film, Another Round, and now he is being eyed to star in the English-language remake. As first reported by Deadline, DiCaprio would play Mads Mikkelsen’s role in the original film. Another Round won this year’s Academy Award for Best International Film and centers around a group of teachers who test Finn Skårderud’s theory that maintaining a blood alcohol content (BAC) of 0.05 makes people more creative and relaxed. The dramedy’s Oscar-nominated director, Thomas Vinterberg, added that the film is “about letting go ...
Mykki Blanco Announces New Mini-Album, Shares “Love Me” featuring Jamila Woods, Jay Cue: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-27T16:13:28+00:00“>April 27, 2021 | 12:13pm ET Rapper Mykki Blanco has announced their new mini-album Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep. It’s out June 18th, and you can catch a preview with new single “Love Me” featuring the incandescent songwriter Jamila Woods and Mykki’s real-life brother Jay Cue. Broken Hearts & Beauty Sleep isn’t just Blanco’s debut with Transgressive Records, it’s also their first project since 2016’s Mykki. It was produced by FaltyDL, with additional contributions by Hudson Mohawke, God Colony, and Physical Therapy, and features guest work from Blood Orange, Big Freedia, Kari Faux, Bruno Ribeiro, and the aforementi...
Billie Eilish to Release New Album Happier Than Ever
A day after teasing a new single on Instagram, Billie Eilish has announced that her anticipated second album, Happier Than Ever, will be released on July 30. If that’s not enough Eilish news for one day, she also revealed that she’ll be sharing a new song from that collection on Thursday, April 29. “this is my favorite thing i’ve ever created and i am so excited and nervous and EAGER for you to hear it. i can’t even tell you. i’ve never felt so much love for a project than i do for this one,” she wrote. See the full announcement in Eilish’s Instagram post below. In addition to the new album, she recorded the theme song for the forever-delayed James Bond movie, and in March, Eilish took home the Record of the Year Grammy for “everything I wanted,” which she also performed at the ceremo...
Flaming Lips Return to First Club They Ever Played for Kimmel Performance
On Monday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live! performance, the Flaming Lips revisited their past. The group’s set on the late-night show saw them perform at Oklahoma City’s Blue Note Lounge, which happened to be the first club they ever played at. Wayne Coyne and company — along with special guest Micah Nelson, youngest son of Willie — performed “Will You Return / When You Come Down” from last year’s American Head on Jimmy Kimmel Live. According to the venue’s Facebook page, the Blue Note is categorized as a “dive bar,” and “first opened in 1961, for travelers on Historic Route 66.” Check The Flaming Lips from the Blue Note Lounge below. [embedded content] Last month, Coyne launched a weed gummies business, and also shared a trippy video for “At the Movies on Quaaludes.” The singer’s ...
Counting Crows Release ‘Elevator Boots,’ First New Music in Seven Years
Apparently, Counting Crows have the seven-year-itch …. to create new music. the band sharing “Elevator Boots,” the first single from the Crows’ four-song Butter Miracle, Suite One EP, which is out on May 21. “Elevator Boots” is a glam look at life on the road in a band, according to press materials, and was written by lead singer Adam Duritz. Check out the new tune below. [embedded content] In recent years, as much attention was paid to Durtiz’s infamous dreadlocks as to his group’s music, with the singer himself telling The Independent in 2009, “They’re real! In that they’re not imaginary. They’re extensions. … They made my hair itch. And man, they smelled.” In 2019, the lineup did a tour to celebrate their 25th anniversary as a band, giving fans hits of...
Rack Superstar: The Yakima CBX Solar Packs a Big Charge
Yakima may not have invented the roof-mounted cargo box, but it continues to tinker with the basic concept. The CBX Solar, the 16.0-cubic-foot CBX Solar counterpart to the lesser Yakima CBX 16 cargo box, advances its cargo-carrying capabilities by adding an integrated solar panel to the top side of the unit. The CBX Solar is capable of supplying up to 36 watts of power by way of two 5-volt USB ports, both of which Yakima hides within the cargo box itself. That’s enough juice to charge small electronics such as cell phones and portable speakers. Big Sun At $1,299, the CBX Solar stickers for $450 more than the CBX 16, which is no insignificant sum and makes the CBX Solar the most expensive cargo box in the company’s lineup. Nevertheless, we strapped the low-slung ...
Kia’s Sportage Remains the Same for 2022—No New Model Yet
The fourth-generation Kia Sportage has been around for six years, and the compact SUV is beginning to look rather tired. Compared to the slightly smaller Kia Seltos, larger (and increasingly popular) Telluride, and the all-new midsize Sorento, the compact Sportage is due for an overhaul. That redesign will, apparently, wait another year, as not much has changed for the 2022 Sportage save for a few tech updates and the addition of a new LX Value Edition package. Forward collision-avoidance assist with pedestrian detection, lane departure warning, lane-keeping assist, driver attention warning, high beam assist, and blind-spot monitoring are now standard across the Sportage lineup. The Sportage LX Value Edition package adds heated front seats, 18-inch dark wheels, and a Smart K...
Diane Warren Posts Message of Gratitude After Another Oscar Loss
The Academy Award for best original song went to H.E.R., D’Mile and Tiara Thomas for their collaboration on “Fight for You” from Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah. The Grammy winner used her acceptance speech to talk about the power of truth in storytelling. “Musicians, filmmakers I believe we have an opportunity and responsibility, to me, to tell the truth and to write history the way that it was and how it connects us to today and what we see going on in the world today,” she said, adding, “Knowledge is power, music is power and as long as I’m standing I’m always going to fight for us, I’m always going to fight for my people and fight for what’s right and I think that’s what music does and that’s what storytelling does.” Warren, who ...
Tom Jones on Track For U.K. No. 1 With ‘Surrounded By Time’
Coming in at No. 2 on the Official Chart Update is John Lennon’s first solo album Plastic Ono Band (Parlophone), which reenters the survey off the back of a 50th anniversary release. The late former Beatles great saw his LP peak at No. 8 following its release in 1971. Another legendary British act is on track for a return to the Top 5 as The Who’s third studio LP The Who Sell Out (Polydor) blasts to No. 4, just one spot behind the current chart leader, London Grammar’s California Soil (Ministry of Sound), down 3-1. The Who Sell Out peaked at No. 13 back in 1968. Meanwhile, veteran alt-rockers Dinosaur Jr. are chasing their first Top 10 album in almost thee decades with Sweep It Into Space (Jagjaguwar). It’s new at No. 9 on the chart blast, just ahead of indie pop group Scouting For G...
Hi-Res Streaming Service Qobuz Launches In Australia, NZ
Australia’s recorded music is thriving right now, largely due to streaming platforms like Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music. Streaming powered the market to a sixth consecutive year of growth in 2020, according trade data published by ARIA in March. Subscription platforms, a category that includes Spotify and Apple Music, generated A$362 million in the calendar year 2020, up 14% from the previous year. The market is far from saturated at the high-res end, notes Fornay. Qobuz is “offering something uniquely different to the other platforms out there,” he enthuses, namely the ability to download or stream at CD quality or Hi-Res “studio quality” audio (24-Bit up to 192 kHz). In addition to its catalog of 70 million tracks, Qobuz also offers album reviews, artist biographies, music...
