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Adrianne Lenker Announces Fall 2021 Tour Dates
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-22T17:57:12+00:00“>April 22, 2021 | 1:57pm ET Prolific songwriter and founding Big Thief member Adrianne Lenker has announced a new 11-date, 12-show tour that takes place in the fall of 2021. The November trek will be her first since the release of her 2020 solo albums songs and instrumentals. As befits an artist born in Indiana, she’s skipping the megalopolises on the east and west coast, choosing instead to journey to some of the cool smaller towns in-between: Burlington, Pittsburgh, Columbus, Madison, two shows in Minneapolis, and more. Check out the full itinerary below. Tickets go on sale Friday at 12pm EST through her website, and afterwards you can chec...
Les McKeown, Bay City Rollers Singer, Dies at 65
Les McKeown, the singer of the Scottish ’70s band Bay City Rollers, has died at the age of 65. On Thursday, McKeown’s family shared the news of his death in a post on social media. “It is with profound sadness that we announce the death of our beloved husband and father Leslie Richard McKeown,” the message stated. “Leslie died suddenly at home on Tuesday 20 April 2021. We are currently making arrangements for his funeral and ask for privacy after the shock of our profound loss.” The message was signed by Keiko and Jubei McKeown. Born on Nov. 12, 1955 in Scotland, McKeown was the Bay City Roller’s lead singer at the height of their fame in the ’70s where they became international superstars and teen heartthrobs. The group had several top-charting singles during his tenure, including “Saturd...
Pretty Ricky’s Baby Blue Shot In Florida
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ray Tamarra / Getty Pretty Ricky rapper Baby Blue is in critical condition after being shot in Florida. Reportedly, he was the victim of an armed robbery. According to the authorities, Baby Blue was shot on Monday night (April 19) while in the parking lot of a SpareZ Bowling Alley in Davie, Florida. The cops say a pair of goons tried to liberate the artist of his chain. Reports TMZ: A physical altercation erupted when the men tried to steal a gold chain necklace … and cops say it was during the scuffle that Baby Blue was shot in the left shoulder area. It’s unclear if the suspects took off with the chain. Baby Blue, who was in town for a release party for his new track, “Jerry Rice,” was taken to a local hospital where he remains in critical conditi...
Swizz Beatz Reaching Out To Kanye West For DMX’s Memorial Service
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Ever since his divorce from Kim Kardashian became public, Kanye West has been keeping a very low profile and moving in the shadows, but would he come out of hiding to pay homage to DMX? Page Six is reporting that Swizz Beatz is hoping that to be the case as he’s reaching out to the “Jesus Walks” rapper to gauge his interest in performing at a memorial service for the dearly departed, Dark Man X. While it seems like a strange request being that X and Ye don’t really have a history of a working relationship, the two men were men of God (X seemingly much more than Kanye), and DMX even delivered a prayer at one of Kanye’s Sunday Services back in 2019. The moment was captured and shared by Ye’s then wife, Kim Kardashian. “I wouldn’t call i...
Stacey Abrams Has Been Nominated For A Nobel Peace Prize
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: 52nd NAACP Image Awards/BET / Getty One of our most tenacious political activists is getting respect put on her name like never before. Stacey Abrams has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. As spotted on Reuters the Democratic Party politician has been recommended for the prestigious honor. Her work specifically with voting rights in her home state of Georgia has garnered the nod. In 2020 she fought vigorously against local legislation that in essence disproportionately limited access to voting to Black voters because they tend to live in larger counties and they tend to live in higher population communities. Her work resulted in flipping Georgia into a Blue state. Lars Haltbrekken, a Socialist Party member of Norway’s parliament, likened her commitme...
Drake Shows Off New Brolic Body
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Supplied by WENN.com / WENN If you thought women were weak in the knees over Drake before, wait till they get a load of him now. With his next album, Certified Lover Boy, on deck to bomb away, Drizzy seems to be getting in shape for the pending tour. from the looks of things, the man might start going by LL Cool Drake or something. Yesterday (April 21) the 6 God showed off his new physique on social media and gave fans a sneak peek of what to expect when he performs on stage in the coming months. Looking like a WWE wrestler, Drake is seen working out with fellow OVO representatives Chubbs and Roxx, and it seems like he can carry a few women off to his hotel room at the same time. With their consent, of course. Y’all know CLB is going have the kind of trac...
Rick Rubin Remembers The Toxicity Lyric That Could Have Ended System Of A Down
System Of A Down’s 2001 album Toxicity was home to the song “Needles” and the somewhat controversial lyric “Pull the tapeworm out of your ass.” Two decades later, Toxicity producer and music legend Rick Rubin remembers the epic fight that this caused. Reminiscing on his Broken Record podcast with System of A Down frontman Serj Tankian, they say that it was merely the pronoun used in the tapeworm lyric that caused the band to go nuts. “Originally, the chorus was ‘Pull the tapeworm out of my ass.’ Daron [Malakian] and Shavo [Odadjian] didn’t like ‘my ass,’” Tankian tells Rubin. Tankian argues that using “my” was supposed to be philosophical like the negativity was being extracted from him. However, that was a bit too vulnerable for his fellow bandmates. “An...
Yola Announces New Album Stand For Myself, Shares “Diamond Studded Shoes”: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-22T12:35:37+00:00“>April 22, 2021 | 8:35am ET Yola has announced a new album titled Stand For Myself, due out later this summer via Easy Eye Sound. As a preview, the Grammy-nominated artist has shared a fiery new single from it called “Diamond Studded Shoes”. Like the English singer-songwriter’s heralded 2019 album Walk Through Fire, her sophomore record was also produced by Dan Auerbach of The Black Keys. Finding herself stranded in limbo after the pandemic killed her stadium tour plans, Yola hunkered down and began writing the songs that would become Stand For Myself, which she calls “a collection of stories of allyship, Black feminine strength through vulnerability, ...
Black Fly Returns with New Single “No Fool”, Shares Origins: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-22T14:00:00+00:00“>April 22, 2021 | 10:00am ET Origins is a recurring new music feature giving artists the unique chance to detail the influences behind their latest song. Today, Black Fly returns to explain why he’s “No Fool”. Black Fly has always been enigmatic, both in his music and his story. The Vermont bedroom electronic artist first entered the scene in 2017 with his pulsing single “Sign 2”, with the promise of a full-length on the horizon. And then… nothing. It wasn’t until earlier this year that he resurfaced with the tracks “Kingdom” and “Sadsap”, bringing listeners back into his cinematic world of synths and gothic rhythms. With his debut LP Black Fly 01 fina...
Check Out the Trailer For Michael Bolton and Zooey Deschanel-Hosted ‘Celebrity Dating Game’
Iggy Azalea, Taye Diggs and Hannah Brown give love a shot in the preview. Zooey Deschanel is about finding love in all the right places for her celeb friends in the new trailer for ABC’s Celebrity Dating Game. The former New Girl star and She & Him singer co-hosts the one-hour show with crooner Michael Bolton, who teased the upcoming debut with a 15-second clip on Wednesday (April 21). “Let’s play the Celebrity Dating Game!” Deschanel says in her best game show voice to kick off the clip, which showcases the retro 1960s set with throwback graphics to a much groovier era. In a voice-over, the announcer says that Deschanel and Bolton will help Hollywood’s most eligible stars find love over laughing images of contestants Taye Diggs, Hannah Brown and Iggy Azal...
Miley Cyrus Hides in The Kid Laroi’s Car in Latest Remix Tease
Cyrus captioned the clip “…where are we going @thekidlaroi? BTW I think they want us to drop the remix. The second sneak at Miley’s upcoming remix of LAROI’s 2020 single “Without You” comes after Tuesday’s 20-second clip that blended the original over footage of Miley making faces as headlines about her dating life scrolled in the background. “Miley Cyrus Romance Retrospective: All the Men and Women She’s Dated,” read one, “What Really Ended Miley Cyrus and Nick Jonas’ Relationship,” screamed another. All the while, Miley, looking satisfied and confident, gazes into the camera as the Kid sings, “And I can’t take it back, so in the past is where we’ll leave it, huh,” before Miley ...
Yola Announces New Album, Shares ‘Diamond Studded Shoes’: Listen
“The video is in part inspired by the Truman Show and is about being trapped in a false construct,” Yola said in a release. “It is supposedly perfect, but you’re trapped in a life that wasn’t meant for you. I wanted to convey the feeling that everything you know to be true is not quite working the way it’s supposed to. The island at the end is a paradigm of mental conditioning, we are all trapped on an island of our own thinking, until we change it.” The song taps into the civil unrest many have been feeling over the past year. Yola asks listeners “to unite and turn our focus to those with a stranglehold on humanity” instead of falling prey to “the false divides created to distract us from those few who are in charge of the majority of the world’s wealth and...
