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Tirzah Returns with New Single “Send Me”: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-14T16:43:48+00:00“>April 14, 2021 | 12:43pm ET UK songwriter Tirzah has returned with her first new single in three years, “Send Me”. After dropping the I’m Not Dancing and No Romance EPs in 2013 and 2014, respectively, Tirzah unveiled her lauded debut album Devotion in 2018. “Send Me” is a meditation on the period that followed. According to a press statement, the new track is “a subconscious snapshot from across a year when Tirzah was playing live regularly for the first time.” “Send Me” was written and recorded in collaboration with Mica Levi and Coby Sey. It’s built around a simple guitar riff and drums, and this pattern is only varied with an oc...
David Bowie Estate Unveils The Man Who Sold the World Companion Album
David Bowie’s third album — the follow-up to his breakout hit “Space Oddity” — was a commercial failure when it arrived in 1970. Its gothic, Nietzchean themes eluded the mainstream. But The Man Who Sold The World was a pivotal record, transitioning Bowie into his signature hard-rock era (Seventies albums like Ziggy Stardust, Hunky Dory, Diamond Dogs). The album also laid the seeds for Bowie’s band, the Spiders from Mars, bringing in guitarist Mick Ronson and drummer Mick Woodmansey for the first time. Practically every band since have cited The Man Who Sold The World as a direct influence, from Black Sabbath to Nirvana, which re-immortalized the title track in its famous MTV Unplugged concert. In 2020, the David Bowie Estate marked this crucial album’s 50th anniversary by releasi...
Shabba Hanks’ Ex Suing Him For $1 Million Over Alleged Abuse
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Axelle/Bauer-Griffin / Getty Chet Hanks isn’t going to have the smoothest White Boy Summer. Tom Hanks’ son is getting sued by his ex-girlfriend for a cool $1 million, and she’s claiming he was an abuser. Their relationship is a wrap, but Kiana Parker is suing Shabba Hanks in Texas, and she claims he put hands on her multiple times between October 2020 and January 2021. Reports TMZ: In the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, Kiana details an alleged incident TMZ first reported last month — she claims it happened in October 2020 in New Orleans, where Chet was shooting “Your Honor.” She claims he became enraged when she told him she was leaving their room at the Windsor Court Hotel … grabbing her by the wrists and arms and pushing her around the room, knocking over ta...
Will Smith Relocates Movie Away From Georgia Over Voting Laws
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Nicky Nelson/WENN.com / WENN Will Smith is once again taking a stand for change. On Monday (Apr 12), the legendary triple threat and director Antoine Fuqua announced that they have decided to eliminate plans to film their new movie, Emancipation, in Georgia as a protest over the controversial legislation. In a joint statement, Smith, and Fuqua state that the decision was not easy but they felt that it was important to stand up for inequality. “At this moment in time, the Nation is coming to terms with its history and is attempting to eliminate vestiges of institutional racism to achieve true racial justice,” Smith and Fuqua said in the statement. “We cannot in good conscience provide economic support to a government that enacts regressive voting laws that...
Jay-Z, Nas & Diddy Co-Sign Ray McGuire For Mayor of New York City
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ray McGuire for Mayor / Youtube With Bill de Blasio’s tumultuous time as the Mayor of New York City coming to an end this November, many interesting candidates have thrown their hats in the mayoral race including the likes of Maya Wiley, Andrew Yang, and Ray McGuire. With the Democratic primaries for Mayor of New York City just a few months away, some of Hip-Hop’s biggest stars have made up their mind on which candidate they want to see lead the city that never sleeps for the next few years and that man is Ray McGuire. Jay-Z, P. Diddy and Nas have decided that they want to see Citigroup’s former global co-head of investment banking executive take the helm of New York City’s Chief Executive and in a new rollout video in support of McGuire’s mayoral run, th...
BBC Radio 1 Announced Prince Philip’s Death in the Middle of a Techno Song—And TikTok Had a Field Day
Since this is 2021, when news is force-fed down our throats like ipecac syrup, odds are you heard about the death of Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh. The passing of the storied prince at the age of 99 sent ripples throughout Europe, as many mourned his death while others bemoaned his checkered past. Regardless, the BBC abandoned its entire slate of programming to dedicate blanket coverage of the news, slashing its TV and radio schedule and drawing a staggering 110,000 complaints from the public. Apparently the news of Prince Philip’s death abruptly invaded each channel like a targeted coup. During Radio 1’s “Classic Dance Anthems with Charlie Hedges” show, dance music fans were raging to Alan Fitzpatrick‘s techno banger “We Do What We WantR...
3LAU, Ashton Kutcher, Mark Cuban, More to Judge Shark Tank-Like NFT Funding Contest
As the NFT mania rages on, a new Shark Tank-like competition is set to debut with a number of high-profile judges. NFTs: The Pitch is a go following a $1 million funding round by Sound Ventures, a major venture capital firm founded by Guy Oseary and famed actor and entrepreneur Ashton Kutcher. Both execs will appear as judges on a panel that also includes billionaire Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, iconic hip-hop artist Snoop Dogg, and electronic music producer 3LAU, among others. Details on the contest’s format and distribution plan are scarce at this time. Variety reports that on April 21st, finalists will participate in a live virtual pitch session with the judges. However, the discussions will not be streamed live to the public, according to the competition’s websit...
MG Shows Off Electric Cyberster Sportscar Concept for Shanghai Show
See all 8 photos MG’s new Cyberster concept isn’t the cute and charming compact sportscar its predecessors were. Designers at the MG Advanced Design Centre team opted for a future-forward appearance rather than one stuck in the past. The front fascia appears to take more inspiration from Spiderman’s anti-hero Venom than the brand’s historical models. The Cyberster concept is aggressively futuristic, with big dual fairings flowing behind the floating headrests on the rear deck, and a cockpit that looks like it’s right out of Cyberpunk 2077. The rear end has taillights inspired by the Union Jack and an illuminated “heckblende” that stretches from one side of the car to the other. MG calls the LED accent line that runs from the front wheel arch to the...
2022 Bentley Continental GT Speed Convertible First Look: A Million Miles of Headroom
Mechanically, the GT Speed ‘vert is identical to the coupe that broke cover earlier in the year. The big change is the addition of a folding soft-top instead of the regular Speed’s swept roof. Power (650 hp) and torque (664 lb-ft) from Bentley’s twin-turbo 6.0-liter W-12 stays the same in the drop-top as it does in the coupe. The same goes for the Speed’s impressive 208-mph top speed. The trot 60 mph does take 0.1 seconds longer compared to the coupe, though, rising from 3.5 to 3.6 seconds. All the go-fast tech from the coupe that’s been added to the Speed to tame its additional power and torque is here, too. The GT Speed Convertible employs the same four-wheel-steering system that turns the rear wheels in the opposite direction—for the sake of agility—at low ...
Taylor Swift Turns ‘Fearless’ Castoffs Into an EP of Gems With ‘From the Vault’ 6-Pack
On the latest Billboard Pop Shop Podcast, we take a close listen to the six-pack of “new” songs — and you can listen along with us here: Also on the show, we’ve got chart news on how “Leave the Door Open,” the debut song from Silk Sonic — the duo of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak — jumps to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Plus, how Justin Bieber’s Justice becomes his first multi-week No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 since 2010 and how Demi Lovato notches her highest-charting album since 2015 on the Billboard 200 with the debut of her latest release, Dancing With the Devil … The Art of Starting Over. The Billboard Pop Shop Podcast is your one-stop shop for all things pop on Billboard‘s weekly charts. You can always count on a livel...
Did Taylor Swift Tease the Rerecorded Release of ‘1989’: Swifties Think So
Taylor is, of course, at the beginning of a journey that will see her rerecord her catalog, starting with the recently-released Fearless (Taylor’s Version). During her spot on late-night TV, Taylor referenced 1989 and “Shake It Off,” one of its hits. There’s no argument, 1989 is in the pipeline. Though amateur sleuths are peeling back the layers, they’ve crunched the numbers, and they’ve convinced it’s all one-big TayTay easter egg… and that 1989 is coming soon. Check out some of the amateur detective work online: You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blog...
Celeste Owns the Spotlight for ‘Love Is Back’ Performance on ‘Tonight Show’: Watch
The soul singer is seemingly unstoppable. She won the BRITS Rising Star award and the BBC’s Sound of 2020 poll, and her debut LP Not Your Muse recently debuted at No. 1 on the Official U.K. Albums Chart. There’s more to come. She’s nominated for Best Original Song at this month’s 2021 Academy Awards for “Hear My Voice,” which she co-wrote with composer Daniel Pemberton for the Netflix film The Trial of the Chicago 7, and she’s up for three Brit Awards, which are set to air on May 11. Watch the late-night performance below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards ...
