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Sample Alison Wonderland’s Cello for triple j’s 2021 DIY Supergroup Competition
Australian dance music powerhouse Alison Wonderland is one of a slew of big-name acts taking part in this year’s triple j DIY Supergroup competition, where major artists contribute samples and sounds for music producers to incorporate into their own compositions. This year’s contest contains samples recorded exclusively by Gang Of Youths, Vallis Alps, Genesis Owusu, Touch Sensitive, Lime Cordiale, and San Cisco, in addition to Wonderland. Competing producers need to use a minimum of three samples in their original track, which they then need to submit to triple j with the #DIYSupergroup hashtag in its title. Music producers can sample a signature cello sound exclusively recorded by Alison Wonderland for triple j’s 2021 DIY Supe...
Phoebe Bridgers’ Smashed Guitar from SNL Sells for $100k in Auction
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-12T17:45:58+00:00“>April 12, 2021 | 1:45pm ET Back in February, Phoebe Bridgers gave an instantly iconic performance on Saturday Night Live that concluded with her smashing her guitar onstage. The act earned our Artist of the Year both praise and melodramatic criticism. Apparently it also gave her an added level of fame, because Bridgers’ guitar has just sold in a charity auction for a whopping $101,500. GLAAD listed the mangled black Danelectro guitar last Thursday during the GLAAD Music Awards, at which Bridgers (who identifies as bisexual) was nominated for outstanding breakthrough music artist. Initially, bidders spent modest sums before bumping the price into the five-figure...
Puscifer Share Trippy “Bullet Train to Iowa” Mini Film as Prologue for Upcoming Livestream: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-12T18:15:25+00:00“>April 12, 2021 | 2:15pm ET Puscifer are setting the scene for their upcoming livestream performance of 2015’s Money $hot. The band has now shared a psychedelic mini film for the Existential Reckoning track “Bullet Train to Iowa”, which serves a segue between their previous Arizona desert virtual show and the upcoming stream on April 17th. The trippy, partially animated clip is the next chapter in the saga of the bizarre desert-dwelling Billy D — the protagonist of Puscifer’s loosely connected livestream narrative. Longtime Puscifer fans will recognize the work of Meats Meier, who previously created videos for Puscifer’s “Queen B”, “Dozo”, and “Apocalyptica...
Macaulay Culkin Welcomes First Child with Partner Brenda Song
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-12T19:41:35+00:00“>April 12, 2021 | 3:41pm ET From Home Alone to a full house, congratulations are due to actor Macaulay Culkin, who has announced the birth of his first child with partner Brenda Song. As the pair told Esquire, Dakota Song Culkin was born Monday, April 5th in Los Angeles, weighing in at 6 pounds and 14 ounces. Both mom and child are reportedly healthy, and the family summed up their feelings in a two-word statement: “We’re overjoyed.” Dakota is named in honor of Macaulay’s sister Dakota Culkin, who died in a car accident in 2008. Both former child actors, the 40-year-old Culkin and 33-year-old Song first met on the set of the 2019 film&nb...
Phoebe Bridgers’ Guitar Becomes Highest-Selling Web Item in GLAAD History
Phoebe Bridgers, indie darling of the pandemic, is now a card-carrying rock god. The 26-year-old’s black Danelectro Dano ’56 — the guitar she smashed on a fake amp at the end of her debut Saturday Night Live performance — sold for a whopping $101,500 at a GLAAD Media Awards auction ended bidding on Sunday, April 11. It’s the first time an item has ever fetched more than $100k at one of GLAAD’s online auctions, a representative tells SPIN, making it one of the most prized items the media monitoring nonprofit has put on the block in its three-decade history. Selling a guitar north of six figures puts Bridgers in hallowed territory. At a 2018 Julien’s auction featuring classic rock memorabilia, a Gretsch played and signed by Bono fetched $64,000. A Bob Dylan guitar went fo...
Virginia Police Officer Fired After Pepper-Spraying & Pointing Gun At Black Army Officer
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bodycam Footage / Windsor, Virginia Police Bodycam One less overzealous officer on the streets to worry about. One of two Virginia police officers seen on bodycam footage pepper-spraying and pointing their firearms at a Black Army medic during a traffic stop has been fired. The decision to give the officer the boot was announced on late Sunday (Apr.11) after Governor Ralph Northam called the incident “disturbing” in a tweet on Sunday and called for an independent investigation into the case. My statement on the encounter between Lieutenant Caron Nazario and two officers from the Windsor Police Department: pic.twitter.com/GcfL5YeIRm — Ralph Northam (@GovernorVA) April 11, 2021 In a statement, the town of Windsor said it joined the calls from election offic...
Killa Back: Cam’Ron To Release ‘Camdemic’ LP This Summer
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jerritt Clark / Getty Cam’Ron dropped his first album in 1998 and is still going strong while dabbling in a number of profitable business ventures outside of music. Taking to Instagram, the Dipset honcho teased a new track featuring production from longtime collaborators The Heatmakerz and announced the release of a new album titled Camdemic. Killa Cam shared a video of a song riding alongside his business partner and official street soldier Suga Dugga while rocking to a track as Cam’Ron mouthed the lyrics. At one point, Suga Dugga, as if on cue, raised a jar of Cam’Ron’s Pink Horse Power 2.0 “performance” aid. The caption for the video featured lyrics from the track which reads as follows: ”Me and @sugadugga1988 making that before the month is up, anothe...
Memorial Services For DMX To Be Held At Yonkers Raceway, Might Get A Statue In Yonkers Too?
Source: Prince Williams / Getty The passing of DMX this past weekend left the Hip-Hop world in tatters even though we had been preparing for the worse since news of his condition was first reported last week. With all kinds of tributes and homage being paid to the Hip-Hop legend on social media, rumors are circulating that his hometown of Yonkers is thinking of immortalizing the gruff-voiced rapper with a statue in the city he called home for most of his life. According to Page Six the City of Yonkers is considering commissioning a statue of the Ruff Rydin’ rapper, but unfortunately the city’s mayor, Mike Spano, denies that he’s entertaining such an idea. TMZ is reporting though that Spano is willing to let DMX’s family use the Yonkers Raceway track to host a memorial service in honor...
Coachella and Other Large-Scale Music Festivals Not Part of California’s Reopening Plan
The state of California is poised to reopen its economy by summer 2021, but it seems that large-scale music festivals and conventions will remain on hold for much longer. June 15th remains the target date for statewide reopening without the tiered system, provided that vaccines remain readily available and COVID-19 cases continue to decline. However, festivals like Coachella might have to wait until October for a return to normalcy. Citing COVID-19 safety concerns, Coachella organizers moved the festival from October 2021 to April 2022. Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival Large-scale conventions and events with a capacity exceeding 5,000 will not be allowed to operate without proof of vaccine or a negative COVID-19 test for attendees until October. International atten...
Phoebe Bridgers’ Busted ‘SNL’ Guitar Sells For Over $100,000 at GLAAD Auction
“Phoebe Bridgers’ unforgettable SNL guitar smash has now gone from a much-buzzed-about performance and morphed into an important moment of giving back to the LGBTQ community,” Anthony Ramos, GLAAD’s head of talent tells Billboard in an email statement. “Phoebe is such a visible, out powerhouse in the music industry and we knew that the item was special, but we were so pleasantly surprised to see such a large amount of money raised that will go directly into our work to support and uplift LGBTQ people. Thank you, Phoebe!” The indie rock star went viral for smashing her Danelectro Dano ’56 guitar on SNL, especially when David Crosby chimed in, calling her stunt on the show “pathetic” and “stupid.” Bridgers responded in kind by retweet...
Lana Del Rey Shares ‘Blue Banisters’ Teaser
Lana Del Rey shared appeared to tease a new song dubbed “Blue Banisters” in an Instagram post on Sunday (April 11). The singer posted a vintage-looking photo of herself looking up at the sky with the title underneath it. Following the tease, fans are speculating that a new single is on the horizon. Del Rey recently released her Chemtrails Over The Country Club album, which hit No. 2 on the Billboard 200 chart. Shortly after the LP’s release, Del Rey already announced that another new album, Rock Candy Sweet, will arrive on June 1. 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 rewa...
Dave Grohl Goes on the Road in ‘What Drives Us’ Band Doc: Watch First Trailer
Grohl tapped a galaxy of rock, pop and punk icons for the film, which features interviews with bandmates Taylor Hawkins, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Rami Jaffee and Pat Smear, as well as Ringo Starr, Flea, AC/DC’s Brian Johnson, St. Vincent, Slash, Ben Harper, The Edge, X’s Exene Cervenka, No Doubt’s Tony Kanal, Metallica’s Lars Ulrich, Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler and punk icons DH Peligro, Jennifer Finch, Ian Mackaye, Slayer drummer Dave Lombardo and many more. The trailer for the film — which follows on the heels of Grohl announcing his upcoming rock memoir, The Storyteller — opens with the rock icon hopping in a van and cranking up the engine and Beatles drummer Starr explaining, “You gotta get in the van if you want to make it in ...
