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clipping. Perform Tiny Desk (Home) Concert: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-08T19:59:05+00:00“>April 8, 2021 | 3:59pm ET The experimental rap trio clipping. have shared their “(Home)” version of NPR’s Tiny Desk concert series, and they really took the “tiny” aspect to its most extreme point. In a typical, non-pandemic-times Tiny Desk concert, the guest artist performs an intimate set while stuffed behind desks in NPR’s actual office workspace. Throughout the coronavirus, NPR has kept the Tiny Desk institution alive by having musicians send in pre-recorded sets from their homes or studios, but clipping. decided to switch up that now-predictable format. For their contribution to the Tiny Desk Meets SXSW series, the group — rapper Daveed Diggs and...
Cher Helps Rescue “The World’s Loneliest Elephant” in New Documentary Trailer: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-08T20:45:46+00:00“>April 8, 2021 | 4:45pm ET In late 2020, Cher made a herculean effort to move “the world’s loneliest elephant” to a sanctuary in Cambodia. Her animal rights work became the subject of a documentary, Cher & The Loneliest Elephant, which you can preview via the trailer below. The documentary follows the singer as she travels to Pakistan to oversee the relocation of the elephant, named Kaavan, who became known as the “world’s loneliest elephant” after his partner Saheli died in 2012. Kaavan, who was a gift from the government of Sri Lanka to the head of the Pakistani army 35 years ago, had become increasingly lonely and depressed while spending over a dozen yea...
Sparta’s Jim Ward Announces New Solo Album Daggers, Shares “Paper Fish”: Stream
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-08T21:20:19+00:00“>April 8, 2021 | 5:20pm ET Like a handful of other musicians during the coronavirus pandemic, Sparta frontman and former At the Drive-In co-founder Jim Ward spent the past few months hashing out music ideas that quickly turned into songs — and now he has a whole new album to show for it. Ward has just announced a solo full-length titled Daggers. It’s due out June 11th via Dine Alone Records, but you can stream lead single “Paper Fish” right now below. This is Ward’s first solo album under his name since releasing Quiet in the Valley, On the Shores the End Begins back in 2011. Unlike his alt-country project Sleepercar or the full-fledged post-hardcore of At the D...
Ted Nugent Wants to Know Where the Shutdowns Were for COVID-1 Through COVID-18 — No, Really
The COVID-19 pandemic did a pretty good job showing which musicians, celebrities, friends, and family members believe in science and which prefer conspiracy theories. But on the scale that tops out around Van Morrison, Ted Nugent is in a league of his own. Long known as the rock ‘n roll’s uncle whom you wouldn’t want to be stuck next to at the Thanksgiving table, the guitar legend and borderline right-wing extremist hit the conspiracy-friendly forum of Facebook Live (and originally transcribed by Blabbermouth) yesterday to ponder one of the hardest questions for those who don’t have a basic knowledge of science or recent etymology: “Why were there no shutdowns for COVID-1 through -18?” Of course, the factual answer to that question is that there never was a COVID-1, COVID-18, or any other ...
Zone: Swizz Beats Bigs Up VERZUZ, Says Platform “Bigger Than ‘SNL’”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Paras Griffin / Getty Swizz Beats and Timbaland created one of the best performance platforms to ever emerge in years with their popular VERZUZ series. Now occupying a larger slice of the cultural connection, Swizz declared that VERZUZ is “bigger than SNL” in regards to viewership. In the Instagram Live breakdown of last Sunday’s VERZUZ between The Isley Brothers and Earth Wind & Fire, Swizz and Timbaland spoke candidly and earnestly about the battle DMX is undergoing for his life and how the event featured two of the famed rapper’s favorite acts. The pair then shifted into thanking fans and supporters for tuning in and also made mention of the Triller app in light of their still-new collaboration with the streaming service. However, what turned a num...
HHW Tech Review: Samsung’s Galaxy S21 Ultra Is The Best Smartphone On The Market…Right Now
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra New year, new Samsung Galaxy phone. But is the Galaxy S21 Ultra any different from the companies other offerings? Samsung left much to be desired with the Galaxy S20 Ultra, even though Samsung stuffed the phone with all kinds of features like space zoom that honestly was super gimmicky. Samsung went back to the drawing board with the Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G and delivered one of the best smartphone experiences at a significantly lower price. Display & Design Source: Bernard Smalls / Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra One thing you’re always gonna get with any Samsung smartphone is a great display, and the Galaxy S21 Ultra easily delivers that with its 6.8-inch 120Hz Quad HD display. The screen on the S21 Ultra is the first o...
HHW Gaming: Lil Nas X Takes Trolling To Another Level With His ‘Twerk Hero’ Video Game
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jerritt Clark / Getty There is no one better at trolling on social media than Lil Nas X…period. The artist is having himself a very busy month thanks to his controversial hit record “MONTERO” (Call Me By Your Name) along with his “Satan Shoes” collaboration with MSCHF. Now he has a video game that should get people reacting as well. Wednesday (Apr.7), Lil Nas X announced his latest troll move, Twerk Hero, a free-to-play video game on your web browser developed by Roni Games that was created reportedly using the Unity engine. In the game, players take control of Lil Nas X with their mouse or trackpad. You have to hit moving arrows called “Temptations,” making him twerk to his song “MONTERO.” When you reach a certain amount of “Temptations,” you are transpo...
Body Cam Video Shows LAPD Incorrectly Accosting Black Man In Hollywood
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: David McNew / Getty Antone Austin, a music producer who resides in Hollywood, Calif., was forcibly arrested in 2019 by LAPD officers responding to a domestic disturbance that involved a white man. However, when the cops arrived at the scene, they quickly and incorrectly assumed that Austin was their suspect and arrested him and his girlfriend according to newly released footage from a body cam video. NBC Los Angeles has been covering Austin’s story for some time, including an Early March report where he detailed what occurred the day of the arrest that landed him and his girlfriend in jail. According to the March 9 report, Austin explained that he was thrown to the ground and arrested while stating he believed the incident when as it did due to him being ...
Rage Against the Machine Push Reunion Tour Dates to 2022
If you’re waiting to see Rage Against the Machine reunite on stage, you’re going to have to wait a little bit longer. The band announced on Thursday that they’re pushing their tour dates to March 2022. SPIN’s 2020 Artist of the Year Run the Jewels will open for Rage on most of the dates of the Public Service Announcement Tour. The first night of the tour will take place in El Paso, Texas on March 31, 2022 at Don Haskins Center. There are a few festival dates in there as well, but not Coachella. Rage was supposed to perform at the 2020 edition of Coachella before it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Curiously, though, there is a big gap between the group’s second Phoenix-area show on April 6 and their two-night stint in Oakland on April 26. The tour was originally slated to resume...
Roger Waters Says Rescheduled ‘This Is Not A Drill’ Tour Could Be His Last
Roger Waters announced that his This Is Not A Drill tour has been rescheduled for the summer of 2022 – and hinted that the run may be his “last hurrah” or at least his “first farewell tour!” The shows are more than mere concerts, as the politically minded Waters explained in a press statement: “This Is Not A Drill is a groundbreaking new rock and roll/cinematic extravaganza, performed in the round, it is a stunning indictment of the corporate dystopia in which we all struggle to survive, and a call to action to LOVE, PROTECT and SHARE our precious and precarious planet home. The show includes a dozen great songs from PINK FLOYD’S GOLDEN ERA along side several new ones, words and music, same writer, same heart, same soul, same man. Could be his last hurrah. Wow! My first farewell...
Confirmed: Chevy Camaro 1LE Handling Package Dead for Models Without V-8
While not as extensive as the 1LE treatment found on V-8 powered SS models, the 1LE handling pack on lesser Camaros was still a tremendous value for the money. For $4,500, V-6 and turbo-four-powered ‘Maros were treated to the Camaro SS’s FE3 suspension setup. That means the dampers, rear cradle mounts, ball-jointed rear toe links, and stabilizer bars were all lifted from the V-8 car and bestowed upon its lesser counterparts. But the upgrades didn’t stop there. Some wider wheels wrapped in stickier Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric tires, Brembo four-piston front brake calipers, a mechanical limited-slip differential with 3.27 ratio, a cooling package for the engine, transmission, and differential, fuel system optimization for cornering, a dual-mode exhaust system, and a short-...
Pyramid Scheme: Egypt Moves 22 Mummies Using Carsophaguses
Transporting ancient mummies is kind of a big deal, a task to be taken with the utmost of care and attention to detail. These are national treasures. Hence, the rare occurrence of relocating 18 New Kingdom mummified kings and four queens from the Egyptian Museum near Cairo’s Tahrir Square to the new National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Old Cairo necessitated a full-on made-for-television procession called The Pharaohs’ Golden Parade. See all 30 photos Organized by the Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities, the parade saw mummies travel in special floats in chronological order of their reigns, starting with the oldest ruler, Seqenenre Taa II (17th Dynasty) to Ramses IX (12th Century B.C.) along downtown Cairo’s freshly repaved three-mile southbound route. Als...
