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Dave Grohl Loves the Misfits Now, All Thanks to His Daughter
Dave Grohl has a confession to make: he never liked the Misfits, and he’s not even sure why. But times have changed, and he’s fallen in love with the band after his daughter convinced him to give the horror-punk legends another try. “Now, when I was young I never really liked the Misfits,” Grohl said on Anders Bøtters’ Tiny TV. “I loved all these other hardcore punk rock bands but I never really liked the Misfits, and I don’t know why. So my daughter starts listening to the Misfits, and now she’s turning me on to the Misfits. She’s 14-years-old. She’s like, ‘No, no, no Dad, you have to listen to this.’ So now I love the Misfits. My daughter made me love the Misfits.” <!– // Brid Player Singles. var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ “div”: “Brid_10143537”, “ob...
VH1’s ‘Black Ink Crew: New York’ Announces Official Return In April
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: VH1 / VH1 Black Ink Harlem may have closed indefinitely but that’s not stopping the rowdy VH1 collective from setting it off this spring. Get ready for a whole lot of hollering and carrying on when the newest season of Black Ink Crew premieres on Monday, April 19. The group reconvenes in Brooklyn after the COVID-19 quarantine, in hopes of setting up shop while managing the drama of their personal lives. Not sure how deep Ceaser is willing to dive into his life at home after a very public beef that recently went down between himself, his daughter and his latest girlfriend. Either way, the rest of the crew is on hand to tackle their share of mess. Donna and Alex are now engaged and Ted (TED!) is married and working on music. Puma’s being held to the t...
OnePlus Unveils OnePlus 9 & OnePlus 9 Pro Smartphones, Here’s What’s New
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: OnePlus / OnePlus 9 & OnePlus 9 Pro When you think of smartphones, Samsung and Apple usually come to mind thanks to the companies flagship devices, the iPhone and Galaxy models. OnePlus isn’t on many people’s radars, but the company is hoping its newest smartphones will put them in the discussion. Tuesday (Mar. 23), the Chinese-based company announced its newest models, the OnePlus 9 and the OnePlus 9 Pro. OnePlus’ devices are usually best known for their value, but for the 2021 lineup of smartphones, the company lets other companies know its smartphones are no longer just budget models. The OnePlus 9 Pro flagship model is built to compete with Apple’s iPhone 12 Pro Max and Samsung’s Galaxy S21 Ultra. The OnePlus 9 is a lower-specced offering that doe...
Woman Who Rallied To Get Black ‘Teen Vogue’ Editor Fired Over Problematic Tweets Has Racist Past of Her Own
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Ed Rode / Getty A Teen Vogue staffer who opposed the hiring of former editor-in-chief Alexi McCammond, was discovered to have tweeted the n-word three times over 10 years ago. According to Newsweek, Christine Davitt, who works as a senior social media manager for Teen Vogue called a white friend the n-word in two posts on Twitter in 2009, reports Fox News. “I love the contradictory nature of the phrase ‘white n—a,” she wrote in a third post written in 2010. Davitt identifies as having white and Filipino ancestry. Funny how people like @christinedavitt forget the language they’ve used in the past but don’t mind chastising others for doing so. pic.twitter.com/79phxDSpcz — Crystal&Rob Janosek (@crystal_janosek) March 21, 2021 Alexi McCammond, who was sla...
Master & Dynamic’s New MW08 Wireless Earbuds Have A New Look & ANC Feature
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Master & Dynamic / MW08 Wireless Earbuds Master & Dynamic’s popular wireless earbuds have finally been upgraded. Tuesday (March 23), the New York-based headphone company that boasts Brooklyn Nets superstar Kevin Durant as an investor unveiled its newest product, the MW08 true wireless earbuds. It’s been some time since the company has launched a new product, 2019, to be exact, mainly blessing fans of the brand with collections like the Durant Nike KD 13 inspired one it dropped back in January. Users of the previous model, the MW07, should be excited to learn about the MW08 that keeps the same similar design but is sporting some significant upgrades and made from new materials. Like its predecessor, the new model costs $299 at launch and feature hy...
Radford Racing School: A New Look and Name for Bondurant
Bondurant High Performance Driving School is no more. But this is happy news, believe it or not, because the newly revitalized Radford Coachbuilders and Dodge have completely rebuilt and renewed the hallowed high-performance driving school to form Radford Racing School. But with a Formula 1 world champion on the roster, they can’t just toss a bucket of paint and slap on some chrome and call their cars custom. “The racetrack is the perfect environment for building and testing Radford-built cars,” says Ant Anstead, and that’s where Bondurant comes in. Founded in 1968 by Bob Bondurant, Radford Racing School is a purpose-built driver training facility for performance enthusiasts and the largest driver training center of its kind. Located in Chandler, Arizona, Radford...
This the Actual 2022 Nissan 400Z Sports Car in the Metal
The primary difference between the silver Z car in the photos and the show car is the addition of regulation-satisfying side-marker lights on the quarter panels and inside the headlight housing. This gray Z has a deck-lid spoiler that isn’t present on the concept, and the silver highlights on the grille are more prominent. See all 9 photos Oddly enough, one thing we don’t see is a “400Z” label—though the badges on the exterior are taped over, it’s pretty obvious these are the same Nissan and Z emblems that adorn the concept. Today’s Z is labeled a 370Z, on account of its 3.7-liter V-6 engine; the 400Z moniker is expected, given the 400-hp-ish twin-turbo V-6 under the Z Proto’s hood that we anticipate will carry over to the production model. The lea...
ROSÉ Dances ‘On the Ground’ for Laid-Back Performance Video
In addition to her solo endeavor, ROSÉ curated a playlist specifically for International Women’s Day on March 8. Her collection — which she dubbed “ROSÉ: Visionary Women” — included songs by Mariah Carey, Rihanna, Amy Winehouse, and more. Besides ROSÉ’S solo endeavors, it’s been a busy 2021 so far for BLACKPINK. The K-pop superstars entertained fans around the world with a dazzling livestream concert titled “The Show” at the end of January, during which ROSÉ offered a little taste of her own project. In February, the quartet was named goodwill ambassadors for November’s U.N. Climate Change Conference. And in March, the group appeared in Adidas’ “Watch Us Move” campaign, which celebrates womanhood. Watch...
Jimmy Fallon’s ‘Tonight Show’ Brings Back Live Audience
Footage showed small groups of masked individuals in the audience, and Fallon and guest Andy Cohen later said the audience was just 58 people. “I’ve never been so excited to do a show for 58 people in my entire life,” Fallon joked. “After last year, this is like performing at a sold-out Madison Square Garden.” Fallon also told viewers that his in-studio audience was made up of fully vaccinated first responders and that all week the audience will include first responders and health care workers. He thanked them for everything they’d done over the past year. Much of the studio looked the same, with The Roots to Fallon’s left and announcer Steve Higgins to his right, but The Roots did seem to have gotten a somewhat new set-up allowing for members of the band to remain socially dis...
After Katy Perry, Which Act Should Do a Las Vegas Residency Next? Vote!
Billboard has learned that Katy Perry is planning a Las Vegas residency for later this year, and we want to know: Which major act do you think should follow her lead? Maybe Adele — Perry’s next-door neighbor! — will pop into Vegas to say “Hello”; she was rumored to have been offered £20 million for a yearlong residency at The Wynn in 2017. Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters told Las Vegas Residency following their 2018 New Year’s Eve performance that the band had contemplated their own residency, complete with three-hour shows with rotating set lists every night in a small, sweaty venue, but might come back to it “someday before we’re in our 70s.” The band members are not in their 70s yet, but ma...
This Thalia Project Is Crowned Best Latin Album by a Female Artist in Fan Poll
Thalia has won yet another Billboard poll, thanks to fans. In a poll published on International Women’s Day titled “Which female artist has the best Latin album?,” Billboard highlighted a total of 29 albums by Latina artists that debuted in the top 10 of the Top Latin Albums chart since 2015. With over 45 percent of the votes, Thalia’s Valiente, which debuted at No. 7 on the chart dated Nov. 24, 2018, and concurrently debuted at No. 1 on the Latin Pop Albums chart, won the fan poll. Her 2016 set, Latina, followed in second place with more than 22 percent of the votes. 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. Ear...
Dave Grohl: I Never Got Into the Misfits Until My Daughter “Made Me Love” Them
Misfits’ Glenn Danzig (photo by Heather Kaplan), Dave Grohl (photo by Amy Harris) Dave Grohl is discovering new and old music via his teenage daughter Violet. In fact, the 14-year-old aspiring singer turned her dad on to the Misfits, a band he never previously embraced despite his love of old-school punk and hardcore. The Foo Fighters frontman was recently interviewed by YouTube’s Tiny TV channel, and the topic turned to punk rock. Grohl remarked, “You have to be a certain type of person to fall in love with and connect to punk rock music. I think it has more to do with your heart and your head than it does your ear in a way. So my daughter was born with that same heart and that same head as I was.” He continued, “When she was young, and she had great taste in music, she would listen...
