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Angel Manuel Soto to Helm DC Films’ First Latino Superhero Movie Blue Beetle
DC Films and Warner Bros. have announced that Angel Manuel Soto will direct their upcoming superhero movie Blue Beetle. Soto, known for last year’s Charm City Kings, will work from a script by Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer (the upcoming Scarface remake). The studios are obviously aware of the importance of bringing on Latino filmmakers for the project (Soto is Puerto Rican, Dunnet-Alcocer is Mexican), as it will be the DC Extended Universe’s first Latino-led superhero story. The Blue Beetle moniker has been used by numerous individuals since it was first created by Charles Wojtkowski for Fox Comics in 1939. It even bounced around different companies before DC picked it up in the ’80s when Charlton Comics went out of business. The current iteration, and the one that will form the basis for the movi...
Megadeth’s Dave Mustaine and Gibson Announce Partnership, New Line of Guitars
Megadeth legend Dave Mustaine is Gibson’s latest brand ambassador. The two announced the mutual partnership today along with a new line of Mustaine signature model electric and acoustic guitars across Gibson’s three brands: Gibson, Epiphone, and Kramer. It’s a major announcement for Mustaine and his fans, who’ve probably grown accustomed to seeing the iconic metal frontman shredding on a Dean guitar, his previous brand partner. Gibson’s new Dave Mustaine Collection will see the launch of signature model guitars at various price points, depending on the brand — much like KISS founder Gene Simmons’ recently unveiled line of Gibson brand basses and guitars. In fact, Mustaine vividly recalls a childhood memory of seeing Simmons and KISS wield Gibson guitars on the sleeve of their legendary Ali...
Drakeo the Ruler Connects with Drake on “Talk to Me”: Stream
Drakeo the Ruler is the latest rapper to receive a boost from Drake, recruiting the Toronto superstar for “Talk to Me”. The single will appear on The Truth Hurts, the LA rapper’s first project since being released from jail in November 2020. Stream it below. The song finds Drakeo nimbly adapting to Drake’s R&B side with a street ballad. Following the 6 God’s seductive hook, Drakeo spits game without softening his West Coast gangster appeal. “Don’t be shy, I got killers with me, stupid / I march with sticks, I ain’t worried bout no groupies,” he raps. “Boss you up, your lifestyle could be exclusive / But I don’t know, ’cause you be hangin’ ’round with losers.” During an Apple Music interview with Zane Lowe, Drakeo explained how the collaboration came together. After Drakeo’s engineer en...
BTS’ ARMY Is Delirious After ‘MTV Unplugged’ Performance
With their MTV Unplugged performance, BTS has joined a list of luminaries that includes Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Adele and Bon Jovi. The South Korean juggernauts, however, have an ARMY on their side! The chart-topping K-pop superstars made their MTV Unplugged debut Tuesday night, from a stage in Seoul, South Korea. 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, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Michael Bolton Wants You to Dump Robinhood in New Ad
Though several online brokerages (including, until recently, Public.com) use PFOF, the video’s clear target is Robinhood, which received an avalanche of publicity during the recent Gamestop scandal. The well-timed ad piggybacks on recent Reddit outrage around the practice, which last week spawned a House inquiry that resulted in Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev being grilled by members of Congress. In a blog post, Public noted that it is “officially PFOF-free” as of Feb. 16. As an incentive to investors, the company is offering to cover any fees charged by an existing brokerage to transfer their portfolio to them. “I could hardly believe it, what I saw on Reddit today,” sings Bolton in the revamped lyrics, his vocals accompanied by stock images of romance gone wrong (shattering wine gla...
Kanye West Going On MAGA Presidential Run Ended Marriage, Source Says
Source: Sheri Determan/WENN.com / WENN After months of speculation, Kim Kardashian has officially filed for divorce from Kanye West and it appears the reason was right in front of the public’s eye the entire time. According to a source close to the situation, West’s failed presidential campaign was what split the couple apart. PEOPLE got the exclusive scoop from the source, revealing that West has been texting folks within his close circle saying that he’s seemingly aware that his Kanye 2020 campaign drove Kardashian past her breaking point. The source tells PEOPLE West has been “talking things through” for anyone he’s reached out about the situation. “He’s in that place of ‘if only,’” says the source. “‘If only I had done this, if only I hadn’t done that.’ He’s processing things.” T...
Megan Thee Stallion, Rep. Maxine Waters Break Bread About Black Women Empowerment & “WAP”
Source: Rich Fury / Getty Megan Thee Stallion’s momentum already can’t be stopped, and now she has gotten some words of encouragement from Representative Maxine Waters telling her to keep doing what she is doing. The Houston rapper and Auntie Maxine sat down for an interview as part of Megan Thee Stallion landing the cover of Harper’s BAZAAR’s March 2021 issue. The virtual meeting of the two powerful Black women in their own right came after Thee Stallion’s powerful New York Times op-ed titled “Why I Speak Up for Black Women” that caught Waters’ attention, moving her to write a letter the leader of the Hot Girls applauding her piece. Waters wrote, “I read the op-ed you wrote that appeared in the New York Times recently, and I can’t thank you enough for bringing much-needed attent...
SZA Partners With TAZO Tea For Climate Justice Initiative, Offering Green Jobs To Impacted Communities
Source: TAZO / TAZO For fans of SZA, most know that she promotes a healthy lifestyle and positive representation of self which lends themselves to her talents as a creative artist. The TDE vocalist has parted with TAZO Tea and its climate justice initiative, TAZO Tree Corps. Announced last week (Feb. 17), the new partnership will focus on climate justice and create a paid and locally-hired workforce who will work under the TAZO Tree Corps umbrella and help with tree planting and maintenance. These jobs would automatically have an immediate impact as the TAZO Tree Corps has aims that the workforce will be made up of residents of the most impacted communities. SZA joins the effort due to her own experiences with climate injustice, in where Black, Brown, and Indigenous communities are more li...
Wiz Khalifa ft. A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie “Millions,” Juice WRLD “Conversations,” & More | Daily Visuals 2.23.21
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz It’s close to a year since Wiz Khalifa released the deluxe version of his EP The Saga of Wiz Khalifa and though he’s dropped seemingly hundreds of visuals since then the man finally got around to dropping a video for one of the album’s standout tracks. Linking up with A Boogie Wit Da Hoodie for his visuals to “Millions,” Wiz puffs on that sticky icky (no surprise) and uses some crazy special effects to entice viewers and show them what it’s like when they puff that Khalifa Kush. We needs some of that right about now. Juice WRLD fans meanwhile get to celebrate the memory of the man as today we get the posthumous clip to “Conversations” where after some dirt bikin’ and concert footage we get a never before heard freestyle from the young rapper. Rest in...
Tchami, Virtual Riot, More to Perform at Insomniac East’s Inaugural Abduction Festival
Insomniac East has announced the inaugural lineup of their new festival, Abduction 2021: The Florida Invasion. EDM fans of all genres can find their place here as the lineup offers an eclectic selection ranging from dubstep to deep house. Powerhouse artists set to appear at the Orlando fest include Diplo, Tchami, and Habstrakt along with bass music aficionados Barely Alive, Dirty Audio and Virtual Riot. Check out the full lineup and announcement below. According to the festival’s newly minted microsite, organizers hope to make this event as safe as possible amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Masks must be worn at all times within the venue, temperatures will be checked at the door, and the Insomniac team vows to wipe down high-contact spots throughout the event. The anno...
Check Out the 3D-Rendered Early Concept Art for Excision’s Subsidia Records
When Excision announced the launch of his own record label back in September 2020, it was clear he had a vision. Before Subsidia Records became a powerhouse tastemaker in the electronic music scene, it existed only in a conceptual mood-board. The artwork, which the label shared today, shows an opulent cityscape that mirrors its status as a bass music utopia. Check out the early concept art below, courtesy of a serendipitous post by Subsidia’s Twitter account. Subsidia Records Subsidia Records Subsidia Records Subsidia Records Subsidia Records, of course, eventually kicked the EDM community’s door down with a stupefying 118-track debut compilation. Constructed as a four-part narrative, the expansive record explored a slew of electronic sub-genres, such as dubstep,...
J.I.D Pops Off on New Song “Skegee”: Stream
J.I.D. in “Skegee” video J.I.D packs a history lesson into his searing new track about man’s inhumanity to man with his new track “Skegee”. “Skegee” takes its title from the infamous and horrifying Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the African American Male. The experiment launched in 1932 under the auspices of science, but at its core it was nothing but cruelty. Researchers promised about 400 Black men with syphilis free health care, but instead of offering treatment, they watched hundreds of men die. Proving that the experiment had nothing to do with research, the project continued for decades after penicillin was known to cure syphilis. As The Associated Press reported in a shocking exposé in 1972, “even after penicillin became common, and while its use probably c...
