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Pretty Lights Wipes His Instagram, Sparking Rumors of New Music
What does Pretty Lights have up his sleeve? The renowned multi-instrumentalist and DJ has wiped his Instagram account, leading many to believe he may have new music to promote. Pretty Lights, who continues to be one of the most prolific artists in electronic music despite a lengthy hiatus from the scene, hasn’t released a full album since 2013’s A Color Map of the Sun and its b-side, The Hidden Shades. He has treated fans to a few singles since, like “Only Yesterday” and “Rainbows & Waterfalls, but for the most part, he has remained dormant. It’s important to note that this news is—by no means—a firm confirmation of new Pretty Lights music on the horizon. However, such a move does indicate that a big announcement may be looming. W...
Major Lazer Announce Release Date of First Album in Five Years and Drive-In Concert Tour
It’s been five years since Major Lazer dropped an album, but the wait is almost over. Fans can now look forward to the impending release of Music Is The Weapon after the Latin Grammy Award-nominated group announced the official release date of their highly anticipated fourth studio album. Major Lazer took to Twitter to share the news that the record will drop on October 23rd, 2020. Major Lazer’s last full-length album came back in summer 2015 when they released Peace Is the Mission, a critically acclaimed project that featured arguably the group’s most famous song to date, the DJ Snake-assisted global hit “Lean On” featuring MØ. If the trio’s recent singles are any indication, fans can expect a similar moombah-pop crossover style in Music Is T...
John Lennon Tribute Concert to Feature Patti Smith, Jackson Browne and More
The 40th Annual John Lennon Tribute, featuring previously unseen and newly recorded performances Jackson Browne, Patti Smith, Natalie Merchant, Taj Mahal, Rosanne Cash, Bettye LaVette and more can be viewed online beginning on the late Beatles’ birthday, Oct. 9 at 7 p.m. ET. It will be shown through Oct. 12 at Midnight and benefits the Theatre Within’s Real Love Fund. The program will include unreleased performances from previous Tributes, plus new performances of Lennon and, of course, Beatles classics. For more information, and to view the concert, go here. “For 40 years, Theatre Within has remembered John with its heartfelt annual tribute, while having a powerful positive impact with its John Lennon Real Love Project music program for those by impacted cancer. What a wonderful...
Pearl Jam, David Byrne, Postal Service and More Contribute New Songs to Voting Rights Compilation
If you thought the first Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, which featured R.E.M., Hayley Williams, Matt Berninger, Phoebe Bridgers and more was a colossus, wait ’til you see this. Good Music to Avert the Collapse of American Democracy, Volume 2, featuring 77 previously unreleased songs from Pearl Jam, David Byrne, Postal Service, Mark Ronson, Big Boi and Sleepy Brown, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and many more will be available for 24 hours only on Bandcamp This Friday, Oct, 2. One hundred percent of those net proceeds go to Voting Rights Lab, a nonpartisan organization that brings state advocacy, policy, and legislative expertise to the fight for voting rights. GMTATCOAD Volume Two will feature a slew never-before-heard new songs, covers, remixes, live versions, ...
Atlanta-Based Activist Sir Maejor Page Arrested For Wire Fraud & Money Laundering
Source: Chris McKay / Getty All skinfolk, ain’t kinfolk. An Atlanta-based activist is making that quite clear after he got caught being funny with BLM donation money. AJC is reporting is that Sir Maejor Page, also known as Tyree Conyers-Page, who founded the Black Lives Matter Greater Atlanta Facebook page, is in some serious trouble. The FBI claims that Page spent more than $200,000 in donations that were sent to a GoFundMe account linked to the page that was intended to go to the Black Lives Matter movement. According to investigators, Page used the money on numerous personal purchases, including high-end clothing, a home, furniture, accessories, and more. Page was arrested on Friday (Sept.25) in Toledo, Ohio. The purchases were broken down in the federal complaint with Page spending $1,...
DJ Drama & Lil Wayne Set To Relaunch ‘Dedication’ Mixtape Series With ‘D7’
Source: BET Awards 2020 / Getty It seems one of the most impactful street release series is making a comeback. DJ Drama confirmed he is linking back up with Lil Wayne. As spotted on Hype Beast the New Orleans critically acclaimed Dedication mixtape series will see another installment. On Monday, September 28 DJ Drama made a very noteworthy post to his Instagram account. The visual is a throwback photo of him and Weezy and the caption made it clear the two will be working once again. “Happy Birthday @liltunechi 🐐 ‼️ D7… 2021″ he wrote. While the message was intended to salute the “How To Love” rapper on his birthday the latter part of the note was a nod to their very popular mixtape series. Originally release in April 2005 The Dedication would help him s...
Foot Locker & Chinatown Market Collab For Worthy Cause
Source: Foot Locker x Chinatown Market / Foot Locker Foot Locker must be following P. Diddy’s 90’s mantra because in 2020 they on some old “Can’t Stop, won’t stop” ish for real for real. Source: Foot Locker x Chinatown Market / Foot Locker After launching all kinds of remix packs, collaborations and even an Air Max hub for the heads, Foot Locker is now gearing up for a new product launch via their Collaboraid initiative and it’s pretty damn spiffy. Continuing to release new product every Wednesday, today (Sep. 30) Foot Locker is releasing their latest collaboration merchandise with the street wear brand, Chinatown Market, which will consist of some cool tees and sweatshirts that feature some familiar looking bears that’ll make OG Lo Lives make a double-take. The designs are meant to pay ho...
Jordan Brand Intros REAL TALK Content Series Hosted By Angela Rye
Source: Jordan Brand / Jordan Brand You know it’s real when even Michael Jordan is woke. Today (Sept. 30), Jordan Brand announced a new content series titled REAL TALK that will delve into socio-political issues facing the Black community and will be hosted by social commentator and political analyst Angela Rye. REAL TALK aims to tap into core issues surrounding the Black community by featuring convos with guests from the sports world and entertainment with hopes of creating real solutions that can be acted on. The first episode premieres on Wednesday, October 7 and will stream on Jordan Brand’s YouTube and Instagram channels. The scheduled special guests include JB athlete and NBA star Chris Paul and writer/activist Baratunde Thurston. This is only JB’s latest salvo in the ...
Nefarious-Sounding Hyundai Elantra N Sedan Blats Into View
Hyundai has revealed an all-new Elantra N TCR race car—and also previewed the Elantra N performance street car, to boot. The TCR (for Touring Car Racing) is the latest in a budding line of TCR customer race cars released by Hyundai, following the $155,000 Veloster N TCR and the Euro-market i30 TCR hatchbacks. (VW, Honda, and Mazda are among the automakers also offering TCR racers based on production cars.) You could spring for the winged, caged, and wild-lookin’ Elantra N TCR if you’re a racing team, but let’s get real: It’s highly likely the car it’s based on is of greater relevance to you, and the TCR reveals several key clues about the upcoming Elantra N. Chief among those juicy details? That the TCR race car is “front-wheel drive and is powered by a ...
2021 Ram 1500 TRX’s Know & Go App Teaches Owners With Augmented Reality
The Know & Go app offers augmented reality to overlay instructions and explanations on certain features, notifications of undiscovered features, overviews on functionalities, how-to videos, and bookmarked feature-specific owner’s manual pages. For the augmented reality portion, the app uses your phone’s camera to overlay a description of whatever the lens is pointed at on the TRX. As the winner of FCA’s Pitch Night program in June, where the company solicits new ideas from its employees, the Know & Go app went from concept to market-ready in less than three months. More than 500 ideas were submitted for Pitch Night, which were reduced to 50 through employee online voting and then further reduced to 14 by leadership. The finalists received further coaching before p...
FUZZ Release Guitar-Laden Single ‘Spit’
FUZZ — the project consisting of Ty Segall, Chad Ubovich and Charles Moothart — will release their first album in five years next month. In July, the trio shared “Returning” and now, the second song from that upcoming collection has emerged. “Spit” is a smattering of guitars that channels vintage ’90s alt and classic garage rock (and all of the great aspects of both genres) and dirt-under -your-fingernails grit, which makes perfect sense since they had Steve Albini mix the album. The video for the clip was created by Moothart, who used his quarantine time wisely and learned how to make stop-motion videos. Here’s what Moothart had to say about the tune and clip: ‘Spit’ was written early in the process of working on III. When Ty and I first started working on this song, we didn’t know i...
Ikaya Feels It’s ‘Unfair’ for Her & Dexta Daps ‘to Be Blamed’ for Seemingly Crowded New York, New Jersey Concerts
Fans of Dexta Daps and Ikaya appeared to have a grand time on Sept. 26 and 27 at the reggae artists’ New York and New Jersey shows, dancing and singing along. But after videos of the seemingly crowded outdoor events surfaced on Instagram — while the coronavirus pandemic is ongoing — the criticism started rolling in. “The promoters, @dextadaps and all others directly responsible for the staging of this event during a deadly pandemic are a bunch of dummies,” an Instagram user commented on one of the videos from the Brooklyn performance. “Trust me, the city will hit you all with some hefty fines..not excluding possible jail time…” Now, Ikaya — the Jamaican reggae, R&B and dancehall singer who is featured on Daps’ song “Nose...
