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The Killers Perform ‘Mr Brightside’ on Monday Night Football
On Monday night, the Las Vegas Raiders (it feels as weird to type as it does to look at) played their first home at Allegiant Stadium across the 15 highway from the Strip. The team was tied at halftime, but they did get a warm welcome from a Vegas institution: the Killers. In a pretaped performance, the group played on a makeshift stage on high above the Strip. “It’s our pleasure to welcome the Raiders to fabulous Las Vegas, Nevada” Brandon Flowers said. “I think we have just the song for the occasion.” The band then plowed through a version of “Mr. Brightside.” Earlier this year, the Killers released their latest studio album, Imploding the Mirage. You can read our review of it here. Check out the performance below. [embedded content] You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are ...
Foot Locker Launches The Endless World of Air Max Hub
Source: Foot Locker / Foot Locker Foot Locker out here making all kinds of power moves for the culture. Source: Foot Locker / Foot Locker Days after announcing they’d be turning 2,000 of their stores into voting locations for November’s Presidential election, Foot Locker is now launching a brand new interactive sneaker hub using Google slides for sneakerheads who have an affinity for Air Max’s. The Endless World of Air Max will be serving as a “one-stop-shop” for Air Max heads and will keep them updated on upcoming drops and easy ways to cop once they become available. Aside from obviously allowing heads to purchase kicks when they can, the hub also has some other cool features for visitors of the site. Real-Time Hub Updates: Foot Locker will constantly update the experience in real t...
Respect The Pioneers: GORE-TEX Inventor Bob Gore Has Passed Away
Source: George Frey/RETIRED / Getty If you ever wore clothing specifically made for the outdoors then you need to take a moment of silence. The father to one of the greatest fashion inventions is no longer with us. As spotted on High Snobiety Bob Gore, the inventor of GORE-TEX, has passed away on Thursday, September 17. In 1969 Bob Gore stretched heated rods of polytetrafluoroethylene and created expanded polytetrafluoroethylene. His discovery of the right conditions for stretching PTFE was a happy accident, born partly out of frustration. Instead of slowly stretching the heated material, he applied a sudden, accelerating yank. “I decided to give one of these rods a huge stretch, fast, a jerk and it stretched 1000%” he said. After some more testing he introduced it to the public under...
Bobby Shmurda Denied Parole, May Serve Max Sentence
Source: Bennett Raglin/BET / Getty Bobby Shmurda got some bad news. The Brooklyn rapper has been denied parole and won’t see release until 2021. Shmurda has already been in jail for almost six years after his late December 2014 arrest. After being repeatedly denied bail pleaded guilty to conspiracy and criminal possession of a weapon charges in September 2016. A month later, the “Hot N*gga” rapper was sentenced to 7 years in jail. But with credit for time served, and good behavior, Shmurda and his team hoped he’d be out in 3 and a half years. However, TMZ reports that Shmurda was interviewed by the parole board last week and his request for release was denied. At the moment no reason has been given for the denial. The speculation is that Shmurda not being a model inmate at least factored i...
Vicky Cornell Shares Unreleased Clip of Chris Cornell’s ‘Only These Words’ for Daughter’s Birthday
Chris Cornell‘s daughter Toni turned 16 on Friday (Sept. 18), and to celebrate, Vicky Cornell shared a touching photo of the late singer smiling and hugging Toni alongside a a previously unreleased clip of the original version of his Higher Truth song “Only These Words.” “Your dad would be so proud of the smart, strong, beautiful, and confident woman you are growing up to be,” Vicky wrote in the caption. “You are so very loved, and you give so much love, freely and unconditionally. Your first sentence was “I love you” to your baby brother when you first met him. As your dad so perfectly sang and what it’s always all about – ‘Only these three words repeating…I love you…’ Continue to do great things, my sweet girl. He...
Fans Voted & This Is Their Favorite RBD Album
It took eight years for RBD’s entire music catalog, including all of their hits and chart-topping albums, to be available on all streaming platforms such as Spotify, YouTube, and Deezer, to name a few. To celebrate, Billboard asked readers and devoted fans to vote for the best album by the former Mexican group, composed by Anahi, Dulce María, Christian Chávez, Alfonso Herrera, Christopher von Uckermann, and Maite Perroni. After a two-week poll, fans crowned Nuestro Amor, taking more than 43 percent of the votes. The album is followed by Empezar Desde Cero and Rebelde. Nuestro Amor marks RBD’s second studio album released in 2005, home to hits such as “Nuestro Amor,” “Aun Hay Algo,” and “Este Corazón.” “The fact our fans were able to make this happen because they were the ones that didnR...
Travis Scott’s ‘Franchise’ Is Arriving This Week
Travis Scott had fans hyped for his new single “Franchise” by making it available for pre-order last week for only 69 cents. Now, the song has an official release date. The rapper announced that “Franchise” will be arriving on Friday (Sept. 25) via Cactus Jack/Epic. The accompanying cover art features a colorful, exclusive design by contemporary American artist George Condo. Pre-order the deluxe CD single, deluxe cassette single and digital single here. “Franchise” will be his first solo single since 2019’s “Highest in the Room.” He also contributed “The Plan” to the film Tenet earlier this year. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be...
Tyler Childers Challenges His ‘White Rural Listeners’ to Empathize With Black Americans in Powerful Video
Tyler Childers directed a YouTube video toward his “white rural listeners” about the Long Violent History, his surprise album that he dropped Friday (Sept. 18), behind the age-old target on the backs of Black Americans. “Long Violent History is a collection of instrumental pieces intended to create a sonic soundscape for the listener to set the tone to reflect on the last track, which is my own observational piece on the times we are in,” Childers clarified about the project’s main track in the six-minute video posted Monday (Sept. 21). While lamenting on the current times brought on by the COVID-19 crisis and police brutality, he justifies the angst and anger Americans have been feeling. And for those in his Appalachian-based fanbase who can...
Travis Scott to Release New Single ‘Franchise’ This Friday
It’s been a busy 2020 for Travis Scott. The rapper has collaborated with a number of artists — including Kanye West’s “Wash Us in Blood” — contributed another to Christopher Nolan’s Tenet and currently has a collaboration with McDonald’s that’s ongoing. But, Scott is releasing another new tune on Friday (Sept. 25) on Epic/Cactus Jack. Titled “Franchise,” the tune features cover art by artist George Condo. If it looks familiar, there’s a good reason why. You may best remember Condo for his work on West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy and you can see what the artist has cooked up below. CREDIT: George Condo You can preorder the cassette and/or CD single here. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating shou...
Marc Rebillet Announces Recording of Debut Album
Fans of the sultry synth slayer Marc Rebillet have begun to gyrate their hips in anticipation after his latest reveal. On Twitter, the one affectionately called “Loop Daddy” shared the news that tomorrow marks the first day in the production of his debut album. Rebillet explained that like his live shows, the record will be done on the fly, so it will be interesting to see how wild he gets with his first LP. When asked about potential collaborators, he revealed in a follow-up tweet that the reason he’s traveling for the recording is to pursue collaborative efforts. Rebillet recently finished a monthlong tour that saw him perform live for fans at a number of drive-in theaters across the country. Towards the end of the run, he shocked attendees by bringing out the...
Giant “F*CK CUOMO AND DE BLASIO” Message Painted On Brooklyn Street
Source: Pacific Press / Getty Though New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio helped navigate New York through a grueling and horrifying few months during the Coronavirus pandemic to the point where life is semi-normal once again, many New Yorkers are still harboring hard feelings towards the elected leaders and let as much be known on the streets of Brooklyn. The New York Post is reporting that during an block party this past Saturday night in Brooklyn, partygoers decided to send a not to subtle message to the states governor and city’s mayor and painted “F*CK CUOMO AND DE BLASIO” on the streets of North 15th Street between Wythe Avenue and Banker Street in Williamsburg. Similar to the “BLACK LIVES MATTER” mural that was painted in front of Trump Tower, the sign is...
Emmys So Black: Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Regina King, Zendaya & More Snag Golden Lady Statuettes
Source: ABC / Getty it was a fantastic night for Black Hollywood during the 72nd annual Primetime Emmy Awards. Despite the COVID-19 global pandemic still being a thing, the show went on as television’s brightest all converged on Hollywood virtually, while in the safety of their own watch party bubbles and homes. We not gonna lie, while watching Schitt’s Creek sweep all comedy categories, which meant that Insecure coming off its best season, nabbed one award out its 8 nominations, we were beginning to worry if it was gonna be a long night. BUT, it was refreshing to see Dan Levy, who won awards for writing, directing, and supporting actor shoutout of Issa Rae’s hit HBO comedy series in one his acceptance speeches. “I want to recognize Issa Rae and the writers on Insecure for writi...
