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Bentley’s New Styling Specification Is Made for Fans of Carbon Fiber
As we’ve noted in previous reviews, the Flying Spur is the best Bentley sedan of the modern era thanks to its sumptuous interior and effortless acceleration. Now, a carbon fiber package promises to give the sedan even more road presence. The updates are subtle, but likely won’t go unnoticed by discerning Bentley customers. The Styling Specification adds carbon fiber accents to the Flying Spur’s front splitter, side sills, rear diffuser, and rear spoiler. Bentley has performed a battery of tests to make sure the carbon fiber bits don’t disturb the sedan’s performance. The parts were also tested for durability to withstand curb strikes, wading, and poor roads. Bentley even paid close attention to the badging, giving the side sills a special three-dimensional ele...
Blackpink Tease Upcoming Album, Talk Churning ‘Ice Cream’ With Selena Gomez: Watch
Selena Gomez and BLACKPINK hopped on the air with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe on Friday morning (Aug. 28) to talk about their superstar collab on “Ice Cream” and what a blast it was to blend their voices. “I’m so excited. The girls are so cool, and I love their music. I just think that they know… They have this thing about them… I had such a good time with them over FaceTime,” Gomez said in her video chat with Lowe. And while the original plan was for all of them to be together, but of course the COVID-19 pandemic changed all that. “But it felt so fun,” Gomez added, dipping into the fun she had filming the colorful, playful video for the track, which dropped Friday morning. “Recording the song, having a blast doing that, but then also...
The 13 Best Things That Happened in Music This Week (August 28)
If you’re just waking up on this glorious Friday, you’re about to discover what much of Twitter already knows: Selena Gomez and Blackpink’s epic new collaboration “Ice Cream” has arrived. We know what we’ll be doing for the next few days: “Ice cream chillin’, chillin’, ice cream chillin’!” Plus, we’re heading into VMAs weekend, and you can brush up on your music video history ahead of the big night by checking out our list of the 100 greatest music video artists of all time. Take a look at all of that — and more of the week’s biggest music happenings — below. Taylor Swift’s Folklore ruled for a fourth week Swift’s latest set topped the Billboard 200 chart once again, with 101,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Aug. 20. Billboard’s...
Diplo to Release Ambient Album to Raise Awareness for Mental Health
Grammy-winning producer and EDM renaissance man Diplo has announced a surprise ambient album, teaming up with meditation app Calm to preview the record ahead of its release. MMXX will be out in full next week, but fans can listen to five tracks now. Diplo also shared the news that he will be directing proceeds from sales of the album to Beam Collective and The Loveland Foundation in the name of mental health awareness. Diplo took to Facebook to share a heartfelt message about the inspiration behind the album, which was born out his goal to reinitiate the conversation surrounding mental health amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and racial tension in the US. “First all the flights got canceled then schools, restaurants and shops closed.. slowly people or th...
Flaming Lips Share ‘Mother Please Don’t Be Sad’ Video
The Flaming Lips have shared a slew of videos in the build-up to their upcoming album, American Head, and today, they added to that stunning array of clips with “Mother Please Don’t Be Sad.” The lyrics, based on singer Wayne Coyne’s teenaged near-death-experience, include the poignant “I didn’t mean to die tonight / but those robbers were so fast / their guns and their anger and I lost the fight. “ The song’s socially-distanced video was filmed safely during quarantine in the band’s native Oklahoma and directed by Coyne and longtime collaborator George Salisbury. Watch the video below. [embedded content] Additionally, The Lips have created a series of mini-documentaries highlighting songs from American Head. Click to view the mini-docs for “You n Me Sellin’ Weed (below)...
Kenosha Police Name Rusten Shesky As Officer Who Shot Jacob Blake
Source: Brandon Bell / Getty Looks like NBA players striking in the middle of the NBA Playoffs in the name of social justice might’ve worked a bit. Days after Jacob Blake was shot by an unnamed police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, authorities finally released the name of the trigger happy law enforcement officer hours after the Milwaukee Bucks began a day of NBA playoff boycotting. According to The Guardian, Rusten Sheskey was finally named as the police officer who shot an unarmed and unaggressive Jacob Blake in the back in front of his children, in turn sparking days protests in the streets of Kenosha, Wisconsin. The 7-year veteran was recorded on video holding on to Blake’s white shirt as he made his way to his car before Sheskey inexplicably pumped 7 bullets into his back after he ope...
Barack Obama Praises The NBA & WNBA For Leading Boycott & Calling For Police Reform
Source: NurPhoto / Getty While its crickets from the White House as another Black man was viciously gunned down by the police, our forever President, Barack Obama, is still speaking up and commending those taking action. Following the monumental decision that saw NBA & WNBA superstars say enough, put down the basketball and boycott games in the wake of Jacob Blake’s shooting, and the protests that immediately followed, Barack Obama has chimed in. The 44th President of the United States praised both professional sports leagues for their decision to not play in response to the Blake, an unarmed Black man being shot in the back seven times by a Kenosha police officer leaving him paralyzed. In his tweet that featured the clip of Doc Rivers passionately driving home the point that “this cou...
UK’s Night Time Industries Association Wants Nightclubs to Reopen—With Masks and Social Distancing
With nightlife across the United Kingdom (and the rest of the world) still at a virtual standstill amid regulations and safety precautions enacted in order to limit the spread of COVID-19, nightclubs and venues are facing a severe fallout with no way to reopen. The Night Time Industries Association is now making a push to get the UK government to allow clubs to operate once again, but if it happens, things certainly won’t go back to the way they were before the pandemic. “Whilst there are some areas of increased risks over other sectors there are many real benefits that such businesses have over other sectors,” said a report from the NTIA. “Particularly, [as] all our venues have security to give 100% cover of matters such as temperature checks, track and t...
2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV—Electric SUV—Coming Soon, Gets Super Cruise
Looks like the 2022 Chevrolet Bolt EUV, the SUV version of the bow-tie’s small electric car, is still on track for sale next summer. The EUV is the second vehicle in the Bolt electric car family. It is slightly larger, hardier, and designed to look a little more like an SUV than a car and offer more interior room to play with. Importantly, the Bolt EUV will be the first vehicle outside the Cadillac brand to offer Super Cruise, the driver-assistance technology that allows for hands-free highway driving on mapped roads. Sleeker Profile Sets Bolt EUV Apart As you can see from the teaser released by General Motors, the EUV has a much sleeker silhouette than the frumpy Bolt hatchback, with a roofline that ends in a rear spoiler. The beltline angles up gently as it proceeds from the A-pill...
JoJo Unveils Deluxe Edition of ‘Good to Know,’ Featuring ‘Lonely Hearts’ Demi Lovato Remix
JoJo‘s sassy, empowering Good to Know album got a new twist. The singer dropped the deluxe edition of her recent project on Friday (Aug. 28), featuring a number of new songs and remixes. The “Too Little Too Late” singer called on some of her fellow female acts to assist on some sultry songs, including Demi Lovato on “Lonely Hearts” and Tinashe on a new track called “Love Reggae.” However, one person who doesn’t appear on the project is Tory Lanez, who was featured on the original album with 30 Roc on “Comeback.” The news came last week, after Megan Thee Stallion confirmed that the rapper is the one who shot her in a recent incident. In a statement to Billboard, the singer said, “It felt like the righ...
Dua Lipa Welcomes You to ‘Club Future Nostalgia’ With New Remix Album: Stream It Now
Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Dua Lipa is bringing the fun of a nightclub to the comfort of our socially distanced homes. The pop star dropped her Club Future Nostalgia remix album on Friday (Aug. 28), featuring fresh new spins on Future Nostalgia favorites. Most notably, the 17-track effort includes the epic “Levitating” remix by The Blessed Madonna, featuring Madonna and Missy Elliott. “I see her and I saw this album as a part of this whole history of subversive women in pop music,” The Blessed Madonna recently told Zane Lowe of Lipa’s music. “And for me, the great dance records are pop records and the great pop records are dance records and those things live together. And then to be able to have all of this content ...
Calvin Harris & The Weeknd Drop Their Collab ‘Over Now’: Listen
The Internet went on high alert last week when Calvin Harris and The Weeknd both shared cryptic but suggestive Instagram images that pointed to a forthcoming collab. Today (Aug.28) that track, “Over Now” is here. The song is deeply smooth, R&B-leaning breakup jam with flourishes of funk and synth shimmer that serves as base for The Weekend to deliver lyrics in which he implores his ex to stop calling. The video finds a digitally rendered and fairly psychedelic avatar of the singer dancing around a series of Web 1.0 landscapes that altogether have heavy aesthetic influences of Daft Punk, Gesaffelstein and Blade Runner. “Over Now” is the Scottish producer’s first release as Calvin Harris since his 2019 single “Giant” with Rag’n’Bone M...
