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Ariana Grande & Lady Gaga’s ‘Rain on Me’ Is Here: Listen
Two pop queens have at last crossed paths in the highly anticipated “Rain on Me,” which dropped on Friday (May 22). The song showcases both Ariana Grande and Lady Gaga‘s unmatched vocals, and comes just one week after the duo announced the release date for their high-profile collab. “I said to her, ‘OK, now everything that you care about while you sing, I want you to forget it and just sing,'” Gaga recently told Zane Lowe of the collaboration on Apple Music. “‘And by the way, while you’re doing that, I’m going to dance in front of you. And she was like, ‘Oh my God. Oh my God, I can’t, I can’t. I don’t know. Oh my God. OK, OK.’ And then I did it and she sang, and she started to do things with her voice...
Dreamville “Don’t Hit Me Right Now,” Too $hort ft. Ymtk, Bandaide and Oke Junior “Give ‘Em The Blues” & More | Daily Visuals 5.21.20
Source: Jonathan Mannion / Interscope It’s been a hot minute since the release of Dreamville’s Revenge Of The Dreamers 3 but with the amount of artists featured on the project they can continue to drop new visuals for the album cuts from here till 2022. The latest track to get the visual treatment is the Cozz, Yung Baby Tate, Guapadad 4000 and Buddy featured “Don’t Hit Me Right Now” which features each artist doing their thing individually before squadin’ up to show they all family. Elsewhere the OG pimp known as Too $hort shows that he’s still got that game that keep him surrounded by women as he turns up with Ymtk, Bandaide and Oke Junior in the clip to “Give ‘Em The Blues.” We wonder how Too $hort would’ve faired in this politically correct era with an album like Born To Mack. Check out...
Green Day Cover Blondie’s ‘Dreaming’
Billie Joe Armstrong has been on a roll when it comes to cover songs. His No Fun Mondays have seen him run through a number of covers spanning different eras and apparently that’s translated over to his band. Green Day shared their version of Blondie’s “Dreaming,” which comes from the band’s 1979 album of the same name. The clip for the song opens with a dog staring lonely into the abyss (a lot like us) dreaming of days gone by, which in this case, means going to big concerts (or any really). It features footage of the band on the road and performing live and dreaming of days gone by. Green Day was one of the first bands to change their touring schedule due to the coronavirus pandemic. Their latest album, Father of All…, was released in February. Read our interview with the ...
Watch Big 1970s Cars Decimate Their Smaller Siblings in Vintage Crash Test Footage
You might remember that a while back, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety crashed a few modern cars into their vintage counterparts to show, in part, how far crash safety had progressed. But what stuck in our minds wasn’t how intact the passenger cells of the modern cars remained, but rather how mangled the old cars were. We’re thinking in particular of the ’59 Bel Air slamming into a 2009 Malibu, and the Nissan Tsuru (an early 1990s Sentra sold in Mexico until 2017) crashing into a modern Sentra. Yowzers. How about two 1970s-vintage cars crashing into each other? And make one of them full-sized in the 1970s sense of the term—aircraft carriers, basically—and the other the relevant company’s compact. We’re talking about the Ford Pinto, Chevrolet Vega, an...
Rivers Cuomo Covers Green Day in Latest Zoom Session
Last week, Rivers Cuomo covered Nirvana’s “Heart-Shaped Box” in what he’s calling his Islands in the Zoom sessions. This week, he went back to the ’90s for another cover. Cuomo and his bandmates were supposed to hit the road this summer with Green Day and Fall Out Boy for the Hella Mega Tour, but, like almost everything else, it was pushed to 2o21. Tipping his cap to (one of) his tourmates, Cuomo covered Green Day’s “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).” He was joined by his wife on piano. “Hey guys, so sorry about the postponement of HELLA MEGA. Here’s an acoustic cover of Green Day’s Time of your Life. (My wife joined me!) Next summer we shall rock,” Cuomo said in a tweet. Hey guys, so sorry about the postponement of HELLA MEGA. Here’s an acoustic cover of Green Day’s...
Drum&BassArena to Release Groundbreaking Documentary “Drum & Bass: The Movement”
Established in Sheffield circa 1996, Drum&BassArena has cemented itself as the foremost hub for all things DnB. Its roots as a breakbeat-oriented website have grown to spread into a full-fledged brand encompassing official compilations, tours, merchandise, and more. With such a rich history and passion for the genre, it was only natural for Drum&BassArena to compile that history into one massive exposé. That’s exactly what it has done, and a new documentary called Drum & Bass: The Movement is now on the way. Five years in the making, The Movement is a feature-length documentary that explores the entire breadth of the genre from its roots right up to the present. Directed by Bailey Hyatt, produced by Craig Haynes, and written by Dave Jen...
Guns N’ Roses to Stream Not in This Lifetime Shows
Add Guns N’ Roses to the growing list of artists who are streaming past shows while in quarantine. The rockers launched their Not in This Lifetime Selects streaming series on Thursday, with a 2019 show from Salt Lake City at Vivint Smart Home Arena serving as the first one. The 25-song show stuck closely to the setlist that was the foundation of the nearly four-year tour. Guns N’ Roses’ last show before the COVID-19 pandemic was in Mexico. They have since postponed South American tour dates and canceled a summer stadium tour of the U.S. Watch the show here: [embedded content] Check out the setlist below. It’s So EasyMr. BrownstoneChinese DemocracyWelcome to the JungleDouble Talkin’ JiveBetterEstrangedLive and Let Die (Wings cover)Slither (Velvet Revolver cover)Rocket QueenYou Could Be...
Barbz Threaten Claudia Jordan’s Family After She Says Lil Kim Came Before Nicki Minaj
Source: Mindy Small / Getty Claudia Jordan is calling out Nicki Minaj‘s Barbz for online harassment of her and her family after fans began attacking her online over comments she made regarding Nicki Minaj and Lil’ Kim. Earlier this week on her show, Out Loud with Claudia Jordan, Claudia and the crew were discussing the #Verzuz battle between Ludacris and Nelly that took place over the weekend, before excitedly discussing who they would like to see battle next. It was at this point that things went left. During the episode, both Claudia Jordan and Lisa Raye discussed points brought up in the official recap with #Verzuz co-creator Swizz Beatz and Usher regarding a Lil Kim and Nicki Minaj battle. During the recap, Usher revealed that he didn’t feel Lil Kim and Nicki Minaj would be a good matc...
A Perfect Match: Megan The Stallion Announced As Savage x Fenty Latest Brand Partner
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz In a move that makes all the sense in the world, Rihanna’s announced the Hot Girl, Megan The Stallion as Savage x Fenty’s newest brand partner. If you didn’t know already, Meg rapped about being a savage, classy, bougie, ratchet, those qualities on her viral hit “Savage.” Those same qualities also happen to perfectly embody Rihanna’s insanely popular lingerie line, Savage x Fent. So it should come as to no surprise that everyone was thrilled with the announcement made today (May.21) by the “Umbrella” singer and her company. In a statement Rihanna spoke on the decision to work with Megan stating: “Meg is the energy we were looking for. She is a risktaker with an attitude, character, and personality.” It also helps that decision comes right on ti...
Disclosure Announces First LP In Five Years, Shares Tracklist Along with Album Single “ENERGY”
After a 5-year hiatus on the album front, Disclosure is reentering the fray after dropping a bomb of an announcement that their forthcoming ENERGY LP is on the way. ENERGY flaunts a star-studded rolodex of collaborations, including Kehlani, Common, Kelis, slowthai, Channel Tres, and Aminé, among others. The famed dance music duo also released the project’s titular track along with the announcement, staying true to their deep house roots. “ENERGY” churns along to the groovy house rhythms that helped to catapult them to international stardom while featuring a sample of hip-hop preacher Eric Thomas, who EDM fans may recognize as the voice behind Disclosure’s fan favorite 2013 single “When a Fire Starts to Burn.” Refresh your memory below. “The thing that decide...
Why Madonna Brought 14 Cape Verdean Drummers on Tour – And What They Taught Her
In 2017, Madonna thought she was moving to Portugal to “be a soccer mom,” but instead, the 61-year-old icon found inspiration for her then-upcoming album, Madame X, thanks to a friend she calls her “musical plug,” Dino d’Santiago. One night, the Cape Verde-born, Lisbon-based singer — who coached Madonna on how to speak Portuguese and sing in Portuguese and Creole — had arranged a concert for her by Batukadeiras Orquesta, a group of female drummers specializing in batuka, a rhythmic call-and-response style created in Cape Verde during the early days of the slave trade. “I’d never seen anything like it, never heard anything like it. So of course, I couldn’t get it out of my head,” says Madonna. She invited several members of the collective to perform on her album and even brought some to the...
How Tom Holkenborg Returned to His Dance Music Roots for the Score of a New Netflix Series
In 1998, Ibiza was becoming one of the world’s freshest and most exciting destinations for dance music. The music was new, the nights were long and the tan lines were deep. Tom Holkenborg was there, performing sets under his DJ name Junkie XL. In the decades that have followed, Holkenborg’s career has evolved from producing tracks to scoring, with his work soundtracking dozens of movies and television shows including Mad Max: Fury Road, Deadpool, The Dark Tower, Terminator: Dark Fate and the recently released Scooby Doo flick, Scoob! But arguably, none of these projects have fused Holkenborg’s history as a DJ with this current profession as well as his recent project White Lines. Premiering on Netflix May 15, the series tells the story of a woman who t...
