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Red Hot Chili Peppers, Lil Nas X, Paramore Lead ACL Festival Lineup
Red Hot Chili Peppers, P!nk, The Chicks, Kacey Musgraves, SZA, Flume, Paramore and Lil Nas X lead the lineup for this year’s ACL Festival, which will be held the weekends of Oct. 7-9 and 14-16 across nine stages at Austin’s Zilker Park. Lil Nas X’s participation comes after he tweeted last month that he wouldn’t perform in Texas because his ex lives in the state. Also on the bill are Diplo, The War On Drugs, Zhu, Japanese Breakfast, Billy Strings, Jazmine Sullivan, Spoon, Robert Glasper, Arlo Parks and Manchester Orchestra. Carly Rae Jepsen, Lil Durk, James Blake, Kevin Morby and GAYLE are among the acts that will perform only on weekend one, while Phoenix, Yungblud, Wet Leg, Faye Webster and Princess Nokia will appear only during weekend two. Three-day tickets go on sale at 12 p.m. CT tod...
ILLENIUM, TOKiMONSTA, Disclosure, More to Perform at Outside Lands 2022: See the Full Lineup
This year’s Outside Lands lineup will cover fans of almost any genre. Moving away from their Halloween weekend dates of 2021, organizers have shifted the 2022 iteration of the California music and arts festival to August 5-7. Now, they’ve announced who will be taking the stage this year at Golden Gate Park. This year’s fest will bring out a wild mix of talent spanning hip-hop, bass music, pop, punk roc, and more. Headliners Green Day, Post Malone and SZA will lead the charge, followed by ILLENIUM, Disclosure, Jack Harlow, Lil Uzi Vert, Polo & Pan, Phoebe Bridgers and Weezer, among others. Those who just want to enjoy some electronic music will find solace in the Soma Tent, which is dedicated to all things dance. This stage will feature performances from...
The 30 Best Songs of 2021
A pair of rappers pulling off the best Tom Tom Club sample since Mariah Carey’s “Fantasy” (G Perico & Rucci), an iconic New Wave band trafficking in tongue-in-cheek nostalgia (Duran Duran), a blackgaze act embracing their love of vocal harmony (Deafheaven), and psych-rockers using the shopping mall as a metaphor for capitalist greed (My Morning Jacket) — SPIN‘s 30 Best Songs of 2021 offer something for everyone. For our latest year-end track recap, we kept our overall sorting process the same as 2020: For a cut to be eligible, it needed to be one of two things: 1) a stand-alone single released in 2021 or 2) part of an album issued in 2021. 30. Beatrice Deer – “The Storm” The sound is so simple that, at first, it feels almost formless: a primal drum groove, shards of metallic elect...
SZA Announced As The Next Artist For American Express’ Unstaged Virtual Performance Series
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: American Express UNSTAGED / SZA SZA is teaming up with American Express to celebrate her critically acclaimed album CTRL’s 4th anniversary. As part of American Express Membership Week, June 14 – June 18, members get access to five days of excitement across entertainment, retail, dining, wellness, and travel. They will also get another cool bonus, the chance to experience a one-time stream of a new, immersive virtual performance by Grammy-nominated artist SZA. The performance will go down on Thursday, June 17th at 8 pm ET and comes on the heels of SZA’s debut album’s anniversary, allowing fans the opportunity to hear and see her perform their favorite cuts off the project like “Love Galore,” “Drew Barrymore,” and “The Weekend.” In a tweet announcing the ev...
SZA Calls Out Magazine For Refusing To Hire Black Photographer For Photoshoot
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Christopher Polk/NBC / Getty It seems some media outlets are still refusing to hire from the culture they profit from. SZA has called out one publication for refusing to hire a Black photographer for her photoshoot. As reported by Madame Noire the songstress did a bit of venting earlier this week regarding opportunities for people of color within the entertainment industry. On Tuesday, May 25 she took to Twitter to reveal that she requested a creative from the melanin community curate the visuals for said feature but was told no by the staff. I requested a black photographer for a cover n the mag told me no lol its 2021.. and almost Juneteenth . Respectfully I can’t do it” she wrote. Naturally the post quickly went viral and her fans pressed he...
SZA Confirms In Tweets That Drake Isn’t A Creep After He Rapped They Dated In 2008
Source: Phillip Faraone / Getty Whew, that’s a relief, is what some Drake fans are saying after SZA revealed their favorite rapper wasn’t out here being a creep. Drizzy had fans talking last week when he revealed he and SZA used to date her over a decade ago on the track “Mr.Right Now” off 21 Savage’s and Metro Boomin’s latest project Savage Mode reportedly prompting her to hit the unfollow button. But, that was not the only thing that raised the listener’s eyebrows. Based on the dates, if the two were dating at the time, some believed that it suggests that Drake was about 22-years-old and SZA was between 17-18 at the time. “Yeah, said she wanna fuck to some SZA, wait/’Cause I used to date SZA back in ’08.” SZA paid attention to the socials and broke her silence on the matter and clearing ...
SZA Drops Neptunes-Produced Single ‘Hit Different’ With Ty Dolla $ign
It had to happen at some point. After a three-year wait since her debut album Ctrl, and a string of loose features to hold us over, R&B superstar SZA has just made an otherwise tame New Music Friday a rollercoaster for fans with the release of her latest video and single, “Hit Different,” featuring vocals for Ty Dolla $ign and legendary production duo The Neptunes. The track kicks off with Pharrell’s classic four-count start and works its way into a repeated line from the king of features himself in Ty. SZA takes control of the verses and the visuals as well — the video for the mellow new track, which is filmed on top of haystacks, with various animals and in the middle of a car-laced junkyard is her directorial debut, and the expert-level choreography is just a reminder. Fans kne...
