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Middle Kids Lift the Intensity for ‘Questions’ Performance on ‘Kimmel’: Watch
Middle kids are often said to miss out. Not these kids. Middle Kids surprised everyone when, in 2018, they scooped Triple J’s prestigious J Award for Australian album of the year with their debut LP, Lost Friends. The Sydney indie-rock outfit — Hannah Joy, Harry Day and Tim Fitz — saw that first LP crack the Top 10 on the ARIA Albums Chart and earn a nomination for the ARIA Awards, in the best rock album category. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Robopine Sheds His Quills for ‘Masked Singer’ Exit: ‘They Kept the Competition Thick’
In Week 3, his performance of “All of Me” by John Legend brought judge Nicole Scherzinger to tears, and it soon became evident that the man under the half-robot half-porcupine costume was an actual singer. Guest panelist Chrissy Metz and Scherzinger were able to combine their hunches based on the clue packages and correctly guess that Robopine was singer/songwriter/actor Tyrese. “It’s one of the most exciting things I’ve done all year that I couldn’t post about,” he says. “I had to definitely practice restraint, because I love posting. I love talking about things and inspiring people and addressing politics, police brutality and whatever is going on in the world.” Billboard spoke to Tyrese about why he pretended to be 60 years old ...
Willow Smith Reunites Mom Jada’s Old Metal Band for Sick Mother’s Day Surprise
Willow Smith pulled off a top-secret Mother’s Day surprise for Jada Pinkett Smith by getting her mom’s metal band back together to perform on the latest Red Table Talk episode. On Wednesday’s (May 5) episode, which arrived around the third anniversary of the Facebook Watch series. Willow recalled accompanying her mother on tour with her metal band Wicked Wisdom with old home videos, including one where she and her brother Jaden Smith cleaned the outside of the tour bus. “This is the music that I grew up around. My mother was Superwoman, she was a rock star, she was a warrior and a nurturer, all in one. So unapologetically badass. … I was my mom’s biggest fan,” said Willow, who recently took a pop-punk turn on her new single “Tr...
‘SNL’ Taps Keegan-Michael Key and Lil Nas X To Star In Final Episodes Of Season
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NBC / Getty Saturday Night Live is closing out season 46 with a bang in what is sure to bring the ratings and controversy with one of the internet’s biggest trolls who has a thing for twerking on demons in hell. The legendary sketch comedy show announced their lineup for the last two episodes earlier this week on Twitter. On May 15, Schmigadoon! star Keegan-Michael Key will host alongside “Driver’s License” singer Olivia Rodrigo, as the musical guest. The following week The Queen’s Gambit leading actress Anya-Taylor Joy will close out the season with Lil Nas X, who will surely perform “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)” and a new song. SNL must have taken a diversity and inclusion seminar because the show has cast some of the most in-demand...
Mexico City rail overpass collapses, killing 15 and injuring 70
Fifteen people were killed and 70 hurt when an overpass carrying Mexico City metro train cars partially collapsed on to a road on Monday night, authorities said. A dramatic video on local channel Milenio TV shows the overpass of the metro’s 12 line collapsing on top of cars on a road below. Videos on television and social media showed emergency medical crews and firefighters combing through the wreckage looking for survivors. Mexico City Mayor Claudia Sheinbaum said 15 people were killed and that a car was trapped under the rubble. Sheinbaum said on Twitter “unfortunately there are dead and injured people. I am on site supporting the installation of the command center.” The city’s Comprehensive Risk Management and Civil Protection Agency initially put the toll at 13 and 70 people injured. ...
Leslie Jones Tapped To Host The 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Randy Shropshire / Getty Emmy-nominated Leslie Jones will host the 2021 MTV Movie & TV Awards on Sunday, May 16, according to an announcement released by the network this week. The show will air live from Los Angeles, a promising change from last year’s virtual special due to the pandemic. No stranger to hosting duties, the former Saturday Night Live alum previously emceed the BET Awards in 2017 and currently serves as host and executive producer of ABC’s Supermarket Sweep. Following the award ceremony, MTV will debut Movie & TV Awards: Unscripted on Monday, May 17, “a first-of-its-kind celebration” about reality television that’s expected to bring “jaw-dropping, no-rules, drama-filled moments from our favorite reality shows,” pe...
‘The Masked Singer’ Pulls Out Another Big Surprise With ‘The Maskys’
The Masked Singer is always big on surprises, though Wednesday night’s episode came from out of leftfield. If you were expecting to see another celebrity unmasked, you were in for a shock. All the remaining six contestants — Black Swan, Chameleon, Piglet, Robopine, Russian Dolls and Yeti — survive to sing another day, as the popular Fox series went with a change of programming: The Maskys. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Luke Bryan Talks ‘Proud’ Tour and Forgetting His Own Lyrics
There’s a slight problem. Do you ever forget the lyrics to songs that you ought to know so, so well? Luke Bryan has that issue. “I’ve always been a guy who loves to be on the road and love to be out there with the fans, and interacting,” he told Jimmy Fallon on Wednesday night’s edition of The Tonight Show. Bryant has done some live streaming concerts, though he’s “forgetting the words to my songs quite a bit.” There’s a bit of rust to shake off. “I’m gonna have to sit in my music room and go back and listen to (those songs),” he explained. “I’m going to have to do a little extra prep, I’m a little out of practice with some of this stuff.” Bryan also talked about his judging stint on American Idol, going gray and being confused for Blake Shelton. Watch the interview below. You Deserv...
Justin Bieber Picks Fresh ‘Peaches’ With Classroom Instruments on ‘Tonight Show’
Justin Bieber joined The Roots and Jimmy Fallon in the Tonight Show classroom on Monday night (Apr. 26) for a revamped run through his single “Peaches.” Posted up at a toy piano, Bieber plunked out the song’s longing melody as he opened the performance solo, dressed down in a grey sweatshirt and black knit cap. As the camera panned out, JB took center square in the colorful Brady Bunch-like arrangement with the Roots and Fallon all arond him, banging on plastic buckets and cowbells and shaking a variety of percussion instruments. Ever the gentleman, Justin even stood down for Fallon to take over the second verse, letting him sing lead as the show’s host jiggled a plastic peach shaker and harmonized with drummer Questlove. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are ...
Cam Anthony Shines With ‘Flawless’ Performance on ‘The Voice’: Watch
“You should be proud,” Nick Jonas later told Christian. Anthony’s performance, however, was “flawless, creative and kinda…otherworldly.” Legend is a fan of Anthony and his talents. “I really believe in you, I think that you have the ability to be a true artist, beyond this show,” he enthused. Blake Shelton praised Anthony. “You have a gift, and I’m very happy for you.” There was no surprise who won this bout. Anthony, the 19-year-old Philadelphia-born, Los Angeles-based hopefully got the win and moves forward in the show. Watch the performance on NBC’s The Voice below. Cam Anthony performs Nina Simone’s “Feeling Good” against Connor Christian singing 5 Seconds of Summer’s “Youngblood” during The Knockouts on The Voice. You Deserve to Make Money Even When...
Bill seeking pay-as-you-go for cable TV passes second reading in House
The Deputy Chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Communication, Hon Idem Unyime, on Friday assured that Nigerians will soon get pay-as-you-go services for digital satellite television. Unyime gave the assurance as a Bill for an Act to amend the National Broadcasting Commission Act, co-sponsored by himself, Hon Odebunmi Olusegun and Hon Dachung Musa Bagos, scaled second reading. Unyime while appealing to Nigerians to be patient as the Bill will soon be passed into law, said when passed, it will also give the NBC the power to fix prices for digital television. He expressed optimism that the proposed legislation would be passed into law as quickly as possible to assuage the inconvenience Nigerians have so far endured as far as cable television is concerned. The Bill, he said, ...
Nexflix To Debut Show About Black American Cuisine Called ‘High On The Hog’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Netflix / Netflix There’s never a shortage of travel shows about food, but rarely will a viewer find in-depth exploration on dishes from the diaspora—let alone a Black authority on the subject—until now. In a matter of weeks, Netflix will release an original show called High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America, involving one of the most decorated food historians in the industry. According to a press release reported by Eater, the docu-series, adapted from a book of the same name by highly renowned author Dr. Jessica B Harris, is described as “part culinary show, part travelogue.” The show will be hosted by Whetstone Magazine and media company founder Stephen Satterfield. As described in the press release, S...
