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‘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...
Lucinda Williams Recovering After November Stroke
Beloved singer/songwriter Lucinda Williams had a stroke shortly before Thanksgiving 2020. She confirmed the news in an interview with Rolling Stone. However, Williams’ husband/manager Tom Overby affirms that Williams should recover “100 percent.” Williams, who has plans to play gigs this summer, says, “The main thing is I can still sing. I’m singing my ass off, so that hasn’t been affected. Can’t keep me down for too long.” She said that on Nov. 17, getting ready to take a shower, she began to have trouble keeping her balance and became unable to walk. “An ambulance came and got me and we told them not to put the big siren on. We didn’t want to alarm the neighbors or anything. But they put the siren on,” Williams said. Williams was rushed to Nashville’s Vanderbilt Medical Center,...
Toyah Goes Full Mermaid as She and Robert Fripp Cover Heart’s “Barracuda”: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-02T16:33:55+00:00“>May 2, 2021 | 12:33pm ET Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp go nautical for their latest edition of “Sunday Lunch”, as the married couple take on the Heart classic “Barracuda”. The performance features Toyah dressed head to tail as a mermaid, with the couple once again joined by mystery guitarist Sidney Jake. Perhaps Toyah was influenced by the literal meaning of “barracuda”, a ferocious fish with fang-like teeth. With a blue wig and full mermaid costume, the singer dives into her upper register for the cover of Heart’s 1977 hit, as King Crimson founder Fripp and the enigmatic Sidney Jake (sporting a Cannibal Corpse shirt) back her up on guitar. The rendition of “B...
Twenty One Pilots Share ‘Choker’ Video From Upcoming Scaled and Icy LP
Twenty One Pilots have released “Choker,” the second track ahead of Scaled And Icy, their first studio album in three years, which arrives May 21 via Fueled By Ramen, “Choker” arrives with a music video directed by Mark Eshleman, shot in the band’s hometown of Columbus, Ohio. “Choker” follows on the heels of Scaled And Icy’s lead single, “Shy Away,” which was released with a Miles & AJ-directed video and is available as an instant grat download alongside “Choker” with all pre-orders of Scaled And Icy. The album will also be available in a special edition box set limited to 35,000 copies worldwide. The full tracklisting for the album was shared with the release of “Shy Away.” Lyrics for the poignant “Choker” include “I know it’s over / I was born a choker / Nobody’s coming for me. / I s...
Genesis Announce Fall 2021 North American Tour
Tony Banks, Phil Collins, and Mike Rutherford, the prog-rock group collectively known as Genesis, will return to the road in North America for the first time in 14 years with The Last Domino? tour, kicking off Nov. 15 in Chicago and ending Dec. 15 in Boston. Joined by Phil’s son Nic Collins on drums and the band’s long-time lead guitar and bass player Daryl Stuermer, the iconic group will perform at 14 major venues across the U.S. and Canada, including a Dec. 5 stop at New York’s Madison Square Garden. Count on hits including “Invisible Touch,” “In Too Deep” and “Turn It On Again” from the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductees. The Last Domino? North American Tour 2021 marks the first time Genesis has performed stateside since 2007’s Turn It On Again: The Tour, which...
Nick Cave Remembers Former Collaborator Anita Lane: ‘The Smartest and Most Talented of All of Us’
Early Bad Seeds collaborator Anita Lane died early this week. In the latest edition of his Red Hand Files newsletter, Nick Cave remembered Lane as “the smartest and most talented of all of us, by far” and called her a “lighting in a bottle.” “You think you’ve become grief-savvy — stronger, wiser, more resilient — you think that there is nothing more that can hurt you in this world, and then Anita dies,” he wrote. Cave admired Lane’s myriad accomplishments and sometimes contradictory qualities, saying, that “She was the brains behind The Birthday Party, wrote a bunch of their songs, wrote ‘From Her to Eternity,’ ‘The World’s a Girl,’ ‘Sugar in a Hurricane’ and my favourite Bad Seeds song, ‘Stranger Than Kindness.’ but was much more than that.” He al...
Black Rob’s Former Manager Puts Diddy On Blast For Not Moving Faster
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jamie McCarthy / Getty Even though Diddy has offered to help with Black Rob’s funeral arrangements he is still being criticized. Rob’s former manager has called out the mogul for dragging his feet. As spotted on HipHopDX the Bad Boy Entertainment founder’s loyalty has come into question yet again this week. In an exclusive interview with Murder Master Music Show Kal Dawson made it clear that Puff’s help came too little and way too late. “Through somebody else that was affiliated with Rob, Diddy reached out and was gonna do something for Rob, this is when the video first went up when he was in the hospital,” he revealed around the 4:15 minute mark. “People dragging their feet and nothing got done. So now you gonna pay for his funeral, he dead and gone...
‘Black Ink Crew’: Ceaser Says He Was Heartbroken After Walt Stole $5k From Him, Reveals They’re No Longer Friends
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz83 Ceaser Emmanual and Walt’s longtime friendship is dead… for now. On the season 9 premiere of Black Ink Crew: New York, the episode ended with some drama that looks like it will be the main storyline of the new season. After a year-long hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Ceaser got the crew back together, and we eventually learned there was a thief among the ranks when it was revealed someone broke into the 125th street shop stealing merchandise, body jewelry, and cash. Immediately all signs pointed to the theft being an inside job, and Ceaser’s worst fears were confirmed when his best friend Walt copped to stealing $5,000 from the register after he was pressed by Ted and shown the surveillance footage. Walt, who definit...
Man Boasts About Rioting At The Capitol On Bumble, Woman Dimes The Doofus Out
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: TMZ / TMZ Bad boys move in silence and MAGA supporters seemingly can’t keep their mouth shut. One man bragged about rioting at The Capitol on a dating app and a woman put the police on him. As spotted on TMZ one man was doing entirely way too much when he was trying to land himself a hot date. According to the celebrity gossip site Robert Chapman, of Putnam County town Carmel, was arrested by the FBI for his role in the now infamous Capitol insurrection on January 6 in Washington. He apparently bragged about his involvement to a woman he met on the Buumble app. “I did storm the capitol. I made it all the way to the Statuary Hall!” he said to which the woman responded “We are not a match”. Shortly after their interaction, the unidentified woman forwar...
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...
Rick Rubin Remembers The Toxicity Lyric That Could Have Ended System Of A Down
System Of A Down’s 2001 album Toxicity was home to the song “Needles” and the somewhat controversial lyric “Pull the tapeworm out of your ass.” Two decades later, Toxicity producer and music legend Rick Rubin remembers the epic fight that this caused. Reminiscing on his Broken Record podcast with System of A Down frontman Serj Tankian, they say that it was merely the pronoun used in the tapeworm lyric that caused the band to go nuts. “Originally, the chorus was ‘Pull the tapeworm out of my ass.’ Daron [Malakian] and Shavo [Odadjian] didn’t like ‘my ass,’” Tankian tells Rubin. Tankian argues that using “my” was supposed to be philosophical like the negativity was being extracted from him. However, that was a bit too vulnerable for his fellow bandmates. “An...
Rolling Loud Is Back: Travis Scott, A$AP Rocky To Headline Miami 2021 Festival
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Steven Ferdman / Getty Tis’ the season for outdoor festivals, even if the nation is still battling a deadly pandemic. This week Rolling Loud announced the dates for their upcoming event along with a stellar lineup that’s sure to attract fans that miss live performances. Vulture reports that the three-day extravaganza takes place from Friday, July 23 to Sunday, July 25, in Miami Gardens, Florida’s Hard Rock Stadium. Surprisingly, the headliners are the same as last year’s canceled event due to strict quarantine restrictions from the coronavirus outbreak. A$AP Rocky, Travis Scott, and Post Malone will share the main headlining duties each day of the festival. Also set to perform are Megan Thee Stallion, Rick Ross, DaBaby, Young Thug, Lil Uzi Ver...
