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Joni Mitchell, Gershwin Prize Winner, to Be Honored With Tribute Concert
The Library of Congress has awarded Joni Mitchell the 2023 Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, as The New York Times notes. A tribute concert on March 1 will honor the Canadian singer-songwriter in Washington, D.C., and will air on PBS. There is no word yet on whether the elusive artist, who returned to the stage at last year’s Newport Folk Festival and has scheduled a show in Washington state this June, will perform in the concert. “Joni Mitchell’s music and artistry have left a distinct impression on American culture and internationally, crossing from folk music with a distinctive voice whose songs will stay with us for the ages,” Carla Hayden, the librarian of Congress, said in a statement reported by NPR. “Joni Mitchell’s music has so many artists and music lovers all singing her tunes. W...
Vagabon Shares New Song “Carpenter”: Listen
Vagabon has shared a new song called “Carpenter.” It’s the first new solo track from the singer-songwriter since her 2019 self-titled LP. The new song was co-produced by Vagabon and Rostam Batmanglij. Take a listen below; scroll down for Vagabon’s upcoming tour dates with Weyes Blood. In a statement, Vagabon (aka Lætitia Tamko), said: “Carpenter” is about that humbling feeling when you desperately want to be knowledgeable, you want to be advanced, you want to be mature, forward thinking, and evolved. It’s about being confronted with your limitations. It’s about that A-HA moment, when a lesson from the past finally clicks and you want to run and tell someone who bore witness to the old you, “I finally get it now.” In 2021, Vagabon collaborated with Courtney Barnett on a pair of covers: Kare...
Grounded: Unprecedented FAA System Outage Causes Nightmarish Delays For Travelers Across US
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: SAUL LOEB / Getty / FAA Traveling by air is a convenient way to travel, but lately, it has become a headache. Due to a massive system outage, flights across the United States went nowhere. Travelers woke up to the news or found out that their flights to their final destinations were going nowhere minutes before boarding was not going anywhere on Wednesday morning. The FAA scrambled to get systems back up when its Notice to Air Missions System, the tool it uses to share safety information with pilots and other airline personnel, “failed,” affecting flights across the country. According to FlightAware, more than 1,800 flights have been delayed, and over 300 have been canceled. The outage caused the FAA to instruct all airlines to pause domestic flights unti...
Letitia Wright Says ‘Black Panther 3’ May Already Be “In The Works”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Amy Sussman / Getty With the commercial success of Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, it’s a no brainer that Marvel Studios would green light a third installment into the beloved film franchise. According to the film’s star, Letitia Wright, it may already be happening. Before attending last night’s Golden Globe Awards in LA, the new protector of Wakanda spoke with Variety for a Digital Pre-show interview. When she was asked whether she thought Marvel Studios would be moving forward with a threequel to the Black Panther series, Letitia Wright revealed that a threequel may already be in the making as we speak. Related Stories “I think it’s already in the works,” Wright replied. “You know, we just had a terrific two years of bringing it out and e...
Jerrod Carmichael Praised For Golden Globes Monologue, Twitter Noticed Crowd Discomfort
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 20 hours ago @dlchandler123 D.L. Chandler is a veteran of the Washington D.C. metro writing scene, working as a journalist, reporter, and culture critic. Initially freelancing at iOne Digital in 2010, he officially joined the iOne team in 2017 where he currently works as a Senior Editor for Cassius Life and Hip-Hop Wired. D.L. covers a variety of topics including breaking news, politics, Hip-Hop music and culture, fashion, and Black history. He currently heads the SPIRIT.ED column for Cassius Life, which focuses on adult beverages and their history. D.L. has worked in the past for MTV News, Billboard, and several other publications. His first big break in journalism came with the now-defunct Politically Black in 1999, the nation’s first...
TikTok Chef Way Gets Deep Fried After Old Misogynoir Tweets Resurface
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: chefway__ / Instagram A popular TikTok food slinger is getting dragged for all the filth after some heinous tweets he dropped years ago resurfaced. The hateful messages from Chef Way had the chef on the brink of cancelation, and he has no one to blame but himself. The man born Waymond Wesley is getting deep fried on social media after misogynistic tweets he let loose back around 2014 and 2015 resurfaced (the user name at the time was WayMoTheGod), and it’s looking ugly for him. The tweets featured hateful, colorist messages aimed at Black women in particular. Of course, you knew the too little, too late, you only did it because you got caught apology was forthcoming. “To those I’ve hurt with my past tweets that have resurfaced, I am deeply sorry,” h...
Premiere: Whyte Fang Cuts Through the Static With Primal Single, “Transport God”
Whyte Fang is going to keep letting her music do the talking with “Transport God,” a new single premiered exclusively today via EDM.com. A curious phrase initially obscured under a thick fog of reverb, the lyric “you could transport god” leaps suddenly into the foreground in a profound moment of clarity. As with her prior efforts, Whyte Fang takes a “less is more approach” when it comes to her vocal elements, opting to loop, glitch and iterate upon precisely defined vocal patterns. Turning them into something more closely resembling the ominous incantations that have since become her signature, Alison Wonderland’s enigmatic alias once again stuns. Her unapologetically primal approach is mirrored in the track’s production. Whomping 808s, high-...
Carl Cox Has Launched His Own Motorsport Racing Team
After releasing his first-ever live album last year, Carl Cox is now fueling another passion: racing. The techno music legend has launched his own motorsport racing team, which will compete in this year’s Extreme E championship, an off-road racing series. He joins an Extreme E lineup that includes teams run by a number of iconic motorsport names, like McLaren and Lewis Hamilton (X44 Vida Carbon Racing). Cox, who founded his Carl Cox Motorsport brand in 2013, is a longtime racing enthusiast and competitive drag racer. However, the Extreme E championship marks his first venture into electric racing. “I’m here to make a difference. To have the opportunity to be part of something so dynamic on four wheels is a dream come true,” Cox said in a press release share...
Adventure Club, SLANDER, Zomboy, More Confirmed for Sunset Music Festival 2023
Sunset Music Festival, now in its 11th year, has become a yearly staple for Tampa ravers. And this year’s lineup does not disappoint in the slightest. Prospective attendees are safe to expect a variety of electronic sounds and sub-genres at Sunset 2023, from house and techno to trance and bass, and everything in between. This year’s lineup, the first phase of which was recently revealed, features Chris Lake, Adventure Club, SLANDER, Zomboy, Habstrakt, Wax Motif, Westend and more. Additional highlights includes a sunset performance from Champagne Drip and a high-profile B2B set by Eptic and Space Laces. More artists will be announced in the weeks ahead. The Mainstage at Sunset Music Festival 2022. Brian Rapaport//EDM.com Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles Expect t...
Jeff Beck’s 10 Best Songs: With Yardbirds, Solo & Beyond
You’re likely to find Jeff Beck‘s face on any Mount Rushmore of guitarists — and maybe of musicians, period. His musical praises are being sung worldwide since his shocking death Wednesday (Jan. 11) from bacterial meningitis at age 78. And rest assured that everything being said about the seven-time Grammy winner and two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee is true. And maybe even understated. While his skills are unquestionably worth celebrating, those discussions sometimes obscure the fact that Beck’s greatest gift was in service to the songs he played. Whether with the Yardbirds or the various incarnations of his own band, or with a wide variety of collaborators, Beck elevated his songs with purposeful and deliberate choices — of notes, riffs, phrasings — that raised them to the pro...
Shakira Slams Pique in New Bizarrap Session: Here Are the Lyrics Translated to English
Shakira did not hold back on her first single of the year, “BZRP Music Session #53,” helmed by Argentine hitmaker Bizarrap. In the nearly four-minute dance-pop track, the Colombian artist is more unapologetic and empowered than ever, spitting diss verses to her ex-boyfriend and soccer star Gerard Piqué and even throwing a jab at his new girlfriend, Clara Chia Marti. “I’m not getting back with you, don’t cry for me, nor beg me/ I understood that it’s not my fault that they criticize you/I only make music, sorry that it bothers you,” she chants, also saying in the lyrics, “You left me the in-laws as my neighbors, media outlets at my door and in debt/ You thought you hurt me, but you made me stronger/ Women don’t cry anymore, they cash in.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See lates...
Zendaya, Austin Butler & More Score 2023 SAG Awards Nominations
A day after winning at the 2023 Golden Globes, Zendaya and Austin Butler have a new awards show to look forward to: the 2023 Screen Actors Guild Awards. Both young superstars scored nominations Wednesday (Jan. 11) at the SAG Awards – Butler for outstanding performance by a male actor in a leading role for his electric breakthrough role as Elvis in Baz Luhrmann’s 2022 biopic of the music icon and Zendaya for outstanding performance by a female actor in a drama series for her second season as Rue in HBO’s Euphoria. It’s the first SAG nomination for both actors. The Banshees of Inisherin and Everything Everywhere All at Once dominate the film nominations, with five nods each, while Ozark and Dahmer – Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story lead TV nods with four apiece. The 2023 SAG Awards will tak...
