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Allen Iverson Partners With Authentic Brands Group To Grow His Reach In Entertainment
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Authentic Brands Group / Reebok Authentic Brands Group (Authentic), a global brand owner, development and entertainment platform, today (Jan. 10) announced that it has partnered with Allen Iverson to further develop his brand. The basketball legend is looking to advance his reach globally. Authentic Brands Group will focus on growing Iverson’s entertainment business, securing new endorsements and strategic partnerships, as well as consumer products that are as electrifying and original as the man himself. Early in his career, Iverson’s outspoken nature and winning mentality earned him the nickname “The Answer,” which became the foundation for his longstanding relationship with Reebok. Related Stories Through Reebok, which it acquired in February 2022, Aut...
Kenneth Petty, Nicki Minaj’s Husband, Tries To Get Off NY’s Sex Offender Registry, Fails Miserably
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Robert Kamau / Getty / Kenneth Petty Nicki Minaj’s husband, Kenneth Petty, will still be on New York’s sex offender registry. Spotted on The Daily News, Kenneth Petty tried and failed miserably to get off New York’s sex offender registry, according to documents from the Brooklyn Federal Court. Minaj’s husband was convicted of attempted rape in 1995 by a then 16-year-old Jennifer Hough. In a Brooklyn Federal Court lawsuit, he tried to argue that he never got the opportunity to contest his status as a medium-risk sex offender. Per The Daily News: Related Stories Petty, 47, his lawyer, Alan Gerson, contended that he was never notified about a 2004 hearing to challenge that status and that someone forged his signature on a document about the proceeding. Plus,...
Madlib & Mark Ronson Joins With The Coca-Cola Company For Clever Recycled Records Project
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Coca-Cola Company / The Coca-Cola Company The art of sampling is taking something previously recorded and rendering it anew by chopping, looping, and other techniques that are the hallmarks of Hip-Hop production. Producers Madlib and Mark Ronson joined forces with The Coca-Cola Company for an innovative EP cleverly titled Recycled Records. Source: The Coca-Cola Company / The Coca-Cola Company The Recycled Records campaign launched back in December, putting Oxnard, Calif. native Madlib (Lootpack, Madvilliany, Freddie Gibbs) and London’s Mark Ronson (Amy Winehouse, Wale, Lady Gaga) in charge of sampling a bevy of sounds from a number of recycling centers that are turning used clear plastic bottles into new containers for a bevy of Coca-Cola products. Re...
Afro Nation Festival Makes US Debut, Burna Boy & WizKid to Headline Miami 2023
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: AFRO NATION / AFRO NATION The biggest Afrobeats celebration is coming to the United States. Following successful festivals in Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean, Afro Nation takes the next step with Afro Nation Miami 2023. Source: AFRO NATION / AFRO NATION The inaugural Miami festival promises performances from ascendant Nigerian superstars Rema and Asake, dancehall legend Beenie Man, rising African stars CKay, BNXN, and Black Sherif, French rapper Franglish, and many others. Shining a special spotlight on the ascendant genre of amapiano, born in South Africa, Afro Nation Miami brings the Piano People stage, headlined by Major League DJZ and Uncle Waffles, and featuring many more of the genre’s most exciting names. The festival follows up a groundbreaking ...
Coachella 2023 Full Lineup Announced
The Coachella 2023 lineup is here: Bad Bunny, Blackpink, and Frank Ocean will headline the festival when it returns to Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, this April. Rosalía, Gorillaz, Björk, Charli XCX, Burna Boy, Alex G, Jai Paul, and Glorilla are also on the bill for this year. As previously announced, the festival takes place across two weekends: April 14-16 and 21-23. Check out the poster and full lineup below. Other notable acts on the Coachella lineup include: Boygenius, Christine and the Queens, the Breeders, Noname, Soul Glo, Weyes Blood, Yaeji, Willow, Yung Lean, Yves Tumor, the Comet Is Coming, Snail Mail, Saba, Romy (of the xx), Muna, Metro Boomin, Latto, Idris Elba, Kali Uchis, Ethel Cain, and EarthGang. In a rare move, festival co-founder Paul Tollett revealed that Frank ...
Coachella 2023 Headliners: Bad Bunny, Blackpink, and Frank Ocean
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has revealed its top billing artists for 2023: Frank Ocean, Bad Bunny, and Blackpink will headline the festival when it returns to Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, this spring. Check out the full lineup for this year’s fest here. As previously announced, Coachella will once again take place across two weekends: April 14-16 and 21-23. In an uncommon move, festival co-founder Paul Tollett previously revealed that Frank Ocean would headline Coachella 2023 after the pandemic forced the cancellation of the 2020 edition, which the singer was scheduled to headline. When explaining why he broke the news so far in advance, Tollett told the Los Angeles Times, “Right now, it’s the Wild West. I’m just trying to be as fair as I can to artists and to th...
Jai Paul to Perform First Live Show Ever at Coachella 2023
Jai Paul is set to take the stage at Coachella this year, marking the enigmatic musician’s first-ever live performances. He takes the stage on Sunday, April 16, and again on April 23. Other musicians on the bill seem to be pretty excited, with Kaytranada, for one, tweeting, “forget about me performing, i’m going to see Jai Paul.” This year’s headliners are Bad Bunny, Frank Ocean, and Blackpink. In 2019, the musician issued Leak 04-13 (Bait Ones), an “official” version of the unfinished debut album that was leaked in 2013, along with two previously unreleased songs. He’s since marked the 10th anniversary of his track “BTSTU” with remixes and archival material, and made a rare cameo on Atlanta earlier this year. He’s continued to work with his brother, A. K. Paul, on their Paul Institute ope...
Muna Announce 2023 North American Tour
Muna has announced a string of headlining 2023 tour dates, squeezed in between stints opening for Taylor Swift and Lorde. They’ll also be performing at this year’s Bonnaroo and Coachella. Check out the full list of dates below. Muna released their 2022 self-titled album on Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory label. Its first single, “Silk Chiffon,” featured Bridgers in both the song and video. In October, they shared the Live at Electric Lady EP, featuring a cover of Taylor Swift’s “August.” Later than month they performed “Silk Chiffon” on CBS This Morning. Read the feature “The Radical Joy of Muna’s Queer Pop.” All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Mun...
Calvin Harris, Eric Prydz, Porter Robinson, More Confirmed for Coachella 2023: See the Full Lineup
Your Coachella 2023 lineup is here. Following weeks of feverish speculation and the classic music industry rigamarole of fake lineup posters, Coachella’s organizers have revealed the full lineup for the festival’s two 2023 weekends: April 14-16 and April 21-23. Set to perform at the iconic Indio music and arts festival this year are Calvin Harris, Eric Prydz, Kaytranada, Alison Wonderland’s Whyte Fang, SOFI TUKKER, Porter Robinson, Mura Masa, TSHA, The Chemical Brothers and deadmau5’s TESTPILOT, among other major artists from the electronic music scene. House music superstars FISHER and Chris Lake have also been confirmed for a can’t-miss collaborative DJ set. Prydz, the Swedish dance music icon, is set to bring his subversive “HOLO” production to ...
Steve Aoki Announces “HiROQUEST: Genesis” Tour, His First Since 2020
For the first time in almost three years, Steve Aoki is hitting the road for a North American tour. Back in 2020, the dance music superstar had to abruptly cancel his “Color of Noise” tour due to the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuing worldwide live music shutdown. Now, Aoki is hitting the road for a 12-city tour inspired by HiROQUEST: Genesis, his seventh studio album. Joining Aoki on the road is a mix of international headliners and rising stars from his flagship record label, Dim Mak. These include Timmy Trumpet, Slushii, Regard, Bok Nero, Callie Reiff, KAAZE and RemK, as well as B2B sets from 4B and JSTJR. Scroll to Continue Recommended Articles Aoki will kick off the “HiROQUEST: Genesis” tour on February 22nd, 2023 in Montreal, Québec. Tickets go on sa...
Coachella Announces Its 2023 Lineup
It’s finally here. Coachella has officially announced its 2023 lineup which will feature Bad Bunny, BLACKPINK and Frank Ocean headlining the main stage at the music and arts festival in Indio, California. Bad Bunny — Spotify’s most-streamed artist in 2022 — is set to play the SoCal-based show for the second time following his appearance in 2019. He is also the first-ever artist from Latin America to be a headliner. BLACKPINK also made its first appearance at the festival in 2019 which made BLINK fans go haywire, so you can already expect that K-Pop stans will show out strong for their set. This also marks the first occasion that artists of Asian descent have been called to headline Coachella. And at last, Frank Ocean is finally coming out of hiding and hitting the Empire Polo Fields stage ...
U2’s New Album ‘Songs Of Surrender’ Will Reimagine 40 Past Hits
U2 has announced a new album, titled Songs Of Surrender, that will feature 40 “reimagined and re-recorded” versions of their past hit tracks. The album’s official announcement follows the sharing of a written letter from U2’s lead guitarist The Edge, which teased the now-confirmed project. In it, he explained that most of the band’s work was written and recorded when they were “a bunch of very young men” and that their songs have come to “mean something quite different” to them over time. “Some have grown with us,” he wrote. “Some we have outgrown, but we have not lost sight of what propelled us to write those songs in the first place. The essence of those songs is still in us. But how to reconnect with that essence when we have moved on and grown so much?” The Edge added that the band had...
