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Kendrick Lamar, Odesza and Foo Fighters to Headline Bonnaroo 2023
Bonnaroo will be returning to Tennessee’s Great Stage Park for its first iteration since 2019, due to the 2020 pandemic and a Hurricane-related flood the following year. The genre-spanning festival, which held its inaugural event in 2002, will take place on the 700-acre farm across four days in June, beginning on Thursday, June 15 and wrapping up on Sunday, June 18. Electronic music will lead the first day of Bonnaroo, thanks to co-headliners Zeds Dead and Liquid Stranger. Canadian duo Zeds Dead is composed of Dylan Mamid and Zachary Rapp-Rovan, while the Swedish-born Liquid Stranger is an experimental solo dubstep act. Other standouts from the day include Big Freedia and 070 Shake. The second day amps up the roster with headliner Kendrick Lamar. He’ll be joined in the lineup by cous...
Kang Has Arrived: Peep The Latest Trailer To ‘Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Marvel Studios / Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania From The Eternals to Thor: Love and Thunder, the last few films from Marvel’s Phase 4 left much to be desired (Black Panther: Wakanda Forever was solid though). Now that Phase 5 will get into full swing with Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, can Marvel make MCU films great again? On Monday night (Jan. 9), Marvel Studios released the latest trailer for the highly anticipated threequel to Ant-Man and it’s looking like it’s going to be a helluva time for MCU fans who’ve been disappointed with their aforementioned projects. Serving as a stepping stone for the forthcoming Avengers: The Kang Dynasty, Quantumania finds Ant-Man (Paul Rudd), The Wasp (Evangeline Lilly), and their family trapped in a Quantu...
Hoping For A Miracle: Tory Lanez Hires Suge Knight’s Former Attorney Following Guilty Verdict
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Scott Dudelson / Getty / Tory Lanez Tory Lanez is ditching the legal team representing him during his criminal trial, where he was found guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion. Now, he is hoping Suge Knight’s former lawyer can deliver a miracle as talk about appeals begins. Meghann Cuniff, affectionately dubbed Meghann Thee Reporter following her excellent coverage of the Tory Lanez trial, shared that Lanez expects to be in court Tuesday, Jan. 10, and his attorney will now be David Kenner. If his name sounds familiar, he also represented Snoop Dogg and Suge Knight. Related Stories “Kenner is a longtime criminal defense attorney whose clients include former Death Row Records CEO Suge Knight,” Cuniff wrote in a tweet. “Anyone with actual experience in crimi...
03 Greedo Drops New Mixtape, Gets Prison Release Date
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Unique Nicole / Getty With his release from prison on the horizon, 03 Greedo is in a celebratory mood as his latest mixtape hits the streets. According to reporting, Jason Jackson aka 03 Greedo is set to be released from prison this week. The information was based on a filing by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which was shared by reporter Jeff Weiss on Twitter Sunday night (Jan. 8). Representatives for 03 Greedo were contacted by other press outlets with no official response returned. The news comes as the Los Angeles, California rapper released a new mixtape entitled Free 03 at midnight Monday (Jan. 9). The 14-track project was produced by fellow LA native Mike Free and is his latest since Load It Up Vol. 01, which was done in collaboration wit...
A New Union LA x Air Jordan 1 High OG Colorway Is Rumored To Be Dropping
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Jordan / Jordan Another Union LA and Air Jordan collaboration is on the way. After receiving some lukewarm reviews for their Air Jordan 2 and Air Jordan 4 colorways, they’ll be going back to the ones that started it all with another Air Jordan 1 High OG colorway. The sneaker world went into a frenzy earlier this week when word leaked that Union LA and Jordan Brand were working on a new colorway for their revered Air Jordan 1 collaboration they dropped in 2018. Though the actual colorway is still a mystery, it’s said that the new installment will be “unlike anything you’ve ever seen” in both the colorway and details. Regardless of how the sneakers look, best believe hypebeasts will be jumping all over this release as the previous Union x Air Jordan 1s...
TOMORROW X TOGETHER Shares Daydreams & Nightmares in New ‘Temptation’ Teasers
As the release of TOMORROW X TOGETHER‘s highly anticipated forthcoming EP, The Name Chapter: Temptation, draws nigh, a new concept teaser and multiple photos for the project were shared on Tuesday (Jan. 10). The new teaser, titled “Daydream,” features the TXT boys in a glowing ethereal setting. Filmed in a saturated soft focus, the K-pop stars flit around a forest, interact with the trees, read books in the grass and wade through a shallow pond before the dream comes to an end. The concept photos show the boy band’s duality. In the “Nightmare” theme, members Yeonjun, Soobin, Beomgyu, Taehyun and HueningKai all get a chance to shine. The idols all pose in the midst of a glowing blue set filled with clues such as an hourglass, a chiming bell and stuffed animals decorating the ...
Foo Fighters, Tool, Avenged Sevenfold, KISS to Headline 2023 Sonic Temple Festival
The 2023 Sonic Temple Art & Music Festival will feature headlining sets from the Foo Fighters, Tool, Godsmack, Avenged Sevenfold, Queens of the Stone Age, KISS, Rob Zombie and the Deftones. The event at Historic Crew Stadium in Columbus, Ohio will take place on Memorial Day weekend (May 25-28) after a three-year hiatus due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Also slated to perform at the hard rock extravaganza are: Falling In Reverse, Chevelle, Puscifer, Beartooth, I Prevail, Jawbreaker, Sublime with Rome, Bullet For My Valentine, The Pretty Reckless, Pennywise, Trivium, Black Veil Brides and more. The event marks the third festival date featuring the Foo Fighters to be announced this week, marking the band’s first major performances since the tragic death last March of drummer Taylor Hawkins wh...
Austin Butler Opens Up About Waking Up in ‘Terror’ Every Night While Preparing for ‘Elvis’
Austin Butler transformed so completely and convincingly into Elvis Presley while playing the rock n’ roll legend in Baz Luhrmann’s Elvis, it almost seemed effortless. In a new interview with Jimmy Kimmel, however, the 31-year-old actor revealed that it was anything but. Appearing Monday night (Jan. 9) on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Butler opened up about the stresses that came with the two-year process of getting Elvis’ every move, note and mannerism exactly right for the film. “I would usually wake up every day around 3 or 4 in the morning with this terror,” he confessed. “It was just such a daunting thing,” he added. “I really was just guided by my terror.” The Carrie Diaries alum — whose performance is up for best actor at Tuesday night’s (Jan. 10) Golden Globes — also shed some light on the pr...
Nick Jonas, RZA and Blxst Join Speaker Roster at SXSW
Nick Jonas, Blxst and Wu-Tang Clan’s RZA are among the music stars set to speak at this year’s South By Southwest, organizers announced today (Jan. 10). The pop and hip-hop artists are among the third batch of speakers for SXSW, which takes place March 10 – 19, 2023 in Austin, Texas. Jonas, a solo artist and member of the chart-topping sibling act Jonas Brothers, will speak on the health-focused panel, Crushing: The Burden of Diabetes on Patients; Blxst will tackle a session entitled, How Music, Entrepreneurship & Independence Intersect, facilitated by Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop reporter Heran Mamo; while RZA, the producer, director, screenwriter, rapper and composer, will take the mic as a featured speaker. Also on board as featured speakers are Eric André, Josh D’Amaro, Tommy Dorfma...
Foo Fighters, The Lumineers and Paramore To Headline Boston Calling 2023
Boston Calling has announced its 2023 lineup, with a slate of top-shelf headliners on board to perform. Among them, Foo Fighters and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs will lead Friday; The Lumineers and Alanis Morissette will take Saturday; and Paramore and Queens of the Stone Age will conclude on Sunday. The festival is scheduled to take place during Memorial Day Weekend, from May 26 to 28, at the Harvard Athletic Complex. Alongside its headliners, Boston Calling boasts a lineup of more than 50 acts, including 20 artists with local affiliations. Also on the bill, the National, Flaming Lips, the Walkmen, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard, Bleachers, 070 Shake, the Linda Lindas, Maren Morris, Niall Horan, Chelsea Cutler, Teddy Swims, Noah Kahan, Mt. Joy, Fletcher, Genesis Owusu, Declan McKenna and the...
Everything But The Girl to Return With Comeback Album ‘Fuse,’ First New Music in 24 Years
British indie electronic duo Everything But The Girl is readying for their long-awaited comeback. 24 years in the making — having released their last album in 1999 — the group, consisting of Tracey Thorn and Ben Watt, will return with a new album titled Fuse. The record was written and produced by Thorn and Watt over spring and summer 2021. On the LP, the duo’s latest endeavor is described as a “modern take on the lustrous electronic soul the band first pioneered in the mid-90s.” Everything But The Girl was formed in 1982 in an English port city called Hull. Thorn served as lead vocalist and sometimes guitarist, while Watt was the multi-instrumentalist and producer of the group. Their debut album, Eden, was released in 1984. Over the next decade and a half, Thorn and Watt put out a total o...
Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach Announce New Box Set
Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. The Songs of Bacharach & Costello (Super Deluxe): 01 In the Darkest Place (2023 Remaster)02 Toledo (2023 Remaster)03 I Still Have That Other Girl (2023 Remaster)04 This House Is Empty Now (2023 Remaster)05 Tears at the Birthday Party (2023 Remaster)06 Such Unlikely Lovers (2023 Remaster)07 My Thief (2023 Remaster)08 The Long Division (2023 Remaster)09 Painted From Memory (2023 Remaster)10 The Sweetest Punch (2023 Remaster)11 What’s Her Name Today? (2023 Remaster)12 God Give Me Strength (2023 Remaster) 01 You Can Have Her02 Painted From Memory03 Don’t Look Now [ft. Burt Bacharach]04 Everyone’s Playing House05 I Looked Away06 Taken From Life07 My Thief08 Shameless09 Photographs Can Lie [ft. Burt Bacharach]10 In the D...
