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JARV IS Shares Latest Single ‘Save The Whale’
Jarvis Cocker’s solo debut album was going to be one of the highlights of the year. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the date got moved, but now we have some answers. The record, titled Beyond the Pale and being put out under the JARV IS moniker, will now be out on July 17. From that album, the Pulp singer has already shared “Must I Evolve?” and “House Music All Night Long” from the collection. Now you can add a third song to it. The video for “Save the Whale” was recorded while Cocker was in quarantine and features images posted online of him over the past few years. Here’s what he had to say about it. “The title popped into my head as I was leaving the cinema after having seen Nick Broomfield’s Marianne & Leonard: Words of Love documentary. The “Smooth World...
Paul McCartney Wants Fans to Stop Eating Meat for His Birthday
Next week, Paul McCartney will be celebrating his 78th birthday on June 18th. Ahead of the big day, Macca has a birthday wish for you all: stop eating meat. In a post published on PETA’s website, McCartney kindly requested that fans “Watch my PETA video and ditch meat.” The ask comes 10 years after the ex-Beatle recorded a video titled “Glass Walls” (which has been viewed over 20 million times) that brought to light what happens in slaughterhouses and the animal suffering that takes place there. “All I’ve ever wanted for my birthday is peace on Earth—including for the animals,” McCartney wrote. “That’s why this year I’m urging fans to watch a video I hosted for PETA titled ‘Glass Walls’. We called it that because if slaughterhouses had glass walls, who would want to eat meat?” His hope is ...
RZA Gives An Update On His Relationship With The Wu-Tang Clan
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty If you’re worried about the bond between the members of the Wu-Tang Clan breaking, RZA says it’s all good. Tuesday (Jun.9) Rick Rubin dropped the latest episode of his Broken Records podcast featuring the RZA. The two touched on a bevy of topics, but one, in particular, stands out, and that is his current standing with the Wu-Tang Clan. It’s well-know that U-God is suing the iconic Staten Island Hip-Hop group for $2.5 million, and despite that, RZA says everything is all good with the crew. “Always at peace, always at peace. We are a brotherhood. Look, my best example Rick is that I got a lawsuit, U-God is suing me, right? And this lawsuit has been going on for three years. And we were in Australia last year. They did a Wu-Tang tour in Australia [at] the Syndey...
The Grammys Drop The Term “Urban” From Their Language
Source: The 59th Annual Grammy Awards hosted by James Corden as seen on CBS. The 59th Annual Grammy Awards ceremony was held on February 12, 2017. The CBS network broadcasted the show live from the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Featuring: Beyoncé Where: United States When: 13 Feb 2017 Credit: Supplied by WENN.com After years of well-deserved criticism, the Grammy Awards is finally dropping the term “Urban” from their category and language is it’s become the latest institution to make some sort of change to keep from offending or categorizing the Black community. The announcement came when the Recording Academy released their Awards Process Update which stated that they’d rename Best Urban Contemporary Album” to “Best Progressive R&B Album” and also revealed that they’d be changi...
André 3000 Turns His Jumpsuits Into T-Shirt Line Benefiting Black Lives
Source: Outkast performs during Advertising Week at the Best Buy Theater Featuring: Andre 3000,Outkast Where: New York, United States When: 02 Oct 2014 Credit: WENN.com Even though the Rap world could really use some verses from André 3000 he is stepping up another way. He is making some of his most moving quotables into wearables. As spotted on GQ the ATLien is bringing back some of his most memorable outfits during a much needed time. The rapper has taken the magic of his all black jumpsuits from into t-shirts. This collection captures all the iconic excerpts including “across cultures darker people suffer most. why?”, “ok, hand over the cure and stop playing.” and “which type of stereo are you?”. 3 Stacks announced the launch via his social media feeds. “Something very import...
HHW Gaming: The Lowdown On ‘Call of Duty: Modern Ware’s’ Massive Season 4 Update
Source: Activision / Call of Duty: Modern Warfare The season 4 update for Call of Duty: Modern Warfare/ Warzone arrived late last night. So what exactly is new? Well, for one, the most obvious is the addition of Captain Price as a new operator, but there is so much more. The battle also hits two new locations, Verdansk and the Armistice. Season 4 also introduces new ways for fans to play COD: Modern Warfare, which includes a new Multiplayer map, Ground War battlefield, and Gunfight map alongside more modes for both Multiplayer and Warzone. Call of Duty fans was hoping for some changes to the Warzone map. Instead, Infinity Ward is introducing three new “twists” called “Fire Sale,” “Supply Chopper,” and “Jailbreak” that can occur randomly and unsuspectingly altering player’s s...
Graves Responds to Allegations of Sexual Assault and Rape
Following graphic allegations of sexual assault and rape by two different women on Twitter, DJ and producer Graves has taken to the social media platform to respond. Graves’ response was precipitated by a deluge of tweets in support of two women on Twitter who shared their experiences with the Hawaiian artist, whose birth name is Christian Mochizuki. Just after midnight on June 10th, 2020, Twitter user @tiffanynonaka shared screenshots describing a traumatic sexual experience she encountered with Graves, who she explicitly calls out by name, at the age of 22. Following her initial allegation, Tiffany posted another tweet, which contained screenshots from an alleged second victim who had reached out to her. The second victim claimed to have been raped by ...
Michael Stipe Joins Forces With Big Red Machine for New Song ‘No Time For Love Like Now’: Listen
Michael Stipe unveiled the music video for his new collaboration with Big Red Machine, “No Time For Love Like Now” on Thursday (June 11). In the song’s violet-hued visual, the R.E.M. frontman delivers a vocal take in the studio as he looks back on all the small things society took for granted before the days that words such as “quarantine,” “social distancing” and “coronavirus” became part of the everyday lexicon. “There’s no time for dancing/ There’s no time for undecideds/ No time for love like now/ Where did this all begin to change/ The lockdown memories can’t sustain/ This glistening, hanging free fall,” he sings over a synth-heavy orchestration led by Justin Vernon and The National‘s Aaron Dessner. “‘...
The Biggest Dance Music Livestream of Quarantine Just Got Even Bigger: See The Lineup
Billing itself as “the biggest digital music festival in history,” upcoming dance music livestream festival Electric Blockaloo just got even bigger. Today (June 11), the event added artists including Bob Moses, Maya Jane Coles, Deadmau5’s techno alter-ego Testpilot, Skream, Blondish, Seth Troxler, Khruangbin, MK, DJ Soda, Ekali, Felix da Housecat, Ivy Lab, Kevin Saunderson, The Knocks, Krafty Kuts, Luciano, Carl Craig, MK, Paris Hilton, Rudimental, DJ Sneak, Sherelle, STS9, Steve Aoki and Todd Terry to its already massive lineup featuring a staggering 850 artists. Electric Blockaloo takes place June 25-28 inside the video game Minecraft, which during the festival will feature 65 digitally-rendered stages including those hosted by labels and artists like Bedouin,...
Anitta, Saweetie, Common, DJ Khaled and More Congratulate Chicago’s Class of 2020
DJ Khaled, Anitta, Thomas Rhett, CNCO, Saweetie and Andy Grammer are among the more than 20 artists congratulating and sending inspirational messages to Chicago’s 2020 graduating class in a video compiled by Billboard and Dick Clark Productions. “The future of the world is in your hands…you’ve got everything you need” suggests Billy Porter to the graduates. “Go light the world up…Remember that you do have it within you to reach the highest level of your potential,” advises Common. Grammer performs a new song set to the “Pomp & Circumstance” graduation march specifically for the graduates. Starting June 14, the clip will be featured on the “Graduation 2020: For Chicago. By Chicago” website as part of the Windy City’s city-wide virtual high school graduation celebration. The website and ...
Dixie Chicks Reveal Gaslighter Release Date in Subtle Fashion
After having to push the release of their first album in a decade-and-a-half from May 1 due to the coronavirus pandemic, Dixie Chicks have shared when that collection is going to see the light of day. And they did so in clever fashion. In a series of posts on their Instagram, the trio, appearing as ice skaters following a competition, shared the date of when Gaslighter will be released. The wait will go on, but not for much longer. Previously, Dixie Chicks have shared the title track and “Julianna Calm Down.” Gaslighter was produced by Jack Antonoff. Check it out below. 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 p...
Lady Antebellum Change Name to Lady A Due to Slavery Reference
Country group Lady Antebellum announced that they have changed their name to Lady A. The group decided to do this in order to get rid of the antebellum term, which has been associated with slavery and the pre-Civil War South. Lady A is a nickname that their fans gave them years ago. Lady A arrived at the decision after “personal reflection, band discussion, prayer and many honest conversations with some of our closest black friends and colleagues.” The Grammy-winning group announced the reason for the change in a lengthy post on Twitter. When we set out together almost 14 years ago, we named our band after the Southern “antebellum” style home where we took our first photos. As musicians, it reminded us all of the music born in the South that influenced us… Southern rock, blues, R...
