Month: December 2022

Barack Obama is getting in on the fun of list season by sharing his favorite songs of 2022. Some one may have taken a peak at our own top songs list (hi, Obama!), as the former president included five of our favorites: SZA’s “Shirt,” Ethel Cain’s “American Teenager,” Danger Mouse and Black Thought’s “Belize” featuring
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Just in time for the holidays, emerging artist Dominic Scott gifts fans his debut mixtape, Color Theory. Color Theory is a journey of vulnerability. Across eight tracks, Scott tells a story that seems based on different aspects of what comes with falling for someone and the willingness to open up to them. Starting us off
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HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz On Friday (Dec. 23), a Los Angeles jury found rapper and singer Tory Lanez, born  Daystar Peterson, guilty of shooting Meg Thee Stallion. The Canadian rapper and singer is facing up to 20 years, and deportation, when he is sentenced. The now infamous incident occurred after
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Photo: Damian Dovarganes/Associated Press Tory Lanez was found guilty in the 2020 shooting of rapper Megan Thee Stallion. On Friday (Dec. 23), a Los Angeles jury found the Toronto rapper and singer guilty on three charges including assault with a semiautomatic firearm, carrying a loaded unregistered firearm in a vehicle, and discharge of a firearm
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It’s been a busy year for live music. Dozens of artists hit the road or participated in one-off concerts that left lasting impressions on fans in 2022. For some, it was their first time appearing onstage in several years, and not just because of the pandemic — Roxy Music performed for the first time since 2011, and Genesis reconvened for their
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The most unassuming of electronica acts from that rich post-rave boom of the early ’90s, Andy Turner and Ed Handley have been Warp stalwarts for almost 30 years, consistently releasing fine music without ever enjoying the same high profile as language-mangling, circuit-bending labelmates like Aphex Twin or Autechre. Now in their mid-fifties, the Suffolk duo
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Washington, DC — If anyone are familiar with the sounds coming out of the east coast such as drill and DMV rap, they’re in for a treat. Philadelphia-born, Washington DC-based emcee Spell Jordan returned today with his first album in over two years, Last Chance. Composed of 9 songs produced by acclaimed beat makers SLVG
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With lyrics frequently as stormy as the tone of the music behind them, it should be obvious from the jump that eccentricities are a big part of the new album from the mind of Chris McCooey, Missing Pieces. What isn’t initially made clear to us in the record’s instrumental construct and foundational verses is just how
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Patti Smith hosted a New York screening of Corsage last week, one of many showings since the Oscar-shortlisted Best International Feature contender premiered to a warm welcome in Cannes, where it won Best Performance, Un Certain Regard, for star Vicky Krieps as the Empress Elisabeth of Austria, Sisi for short. It’s fitting that Smith, royalty
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There’s a lot of things artists have to do if they want a successful career – craft their music, promote their work, perform, among many others. One of the most tedious things in the business is dealing with digital music distribution – worrying about how to get your song on DSPs (Digital Service Providers) like
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Singer and actor Trevor Jackson has shared a video for his song “This Won’t Go Viral.” The minimalistic video was co-directed by Jackson and his older brother Iyn Jay.  “This Won’t Go Viral” is lifted from Jackson’s debut album, The Love Language, released in 2021. Jackson explained the meaning behind “This Won’t Go Viral” in an interview with
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Everything wasted. Coi Leray is mentally drained on her brand new single, “Wasted”. Produced by Taylor Hill and TBHits, the Twinning hitmaker addresses a toxic relationship and the regretful energy she puts in it. “How we together and don’t even speak?” she asks. “You too busy, out here runnin’ the streets / Ain’t even checkin’
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