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Backxwash has won the prestigious 2020 Polaris Music Prize for her metal-infused hip-hop album, God Has Nothing To Do With This Leave Him Out Of It. The award is presented annually to the best Canadian album, as decided by a jury of music journalists and broadcasters. The Montreal-based, Zambia-born rapper had some steep competition this year, beating out records […]
21 Savage and Metro Boomin’s well-received Savage Mode sequel has debuted at the No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart. Billboard reports that Savage Mode II finished in first with 171,000 equivalent album units, dethroning Machine Gun Kelly’s Tickets to My Downfall, which slipped to No. 6 with 56,000 units. Savage Mode II marks 21 Savage’s second full-length release to top the charts, following his 2018 album I […]
While this year has seen no shortage of deeply depressing developments across the world that will surely define 2020 in history as a total shitshow, at least we’ve all been given some solace in the form of Nathan Apodaca‘s Fleetwood Mac-soundtracked TikTok hit. Apodaca—a.k.a. Doggface208—has become a fixture in headlines in the days since the […]
Any opportunity to write a bit more about Nathan Apodaca‘s still-ubiquitous “Dreams” clip is an opportunity worth taking. This week, we learned—straight from Apodaca (a.k.a. Doggface420) himself—that Ocean Spray came through for the burgeoning TikTok star by gifting him a new truck. Fittingly, the truck in question boasts a very juice-esque paint job and arrived […]
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court chose not to weigh-in on the six-year-old copyright battle alleging that Led Zeppelin‘s 1971 hit “Stairway to Heaven” plagiarized the opening riff from Spirit’s “Taurus,” with “Taurus” being a song that had come out three years earlier. As a result, a ruling was left in place that rejected the copyright […]
Floor Seats II, the latest full-length project from ASAP Ferg, is out now. As anyone who’s given the (pretty excellent) project some attention already knows, Ferg’s approach to curating features—including the post-release tracklist addition of “Big ASAP” with Monica—is decidedly on another level this time around. And as he explained in a new social distancing-friendly […]
Lenny Kravitz has been friends with Jason Momoa for quite some time, and this is despite how Momoa is married to his ex-wife Lisa Bonet. In an interview with Men’s Health, Kravitz has revealed that their unlikely friendship took next to no work. He also spoke about how he managed to maintain a friendship with Bonet, […]
Nathan Apodaca, a.k.a. 420doggface208, has received thousands of dollars in donations from generous fans of his still-ubiquitous TikTok featuring the comforting pairing of a skate-improving Fleetwood Mac classic and a jug of Ocean Spray’s Cran-Raspberry drink. Apodaca said in an interview on Tuesday that he’s going to use the money that’s been donated to him so far by putting […]
Of the many music tastemakers to lavish praise on meteorically rising Montreal rapper Backxwash in 2020, the shout-out she might be most personally excited about came from Metal Hammer. The venerable UK rock publication, normally known for keeping track of what the titans of rock are up to, called Ashanti Mutinta one of “modern rap’s […]
Apparently undeterred by COVID-19, which was made quite clear when their lead singer told the crowd, “We’re all here together tonight! Fuck that COVID shit,” Smash Mouth performed at the annual Sturgis Motorcycle Rally in South Dakota this past Sunday night. Cue some “ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed” joke that’s already been made 1,000 times. […]
