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Ilana Kaplan | May 19, 2021 - 10:30 am
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CREDIT: Courtesy of Suzy Shinn
Suzy Shinn had been working with Weezer as an assistant engineer for more than six years, though she never expected to get called into the big chair. However, the L.A.-based producer’s impressive resume had more than prepared her for that undertaking. At 26, the engineer can boast credits from the likes of Fall Out Boy and Katy Perry to Dua Lipa and Panic! at the Disco. But working with Weezer? That was an all-time career high.
“I was so terrified the first day [of working with Weezer],” Shinn recalls over the phone from her home in Los Feliz. “Rivers is a creative and an artist, and it’s hard to be an artist in front of people that you don’t know and especially vulnerable and intimate when it comes to lyrics and melodies.”
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J. Cole attends the 69th NBA All-Star Game at United Center on February 16, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois.
Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
This week, J. Cole gets back to work in
The Off-Season, Nicki Minaj revisits a fan favorite, and Olivia Rodrigo is ready to upend your expectations. Check out all of this week’s First Stream picks below:
J. Cole,
The Off-Season
“Platinum with no features” are four words that J. Cole has made his own, becoming the rare hip-hop superstar in the 2010s to put huge numbers on the board with projects that often eschewed major guest stars. The North Carolina MC seemed to be taking the same approach with the highly anticipated LP
Kevin Mazur/Getty Images
J. Cole attends the 69th NBA All-Star Game at United Center on February 16, 2020 in Chicago, Illinois.
Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond.
This week, J. Cole gets back to work in
The Off-Season, Nicki Minaj revisits a fan favorite, and Olivia Rodrigo is ready to upend your expectations. Check out all of this week’s First Stream picks below:
J. Cole,
The Off-Season
“Platinum with no features” are four words that J. Cole has made his own, becoming the rare hip-hop superstar in the 2010s to put huge numbers on the board with projects that often eschewed major guest stars. The North Carolina MC seemed to be taking the same approach with the highly anticipated LP
Hood, A New Multiplayer Heist Game, Is Fine
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What if Robin Hood but moodier than a mid-2000s Warped Tour ticket line? That’s the premise of
Hood: Outlaws and Legends, a class-based multiplayer heist game based on a dark and stormy version of the Robin Hood folk tale, officially released yesterday for PC, Xbox, and PlayStation. (Over the weekend, those who pre-ordered were able to play.) Anyone who’s played a third-person action game released in the last decade will immediately pick up on how to play: light attacks, heavy attacks, crouching in bushes, all that jazz.