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Paul McCartney Announces New Solo Album McCartney III
Paul McCartney will return on December 11th with McCartney III. The self-titled album arrives on the 50th anniversary of the former Beatles’ first solo album; like both McCartney I and its 1980 follow-up McCartney II, McCartney III is solo album in every sense, self-produced and recorded solely by McCartney, who plays every instrument. “Paul hadn’t planned to release an album in 2020, but in the isolation of ‘Rockdown,’ he soon found himself fleshing out some existing musical sketches and creating even more new ones,” a press release explains. “Before long an eclectic collection of spontaneous songs would become McCartney III: a stripped back, self-produced and, quite literally, solo work marking the opening of a new decade, in the tradition of 1970’s McCartney and 1980’s McCartney II...
Architects Announce New Album For Those That Wish to Exist, Share “Animals”: Stream
Metalcore veterans Architects will return with their ninth studio album, For Those That Wish to Exist, on February 26th. To tide fans over, the UK band has shared the lead single, “Animals”. The track showcases Architects progressive approach to metalcore, which melds idiosyncratic lyrics with beguiling songcraft. No metalcore band sounds quite like Architects, and they seem intent on keeping it that way. The hints of chugging industrial rock are a welcome addition to their sonic repertoire. For Those That Wish to Exist also features a few high-profile guest spots, including Parkway Drive singer Winston McCall, Royal Blood frontman Mike Kerr, and Biffy Clyro vocalist Simon Neil. As for the motifs behind the album, the band looked toward the modern world and its many flaws. For Those T...
Ty Dolla $ign and Post Malone Link Up on New Song “Spicy”: Stream
Ty Dolla $ign has teamed up with Post Malone for a new song called “Spicy”. The track is taken from Ty’s forthcoming guest-heavy album, Featuring Ty Dolla $ign, which also boasts contributions from Kanye West, Kid Cudi, Nicki Minaj, FKA Twigs, Anderson .Paak, Roddy Ricch, and over a dozen others. The last time Ty and Malone crossed paths was on Posty’s 2018 hit “Psycho”. This time around, the 38-year-old veteran has brought the young crooner into his world for a smooth and bouncy track that suits both of their suave rapping styles. “She my spicy lil’ mama, she let me bust her piñata,” Ty croons with a drawn-out intonation during the hook. Malone’s boo is just as sensual, as he rap-sings, “She tryna pull my pants down/ I was lightin up a stoge on my break time/ Told her ‘Babe, I got a ...
Paul McCartney Announces New Album McCartney III
Nearly 40 years after the release of McCartney II (and five decades after his solo debut), Paul McCartney announced his latest album, McCartney III. The record is out Dec. 11 on Capitol Records. McCartney hadn’t planned to release new music in 2020, but the quarantine/lockdown (or in his words, “rockdown”) changed his perspective. Here’s what he had to say about it in a statement: I was living lockdown life on my farm with my family and I would go to my studio every day. I had to do a little bit of work on some film music and that turned into the opening track and then when it was done I thought what will I do next? I had some stuff I’d worked on over the years but sometimes time would run out and it would be left half-finished so I started thinking about what I had.&nb...
Neil Young Shares Previously Unreleased 1974 Tune ‘Homefires’
Neil Young has performed “Homefires” live since it was recorded in 1974, but the tune has never been officially released. Until now. The song features Young on vocals and guitar and Tim Drummond on bass. The duo produced the track as well. Subscribers to the Neil Young Archives can hear the entire track here or on the site’s mobile app. You can also listen to a snippet via the tweet below. The tune was cut at Young’s studio on Broken Arrow Ranch on June 16, at the same time as “Pardon My Heart,” a solo version of “Love/Art Blues” and more, with most of the songs from those sessions remaining in Young’s ballyhooed vaults. 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 Beau...
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Debuts New Main Theme by Composer Jack Wall
With Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War releasing in less than a month for both current and next-gen consoles (as well as PC, of course), fans are already preparing to drop into the 1980s and return to the beloved Black Ops series. Now, they’ll know what it will sound like when they do it, as Treyarch has just released the game’s main theme song. Created by award-winning composer Jack Wall (Mass Effect, Myst, previous Black Ops games), “Cold War” serves as a reminder of the era in which the game takes place. “I wanted to create something for the main menu that immediately said very clearly ‘Cold War’: Reagan, Brezhnev, Soviet choir,” Wall said. “I wrote a distinctly ‘of the era’ Soviet-sounding theme, mixing Soviet choir and orchestra with dark sy...
Julien Baker Announces Little Oblivions, Shares ‘Faith Healer’
Julien Baker has just shared a glimpse of what will be coming from her upcoming third album, Little Oblivions. Directed by Daniel Henry, the video for “Faith Healer” shows empty rooms filled with things, an ongoing brawl between two people and individuals who are left alone to their own devices. And while all of that splashes across your screen, Baker appears singing. [embedded content] She explains the meaning betwen the song below: “Put most simply, I think that ‘Faith Healer’ is a song about vices, both the obvious and the more insidious ways that they show up in the human experience. I started writing this song 2 years ago and it began as a very literal examination of addiction. For awhile, I only had the first verse, which is just a really candid confrontation of the cognitive dissona...
Here Are All the Performers & Presenters at the 2020 CMT Music Awards
The 2020 CMT Music Awards will air live from Nashville on Wednesday night (Oct. 21) at 8 p.m. ET on CMT, MTV, MTV2, Logo, Paramount Network, Pop and TV Land. Below, find all the performers and presenters at the 2020 CMT Awards. Main Stage Performers: Ashley McBryde Dan + Shay Gabby Barrett Jimmie Allen + Noah Cyrus Kelsea Ballerini + Halsey Kane Brown Little Big Town Luke Bryan Luke Combs + Brooks & Dunn Maren Morris Morgan Wallen Sam Hunt Shania Twain Ram Trucks Side Stage Performers: Caylee Hammack HARDY Ingrid Andress Mickey Guyton Riley Green Travis Denning Presenters: Brandi Carlile Demi Lovato Diplo Idina Menzel Jessica Chastain Katy Perry Kelly Clarkson Rob Thomas Tanya Tucker Taylor Swift You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagine...
Stevie Nicks Tops Hot 100 Songwriters Chart Thanks to Fleetwood Mac ‘Dreams’ Resurgence
“Dreams” has surged thanks to the viral TikTok video featuring the song, in which Idahoan Nathan Apodaca rides his longboard while drinking a large bottle of Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry juice. The video became so popular that the band’s Mick Fleetwood and Nicks have since created their own tribute clips. Ocean Spray even gifted Apodaca a red pickup truck (filled with bottles of Ocean Spray juice). As a member of Fleetwood Mac and as a soloist, Nicks has a longstanding history on Billboard‘s charts. She sports a songwriting credit on two Hot 100 No. 1s: “Dreams” and Destiny’s Child’s “Bootylicious” in 2001, as the latter samples Nicks’ 1982 hit “Edge of Seventeen (Just Like the White Winged Dove).” Nicks also recei...
Country’s New Kids Are Back On the Block, and Headed to Radio
Meanwhile, Warner Music Nashville artist Shy Carter has launched a socially distanced radio promotion tour, a marketing step that frequently precedes an artist’s debut on the airwaves. It is, perhaps, a sign that record labels and their radio partners are finally feeling a sense of adjusted normalcy after a lengthy period of professional turmoil and national instability. With fewer people commuting to work, in-car listening declined and radio stations adopted a safer posture. Labels, in turn, held back the release of numerous debut singles until conditions became more favorable. “Most stations seemed to tighten up, play big hit records from the recent past and also uptempo, fun records that were current singles by superstars,” says Universal Music Group Nashville executiv...
Beyoncé, Rihanna, Missy Elliott, Big Sean Join ‘End SARS’ Campaign to Curb Police Violence in Nigeria
Protesters have reportedly been hit with tear gas and stun grenades during recent clashes between the marchers and police over calls to disband the unit, which was founded in 1992 in an effort to curb robberies. CNN reported that the protests in the capital of Lagos got bloody on Tuesday amid a state-wide curfew after two weeks of ongoing street demonstrations, with eyewitnesses saying that a number of demonstrators were shot by soldiers. The state governor imposed a 24-hour curfew on Tuesday in response to the daily marches over claims that SARS officers have been involved in kidnapping, harassment and extortion. Joining the rising chorus of voices supporting the protesters, Minaj wrote, “Standing with & praying for the brave young people of Nigeria who are on the front lines of...
Dorian Electra, Memelord And Gender Destroyer, Will Fuck The World
By Eli Enis Where to begin? There’s the unexpected collaborations: My Agenda, the second album from experimental pop maximalist Dorian Electra, features disco legends the Village People owning the hook of a song describing gay frogs. They share space with the viral superstar Rebecca Black, who croons about converting fuckboys into simps. Then there’s the sound: a dizzying hodge-podge of dubstep thumps, black metal shrieks, and baroque keys, with surprisingly radio-ready lyrics satirizing far-right ideologies culled from the web’s darkest corners with an enigmatic blend of earnestness and absurdist humor. And, of course, there’s the artist themself. The 28-year-old musician grew up in Houston and ran with a crew that practiced martial arts on the playground and played Dungeons & Dragons...
