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Lzzy Hale Shows Off Her Pipes on Cover of Dolly Parton / Whitney Houston Classic “I Will Always Love You”: Stream
Dolly Parton (CTK Management), Lzzy Hale (Jimmy Fontaine), Whitney Houston (from The Bodyguard) Halestorm frontwoman Lzzy Hale has one of the strongest voices in hard rock, and she shows off her pipes on a newly released cover of the Dolly Parton / Whitney Houston classic “I Will Always Love You”. The song appears on Halestorm’s new six-song Reimagined EP, which also features re-worked versions five of the band’s previous singles. A couple weeks ago, Halestorm released a new version of “Break In” featuring Lzzy duetting with Amy Lee from Evanescence. Lzzy has performed “I Will Always Love You” at select Halestorm concerts in the past, but this marks the first studio recording of her cover. While Dolly Parton wrote and originally recorded the heart-wrenching ballad in the ’70s, Lzzy’s rendi...
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Soundtrack and Score to Be Re-Released on Vinyl
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World Edgar Wright’s geeky action-comedy romance Scott Pilgrim vs. the World turns 10 this year, and he’s rolling out the red carpet to celebrate its anniversary. First came a star-studded virtual table read. Now, he’s giving the movie’s legendary soundtrack a special re-release on vinyl as well as Nigel Godrich’s accompanying score. This special edition re-release will be available exclusively through ABKCO, announced Wright. The OST, which is literally one of the greatest movie soundtracks of all time, will include 24-minutes’ worth of unreleased music from Beck, Sex Bob-Omb, and the movie-only version of Metric‘s “Black Sheep” as sung by Brie Larson. Godrich’s score will be included in the re-release as well, marking the first time the Radiohead producer’s contribu...
Collective Soul’s Ed Roland on New Music and a New Band Inspired by The Cars
Kyle Meredith With… Collective Soul Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | Radio Public | RSS Singer-songwriter Ed Roland sits down with Kyle Meredith to give an update on the new music he has ready, including two Collective Soul albums and an EP for Record Store Day, a solo set, and a new band that’s inspired by The Cars. From there the two discuss Craft Recordings’ 25th anniversary deluxe edition of 1995’s self-titled LP, touring with Van Halen, and the crushing legal woes with their management. This year also marks the 20th anniversary of 2000’s Blender, and Roland shares why he’d love to remix it one day, covering Morphine (“You Speak My Language”), and dueting with Elton John (“Perfect Day”). Kyle Mer...
Biggie’s Son CJ Wallace Releases His First Music as He Grows Social Impact Company
Over a Zoom video interview, Christopher “C.J.” Wallace, Jr. holds up his dad’s jersey that almost eclipses Wallace and the entire computer screen. “It’s a 5XXL,” Wallace tells Billboard. On the back of the jersey, ‘POPPA” is stitched in bright yellow letters against the hunter green fabric. The young entrepreneur was only five months old when his father, The Notorious B.I.G., was killed. Now 23, Wallace has finally done something he says he was “very scared of for the longest time”: releasing his own music, inspired by his dad’s. “I just avoided it because you don’t wanna mess up anything great,” says Wallace. Born in New York City and raised in Los Angeles, Wallace has been in the process of building his own legacy with Think BIG — a social impact company that he co-founded with bu...
Brandon Flowers Wrote the ‘Most Romantic Lyric’ for The Killers’ New Single ‘Dying Breed’
The Killers dropped their “Dying Breed” single today (Aug. 14) ahead of their sixth studio album Imploding the Mirage, which is out next Friday, Aug. 21 via Island Records. The rock band first teased the song during an April 24-dated Instagram Live, but frontman Brandon Flowers told NME that the words might be some of the “most romantic” ones he’s ever written about his wife and muse Tana Mundkowsky. “I like the idea of where me and my wife have gotten to and where we headed,” Flowers told NME. “An overriding theme of this record is asking the question, ‘Can two become one?’ I know it’s old-fashioned, but it’s my life. It’s probably the prettiest or most romantic lyric I’ve ever written.&#...
Four Takeaways From MSG Entertainment’s Near-Zero Revenue Debut Quarter as a Standalone Company
Crippled by venue closures, concert promoter MSG Entertainment’s fiscal fourth quarter revenue fell 96% to $9 million from $215.2 million for the same period a year earlier, according to financial results released Friday (Aug. 14). These aren’t the sort of numbers investors might have hoped for in the first full earnings report since MSGE spun off from the Madison Square Garden Company on April 20, but amid a pandemic that has shut down concerts since March perhaps there is some solace that this decline in revenue was still slightly better than the 98% drop Live Nation announced Aug. 5. Shares of MSGE dipped 4.7% to $67.99 at the New York Stock Exchange on Friday. In all, MSGE’s revenue for the full fiscal year, from July 1, 2019, to June 30, 2020, fell 27% to $762.9 million from $1 billio...
Adele Says She Has ‘No Idea’ When Her Album Is Coming
Ever since the 2015 release of Adele‘s 25, fans have been itching for another album by the powerhouse vocalist. However, it’s unclear when that day will be. On Friday (Aug. 14), the singer took to Instagram to share a book she just read, Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living by Glennon Doyle. “If you’re ready – this book will shake your brain and make your soul scream,” she captioned the photo. “I am so ready for myself after reading this book! It’s as if I just flew into my body for the very first time. Whew!” Some fans in the comments were disappointed, initially thinking that the post was a new song announcement. “Adele where’s the album?” one fan commented with a laughing face emoji. To their surprise, the Grammy-winn...
THE DAMNED To Release ‘The Rockfield Files’ EP
In 1980 and 1981, THE DAMNED went to Rockfield for a series of sessions that eventually became “The Black Album”, “Friday 13th” EP and “Strawberries”. Their time there produced some of THE DAMNED‘s greatest musical moments and memorable stories of horses, cows, vampires, rifles and Lemmy. In 2019, THE DAMNED returned to Rockfield studios to record the first new music since 2018’s “Evil Spirits” album. “The Rockfield Files” EP will be released on October 16 via Search And Destroy/Spinefarm. “Keep ‘Em Alive”, the first single from “The Rockfield Files” EP, is available now with an accompanying music video shot from the perspective of a bee going about its business. Watch it below. Bees are e...
SYSTEM OF A DOWN’s SHAVO ODADJIAN Releases ‘Die For The Pic’ Music Video From NORTH KINGSLEY Project
SYSTEM OF A DOWN bassist Shavo Odadjian‘s NORTH KINGSLEY musical collaboration with producer Saro Paparian and lyricist/vocalist Ray Hawthorne has released its first three-song collection, “Vol. 1”, via 22 Red Media, a subsidiary of Odadjian‘s lifestyle and cannabis brand 22 Red. “Vol. 1” features the hard-hitting, previously released debut track “Like That?” and two other songs — rabble-rousing protest anthem “Shot Guns” and biting critique of the hypocrisy of the current social media landscape, “Die For The Pic”, for which NORTH KINGSLEY has released an official music video. Hawthorne explains: “‘Die For The Pic’ is a statement on modern hypocrisy. The masses are tending to follow popular trends wit...
Listen To New (HED) P.E. Single ‘Death Awaits’
The official lyric video for the song “Death Awaits” from (HED) P.E. can be seen below. The track is the second single from (HED) P.E.‘s twelfth studio album, “Class Of 2020”, which will be released on August 21 via Suburban Noize Records. The date also coincides with the 20th anniversary of the group’s breakthrough LP, “Broke”. Frontman Jared Gomes states: “The Great Equalizer. Here is a situation where I thought I was being original, only to find out Shakespeare himself had used the words Death Awaits and so have other writers of note. Christian, Atheist and Buddhist alike share the same fate. My YouTube yogi Sadhguru said we’d all be better off if we contemplated our death once a day. More and more, people are less concerned wi...
QUIET RIOT’s FRANKIE BANALI In Recovery After Suffering Stroke
QUIET RIOT‘s Frankie Banali is recovering at home after recently suffering a stroke. Banali, who has been battling stage IV pancreatic cancer for the past 16 months, offered an update on his health status in a social media post earlier tonight (Friday, August 14). He wrote: “Update: I spent the last three weeks in the hospital. Home now. Had two blood transfusions. I also had a stroke while there. I am rehabbing at home. Thank you for your concern and well wishes.” Banali was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in April 2019 after going to the emergency room for shortness of breath, leg pain and loss of energy. A scan of his lungs caught an image of his liver, which is where the first spots were seen. Then came the discovery of a tumor on his pancreas. He has been in treatme...
Nas Drops Hit-Boy-Produced “Ultra Black”, New Album Titled ‘King’s Disease’
Source: PYMCA / Getty Nas has properly kicked off the campaign for his new album, titled King’s Disease. Today (August 14), the Queens rapper dropped a new singled called “Ultra Black,” produced by Hit-Boy. Source: Mass Appeal / Def Jam As previously reported, Hit-Boy is serving as the executive producer of the forthcoming project, which is out next Friday, August 21 via Mass Appeal Records & Def Jam. It turns out the entire album is produced by Hit-Boy while Gabriel “G Code” Zardes also holds down co-executive producer duties. As for “Ultra Black,” the subdued, mid-tempo tune finds Nas verbally expressing just how extra Black he is, along with one line throwing a sharp barb at Doja Cat to highlight the contrast. Spits Nas, “Sometimes I’m overblack, even my clothes are black/Cash Money...
