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This Single Mom Wants To Know Why She Was Ghosted By The One Man She Finally Trusted
Shannon “created a bond” with a man named Jayday — but then, all of a sudden, their relationship was a love gone missing. In a sneak peek of the first-ever, completely virtual season of Ghosted: Love Gone Missing — premiering September 2 — co-hosts Rachel Lindsay and Travis Mills listen to Shannon describe her connection to Jayday. “I’m a single mom, and I decided to take a chance on this guy named Jayday, who is also a single father,” she reveals in the clip above. “I was a teen mom myself — it’s hard for people my age to understand my child comes first. He’s okay with that.” So how did the two meet, and how did their relationship progress? Watch Shannon explain more in the video — and do not miss the seas...
Megan Thee Stallion Shouldn’t Have To Relive Her Trauma While Promoting A New Single
By Jaelani Turner-Williams Less than a week after rumors swirled around the July 12 shooting of Megan Thee Stallion following a party in Los Angeles, the rapper briefly took to Instagram to voice her frustrations about discrepancies and hearsay floating around about the incident. “I suffered gunshot wounds as a result of a crime that was committed against me and done with the intention to physically harm me,” she wrote. A month later, after repeated pressure on social media, Megan finally confirmed what had long been rumored: “Yes, this n—a Tory shot me,” she said on Instagram Live, referring to Tory Lanez by name as her attacker. In July, Lanez was arrested and charged with carrying a concealed weapon in the vehicle. Her announcement was a long time coming. Taking to Twitter on July...
RITCHIE BLACKMORE Guests On WILLIAM SHATNER’s Cover Of ‘The Thrill Is Gone’ (Audio)
William Shatner will release a new album, “The Blues”, on October 2 via Cleopatra Records. The effort find the legendary actor deliver exactly what the title suggests: covers of blues classics. Due on October 2, it will feature versions of songs penned by Robert Johnson, Albert King and B.B. King, Muddy Waters and other genre shapers, plus THE DEAD SOUTH smash “In Hell I’ll Be In Good Company” and one original. “The Blues” is Shatner‘s fourth album with Cleopatra, following 2011’s “Seeking Major Tom”, 2013’s “Ponder The Mystery” and 2018’s “Shatner Claus: The Christmas Album”. Among the guests featured on “The Blues” are Brad Paisley (“Sweet Home Chicago”), Jeff ...
WARRANT’s ROBERT MASON Is ‘Thankful’ Fans ‘Embraced’ Him After JANI LANE’s Death
Robert Mason says that he is “thankful” he has been embraced by WARRANT fans after Jani Lane‘s final exit from the band. Lane recorded several albums with WARRANT in late 1980s and early 1990s but left the group several times. The band’s seventh studio LP, “Born Again”, was released in 2006 and featured Jaime St. James as the lead singer. In 2008, Lane returned to WARRANT temporarily and toured with the group. In September that year, WARRANT announced that Jani had left again. The band replaced him with Mason and released its eighth studio album, “Rockaholic”, in 2011. Lane died in August 2011 at age 47. Paramedics found his body in a Comfort Inn motel room in Woodland Hills, California, which is near Los Angeles. Lane had battled alcohol abu...
MICHAEL SWEET On STRYPER’s ‘Even The Devil Believes’: ‘It’s For Sure A Hundred Percent Metal Album’
Openly Christian hard rockers STRYPER will release their new album, “Even The Devil Believes”, on September 4 via Frontiers Music Srl. The 11-track project is STRYPER‘s first studio LP with Perry Richardson (FIREHOUSE) on bass and background vocals. Sweet, who also produced the new album, told “FOX 17 Rock And Review” about the effort (see video below): “This album, I kept saying, ‘It’s a metal album. It’s a metal album,’ and it is. It’s for sure a hundred percent metal album. But at the same time, we really wanted to incorporate more melodies and bring back a little bit more of the melodic side of the band as well as the edgy side of the band. So, these are metal songs, but with lots of melodies and vocal parts going on....
COREY TAYLOR: Why Now Is The Right Time For Me To Release My Debut Solo Album
SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR frontman Corey Taylor was a guest on the latest episode of “The Electric Theater With Clown” Internet show hosted by his SLIPKNOT bandmate M. Shawn “Clown” Crahan. You can now listen to the entire chat below. Speaking about the inspiration for his upcoming debut solo album, “CMFT”, Corey said: “This is something that I could have done years ago, I could have done at any other point, but at the time, it didn’t make sense to do something like that. Honestly, because I had SLIPKNOT, I had STONE SOUR, for whatever it was worth. “You know me — the only time I really like to put a focus on myself sometimes is when it’s part of the collective, when it’s working on something as a group and working on somethin...
Billie Eilish and Finneas Recreate NPR Music’s Tiny Desk Set for At-Home Performance
With many, including the NPR Music staff, working from home, musicians have been recording themselves performing the iconic Tiny Desk sets themselves. Whether it’s been in their homes or in the Caribbean, fans have been treated to a variety of looks in the series. But Billie Eilish and Finneas brought us back to tradition — kind of. In the latest episode of Tiny Desk at-home, they are seen sitting in what looks like the NPR Music office in Washington, D.C. However, as editor Stephen Thompson explained, “the NPR Music staff can’t set foot in the building that houses Bob Boilen’s desk.” So what happened? After performing “My Future” and “Everything I Wanted,” the camera starts to pan out and show that it’s actually a set that was built to look like the original Tiny Desk set up. And what we ...
Watch Nick Mason’s Saucerful Full of Secrets Perform ‘See Emily Play’
Last year, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason and his new backing band, Saucerful Full of Secrets (you know, like the Pink Floyd album) hit the road in 2018 and 2019 to perform classic cuts from Floyd’s pre-Dark Side of the Moon era. The band will be releasing a set, Live at the Roundhouse, commemorating that tour — which even included an appearance of “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun” by none other than Mason’s old bandmate Roger Waters at a tour stop in New York’s Beacon Theater. This show took place in London on May 3 and 4, 2019. Mason and company were supposed to tour in the U.K. and Ireland this year, before COVID-19 scuttled that plan. For now, though it’s a consolation prize compared to seeing them in person; check out a clip of the band performing Flo...
Tim Heidecker and Weyes Blood Team For New Song “Nothing”: Stream
Tim Heidecker (photo by Heather Kaplan) and Weyes Blood (photo by Philip Cosores) Tim Heidecker has shared a new song called “Nothing”, written and performed with Weyes Blood. It’s off his upcoming guest-heavy album Fear of Death, which comes for us all on September 25th. As you might have guessed from the cheerful album title, “Nothing” answers the question: What matters in life? “Nothing! That’s what it amounts to, they say,” is how the song begins, and it only gets sunnier from there. “Black void waiting down the road for us one day/ We’re all gonna die alone/ There ain’t nobody gonna carry us home.” But in the meantime, we have gorgeous backing vocals from Weyes Blood to keep us company, because while “there ain’t no place where the angels roam,” that doesn’t mean we can’t find he...
Yo La Tengo Announce Sleepless Night EP, Share Cover of The Byrds’ “Wasn’t Born to Follow”: Stream
Yo La Tengo returned last month with a new instrumental EP called We Have Amnesia Sometimes. Now, just a few week later, they’ve announced a follow-up. Dubbed Sleepless Night, the band’s latest EP is set for an October 9th release via Matador. The collection features one original song alongside five covers, including a take on The Byrds’ “Wasn’t Born to Follow” that’s been shared as the lead single. Sleepless Night is actually the A-side to an LP previously only available in a limited-edition catalog for the Los Angeles County Musuem of Art exhibition Yoshitomo Nara. The show was Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara’s first international retrospective, and the artist himself worked with Yo La Tengo to choose the songs that appear on the EP. The six-track effort includes the new original tra...
Alanis Morissette Reimagines “You Oughta Know”, “Reasons I Drink” for Spotify Singles: Stream
Anyone else’s year been so crazy they forgot Alanis Morissette dropped a really excellent new album, Such Pretty Forks in the Road? Well, as a much needed reminder that there has been some good in 2020, the Canadian-American icon has celebrated the LP with a new contribution to the Spotify Singles series. Although the standard practice for the series is for artists to reinterpret one song from their catalog and cover someone else’s, Morissette decided to tackle two of her own tracks. First is “Reasons I Drink”, the lead single from Such Pretty Forks, which is given a very faithful yet stripped back reworking. It’s somewhat bolder and grittier here, even as it’s driven by an acoustic guitar. Morissette’s new imagining of the classic “You Oughta Know”, as might be expected, is the real highl...
Mourn Announce New Album Self Worth, Share “This Feeling is Disgusting”: Stream
Barcelona indie rockers Mourn have announced a new album. Titled Self Worth, the follow-up to 2018’s Sopresa Familia will arrive October 30th through Captured Tracks. As its title indicates, the forthcoming effort finds Mourn rediscovering themselves after a bout of trials and tribulations, including the departure of drummer Antonio Postius. “This album gave us what we needed: self-worth, the desire to go forward, to love ourselves, with everything, with the good and bad,” the group, now a trio, notes in a statement. “This album empowers us.” “Call You Back”, released in May, offered fans their first peek at the new LP. A second single, “This Feeling is Disgusting”, has now been revealed. The track is a literal reaction to the world — as it is in this present moment and what it may ha...
