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Quelle Chris Announces New Album DEATHFAME, Drops “Alive Ain’t Always Living”: Stream
Quelle Chris has announced his upcoming album DEATHFAME, out May 13th via Mello Music Group, and released its lead single “Alive Ain’t Always Living.” Stream the track below. The new LP will be the rapper’s first solo body of work since 2020’s Innocent Country 2, and finds him once again reunited with producer and frequent collaborator Chris Keys. The 14-track project includes guest features from Navy Blue (“So Tired You Can’t Stop Dreaming”), Denmark Vessey and J Jig Cicero (“Cui Proudest”), Pink Siifu and Morfu (“The Sky Is Blue Because The Sunset Is Red”), and Cavalier (album closer “Excuse My Back”). The first offering “Alive Ain’t Always Living,” meanwhile, is built over a looping gospel organ as the hip-hop artist otherwise known as Gavin Tennille sing-raps, “I’m so grateful, so grat...
Porridge Radio Unveil Heartbreaking New Single “The Rip”: Stream
Porridge Radio are gearing up to release a new album next month, and today they’ve shared the latest single, “The Rip,” and its accompanying music video. Meant to combine the “massive pop” of Charli XCX with the instrumentation of bands like Slothrust or Deftones, “The Rip” was the last song to be completed for Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder to the Sky after lead singer Dana Margolin took a few years to write the lyrics. Opening with new wave synths, “The Rip” combines 80s pop with shoegaze, as Margolin bares her soul about losing grip on a relationship. “You’re all that I need,” she screams. “The back of my head/ The back of my hands/ I threw it away before it went bad.” Advertisement Related Video “At the beginning, it was a song about a power dynamic where I was in control, by the end...
Muni Long’s ‘Hrs and Hrs’ Hits No. 1 on R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay
Muni Long’s “Hrs and Hrs” hits No. 1 on Billboard’s R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay chart, advancing from No. 3 to lead the list dated April 9. The new champ’s coronation comes just two weeks after Muni Long’s independent label, Supergiant, announced a partnership deal with Def Jam Recordings. With Def Jam’s credit addition, “Hrs and Hrs” secures the label’s first R&B/Hip-Hop Airplay No. 1 in nearly six years, since Desiigner’s “Panda” reigned for two weeks in June 2016. “Hrs and Hrs” ascends after it climbed to 20 million in radio audience and registered the highest listenership of any song from U.S. monitored R&B/hip-hop stations in the week ending March 31, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data. The new champ improved 14% from a 17.6 million audience total in the prior week (ending M...
Record Label Market Share Q1 2022: Interscope Leads, Indies Gain, Disney Surges Into Top 10
We don’t talk about Bruno, but Disney is giving the music business something else to talk about: its impressive new share of the market. As 2022 got underway, the soundtrack to Encanto, the Disney film that was released over the holiday season, saw its Lin-Manuel Miranda-penned collection of songs become the biggest album of the year so far in the first quarter stemming from Dec. 31, 2021 through March 31, 2022. The success of the soundtrack — the first album of 2022 to pass 1 million equivalent album units, according to Luminate, formerly MRC Data — has had a tangible effect on the market share rankings for Q1, as the Disney Music Group surged into the top 10 of overall market share, the most significant of several moves atop the rankings compared to Q1 last year. Interscope/Geffen/A&...
Diplo & Miguel’s ‘Don’t Forget My Love’ Hits No. 1 on Dance/Mix Show Airplay Chart
Diplo and Miguel lift to the summit of Billboard’s Dance/Mix Show Airplay chart (dated April 9) with “Don’t Forget My Love.” The song is Miguel’s first No. 1 and Diplo’s initial solo leader, following three trips to the top as part of Major Lazer and one as half of Silk City. As a member of Major Lazer (with Walshy Fire and Ape Drums), Diplo has reigned with “Lean On,” with DJ Snake and featuring MØ (13 weeks at No. 1, 2015); “Light It Up,” featuring Nyla and Fuse ODG (two, 2016); and “Lay Your Head on Me,” featuring Marcus Mumford (2020). With Silk City (with Mark Ronson), Diplo has led with “New Love,” featuring Ellie Goulding (two, 2021). Overall, Diplo has 19 solo Dance/Mix Show Airplay entries, including 11 top 10s. Miguel previously reached the chart as a featured vocalist on Kygo’s ...
Jack White Teases His Jay-Z Collab May ‘See the Light of Day’
Jack White shared in a new interview with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe that a collab between him and Jay-Z might be coming out soon. The White Stripes frontman is to release two solo projects this year, the first of which, Fear of the Dawn, is due Friday (April 8). In the interview, Lowe brought up the rumor that White and Jay-Z were “sitting on heat.” “It’s true, but it’s not me who doesn’t finish stuff. I’m not that guy,” White teased. “I’m more the personality, like, I’ll be there tomorrow. So it’s different working styles. So some of that stuff will see the light of day when those guys aren’t busy with other projects and stuff.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Sharing his experience working with the rapper, White said, “It was so different becau...
Artist x Artist: Kathleen Hanna x The Linda Lindas
Every so often a band comes around that captures your heart, but not your mind. In the case of Los Angeles-based teenage sensation The Linda Lindas, it’s both. Last year, the quartet went viral for the right reasons. Their song, “Racist, Sexist Boy” was a big hit with the music world and librarians as well. One of those famous fans, Bikini Kill/Le Tigre frontwoman Kathleen Hanna, has been a supporter of the band for a long time. In fact, The Linda Lindas opened for Bikini Kill in 2019. So, with the group’s debut album, Growing Up, out on Epitaph on April 8, we thought it would be a good idea to get the band and Hanna together for a chat. The result? The two parties went deep. In their conversation, they exchanged questions about their origins, how they discovered each other and described w...
Carolesdaughter is Pop-Punk’s New Mormon Mall-Goth Mastermind
Thea Taylor is no model Mormon. Growing up in a strict religious household in Southern California, the youngest of 10 kids was tattooing and piercing herself by age 13. A few years later, the teen’s “bad little kid” habits, as she describes them, evolved into serious trouble: drug addiction and stints in rehab. But while in a six-month program in 2019, Taylor brought along her acoustic guitar. A deluge of introspective songwriting sessions ensued as the young artist channeled her feelings of melancholy and hopelessness into her music. She scribbled lamenting lyrics like “I think rock bottom’s fake, ‘cuz I’ve been here for a while now / Don’t think I’ll ever leave, ‘cuz pain just makes me smile now.” Once home, Taylor — who’d never publicly released any of her songs — decided to record and ...
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts’ Changeup
A definitive “no way” was Joan Jett’s response when asked if she’d always planned to record an acoustic album. “You had to remember, when I was a young girl wanting to play a guitar, people told me, ‘Girls can’t play electric guitar. Girls can play rock and roll,’” Joan says. “I wanted that electric guitar and I did not want to even see an acoustic guitar. I had no use for it throughout my career.” Joan tells me she was “repelled” by the acoustic guitar, based on the biases surrounding women in music: “I said, ‘You have plenty of girls playing acoustic guitar. You don’t need me. You need more playing electric guitar.’” Enter Changeup (released March 25), Joan’s first-ever all-acoustic album that came about, as she explains, by doing extra tracks for fans. “A couple of years ago, we di...
Portishead Announce First Show in Seven Years to Support Ukraine
For the first time in seven years, Portishead are back together. The British rockers are slated to support Ukraine in a small benefit show in an upcoming livestreamed event. The event is on May 2 at the O2 Academy Bristol, and is raising money for War Child’s efforts in Ukraine. Portishead are returning to their hometown, which they share with headliners IDLES, for the event. Billy Nomates, Katy J Pearson, Heavy Lungs, Wilderman, and Willie J Healy are also scheduled to perform. “We are really pleased to be able to support the people of Ukraine by performing a few songs at this event in collaboration with the amazing War Child charity,” Portishead said in a statement. Fans can only snag the 1,200 tickets through a donation raffle, which will come in pairs. If you don’t win the raffle, ever...
Would SUM 41’s DERYCK WHIBLEY Join LINKIN PARK As Replacement For CHESTER BENNINGTON? He Responds
SUM 41 frontman Deryck Whibley, whose band performed a cover of LINKIN PARK‘s “Faint” with Mike Shinoda at the 2018 edition of the Reeding and Leeds festivals, was asked in a new interview with “The Jasta Show” if he would ever consider joining LINKIN PARK as the replacement for the late Chester Bennington. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I think that’s an impossible task; I think those are impossible shoes to fill. I don’t know if they’re ever gonna do anything. I have no idea what that’s gonna look like or who that could be.” In response to host Jamey Jasta‘s comment that Deryck‘s vocal style would be a good fit with LINKIN PARK‘s music, Whibley said: “I’ll take that compli...
HIM’s VILLE VALO Announces ‘Neon Noir’ Solo Album, 2023 North American Tour
HIM mastermind Ville Valo will release a new single, “Loveletting”, on April 8 under the VV banner. “Loveletting” is taken from VV‘s forthcoming debut album, “Neon Noir”. Ville explains: “As fun as the funeral rites for HIM were, it took me more than a few moons to lick my wounds in the shadow of the Heartagram and come up with an excuse to strum and hum again. Eventually, I decided to put a leash on my beloved black dog and we started howling together instead of barking at each other. That’s how ‘Loveletting’ was born.” “Loveletting” will be made available across all digital platforms from midnight (local time) tonight. An official video clip will follow tomorrow at 11 a.m. EDT. “Neon Noir” is ...
