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Girl Talk Announces New Album With Wiz Khalifa, Big K.R.I.T., and Smoke DZA
Girl Talk, Wiz Khalifa, Big K.R.I.T., and Smoke DZA have announced a collaborative new album. Full Court Press is out April 8 (via Asylum/Taylor Gang). It’s the first full-length Girl Talk album Gregg Gillis has released since 2010’s All Day. Check out the lead single “Put You On” below. According to a press release, the four of musicians started working on the album in 2017. “These guys all go back with each other over 10 years, so it was just a great energy in the room,” Gillis said in a statement. “I wanted to have an environment where they could do what they do best; try out a bunch of different ideas and have fun with it.” Girl Talk will soon embark on his first tour in over nine years. Find his tour dates here. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from. F...
Listen to Rex Orange County and Tyler, the Creator’s New Song “Open a Window”
British singer-songwriter Rex Orange County is gearing up to release his new album Who Cares? this Friday, March 11, via Sony Music. He’s teasing the record with a new song called “Open a Window,” featuring Tyler, the Creator. It marks the first time the two have collaborated since Rex Orange Country hopped on Tyler’s 2017 album Flower Boy. Check the new track out below. Who Cares? is the follow-up to Rex Orange County’s 2019 album Pony. He previously released the singles “Amazing” and “Keep It Up.” Tyler, the Creator issued Call Me If You Get Lost last year. Read about the LP at No. 3 in Pitchfork’s “The 50 Best Albums of 2021.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
My Chemical Romance Add New 2022 North American Tour Dates
My Chemical Romance have added new dates to their 2022 tour. The new North American shows take place in August, September, and October. Find the group’s tour schedule below. My Chemical Romance’s tour includes three performances at the new When We Were Young music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada. The band has numerous stops in Europe, too, but will not be playing shows in Russia and Ukraine. The following acts will serve as openers at various points on the My Chemical Romance tour: Badflower, the Bouncing Souls, Devil Master, Dilly Dally, Ghösh, the Homeless Gospel Choir, Kimya Dawson, the Lemon Twigs, Meg Myers, Midtown, Nothing, Shannon and the Clams, Soul Glo, Surfbort, Taking Back Sunday, Thursday, Turnstile, Waterparks, and Youth Code. After breaking up in 2013, My Chemical Romance retu...
Detroit’s Movement 2022 Lineup Announced: Carl Craig b2b James Murphy, Flying Lotus, and More
Movement Music Festival takes place from May 28-30 at Hart Plaza in Detroit. The full lineup has been announced today. It includes a special b2b set from Detroit techno icon Carl Craig and LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy, plus Flying Lotus, Skrillex, Jon Hopkins, Kevin Saunderson performing under the E-Dancer alias, 2 Chainz, the Blessed Madonna, Duck Sauce, Juan Maclean, Maya Jane Coles, Jeff Mills, Richie Hawtin, Adam Beyer, Nancy Whang and Pat Mahoney, Goldie b2b LTJ Bukem, Eris Drew b2b Octo Octa, Haai, and more. Find the full lineup in the poster below. Murphy is keeping a busy schedule this year, with multiple LCD Soundsystem concert residencies and a DJ set at the upcoming DFA 20th anniversary party. Flying Lotus scored the 2021 anime series Yasuke and has a new film in the works cal...
Downtown Launches $200M Fund to Support Indie Artists & Entrepreneurs
Downtown Music Holdings has established a fund to invest over $200 million in support of independent artists and entrepreneurs, the company announced Wednesday (March 9). The fund, which is supported by a new credit facility with Bank of America, will be spread across Downtown’s distribution, publishing administration and artist and label services operations. In a statement, Downtown Music Holdings CEO Andrew Bergman said the financing from Bank of America “enables us to expand our music services business by giving creators and business owners the ability to finance projects in an environment where the options are often unpalatable.” Downtown chief investment officer Alan Goodstadt added, “We are immensely gratified that Bank of America shares our vision of building financial solutions for...
SixTONES Scores Sixth No. 1 With ‘Kyomei’ on Japan Hot 100
SixTONES’ sixth single “Kyomei” blasts into No. 1 on the Billboard Japan Hot 100, dated March 9, putting an end to Aimer’s seven-week streak at the top of the tally. The six-member Johnny’s boy band scores its sixth No. 1 with this track, which is the opener for the ongoing anime series Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon season 2. “Kyomei” sold 402,093 copies in its first week to rule the metric (though about 100,000 copies short of its previous single, “Mascara”), while also coming in at No. 1 for look-ups and radio airplay. The track also did well on Twitter (No. 4) and came in at No. 53 for video views, so the two physical metrics of the chart’s methodology (sales and look-ups) fueled the song to No. 1 this week. Explore Explore SixTONES See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos,...
Machine Gun Kelly Claps Back at TikToker Who Accused Him of Not Actually Playing His Guitar
Machine Gun Kelly isn’t standing for any hate on his musical ability. The “Bloody Valentine” rocker reacted to a TikTok from user and Guitar Center employee Gunnar DüGrey, who made an observation on a Machine Gun Kelly Signature Schecter electric guitar and ultimately accused the musician of muting the guitar using a kill switch during live performances and not actually playing. MGK replied to the TikTok, showing that you can rotate the kill switch, so on his guitar, the kill switch is on during his performances. “I only play my guitar live,” he says, imploring DüGrey to actually watch his performances so he “can hear the vibe.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news “You’re wearing a Liquid Death hat, and I’m also a part owner in that company. So, you’re promoting me while hating on m...
Japan’s Online Vocaloid Scene’s Influence on Current J-Pop Mainstream, Explained
Fifteen years since the release of the groundbreaking singing voice synthesizer software Hatsune Miku in 2007, Vocaloid has become an essential part of the current J-pop landscape. Numerous artists whose music careers got started by producing and sharing tracks made with Vocaloid software — “Vocalo” is now a J-pop sub-genre and its producers are collectively called “Vocalo-P” in Japanese — have broken into the mainstream, including hitmakers Yonezu Kenshi and YOASOBI, who have dominated the Japan charts in recent years. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Why have so many gifted artists emerged from the Vocaloid scene? What are some of the factors that led to Vocalo-P creators becoming solo singer-songwriters or forming groups with other artists to...
Bloom Vol. 7: A Walk
The past week has not been easy; humans unhinged at the ends of barrels and fuse of warheads. Chaos is on the airwaves, straddling every knuckle of your hands with an involuntary authority that pulls your cheeks to a grimacing expression. The garden is on fire, the flowers have long gone away in the fields where oil etches slurred lines into the soil, and explosions eclipse the sunsetting sun, setting the horizon ablaze. In the clutches of survivalism, we are not allowed to possess a state of positive wellbeing that we deserve as living human beings. Taking in the world in mere seconds as news articles swirl and sentiments are shared can be overwhelming – the horror when history books flicker their pages in frantic song and come to life to write another chapter. For me, this shortcircuitin...
MOTOR SISTER Feat. ANTHRAX, FATES WARNING, Ex-WHITE ZOMBIE Members: ‘Get Off’ Album Due In May
Rock supergroup MOTOR SISTER — featuring Jim Wilson (MOTHER SUPERIOR), Scott Ian (ANTHRAX), Pearl Aday (Scott‘s wife and daughter of late actor/musician Meat Loaf), Joey Vera (ARMORED SAINT, FATES WARNING) and John Tempesta (THE CULT) — will release its new album, “Get Off”, on May 6 via Metal Blade Records. The official music video for the LP’s first single, “Can’t Get High Enough”, can be seen below. Wilson says: “We wanted to make a high-energy, kick-ass rock and roll record from top to bottom. All killer, no filler.” Adds Vera: “Our first record ‘Ride’ was a collection of songs we re-recorded from the band MOTHER SUPERIOR which was great, but I’m stoked that we had this chance to actually get into a room toge...
LZZY HALE Says Meeting Her ‘Idol’ ANN WILSON For First Time Was ‘Exciting’
In a new interview with iHeartRadio‘s Jess Jackson, HALESTORM frontwoman Lzzy Hale revealed that she recently met one of her “idols” for the first time, Ann Wilson from HEART. She said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “This happened — what? — two weeks ago, I think. She was recording a new album and I went to her studio and we did this joint interview together. And I was so happy to finally be able to thank her for not giving up. Because, look, we all have our roller-coaster-ride struggles that we go through just being born a woman, but I didn’t have it nearly as bad as she did. [Laughs] Because with every generation, you get to pass the torch to the next and have it be hopefully just a little less difficult because of what you fought to do. And so I got ...
ARCH ENEMY’s JEFF LOOMIS Partners With JACKSON For New Signature Guitar
Jackson today launches the Pro Series Signature Jeff Loomis Soloist SL7, the latest inception of their partnership with prolific veteran metal guitarist Jeff Loomis. Jackson and Loomis first collaborated in 2020 to create Loomis‘s Pro Series Signature Kelly, an aggressive signature axe featuring a basswood body with a sandblasted ash top, finished in black with white binding giving a distressed and menacing look. This time around, the pair created a seven-string Soloist built to handle the prog metal giant’s furious, intricate playing that afforded him fame with NEVERMORE and ARCH ENEMY. The Soloist SL7 will captivate players who strive to emulate the heavy low-end sound and complex arrangements Loomis built his career on. Jackson meets the demands of the guitarist who always w...
