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FOREIGNER’s MICK JONES On IAN MCDONALD: ‘He Was A Musician Of Great Substance And Versatility’
FOREIGNER leader Mick Jones has paid tribute to the band’s original guitarist Ian McDonald, who passed away peacefully on February 9 in his home in New York City, surrounded by his family. He was 75 years old. Earlier today, Jones released the following statement: “When I had the idea of forming FOREIGNER, Ian McDonald was among the first I turned to. He was and always will be a giant on the English progressive rock scene. He was a musician of great substance and versatility. It was a real thrill to work with him then and again at more recent FOREIGNER concerts. He will be sadly missed.” A master multi-instrumentalist, McDonald‘s musicianship was an integral part of launching celebrated progressive rock band KING CRIMSON. His keyboard and woodwind contributions led ...
EVANESCENCE And WITHIN TEMPTATION’s ‘Worlds Collide’ European Tour Postponed Once Again
EVANESCENCE and WITHIN TEMPTATION‘s “Worlds Collide” European tour has once again been postponed. The trek, which was originally planned for 2020 and later moved to 2021 and then to March/April 2022, will now kick off in the fall. EVANESCENCE said in a statement: “As the world is slowly reopening again, we felt very optimistic about the tour actually taking place in March and April. However – in a lot of countries there currently still are restrictions and we are forced to make a decision right now for logistical reasons. “We are aware that many fans are preparing to make their plans to attend the shows, some of which involve travel and given the uncertainty as to exactly when certain countries will lift their restrictions, we are left with no choice but...
METALLICA Releases Pro-Shot Video Of ‘Dirty Window’ Performance From Second 40th-Anniversary Concert
Professionally filmed video of METALLICA performing the song “Dirty Window” on December 19, 2021 at Chase Center in San Francisco, California can be seen below. The show was the second of METALLICA‘s two 40th-anniversary concerts which featured different setlists. They were part of METALLICA‘s “San Francisco Takeover”, a four-day citywide celebration of the band’s 40th anniversary that also included a film festival, photo exhibit and curated lineup of smaller venue shows featuring other acts. The 40th-anniversary shows marked METALLICA‘s return to Chase Center for the first time since the September 2019 “S&M²” concerts that also served as the venue’s grand opening. Those two shows grossed more than $4.1 million over the ...
SLASH FEAT. MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS Guest On SiriusXM’s ‘Trunk Nation Virtual Invasion’ (Video)
SiriusXM‘s Eddie Trunk hosted a special “Trunk Nation Virtual Invasion” with SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS at SiriusXM‘s Los Angeles studios. Trunk sat down with Slash and the band to discuss their new record, working during the pandemic, the new tour and more. Preview clips are available below. This special “Trunk Nation”, taped last week, will air on Friday, February 11 at 10 p.m. ET on the Volume channel (106). It can also be heard anytime on demand on the SiriusXM app. SLASH FEATURING MYLES KENNEDY AND THE CONSPIRATORS‘ new album, titled “4”, was released today (Friday, February 11) via Gibson Records in partnership with BMG, “4” is Slash‘s fifth solo album and fourth overall with his band feat...
Snoop Dogg Drops New Album ‘BODR’ Featuring Nas, Wiz Khalifa and More
Snoop Dogg on Friday dropped off his 20th studio album, BODR, which stands for Bacc on Death Row. The record arrives after Snoop recently acquired Death Row Records, where he released his debut album Doggystyle in 1993. BODR marks the first album to land at the label under Snoop. “BODR is especially important to me and I’m excited to have a full-circle moment in my career at this time,” Snoop said in a statement. “The album has all the classic Snoop Dogg style with surprises and features from some of the dopest artists out there.” The album, which boasts 18 tracks, features Nas, Wiz Khalifa, DaBaby, The Game, Nate Dogg, T.I., Sleepy Brown, Uncle Murda, E-Mo, October London, Nefertitti Avant, HeyDeon and Jane Handcock. Several producers, including Hit-Boy, DJ Green ...
Foxes, Introverted Pop Star, Dances Back Into The Spotlight
By Jack Irvin Foxes didn’t plan to take six years off between albums, but following the release of her most recent full-length project, 2016’s All I Need, the U.K. singer-songwriter born Louisa Rose Allen was in need of a reset. Ever since bursting onto the scene as the vocalist on Zedd’s Grammy-winning 2012 single “Clarity,” which dominated dance floors globally and scored Foxes a record deal with Sony Music, she felt pressured to recreate its success with more EDM tracks. The musician recalls playing her synthpop debut album, 2014’s Glorious, for American label representatives before it dropped and being told, “This isn’t going to work. We need 12 ‘Clarity’s” — which she had no intention of creating. “I wrote my first album in a bedroom,” Foxes tells MTV News from her East London ho...
Bop Shop: Songs From Pusha T, LØLØ And Maggie Lindemann, Madison Rose, And More
Yena: “Smiley” (ft. Bibi) Making her highly anticipated solo debut, K-pop soloist Yena (formerly of Iz*One) returns to the scene with “Smiley,” a dynamic and effervescent title track that feels like sunshine on your skin. The bass-heavy melody is perfectly layered with synth, creating an electrifying melody that feels retro, yet current. “Smiley” features everyone’s favorite K-R&B it girl, Bibi, whose sultry vocals provide a dark contrast to Yena’s bright and bubbly pop sound, further adding texture to the track. The accompanying visual perfectly matches “Smiley”’s vibrant energy, utilizing colorful sets, creative styling, and animated elements to make the song truly come to life. Though this is definitely not Yena’s debut, it does mark the start of a new and exciting chapter for her. ...
The Vinyl Countdown
Blessed (and weird) are the record store saints, who save God-forsaken disks from ending up in landfill graveyards, finding them venerating homes, instead. Unlike most independent record retailers following today’s standard playbook, replacing compact discs and used vinyl in their bins with virgin 12-inch vinyl re-issues and contemporary pressings, a few shopkeepers still operate shrines to holy relics of the 1950s to 1980s–original 45 rpm singles. No new ones are being pressed, so these halo-like plastic wafers inspire religious fervor and even madness Consider Val Shively, who claims to stock over 4 million records in his overstuffed three-story shop, R&B Records. To a western suburb of Philadelphia trek collectors from the Far East and Europe. They come in search of mid-XXth C...
Charli XCX and Rina Sawayama Channel Witchcraft in “Beg for You” Video: Stream
Charli XCX and Rina Sawayama are unleashing their witchcraft in the music video for their new single “Beg for You.” The Nick Harwood-directed visual for the infectious dance floor banger finds the two avant-garde stars quite literally on an altar, surrounded by other young women in shades of red, pink, and black as they’re forced into a ritual by a white-cloaked priest of the occult and his latex-clad assistant. “Oh don’t you leave me this way/ Won’t you wait another hour or two?/ You know I need you to stay/ Don’t make me beg for you/ ‘Cause I’ll beg for you” Charli belts as she slices her hand and her blood pours into a red pool for the priest to drink. However, the duo’s innate power ultimately wins out, taking over the other women in a freeing dance party as sparks explode around them....
Win a Slash Signature Epiphone Les Paul Standard Guitar
Slash is a busy man these days. The legendary guitarist just kicked off a tour in support of the brand-new Slash Featuring Myles Kennedy and The Conspirators (SMKC) album, 4. To celebrate the tour and album, the iconic rocker has teamed up with Heavy Consequence to give away one of his signature Epiphone Les Paul Standard guitars in a “November Burst” finish. SMKC launched their North American tour on February 8th, and will remain on the road through a March 26th date in Orlando, Florida. Tickets are currently available via Ticketmaster. The band’s new album, 4, is the first-ever release on the new Gibson Records label, which coincides nicely with Slash’s signature guitar collections for Gibson and Epiphone. Advertisement “It just seemed like a perfect marriage,” Slash told us in a recent ...
Song of the Week: Doja Cat Manages to Make a Taco Bell Collaboration Genuinely Great with a Hole Cover
Song of the Week breaks down and talks about the song we just can’t get out of our head each week. Find these songs and more on our Spotify Top Songs playlist. For our favorite new songs from emerging artists, check out our Spotify New Sounds playlist. This week, Doja Cat elevates what could have been a forgettable Super Bowl team-up and makes it a must-hear cover. Ahead of Super Bowl Sunday, Doja Cat has *checks notes* teamed up with Taco Bell for a cover of “Celebrity Skin” by Hole. No, it’s not an edition of pop culture Mad Libs — it’s somehow a really great cover, and boasts some reworked lyrics in partnership with Courtney Love herself. The thing is, if anyone knows how to Live Más, it’s Doja Cat. Let’s not forget that her first breakthrough into the zeitgeist was “Moo,” a completely ...
Rap Song of the Week: Pusha T Makes His Triumphant Return with “Diet Coke”
Our new music feature Rap Song of the Week runs down the hip-hop tracks you need to hear every Friday. Check out the full playlist here. This week, Pusha T shares “Diet Coke,” the lead single from his upcoming fourth album. In recent interviews, Pusha T has been talking up his fourth studio LP, reportedly titled It’s Not Dry Yet, as “the album of the motherfucking year.” It’s a pretty standard boast for any upper echelon MC, but he’s added fuel to the fire by describing it as “one thousand percent rap superhero shit.” Whatever that actually means, the drug rap king is back with a vengeance after taking roughly two years off to spend time with his son. Despite running in circles with the likes of Pharrell and Kanye West while having been long considered one of the best rappers alive, King P...
