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EARTHGANG Officially Announce New Album GHETTO GODS
EARTHGANG have officially announced their new album GHETTO GODS, out January 28th, 2022 via Dreamville/Interscope. Check out the trailer, narrated by 2 Chainz, below. The Atlanta duo’s sophomore major label studio album has been teased for quite some time. After confirming the title during an interview with The Breakfast Club back in February, our former Artist of the Month claimed they would be dropping the project on the same day as their label boss J. Cole. This left fans disappointed when GHETTO GODS didn’t surface in May alongside The Off-Season, but Olu (aka Johnny Venus) and WowGr8 (aka Doctur Dot) preached patience. “#GHETTOGODS Is some of our best work so far and we’re going to give it to you the right way,” EARTHGANG wrote on Twitter. Advertisement Related Video Wh...
U2’s “Your Song Saved My Life” is Possibly the Worst Song of the Year
U2 have dropped “Your Song Saved My Life,” in the same sense that one might drop a fart. Stream it below. The treacly mess is destined for the soundtrack to Sing 2, where it will be ham-fisted even by the standards of a franchise where pigs cover Taylor Swift. Bono’s lyrics imagine a deeply-moved fan gushing to a songwriter about the immense power of Bono’s that artist’s work. Aren’t they heroes, these noble songwriters? You know a raspberry, when you stick out your tongue and blow? Bono’s lyrics deliver more raspberries than a British bake-off. “Yes your song saved my life,” he warbles, with a melody that makes AM adult contemporary sound like a nonstop thrill ride. “It’s what got me to the other side/ I was broken now I’m open, your love keeps me alive.” Advertisement Related Vide...
The Simpsons Tease “Darker and Prestigier” Crime Thriller in Trailer for “A Serious Flanders”: Watch
Stupid, sexy Flanders is in some stupid, sexy trouble in the first trailer for The Simpsons‘ upcoming two-part episode “A Serious Flanders.” Part one airs November 7th, and part two follows on November 14th. This “Simpflix” production is an “Emmy-baiting crime drama,” according to the trailer, which promises something, “Darker and prestigier than anything you’ve ever seen.” Via Variety, it came about after The Simpsons executive producer Matt Selman finally got caught up on the TV adaption of Fargo. “We wanted to do all the tricks that these cool streaming shows get to do: Flashbacks, crazy time jumps, the feeling that anyone might die,” Selman said. “It’s all the tricks of the trade, for a semi-pretentious but also very cool kind of story. We have scenes...
Eddie Montgomery on Getting Real With First Solo Country Album: ‘The Good, Bad and Ugly — And the Party on the Weekend’
“It’s my heart and soul poured out,” Montgomery tells Billboard via Zoom. “With ‘Alive and Well,’ I’m talking about my two sons and T-Roy [his nickname for Gentry]. It was opening up my soul and it kind of helped me a little bit. I ain’t going to lie about it and that’s the stuff that I tried to write about — the good, bad, and ugly, and the party on the weekend.” The title track was inspired by Montgomery transforming his garage into a gathering place during the pandemic. “They closed all the restaurants and bars down,” he says of COVID restrictions in his home state of Kentucky. “Of course, we’re bar flies. We’ve got to find that place. You can’t take that away from us… I’ve got a pretty good size garage, so I started to hang a few TVs, then a disco ball and an old dart board...
U2 Releases ‘Your Song Saved My Life’ From ‘Sing 2′: Listen
The new track will appear in the closing credits of the animated sequel. U2 are back. The Irish rockers are lending their talents to the animated sequel Sing 2, with the release of their new track “Your Song Saved My Life” on Wednesday (Nov. 3). The piano-and-strings-driven pop track sees frontman Bono singing about the transformative nature that music holds and pushing through life even in difficult times. “You know your song saved my life/ I don’t sing it just so I can get by/ Won’t you hear me when I tell you, darlin’/ I sing it to survive,” he sings on the chorus. U2 first teased the song after joining TikTok on Monday, posting an official lyric video snippet of the track and alerting viewers that Sing 2 — in which Bono stars as...
Bizarrap Recruits Anuel AA for New Music Session: Stream It Here
“The first ‘session’ back in 2018 wasn’t even planned,” he previously told Billboard. “All I wanted to do was record a local rapper and upload that to YouTube because I was a big fan of his and I wanted others to listen to him too. My plan was to record with my phone, but for some reason it didn’t work. So we scheduled the session for the following day and I thought, ‘Why not give these freestylers the production they deserve with microphones and everything?’ So that’s what I did.” Meanwhile, Anuel most recently dropped his new single, “Dictadura.” Produced by Subelo Neo and Machael, and co-written by Anuel and Mora, the head-bobbing reggaeton track will be included on the Puerto Rican artist’s third L...
John Fagot, Veteran Promo Exec, Dies at 78
Fagot got his start in the industry in the 1970s working in the mailroom for CBS Records in Atlanta. His career then took him to the role of promotion manager for Columbia Records, serving Atlanta, Dallas and the Carolinas. By 1984, Fagot became Columbia’s national director of singles promotion before being promoted to vp promotion two years later. Capitol hired Fagot in 1987 to take on a similar role at the label. In 1995, Fagot moved from senior vp promotion at Capitol to the same role at Hollywood Records. In a 1990 interview with music and radio trade publication The Network 40, when asked what makes a great promotion person, Fagot said, “You have to love music, and you have to love the music you’re working. But the most importa...
Netflix Adds 3 Movies From ‘Squid Game’ Creator to Its Platform
Netflix on Wednesday took to Twitter to announce that the platform has added three South Korean films directed by Squid Game creator Hwang Dong-hyuk to its streaming service in the United States. “Before bringing the visually astounding and socially relevant Squid Game to life, Hwang Dong-hyuk directed several acclaimed South Korean feature films,” Netflix wrote on Twitter. “And now, three of those movies are available on Netflix in The US!” Before bringing the visually astounding and socially relevant Squid Game to life, Hwang Dong-hyuk directed several acclaimed South Korean feature films — and now, three of those movies are available on Netflix in The US! pic.twitter.com/FV0nUQV91D — Netflix (@netflix) November 3, 2021 The feature films include the 2011 crime drama Silenc...
Ryan Reynolds Says He’s Taking a Break From Movies To Make ‘More Space’ for Family
Ryan Reynolds has shared the reason why he’s on hiatus from making movies for the time being. Just last month, the actor finished filming for the Apple+ film Spirited. On top of starring in the Christmas-themed musical, Reynolds co-produced alongside George Dewey through the duo’s production company, Maximum Effort. In an Instagram post announcing the hiatus, Reynolds wrote that in the aftermath of wrapping up Spirited, it was the “perfect time for a little sabbatical from movie making.” At the Wall Street Journal Magazine Innovator Awards on Monday in New York, he further explained his decision to take a break. Ryan Reynolds Reveals Reason for Break From Making Movies“I’m just trying to create a little bit more space for my family and time with them,” Reynolds said to The Hollywood R...
HBO Max Drops First Teaser for Upcoming Post-Apocalyptic Series ‘Station Eleven’
HBO Max has dropped off the first teaser for its upcoming adaptation of Emily St. John Mandel’s post-apocalyptic novel, Station Eleven. The 10-episode series “tells the stories of survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what’s been lost,” according to the official synopsis. The series, which establishes its focal point on a worldwide pandemic, resonates with today’s current climate in an entirely new manner amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. HBO Max first announced and ordered Station Eleven in the summer of 2019 and filming began in Chicago in January 2020; however, production was halted and moved to Mississauga, Ontario due to COVID-19 and wrapped in July of last year. Station Eleven stars Mackenzie Davi...
SCORPIONS Unveil ‘Rock Believer’ Album Cover Artwork
SCORPIONS have unveiled the cover artwork for their 19th studio album, “Rock Believer”, which will be issued on February 25, 2022 (postponed from the previously announced February 11). The LP’s first single, “Peacemaker” will arrive tomorrow (Thursday, November 4), with the accompanying music video following a day later. During the pandemic the band retreated to the studio in their German hometown in Hanover and started working on new songs. “The album was written and recorded in the SCORPIONS DNA with core [Rudolf] Schenker/[Klaus] Meine compositions,” said singer Klaus Meine. “We recorded the album as a band live in one room, like we did in the ’80s.” “Rock Believer” was recorded primarily at Peppermint Park Studios ...
Ex-DEATH Members STEVE DIGIORGIO, BOBBY KOELBLE And KELLY CONLON Added To CHUCK SCHULDINER Tribute Concerts
Former DEATH members will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the passing of the band’s mastermind Chuck Schuldiner by playing two special shows in Florida next month. James Murphy (guitar) and Terry Butler (bass) will perform DEATH‘s classic third album, “Spiritual Healing” (1990), in its entirety under the LIVING MONSTROSITY banner, while Steve DiGiorgio (bass), Bobby Koelble (guitar) and Kelly Conlon (bass) will join forces as SYMBOLIC to play songs from “Human” (1991), “Individual Thought Patterns” (1993), “Symbolic” (1995) and “The Sound Of Perseverance” (1998). SYMBOLIC lineup: * Steve DiGiorgio (DEATH; bass on “Human”, “Individual Thought Patterns”; CONTROL DENIED – bass on “T...
