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Ricky Martin Drops Surprise EP ‘Pausa’: Here’s Every Collaboration Featured
It’s day who knows what in quarantine for Ricky Martin, but today (May 28) takes on a different meaning for the Puerto Rican singer-songwriter. Surprising his fans with a new EP titled Pausa, the first collective set since his 2015 A Quien Quiera Escuchar, features collaborations with Sting, Carla Morrison, Pedro Capó, Diego El Cigala, among others. Packed with introspective, poignant and melancholic lyrics, the six-track set is born from a state of vulnerability and the need to heal through music. “[Through this music] I share my fears, my insecurities, my moments of panic that I’ve felt throughout this quarantine,” the chart-topping artist tells Billboard. In times of turmoil, Martin offers Pausa (Pause) in lieu of a different album slated to be released...
Makin’ Tracks: Parker McCollum Puts ‘Heart’ Out Front in MCA Debut
On the first listen to Parker McCollum’s “Pretty Heart,” it’s easy to get hung up on the hook. Maybe even the first four or five listens. The chorus ends with him stretching the one-syllable word “heart” out across 11 notes, letting it wind and curve until it ends unusually on the hard “rt” sound. “I’m thinking to myself, ‘No way,’ ” says McCollum, remembering the moment he created that line in 2018. “I mean, that’s just goofy.” Songwriter-producer Jon Randall (Dierks Bentley, Jack Ingram) agrees. “It’s the wrong vowel,” he says. But that quirk eventually emerges as one of the characteristics that sets “Pretty Heart” apart, along with its swamp-rock slide guitar and the jumble of torment and bravado embedded in McCollum’s vocal performance. The singer had the same evolving r...
Matty Healy Deactivates Twitter After He’s Accused of Using George Floyd Tweet to Promote His Music
The 1975‘s Matty Healy came under fire on Thursday (May 28) for a tweet about George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man who died following brutality from Minnesota police on Monday. “If you truly believe that ‘ALL LIVES MATTER’ you need to stop facilitating the end of black ones,” Healy tweeted along with a link to the band’s song “Love It If We Made It,” which features lyrics “We’re fucking in a car, shooting heroin/ Saying controversial things just for the hell of it/ Selling melanin and then suffocate the black men/ Start with misdemeanors and we’ll make a business out of them.” The frontman then faced heavy backlash from critics who accused the singer of using the tragedy to promote the 1975’s new album, Notes on a Conditional Form, which dropped last week. matty hea...
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PAPA ROACH’s Next Album Will Include ‘Heavy’ And ‘Aggressive’ Songs With ‘Massive, Pummeling Riffs’
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Lil Nas X, Kacey Musgraves Sing Classic Sesame Street Songs on The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo: Watch
With the launch of HBO Max on Wednesday, the streamer debuted a number of new original series. Among them is the children’s answer to late night comedy programming, The Not-Too-Late Show with Elmo. Just like the Jimmy Fallons and Stephen Colberts of the world, the Muppet’s new show features musical guests, and the first three episodes see Lil Nas X, Kacey Musgraves, and The Jonas Brothers stopping by Sesame Street. Each popular superstar tackle a different song from Sesame Street’s vast repertoire of kids’ classics. Lil Nas X actually gets to “la la la” right alongside Elmo for a smooth hip-hop take on “Elmo’s Song”, even switching up the lyrics at the end to “Lil Nas X’s song.” Musgraves, meanwhile, holds the stage alone backed by nothing but bubbles to sing an acoustic version of “Rubber...
Slipknot, Underoath, and Code Orange to Stream Full Concerts on Reimagined Knotfest Website
With concerts and festivals on hold due to the pandemic, Slipknot and their creative team have relaunched Knotfest.com as a content destination, including concert streams, original interview series, and more. While the site had been hosting weekly streams of past concerts by artists who had participated in previous Knotfest events, it has now been completely reimagined to offer a steady stream of news, interviews, performances, and new merch. In celebration, the Knotfest website is streaming full concerts by Slipknot, Underoath, and Code Orange beginning this Friday (May 29th) at 6:00 p.m. ET / 3:00 p.m. PT The three bands were set to perform on this year’s North American Knotfest Roadshow tour, which would have kicked off this Sunday (May 30th) had it not been canceled due to the COVID-19...
Gang of Four Announce New Anti Hero EP, Share Posthumous Andy Gill Song “Forever Starts Now”: Stream
Earlier this year, Gang of Four co-founder and guitarist Andy Gill passed away at the age of 64. Now, the band’s remaining members are prepping to release a new EP called Anti Hero, featuring a song co-written by Gill prior to his death. The track in question is called “Forever Starts Now” and was penned while Gang of Four were working on their 2019 album, Happy Now. “We’d always seen something great in the track, been excited by it, and would bring up the fact we needed to finish it after a glass of wine or midway through a game of pool on tour,” frontman John Sterry told Rolling Stone. “Life kept intervening like that and then, of course, the opposite of life, so we never did get to the final mix.” According to Sterry, the single is about a character who uses love “to exert control ...
The 1975’s Matty Healy Leaves Twitter After Taking Heat for George Floyd Tweet
In an era where hardline opinions and virtue signaling bash against each other constantly on social media, there really is no winning. Take, for example, the discourse surrounding George Floyd, the Minneapolis man killed by a police officer pressing a knee into his neck while he was handcuffed. Just yesterday, John Boyega took heat for saying, “I really fucking hate racists” in the wake of the tragedy. Today, The 1975’s Matty Healy has left Twitter after receiving backlash for including his own music in an expression of support for the Black Lives Matter movement. Healy sent out a message that read, “If you truly believe that ‘ALL LIVES MATTER’ you need to stop facilitating the end of black ones.” Seems enough like an ally, right? The issue was that he tagged on The 1975’s video for one of...
Killer Mike Urges ‘Black People and People of Color’ to Embrace Second Amendment in New Op-Ed
Killer Mike has long been a proponent of the second amendment, especially with regard to minority gun ownership. He took things a step further in an op-ed he wrote for Colorlines. The Run the Jewels rapper encouraged African-Americans and people of color to “to take seriously their Second Amendment rights” after the murder of Georgia jogger Ahmaud Arbery. “I put this statement out because the police cannot always get to you on time, and the world is not a just place. I also released these remarks because we cannot assume that everyone who wears a police uniform is just and fair,” he wrote. He continued by saying that minorities could only rely on themselves for protection and not law enforcement. “My message to Black people across the country is the same today as it was a year ago: th...
