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Best New Tracks: Pusha T, ScHoolboy Q, Jack Harlow and More
As the week in music comes to a close, HYPEBEAST has rounded up the best projects for the latest installment of Best New Tracks. This week’s list is led by releases from Jack Harlow, ScHoolboy Q and Pusha T x JAY-Z x Pharrell, who released the singles “First Class,” “Soccer Dad” and “Neck & Wrist,” respectively. Also joining this selection are offerings from Vince Staples, Yung Lean, J57 with Lil B, IDK, Aundrey Guillaume, EARTHGANG x Future and Fousheé. Pusha T x JAY-Z x Pharrell – “Neck & Wrist” [embedded content] Pusha T joins forces with JAY-Z and Pharrell for “Neck & Wrist.” Produced by Pharrell, the cut follows the Ye-produced “Diet Coke” and arrives as King Push finally announced the title of his highly-anticipated DAYTONA followup: It’s Almost Dry. Listen...
Bad Bunny and Daddy Yankee Share New “X Última Vez” Video: Watch
Daddy Yankee and Bad Bunny have shared the music video for their Legendaddy collaboration “X Última Vez.” The new visual is directed by Fernando Lugo. Watch below. Legendaddy is billed as Daddy Yankee’s final album before his retirement from music. He’s also set for a final tour. Bad Bunny just won the inaugural Best Música Urbana Album Grammy Award for his album El Último Tour del Mundo. The category was previously called Best Latin Pop or Urban Album; he won last year, as well. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Maggie Rogers Shares New Song “That’s Where I Am”: Listen
Maggie Rogers has shared her new single “That’s Where I Am.” The song serves as the lead single from her new album Surrender, which was announced last week and is set for a release on July 29 via Capitol. Check out “That’s Where I Am” below. Rogers recorded the new album at Electric Lady Studios in New York, Peter Gabriel’s Real World Studios near Bath, and her parents’ garage. On April 17 and again on April 24, Rogers will perform at Coachella 2022. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Bia and J. Cole Share Video for New Song “London”: Watch
The “Whole Lotta Money” rapper Bia is back with a new single. “London” is a collaboration with J. Cole. In the the Daps-directed video, Bia goes on a lavish shopping spree across—you guessed it—London. J. Cole, who name-drops Heathrow Airport and the O2 Arena, gets some measurements taken while hanging upside-down. Watch the video for the new track below. Last summer, Nicki Minaj jumped on a remix of Bia’s “Whole Lotta Money.” Cole is fresh off his latest Dreamville Festival in North Carolina. His Dreamville collective recently teamed with DJ Drama for the just-released mixtape D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape. The last J. Cole album was 2021’s The Off-Season. Read “5 Takeaways From J. Cole’s New Album The Off-Season.” Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Chlöe Shares Video for New Song “Treat Me”: Watch
Chlöe has shared a video for a new song titled “Treat Me.” The song prominently samples Bubba Sparxxx’s 2005 hit “Ms. New Booty” with the Ying Yang Twins. Check out “Treat Me” below. “Treat Me” is the second track from this half of the sister duo Chlöe x Halle. She released her debut single “Have Mercy” in September, performing the song at the AMAs, on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and at the MTV VMAs. She has not yet announced plans for her debut solo album, but last joined Halle for Ungodly Hour in 2020. Content This content can also be viewed on the site it originates from.
Pavement Unveil Terror Twilight and Spit on a Stranger Reissues: Stream
Happy April 8th to all Pavement fans who celebrate: two long-awaited projects, reissues of 1999’s Terror Twilight LP and Spit on a Stranger EP, are out now on Matador Records, and they’re available to stream below. Pavement first announced they were reissuing their final album back in January. Terror Twilight: Farewell Horizontal compiles a remastered version of the original album, B-sides, home demos, rehearsal tapes, and live recordings from the era on 4xLP and 2xCD editions. In addition, the package features the rough tracks from a scrapped studio session recorded at Sonic Youth’s Echo Canyon studio. In all, the reissue spans 45 songs — 28 of which have never been heard before. The Spit on a Stranger reissue, meanwhile, presses the EP to 12-inch vinyl for the first time. ...
Camila Cabello Releases New Solo Album Familia: Stream
Camila Cabello has unveiled her new album Familia via Epic Records. Stream the Latin-influenced studio set below. Featuring the lead single “Don’t Go Yet” and irresistible Ed Sheeran collaboration “Bam Bam,” the new LP is the former Fifth Harmony member’s third solo outing and a follow-up to 2019’s perennially overlooked Romance. The album also finds Cabello leaning further into her Cuban heritage with a number of Spanish-language song titles and guest appearances by Argentine pop singer María Becerra (“Hasta Los Dientes”) and the lead singer of Cuban hip-hop group Orishas Yotuel (“Lola”). Advertisement Related Video In an interview with Reuters, the singer revealed that the Willow duet “psychofreak” explicitly addresses her headline-making split from Fifth Harmony for the first time, sing...
Jack White Unleashes New Album Fear of the Dawn: Stream
Jack White has released his new album Fear of the Dawn via Third Man Records. Stream it below on Apple Music and Spotify. Preceded last year by lead single “Taking Me Back,” the studio set is the Nashville musician’s first of two planned full-lengths in 2022, with follow-up Entering Heaven Alive currently slated to drop in July. White has described Fear of the Dawn as a “really hard” rock record, while Entering Heaven Alive is a “very mellow” acoustic LP. The 12-track Fear of the Dawn contains just one collaboration, the Cab Calloway-sampling “Hi-De-Ho” with Q-Tip, which began life back in 2016 when the rapper recruited the erstwhile White Stripes frontman to work on A Tribe Called Quest’s final studio album We Got It From Here… Thank You 4 Your Service. Advertisement Related Video “Every ...
Father John Misty Releases New Album Chloë and the Next 20th Century: Stream
J. Tillman has released his fifth album as Father John Misty, Chloë and the Next 20th Century, via Sub Pop and Bella Union. Stream it below via Apple Music and Spotify. The 11-track opus was once again produced by Tillman and Jonathan Wilson, who has overseen every Father John Misty project from his 2012 debut Fear Fun to the most recent follow-up, 2018’s God’s Favorite Customer. The album’s exquisite orchestral sweeps and retro aesthetics, credited to the likes of Dan Higgins, Wayne Bergeron, and arranger Drew Erickson, were showcased on preceding singles “Funny Girl,” “Q4,” and “Goodbye Mr. Blue.” Father John Misty will be on the road through next year in support of Chloë and the Next 20th Century with an extensive world tour that was just announced. He’ll ease into the global trek with ...
Alicia Keys Drops Solo Rendition of “City of Gods (Part II)”
Alicia Keys has unveiled her solo take on “City of Gods,” which initially featured Fivio Foreign, the artist previously known as Kanye West and Keys. Her first independent release on AK Records, “City of Gods (Part II)” hears her original chorus and new verses laid over a stripped back, piano rendition. The ALICIA artist also released an accompanying music video for the single, which is directed by Sylvia Zachary and Sing Lee, and performed it live for the first time on Ellen. The original “City of Gods” dropped in early February, was billed as the lead single off Foreign’s newest album, B.I.B.L.E. and a single on Ye’s DONDA 2. Watch Alicia Keys’ “City of Gods (Part II)” music video above. Elsewhere in music, Syd spoke to HYPEBEAST about her first album in five years, Broken Hear...
JOE SATRIANI Says EDDIE VAN HALEN’s Music Was ‘Groundbreaking In How He Arranged His Guitar Parts’
Joe Satriani has praised Eddie Van Halen, saying the legendary VAN HALEN guitarist had “a right hand of doom.” The 65-year-old California-based axeman, who is promoting his upcoming album, “The Elephants Of Mars”, discussed Eddie‘s impact on guitar playing during a new interview with FaceCulture. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Eddie was such a wonderful compositional improviser and he was obviously a really great composer on guitar. He figured out a way to write these really fun songs, but they were really groundbreaking in how he arranged his guitar parts. You can hardly find any songs where he’s strumming and then overdubbing some other part. It’s a very different way of playing. He’s in a trio, and he’s trying t...
Former SCORPIONS Drummer JAMES KOTTAK Says Climate Change Is ‘Total B.S.’: ‘It Is A Money-Making Machine’
Former SCORPIONS and current KINGDOM COME drummer James Kottak has once again expressed doubt about climate change. Apparently reacting to the latest report from the UN‘s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which lays out the path for averting the worst consequences of climate change, saying the time to act is “now or never,” Kottak took to his Twitter to write: “Climate change…total BS. It is a money making machine. Doesn’t any one remember the big freeze of 1978? We were going into a deep freeze according to scientists Ha!” Kottak previously voiced his climate change skepticism a number of times, including in April 2021 when he was reacting to news reports that President Joe Biden was preparing to instruct federal agencies to take sweepin...
