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VIDEO: Adekunle Gold – Mercy
Check out this new music video from Adekunle Gold titled “Mercy”. Nigerian music icon Adekunle Gold drops the official music video to his single titled “Mercy“, released this year and it stands as one of the best singles from his studio album “Catch Me If You Can“. The visual is an interesting music video to watch with great energy and performance. Watch and share Adekunle Gold – “Mercy” below. [embedded content]
Watch JUDAS PRIEST Rehearse For U.S. Tour
Rob Halford has shared a short video of JUDAS PRIEST rehearsing for its upcoming U.S. tour. On Monday (February 28), the 70-year-old singer took to his Instagram to post a short clip of him and his bandmates running through a rendition of the PRIEST classic “The Sentinel”, and he captioned it: “kicking the metal tires maniacs”. Two days earlier, JUDAS PRIEST‘s Richie Faulkner, who underwent a life-saving surgery five months ago after the band’s performance at the Louder Than Life festival, posted a photo of three of his guitars leaning against an amp, and he included the following message: “And we’re back!! PRIEST rehearsals 2022!! Feels so good to be back after so much has happened. Having these US dates has really given me something to aim ...
GRETA VAN FLEET Announces Summer/Fall 2022 U.S. Arena Tour Dates
On the heels of its sold-out spring 2022 “Dreams In Gold” arena tour, Grammy Award-winning rock band GRETA VAN FLEET has announced new arena shows for this fall. Kicking off August 16 in Quebec City, Quebec, Canada, the band will make stops in 42 cities across the U.S. and Canada. There will be a fan presale on March 2 and a local venue presale on March 3, with general ticket on sale March 4 at 12 p.m. local time. Fans can sign up for presale at peacefularmy.com. The expansive new dates follow the band’s spring tour, which sold out over 100,000 tickets in just two days and kicks off coming up on March 10. GRETA VAN FLEET supported METALLICA on February 25 in Las Vegas and recently announced two additional dates with the California metal giants. GRETA VAN FLEET will be joined by...
THE OFFSPRING Announces ‘Let The Bad Times Roll’ Spring 2022 U.S. Tour
THE OFFSPRING has announced the “Let The Bad Times Roll” U.S. tour with special guests RADKEY and BLAME MY YOUTH. Produced by Live Nation, the 18-city trek kicks off on April 26 at Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre in San Diego, California, making stops across the U.S. in Salt Lake City, Houston, Boston and more before wrapping up in Milwaukee at The Rave/Eagles Club on May 22. Frequently regarded as one of the best rock bands of all time, THE OFFSPRING have garnered a reputation for their unmistakable sound and social comment. The multi-platinum band first achieved worldwide success in the 90’s with the release of their album “Smash”, which sold over 11 million copies. Following “Smash”, they continued to release hit after hit, popularizing rock a...
TOOL Releases Reimagined And Extended Version Of ‘Opiate’ Title Track
TOOL, which is currently on tour in support of its Grammy Award-winning album “Fear Inoculum”, has taken it back to their beginning, celebrating the 30th anniversary of its first commercially available release “Opiate”, with a reimagined and extended version of the EP’s title track and an accompanying short film. “Opiate²” is now available via DSPs and can be streamed below, with the Blu-ray only visual companion coming on March 18. Visual artist Dominic Hailstone (“Alien: Covenant”, “The Eel”) worked with TOOL guitarist Adam Jones on the 10-plus minute film, which is the band’s first new video in 15 years. The clip continues TOOL‘s knack for merging the aural and visual worlds, creating an all-encompassing exper...
Adele’s ’30’ Dominates IFPI’s 2021 Album Charts
Adele didn’t go easy on her music-making rivals in 2021, as her latest album 30 finished the year as the No. 1 title worldwide. The British pop singer leads the way on IFPI’s global albums charts, and does so in record breaking fashion. Announced Tuesday (March 1), 30 dominates all three of the international trade body’s tallies , as it rolls on to No. 1 on the Global Album All Format Chart, now in its second year; the Global Album Sales Chart; and the first-ever Global Vinyl Album Chart. Following its release in November 2021, 30 was an immediate hit around the world, hitting No. 1 in over 20 markets, including the U.S. and U.K. Across her career, Adele has built a reputation as a big-hitter on CD sales. She only enhanced that by shifting a whopping 5 million physical units of her latest ...
Billboard & World of Women Celebrate Madonna With NFT Magazine Cover
A Letter From the Editorial Director Women In Music have made huge progress over the past year. Michelle Jubelirer became Capitol Music Group’s first female CEO in the company’s 80-year history. Sherrese Clarke Soares secured $1 billion from private equity giant Apollo to acquire music and entertainment assets through her new investment group, HarbourView Equity Partners. And Golnar Khosrowshahi took her publishing firm, Reservoir Media, public, joining the rare ranks of female CEOs leading publicly traded companies in any sector. But despite these victories, women are still fighting for inclusion, representation, recognition and equal pay at the top of the music business, from recording studios to C-suites. Explore See latest videos, charts and news Could the metaverse be a more welcoming...
Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre Announces Crystal Longo as General Manager
Brooklyn’s Kings Theatre has announced Crystal Longo as general manager for the 93-year-old building. Longo first served as deputy general manager for the theater in January 2020 before leaving due to the pandemic. Upon her return, Longo was asked to helm the venue that underwent a $95 million renovation between 2010 and 2015. Longo started her career in live music as a bartender at New York’s iconic Webster Hall while in college. The New York native then made her way to Hammerstein Ballroom where she worked her way up from operations and concessions to booking and venue management before joining The Bowery Presents as director of operations. While with Bowery, Longo led the team at Times Square’s PlayStation Theater and worked on the renovation and reopening of Webster Hall in April 2019....
UMG Teams With Tribeca Enterprises for Music-Driven Event Series
Universal Music Group for Brands (UMGB) is partnering with Tribeca Enterprises for a series of music-driven events to take place throughout 2022, it was announced Tuesday (Mar. 1). The forthcoming series will include six exclusive events based around new film, TV and podcast projects from UMG’s Mercury Studios, Polygram Entertainment and UMG record labels. It kicks off with the world premiere of Mercury Studios’ feature documentary Mixtape, slated for Thursday, Apr. 7 at the United Palace theater in New York City. Presented by Rémy Martin, the premiere will feature a live performance from Jadakiss. Co-produced by Saboteur Media in association with Def Jam Recordings, Mixtape is directed by Omar Acosta and will feature music icons including Funkmaster Flex, 50 Cent, Lil Wayne and “mixtape k...
Steven Seagal Is Not Fighting in Ukraine, Despite What Joe Rogan Says
In the spirit of Post First, Ask Questions Later, Joe Rogan shared an image of a purported CNN article that showed actor Steven Seagal fighting with Russian Special Forces against Ukraine. After a couple of hours and more than a little mockery Rogan deleted the post, admitting that he’d fallen for a photoshop. The easily avoidable flub began with Rogan posting an image of an article, rather than a link to an article, which is usually a red flag on social media. Besides that, the run-on sentence in the impersonation would have been thrown out of any reputable English 101 class: “Intelligence agencies around the world have spotted American actor Steven Seagal among Russian special forces positioned around the outskirts of Gostomel airfield near Kyiv captured by Russian airborne troops,” it r...
Rise Against Announce Summer 2022 North American Tour with The Used and Senses Fail
Rise Against have announced Summer 2022 North American tour dates. To mark the occasion, the Chicago punk band has offered up a new remix by IDLES. We previously reported on Rise Against’s spring North American dates, which precede a slew of European performances and festival appearances. After that, the band will embark on the newly announced summer leg, rounding out a busy 2022 itinerary. The Used and Senses Fail will be along for summer outing, which kicks off July 15th in Las Vegas and runs through an August 18th show in Detroit. Tickets go on sale Friday (March 4th) via Ticketmaster, with pre-sales beginning as early as tomorrow (March 1st). Advertisement Related Video Meanwhile, UK post-punk act IDLES’ reworking of “Talking to Ourselves” adds a synthy pulse to the otherwise guitar-dr...
Eddie Vedder Talks “Serious” Bout with COVID-19: “I Saw My Life Flash in Front of My Eyes”
Eddie Vedder came down with COVID-19 earlier this year, and as he explained during his concert in Los Angeles on February 25th, his bout with the novel coronavirus was “pretty serious.” Fan footage captured Vedder addressing the crowd at the YouTube Theater. “I got the COVID right before we were supposed to start practicing, probably five or six weeks ago, and I literally saw my life flash in front of my eyes,” he said. He went on to explain that he’d “done some very good things for my body and I’ve also had a lot of fun, and I’ve done some things that would be termed some kind of abuse,” he laughed. “I won’t get into the details. Just use your imagination.” He added, “It felt pretty serious. To get through that and be back in a room like this facing this many people… It’s been a gift...
