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Watch the 1975’s Poetic Performance of “I’m in Love With You” From Forthcoming LP
The 1975 have returned to BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge for a new montage of prolific pop covers. Performing from the Maida Vale Studios, the British pop-rock band delivered dynamic shows of some of its hit singles, as well as songs from its forthcoming studio album. A standout from the live performance was The 1975’s cover of fellow British band Take That’s 1992 track “A Million Love Songs.” Frontman Matty Healy offered a poetic and tender rendition of the decades-old classic, backed by only a simple piano. Healy and the band also served up a love song of their own, “I’m in Love With You,” off of their highly-anticipated LP Being Funny in a Foreign Language. Following 2020’s Notes on a Conditional Form, the new project is out on Friday. The band also treated listeners to another cut from the ...
Listen to Weyes Blood’s New Song “Grapevine”
Weyes Blood has shared a song from her new album And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow. It’s called “Grapevine,” and you can listen to it below. “Grapevine” is a road song set along the titular stretch of Southern California’s Interstate 5. “Technology is harvesting our attention away from each other,” Natalie Mering said of the track in press materials. “We all have a ‘Grapevine’ entwined around our past with unresolved wounds and pain. Being in love doesn’t necessarily mean being together. Why else do so many love songs yearn for a connection?” And in the Darkness, Hearts Aglow is out November 18 via Sub Pop. Mering announced the record last month with the release of “It’s Not Just Me, It’s Everybody,” as well as an extensive 2023 tour. She followed that with a music video for the track...
Blink-182 Reunite With Tom DeLonge, Announce 2023 Tour
During his time away from the group, DeLonge has continued recording with Angels & Airwaves. He has notably committed much of his time to the study of aliens, UFOs, and conspiracy theories. He founded the company To the Stars Academy of Arts & Sciences in 2015 and was the executive producer behind the History Channel series Unidentified: Inside America’s UFO Investigation. In 2020, the Pentagon declassified UFO videos that DeLonge’s company had previously shared. In the recent past, Barker has become something of an omnipresent cultural and tabloid figure. He has collaborated with Post Malone, Machine Gun Kelly, Willow, and XXXTentacion, to name a few. In May 2022, he married Kourtney Kardashian. Since 2019, Hoppus has been hosting the Apple Music 1 radio show After School Radio. I...
Watch the 1975 Cover Take That’s “A Million Love Songs”
The 1975 were the guests on BBC Radio 1’s Live Lounge today, performing a cover of British pop band Take That’s 1992 single “A Million Love Songs.” Watch that and their rendition of “I’m in Love With You” below. You can listen to the full session, which also included “Part of the Band,” “It’s Not Living (If It’s Not With You),” “All I Need to Hear,” and “TooTimeTooTimeTooTime,” for 29 more days on the BBC Radio 1 website. During an interview segment, Matty Healy dispelled rumors that the band had collaborated with Taylor Swift. Healy and the band have been on the Live Lounge many times. Back in 2013, they covered Chris Malinchak’s “So Good to Me” and One Direction’s “What Makes You Beautiful.” The next year, they played Clean Bandit’s “Rather Be.” In 2016, they performed Justin Bieber’s “S...
Meg Baird Announces New Album Furling, Shares Video for New Song: Watch
Meg Baird has a new album on the way, her first solo record since 2015’s Don’t Weigh Down the Light. It’s titled Furling and it’s out January 27 via Drag City. The guitarist and singer-songwriter has shared “Will You Follow Me Home?” with a video to preview the LP. Take a look below. After Don’t Weigh Down the Light, Baird traded guitar duties for drums in the heavy psychedelic rock act Heron Oblivion. In 2018, she and Mary Lattimore issued the full-length Ghost Forests, and she later joined Bill Callahan and Bonnie “Prince” Billy on a cover of Little Feat’s “I’ve Been the One.” Baird released a new solo piece titled “Cross Bay” via Bandcamp in 2020. Earlier this year, she contributed backing vocals to Joan Shelley’s “Forever Blues” and “Between Rock & Sky” on the Kentucky singer...
Lil Yachty Officially Drops Viral Track “Poland”
Lil Yachty‘s viral track “Poland” is officially on streaming platforms. Following several leaks last week, Lil Yachty shared the new song to SoundCloud, alongside a caption reading, “STOP LEAKING MY S*** …. PROD.F1LTHY.” The track quickly went viral, with several industry players including Denzel Curry, Wiz Khalifa and more reacting to the cut’s now-famous hook: “I took the Wock to Poland.” And today, Yachty has officially put the popular song, produced by F1lthy, Lucian and Lukrative, on digital streaming platforms. “Poland” marks Yachty’s first official solo track of this year, following several features on songs including Fivio Foreign‘s “Slime” and Diplo‘s “Humble.” The rapper has not dropped a studio album since 2020’s Lil Boat 3, though he did deliver the mixtape Michigan B...
Artists’ Rights Groups Urge Grammy Consideration for Dissident Iranian Composer
Three Norway-based artists’ rights groups have written Recording Academy CEO Harvey Mason jr. to request that the organization’s members consider the dangerous conditions under which dissident Iranian composer Mehdi Rajabian created his latest album, It Arrives, and the communications lockdown that has prevented him from promoting it in the lead-up to Grammy voting, which begins on Thursday (Oct. 13). Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The letter to Mason, dated Oct. 10, was signed by Sverre Pedersen, the chair of Freemuse, a non-governmental organization that documents abuses of artistic freedom internationally and serves as a consultant to the United Nations; Hans Ole Rian, president of CREO, Norway’s largest union for arts and culture; ...
Blink-182 Reuniting Classic Lineup With Tom DeLonge For 2023 World Tour, New Single
Blink-182 are getting the band back together. On Tuesday (Oct. 11) the pop-punk trio announced a reunion with former singer/guitarist Tom DeLonge for a 2023 global tour and upcoming single. After twice leaving the band — in 2005 and then again in 2014 — DeLonge is back in the fold alongside singer/bassist Mark Hoppus and drummer Travis Barker for an upcoming Live Nation-promoted tour touted as their biggest international trek ever. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The tour is slated to kick off on March 11 in Tijuana, Mexico at the Imperial GNP festival and keep the band on the road in South America and Mexico through April 12 before shifting to North America on May 4 with a show at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota; those dates will...
Reunited Blink-182, Drake, Billie Eilish to Headline 2023 Lollapalooza Festivals in Chile, Brasil, Argentina
The reunited Blink-182 are among the superstar acts slated to take the stage at the 2023 editions of Lollapalooza in Chile, Argentina and Brazil. Travis, Tom and Mark will be in good company at the top of the bills alongside Drake, Billie Eilish, Lil Nas X, Tame Impala and Rosalía, according to a press release on Tuesday morning (Oct. 11) announcing next year’s lineups. The shows will also boast sets from Jane’s Addiction, The 1975, Jamie XX, Kali Uchis, Alison Wonderland, Omar Apollo and many more. Tickets are on sale now for the South American events, which will take place on March 17-19 (Chile (Parque Bicentenario de Cerrillos), Argentina (Hippodromo de San Isidro) and March 24-26 (Brazil (Autódromo de Interlagos). The Chile edition will also feature performances by Armin Van Buuren, Fr...
Muserk Launches AI-Enhanced Platform to Collect ‘Every Royalty Everywhere’
Muserk, a global rights management company which helps music and video rights holders collect royalties from digital platforms, has launched Music Connect, a publishing administration platform. The platform will be full-service, using Blue Matter — the company’s propriety AI — to help ease the notoriously complicated and messy royalty collection process for compositions. As CEO Paul Goldman puts it, “the music industry is a broken, outdated system that can’t keep up with the modern tech platforms such as YouTube and Spotify. Currently the music royalty process is a biased system that works in favor of the tech platforms while leaving modern day copyright owners at a huge disadvantage.” Streaming makes up 84% of U.S. music industry revenues, according to RIAA’s latest midyear report. Howeve...
Tom Cruise’s Space Movie Is Apparently Still Happening
It looks like we might have liftoff on Tom Cruise’s space movie in the not-too-distant future. Donna Langley, chairman of Universal Filmed Entertainment Group, recently confirmed to BBC News that the studio is still adamant on sending the Top Gun star beyond our atmosphere, making him “the first civilian to do a spacewalk outside of the space station.” Cruise and Doug Liman pitched the out-of-this-world film to Langley on Zoom over the pandemic; according to the chairman, the untitled project “actually takes place on Earth, and then the character needs to go up to space to save the day.” To get this big idea off the ground, Cruise plans to to take a rocket up to the International Space Station — the largest modular space station in low Earth orbit. Cruise’s space movie expedition has ...
Ozzy Osbourne Slow Dances with Wife Sharon on Her 70th Birthday: Watch
Sharon Osbourne had a star-studded party for her 70th birthday over the weekend, with the highlight being a heartwarming slow dance with husband Ozzy. The Prince of Darkness — who is having difficulty walking following a major neck surgery and amid his ongoing battle with Parkinson’s disease — ditched his cane for the romantic moment. The party featured a Great Gatsby-esque theme, with attendees such as Zakk Wylde, Korn’s Jonathan Davis, and Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello looking dapper. Ozzy and Sharon’s children Jack, Kelly and Aimee were also at the party, as were a number of grandchildren. Video footage shared by Sharon on Instagram shows her and Ozzy walking out to the dance floor. A very pregnant Kelly cues the band to play James Arthur’s “Say You Won’t Let Go,” as they hand ...
