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The NFL has announced that Apple Music will be the new presenting sponsor for the Super Bowl Halftime Show. It’s a multi-year deal where Apple Music succeeds Pepsi, which ended its partnership with the NFL for the Halftime Show earlier this year after a decade of presenting the Halftime Show.  “We are proud to welcome Apple Music to the NFL family as our new partner for the iconic Super Bowl Halftime Show,” said Nana-Yaw Asamoah, SVP of Partner Strategy for the NFL. “We couldn’t think of a more appropriate partner for the world’s most-watched musical performance than Apple Music, a service that entertains, inspires, and motivates millions of people around the world through the intersection of music and technology.” “We’re looking forward to even more epic perfor...

Ghost frontman Papa Emeritus IV threw out the first pitch today (September 22) at the White Sox game in Chicago. The band is currently on tour after releasing their fifth studio album, Impera, in March, and after performing Wednesday night in Peoria, Illinois, the vocalist found himself at Guaranteed Rate Field in Chicago, where the White Sox played the Cleveland Guardians. Impera isn’t the only recent success that Ghost have been celebrating. Earlier this week, the band’s 2019 song “Mary on a Cross” skyrocketed onto the Billboard Hot 100 after gaining traction on TikTok in original and edited versions. While six of the band’s albums have made it onto the Billboard 200 albums chart, “Mary on a Cross” is their first entry on the Billboard Hot 100. Watch video of Papa Emeritus IV’s pitch bel...

Red Hot Chili Peppers have shared another new song from their forthcoming album Return of the Dream Canteen. The latest cut is titled “Eddie,” following the earlier single “Tippa My Tongue.” The song nods to the late Eddie Van Halen, who died in October 2020, with Anthony Keidis singing, “It’s only 1983/Please don’t remember me/For what I did with David/You know I’m talking David Lee.” David Lee Roth acrimoniously departed Van Halen in 1985 after the release of the band’s sixth album 1984. Check out “Eddie” below. Return of the Dream Canteen, which arrives on October 14, is the second album from the California outfit this year, following April’s Unlimited Love. Both albums feature contributions from guitarist John Frusciante, who rejoined the band in late 2019 after a 10-year h...

Harry Styles and Florence Pugh co-star in the new Olivia Wilde-directed film Don’t Worry Darling, and today (September 23), the pair have released a collaborative song from the movie. “With You All the Time” is credited to Styles and Pugh’s characters Alice and Jack, with the former One Direction member contributing piano lines, but notably not singing. In an interview last month, Wilde told Variety that Styles had called her while working on the film to ask about the song, getting back to her shortly after with the piano line that became “With You All the Time.”  “Five minutes later, he sent me a demo from his piano, and it was what ended up in the film,” she said. “He called me and said, ‘What about this?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s it. That’s it. And that’s really insane that yo...