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Post-Hardcore Supergroup L.S. Dunes Push Through the Misery on New Song “2022”: Stream
Less than a week after debuting it at Riot Fest, post-hardcore supergroup L.S. Dunes have dropped their new single “2022.” It’s the latest preview of their debut album Past Lives, which is due out in November. L.S. Dunes are fronted by Circa Survive’s Anthony Green with My Chemical Romance’s Frank Iero, Coheed and Cambria’s Travis Stever, and Thursday’s Tim Payne and Tucker Rule. When they debuted the track at Riot Fest, Green described it as “the most fucked-up song I ever wrote.” “2022” actually appeared on Green’s most recent solo album Boom. Done. before being removed from streaming services a month later and being reworked as the opening track on Past Lives. “If I can’t make it ’til 2022,” Green sings over a wall of swirling guitars. “At least we’ll see how l...
Sleater-Kinney Detail Dig Me Out Covers Album, Share Courtney Barnett’s “Words and Guitar”: Stream
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of their seminal third album Dig Me Out, Sleater-Kinney’s Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker are preparing to release Dig Me In: A Dig Me Out Covers Album. Ahead of its October 21st release date, the band have shared the album’s full list of collaborators, offering a preview today with Courtney Barnett’s take on “Words and Guitar.” A few of the names contributing to Dig Me In aren’t surprising at all: The band’s frequent collaborator St. Vincent will put her own spin on “Dig Me Out,” while fellow Pacific Northwest indie legends Wilco will take on “One More Hour,” and teenaged riot grrrls The Linda Lindas will offer their rendition of “Little Babies.” Elsewhere, we’ll hear chameleonic indie duo Low perform “Dance Song ’97,” Margo Price p...
Harry Styles and Florence Pugh Drop Collaborative Song from ‘Don’t Worry Darling’
Harry Styles and Florence Pugh — stars of Olivia Wilde’s oh-so-controversial sophomore directorial Don’t Worry Darling — have released a collaborative song from the movie, titled “With You All the Time.” Notably, Pugh takes the lead on vocals, and Styles does not sing on the cinematic cut; he simply delivers piano lines. The track is credited to the aforementioned actors’ respective characters, Jack and Alice. “With You All the Time” arrives following reports that Styles had written a key song for the movie, which Pugh’s character reportedly sings to herself throughout the film. In a Variety cover story interview, Wilde recounted how exactly the so-called “trigger song” came to be. “In prep, Harry called me and said, ‘What’s the trigger song? Like, what’s the melody?’” Wilde told the ...
San Diego State University to Offer a Course on Bad Bunny in 2023
Whether it be music, sneaker collaborations or even apparel team-ups with Cheetos, pretty much everything that Bad Bunny touches turns to gold. His impact — especially on the Latinx community — has been felt on a global scale, so much in fact that San Diego State University announced that a course on the Puerto Rican icon will be offered to students starting in 2023. The college class will fall under the School of Journalism and Media Studies and will be taught by Dr. Nate Rodriguez — an associate director of journalism and media studies at the southern California-based institution. He’s also taught a course on Selena Quintanilla-Perez in the past. “Bad Bunny has transformed reggaeton like no other artist has,” Rodriguez said in an interview with CBS News. “When you think about reggaeton, ...
Lil Baby Delivers Inspirational Anthem for 2022 FIFA World Cup
Lil Baby is the voice behind the new anthem for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Taking place in Qatar from November 20 to December 18, the event will mark the 22nd iteration of the international competition, as well as just the second World Cup to be held in Asia. “The World Is Yours To Take” remixes the iconic 1985 Tears For Fears‘ single “Everybody Wants To Rule The World.” Interspersed with backup vocals from Tears for Fears frontman Curt Smith, Lil Baby encourages players to leave their all out on the field. “I’m by far one of the hardest workers / Real firm believer in ‘practice makes perfect,’” Lil Baby raps. “You can gather all the water, stay thirsty / Took a lot to get us here, we broke curses.” An official music video for the anthem will be shot on-site at the World Cup in Qatar. Artist...
Lewis Capaldi Recalls the Time He Drunkenly Sent Harry Styles a ‘You Up’ Message: ‘He Didn’t Say No’
Looks like Lewis Capaldi was doing some “Late Night Talking” with none other than Harry Styles himself. During a new interview with Kiss FM UK, Capaldi remembered an instance during which he sent Styles a video at five in the morning — except he doesn’t remember what the video said. “I don’t know what it was — I was hammered,” he said with a laugh. “But he said to me, ‘This feels like a ‘you up’ text.’ I could’ve sent him an unsolicited picture of my … phone.” But, he added, the interaction wasn’t a complete wash: “I mean, he didn’t say no! In fact, he seemed quite agreeable to the proposition.” Of course, Capaldi’s friendship with Niall Horan puts him just one degree of separation away from the “As It Was” singer. But he also recalled the recent moment when he and Horan went busking toget...
First Stream: New Music From Lil Nas X, Sam Smith & Kim Petras, Joshua Bassett and More
Billboard’s First Stream serves as a handy guide to this Friday’s most essential releases — the key music that everyone will be talking about today, and that will be dominating playlists this weekend and beyond. This week, Lil Nas X plugs in with a new anthem, Sam Smith shakes up their formula with Kim Petras’ help and Joshua Bassett continues his evolution. Check out all of this week’s First Stream picks below: Lil Nas X, “Star Walkin’ (League of Legends Worlds Anthem)” “Star Walkin’” may exist thanks to a partnership with enormous multiplayer video game franchise League of Legends (which also helped produce the Imagine Dragons top 10 hit “Enemy” earlier this year), but Lil Nas X’s 2022 World Championship anthem is far from a corporate stopgap for the superstar: the single sit...
Lewis Capaldi Delivers a Heart-Wrenching Cover of Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Drivers License’: Stream It Now
If you thought “Drivers License” was sad before, just wait until you hear Lewis Capaldi‘s new cover. The 25-year-old singer-songwriter teamed up with Spotify Singles to record his own version of Olivia Rodrigo‘s smash debut single along with a reimagining of his new song “Forget Me,” both of which proved that no one does raspy vocals over heartbreaking piano quite like him. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news For his take on “Drivers License” — which dropped on the streaming platform Wednesday (Sept. 21) along with the new “Forget Me” — Capaldi distilled Rodrigo’s Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 into a simple, effective piano ballad, assisted only by the occasional touch of atmospheric reverb and strings. “Sidewalks we crossed, I still hear your voice in t...
Rico Nasty Drops Bars From an Icy Tundra in New “Gotsta Get Paid” Music Video
Rico Nasty has debuted an official music video for her single “Gotsta Get Paid” Directed by Moshpxt, the visual sees the rapper traverse through a series of landscapes, from an ethereal forest to an ice storm in a barren snow-capped terrain. “Don’t get in my way, I gotsta get paid / Fashionista shades like gyms, we move weights,” she raps. The song features production from 100 gecs and comes off Nasty’s July mixtape, Las Ruinas. Following 2020’s Nightmare Vacation, the new album sees her take it up a notch, with more scream-rap combined with the influence of punk, rock, hip-hop and even jazz. The video closes with an eerie nostalgic beat as Nasty faces the camera head-on, holding a gasoline can in one hand. Watch the music video for Rico Nasty’s “Gotsta Get Paid” now. In other music news, ...
Is Portola the Best U.S. Electronic Festival Lineup of the Year? The Event’s Creator on a Show Six Years In The Making
This weekend’s debut Portola festival in San Francisco took six years to make happen. Launching tomorrow (September 24) at the city’s Pier 80, the two-day event was conceived by Danny Bell, VP Talent Buyer for AEG Presents in San Francisco, who came up with the concept after a 2016 music-fueled traipse through Europe’s electronic hubs. Bell had just left his job as Talent Buyer for HARD Events in Los Angeles, where he’d worked before after graduating from USC. (“I graduated on a Friday and was full time [at HARD] on a Monday,” he says.) With eight months off before he was due to start his new gig at AEG, he wanted to take the type of extended Euro trip many embark on after college. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “Lucky for me, I was 27 and I h...
Kid Cudi Shares New Single “Willing To Trust” From ‘Entergalactic’ Soundtrack
Kid Cudi has released another cut from the official soundtrack of his upcoming Netflix show, Entergalactic. The soundtrack will land as Cudi’s tenth studio album, arriving in tandem with the show’s premiere on September 30. The laidback track features a guest appearance from Ty Dolla $ign takes listeners on a journey through the vibe-heavy universe of Entergalactic, a perfect match to the show’s paint-like animation. “Entergalactic is everything I’ve always wanted to do, create a long-form visual companion to an album,” Cudi said. “It all started with the music which helped bring this storyline and these characters to life. Entergalactic is unlike anything I’ve ever done, certainly my most ambitious project to date; I can’t wait for you to finally experience it.” Cudi executive produced En...
Freddie Gibbs Gets “Dark Hearted” on New James Blake-Produced Single: Stream
Freddie Gibbs is back with “Dark Hearted,” another look at his upcoming album $oul $old $separately that features production from James Blake. Listen to the single below. “Dark Hearted” has that James Blake melancholy touch, particularly with the sweeping classical piano that accompanies the track’s machine gun beat. Gibbs offers a similar juxtaposition in his lyrics, rapping about the disconnect of still being “rich with mob ties.” “I knew you wouldn’t fuck with me if I didn’t have no loot,” he sighs. $oul $old $eparately is out September 30th, and pre-orders are ongoing. Gibbs announced the album earlier this month by sharing “Too Much,” a single featuring Moneybagg Yo that we named Rap Song of the Week. His last solo full-length was 2018’s Freddie, while in 2020 he teamed...
