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U2 Releases ‘Your Song Saved My Life’ From ‘Sing 2′: Listen
The new track will appear in the closing credits of the animated sequel. U2 are back. The Irish rockers are lending their talents to the animated sequel Sing 2, with the release of their new track “Your Song Saved My Life” on Wednesday (Nov. 3). The piano-and-strings-driven pop track sees frontman Bono singing about the transformative nature that music holds and pushing through life even in difficult times. “You know your song saved my life/ I don’t sing it just so I can get by/ Won’t you hear me when I tell you, darlin’/ I sing it to survive,” he sings on the chorus. U2 first teased the song after joining TikTok on Monday, posting an official lyric video snippet of the track and alerting viewers that Sing 2 — in which Bono stars as...
Avril Lavigne Announces Signing to Travis Barker’s DTA Records
In the midst of a prolonged pop-punk revival, Avril Lavigne has signed a label deal with DTA Records, which is run by one of the movement’s main players: Travis Barker. “Let’s f–k s–t up!” Lavigne posted on Wednesday (Nov. 3), in an Instagram caption of a shot of her alongside Barker. “Just signed a record contract to Travis Barker’s record label DTA Records! Should I drop my first single next week?” DTA Records was launched in late 2019 by the Blink-182 drummer as a joint venture with Elektra Records. The label has served as both a home for rising acts like jxdn and Caspr, as well as a hub for Barker’s collaborations across hip-hop and rock. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you...
AC/DC Joins Billion Views Club on YouTube – But Not With the Song You’d Expect
Hard rock trailblazers and mainstays AC/DC are one of the most enduring classic rock bands of the 20th century, so it’s no huge surprise that the Australian rockers just entered YouTube’s ‘billion views club’ (an unofficial group of artists who can boast that at least one of their music videos has crossed the one-billion views mark on the video streaming platform). But which AC/DC classic crossed the threshold into that rarified company? Well, it’s probably not the song you’d expect. While their blockbuster Back to Black album contains two top 40 Billboard Hot 100 hits in “You Shook Me All Night Long” and “Back In Black,” those aren’t the first AC/DC tracks to hit one billion views on YouTube; although they notched five...
Halestorm Is ‘Back’ at No. 1 on Mainstream Rock Airplay Chart
Concurrently, “Back” climbs 13-11 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay ranking with 2.6 million audience impressions, up 7%, according to MRC Data. It’s the band’s highest-charting song ever on the tally, having exceeded the No. 15 peak of “I Miss the Misery” in November 2012. “Back” also leaps 17-11 on the multi-metric Hot Hard Rock Songs chart, equaling its best rank first reached in early September. In the Oct. 22-28 tracking week, in addition to its radio audience, it earned 157,000 U.S. streams. A release date for Halestorm’s latest album has not yet been announced. The group’s most recent album, Vicious, debuted at No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums and Hard Rock Albums charts in August 2018 and ha...
U2 Join TikTok With Soaring Ballad ‘Your Song Saved My Life’
The sequel to the 2016 animated musical comedy reunites much of the original cast of anthropomorphic singing animals taking on classic rock and pop tracks as optimistic koala Buster (Matthew McConaughey) and his all-star pals prepare to launch a new stage show in the world’s entertainment capital. “There’s just one hitch: They first have to persuade the world’s most reclusive rock star—played by global music icon Bono, in his animated film debut,” reads the description. As part of Buster’s attempt to move the show to the Crystal Tower Theater in dazzling Redshore City, he ropes in pals Rosita (Reese Witherspoon), rocker porcupine Ash (Scarlett Johansson), earnest gorilla Johnny (Taron Egerton), shy elephant Meena (Tori Kelly) and porcine provocateur Gunter (Nic...
Judge Tosses Out Restraining Order Requests Filed Against Josh Homme on Behalf of Sons
On Friday, a judge dismissed the pending restraining order petitions filed against Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme on behalf of his two young sons. Judge Lawrence Riff ruled that Homme’s ex-wife and the boys’ mother, Brody Dalle, had sought the restraining orders without the proper court authorization, according to Rolling Stone. The petitions previously failed to win emergency approval. A restraining order taken out against Homme by the former couple’s 15-year-old daughter remains in place. Advertisement Related Video Homme also took the stand on Friday to testify in a contempt hearing related to Dalle’s refusal to share custody with Homme during the times allotted he him in August and September of this year. Dalle has pleaded not guilty to the charge. The trial is set to begi...
Kiss Cancels Las Vegas Residency
Live Nation, which was producing the shows, has confirmed the Vegas run is canceled, though reasons have not been disclosed. A statement published from the Zappos Theater Twitter account reads, “Unfortunately, KISS cancelled their residency.” Members of the ‘70s hitmakers — including co-founders Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley — and their crew have tested positive for COVID-19 in recent weeks and months, and the band’s 20-year guitar tech, Fran Stueber, died suddenly Oct. 17 after contracting the novel coronavirus, aged 52. The glam rockers are currently on their End of the Road Tour, billed as their final trek ever, which kicked off in January 2019 and then had to reschedule dozens of 2020 dates due to the pandemic. Further dates were postponed due to illness within the camp. Th...
Outside Lands 2021 Day 2 Live Gallery: Vampire Weekend, Lizzo, Rico Nasty, Angel Olsen and More
Day 2 of Outside Lands brought double the energy and double the costumes: with plenty of Ted Lassos, Squid Game tracksuits, Super Mario and Where’s Waldo outfits, San Francisco showed up on Halloween Eve (October 30th) in style. Even more eclectic were Saturday’s epic performances, capped off brilliantly by a one-of-a-kind headlining set from Lizzo. Elsewhere in Golden Gate Park on Saturday was a rock-forward set from Vampire Weekend, a pair of great rap shows from Rico Nasty and Aminè (who replaced Young Thug at the last minute), and an impressive, face-melting performance from Post Animal. Advertisement Related Video The Strokes’ Albert Hammond Jr. even showed up to make cream puffs with chef Elizabeth Falkner at the fest’s new Gastromagic stage — proving that Outside Lands is a festival...
Drake’s ‘Certified Lover Boy’ Rebounds for Fifth Week at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
Of Certified‘s 74,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending Oct. 28, SEA units comprise 73,000 (down 10%, equaling 99.9 million on-demand streams of the album’s songs); album sales account for less than 1,000 (down 21%); and TEA units also contribute less than 1,000 (down 9%). Notably, the set matches the total weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 of Drake’s prior proper LP, Scorpion, in 2018. Of his 10 No. 1s, the two trail only the reign of Views, which spent 13 weeks at the summit in 2016. Morgan Wallen’s former 10-week Billboard 200 No. 1 Dangerous: The Double Album pushes 8-2 with 42,000 equivalent album units earned (up 1%); Doja Cat’s Planet Her climbs 7-3 (41,000, down 1%); YoungBoy Never Broke Again’s former one-week l...
Taylor Swift Helps Induct Carole King, Sings ‘Will You Love Me Tomorrow’ at Rock Hall Ceremony
She also saluted King for “navigating the politics of an era that didn’t make space for a female genius. Slowly but surely Carole King worked to create one, and it will be hers forever.” After thanking Swift “for carrying the torch forward” and calling her “like my professional granddaughter,” King paid tribute to Goffin and other collaborators and supporters, including Tapestry album producer Lou Adler and James Taylor, as well as musicians, managers and others. “I keep hearing it, so I’m gonna have to try to own it, that today’s female singers and songwriters stand on my shoulder,” said King. “Let it not be forgotten they also stand on the shoulders of the first woman to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. May she rest in power – Miss Aretha Franklin,” she said, to a huge ov...
Bryan Adams Exits Tina Turner Rock Hall Tribute After Testing Positive for COVID-19
Keith Urban took Adams’ place in the performance segment, which also included Mickey Guyton singing “What’s Love Got to Do With It” and Christina Aguilera, in a Turner T-shirt, delivering “Nutbush City Limits.” Angela Bassett, who won an Academy Award for portraying Turner in the 1993 biopic What’s Love Got to Do With It, inducted Turner, who accepted via a short video from her current residence in Sweden. It was Turner’s second induction into the Rock Hall. She also entered in 1991 with ex-husband Ike Turner. The Rock Hall inductions were filmed by HBO and will be aired starting Nov. 20. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make mone...
Paul McCartney Inducts Foo Fighters Into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: Watch
Foo Fighters joined the ranks of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the final act enshrined during Saturday night’s induction ceremony. Following his induction into the Rock Hall as a member of Nirvana in 2014, Foo Fighters’ mastermind Dave Grohl saw his name etched into history for a second time. But for Grohl and the rest of the band, Pat Smear’s long-overdue induction into the Hall of Fame was the biggest highlight of the evening. The 62-year-old Smear played in some of music’s most influential bands, including the Germs and Nirvana, but it wasn’t until Foo Fighters received that rightful place in the hallways of Cleveland’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame until Smear received the recognition he long deserved. Sir Paul McCartney was on hand to introduce Foo Fighters. In his speech, he c...
