Rock
Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Brutal’ Bows at No. 1 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs Chart
Concurrently, “Brutal” debuts at No. 1 on Hot Alternative Songs and Alternative Streaming Songs, and at No. 5 on the all-format Streaming Songs chart, behind three other songs from Sour; “Good 4 U” leads at No. 1, followed by “Deja Vu” at No. 2 and “Traitor” at No. 3. On the multi-metric Billboard Hot 100, “Brutal” begins at No. 12. Sour has produced Rodrigo’s first two Hot 100 No. 1s: “Drivers License,” for eight weeks beginning in January, and “Good 4 U,” which opened atop the tally last week. (“Deja Vu” and “Good 4 U” are Rodrigo’s current singles being properly promoted to radio, to pop and adult stations. On Pop Airplay, they climb to Nos. 13 and 25, respectivel...
Machine Gun Kelly and Megan Fox Bring Their Love On Stage at Indy 500 Weekend Concert
The Barstool 500 concert, which also featured a DJ set by Diplo, was held in conjunction with the 2021 Indianapolis 500 race on Saturday. Earlier in the week, Machine Gun Kelly noted on social media that the celebrity couple had just celebrated their one-year anniversary. “She said ‘i love you’ one year ago today,” he tweeted. The pair reportedly met on the set of their upcoming film, Midnight in the Switchgrass, in March 2020, which was shut down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Fox’s ex-husband, actor Brian Austin Green, confirmed on his podcast that the pair split in Dec. 2019. She later appeared in the May 2020 video for MGK’s “My Bloody Valentine” in which she played his heavy-handed girlfriend. Ever since, the pair have made their love pub...
Willow Meets a Strange Figure in ‘Transparent Soul’ Video Featuring Travis Barker
Willow rocks out with Travis Barker in her new, official music video for “Transparent Soul.” The Blink-182 drummer is part of Willow’s band onstage in a dark, grungy club in the clip that was released on Friday (May 28). As they play the pop-punk song, a version of Willow winds her way through the crowd and runs into a mysterious (and terrifying) figure. In what she calls “one of my favorite parts of the music video,” Willow finds herself making an emotional connection with the figure when it follows her out of the club. 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 money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, s...
LYELL Refuses to Wait for Prince Charming In ‘Potions’ Video: Watch It Here
“Performing is such a huge part of who I am,” she tells Billboard. “I’ve always connected with Dorothy and Alice [from The Wizard of Oz and Alice in Wonderland] because they were in control of their own narrative. They weren’t waiting for fucking Prince Charming to come and save them.” LYELL’s own narrative caught the attention of producer JT Daly, who immediately saw a star in the making, and began working with the band in early 2020. “‘Potions’ really stood out to me,” he tells Billboard. “Screaming, ‘I’m losing my mind’ over and over after the last year we all had seemed really cathartic.” Check out the video for “Potions” below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a ...
Viral Teen Punks The Linda Lindas Sign to Epitaph Records: ‘Now It Feels We Can Actually Make a Difference’
The band formed in 2018 and first played together when former Dum Dum Girls singer Kristin Kontrol invited them to play some covers for a Girlschool LA showcase, after which they formed the band and began playing DIY gigs around their hometown, opening for punk legend Alice Bag and reunited riot grrrl band Bikini Kill in 2019 at the Hollywood Palladium. The quartet self-released their self-titled debut EP in December 2020 and had a cameo in Amy Poehler’s early 2021 coming-of-age comedy Moxie! Their May 4 40-minute set and interview at the Cypress Branch of the L.A. Public Library included “Racist, Sexist Boy,” as well original songs “Claudia Kishi” (for the 2020 Netflix short doc about the Japanese-American character from The Baby-Sitters Club), a tr...
Edo election: Appeal Court upholds Governor Obaseki’s victory
The Court of Appeal, sitting in Benin, yesterday, upheld the ruling of the Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal against the Action Democratic Party (ADP), and reaffirmed the victory of Governor Godwin Obaseki at the 2020 governorship election. Delivering the judgement in the case marked CA/B/EPT/GOV/01 & 1A/2021 Action Democratic Party & Anor v. INEC & 2Ors, the court held that Obaseki did not forge his certificates with which he contested the 2020 governorship election and dismissed the appeal filed by the ADP and its candidate. In another case marked /B/EPT/GOV/02/2021 Action Peoples Party (APP) Vs Godwin N. Obaseki & 2Ors., the Court unanimously upheld the Judgment of the Tribunal and dismissed the Appeal with costs assessed at N600,000 each, on two differe...
Dave Grohl Goofs About, Tells Smelly Beatles Van Stories as ‘Tonight Show’ Co-Host
Soon after, Grohl gave us the new van-touring documentary What Drives Us, on The Coda Collection via Amazon Prime Video, and he’s behind the new Paramount+ series From Cradle to Stage, inspired by the book published by his mother, Virginia Hanlon Grohl. As if to prove he really is everywhere, all at once, Grohl co-hosted The Tonight Show on Monday night, alongside regular top-man Jimmy Fallon. Grohl has never been mistaken for a one-trick pony. He’s an all-rounder type who entered the Rock Hall on the first instance for his drumming, then on the second occasion for his guitarist swinging, singer/songwriter/frontman talents. For his late-night TV stint, he got multiple chances to show off his range. There were gags aplenty when Grohl delivered a joint opening monologue. “I’m rea...
Fierce All-Girl Teen Punk Band The Linda Lindas Fight Hate on Viral ‘Racist, Sexist Boy’
With their ebullient mix of Sleater-Kinney/Bikini Kill power and an obvious homage to punk gods the Ramones in their stage names, the mighty quartet have already made significant waves at a young age, opening for Best Coast and Bikini Kill since forming in 2018. Their Bandcamp page describes them as “half Asian / half Latinx. Two sisters, a cousin, and their close friend. The Linda Lindas channel the spirit of original punk, power pop, and new wave through today’s ears, eyes, and minds.” The two singles and EP for sale on the band’s page were produced and mixed by by Grammy-winning producer Carlos de la Garza (Paramore, Bad Religion), who also happens to be Mila’s dad. Together for three years, in an interview during the library set, they cited Paramore, ...
New Edition of ‘No Direction Home’ Celebrates Legacy of Bob Dylan – And Robert Shelton: Excerpt
For a few heady years in the Village, Shelton and Dylan were buddies; hanging out, often with their respective girlfriends—Suze Rotolo and Baez in Dylan’s case. The friendship did not prevent Shelton from being critical, in person and in print, sometimes to Dylan’s annoyance. But he was fairminded and he understood from the moment he first heard him perform at a Gerde’s hootenanny in June 1961 that Dylan mattered, that his was a talent like no other. His review led to a contract with Columbia Records. The biography he proposed over dinner on New Year’s Eve 1965 was never intended as a potboiler—but neither was it intended that it would take twenty years to write. Shelton talked to everyone—childhood friends from Hibbing, including Echo Helstrom and Bonnie Beecher, the real “Girl from the N...
Bob Dylan’s 15 Best Albums of All Time
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-24T15:00:55+00:00“>May 24, 2021 | 11:00am ET Apart from, say, Frank Zappa — and that’s a rabbit hole many of us aren’t prepared to go down — there probably isn’t a more sprawling body of work in popular music than Bob Dylan‘s discography. We can proclaim with even more confidence — in fact, utter certainty — that no artist has left a more exalted or scrutinized collection of albums and songs behind. The albums ranked in the following pages are a rare breed in that many mark their times but also mark all times. So many songs that a generation of listeners once claimed as their own have now found their way into the ears of children and grandchildren and will continue doing so for a...
Duran Duran Teams Up with Blur’s Graham Coxon for Billboard Music Awards: Watch
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-24T03:01:31+00:00“>May 23, 2021 | 11:01pm ET Duran Duran turned up at the 2021 Billboard Music Awards to perform their new single “Invisible” as well as a pair of classics. Appearing virtually from London, the legendary new wave rockers were joined by Blur guitarist Graham Coxon. Together, they performed “Notorious” and “Hungry Like a Wolf” in addition to the live debut of “Invisible”. Replay Duran Duran’s full set below, and head here to see other performances from tonight’s Billboard Music Awards, including Doja Cat with SZA, The Weeknd, and BTS. Related Video “Invisible” serves as the lead single for the veteran band’s upcoming 15th studio album, FUTURE PAST— which i...
Maneskin Singer Agrees to Drug Test After Eurovision Cocaine Use Rumors
Eurovision confirmed that broken glass was found under the table in question, but announced David had offered to take the test, which is scheduled for Monday. In Italy, the drug claim didn’t mar the praise that poured in Sunday from the Italian establishment for the victory of the rather anti-establishment Maneskin, a glam rock band that got its start busking on Rome’s main shopping drag. Their win gave Italy a sorely needed boost after a dreadful year as one of the countries worst hit by the coronavirus and will bring next year’s competition back to the place where European song contests began. The band was the bookmakers’ favorite going into the Eurovision finale and sealed the win early Sunday with the highest popular vote in the enormously entertaining, and incredibly kitsch, annual so...
