Rock
The Offspring’s ‘Let the Bad Times Roll’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Albums Chart
First studio album in nearly a decade launches in the top 10 across multiple Billboard charts. The Offspring return to Billboard’s album charts with the band’s first studio effort in nearly a decade, as Let the Bad Times Roll debuts at No. 1 on the Alternative Albums chart (dated May 1). The set was released via Wabi Sabi/Concord on April 16 and earned 19,000 equivalent album units in the U.S. in the week ending April 22, according to MRC Data. The Alternative Albums chart ranks the most popular alternative albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3...
Eric Church’s Scores Third No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales Chart With ‘Heart’
Of Heart’s debut sales of 40,000, physical album sales comprise nearly 25,000 of that figure (13,000 CDs and 12,000 vinyl LPs) while digital album sales comprise a little under 16,000. Heart is one of three new albums from Church, collectively referred to as Heart & Soul. Heart was released on April 16, the & album is available only to members of the artist’s Church Choir fan club, and Soul was released on April 23. Rock group Greta Van Fleet sees its new studio album The Battle at Garden’s Gate debut at No. 2 on Top Album Sales with 39,000 copies sold. A sturdy 16,000 of that sum was on vinyl LP, and Battle also bows at No. 1 on the Vinyl Albums chart. A pair of former No. 1s are next on Top Album Sales, as Taylor Swift’s Fearless (Taylor’s Version) falls 1-3 in its second week wi...
Serj Tankian Thanks President Biden for Recognizing Armenian Genocide: ‘This Is Extremely Important’
Tankian, who lives in Los Angles, was born in Lebanon. His family moved to the U.S. when he was a child, but his grandparents all fled the Armenian Genocide. “Today, I will say thank you to the US and all those who have fought hard for this statement over the years,” he added. On Saturday, which marked the 106th commemoration of Armenian Genocide Remembrance Day, Biden became the first sitting U.S. president to officially recognize the systematic deportation and slaughter of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in World War I. It’s estimated that 1.5 million Armenians were killed between 1915 and 1923. The Turkish government continues to deny that a genocide occurred. Over the years, System of a Down — whose members are from Armenian heritage — have strongly advocated f...
Song of the Week: Little Simz Raises a Rousing Battle Cry with “Introvert”
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PSG boss: Idrissa Gueye a pleasure to work with
Paris Saint-Germain manager Mauricio Pochettino has revealed his delight to work with Idrissa Gueye and praised him for his contribution to his side. The midfielder is currently spending his second season at Parc des Princes, having teamed up with the club from Premier League side Everton in the summer of 2019. Gueye has featured in more than 60 games since joining the side and in the current campaign, he has made 42 appearances, scoring two goals and providing one assist across all competitions. His performances ensured the Parisians to their second spot on the Ligue 1 table and their progression into the semi-finals of the Champions League. Pochettino has lauded the impact of the Senegal international to his side ahead of their encounter with the Maroons. “He’s a player with experience, ...
50 Reasons We Still Love The Rolling Stones’ Sticky Fingers
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-04-23T16:05:57+00:00“>April 23, 2021 | 12:05pm ET “We’re playin’ on a level that most will never see.” William Forsythe’s Sheriff Wydell says that in the 2005 movie The Devil’s Rejects. It could just as easily be attributed to Keith Richards, circa 1971. From 1968-1972, The Rolling Stones were on an iconic, career-defining run that arguably surpasses that of any of their British Invasion-era peers and tops any four-album stretch by every other rock band. But this creative surge came with an encroaching darkness. Co-founder Brian Jones was a creative and personal liability. He was pushed out, then found dead in his swimming pool. Jagger and Richards skipped his funeral. Related Video...
Yola Announces New Album, Shares ‘Diamond Studded Shoes’: Listen
“The video is in part inspired by the Truman Show and is about being trapped in a false construct,” Yola said in a release. “It is supposedly perfect, but you’re trapped in a life that wasn’t meant for you. I wanted to convey the feeling that everything you know to be true is not quite working the way it’s supposed to. The island at the end is a paradigm of mental conditioning, we are all trapped on an island of our own thinking, until we change it.” The song taps into the civil unrest many have been feeling over the past year. Yola asks listeners “to unite and turn our focus to those with a stranglehold on humanity” instead of falling prey to “the false divides created to distract us from those few who are in charge of the majority of the world’s wealth and...
Ted Nugent, Who Once Dismissed COVID-19, Tests Positive for Virus
Rocker Ted Nugent is revealing he was in agony after testing positive for coronavirus — months after he said the virus was “not a real pandemic.” “I thought I was dying,” Nugent says in a Facebook Live video posted Monday. “I literally could hardly crawl out of bed the last few days,” adding: “So I was officially tested positive for COVID-19 today.” In the video shot at his Michigan ranch, the “Cat Scratch Fever” singer repeatedly uses racist slurs to refer to COVID-19 and reiterates his previous stance that he wouldn’t be getting the vaccine because he claims wrongly that “nobody knows what’s in it.” 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 ma...
Weezer Unveil ‘Van Weezer’ Track List, Prep New Song ‘I Need Some Of That’
Weezer took to social media on Tuesday (April 20) to reveal the track list for their long-awaited album Van Weezer. They also announced that the track “I Need Some Of That” will arrive on April 21. “It’s almost Van Weezer time. These are all the songs on the album that comes out on May 7th,” the band wrote, adding that “I Need Some Of That” will drop tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. PT/12:00 p.m. ET. Van Weezer was originally meant to be released back in May 2020, to accompany the band’s Hella Mega stadium tour with Green Day and Fall Out Boy. Both ventures were delayed, and meanwhile, Weezer surprise-released an entirely separate album, OK Human, in January. (The Hella Mega Tour is now expected to take place this summer.) You Deserve to Make Money Even W...
Morrissey’s Manager Slams ‘The Simpsons’ For ‘Harshly Hateful’ Parody of the Singer
Tim Long, who wrote the episode, told Stereogum ahead of Sunday that Quilloughby is “definitely Morrissey-esque, with maybe a small dash of Robert Smith from The Cure, Ian Curtis from Joy Division, and a bunch of other people.” But Katsis wasn’t quite thrilled to have his client be the character’s inspiration. “Poking fun at subjects is one thing. Other shows like SNL still do a great job at finding ways to inspire great satire,” he wrote in a lengthy critique on Facebook. “But when a show stoops so low to use harshly hateful tactics like showing the Morrissey character with his belly hanging out of his shirt (when he has never looked like that at any point in his career) makes you wonder who the real hurtful, racist group is here.&n...
Kourtney Kardashian Shows Off a Romantic Birthday Gift From Travis Barker
Kourtney Kardashian offered a glimpse at how Travis Barker is helping to ring in her 42nd birthday. The reality star took to Instagram on Saturday (April 17) to show off a grand floral arrangement that included an intricate hanging installation, giving Barker credit with a tag on the Instagram Story. She posted a black heart next to his name. Barker shared the celebration with his followers the day before her birthday, too, re-posting the clip as an Instagram Story on his own account. 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, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share o...
Listen to Pendulum’s Raucous New Electro and Rock Hybrid, “Come Alive”
Pendulum are back with a new single, their first release of 2021 and one of their finest in years. The iconic drum & bass group have gone the rock route this time around, dropping a riveting electro hybrid called “Come Alive.” Despite the absence of the frenetic drum & bass sound that longtime fans may crave, they will be more than happy with the group’s effort here thanks to the track’s punchy drum programming and Rob Swire‘s signature vocals. Check out the raucous “Come Alive” below. “Come Alive” follows the legendary drum & bass outfit’s singles “Driver” and “Nothing for Free,” each of which were unveiled in late 2020 after a decade-long hiatus devoid of new music. The group is also...
