Rock
Nikki Sixx’s SIXX:A.M. Assembles Rock, Country, Metal All-Stars For a Great Cause
“Maybe It’s Time” is part of an industry-wide effort to spotlight National Recovery Month. Nikki Sixx has pulled together an all-star group of artists for a new version of the 2016 SIXX: A.M. song “Maybe It’s Time” in support of National Recovery Month. The Mötley Crüe bassist has roped in Slipknot‘s Corey Taylor, Def Leppard vocalist Joe Elliott, Brantley Gilbert, Five Finger Death Punch singer Ivan Moody, Guns N’ Roses guitarist Slash, AWOLNATION and Bad Wolves‘ Tommy Vext for a song that will be part of a music industry-wide effort to draw attention to the opioid criss while raising funds for the recovery community. The song’s release on Friday (Aug. 21) is timed to advance September’s National Recovery Month, which ...
Phoenix Unveil New Song ‘Identical’ Off Soundtrack to Upcoming Film ‘On the Rocks’: Listen
Phoenix is back. The group dropped their first new music since 2017, a track titled “Identical” via Loyaute/Glassnote Records on Wednesday (Aug. 20). The song, which will be featured on the soundtrack for the upcoming Apple Original Films and A24 release On The Rocks, is also included in the new trailer. Phoenix have written the score and assembled the film’s soundtrack. This is their fifth cinematic collaboration with director Sofia Coppola since she first used their song “Too Young” in Lost In Translation. The band have also shared the song’s accompanying Roman Coppola-directed video. Both the song and the video are dedicated to the band’s dear friend and collaborator Philippe Zdar, who passed away last year. Watch the “Identical” ...
Dave Grohl Made a Superfan’s Dream Come True by Crashing His ‘Grohlathon’ Livestream Jam Session
Performing covers on Instagram Live isn’t a new quarantine phenomenon. But for Pat Finnerty, his Dave Grohl-dedicated show finally caught the attention of the one person he was hoping for. The 40-year-old Scranton, Penn.-based musician started “Grohlathon,” a 24-hour IG Live performance from his West Philly studio apartment, on Saturday (Aug. 15), in hopes he could eventually get Grohl to sing Sting‘s part on Dire Straits‘ 1985 No. 1 hit “Money for Nothing.” Before this weekend, a cardboard cutout of the Foo Fighters frontman was the closest thing he could get to the celebrity appearance he wanted so badly on The Pat Finnerty Show, per his Instagram handle, that he’s been putting on for the last five months. “My whole f&#...
Supreme Court Asked to Review ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Fight
Is the Supreme Court ready to make music history? One petitioner is giving nine justices of the high court such an opportunity while hardly being subtle about it. Here are the opening notes from a new cert petition: “It is fitting, perhaps, that the future of music copyright law be decided by a case about rock ‘n’ roll’s most iconic song, ‘Stairway to Heaven.’” The petition comes from Michael Skidmore, trustee for the Randy Craig Wolfe Trust — which is to say he’s representing an interest once belonging to Randy “California” Wolfe, singer-songwriter for the rock band Spirit. Wolfe authored a song “Taurus,” which many observers see as being extremely similar in structure to the opening of Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven.&#...
Elvis Costello Details New Album Hey Clockface, Shares “We Are All Cowards Now”: Stream
Elvis Costello has announced his 31st (!) studio album, Hey Clockface. The follow-up to 2018’s Look Now arrives October 30th, and Costello is heralding the news with his latest single, “We Are All Cowards Now”. Hey Clockface is a trans-Atlantic undertaking, with recording taking place in Helsinki, Paris, and New York, three cities which became integral plot points in the album’s story. At Helsinki’s Suomenlinnan Studios, Costello wrote and recorded the first three singles, “We Are All Cowards Now” and early previews “Hetty O’Hara Confidential” and “No Flag”. Immediately afterward, the veteran songwriter visited France for a weekend session at Les Studios Saint Germain. He played with a new ensemble dubbed Le Quintette Saint Germain, led by his old pal and longtime Attraction member St...
Declan McKenna, Lovelytheband & More Set For Billboard Live At-Home Concerts: See Schedule
As we head into yet another week of quarantine, Billboard‘s Live At-Home concert series will feature more livestreamed performances for your entertainment. This week’s performances kick off Tuesday (Aug. 18), with a set from indie pop group Lovelytheband. Next up is English singer-songwriter Declan McKenna, and country crooner Danielle Bradbery will close out the week. The shows will stream live via Billboard‘s Facebook page. Check out this week’s full schedule below. We’ll also embed each video below once the performance takes place. Tuesday (Aug. 18)Lovelytheband — 1 p.m. ET Wednesday (Aug. 19)Declan Mckenna — 1 p.m. ET Thursday (Aug. 20)Danielle Bradbery — 1 p.m. ET Billboard‘s Live At-Home series launched in March as ...
Brandon Flowers Wrote the ‘Most Romantic Lyric’ for The Killers’ New Single ‘Dying Breed’
The Killers dropped their “Dying Breed” single today (Aug. 14) ahead of their sixth studio album Imploding the Mirage, which is out next Friday, Aug. 21 via Island Records. The rock band first teased the song during an April 24-dated Instagram Live, but frontman Brandon Flowers told NME that the words might be some of the “most romantic” ones he’s ever written about his wife and muse Tana Mundkowsky. “I like the idea of where me and my wife have gotten to and where we headed,” Flowers told NME. “An overriding theme of this record is asking the question, ‘Can two become one?’ I know it’s old-fashioned, but it’s my life. It’s probably the prettiest or most romantic lyric I’ve ever written.&#...
Machine Gun Kelly Brings the World of Entertainment to Outer Space in ‘Concert for Aliens’ Music Video
For Machine Gun Kelly, “the world is over,” so it’s time to launch his career on another planet. In the rocker’s new video for “concert for aliens,” which dropped on Thursday (Aug. 13), he and blink-182‘s Travis Barker throw a colorful rock show for a sea of Martians. That’s not all. The Mod Sun-directed clip finds MGK expanding his talents as an entertainer by becoming a game show host, a commercial actor, a villain and more. “My life is a roller coaster / Roller coaster / Get me off this roller coaster,” he proclaims in the chorus. “concert for aliens” will be featured on MGK’s upcoming album, Tickets to My Downfall. Watch the video below. [embedded content] You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are look...
Weezer Releases First Song From ‘Bill & Ted Face the Music’ Soundtrack: Listen to ‘Beginning Of The End (Wyld Stallyns Edit)’
The famed Bill & Ted film franchise tapped Weezer for the soundtrack of the upcoming third installment, and the LA rockers already delivered today (Aug. 13). Weezer released “Beginning Of The End (Wyld Stallyns Edit)” ahead of the Bill & Ted Face the Music movie and accompanying soundtrack, which will come out on Aug. 28. Wyld Stallyns, the name of the time-travelers’ fledgling rock band, remake the Weezer tune from the band’s upcoming 14th studio album Van Weezer, which has been postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. Mastodon, Cold War Kids, FIDLAR, Big Black Delta and more artists contributed to the 13-song listing, but Kid Cudi makes a different kind of contribution to the third Bill & Ted movie. The rapper appears as himself in the actual movie, ...
Wallows Announce Four-Night Streaming Concert Series at The Roxy
LA rock band Wallows will air the first of four pre-taped concerts Sunday recorded at the famed Roxy Theatre on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. The three-man band featuring actor and musician Dylan Minnette from the hit Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, actor and musician Braeden Lemasters and drummer Cole Preston will return to the location of their first-ever headline show in 2017 to launch what they’re calling the ‘Virtual World Tour.” {“nid”:”9355037″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”Wallows Take Off on a Goofy, Nighttime Road Trip in 'OK' Video: Watch”,”relative_path”:”\/articles\/columns\/rock\/9355037\/wallows-ok-video\/”,”media”:{“width”:1548,&#...
They’ll Probably Never Make A ‘Midnight Sun’ Movie, But We’ve Dreamt Up the Soundtrack Just in Case
By now, you’ve had a little over a week to dive into Stephenie Meyer’s Midnight Sun, the long-awaited companion novel to 2005’s Twilight. And if you’re like us, then you’re already foaming at the mouth for a feature film starring everyone’s favorite sparkling vampires. The Twilight franchise is also known for its stellar soundtracks, which, after the first film, featured all-original songs recorded just for the movies. Like the Twilight soundtrack, it stands to reason that a Midnight Sun soundtrack could feature a combination of existing and original songs, so we’ve imagined what that could look like. Also, while series stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart have been outspoken about their distaste for the films over the years, we will remind you that Pattinson seems to hav...
Tom Morello Sets Autobiography ‘Whatever It Takes’
Tom Morello, the guitar hero and political activist who lit the fuse with Rage Against the Machine, Prophets of Rage and others, will tell it the way he sees it in a new autobiography, Whatever It Takes. In the blurb accompanying the book announcement, Morello says Whatever It Takes is “about a lifelong mission. A mission that more often can be felt rather than articulated. There are clues to the nature of the mission in the guitar riffs, the crazy solos, the lyrics, and in the shared sweat and solidarity of friends and comrades onstage and off.” {“nid”:”9420680″,”type”:”post”,”title”:”Tom Morello, Los Van Van, Ozomatli & 60 More to Perform at Concert for Cuba”,”relative_path”:”\/articles\/columns...
