Badflower has premiered a new single called “Detroit.”
The track is available now via digital outlets and is accompanied by a video featuring behind-the-scene footage of the “Ghost” rockers on tour. You can watch that streaming now on YouTube.
“Detroit” follows the track “Teacher Has a Gun,” which dropped in June. The most recent Badflower album is 2021’s This Is How the World Ends, which includes the singles “Don’t Hate Me” and “Family.”
J. Cole has earned his first Diamond song with 2019’s “Middle Child.” “We are not counting you out. Congratulations on your first RIAA Diamond certification for #MiddleChild @dreamville @rocnation,” the RIAA wrote on the social platform X.
Drake went to a Limp Bizkit concert and was met with boos. “I thought Drake was your homie,” frontman Fred Durst said to a booing audience. “Drake’s my homie.”
Cardi B may be Popeyes’ newest taste tester following her disappointment with the franchise’s honey lemon pepper wings. “bardi gang, we need your help! legal won’t let us tag her, but since ya girl had some thoughts on our honey lemon pepper wings, we’d love to have her come thru the test kitchen to collab on some wing flavors. y’all do your thing,” Popeyes tweeted, to which Cardi responded, “Free wings??? Where y’all at? COME PICK ME UP.”
Snoop Dogg carried the Olympic torch at the Paris Olympics, and he did it the West Coast way. While walking through Seine-Saint-Denis, he did the Crip Walk, exciting many of his fans. Pharrell also helped carry the torch during the final leg of the 2024 relay.
It’s been five years since Burna Boy dropped his Grammy-nominated album African Giant, and he’s found a way to celebrate with his fans. In honor of the anniversary, he’s released a special performance of that project, as well as some exclusive anniversary merch.
The performance initially went down at the KOKO in London for YouTube Music Nights earlier in July and is now available to stream on YouTube. This follows the immersive Dolby Atmos playback session, held Thursday at the Dolby Screening Room Hollywood Vine, featuring a panel of those who helped Burna Boy with the album’s rollout. Burna fans can also celebrate by visiting the African Giant snapchat AR Lens at the Eiffel Tower in Paris on Friday and purchasing the merch available on his site.
African Giant dropped July 26, 2019, earning Burna Boy a Grammy nomination for Best World Music Album. The project spawned the singles “Anybody,” “Gbona” and the RIAA-certified Gold “On The Low.”
Celine Dion did, indeed, make a big comeback by performing an Édith Piaf song at the 2024 Olympics opening ceremony in Paris Friday. However, she did not, as reported, duet with Lady Gaga, and the song she sang was not “La Vie en Rose.” It was another Piaf song, “Hymne A L’Amour,” or “Hymn to Love.”
Celine, dressed all in white, was perched on the first level of the Eiffel Tower in a glittering white gown, belting out the French song and showing no sign of struggle. As fans know, Celine’s diagnosis of stiff-person syndrome has impeded her ability to sing and to perform onstage.
In fact, Celine’s performance Friday was her first since March 2020. She had been forced to halt her tour due to COVID-19 and then due to her medical issues. She revealed her diagnosis in 2022.
Celine’s performance followed the lighting of the Olympic cauldron, as athletes performed a torch relay through the streets of Paris.
Slipknot drummer Eloy Casagrande learns Mastodon‘s song “Blood and Thunder” in a new video for Drumeo.
The YouTube channel challenged Casagrande to figure out the drum parts to the Leviathan track as fast as he could. After a couple of listens and practice runs, Casagrande finished his final take in about 42 minutes.
Mastodon drummer Brann Dailor was impressed with Casagrande’s interpretation, declaring that he did an “amazing job.”
Slipknot debuted Casagrande as their new drummer in April after parting ways with Jay Weinberg in 2023. The masked metallers will launch a U.S. tour in August.
Mastodon, meanwhile, is currently rocking “Blood and Thunder” themselves on tour while celebrating the 20th anniversary of Leviathan.
“Stay Golden” follows Saint Motel’s trio of 2023 singles, “Everyone’s a Guru Now,” “Fine Wine” and “Slowly Spilling Out.” The “My Type” outfit’s most recent album is 2021’s The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack.
Saint Motel will be touring the U.S. alongside Lindsey Stirling starting in August.
Eli Winders and Vincent Mason have teamed on a twangy and breezy tune, “Famous for a Heartbreak.” “This was the first song [Vincent and I] wrote together along with our friend Aaron Armstrong. We wrote ‘Famous for a Heartache’ on July 26, 2023 and, totally unintentionally, are putting it out exactly a year later. Looking back at our texts from that day, we all knew this song was special and we are all ecstatic to be putting it out,” shares Eli. Vincent adds, “Eli has been a good friend of mine since he moved to Nashville. … I love this song and I’m excited it’s out in the world.”
Russell Dickerson recently performed his new single, “Bones,” on GMA3. If you missed it, you can watch it now at goodmorningamerica.com.
The Castellows and Wyatt Flores are celebrating “Sober Sundays” in their new collab. “This song has since become one of our favorites!” shares The Castellows’ Eleanor, Lily and Powell. “It’s been such an honor working with you Wyatt! We hope y’all all love this song as much as we do.” Wyatt adds, “This song means so much to me and I’m very grateful for the opportunity to work with the girls. I hope you love this song as much as I do!”
“In Color” singer Jamey Johnson has released two new tracks, “What a View” and “Trudy,” with Randy Houser. You can listen to them now on digital platforms.
KennyHoopla has debuted a new single called “ONE TULIP//.”
“I didn’t realize while writing it but I think this song is about how when you’re trying so hard to make sure no one is let down at all but you forget about showing up for yourself,” the “ESTELLA//” artist says. “I’ve tried to be of help my whole life and exhausted myself to be enough for my family and friends through empathy, currency, and just simply being there physically but you’ll always be half the person they need you to be until you learn to be a friend to yourself and make yourself whole.”
KISS’ 12th studio album, Animalize, is turning 40 this year, and to celebrate the band has launched a new 40th anniversary merch collection, complete with two limited-edition vinyl variant bundles.
One of the bundles includes an Animalize 40th anniversary picture disc, along with a T-shirt with the album’s track list. It was limited to only 500 and has already sold out.
The second, limited to 2,500 units, includes a 40th anniversary black-and-white cornetto color vinyl, wrapped in a mirrored sleeve, that comes with a poster. It also includes an Animalize jersey that reads “if it’s too loud, you’re too old.”
In addition to the packages, there’s plenty of other merch for the KISS Army, including an Animalize print button-up shirt, several T-shirts, jerseys and a sweatshirt, as well as a duffle bag, nail stickers, buttons and a bumper sticker.
Released Sept. 17, 1985, Animalize was part of KISS’ commercial resurgence that also included 1983’s Lick It Up. The album was certified Platinum and featured the hit song “Heaven’s On Fire.”
(WASHINGTON) — Since getting thrust into the race for president after President Joe Biden announced on Sunday he would step aside, Vice President Kamala Harris and her team have been racing to define her to the American people as their attention turns to the newly energized campaign before Donald Trump could beat her to the punch.
In a shift, the vice president, who has served as San Francisco’s district attorney and California’s attorney general, is leaning heavily into that part of her resume — which was largely a liability during her 2020 bid for the presidency, a campaign she abandoned before the first voters were cast in that primary.
“In those roles, I took on perpetrators of all kinds,” Harris told staffers at her campaign headquarters Monday in what was officially her first campaign event since getting in the race. “Predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain.”
“So, hear me when I say I know Donald Trump’s type,” she added. “And in this campaign, I will proudly put my record against his.”
It’s a framing of prosecutor vs. convict that Harris and her team have pushed aggressively in early days of her nascent campaign
On Thursday, Harris attacked Trump over his legal woes in the first ad of her campaign. In it Harris said her vision of the future includes an America “where no one is above the law” as the former president’s mugshot and newspaper headlines following his conviction on 34 counts in New York flashed on screen.
“Their campaign says, ‘I’m the prosecutor and he is the convicted felon,” Trump said at a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina, his first since Biden dropped out. “That’s their campaign. I don’t think people are gonna buy it.”
Harris has also worked to define the race as being between someone who is fighting to protect Americans’ freedoms and Donald Trump, who she argues will strip them of their freedom.
“In this election, we each face a question: What kind of country do we want to live in?” Harris asked in that first ad titled “We Choose Freedom” and that features Beyonce’s “Freedom,” which the vice president walks out to at rallies.
“There are some people who think we should be a country of chaos. Of fear. Of hate,” she adds over images of Trump and his running mate, Sen. JD Vance of Ohio. “But us? We choose something different; we choose freedom.”
Speaking at the American Federation of Teachers convention in Houston Thursday, Harris said, “In this moment, across our nation, we witness a full-on attack on hard-won, hard-fought freedoms.”
Harris, said that those freedoms include the right to an abortion, pointing to the Supreme Court’s overuling of Roe v. Wade, for which she blames Trump, and vowing to fight to restore them.
“When I am president of the United States and when Congress passes a law to restore those freedoms, I will sign it into law. We are not playing around,” she said at the historically Black Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, Inc.’s Grand Boulé in Indianapolis on Wednesday.
But the Trump campaign is trying to define Harris in ways they think could hurt her prospects and that they hope the American people will buy.
Sources told ABC News that Trump’s attacks will largely focus on Harris’ role leading the administration’s effort on the migrant crisis and use it to make the case that the administration failed to secure the border.
Prior to Biden stepping down, Trump began ramping up personal attacks against the vice president, going after her laugh by nicknaming her “Laffin’ Kamala” and dubbing her “nuts.”
“You can tell a lot by a laugh,” Trump said at a rally in Michigan on Saturday. “I call her Laffin’ Kamala. You ever watch her laugh?… She’s crazy. She’s nuts.”
At the North Carolina rally he unleashed a barrage of false claims, referring to her as “Lyin’ Kamala Harris,” as a “radical-left lunatic” and a liar before suggesting that she is okay with the “execution” of a baby.
“She wants abortions in the eighth and ninth month of pregnancy, that’s fine with her right up until birth. And even after birth, the execution of a baby because that’s not abortion. That’s the execution of a baby,” Trump falsely claimed before touting the U.S. Supreme Court decision that sent the issue back to the states.
In the early days of his administration, Biden tasked Harris with leading his administration’s efforts to address the root causes of migration, primarily tackling economic and social issues in the Northern Triangle countries of El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. But in the face of migrant surges at the border, Republicans have placed blame on Harris, who they disparagingly, inaccurately nickname the “border czar.”
“Kamala Harris was appointed border czar, as you know, in March of 2021 and since that time, millions and millions of illegal aliens have invaded our country and countless Americans have been killed by migrant crime because of her,” Trump said during a press call Tuesday.
The Harris campaign responded to these attacks by pointing the finger at Trump for his opposition to a bipartisan deal to secure the border and address immigration.
“The only ‘plan’ Donald Trump has to secure our border is ripping mothers from their children aand a few xenophobic placards at the Republican National Convention. He tanked the bipartisan border security deal because, for Donald Trump, this has never been about solutions just running on a problem,” Harris campaign spokesperson Kevin Munoz said in a statement.
“Like everything with Donald Trump, it’s never been about helping the country, it’s only about helping himself,” Munoz added. “There’s only one candidate in this race who will fight for bipartisan solutions to strengthen border security, and that’s Vice President Harris.”
Trump allies, in a sign they are struggling to define Harris, have also resorted to describing the presumptive nominee as someone who is unqualified and chosen because of her race and gender, with some calling her a so-called “DEI” (diversity, equity, and inclusion) candidate.
Former presidential candidate Nikki Haley, who is now a supporter of Trump, told CNN’s Jake Tapper on Thursday that these attacks are “not helpful.”
Harris has seized being thrust into the spotlight with her newly minted campaign, positioning herself as leader during moments she would otherwise have to wait for Biden’s lead.
After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu–separately from Biden’s own meeting—Harris came before the cameras to outline her view on the war in Gaza, which had become a political headache for the president in recent months. (Biden, himself, did not speak with reporters after his meeting.)
Biden has been plagued domestically over criticism of his response to the war and for not being more forceful against Netanyahu as scores of civilians get killed in Gaza, and for continuing to supply Israel with weapons.
And although her policy stances on the war largely don’t stray far from Biden’s, Harris on Thursday notably signaled a future shift.
“We cannot allow ourselves to become numb to the suffering,” Harris said. “And I will not be silent.”
