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.
“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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.”
After her performance at the opening ceremony of the 2024 Paris Olympics, Lady Gagaposted an essay on Instagram talking about the inspiration behind the number.
Gaga sang “Mon Truc en Plumes,” made famous in 1961 by Zizi Jeanmaire, and she wrote that she was humbled to be asked by the Olympics organizing committee to sing “such a special French song—a song to honor the French people and their tremendous history of art, music, and theatre.”
“Although I am not a French artist, I have always felt a very special connection with French people and singing French music,” she continued. “I wanted nothing more than to create a performance that would warm the heart of France, celebrate French art and music, and on such a momentous occasion remind everyone of one of the most magical cities on earth—Paris.”
She said some of the black, pink and white feathered pieces were rented from Le Lido archives, “a real French cabaret theater. We collaborated with Dior to create custom costumes, using naturally molted feathers.”
She added, “I studied French choreography that put a modern twist on a French classic. I rehearsed tirelessly to study a joyful French dance, brushing up on some old skills—I bet you didn’t know I used to dance at a 60’s [sic] French party on the lower east side when I was first starting out!
Gaga concluded by thanking France “for welcoming me to your country to sing in honor of you—it’s a gift I’ll never forget!”
She added, “Congratulations to all the athletes who are competing in this year’s Olympic Games! It is my supreme honor to sing for you and cheer you on!!”
