Judah & the Lion has announced a new album called I AM A PRISM.
The sixth studio effort from the “Take It All Back” outfit is due out Aug. 14. It’s the follow-up to 2024’s The Process.
You can hear the first single, called “Maybe the Best Is Now,” out now.
Judah & the Lion will be performing at the Let’s Go Music Festival in Maryland in June.
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On This Day, May 28, 2007 …
The Police launched their reunion tour at General Motors Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
The tour, celebrating the 30th anniversary of the band, was the first time Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers had toured together since 1986.
The band treated the crowd to a hits-filled set that included such songs as “Message in a Bottle,” “Don’t Stand So Close To Me,” “Roxanne,” “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da,” “Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic,” “Every Breath You Take” and more.
The tour hit North America, Europe, the U.K., Latin America, Australia, New Zealand, and Asia, before wrapping Aug. 7 in New York City. It earned over $360 million making it one of the highest grossing tours of all time.
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Olivia Rodrigo has recently been wearing babydoll dresses, which are a callback to outfits worn by female artists in the ’90s alternative rock scene, including Hole’s Courtney Love or Bikini Kill’s Kathleen Hanna. Speaking to the New York Times Popcast, she says the criticism that she’s gotten for wearing them is both upsetting and “disturbing.”
When asked about the topic, Olivia said, “That’s been making me so upset. Not even for me. …People can say whatever they want. What’s really disturbing is I feel like I actually wear — I have worn — outfits that are maybe revealing onstage. Like, I’ve been onstage in a sparkly bra and little shorts…which is my right. That’s fine. I felt cool and comfortable in that.”
“And like, that wasn’t inappropriate? But me fully covered up in a dress that people deem to be, like, childlike, was inappropriate?” she questioned.
“I just think it just shows how we just really normalize pedophilia in our culture,” Olivia continued. “And also it’s just, like, this rhetoric that we’re fed as girls since we’re so little, which is, ‘Don’t wear that because then a man is going to sexualize your body and it’s your fault.’ Like, it’s so weird.”
She went on to say that she didn’t think she “looked sexy” in the babydoll dresses at all, noting, “I was like, ‘This is so cool. I feel like I look like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love, all these people who are my heroes, and I felt cool and comfortable in it.”
She added, “I just think if we start dressing in a way that’s like, ‘I don’t want some f****** freak to think that I am sexy like a baby’ or some crazy thing like that, I think it’s losing the plot a little bit.”
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Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello has announced a concert dubbed Power to the People, described as a “non-partisan celebration of peace, justice, solidarity, music and community action.”
The show takes place Oct. 3 at the Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. The bill includes Foo Fighters, Bruce Springsteen, Dave Matthews, Joan Baez, Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes, Dropkick Murphys, Jack Black, System of a Down’s Serj Tankian, The Pretty Reckless’ Taylor Momsen, ex-Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron, The Linda Lindas, grandson and rappers Cypress Hill, Killer Mike and Darryl “DMC” McDaniels.
“The Power to the People festival is about freedom, justice, equality and rock and roll,” Morello says. “It’s about the power everyday human beings have when they come together through music, art, community, and action. We’re honored to bring this incredible lineup to the DC area for a day that celebrates the spirit of activism, creativity, and hope.”
Presales begin Friday at 10 a.m. ET, and tickets go on sale to the general public on Saturday at 10 a.m. ET.
For the full lineup and all ticket info, visit PowertothePeopleFest.com.
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Bruce Springsteen and Foo Fighters are among the artists who’ll be performing at Power to the People Festival, scheduled for Columbia, Maryland’s Merriweather Post Pavilion on Oct. 3.
Described as a “non-partisan” “day of peace, love, justice, and music,” the festival is curated by Tom Morello, who’s part of Springsteen’s current Land of Hope and Dreams tour. He announced the festival on stage during Springsteen’s show at Washington, D.C.’s Nationals Park on Wednesday night.
According to the event’s website, it will serve to remind people of the “power everyday human beings have when they come together … to shape our country and our planet on, and beyond, Election Day.”
In addition to Springsteen and Foo Fighters, performers include Morello, Dave Matthews, Joan Baez, Brittany Howard of Alabama Shakes, Jack Black, Taylor Momsen, ex-Pearl Jam drummer Matt Cameron, grandson, Darryl “DMC” McDaniels, Cypress Hill, Killer Mike, The Linda Lindas, Serj Tankian of System of a Down and Dropkick Murphys.
A portion of the proceeds from all ticket sales will go to VoteRiders, a pro-democracy, pro-voter organization, and HeadCount, which will also be on site to help fans register to vote.
Presales start May 20 at 10 a.m. ET at PowerToThePeopleFest.com. Tickets go on sale to the general public May 30 at 10 a.m. ET.
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Duran Duran recently dropped the new song “Free to Love,” which is their latest collaboration with Chic’s Nile Rodgers.
Bassist John Taylor tells ABC Audio that Nile’s greatest contribution to the song is “this crazy kind of almost Afro, this guitar riff of his.”
“It’s one of those deceptively simple licks that Nile specializes in,” he says. “We get almost the whole song really just sitting on top of this lick of his.”
Duran Duran and Rodgers go way back, first working together in 1984, when Rodgers remixed “The Reflex,” which became the band’s first #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Taylor says back then he was too young to think about how long their relationship may last.
“I just was never thinking that far ahead,” he says. “I knew that I loved Nile’s work, and that there was something very special about Chic and they were very inspirational to Duran Duran, you know, at a very early age.”
“And the first time we met Nile, we just connected,” he adds.
Duran Duran and Rodgers continued to work together over the years, with Rodgers also producing “The Wild Boys” and producing or co-producing several of the band’s albums, including 1986’s Notorious.
“He’s got an extraordinary energy about him,” Taylor says of Rodgers. “We’ve had some big moments together,” adding, “I always feel kind of safe when he’s around.”
Duran Duran will kick off a European tour on June 19 in Denmark. They are also set to headline BST Hyde Park in London on July 5. A complete list of dates can be found at DuranDuran.com.
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If you happen to be going through a tough time, Tyler Hubbard’s new song, “Land,” may just be the bit of encouragement you need.
“When the rug gets pulled on your best made plans/ It’s how you fall and where you land,” he sings on the track.
“Really, it’s about overcoming obstacles in life,” Tyler says of the new song. “It’s about how you handle curveballs, if you will, and hurdles and speed bumps and all the things along the way.”
“And you know, it also talks about celebrating the good things in life and the successes,” he continues, “but it’s really, I think what makes a man is how you handle and how you overcome the hard, difficult seasons of life.”
“Land” is the beginning of Tyler’s next chapter of music, which is coming soon.
He heads out on the road in September with Dan + Shay on The Young Tour.
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Original Foreigner frontman Lou Gramm is currently on tour and tells ABC Audio that getting out on a stage is something he loves to do.
“I get excited about seeing a large audience,” he says, “and then running out there and starting the first song is incredibly exciting.”
The tour follows the March release of Gramm’s new solo album, Released, which is made up of songs the Rock & Roll Hall of Famer recorded in the 1980s that didn’t make it onto his previous solo albums.
On tour, fans can expect a mix of solo singles like “Midnight Blue,” and Foreigner tunes like “Cold As Ice” and “Hot Blooded,” plus songs from the new album.
As for which new songs he’s most excited to perform, Gramm notes, “They’re all special. I mean, we took 2 1/2 years putting a lot of songs together, and picking songs that sounded the best and different from each other.”
And while Gramm still loves to perform, he does admit that at 76 he’s just not up for long tours anymore.
“I don’t have the stamina, and my mind starts to wander,” he says. “I enjoy playing and I enjoy performing to an audience and it’s a lot of fun, but an hour and a half set is taxing to an old bird like me, you know?”
Gramm is set to play Stamford, Connecticut, on Thursday, with the tour wrapping Oct. 8 in Columbia, South Carolina. A complete list of dates can be found at LouGrammOfficial.com.
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Blue October will release a vinyl reissue of their 2006 album Foiled on Friday in honor of its 20th anniversary. The original album spawned the single “Hate Me,” which remains Blue October’s signature song.
Speaking with ABC Audio, frontman Justin Furstenfeld recalls his mindset when he was first writing “Hate Me.”
“My initial hopes for the song was to explain why I kept messing up relationships and choosing drugs and dark ways, sick ways of living over normal, healthy girlfriend relationships,” Furstenfeld says.
The vinyl Foiled reissue includes an acoustic version of “Hate Me,” which puts an even greater emphasis on Furstenfeld’s lyrics about cockroaches and porno in between the song’s anthemic chorus.
In recording the acoustic version, Furstenfeld says he was inspired by late country icon Johnny Cash’s famed cover of the Nine Inch Nails song “Hurt.”
“It was just all about the words, and sung down and sung really low with just an acoustic and this rumbling voice,” Furstenfeld says.
Furstenfeld adds that country music has long been a part of his life.
“I grew up on a lot of country music, and dark country, like, cocaine cowboy kinda country,” he says. “And my dad loved it.”
Channeling all that into an acoustic recording of “Hate Me” results in a song Furstenfeld describes as “the one you would hear at a bar where you kinda went, ‘OK, maybe I should chill out.'”
Blue October will be performing Foiled in full on a U.S. tour kicking off in October.
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When they’re not doing music stuff as Jonas Brothers, Joe Jonas and Nick Jonas also act. But just because they’re famous doesn’t mean they get every part they go up for. In the latest episode of the brothers’ podcast, Hey Jonas!, Joe recalls the time he blew an audition for an Emmy-winning Apple TV series.
Explaining why being early doesn’t always work out, Joe told a story about auditioning for The Morning Show; specifically, for the role of a news anchor who’d be a love interest for one of the show’s stars, Jennifer Aniston. Joe showed up early, so they put him in a private room. But that meant that while he was waiting his turn, he could hear all the other actors auditioning “clear as day” and got intimidated.
“These guys were crushing it,” Joe recalled. “I didn’t bring headphones so I’m just like literally sitting in silence, reading the lines … and I go in and I just, like, crash and burn.” It seems he made the mistake of saying he didn’t need a script, then proceeded to forget all his lines.
When Nick asked him if that was his “worst” audition, Joe mentioned that something similar happened when he tried out for the part of Fiyero in the Wicked movies.
“There were, like, incredible theater vocalists I could hear, clear as day,” Joe recalled. He didn’t get that part either.
Nick then shared that he blew an audition when he met with the director, and asked him who was directing the movie. And Kevin Jonas revealed that when they were younger, he was told to his face, “I can clearly tell you don’t have any acting experience.”
Good thing they’ll always have music to fall back on.
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