LilWayne and 2Chainz reunite for a new collaborative project called Welcome 2 Collegrove.
The long-awaited album follows the duo’s first joint effort, 2016’s ColleGrove.
To introduce fans to Welcome 2 Collegrove, Wayne and 2 Chainz will appear on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon on October 20 to perform the lead single, “Presha,” which is currently available on major platforms.
The Concert for New York City was held at Madison Square Garden to honor the city’s NYPD and NYFD first responders in the wake of the September 11 attacks.
Alongside many of the first responders, victims’ families and colleagues attended the concert, which raised $35 million.
The concert, organized by Paul McCartney, featured performances by The Who, Elton John, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, David Bowie and Billy Joel, among others.
The Who’s set — their final one with bassist John Entwistle, who died eight months later — was among the best-received.
New York native Joel performed his classic “Miami 2017 (Seen the Lights Go Out On Broadway),” telling the crowd that when he wrote it 25 years ago, “I thought it was gonna be a science fiction song. I never thought it would really happen.” He added, “But unlike the end of that song … we ain’t going anywhere.”
The concert was broadcast on VH1, and an album and DVD of the event were released in January 2002.
For episode 38 of their weekly YouTube series, Queen the Greatest Live, Queen is looking back at their iconic performance at Brazil’s inaugural Rock In Rio festival in 1985.
The band is specifically sharing archival footage of their performance of the acoustic classic “Love of My Life,” showing how they could make even a massive show in front of 400,000 fans feel intimate to those in attendance.
The clip shows guitarist Brian May asking the audience if they want to sing along, to which they oblige, and Freddie Mercury conducting them to much delight.
“I think it’s the moment we first realized they knew ‘Love of My Life,” May had previously shared. “Not only knew it but would sing it. And not only would they sing it but would sing it with a passion that brought tears to our eyes.”
Next week on Queen The Greatest Live:“A Kind of Magic.”
Pink has postponed more shows due to a respiratory infection.
After postponing her Tacoma, Washington, shows earlier in the week because of family medical issues, the singer took to Instagram and announced her Vancouver shows would be rescheduled as well.
“I am deeply sorry to share that I have a respiratory infection and my doctor has advised that I am unable to perform at the Vancouver shows on Friday and Saturday,” she wrote. “Live Nation is working to reschedule the shows.”
“I am very much looking forward to performing in Vancouver and putting on an incredible show for everyone,” she added. “In the meantime, I wish everyone good health and am sending lots of love.”
On October 16, she postponed her October 17 and 18 Tacoma shows, citing family medical issues that required “immediate attention.”
The album release party for the Rolling Stones‘ latest album Hackney Diamonds on Thursday evening had some major surprises for fans in attendance at New York City’s venue Racket NYC: Mick Jagger and the boys took to the stage.
The Stones played from the band’s first album of new material in 18 years — and Lady Gaga joined them to perform their single “Sweet Sounds of Heaven,” to boot.
Questlove acted as house DJ for the event, which drew famous fans including Chris Rock, Jimmy Fallon, Daniel Craig and his Oscar winning actress wife Rachel Weisz, Elvis Costello, Mary Kate Olsen, Diana Krall, Trevor Noah, and others.
The Stones played seven songs from the new album as well as classics. They shredded through “Shattered,” “Angry,” “Whole Wide World,” “Tumbling Dice,” “Bite My Head Off,” “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” and their shared track with Gaga.
The 12-track album features two tracks from late drummer Charlie Watts — “Mess It Up” and “Live By the Sword,” the latter of which has former Stones member Bill Wyman on bass.
“Sweet Sounds” also features keys and piano from Stevie Wonder, “Get Close” and “Live By the Sword” features piano from Elton John, while “Bite My Head Off” has a bassline from Paul McCartney.
Here’s the track listing for Hackney Diamonds, which is available now:
“Angry”
“Get Close”
“Depending On You”
“Bite My Head Off”
“Whole Wide World”
“Dreamy Skies”
“Mess It Up”
“Live by the Sword”
“Driving Me Too Hard”
“Tell Me Straight”
“Sweet Sounds of Heaven”
“Rolling Stone Blues”
“I was so excited when I heard that he was gonna put that one out as a single,” the Georgia native recalls. “And then he also left that label. And I thought, ‘Well, OK, maybe this is God’s way of saying, “Hannah, it’s your turn to cut this song.”‘”
“It’s a sexy song, and a lot of people don’t know it’s literally one of the songs I was working on when I got fired from Bass Pro Shops 10 years ago for writing songs on the job. … But I did it perform it on the Opry when I made my Opry debut, right there across the parking lot,” she laughs, noting the Nashville store’s proximity to the country institution.
Coming off the busiest touring season of her career so far, The Other Damn Half has been thoroughly road-tested, with “Country Do” proving to be particularly crowd-approved.
“I wasn’t planning to cut it, but I started playing it live because it’s three guitars deep and has this stacked, wild Rage Against the Machine moment in it,” Hannah tells ABC Audio. “It’s wordy as hell, but it’s a lot of fun to sing.”
“God’s a Good Ol Boy” and “I’m Gonna Whoop Your Redneck A**” round out the collection, with an animated video for the latter set to follow in the coming days.
Elton John played The Pinball Wizard in the 1975 movie of The Who‘s Tommy and now, almost 50 years later, he’s the inspiration for a new line of pinball machines.
Elton John Pinball, from Jersey Jack Pinball, gives fan a front row experience of a live Elton concert, complete with plenty of callbacks to Elton’s career. The machines, developed with Elton’s input, include 16 full-length Elton tracks, including “Rocketman,” “Tiny Dancer” and “Benny and the Jets.”
Each game features footage from Elton’s career, with additions like a piano-playing interactive Elton sculpture, a “Tiny Dancer” sculpture, “Rocketman” ball launcher and more. They come with over 1,000 interactive LED lights, plus LCD displays, animation and more. There’s even a “Superstar” topper, with dual 10-inch LCD screens and an interactive laser light show.
Elton John Pinball machines are available to purchase now, but they don’t come cheap. They range in price from $12,000 to $15,000, not including shipping.
The first album from the reunited trio’s classic lineup of Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker in over 10 years dropped Friday, October 20.
DeLonge returned to the blink in 2022 after a seven-year absence, during which he was primarily known for his activities involving UFO research. Meanwhile, Hoppus and Barker released two blink records with Alkaline Trio frontman Matt Skiba in place of DeLonge.
“I didn’t know that Blink would ever get back together or that I would ever share a stage with Tom,” Hoppus told Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1. “I told management, I told Travis, I told everybody, I’m like, ‘I’m not setting foot onstage again with that dude. Not a chance.'”
Things changed when Hoppus was diagnosed with cancer in 2021, which led to a reconciliation with DeLonge.
“Everything that’s just dumb, peripheral, it’s all petty when you have real human things happen,” DeLonge said. “I feel like there’s a real sense of brotherhood with us. And like any brothers, you have your little spats over the years and you grow apart. You come back together.”
The result in coming back together is ONE MORE TIME…, which blink feels is “one of the best albums we’ve ever written.” So far, fans seem to agree: both the lead single “EDGING” and the title track — which tackles blink’s interpersonal drama with lyrics including, “Do I have to die to hear you miss me” — hit #1 on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart.
Blink-182 played their first show with DeLonge since 2014 at April’s Coachella festival, which was followed by a tour of North America and Europe. Up next, they’ll headline the When We Were Young festival, taking place October 21-22 in Las Vegas.
There’s a new MeekMill/RickRoss collaborative album on the way and fans are hyped to learn it’ll be dropping soon.
Expected to hit streaming on November 10, Too Good to be True is the latest joint project by the MMG duo following their series of Self Made projects released in 2011, 2012 and 2013.
In announcing the much-anticipated project, Meek shared a cinematic trailer to Instagram, which includes studio footage of the duo joined by DJKhaled, then Diddy.
“N***** ain’t seen me or Ross around each other for a long time,” Meek says in the clip. “We got back to the business, straight back to the family love, and jumped right back in the studio immediately. So, y’all about to get that live and direct and what happens. Tune in.”
Fans in Meek’s comment section expressed excitement for the upcoming project, with one writing, “Album of the year, probably the decade.” Another wrote, “This gonna be a [multiple fire emjois] Album.”
Pink has unveiled the first release from the Tour Deluxe Edition of her album Trustfall — and it turns out it’s a reworking of a song that was a hit back in 1993.
“Dreaming” is a collaboration between Pink, Rock & Roll Hall of Famer Sting and DJ/producer Marshmello. It features Pink and Sting singing new lyrics to the melody of Sting’s hit “Fields of Gold,” a top 25 single in 1993, over a house-influenced dance track.
On Instagram, Pink posted a video of herself, Sting and Marshmello discussing what she calls the “beautifully random” collab. Sting reveals it was Marshmello who was the “prime mover” behind the three unlikely artists teaming up.
“This is kinda the most, maybe unexpected, collaboration any of us ever thought, or maybe the world might think,” adds Marshmello. He’s wearing his signature helmet in the video, so you can’t actually see him talking, but he’s moving his hands around, so you can tell it’s him.
As previously reported, the Tour Deluxe Edition of Trustfall features “Dreaming,” plus six live recordings from Pink’s Summer Carnival stadium tour; the standalone protest song “Irrelevant,” which Pink originally released in July 2022; and a new song called “All Out of Fight.”
Meanwhile, Pink has had to postpone more concerts. She announced on social media that her shows in Vancouver, scheduled for October 20 and 21, will have to be rescheduled because she has a respiratory infection. Earlier this week, she postponed her October 17 and 18 in Tacoma, Washington due to “family medical issues.”
