Blink-182 has premiered a new song called “DANCE WITH ME,” a track off the band’s upcoming comeback album, ONE MORE TIME…
The track, available now via digital outlets, is accompanied by a video featuring Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Travis Barker dressed up as the Ramones. You can watch that streaming now on YouTube.
“DANCE WITH ME” follows the previously released ONE MORE TIME… cuts “EDGING,” “MORE THAN YOU KNOW” and the title track. The album will arrive in full on October 20.
ONE MORE TIME… marks the first Blink album featuring the classic lineup of DeLonge, Hoppus and Barker in over 10 years. DeLonge rejoined the band in 2022 after a seven-year absence.
Queen + Adam Lambert returned to the stage for the first time in over a year on Wednesday, October 4, launching the North American leg of their Rhapsody Tour at the CFG Bank Arena in Baltimore, Maryland.
The band treated fans to a 150-minute set full of favorites like “Don’t Stop Me Now,” “Radio Ga Ga,” “Another One Bites the Dust” and “Somebody To Love” as well as tracks like “Stone Cold Crazy,” which according to setlist.fm hasn’t been played since 2018, “I’m In Love With My Car,” “’39” and “Is This The World We Created…?,” marking Lambert’s first time singing the tune.
Other hits performed include “Fat Bottomed Girls,” “Killer Queen,” “Under Pressure,” “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” and “Bohemian Rhapsody,” with the show ending with “We Will Rock You,” a reprise of “Radio Ga Ga” and “We Are The Champions.”
Queen + Adam Lambert play Baltimore, Maryland, again Thursday, October 5; the tour wraps with a two-night stand at Los Angeles’ BMO Stadium November 11 and 12. A complete list of dates can be found at queenonline.com.
On October 5, 1973 — 50 years ago — Elton John released Goodbye Yellow Brick Road. Featuring future classics “Candle in the Wind,” “Saturday Night’s Alright for Fighting,” “Bennie and the Jets” and the title track, it would become Elton’s bestselling studio album to date — even though he was a bit baffled by his success.
“It took off in a way that none of us expected,” Elton wrote in his autobiography, Me!. “It’s quite a dark record in a lot of ways. Songs about sadness and disillusion, songs about alcoholics and prostitutes and murderers, a song about a 16-year-old lesbian who ends up dead in a subway. But it just kept selling and selling and selling, until I couldn’t work out who was buying it.”
While several critics have suggested over the years that the 17-track album would’ve worked better as a single LP, Elton’s musical partner Bernie Taupin, who co-wrote all the songs, disagrees.
“I think it’s a terrific record. I mean, I know people revere it,” Taupin tells ABC Audio. “I’m not sure that I think it could be a better single album. I think it’s one of the cases of an album where there’s not really a lot of filler on it.”
“When you go in to make a record, you don’t go in and say, ‘Well, we’re going to make a double album,'” he says. “The fact was … we just wrote a lot of songs, and they all happened to be really good songs, so it just ended up being a really good double album.”
Goodbye Yellow Brick Road debuted at #17 on the Billboard chart, but rose to #1 a month later and stayed there for eight weeks. It’s since gone on to sell 20 million copies.
Sevendust is hitting the road on the Machine Killer tour, co-headlined by Static-X, starting Friday, October 6, in Houston. The outing will be the Atlanta metallers’ biggest show so far in support of their new album, Truth Killer.
“It’s gonna be so crazy, the production on this tour,” frontman Lajon Witherspoon tells ABC Audio. “I can’t wait for everyone to see it … I’m so excited about just being able to be out again, period.”
The bill will also include Dope, with whom Sevendust last shared the road over 20 years ago.
“Me and [singer] Edsel [Dope] have been buddies … ever since day one,” Witherspoon shares. “Over this time, me and him have done a lot of work behind the scenes on projects that people don’t even know about.”
The Machine Killer tour will stretch into November and pick up again for a 2024 leg beginning in February. In between, Sevendust will play a run of shows in December, including a New Year’s Eve concert in Green Bay, Wisconsin, to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their 2003 album, Seasons.
Sevendust previously toured three legs to celebrate the anniversary of 2001’s Animosity, and Witherspoon is hoping to do more dedicated album shows in the future.
“Man, I’d like to do all of them, to be honest with you,” Witherspoon says. “That’s a really cool thing to be able to go out and do and say, ‘You know what? You got the catalog to go out and do a whole album, and people are gonna stay and listen to it, and they wanna hear it.’ That’s really, really cool.”
Yes guitarist Trevor Rabin will release his new album, Rio, on October 6. It will be his first solo album of vocal material in 34 years — so, what took him so long?
Rabin tells ABC Audio that procrastination was partly to blame, but he’s also been pretty busy over the past three decades. In addition to touring with Yes until 1994, Rabin has had a successful career writing film scores for the likes of Jerry Bruckheimer and others.
“You know, 34 years later and 50 films later and I was like, ‘S*** I think I need to do an album,’” he shares.
But Rabin believes the delay worked in his favor. “I was exploding to do an album and I think it’s very fresh,” he says, noting he had a lot of energy making the record: “I was bursting to go.”
And once he got himself back in the studio, he put all his other projects on the back burner and made sure to stay focused.
“There were certain ideas that I’d had for years and years and there were other ideas which were, you know, just percolating,” he says. “But as far as getting in and doing the album, I literally said to myself and others, ‘I’m not doing anything else, no film, no anything until my record is done.’”
Now Rabin is ready to share Rio, which features 11 tracks, including the already released songs “Big Mistakes,” “Push” and “Oklahoma.”
As it turns out, Chad Smith isn’t the only one listening to more of Thirty Seconds to Mars lately.
According to Billboard, streams of the Mars single “The Kill” increased by 62% following the Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer’s viral cover of the mid-2000s alt hit.
Said cover was recorded for the YouTube channel Drumeo, which asks drummers to play along to a song that they’ve never heard before. Upon finishing his one-take performance, Smith guessed that the song was by My Chemical Romance or “some kind of emo thing.”
The Drumeo video has been viewed 4.5 million times since it was uploaded on September 22. A week later, Thirty Seconds to Mars responded to the cover with a clip of Jared and Shannon Leto nodding and air-drumming, along while giving a thumbs-up.
“Finally had a chance to react to the incredible @chadsmithofficial video,” they wrote in an Instagram post.
Thirty Seconds to Mars put out a new album, It’s the End of the World but It’s a Beautiful Day, in September.
Now that the writers strike is over, The Kelly Clarkson Show is returning for its fifth season from its brand new location. “We’re back y’all,” the show announced on Instagram. “All-new episodes begin Monday Oct. 16 from our new home in NYC!”
And speaking of Kelly, she took the stage in Nashville Tuesday night for a tribute to country-pop singer Ronnie Milsap. She performed Milsap’s 1977 track “It Was Almost Like a Song.” “Ronnie Milsap, you are such a musical hero of mine!” Kelly wrote on Instagram. “Thank you so much for allowing me to honor you last night, but even more so, thank you for being such a great hang and a cool dude!”
The music video for Amy Winehouse‘s 2007 hit “Back to Black” has surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube. The black-and-white visual is the late singer’s first video to join the Billion Views Club.
Michael Bublé’s music video for “Higher” has been nominated for a World Choreography Award. Dancing with the Stars judge Derek Hough was one of the choreographers on the video, and he’s also nominated for choreographing Michael’s performance of the song on Dancing with the Stars’ last season.
Now that the writers strike is over, The Kelly Clarkson Show is returning for its fifth season from its brand new location. “We’re back y’all,” the show announced on Instagram. “All-new episodes begin Monday Oct. 16 from our new home in NYC!”
BLACKPINK’s Jennie is readying more solo material. The singer announced her new solo track, “You & Me,” will be out on Friday, October 6. It follows her 2018 debut solo single, aptly titled “Solo.”
The music video for Amy Winehouse‘s 2007 hit “Back to Black” has surpassed 1 billion views on YouTube. The black-and-white visual is the late singer’s first video to join the Billion Views Club.
Britney Spears’ dogs are even more high fashion than she is. The singer posted on Instagram that she bought her pup Snow a Gucci bikini and matching skirt. “I’ve never owned anything Gucci in my life … all my friends always had name brand everything !!!” Britney wrote. “Am I weird because there’s supposed to be a fascination with it ??? Name brands never appealed to me … but I will get it for my babies !!!”
Sexyy Red is a fan of Donald Trump, so much so she wants him back in the White House. While a guest on comedian Theo Von’s This Past Weekend podcast, she explained why she and others like the former president.
“I like Trump,” she said. “Yeah, they support him in the hood. At first I don’t think people was f****** with him. They thought he was racist, saying little s*** against women.”
Their opinions changed “once he started getting Black people out of jail and giving people that free money,” Sexyy continued. “Aww baby, we love Trump. We need him back in office. We need him back because, baby, them checks. Them stimulus checks. Trump, we miss you.”
The rapper also shared that she thinks Trump is funny and bold.
“I love Trump. He funny to me. I used to be watching him talking to people,” she said. “He used to be calling people fat. He just bold. He funny. We need people like him.”
Since leaving office, Trump has been indicted on 91 charges in four separate cases, including his alleged involvement in trying to overturn Georgia’s 2020 election results. Following the interview, Sexyy caught flak for her comments supporting the former president.
“Clearly some people don’t know how the stimulus checks worked, who’s money it actually was/is and how it go distributed… People believe anything,” Apple Music’s Ebro Darden wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter.
“I’ve skee’d my last yee, I fear,” another fan wrote, referencing Sexyy’s song “Skeeyee.
Bob Dylan has added even more dates to the North American leg of his Rough & Rowdy Ways tour.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famer added seven more shows to the trek, starting with a two-night stand, November 24 and 25, in Baltimore, Maryland. The new dates include stops in Richmond and Roanoke, Virginia; Huntington, West Virginia; and Richmond, Kentucky. The tour wraps December 3 in Evansville, Indiana.
The latest leg of Dylan’s Rough & Rowdy Ways tour kicked off with a two-night stand, October 1 and 2, in Kansas City, Missouri. His next show is happening October 4 in St. Louis, Missouri. A complete list of dates can be found at bobdylan.com.
