Kirk Hammett guests on a new song from the folk rock band Goodnight, Texas.
The track is called “Runaways” and features a guitar solo from the Metallica shredder. You can listen to it streaming now on YouTube.
Goodnight, Texas, which is named after the geographical midpoint between the two lead singers’ home cities, also has another Metallica connection, having contributed a cover of “Of Wolf and Man” to the 2021 The Metallica Blacklist tribute album.
Hammett’s been on tour with Metallica throughout 2023 while supporting the band’s latest album, 72 Seasons. He also released his debut solo EP, Portals, in 2022.
Roger Waters is giving fans yet another preview of his upcoming album, The Dark Side of the Moon Redux, which has him reimagining Pink Floyd’s classic album.
The rocker just dropped “Speak To Me,” with added spoken lyrics not featured in the original, as well as “Breathe.”
The tracks are the third and fourth songs Waters has shared from The Dark Side of the Moon Redux following “Time” and “Money.”
The Dark Side of the Moon Redux will be released October 6 and is available for preorder now. It features Waters’ reworkings of all the tracks on the original Floyd album. A double LP edition of the release will also include a 13-minute bonus track, “Original Composition,” which was inspired by the rerecording.
Quavo is directing his energy toward efforts to reduce gun violence after his nephew and Migos bandmate, Takeoff, was shot and killed last year.
According to The Associated Press, the rapper met privately with Vice President Kamala Harris and other political figures and spoke as a gun violence advocate on a panel during the Congressional Black Caucus legislative conference in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, September 20.
Quavo said his nephew’s untimely death in Houston on November 22, 2022, is why he’s using his voice and platform to speak up.
“I feel like your calling comes at the least expected times,” Quavo said. “I need to step up to the plate and hit a homerun. I have to do something about it, so it won’t happen to the masses — especially in our culture. I don’t want this to happen to the next person. I want to knock down these percentages.”
Quavo, alongside Takeoff’s mother, Titania Davenport, attended the conference and was later praised by VP Harris for their “call to action.”
Also in attendance was Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock, Rep. Lucy McBath — who lost her teenage son to gun violence — and Greg Jackson of the Community Justice Action Fund.
The panel featured a solutions-oriented conversation on community intervention and the power in advocacy.
“We need to figure out how do we keep these types of incidents from happening to people going anywhere and thinking they can hurt somebody where it shouldn’t happen,” Quavo said.
According to police, Takeoff was an innocent bystander who was shot outside a Houston bowling alley after a disagreement over a dice game led to gunfire.
Quavo released his latest album, Rocket Power, as tribute to Takeoff.
Duran Duran is back with more new music. The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers just dropped the new single “Black Moonlight” from their upcoming album, Danse Macabre, which comes out October 27.
The tune reunites them with their original guitarist, Andy Taylor, as well as their longtime collaborator Nile Rodgers, who they previously worked with on such hits as “The Reflex” and “Notorious.”
In a post on Instagram, Duran Duran describes the tune as “a timeless display of dance-rock glamour,” noting it’s “Fueled by an instantly catchy bass line and infectious guitar hook, while Nick Rhodes’ synths sound as if cut straight from a sixties B-movie horror.”
“Black Moonlight” is one of three new songs that will appear on Danse Macabre. The rest of the album’s made up of covers and new takes on old Duran Duran tracks.
In celebration of Britney Spears‘ new memoir, The Woman In Me, her 2002 film, Crossroads, is coming back to theaters next month.
The movie, written by Shonda Rhimes and co-starring Zoë Saldaña, Taryn Manning, Anson Mount, Kim Cattrall and Dan Aykroyd, will screen in theaters worldwide on October 23 and 25.Billed as the Crossroads Global Fan Event, the two-day program includes a bonus sing-along of two of Britney’s songs from Crossroads following the movie.
Tickets for the screenings, which will take place in more than 24 countries, go on sale September 28 at 9 a.m. ET at crossroadsfanevent.com.
In a statement, director Tamra Davis calls Crossroads a “time capsule of nostalgia,” noting, “Britney is absolutely breathtaking to watch, and Shonda is showing us her early expertise in writing complicated female characters.”
She adds, “The music will undoubtedly have audiences dancing and singing along and I know everyone will have as much fun watching these scenes as we had making them. I’m so grateful that Crossroads will be available so people can see Britney shine again.”
In addition, October 20 brings the release of the Crossroads: Special Edition soundtrack featuring three new remixes of “Overprotected,” “I’m Not a Girl, Not Yet a Woman” and “I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll.” A new merch line, featuring recreations of the looks from the film, is also rolling out.
Dire Straits hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with “Money for Nothing,” the band’s first and only chart topper. It spent three weeks in the top spot.
The song, written from the point of view of two working-class men, featured background vocals by The Police frontman Sting.
“Money for Nothing” was the second single from Dire Straits’ album Brothers in Arms. The song’s popularity was aided by its 3D animated video, which got regular play on MTV. It went on to win Video of the Year, as well as Best Group Video at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Bonnie Raitt has once again been recognized for her single “Just Like That.”
The track was named Song of the Year at the Americana Honors & Awards in Nashville on Wednesday, September 20, where she beat out the likes of Allison Russell and Brandi Carlile, Zach Bryan, Margo Price and Charley Crockett.
“Thank you to @americanafest, and congratulations to all of tonight’s winners including Bonnie’s ‘Just Like That’ for Song of the Year!” read a post on Raitt’s Instagram account. “Bonnie was so honored to stand alongside all the talented songwriters nominated this year and loved getting to perform and once again be a part of this wonderful celebration!”
This is the second big honor for “Just Like That,” which earlier this year took home the Grammy for Song of the Year.
Raitt performed the Just Like That… track “Made Up Mind” on the Americana Awards, which also featured tributes to two artist who passed this year. According to Variety, singer Logan Ledger performed “Come Monday” in honor of the late Jimmy Buffett, while the show ended with an all-star performance of The Band’s “Up On Cripple Creek,” in honor of the late Robbie Robertson.
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On September 19, Voter Registration Day, Taylor Swift took to her Instagram Story to urge fans to register — and they apparently listened.
Nick Morrow, the communications director for Vote.org, wrote on social media, “Fun fact: after @taylorswift13 posted on Instagram today directing her followers to register to vote on @votedotorg, our site was averaging 13,000 users every 30 minutes.”
Then, noting how that number just happens to coincide with Taylor’s lucky number, he added, “13! Let’s just say her reputation for being a mastermind is very well-earned!”
Vote.org reposted his message and confirmed the numbers in a press release, adding that Vote.org saw a 1226% increase in participation the hour after Taylor’s post went up.
Overall, Vote.org said Tuesday was its largest National Voter Registration Day since 2020, and there was a 115% increase in 18-year-olds registering, compared to 2022.
On September 19, Taylor wrote, “Are you registered to vote yet? I’ve been so lucky to see so many of you guys at my US shows recently. I’ve heard you raise your voices and I know how powerful they are. Make sure you’re ready to use them in our elections this year.”
As Thomas Rhett readies for his commemorative 20 NUMBER ONES vinyl to be released, he’s reflecting on how his hits continue to resonate with fans and the enduring power they have.
“I don’t know if this is the same way for every artist, but I do feel like my songs take on more of a life after they’re hits than when they are hits on the radio,” shares Thomas.
“I don’t know if it’s a time thing of, you know, if a song goes into recurrent on the radio, it just starts to embed in people’s heads a little bit more, or even people that maybe even heard it when it wasn’t on the radio and randomly discovered it and it hit them at a certain time in their life,” he says before noting 2019’s “Remember You Young” and 2020’s “Be A Light” as some of those songs.
Armed with 21 chart-toppers now, with the most recent hit “Angels (Don’t Always Have Wings),” Thomas is eager to see how his next collection of songs takes shape.
“I’m excited to see what the next batch is going to look like,” shares the country hitmaker. “I’m just so in the weeds with my kids right now, and I’m exhausted every single day of my life. So maybe the music is not exhausting, but maybe it’s inspired by some parenthood lessons I’ve learned, and also just being able to be fully on the road now and [have] a good time again.”
“I think the next bit of music is going to be very fun,” he adds.
Thomas’ 20 NUMBER ONES LP arrives September 29 and is available for preorder now.
The third season of The D’Amelio Showjust debuted on Hulu. But outside of starring in that show, Dixie D’Amelio‘s been working on her music career. She released her debut album,a letter to me, in 2022, and recently gave ABC Audio an update on when she might release new music — and what it’ll sound like.
“Hopefully [I’ll release] an EP soon,” she says. “I keep saying ‘this year,’ but I keep writing and liking things more and more, so I don’t know exactly when. But I just want to get things out in a little bit [of a] timely manner, ’cause I would love to be able to tour again.”
Dixie opened for Big Time Rush on their Forever Tour in 2022.
As for what we can expect from the songs she’s writing, Dixie says, “It’s kind of all over the place. I am writing a lot of fun songs that aren’t, like, straight-down-the-middle pop, but also [are] just something that I would want to listen to. And then kind of deeper emotional things.”
“I’ve been going to Nashville to write … so many talented writers and producers [are] there, so being able to be in a room with them, and share a lot of these personal things that have gone in my life in the past year and put them into a song has been cool,” she says.
But that doesn’t mean you’ll be able to tell who inspired these “personal” songs.
“Honestly, every song is like a mix,” she says. “I’m like, ‘This could be about, like, 30 different people’ — which makes it even more fun, ’cause it’s like a guessing game.”
Meanwhile, Dixie is starring in the video for “Strings,” the latest hit by MAX featuring JVKE and Bazzi.
