Bilmuri, the project of former Attack Attack! guitarist Johnny Franck, has announced a new album called KINDA HARD.
The record is due out April 10. It includes the previously released singles”HARD2TELL” and “MORE THAN HATE,” which charted on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay ranking.
A third cut, called “TWICE,” will premiere on Friday.
Bilmuri will launch a U.S. tour in support of KINDA HARD in April.
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On This Day, Feb. 5, 2018…
Paul Simon announced his retirement from touring after more than 60 years in music.
The two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Famer said time away from his family and the death of his longtime guitarist Vincent Nguini played a role in his decision.
Simon didn’t give up the road without one more run. In May of the same year, he launched Homeward Bound – The Farewell Tour, a four-month trek that took him to North America and Europe, and wrapped in his home borough of Queens, New York.
While the show marked the end of Simon’s final tour, he said he wasn’t quitting the stage and suggested he could perform live again. He did just that in August 2019, when he headlined San Francisco’s Outside Lands Festival.
Simon’s retirement didn’t last long. In April 2025, he launched the A Quiet Celebration Tour, in which he performed his 2023 album, Seven Psalms, as well newly arranged versions of tracks from his vast catalog of hits. He just announced a new North American leg of the tour, kicking off June 4 in Palo Alto, California.
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After performing on the Grammys, KATSEYE will have an even bigger audience on Sunday when they appear in a State Farm Super Bowl ad.
The “Gabriela” group appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Kimmel Wednesday, where they talked about how excited they are to be part of the ad for the insurance company, raving, “We love Jake from State Farm.” And sure enough, Jake himself was in the audience and asked the group to describe the ad.
In response, the girls showed off the dance seen in the online teaser, set to Bon Jovi‘s “Livin’ on a Prayer.” The song is performed in the ad by Danny McBride and Keegan-Michael Key. The commercial will be the first ad to air after kickoff.
During the show, KATSEYE also confirmed they’ll be releasing new music this year. Asked to describe the upcoming material in one word, the members offered: “colorful,” “hot,” “energetic,” “fun” and “fierce.”
Since KATSEYE didn’t perform on the show, the musical entertainment came from Nick Jonas, who delivered a stripped-down piano and drums version of “Gut Punch,” accompanied by a dancer twirling to the music.
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After teasing a new single, The Black Keys have announced a whole new album.
The 14th studio effort from the “Lonely Boy” outfit is called Peaches! and will arrive May 1. It’s the follow-up to 2025’s No Rain, No Flowers.
The aforementioned teased single, “You Got to Lose,” is out now alongside a video, which you can watch streaming on YouTube.
“We weren’t making a record. We were just jamming, like this is for us,” frontman Dan Auerbach says of Peaches! “Really primal, in a moment when all the nerves were raw, just kinda screaming.”
Auerbach adds that Peaches! was made as his late father was battling esophageal cancer.
“We were going through a lot, trying to lift our spirits,” Auerbach says. “I think my dad getting sick made me not give a f*** and just wanna scream for a bit.”
You can catch The Black Keys live at the upcoming New Orleans Jazz Fest and Minnesota Yacht Club festival.
Here’s the Peaches! track list:
“Where There’s Smoke, There’s Fire”
“Stop Arguing Over Me”
“Who’s Been Foolin’ You”
“It’s a Dream”
“Tomorrow Night”
“You Got to Lose”
“Tell Me You Love Me”
“She Does It Right”
“Fireman Ring the Bell”
“Nobody But You Baby”
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Mötley Crüe will be celebrating America’s birthday up north in Canada.
The “Home Sweet Home” rockers will headline Winnipeg’s Rockin’ Thunder concert series on July 4. The bill will also include Three Days Grace, Halestorm and Canadian musician JJ Wilde.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. CT. For all ticket info, visit Motley.com.
Mötley will return to the U.S. later in July to launch the Return of Carnival of Sins tour celebrating the band’s 45th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of their 2005-06 Carnival of Sins tour.
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It’s been rumored for months, but now it’s true: Taylor Swift is releasing a video for “Opalite,” one of the most popular songs on her album The Life of a Showgirl.
According to the Taylor Nation Instagram account, “Opalite” will be the next official single from the album, and the video will be released on Spotify Premium and Apple Music on Friday at 8 a.m. ET.
Taylor is also releasing a 7-inch vinyl of “Opalite,” which is available at her online store until Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. ET or while supplies last. It’ll ship on or around Feb. 9. The vinyl features the regular version of the song and an acoustic version on the flip side.
According to Billboard, following the premieres on Friday, the video will hit YouTube on Sunday.
“Opalite” is the second official single from The Life of a Showgirl, following the #1 hit “The Fate of Ophelia.”
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When Zach Top walked away with the best traditional country album trophy at Sunday’s Grammys, it was the fulfillment of the vision he’d had with the record’s title.
“I wanna be making these records that people love for the next 40 years, hopefully,” he told ABC Audio at November’s CMA Awards. “My idea is it’s not gonna be a flash in the pan and that’s kind of, you know, a little bit of the mission statement of the title of that album, too, I Ain’t in It for My Health. It’s not a one-hit wonder thing, I’m around to stay.”
Next up, Zach gets back to the things he hasn’t been able to do since the release of Cold Beer & Country Music in April 2024.
“I haven’t hardly written the last two years just being so busy on the road,” he says, “so it’ll be fun to kind of start hopefully writing another pile of hits and be ready for a third record whenever that comes around.”
“We’ll be busy on the road again,” he adds, “getting our first taste of headlining a bunch of the bigger festivals. Not too many daylight sets for us anymore, so that’ll be kind of fun.”
After a Thursday show in Scottsdale, Arizona, Zach sets out on a European tour Feb. 21.
His new radio single is “South of Sanity.”
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R.E.M. fans will once again be able to get their hands on the band’s 2018 live album box set R.E.M. at the BBC.
The band announced on Instagram that the box set is “Back by demand” and will be available again starting March 6.
The eight-CD/one-DVD set features rare live and in-studio recordings taken from the BBC archives, with all the performances recorded between 1984 and 2008.
The compilation includes a 60-minute Later … with Jools Holland performance, plus performances from Radio 1’s Live Lounge and John Peel Studio Sessions. There are also recordings of several live U.K. broadcasts, including R.E.M.’s 1999 set at the Glastonbury Festival, a 2004 show at St. James’s Church in London and a 1995 broadcast from Milton Keynes.
The set features performances of such R.E.M. classics as “Losing My Religion,” “Man on the Moon,” “Radio Free Europe,” “Drive,” “Everybody Hurts” and “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).”
The set also includes a DVD with the short film Accelerating Backwards and the Later … with Jools Holland performance, plus three bonus videos: “I’ve Been High,” “Nightswimming” and “Bad Day.”
R.E.M. at the BBC is available for preorder now.
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The Silversun Pickups‘ new album, Tenterhooks, is out Friday. It marks their third collaboration with Garbage drummer and Nevermind producer Butch Vig.
“The new album’s great,” Vig tells ABC Audio of Tenterhooks. “Some very powerful songs on it.”
Vig adds that he feels Tenterhooks “has a quite eclectic feel to it.”
“Yet it still sounds like Silversun Pickups,” Vig continues. “They have something in their DNA, the way they play together and [frontman] Brian [Aubert]’s guitar playing and his singing, and the way he and [bassist] Nikki [Monninger] sing, ’cause Brian can sing really high, as can Nikki, and sometimes, their voices, you can’t even really tell who’s singing what.”
Vig also produced the last two SSPU albums, 2022’s Physical Thrills and 2019’s Widow’s Weeds, making them his most frequent collaborator outside of Garbage in recent years.
“I love how they approach their music,” Vig says of the Pickups. “We don’t do demos and rehearse, we just start recording and see what happens.”
Silversun Pickups will play an album release show in Los Angeles on Friday, which will stream live on Veeps. They’ll launch a full U.S. tour Feb. 19 in Santa Ana, California.
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Mötley Crüe will be celebrating America’s birthday up north in Canada.
The “Home Sweet Home” rockers will headline Winnipeg’s Rockin’ Thunder concert series on July 4. The bill will also include Three Days Grace, Halestorm and Canadian musician JJ Wilde.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. CT. For all ticket info, visit Motley.com.
Mötley will return to the U.S. later in July to launch the Return of Carnival of Sins tour celebrating the band’s 45th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of their 2005-06 Carnival of Sins tour.
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