Black Veil Brides have premiered the video for “Devil,” a track off their new The Mourning EP.
The black-and-white clip features live footage from BVB’s show in Mexico City last month. You can watch it streaming now on YouTube.
The Mourning, which also features the single “Saviour II,” dropped in October. The four-track collection follows BVB’s 2021 album, The Phantom Tomorrow, which spawned the single “Scarlet Cross.”
Black Veil has spent much of the year on the Trinity of Terror tour alongside Motionless in White and Ice Nine Kills. The third leg of the triple bill will come to a close December 12 in Seattle.
Johnny Marr and Andy Rourke are taking their reunion from the live stage to the studio.
Following their joint performance in New York City back in September, the former The Smiths bandmates have released a new song together. The tune, titled “Strong Forever,” was recorded with Rourke’s band Blitz Vega and marks the first time he and Marr have played together on a recording since The Smiths broke up in 1987.
“I wanted [for the song] exactly what Johnny does,” Rourke tells Rolling Stone. “He has a very distinctive sound, and that’s what he did. We love what he brought to the track.”
Rourke notes that he and Marr have “remained friends” over the years.
“We’ve known each other since we were 13 years old,” Rourke says. “[Marr’s] my oldest and dearest friend and I feel our friendship gets stronger as time passes.”
Of course, such is not the case with every member of The Smiths: Marr and frontman Morrissey have long been estranged.
You can catch Carrie Underwood, Kenny Chesney and Zac Brown Band on the Iowa Speedway next summer.
All three superstar country acts have signed on to play the Hy-Vee Indycar Race Weekend, with Carrie and Kenny taking the stage on Saturday, July 22. The next day, ZBB will rock out with the racing fans, sharing the bill with pop superstar Ed Sheeran.
In 2022, over 80,000 fans turned out to celebrate the jam-packed weekend of racing and music. Next year’s event promises to be even more special, with the weekend planned for the 2023 NTT Indycar Series schedule.
The Hy-Vee Indycar Race Weekend is set for July 21-23, 2023. Tickets go on sale to the general public on December 5, but fans can register now for a pre-sale that will open prior to the onsale date.
Doja Cat may be brimming with confidence, but the hitmaker admits she used to be extremely insecure.
Speaking to the Audible series Origins, Doja reflected on her start in the industry and how her anxiety made her feel insecure.
She recalled going into a fitting and experiencing her first panic or anxiety attack. While she didn’t know what she had, she said she “was terrified.”
“I just sat down with this girl and she sat in front of me. [It] felt a little intense… and I remember her eyes just getting bigger and bigger and I just got so scared,” she recalled. “I could not breathe.”
Doja said she continues to have these “anxiety panic attacks” and explained, “I have full on anxiety.” She noted, “I just think it’s a natural thing that happens to people who are constantly the center of the production.”
“I actually had a problem at one point where I was doing all these music videos… I wouldn’t ask to see the screen,” she said. “I didn’t want to see what I looked like in that shot.”
The singer continued, “I had a really hard time seeing myself in the music video after not being able to see the monitor, and I’d see myself and be like, ‘Oh my God, I approved that? Why did I let myself look like that?'”
So, what changed? She said collaborating with Ariana Grande, Bebe Rexha and Megan Thee Stallion on their music videos gave her confidence a much-needed boost.
“I saw them be like, ‘Let me see, let me see.’ And I’m like, ‘That’s the smartest thing to do!’ Because how the f*** would you know what you look like?” she recalled. “I needed that so badly. Now I feel just so aware.”
(Note Language) It’s been roughly a decade since Future made his debut. Despite his time in the industry, it appears he’s conflicted about carrying on the title of role model.
“That s***’s tough, bro,” he tells Billboard when asked if he sees himself as a role model. “I think I need to be a vessel of what not to do. In some things, I need to be a lesson on what to do. So, I think you live and learn through me and if I have to be that sacrifice, I guess so.”
What he wants more than anything is to help people be “better than me.” He also desires more power in the game, as he says it would allow him to “put other people in positions [of power].”
Future also discussed his role as a father and how that would look different if he were married. He reveals that marriage is “one of my dreams,” adding he believes he can have both that and a successful rap career. But, he wants it to come naturally. “When the time’s right, it’ll happen,” Future says.
Until then, he will continue to work on his music, specifically his 10th album.
When asked how the project is looking for him, Future says, “A lot of money. That’s a lot of damn money.”
“My main focus right now is just to do something I never done,” he continues. “One thing I never done is make a billion dollars. I ain’t done that, so I’m focused on that.”
Robert Plant and Alison Krauss are set to star in the latest edition of CMT Crossroads, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary.
The 90-minute special, CMT Crossroads: Robert Plant & Alison Krauss, will debut November 29 at 9 p.m. ET and have the two artists performing tracks from their albums Raising Sand and Raise The Roof, including “High And Lonesome,” “Can’t Let Go” and “Gone Gone Gone.” They will also team for some Led Zeppelin tracks, including “Rock and Roll” and “When The Levee Breaks.”
This isn’t the first time Plant and Krauss have appeared on CMT Crossroads. They first teamed for an episode back in 2008 after releasing Raising Sand.
The announcement comes just days after the pair earned three Grammy nominations: Best Americana Album for Raising Sand, Best American Roots Song for “High and Lonesome” and Best Country Duo/Group Performance for “Going Where The Lonely Go.”
Queen’s new The Miracle Super Deluxe Collector’s Edition box set drops Friday. In addition to two new songs, “Face It Alone” and “Too Much Love Will Kill You,” it features something really special for fans. The set includes audio from the band’s 1988 studio sessions for the album, giving listeners some insight into the band’s dynamic during recording.
“Listening to our dialogues on ‘The Miracle,’ it feels as if I am in the middle of our sessions – finding joy, finding frustration,” Queen guitarist Brian May tells Variety. “That was the intention: to invite people into our studio environment at that point in time.”
“Face it Alone” was stitched together from fragments of recordings; May says he got “emotional” the first time he heard the late Freddie Mercury on the track. “All I could hear was Freddie’s incredible vocal cords, working so splendidly and passionately….,” he shares. “Yeah, I was pretty emotion-ed up. It was, as if, he was there, and you realize, again, what an incredible talent that was. Such an amazing human being with an extraordinary instrument.”
And in news that’s bound to excite Queen fans, May hints that there’s a possibility more songs can be released based on old recordings. “It’s possible. We don’t really know until we go back in there,” he explains. “I wouldn’t have predicted that we would have had as much unreleased material around “The Miracle,” as it turned out. I’m guessing we’ll find many more hidden treasures, yeah.”
Nils Lofgren is having a hard time juggling his gigs. The guitarist is, of course, a member of Bruce Springsteen’sE Street Band, but he’s also part of Neil Young’s Crazy Horse, and that has left him with a scheduling problem.
Bruce has already announced a tour for 2023, and Neil just released the new Crazy Horse album World Record, but despite how hard he tried, Nils won’t be able to support both, should Neil decide to tour on his record.
“Every time I call Neil’s manager and Bruce’s manager, I say, ‘Guys, I’m a half a century in. I paid some dues,’” Lofgren tells Rolling Stone. “‘Can you just let me create the schedules for Bruce and Neil for the next couple years, please?’ And they always tell me to get lost.”
He adds that since Bruce started planning his tour before the Neil album happened, he had to commit to The Boss. “I can’t get them to let me make the schedule. And so, sadly, I’m doing that tour,” he says. “I talked to Neil about it. It bums me out, but I can’t be in two places at once.”
Neil has talked about Promise of the Real’s Micah Nelson as a fill in for Lofgren, and while he says that band is “fabulous,” Lofgren admits, “It bums me out talking about being replaced for a tour.”
Korn has premiered a new remix of “Worst Is on Its Way,” a track off the band’s new album, Requiem.
The updated recording was made in collaboration with noise rock band HEALTH, who previously worked with Nine Inch Nails, and features hip-hop artists Danny Brown and Meechy Darko.
You can listen to the remix now via digital outlets and watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.
Requiem, the 14th Korn album, was released in February. It also includes the single “Start the Healing.”
In other Korn news, Jonathan Davis and company have launched their own brand of hot sauce dubbed Here to Slay. You can order a bottle now via the hot sauce site Heatonist.com.
In a new interview with Apple Music, the Icy Girl says making the song “felt very intense but in a good way.”
“And it was fun because I was just like, I was venting about all my experiences when I thought that I was dealing with a man that I can trust, and then it turns out he had a big mouth,” she says. “So it was a lot of storytelling and I just put all my experiences into one song.”
“That’s what I get for kissin’ on these frogs/He got mad and told my business to the blogs,” she raps on the track.
The song is off Saweetie’s The Single Life project, which drops Friday.
“I made a deal with myself last year,” she tells Apple Music. “I said, ‘If you’re going to continue to create music, create music for women, create music to empower them, create music to inspire them through my experiences.’ So I feel like this is my most honest project ever and, hopefully, the little girls, the women, the OG women, the grannies, whoever’s listening, I hope it gets them through whatever they’re going through.”
