Nothing More has premiered a new video alongside the release of the band’s latest album, Spirits.
The clip accompanies the track “Best Times” and follows a ghost pining for the days of a lost relationship.
“This song is a living reminder to live in the now,” says frontman Jonny Hawkins. “Often the best times of our lives escape us, unrecognized and unappreciated in the moment. It’s not until time passes that our mind reveals what our heart always knew.”
You can watch the “Best Times” video streaming now on YouTube.
Spirits, the follow-up to 2017’s Grammy-nominated The Stories We Tell Ourselves, is out now. It also includes the single “Tired of Winning.”
Co-founding The Grateful Dead singer/guitarist Bob Weir celebrates his 75th birthday on Sunday, October 16.
While the late Jerry Garcia was The Grateful Dead’s main lead singer and lead guitarist, as well as the group’s predominant songwriter, Weir also sang and co-wrote many of the band’s tunes, while contributing his inventive rhythm playing.
Among the songs Bob had a hand in writing are “Truckin’,” “Sugar Magnolia,” “Playing in the Band” and “Estimated Prophet.” Weir frequently collaborated with lyricist John Perry Barlow.
While in the Dead, Weir also recorded and performed as a solo artist and with several side projects, including the bands Kingfish and Bobby and the Midnites.
Weir was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Grateful Dead in 1994.
After the group broke up following Garcia’s death in 1995, Weir launched the band RatDog and took part in a number of projects with other Grateful Dead alums.
In 2015, Weir co-founded the successful spinoff group Dead & Company, which also features longtime Grateful Dead drummers Mickey Hart and Bill Kreutzmann, popular singer/guitarist John Mayer, ex-Allman Brothers Band bassist Oteil Burbridge and RatDog keyboardist Jeff Chimenti. The band recently announced they will launch a farewell tour next year.
Since 2018, Bob has also been touring with a project called Wolf Bros, which includes acclaimed bassist and producer Don Was and RatDog drummer Jay Lane. Weir is celebrating his 75th birthday with a trio of shows with Wolf Bros at the San Francisco theater The Warfield on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
The updated version adds 14 bonus tracks to the album’s original 12 songs, including B-sides, remixes, alternate versions and instrumentals.
Originally released on October 5, 1987, the albumpeaked at #9 on the Billboard 200 and yielded two top-20 singles, “We’ll Be Together” and “Be Still My Beating Heart,” which reached #7 and #15, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100. The album also featured the gem “Englishmen in New York,” which was a minor chart hit.
Recorded just a few months after the death of Sting’s mother, …Nothing Like the Sun featured mainly subdued and introspective tunes, with the exception of the exuberant “We’ll Be Together.”
As Sting explained in the original liner notes, “I look back on this album, and I realize that the record is about my mother, although I didn’t see it at the time. It’s about mothers and daughters, mistresses and wives, sisters… Every song has one of these themes. It surprised me.”
Several noteworthy guitarists contributed to various tracks on the record, including Sting’s Police bandmate Andy Summers on “The Lazarus Heart,” Hiram Bullock on a cover of Jimi Hendrix‘s “Little Wing,” and Mark Knopfler and Eric Clapton on “They Dance Alone.”
Other contributors to the album included keyboardists Gil Evans and Kenny Kirkland, sax player Branford Marsalis and drummer Manu Katché.
Among the bonus tracks on the expanded edition of the album are multiple alternate versions and mixes of “Englishman in New York,” “Fragile” and “We’ll Be Together.”
Here’s the full track list:
“The Lazarus Heart”
“Be Still My Beating Heart”
“Englishman in New York”
“History Will Teach Us Nothing”
“They Dance Alone”
“Fragile”
“We’ll Be Together”
“Straight to My Heart”
“Rock Steady”
“Sister Moon”
“Little Wing”
“The Secret Marriage”
“Conversation with a Dog”*
“If You There”*
“Up from the Skies”*
“Someone to Watch Over Me”*
“Ghost in the Strand”*
“Englishman in New York” (Ben Liebrand Mix)*
“Englishman in New York” (Ben Liebrand Mix – Edit)*
“Fragile” (dj MONK’s Extended Vocal Remix Version)*
“Fragile” (dj MONK’s Radio Edit Version)*
“Fragile” (dj MONK’s Hard Rain Dub Version)*
“Fragile” (Bedroom Rockers Remix Version)*
“We’ll Be Together” (Extended Mix)*
“We’ll Be Together” (Alternate Version)*
“We’ll Be Together” (Instrumental)*
The country legend died on October 4, and that day saw the biggest overall jump in streams. Her music was streamed 3.2 million times in one day, a 1,841% increase from the 167,000 streams Loretta’s catalog netted the previous day.
Though the bump was most dramatic the day of her death, streams were significantly higher for the tracking period of September 30 through October 6. Overall, the singer’s catalog saw 8.7 million on-demand U.S. streams over that time period, up 615% from the previous week, when it earned 1.2 million streams.
The most-streamed song was “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” which is arguably Loretta’s signature song. The week of her death, the song jumped up 399% with 1.3 million streams.
Other songs that saw significant boosts were “You Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man),” “Don’t Come Home A-Drinkin’ (With Lovin’ on Your Mind)” and “Louisiana Woman, Mississippi Man,” which is a duet with Conway Twitty.
Loretta died at her home in Hurricane Mills, Tennessee, of natural causes. She was 90 years old.
In the wake of her death, country stars turned out to pay tribute to the late, great icon; Alan Jackson led a special tribute to the singer as part of the CMT Artists of the Year ceremony, which airs Friday at 9 p.m. ET on CMT.
Meghan Trainor looked back at her start in the music industry — when her single “All About That Bass” took off in 2014 — and said she fulfilled the 10-year goal she set for herself back then.
“I remember they would interview me back then and be like, ‘Where do you see yourself in 10 years?’ And I [would respond], ‘With a husband and a baby.’ And I did it. That’s my dream,” she told People. Meghan added, “But I lived all my dreams, and I’m very happy.”
Because she’s hit the goals she set eight years ago, Meghan knows exactly what she would say to her 20-year-old self if she had the chance. “I’d say, ‘Don’t worry, baby. All your dreams are going to come true.'”
Meghan also evaluated how her music has changed since she burst into the scene eight years ago. “It’s almost been 10 years since my first album … So I just feel like my music is elevated, and my music videos are also elevated.”
She credits her “elevated” style to two things: “I’m a mom now, and I’ve been through some more stuff.”
Because of this, she is super excited for fans to listen to her new album. She said, “Everything’s just gotten better.”
Katy Perry and country singer Thomas Rhett released their “Where We Started” collab back in May, but it seems they’re not finished making sweet music together. The two hinted that something is on the horizon after sharing matching posts on their social media accounts.
Katy shared a dramatic photo of her posing next to Rhett, her arms crossed while Rhett hoists his guitar and looks away.
Katy further amped up the anticipation by simply captioning her post “10.18.22.”
The pair shared the posts to their Instagram Stories, soundtracked to their springtime collab, which caused fans to guess the post is teasing something new about their duet.
One theory is that the pair will release the “Where We Started” music video next week — but others are hoping a second collaboration will hit the airwaves instead.
Carrie Underwood has brought her two kids — 7-year-old Isaiah and 3-year-old Jacob — on tour and into the studio with her throughout their young lives, so having a country superstar mom has never seemed all that weird to the boys.
Isaiah even sang a duet with his mom once: Carrie brought him into the studio while she was recording her holiday album, My Gift, and they sang “Little Drummer Boy” together for the record.
But now that Isaiah’s getting a little older, Carrie says it’s starting to occur to him that his mom has a pretty unusual job.
“He’s becoming more aware that it’s not normal,” the singer explains in a new interview on NBC’s TODAY. “He’ll go to school and somebody will be like, ‘I saw your mom on TV last night.’ And he’s just becoming more aware that his mom does something that’s not normal.”
The boys are staying home this year while Carrie embarks on her Denim & Rhinestones Tour, a trek that launches this weekend. However, she’ll bring them out to join her when they’re not in school and fly home in between shows to make sure they have plenty of mom time, even while she’s touring.
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The fourth volume of Rihanna‘s hotly anticipated Savage X Fenty runway show arrives next month.
The Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 4 will stream exclusivelyon Amazon Prime Video on November 9 and be broadcast across 240 countries. Rihanna made the surprise reveal on Friday and teased some of the looks that’ll hit the runway.
This year’s event promises to break more boundaries and challenge tradition. “The trailblazing event is raising the bar yet again with a new all-star lineup of models, actors, some of the biggest names in music, and more, debuting the latest Savage X Fenty styles,” the official press release divulges.
This year’s event is being billed as a “seductive fashion fever dream” that will blend “Emmy award-winning choreography, style, and music with the hypnotic essence of nocturnal nature.” If that wasn’t enough to tantalize you, the release teases further, “Featuring a star-studded cast all wearing the newest Savage X Fenty looks, the show is an un-missable visual feast.”
Rihanna will serve as the show’s executive producer and creative director.
As for what this year’s collection will bring, the release states, “An homage to self-expression and personal empowerment, Rihanna’s latest collection features disparate textures, unexpected detailing, and unconventional proportions that come together seamlessly to create a boundary-bending experience for everyBODY.”
Savage X Fenty was launched in 2018 and has made waves in the fashion industry by continually pushing for inclusivity, diversity and authenticity. Once the show finishes airing on November 9, the collection will be available on the Amazon Fashion store, as well as the Savage X Fenty website.
It should be noted the Savage X Fenty Show Vol. 3 won the 2022 Emmy for Outstanding Choreography For Variety Or Reality Programming.
From highly anticipated albums to movie soundtrack tunes, check out this week’s New Music Friday for the culture’s latest & greatest in music.
—Lil Baby, It’s Only Me— The third album from the rapper features appearances from Young Thug, Future, Nardo Wick, Pooh Shiesty, EST Gee, Jeremih, Rylo Rodriguez and Fridayy. It marks his follow-up to 2020’s My Turn.
—Tee Grizzley, Chapters of the Trenches — The Detroit rapper released his visual album, featuring the previously released singles “Robbery Part 4,” “Jay & Twan 1,” “Ms. Evans 1,” “Tez & Tone 1,” and “Jay & Twan 2” – all of which came with accompanying music videos. Tee also shared the visual for “Robbery Part 5” and promised to roll out the videos for “Ms. Evans 2,” “Tez & Tone 2,” “Jay & Twan 3” and “Shakespeares Classic” over the next week.
—2 Chainz, “2 Step” — The rapper has released a new original song from the soundtrack of the upcoming House Party remake. The film, starring Tosin Cole and Jacob Latimore, comes out January 13.
—Marshmello feat. Juice WRLD, “Bye Bye” — The producer/DJ says in a statement that he made the song the night he met the late rapper. “I was already such a big fan of his and being able to work with him and make music with him was an absolute honor. With this song, I intended to keep it exactly the way we made it that night,” he adds.
