After making an appearance on G Herbo’s new album, 25, Lil Tjay revealed he has a track with Dreamville artist Bas and label head J. Cole dropping this Friday.
The “Calling My Phone” rapper filmed himself riding around in a Bentley while listening to the unreleased track in a Triller video he shared on Instagram Monday.
“My body different stop…playing with me lol. ‘[The] Jackie’ dropping July 9th @bas @realcoleworld,” Tjay wrote in the caption.
According to another series of Instagram photos, Lil Tjay, Bas, and J. Cole linked up earlier this month to shoot what appears to be a music video for the unreleased track, which Tjay calls the “song of the summer.”
Queens-based rapper Bas signed to J. Cole’s Dreamville label in 2014. He released three studio albums and recently appeared on Cole’s album, The Off Season, which topped the Billboard 200 album chart in May.
Bruce Springsteen has won a lot awards during his long career, but an Olympic medal certainly isn’t among them. However, one of his children will have the chance to go for Olympic gold, silver or bronze in Tokyo this summer — The Boss’ daughter, Jessica, has been named to the U.S. Equestrian jumping team.
TeamUSA.org reports that Jessica, who is 29, is ranked 27th in the the world and will make her Olympic debut in Tokyo. She will be riding a a 12-year-old Belgian Warmblood stallion named Don Juan van de Donkhoeve.
Jessica, who lives in Los Angeles, began riding when she was just four years old. She’s finished in first place at several major competitions over the last few years.
The Tokyo Olympics, which were postponed from 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, are scheduled to run from July 23 through August 8.
Machine Gun Kelly‘s Downfall is continuing through the summer.
During a recent Instagram Live session, captured by a fan and posted to YouTube, the “Bloody Valentine” rocker revealed that he’s planning to release new music in August.
“I’ll be…getting ready for the next album rollout and this tour,” Kelly said. “I’m excited for the album. Me and Travis, we got back in, and everything’s just falling into place and I feel really happy with everything.”
Travis, we presume, refers to Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker, who executive-produced MGK’s 2020 pop-punk album Tickets to My Downfall. Kelly will launch a headlining tour in support of the record in September.
Kelly’s been keeping the new music train rolling in 2021 with a number of one-off singles and collaborations, including “Love Race” featuring Sleeping with Sirens‘ Kellin Quinn.
Blur and Gorillaz frontman Damon Albarn has released another new song off his upcoming solo album, The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows.
The latest track is called “Polaris,” and is available now for digital download. It’s accompanied by a black-and-white performance video, which you can watch now on YouTube.
“Polaris” is the second Nearer the Fountain song to be released, following the title track. The whole album arrives November 12.
The Nearer the Fountain is the sophomore follow-up to Albarn’s 2014 solo debut, Everyday Robots.
That’s amore! Harry Styles and Olivia Wilde were photographed kissing and cuddling during their Italian vacation, Page Sixreports.
Page Six has the photos, which shows the couple on a yacht off the coast in Monte Argentario, a region in Southern Tuscany where they’ve reportedly been on holiday for the past week. Harry and Olivia — she directed the singer in the upcoming movie, Don’t Worry Darling — spent the afternoon on the yacht dancing, reading, smooching, embracing, sipping wine and swimming.
The two were also seen riding together in a dinghy, and since the “Watermelon Sugar” singer conveniently removed his shirt for the ride, there was no question it was him — his distinctive tattoos were on full display.
Last week, Harry and Olivia were spotted arm-in-arm in the town of Porto Ercole, where Harry went after wrapping his most recent film, My Policeman, in England. Olivia reportedly joined him there after her own visit to England, where her two children were staying with their dad, her ex-fiancé, Jason Sudekis.
Olivia, 37, and Harry, 27, have been romantically linked since January of this year, when they were spotted holding hands.
Today, July 6, marks the 50th anniversary of the release of third Allman Brothers Band album, At Fillmore East, widely considered one of the greatest-ever live albums.
The double-album marked a commercial breakthrough for the Southern jam band, peaking at #13 on Billboard‘s Top Pop Albums chart, and eventually becoming the group’s first platinum-certified release.
The album was recorded during a March 11-13 stand at promoter Bill Graham‘s famous New York City venue. At Fillmore East captured the band firing on all cylinders, showcasing the two-guitar interplay of Duane Allman and Dickey Betts, and frontman Gregg Allman‘s soulful vocals and soaring Hammond organ.
Among At Fillmore East‘s performances are renditions of blues gems such as Blind Willie McTell‘s “Stateboro Blues” and T-Bone Walker‘s “Stormy Monday,” as well as three originals — “Hot ‘Lanta,” “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” and “Whipping Post.”
The album featured several extended jams that allowed the Allmans to fully explore their eclectic mix of blues, jazz, soul and psychedelic rock, including an almost-13-minute rendition of the Betts-penned instrumental “In Memory of Elizabeth Reed” and an epic 22-plus-minute version of Gregg Allman’s “Whipping Post.”
In the 2012 Allmans biography One Way Out, producer Tom Dowdsaid of the At Fillmore East performances, “Here was a rock ‘n’ roll band playing blues in the jazz vernacular. And they tore the place up.”
Sadly, At Fillmore East was the last album Allman Brothers Band released before Duane Allman’s death at age 27 on October 29, 1971, in a motorcycle crash.
Now that Ed Sheeran‘s new single, “Bad Habits,” has debuted at number one in his native U.K., the superstar say we should get ready to hear a lot more from him.
On Instagram, he writes of his number-one achievement, “I’m absolutely over the moon, and did not expect this start at all. I’ve been away for such a long time that I know it’s gonna take a bit to get back to normal, so was expecting this tune to build as the weeks went on, but to debut so high week one is phenomenal, and something that after a decade in this industry I do not take for granted.”
“Thank you so much for giving this era such a flying start,” Ed adds. “Loads more music on the way soon, but for now I’m gonna crack open a beer and toast to you lot.”
Ed ended his message by saying he’s confident that England’s football team, which has made it to the semi-finals in the European championship, will end up winning the whole thing.
Damian Christian, an executive at Ed’s record label, told Music Week that Ed’s new album will come “later in the year, adding that “Bad Habits” “doesn’t define the whole Ed record.”
“They don’t all go down this route,” Christian says of the album’s songs. “We have got some absolute monsters to come, we can’t wait to get cracking on those as well.” He also reveals that there will be a remix of “Bad Habits” at some point.
Lana Del Rey‘s album Blue Banisters didn’t drop on July 4, as she previously promised, but she did share a sample of her new single — and update fans on the album’s status.
“Album out later later… Single out soonish,” Lana captioned an Instagram post, which included a video clip of the upcoming, as-yet unnamed track. “Have a good fourth x.”
In the clip, Lana appears in a yellow tank top and sweater as she sings the lyrics, “My body is a map of LA / I stand straight like an angel with a halo / Hanging at the Hilton hotel window screaming ‘hey, baby lets go.'”
In a subsequent post, the 36-year-old singer shared the cover art for Blue Banisters, which features her sitting on a wooden deck in a yellow dress with two German Shepherd dogs on either side of her. The caption reads, “TBD.”
After teasing his single “Stay” for weeks, The Kid LAROI is finally releasing it on Friday, along with a video co-starring his duet partner on the track, Justin Bieber. Now he’s posted a teaser for the video, which he refers to as “‘Stay’ The Movie.”
The clip, which seems to feature time-freeze special effects, features both artists singing together in what looks like a train station, plus shots of Justin standing on top of a building and LAROI running down a city street.
“Oh, I’ll be f**ked up, if you can’t be right here/I do the same thing I told you that I never would/I told you I’d change, even when I knew I never could,” LAROI sings. “I know that I can’t find nobody else as good as you/I need you to stay, need you to stay.”
This is the second collab for the two artists, following LAROI’s feature on Justin’s song “Unstable” from his album JUSTICE.
Doja Cat‘s latest album, Planet Her, shot the singer into space — the space just shy of the top of the Billboard album chart.
The singer’s new release debuts at number two on the Billboard 200 with 109,000 units sold. It’s Doja’s best sales week, and the album is her highest-charting release yet, besting the number-nine peak of her previous album, Hot Pink.
Planet Her features guest appearances by SZA, The Weeknd and Ariana Grande, among others.
Meanwhile, Tyler, the Creator‘s latest album, Call Me If You Get Lost, debuts at number one on the chart. Justin Bieber‘s JUSTICE returns to the top 10, jumping from #14 to #10. That was due to a 20% sales hike thanks to the album’s vinyl release on June 25.
The rest of the top 10 features the latest albums from Olivia Rodrigo, Migos, Lil Baby and Lil Durk, Polo G, Bo Burnham, Dua Lipa and Morgan Wallen.
