Oliver Tree has premiered a new song called “I Hate You.”
As its title suggests, the track isn’t exactly subtle, with lyrics including “I hate you/You’re the worst best friend I ever had/So thank you/’Cause nothing else could be that bad.”
You can listen to “I Hate You” now via digital outlets. Its accompanying lyric video is streaming now on YouTube.
“I Hate You” follows Tree’s new album Cowboy Tears, which just dropped last February. The record includes the single “Cowboys Don’t Cry.”
In other news, Tree has announced a U.S. headlining tour in support of Cowboy Tears. The outing kicks off August 4 in San Diego and will travel across the country before wrapping up on October 1 in Santa Cruz, California.
Have Madonna‘s controversial Instagram posts finally caught up to her?
The Queen of Pop posted a video on Friday showing her and DJ Sickick, her partner on her latest “Frozen” remix, attempting to go live on Instagram Thursday night to talk about the track. But when she hits the button, a note pops up saying, “Blocked from sharing live videos” due to “going against community guidelines.”
“What the f**k? What’s happening?” Madonna asks. Wondering if it’s because she’s showing too much of her body, she then jokes, “I’ve never worn so many clothes in my life!”
When someone points out that the block is due to Instagram’s desire to “continue to be an authentic and safe place for inspiration and expression,” Madonna — whose whole brand is basically about authenticity and free expression — responds, “I’m speechless.”
In her Instagram Story, Madonna then apologized to fans, saying, “I’m sorry to let everybody down. I was really looking forward to this.” She also pondered what caused the block, noting that Instagram is being “really mysterious.”
“They’re not giving me a reason,” she says. “It’s like a bureaucracy inside of a computer.” She then comments that she hasn’t posted “anything crazy” on Instagram, “not this week anyways.”
That leads her to wonder if it’s a “delayed reaction” to the NFTs she posted last week. Those NFTs — collectible digital artwork she created for charity — featured graphic, 3D digital images of her fully nude, including genitalia, giving birth to trees and butterflies.
As for the new “Frozen on Fire” remix, it’s out now, and features new vocals and a new verse. It’s the fourth iteration of the song since Sickick first remixed it for TikTok last year.
From hot hip-hop collabs to albums by TV entertainers and gospel hits, check out this week’s New Music Friday for the culture’s latest & greatest in music.
—Dreezy & Hit-Boy, HitGirl— The Chicago MC joined forces with the Grammy-winning producer to deliver the highly anticipated 10-track project with features from Jeremih, Coi Leray, Ink & Future.
—Nick Cannon, The Explicit Tape: Raw&B — The TV host returns to music with his first full project since White People Party Music in 2014. As noted in the title, the explicit 14-track project boasts features from fellow R&B stars Brandy, K. Michelle and Jacquees.
—The Walls Group, “Crazy” — This rising gospel group of four siblings from Texas released their latest single, “crazy.” They recently performed the upbeat, energetic track at the 2022 Trumpet Awards.
—Quavo & Takeoff, “Hotel Lobby” — It’s Migos minus one-third of its members, Offset. The uncle-nephew duo released their first collaboration, produced by Murda Beatz, under the new moniker Unc and Phew.
—Maverick City Music & Kirk Franklin ft. Naomi Raine & Chandler Moore, “Kingdom” — It’s the first single off the upcoming Kingdom Book One album expected June 17, which will follow the Kingdom Tour set to kick off June 1 in Miami.
Ar’mon & Treyrose to social media fame due to their viral R&B covers and original music. While they’ve gained success as a pair, the brothers recently began marketing themselves as solo artists.
Lainey Wilson returns Friday, May 20, with “Heart Like a Truck,” her next single and the first new music since her breakout debut album, Sayin’ What I’m Thinkin’, came out in early 2021.
Her new song is a road-weary but still hopeful anthem for anyone who’s gotten back up after heartbreak and disappointment. Lainey says the song also takes cues from her experience of climbing up the ladder to country music success.
“These past few months have been such a whirlwind, but man, it was quite the journey to get here,” Lainey says. Her last two singles have both topped the country charts, but she’s no overnight success: Early on, she worked as a Hannah Montana impersonator to pay the bills.
“Miley wasn’t playing when she said, ‘It’s about the climb,’ because it really is what builds character and teaches you the most about yourself,” Lainey says, nodding to her early days playing Miley Cyrus’ famous Disney Channel character.
“‘Heart Like a Truck’ is all about self-discovery, growth and embracing scars as badges of honor,” she adds. “After all, a truck that has hit a few bumps and earned some scratches has proved itself and its tenacity — the shiny one on the lot can’t say that.”
To go along with her new single, Lainey released a music video that showcases her horsemanship. While Lainey’s been riding horses since she was a kid, she says that playing a character in a music video was a new step for her and made her a little nervous.
“It ended up being such a creatively fulfilling and thrilling experience,” she adds.
Def Leppard has released a new advance single from their forthcoming studio album, Diamond Star Halos, a rocking, stadium-ready, riff-laden tune called “Fire It Up.”
The track is available now via digital platforms, and you also can check a visualizer video for the song at Def Leppard’s official YouTube channel.
Thursday, May 26, at 9 a.m. ET, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers will premiere a music video for “Fire It Up” on YouTube. Following the clip’s debut, Def Leppard will take part in an exclusive afterparty, where the band members will discuss the new album.
For more information on how to join the afterparty, visit YouTube.
As previously reported, Diamond Star Halos will be released on Friday, May 27. The 15-track collection is the band’s first album of new, original tunes since 2015’s self-titled effort. It can be preordered now and will be available as a deluxe package, a two-LP set and digitally, among other configurations.
Diamond Star Halos includes two duets with acclaimed country/bluegrass artist and longtime Def Leppard fan Alison Krauss — “This Guitar” and “Lifeless.” In addition, famed David Bowie pianist Mike Garson plays on two songs — “Goodbye for Good This Time” and “Angels (Can’t Help You Now).”
Def Leppard debuted two other advance tracks from the album prior to “Fire It Up” — “Kick” and “Take What You Want” — and also released a music video for “Kick.”
Diamond Star Halos arrives a few weeks before Def Leppard’s expansive 36-city Stadium Tour of North America with Mötley Crüe, Poison and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. The trek gets underway June 16 in Atlanta and is mapped out through a September 9 concert in Las Vegas.
After teasing a new solo chapter for several weeks, Tyler Hubbard finally introduced fans to his first single as a solo artist Friday. Called “5 Foot 9,” it’s a mid-tempo, earthy celebration of all of life’s simple joys.
In the first verse of the song, Tyler rattles off all the things he’s grateful for — good music, good whiskey and country roads to ride along — and all the people responsible for creating them.
But the very best part of life is having a partner to share it with, he continues, and the only one that could have made a love story so perfect is God himself.
“God makes 5 foot 9, brown eyes and a sundress / Loves Tim McGraw and a small town accent,” he sings in the chorus. “Ain’t no way that me and this truck made her fall in love / Jack makes good whiskey, but God makes the good stuff.”
In a statement, Tyler — who co-wrote the song with The Cadillac Three’s Jaren Johnston and Chase McGill — says that he wrote “5 Foot 9” as a reminder about the importance of perspective.
“As much as the song talks about real-life stuff like whiskey, country music, dirt roads and rain, I want listeners to be reminded that God really does make the good stuff,” he notes. “For me, over the last couple of years, I’ve really been reminded of that.”
“5 Foot 9” is the first new song off Tyler’s upcoming solo album.
In Tate McRae‘s new video for her song “what would you do?” she commits a crime that puts her face on the TV news — but it’s all just a revenge fantasy.
In the clip, Tate is working as a valet at a fancy, star-studded night spot and is treated badly by the customers. So when a jerk pulls up in a classic muscle car and rudely tosses her the keys, she takes them — and then takes the car on a joyride through the city.
Stopping at a wig shop, Tate sees that she’s on TV with the headline “Valet steals car,” but the shop owner doesn’t care. In fact, she fixes Tate up with a new outfit and a purple wig. Tate returns to the nightspot, strides in on the red carpet, finds the car owner and drops his keys in his drink. She storms out, just as the wig shop owner pulls up in a convertible. Tate hops in and they drive away.
Then, Tate snaps back to reality: It was all in her imagination. As the credits roll, we hear a snippet of one of Tate’s other new songs, “don’t come back.”
Both “what would you do?” — co-written by Tate, Charlie Puth and Alexander 23 — and “don’t come back” appear on Tate’s debut album, i used to think i could fly, which arrives May 27.
Dio‘s Holy Diver is being reissued in honor of what would’ve been the late Ronnie James Dio‘s 80th birthday.
The set will arrive on July 8, two days before Dio would’ve hit the big 8-0 on July 10. It will come in two editions: the first features a new mix of the original record by engineer and producer Joe Barresi, who’s previously worked with the bands Tool, Queens of the Stone Age and Slipknot; the second, dubbed the “Super Deluxe” edition, consists of the Barresi mix and a remastered version of the original Holy Diver mix, plus various bonus tracks, including live recordings, outtakes and rarities.
Holy Diver, Dio’s debut album with his namesake band, was released in 1983 after he left Black Sabbath a year earlier. In addition to spawning the classic title track, the double-Platinum Holy Diver features one of the most metal album covers of all time.
Dio passed away in May 2010 from stomach cancer. He was 67.
Two stops on the One More HAIM tour will be happening at another HAIM — er, time.
According to the Cincinnati, Ohio, Andrew J Brady Music Center, where the sister trio was scheduled to play Thursday, the band’s touring party is going through a “COVID-19 outbreak.” The show has since been moved to May 29.
“Everyone is doing well, resting up, and they can’t wait to be in Cincinnati with you all later this month,” the venue says.
Additionally, HAIM’s concert at Nashville’s Ascend Amphitheater, which was originally scheduled for Friday, May 20, has been postponed to September 21.
The One More HAIM tour, which is supporting HAIM’s 2020 album Women in Music Pt. III, launched in April. It’s currently set to continue Sunday, May 22, in Wilmington, North Carolina.
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Following last weekend’s mass shooting in Buffalo, New York — in which 18-year-old Payton Gendron allegedly killed 10 Black shoppers in what’s been described as a racially motivated shooting — one famous Buffalo artist says the event has sent “shockwaves through the whole community.”
The Goo Goo Dolls’ John Rzeznik, born and raised in Buffalo, tells ABC Audio, “I feel mostly for the community that it’s in and the people who live and work and shop in that neighborhood.”
The shooting took place at a Tops supermarket, a local chain, and John notes, “[It’s] such an important sort of anchor for that community, because there’s not a lot of big supermarkets in that neighborhood. There aren’t any, other than that one.”
Indeed, since the supermarket’s been closed, local organizations have had to step in to provide food for the locals. John says, “My biggest hope is that they keep that store open, because that community really needs that.” He also says he and his Goo Goo Dolls bandmates are “willing and available” to do a benefit, if asked.
But earlier this week, John had happier news in another part of the state: He was in New York City to be honored as Rocker of the Year at the Little Kids Rock 20th anniversary benefit. The nonprofit supports music education in public schools nationwide.
“It’s something that we wanted to get more involved with. I was pretty surprised that I was going to be one of the honorees. I thought that was really cool,” John tells ABC Audio.
But it wasn’t that cool for John’s daughter, Lilliana, who accompanied him.
“I asked her, ‘Well, did you like when I was singing?’ And she said to me, ‘I don’t like when your hair is in your eyes,'” he laughs. “That’s typical. You know, she’s my kid. I’m her dad … I don’t think she gets it. I don’t think she’s all that impressed with it!”
