Music

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats will be celebrating the winter season alongside Marcus Mumford.

The “S.O.B.” rockers have announced the 2022 edition of their annual Holiday Show, taking place December 16 at the Ball Arena in Rateliff’s hometown of Denver. The Mumford & Sons frontman is also on the bill as a solo artist.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, September 23, at 10 a.m. MT. For all ticket info, visit NathanielRateliff.com.

Rateliff & the Night Sweats are currently on tour in support of their latest album, The Future, which dropped last November. You can also catch the band perform Monday on NBC’s The Tonight Show.

Mumford, meanwhile, released his debut solo album, (self-titled), last Friday. He launches a solo U.S. headlining tour Monday in Boulder, Colorado.

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Darius Rucker has revealed the title of his song featuring Chapel Hart. 

The trio of Danica Hart, Devynn Hart and Trea Swindle are featured vocalists on a track called “Ol’ Church Hymn” on Darius’ new album. It’ll be released as his new single on September 30.

The song compares a loved one to a church hymn as Darius sings, “you soothe my soul like an ol’ church hymn/Found in a book in the back of a pew/Born again love I’m a new person.” 

“Like so many people, I was blown away when I saw Chapel Hart’s original response to ‘Jolene.’ I was recording ‘Ol’ Church Hymn’ at the time and instantly had this vision of it becoming a duet once I heard their voices,” Darius describes in a statement. “I’m so thankful they said yes to singing on it with me, and I can’t wait to see the huge career they’re going to have.”

Darius performed a cover of Bonnie Raitt‘s “Something to Talk About” with Chapel Hart on the season finale of America’s Got Talent last week.  

“Hymn” follows his previous single, “Same Beer Different Problems,” and the lead single off the new project, “Beers and Sunshine,” which hit #1 on the country charts in 2020.  

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Lil Nas X decided to combat hate with kindness — and comedy — when protesters showed up at his concert in Boston. Instead of ridiculing the critics, he decided to feed them and fall in love.

The Grammy winner took over MGM Music Hall at Fenway Park on Sunday night and shared footage of the small protest outside of the venue. “Just told my team to send them pizza,” he wrote and cheekily added, “this is really good promo!”

The protesters were allegedly religious and were attacking the singer’s sexuality and calling upon his fans to repent.

Lil Nas X later revealed the protesters weren’t interested in the free meal and shared footage of the naysayers thanking him for the gesture. “Update: they didn’t want the pizza,” he announced before admitting one attractive critic did catch his eye. “I accidentally fell in love with one of the homophobic protestors.”

The video slows down to focus in on a protestor wearing a “Christ’s Forgiveness Ministries” T-shirt.

A fan joked, “suddenly i agree with them” in terms of the good-looking protestor. “Yeah they kinda have a point,” the “Star Walkin'” singer replied.

When the protests ended after the show, Nas added, “I miss him already.”

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Metallica has announced the ticket details for the band’s 2022 Helping Hands charity concert.

The general public on-sale begins this Friday, September 23 at 10 a.m. PT, while members of Metallica’s fan club will have access to a a pre-sale beginning this Wednesday, September 21.

For all ticket info, visit Metallica.com.

As previously reported, the concert will take place December 16 in Los Angeles. Along with the ticket details, Metallica has also revealed LA’s Microsoft Theater as the venue for the show, which will include an auction, as well.

Helping Hands, which supports Metallica’s All Within My Hands charity foundation, first launched in 2018. The second concert took place in late 2020 and streamed online due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Both shows featured rare acoustic Metallica sets.

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After launching the iconic Bad Boy Entertainment label in the ’90s, Sean “Diddy” Combs is hoping for magic a second time around with his new label, Love Records.

The 52-year-old mogul dropped a teaser video for his new company featuring him working in a recording studio with several stars, including Jermaine Dupri, Offset, Big Sean, Ty Dolla $ign and Miguel.

“It’s the Love Records experience. It’s the best of the best. The best producers, the best songwriters, the best engineers, the best vibration, the best frequency,” the BET Lifetime Achievement Award winner says in his narration.

“Imagine a studio filled with the top producers and writers in the game. Hall of Famers. Future Hall of Famers. All together under one roof, collaborating. unifying. Making the music for the Black revolution,” Diddy continues. “For the R&B renaissance. Love Records. We here. We’re stronger together.”

Diddy previously kicked off the careers of numerous artists on Bad Boy, including The Notorious B.I.G., Faith Evans, Total, 112, Carl Thomas, Mase and Mario Winans.

Combs is the first artist on Love Records. In July, he dropped the video for “Gotta Move On” featuring Bryson Tiller — his first single since 2017’s “Watch Gon’ Do?” featuring Rick Ross and B.I.G. He’s joined by Tiffany Haddish and his sons Justin, Quincy and Christian in the music video directed by Teyana Taylor.

“Gotta Move On” will be included on his upcoming project, which will be released on his new label, distributed by Motown Records. The album will be his first since 2006’s Press Play.

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The sixth annual edition of Joe Walsh‘s star-studded VetsAid benefit concert takes place November 13 in Columbus, Ohio and will be livestreamed globally at 6 p.m ET via the Veeps platform.

Livestream passes and limited-edition merch bundles are available now at VetsAid.Veeps.com.

As previously reported, VetsAid 2022 will take place at Nationwide Arena and will feature performances by Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl, Nine Inch Nails, The Black Keys and The Breeders as well as Walsh’s recently reunited band, James Gang.

The James Gang, which just played Foo Fighters’ Taylor Hawkins tribute concert last month, will be joined by Grohl during their set.

All of the performers on this year’s VetsAid bill have connections to Ohio, and proceeds raised by the concert and livestream will be donated to charities that specifically support Ohio veterans and their families.

“The arena show sold so fast that we just had to find a way to share the James Gang reunion and this historic night of Ohio rock and roll with more fans across America and the world,” Walsh says about organizing the livestream. “We at VetsAid learned how to livestream over the past two years so I’m proud to partner again with Veeps to bring this show directly to fans … so that we can raise even more money for Ohio vets and their families.”

Meanwhile, VetsAid has launched a contest offering fans who donate to the campaign the chance to win an all-expenses-paid trip to the concert that includes round-trip airfare, lodging, premium seats, access to the VIP lounge, dinner for two and a coffee date with Walsh the day before the show. Visit Fandiem.com/VetsAid to enter.

In addition, fans participating in the livestream will have the chance to donate funds during the event.

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Charlie Puth cannot wait for his fans to listen to Charlie because its his “most personal work” to date.

The Grammy nominee chatted with Billboard about his new album and explained, “I’ve never had an entire body of work that was my personality with some melody attached to it.”

Charlie, which arrives in stores on October 7, has a unique cover that shows the singer leaning on a white cube and has all the song titles and symbols written out above his head. “The cover speaks for itself to all those little thoughts coming out of my head and notes,” Charlie expressed. 

So, what’s his favorite song on the album? Charlie revealed its a tie between “Smells Like Me” and “There’s a First Time for Everything.”

He revealed the album is designed to contain multiple favorite songs, not just one. “I want your brain to go into a million places when you read these [song] titles, and I also want people to be familiar with these songs, like they’ve heard them before,” he explained. 

He revealed he recorded an album before the pandemic hit, Voicenotes, but he wasn’t feeling it. “I didn’t feel like I wanted to perform those songs for the rest of my life,” Charlie said. When it comes to Charlie, he feels differently.

“The whole album is produced by me and I wrote it with a very, very small group of people,” Charlie said, adding he brought these new songs to life by “involving millions of people on TikTok throughout the process” of creating them.

Charlie also came clean about why he posts so many thirst traps on social media, explaining, “I spend so much money on training sessions and the gym and protein powders — what am I going to [do], just keep it all to myself?”

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