Ozzy Osbourne has premiered the first episode of his new behind-the-scenes series documenting the making of his new solo album, Patient Number 9.
The six-and-a-half-minute video is titled “When Ozzy Calls” and features interviews with a selection of the many guests that contribute to Patient Number 9, including Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, Pearl Jam guitarist Mike McCready, Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo, Black Label Society frontman Zakk Wylde, Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan, producer and guitarist Andrew Watt and Ozzy’s wife, Sharon Osbourne.
You can watch “When Ozzy Calls” streaming now on YouTube. The second episode debuts next Friday, September 23, followed by the third and final installment on September 30.
Patient Number 9 is out now. It also includes contributions from Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Black Sabbath‘s Tony Iommi and late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
After threatening to end his partnership with Gap in a recent social media tirade, Kanye West has now made it official.
His attorney, Nicholas Gravante Jr., notified Gap on Thursday that the YEEZY company is terminating their partnership. West accused Gap of breaking their agreement by not releasing apparel or opening planned retail stores, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Ye stated that his contract required the company to sell 40 percent of his YEEZY line in stores during the second half of 2021 and open five YEEZY retail locations by July 31, 2023.
The 24-time Grammy winner previously issued Gap an ultimatum in a since-deleted Instagram video, which accused the company of stealing his designs.
“You have to really give me the position to be Ye and let me do what I’m thinking, or I have to do the thinking somewhere else,” West said in the clip. He added that he has plans to “open YEEZY stores worldwide,” starting in Atlanta.
Pentatonix‘s Scott Hoying unleashed his first solo single on Friday called “Mars.”
The Grammy winner infuses his signature, soaring vocals into a song that contains deeply personal lyrics about his journey of self-discovery and finding love.
“The song ‘Mars’ is very special to me, it’s not only a song I’m very proud of but also releasing it is such a symbol of all the self work I’ve done over the years,” Scott said in a statement. “It’s a song I wrote from such an honest place about the love of my life and how much he impacted me as a person.”
He continued, “I’ve always dreamed of releasing solo music, but for a multitude of different reasons I never did. This year has been really special and transformative for me so it felt like the right time to go for it.”
In addition to a new single, Scott released its official music video that was shot in Joshua Tree National Park. He picked the location because, while he couldn’t actually film the video on Mars, the barren landscape of the national landmark was enough to capture the red planet’s allure.
The single is available to download and stream now.
Bush has premiered a new song called “Heavy Is the Ocean,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, The Art of Survival.
In a statement, frontman Gavin Rossdale says that “Heavy Is the Ocean” “sets the tone and the gravitas” for The Art of Survival as the record’s opener.
“I love the power of the ocean,” Rossdale shares. “It’s mesmerizing to me. It feeds your soul. The song uses the imagery I love.”
“At this point, I’m chained at the zoo of rock!” he adds. “So, I was like, ‘F*** it, I’m going to turn that puppy up.’ This one definitely represents The Art of Survival.”
You can listen to “Heavy Is the Ocean” now via digital outlets.
The Art ofSurvival, the follow-up to 2020’s The Kingdom, will be released October 7. It also includes the previously released single “More than Machines.”
Bush is currently on tour alongside Alice in Chains and Breaking Benjamin. The outing concludes October 8 in Mansfield, Massachusetts.
Scotty McCreery is adding some new songs — and a new vinyl version — to his September 2021 album, Same Truck. The deluxe version of the project will arrive on vinyl, digital and CD this November.
Ahead of the release, Scotty dropped “Nothin’ Right,” which is one of six new tracks featured on the album. The new song — which Scotty co-wrote — is a twangy, relaxation anthem that the singer says gets a great response when he plays it in his live shows.
“We had more songs I loved ready for the original release of Same Truck than we could put on that album, so I am pumped that Triple Tigers asked me to do a deluxe edition where I could add six mor songs,” the singer explains.
“We’ve also had a lot of requests for a vinyl version of Same Truck over the last year,” he adds, “so I’m excited we can offer that option as well.”
The deluxe version of Same Truck comes out November 18, but it’s available to pre-order and pre-save now.
Creedence Clearwater Revival‘s live album and documentary film focusing on a previously unheard and unseen 1970 concert at London’s historic Royal Albert Hall both got their release today.
The album, titled At the Royal Albert Hall, is available on CD, cassette, 180-gram vinyl and digital formats.
The film, Travelin’ Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall, premiered today on Netflix. As previously reported, the movie, which is and is narrated by Jeff Bridges, includes footage of CCR’s entire April 14, 1970, concert at the Royal Albert Hall. It also features archival interviews with all four Creedence members, scenes of the band touring Europe in 1970 and a look at the group’s history.
“Of the live performances that we have recorded, that was the best performance,” CCR drummer Doug “Cosmo” Clifford tells ABC Audio of the Royal Albert Hall show.
Clifford says he got a kick out of watching footage of the gig, noting that the movie is Creedence’s first and only concert film.
“It’s really a funny thing. I know that’s us and I know that’s me on the drums … but when I look at it, it’s like it’s another band,” Cosmo says. “You know, I’m watching somebody else pound away on the stage.”
Regarding Bridges’ participation in the film, Clifford says, “I’m a big fan of his, for sure … I can’t think of a better narrator than Jeff.”
Meanwhile, the Travelin’ Band film will be available on Blu-ray as part of a super deluxe At the Royal Albert Hall box set that will be released November 14. The package also will feature CD and two-LP vinyl versions of the album, a bonus CD containing music that’s featured in the movie, a booklet and more.
Here’s the album’s full track list:
“Born on the Bayou”
“Green River”
“Tombstone Shadow”
“Travelin’ Band”
“Fortunate Son”
“Commotion”
“Midnight Special”
“Bad Moon Rising”
“Proud Mary”
“The Night Time Is the Right Time”
“Good Golly Miss Molly”
“Keep On Chooglin'”
Mariah Carey opened up about the flack she received from the music industry when she came out with Butterfly, her sixth studio album.
Speaking to Rolling Stone, the Grammy vented her frustration about being belittled and doubted by “the corporate morgue, the entities that run things.”
Mariah began working on Butterfly amid her divorce from Columbia Records executive Tommy Mottola and knew she wanted her music to embrace her heritage. That meant exploring hip-hop and R&B, but her label wanted her to continue her career in “purely pop records.”
“Hip hop existed long before these guys, who were in control of the record business, knew of it or knew about it. They thought it was a trend or a passing fad,” she quipped. “They thought they knew better.”
The singer believes the pushback arose from “a confusion over what box to put me in” because she was mixed race. She also felt her label feared her music would become “too urban.”
“It wasn’t anyone’s favorite thing that I wanted to do hip hop-ish records,” she continued. “…People did not believe in it, or believe in me in that genre and that moment.”
Butterfly went on to sell over 10 million copies worldwide and was nominated for three Grammy Awards. The making of this album will be explored in the upcoming documentary series about her life, directed by Lee Daniels.
Mariah celebrated Butterfly‘s 25th anniversary on Friday, writing on Instagram, “I will never forget the day I released this album to the world. I had never felt more exposed and vulnerable yet free and euphoric at the same time.”
She called the album “one of the proudest moments of my life.”
Mariah unleashed a bunch of Butterfly-related anniversary goodies, which are available on her official online store.
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Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme and Alice Cooper are among the artists playing Rock the Plaza, an upcoming fundraising concert supporting the restoration of the historic Plaza Theatre in Palm Springs, California.
The show takes place November 11 and is being presented by the Save the Plaza Theatre initiative. The city-run campaign aims to bring the venue, which first opened in 1936, back to its “former glory” following years of disrepair.
Other artists on the lineup include Bad Company‘s Paul Rodgers, ex-Guns N’ Roses and Velvet Revolver drummer Matt Sorum, Paul McCartney live guitarist Brian Ray, touring Queen member Spike Edney, The Who live bassist Jon Button and guitar virtuoso Orianthi.
Many of the participating acts live or have close connections to Palm Springs, including Homme, who famously records his Desert Sessions collaborative projects in the Palm Desert.
Even though he’s in the midst of his Rock N Roll Cowboy Tour, Jason Aldean is making time for family: He recently posted a sweet snapshot of his youngest daughter, Navy, captioning the image “Daddy’s girl.”
In the photo, 3-year-old Navy — who Jason shares with wife Brittany Aldean — is relaxing on her dad’s lap with his arms around her. The snap shows the tattoo Jason got of her name on his forearm.
Both Jason and Brittany frequently share pictures of their family life together, giving fans a peek into home life with Navy and her big brother, 4-year-old Memphis.
Memphis recently joined his dad onstage in Maine and “even gave the fans ‘The Salute’ at the end of the show,” the proud dad posted on social media at the time.
Jason is also dad to two teenage daughters, Keeley and Kendyl, who he shares with his first wife, Jessica Ussery.
Steely Dan‘s first seven studio albums, released from 1972 through 1980 on ABC and MCA Records, will be reissued on vinyl as part of a yearlong campaign, set to kick off this November.
The initiative is being overseen by founding Steely Dan frontman Donald Fagen and will feature the release of the albums on 180-gram vinyl, limited-edition premium Ultra High-Quality Vinyl mastered at 45 rpm and on the Super Audio CD format aka SACD.
The reissue campaign begins November 4 with the rerelease of the band’s 1972 debut album, Can’t Buy a Thrill, which featured hits “Do It Again” and “Reelin’ In the Years,” as well as the enduring gem “Dirty Work.” The album peaked at #17 on the Billboard 200 and has since been certified Platinum.
The other six reissues — 1973’s Countdown to Ecstasy, 1974’s Pretzel Logic, 1975’s Katy Lied, 1976’s The Royal Scam, 1977’s Aja and 1980’s Gaucho — will be released periodically throughout 2022 and 2023.
All of the albums are being meticulously remastered, most of them from the original analog tapes.
The Ultra High-Quality Vinyl versions are pressed on 200-gram vinyl and will be packaged in a box that includes a booklet explaining the creation of the superior-quality disc, along with a certificate of inspection.
You can preorder the Can’t Buy a Thrill reissue now.
