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Dropkick Murphys have announced a new album called This Machine Still Kills Fascists.

The title, which references folk legend Woody Guthrie‘s famous motto, consists of new songs recorded using unused lyrics that Guthrie had written. The album was recorded with the blessing of Woody’s daughter Nora Guthrie, who provided and curated the lyrics for Dropkick to use.

“I collected lyrics on all kinds of topics…lyrics that seemed to be needed to be said — or screamed — today,” Nora says. “[Dropkick vocalist/bassist] Ken Casey is a master at understanding Woody’s lyrics, which can be complicated, long, deadly serious, or totally ridiculous. DKM is capable of delivering them all.”

“The project has been a long time in the making,” Casey adds. “Nora Guthrie thought her father would’ve got a kick out of us, would’ve liked us, that we were somewhat kindred spirits so to speak, which to us was a huge honor.”

Dropkick Murphys have previously covered Woody and used his lyrics before, perhaps most famously in their song “I’m Shipping Up to Boston.”

This Machine Still Kills Fascists will be released September 30. Lead single “Two 6’s Upside Down” will premiere July 6.

Dropkick Murphys will support This Machine Still Kills Fascists on a U.S. tour this fall, bringing their normally raucous live show to seated theaters to perform the new album in full. Tickets for the outing, which launches October 20 in Concord, New Hampshire, go on sale this Friday, June 24.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit DropkickMurphys.com.

Here’s the This Machine Still Kills Fascists track list:

“Two 6’s Upside Down”
“Talking Jukebox”
“All You Fonies”
“Never Git Drunk No More” feat. Nikki Lane
“Ten Times More”
“The Last One” feat. Evan Felker of Turnpike Troubadours
“Cadillac, Cadillac”
“Waters Are A’risin”
“Where Trouble Is At”
“Dig a Hole” feat. Woody Guthrie

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Ahead of the new Prime Video documentary Untrapped: The Story of Lil Baby premiering in August, the streaming platform released a special sneak peek on Tuesday. 

The short video clip begins with a monologue by Lil Baby, who is seen spending time with his two young boys Jason and Loyal.

“Family more important to me than anything. I don’t ever see me leaving my kids,” he says. “Like, I don’t wanna be no holiday dad and I just talk to you. My dad kinda stayed out of town. It was like, I see him every now and then, a couple times a year.”

Untrapped: The Story of Lil Baby chronicles the life of the Grammy-winning rapper from his early rap days as a teenager in Atlanta to becoming a highly sought-after and successful hip-hop artist.

“This film is a real look into my journey,” Baby said in a press release. “And if it inspires even one person to believe that they can get through hard stuff and dare to follow a dream, then it was worth every penny spent and hour worked.”

The feature length documentary about the life and career of the Atlanta rapper is set to premiere on Prime Video on August 26.

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In This Moment has announced a U.S. headlining tour celebrating the 10th anniversary of the band’s 2012 album, Blood.

The outing, dubbed the Blood 1983 tour, will kick off August 26 in Evansville, Indiana, and will wrap up October 22 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Nothing More will also be on the bill.

For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit InThisMomentOfficial.com.

Blood, In This Moment’s fourth studio effort, was, at the time, the band’s highest-charting album. It remains the band’s only RIAA-certified album, having earned Gold status in 2017.

Along with the tour, In This Moment is releasing an EP, also called Blood 1983, the details of which will be announced at a later date.

In This Moment’s mot recent album is 2020’s Mother, which features the singles “The In-Between” and “As Above, So Below.”

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The Sunny Hill Festival, founded by Dua Lipa and her dad in her hometown of Kosovo, had been sidelined for several years by the pandemic, but it’s returning this year…after some drama that’s made headlines.

According to Balkan Insight, the issue centered on the fact that The Sunny Hill Foundation, which organizes the festival, wanted to lease a bunch of land from the government for 99 years, so there will always be a dedicated spot where the event can take place. 

But when the government held up the approval of the lease, the company — led by Dua’s dad Dukagjin  Lipa — announced they would instead hold the festival in Tirana, in the neighboring country of Albania.

The Kosovo government wasn’t exactly happy with this development, though, and now, they’ve declared that the festival will indeed go ahead in the country this year, as “the issue of long-term land use” is “discussed for a while until a lasting solution is found.”

But so as not to leave Albania hanging, there will now be two festivals with two different lineups: one in Pristina, Kosovo in early August and one in Tirana, Albania in late August.

On Instagram, Dua wrote, “With a full and happy heart i’m proud to say it has been decided that our festival @sunnyhillfestival will continue at its home base…on 4, 5, 6, 7th of August in Prishtina, Kosovo and we will now also be doing 26, 27, 28th of August in Tirana, Albania.”

She added, “We look forward to seeing you all there! More line up to be revealed soon… With love x Dua.”

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During a show in England earlier this month, Billie Eilish debuted a never-before-heard new song called “TV.” In a new interview with Matt Wilkinson on Apple Music 1, the “Happier Than Ever” star shares how the track came to be.

“It was pretty random actually,” Eilish explains. “Nobody thought about it. Our plane was delayed a couple weeks ago and we were sitting outside somewhere and I was just listening to songs that I have written and never did anything with like all in my phone and my voice memos and stuff.”

“I found a couple songs and I was thinking about these songs that we have written,” she continues. “And I was, like, ‘Wow, I really love these songs.’ I just had this idea of, like, ‘What if we just did them live?'”

Eilish notes that she and her brother/collaborator, FINNEAS, hadn’t performed a song live that hadn’t been yet released or even recorded since “when the party’s over,” which was eventually included on her 2019 debut album, WHEN WE ALL FALL ASLEEP, WHERE DO WE GO?

“We write music and I want it to come out without having to prepping and making a whole like doing months and months of promo for something,” Eilish says. “I just want to be able to put music out like I used to. I think the bigger you get the harder that seems.”

She adds, “So I kind of was, like, ‘I just want to be able to go back to my roots and be the songwriter that I am and that Finneas is and sing the song that we just wrote and put it out whenever it’s done.'”

Also during the interview, Eilish talks about her love for Damon Albarn and her upcoming headlining set at Glastonbury.

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After adding “Grammy winner” to his title earlier this year, Lil Baby is continuing his winning streak with a new accolade. The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) announced the 27-year-old rapper as the ASCAP Rhythm and Soul Awards Songwriter of the Year on Tuesday.

This year marks the second consecutive win for Lil Baby, who’ll be recognized at the 35th annual show, which is set to air Tuesday, June 21 through Friday, June 24 on ASCAP’s Instagram and Twitter and ASCAPUrban’s Instagram page.  

“Congratulations to one of the greatest in the game,” the organization said in an announcement tweet.

Lil Baby has written and contributed to some of the most popular and successful hip-hop songs, including “Girls Want Girls” by Drake, “Every Chance I Get” by DJ Khaled and his own record, “On Me.” His long-awaited third studio album is expected this summer. 

The award for R&B/Hip-Hop and Rap Song of the Year is presented to ASCAP songwriters Orville “Buggs Can Can“ Hall and Phillip Triggerman Price aka The Showboys, Dion “Devious“ Norman, Trè Samuels and Dave Welcome for their work on “Go Crazy,” performed by Chris Brown and Young Thug.

“Speak to Me,” performed by Koryn Hawthorne and written by Johntá Austin and Jeremy “TryBishop“ Hicks, is recognized as the Gospel Song of the Year. The 2020 hit song earned Hawthorne her second number-one single on Billboard’s Gospel Airplay chart.

The award for Rhythm & Soul Publisher of the Year goes to Sony Music Publishing, making the company’s third win at an ASCAP event this year. 

On June 24 at 3 p.m. ET, the show will wrap up with “Deconstructed: Ashanti Breaks Down Her Hits,” a conversation with multiplatinum singer-songwriter Ashanti and VIBE Editor-in-Chief, Datwon Thomas.

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I Prevail has announced a U.S. headlining tour in support of the band’s upcoming new album, True Power.

The two-legged outing, which will also feature Pierce The Veil and Fit for a King on the bill, will first run from September 9 in Asbury Park, New Jersey to October 9 in Chicago, Illinois, and then from October 24 in Los Angeles, California to November 22 in Detroit, Michigan.

Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 24 at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit IPrevailBand.com.

True Power, the follow-up to 2019’s Grammy-nominated Trauma, drops August 19. The lead single, “Body Bag,” premiered last week.

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Scotty McCreery is going to be a dad! He and his wife, Gabi, are expecting their first child this year.

The hit country singer says that after they wed in June 2018, the couple wanted to spend a few years traveling and experiencing life before welcoming children. Gabi is now pregnant with a baby boy that’s due in November.

“We got a little man on the way,” Scotty tells People. “We’ve gotten to live a lot of life and do some cool things, so seems like now’s a good time to settle down a little and expand the family.”

Gabi says it took her a few tries to inform her husband of the exciting news because her original plan of telling him on the car ride back home after picking him up from the airport didn’t pan out, as his flight was delayed. She ended up telling him the next morning after they’d attended a hockey game. 

“I’m over there drinking beers, having a good time, and she’s like, ‘I think I’ll just lay low tonight,’ so I was like, ‘Okay.’ I didn’t think anything of it,” the singer recalls. 

Gabi, who is a pediatric nurse in their home state of North Carolina, says that her job has helped prepare her for motherhood.

“Even just down to changing diapers multiple times in a day, and figuring out how to soothe the baby when they’re upset, for sure has helped,” she explains. “I definitely feel like it’s prepared me in many ways.”

After the baby arrives, Scotty does plan to equip his tour bus with a nursery so his son and wife can join him on the road. “[This is] uncharted waters for us, but we can’t wait to dive in and meet the little man,” Scotty shares.

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