Tool has announced the official release of the band’s Fear Inoculum ultra deluxe box set.
The package, which had previously only been available to purchase at Tool live shows, will be available widely on April 8.
Inside the ultra deluxe, you’ll find the Fear Inoculum album spread over five vinyl LPs, each of which has its own unique etching. It also comes with a booklet of new and never-before-seen artwork.
Fear Inoculum was originally released in 2019, ending a 13-year gap between Tool albums. The band’s ongoing tour in support of the record continues Saturday in Newark, New Jersey.
Meanwhile, Tool is also planning to release a new and extended version of “Opiate,” the title track off the band’s 1992 debut EP, on March 1 in honor of its 30th anniversary. Additionally, an accompanying 10-minute short film will be released March 18 exclusively on Blu-ray.
The NAACP Image Awards were established in 1967, to honor outstanding performances in Black theater, music, literature, film and television. Ahead of Saturday’s ceremony, here are a few bits of information you may or may not know about the “most iconic night in Black excellence”:
– The first show was presented on Feb. 4, 1967 by members of the Beverly Hills-Hollywood NAACP branch. Two-hundred guests were welcomed to the International Ballroom at the Beverly Hilton Hotel for the seasonal ceremony in celebration of their Black peers, friends and colleagues.
– NAACP member Willis Edwards persuaded NBC to broadcast the ceremony for the first time on December 14, 1986. The first live show is said to have aired on FOX in 2007.
– Sidney Poitier, the first Black person to win an Academy Award for Best Actor, was among the audience during the first ceremony. He was honored with the Hall of Fame award in 2001.
– Beyoncé has the most NAACP Image Award wins in history, with a total of 22 trophies.
– The coveted President’s Award was given to Scandal actress Kerry Washington in 2013. Jay-Z, Rihanna, John Legend and Rev. Jesse Jackson have all received the honor. This year’s recipients are Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
– Legendary musician Prince agreed to perform at the 36th awards in 2005, having requested his performance be unedited and uninterrupted. Actress/musician Mary J. Blige is set to perform this year.
– Star of ABC’s Black-ish, Anthony Anderson, will host the show for the ninth consecutive year. He has won seven Lead Actor Image Awards and seven for the show Black-ish.
The 53rd NAACP Image Awards will broadcast live from Los Angeles, Saturday at 8pm ET on BET.
AJR has canceled the band’s upcoming concert in Moscow in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“We are sad to announce that we will be cancelling our upcoming show in Russia,” the brother trio tweeted Friday. “Thank you to our Russian fans who oppose their country’s unprovoked and criminal behavior.”
“Our hearts are with the people of Ukraine,” the group adds. “At this point, the best thing you can do is share ACCURATE info.”
The show was scheduled to take place October 22 at the 1930 Moscow venue.
It wasn’t surprising when Elton John‘s collaboration with pop star Dua Lipa, “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix),” hit number one in the U.K. — after all, both artists are British. But apparently, Australia loves them even more.
The song, which mashes up four of Elton’s previous songs, has just checked off its 10th non-consecutive week at number one on Australia’s ARIA Singles Chart, which is that country’s official song ranking.
“Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)” is now one of only four songs that have spent 10 weeks on top of the ARIA Singles Chart. The others include Whitney Houston‘s “I Will Always Love You,” LMFAO‘s “Party Rock Anthem” and Sandi Thom‘s “I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair).”
Of course, “Cold Heart” has a long way to go before it sets any records Down Under: The longest-running song on the ARIA Singles chart is “Dance Money” by Tones and I, which was number one for 24 weeks.
Incidentally, the remix was created by the electronic dance duo Pnau, who happen to be Australian.
In the U.S., “Cold Heart” peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. It’s the only song from this century that Elton is performing during his Farewell tour. Earlier this week, Elton performed at his “favorite venue in the world” — New York’s Madison Square Garden — for the last time. He’s played there more than 70 times.
It’s new music Friday, so let’s see who’s out with new tunes!
DNCE is back after a four-year hiatus, teaming with DJ Kygo for their new track, “Dancing Feet,” designed to make people want to dance along. DNCE will drop the track’s official music video on Monday.
Nessa Barrett released the powerful new single and music video for “dying on the inside,” in which the TikTok star calls out impossible beauty standards. Nessa, who struggles with an eating disorder, said she “couldn’t stop crying” when she first heard her new song and said it’s “one of the most honest songs that I’ve ever made.”
OneRepublic not only announced their first American tour in years, they also released their all-new single, “West Coast,” and its music video. The moody single features Ryan Tedder‘s signature soaring vocals as he sings about wanting to escape to Los Angeles and hide from his troubles — but he soon realizes he’s not the only one who ran away from their problems.
“abcdefu” singer GAYLE teamed with Justus Bennetts for his new single, “Don’t Trip.” The anthemic track is about the two rising above peer pressure and enjoying life as they want to live it. The duo also teamed for a music video that sees them chasing away customers at a diner so they can goof off uninterrupted.
More celebrities are coming forward to express their dismay over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which began early Thursday morning local time.
Billie Eilish took to her Instagram story to share images of Ukrainians sheltering in subway stations as their cities are rocked by explosions and captioned it with two broken heart emojis. She also shared Unicef’s post that expressed, “The children of Ukraine need peace, desperately, now.”
Miley Cyrus was more forceful, writing on her story, “I am standing in solidarity with everyone in Ukraine who is affected by this attack and with our global community who is calling for an immediate end to this violence.” She also said she filmed the music video for “Nothing Breaks Like a Heart” in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine.
Demi Lovato also took to their story to say they “Stand with Ukraine,” while Justin Bieber urged on his story to “Pray for Ukraine.”
Adam Lambert shared on his story an article from The Washington Post titled “Putin’s invasion of Ukraine echoes Hitler’s takeover of Czechoslovakia.”
Camila Cabello also took to Instagram to share a “great thought” from author Leah Thomas’s book The Intersectional Environmentalist that read, in part, “We did not wake up in a different world today — we woke up in the same world that continues to place profit over planet, destruction over humanity and violence over empathy and compassion. We need global systems change to end the continuous suffering.”
Shawn Mendesshared a poem by Ilya Kaminsky to his story, called We Lived Happily During the War. It reads in part, “And when they bombed other people’s houses, we protested but not enough, we opposed them but not enough.”
Andy Grammer also shared a snippet of The Promulgation of Universal Peace, which was written in 1912, to his story. He highlighted the section of the anxieties mothers feel about sending their beloved sons to war. “Having brought him through dangers and difficulties to the age of maturity, how agonizing then to sacrifice him upon the battlefield! Therefore, the mothers will not sanction war nor be satisfied with it,” it reads in part.
While Kelly Clarkson didn’t speak directly about the invasion of Ukraine, she chose to sing Nena‘s “99 Red Balloons” on her daily talk show on Friday. The 1983 track is considered an anti-war protest song.
On Friday, Kanye West released 16 songs from his new Donda 2 album that were debuted at his “Donda Experience Performance” at LoanDepot Park in Miami on February 22. He titled this partial version of the album V2.22.22 Miami. It’s available exclusively through his Donda Stem Player, which costs $200.
Donda 2 was executive produced by Future and features Migos, DaBaby, Jack Harlow, Soulja Boy, Travis Scott, Don Toliver, Baby Keem, the late XXXTentacion, and more. It is unclear when the full album will be released. Among the 16 tracks is “City of Gods,” which Kanye performed in Miami with Alicia Keys and Fivio Foreign.
Tyga and Doja Cat get wild in their new “Freak Deaky” video. In the clip, we see Doja wearing an assortment of sexy lingerie, as Tyga speeds through a neon-lit city in a sports car. The duo began recording together in 2016 with “Juicy,” and this is their sixth collabo. Tyga tells Zane Lowe on Apple Music 1 that he loves working with the five-time American Music Award winner from Los Angeles.
“Me and her, the first collab that we ever, it never came out, it was a long time ago before she really blew up,” the “Rack City” rapper says. “And then ‘Juicy’ was the first real collab that the world seen and I felt like the chemistry was so good there. Working with her is real easy.”
Kodak Black has dropped his fourth studio album, Back for Everything, featuring his RIAA-certified Platinum hit “Super Gremlin.” The 19-track album features guest artist, Lil Durk, who joins Black on “Take You Back.”
Finally, Kehlani released “Little Story,” the second single from her upcoming third solo album, Blue Water Road. It’s the follow-up to “Altar,” which dropped in September 2021
Before this year’s ACM Awards, the Academy of Country Music’s Lifting Lives arm will once again host its Tee-Off & Rock On event at TopGolf Las Vegas. Luke Bryan, Jordan Davis and Lainey Wilson are among the acts who will perform during the golf tournament.
Country music and golf have always made a great pairing. In fact, there are lots of country singers who love to wind down by hitting the links, and even a few who almost went pro.
Darius Rucker is a noted golf enthusiast, who has hosted many golf-focused charity events and can often be spotted enjoying the sport himself. One of his superstar golf buddies is Lady A band mate Charles Kelley, who actually played pretty seriously as a kid: He won the North & South championship at Pinehurst when he was 11 years old, according to Golf Digest.
Then there’s Jake Owen, who not only plays as a hobby, but also hosts an annual tournament for charity in his home state of Florida. Jake dreamt of playing professionally, but a wakeboarding accident and subsequent reconstructive shoulder surgery steered him in another direction. Fortunately for country fans, he found music.
“I always believe that when one door closes, another one opens up,” the singer told PGATour.com back in 2011, of his switch from golf to music.
If you’re looking to mix some golf into your country listening, tickets for the pre-ACMs Tee-Off & Rock On show are available now
It wasn’t surprising when Elton John‘s collaboration with Dua Lipa, “Cold Heart (Pnau Remix),” hit number one in the U.K. — after all, both artists are British. But apparently, Australia loves them even more.
The song, which mashes up four of Elton’s previous songs, has just checked off its 10th non-consecutive week at number one on Australia’s ARIA Singles Chart, which is that country’s official song ranking.
“Cold Heart (Pnau Remix)” is now one of only four songs that have spent 10 weeks on top of the ARIA Singles Chart. The others include Whitney Houston‘s “I Will Always Love You,” LMFAO‘s “Party Rock Anthem” and Sandi Thom‘s “I Wish I Was a Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair).”
Of course, “Cold Heart” has a long way to go before it sets any records: The longest-running song on the ARIA Singles chart is “Dance Money” by Tones and I, which was number one for 24 weeks.
In the U.S., “Cold Heart” peaked at number seven on the Billboard Hot 100. It’s the only song from this century that Elton is performing during his Farewell tour. Earlier this week, Elton performed at his “favorite venue in the world” — New York’s Madison Square Garden — for the last time. He’d performed there more than 70 times.
Brad Paisley returns to Wynn Las Vegas’ Encore Theater next month for a pair of acoustic shows, a continuation of the Acoustic Storyteller concert series that he debuted in 2021.
The engagement is more of a mini-residency, Brad explains to People, noting that he might get tired out by the end of the kind of dazzling, multi-date series of performances that country stars like Luke Bryan and Carrie Underwood are currently mounting in Vegas.
Brad says the first two acoustic concerts he played in Vegas last year they were “the most special shows that I’ve done in at least a decade,” because the intimate, stripped-down atmosphere allowed him to truly interact with the audience.
“This isn’t something that I phone in,” the star adds. “These shows are sort of rare.”
The experience of Brad playing in concert solo with just him and an acoustic guitar, he explains, is “something that you can’t see otherwise.”
“Usually, we’re touring everywhere, and people go see me play with my band,” he points out. “This is something that’s kind of a real special thing because I really interact with the audience.”
Brad returns to Vegas on March 11 and 12. Tickets are available now.
