Music

As she looks toward the follow-up album to her smash hit debut, Goldmine, Gabby Barrett says she’s grateful for all the international recognition she’s received so far.

“Wherever the Lord leads it, I’m just here for the ride,” she tells Billboard. Gabby captured the attention of pop fans with her crossover sensation “I Hope,” thanks in part to a 2020 remix of the song featuring Charlie Puth.

“I would love to eventually sell out Madison Square Garden someday. That’s a big goal,” she continues, but adds that the most important thing to her is her young family, including husband Cade Foehner and the couple’s baby daughter, Baylah. “My role first and foremost is being a good mother to my daughter and raising her correctly and to love the Lord.”

Plus, she’ll never stray too far from her roots. “I do know that I’m a country gal at heart, and that’s definitely always the kind of music I’m going to make,” she continues.

Gabby’s traditional country influences will be on full display at next month’s ACM Awards, when she co-hosts the show with Jimmie Allen as well as living legend Dolly Parton.

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Kim Kadarshian is reportedly escalating her efforts to end her marriage to Kanye West.

“I very much desire to be divorced,” she wrote in new court documents, according to TMZ. The reality star also reportedly says she asked Ye to keep their divorce private, “but he has not done so.”

“Kanye has been putting a lot of misinformation regarding our private matters and co-parenting on social media which has created emotional distress,” Kim continued

Yeezy has made numerous accusations on social media, including accusing Kim of kidnapping their daughter, Chicago, and declaring that Kim believes he ordered a hit on her.

In the court filing, Kardashian states that West’s attorneys have admitted to her that it is difficult for them to reach their client. She claims they wrote to her lawyer, Laura Wasser, “We face challenges in communicating with our client.”

Kadarshian also states in her court documents, “While I wish our marriage would have succeeded, I have come to the realization that there is no way to repair our marriage. Kanye does not agree but at least it appears that he has come to the realization that I want to end our marriage, even if he does not.”

Last week, Kanye filed an opposition to Kim’s request to be declared single, stating that it should be denied without prejudice so that Kim can refile it with his “corrections and requested conditions.”

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Thom Yorke and Jonny Greenwood are helping Peaky Blinders say its farewell with some new music.

As director Anthony Byrne tells NME, the Radiohead duo has “contributed some original stuff” to the upcoming sixth and final season of the beloved British TV crime drama.

“I’m over the moon about all of that,” Byrne says. “The music has always been really important historically, and I was really keen to bring a dramatic score into it.”

Peaky Blinders viewers have previously heard the Radiohead tracks “You and Whose Army?” and “Pyramid Song” on the show. Its soundtrack also includes songs by The White Stripes and Jack White, Dan Auerbach, Royal Blood, PJ Harvey, Arctic Monkeys, Queens of the Stone Age, Foals, Black Sabbath and Joy Division.

The last season of Peaky Blinders premieres February 27 on BBC One. In the U.S., you can watch the first five seasons on Netflix.

Yorke and Greenwood, meanwhile, have been releasing new music this year with their side project, The Smile.

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Dave Grohl has shared a tribute to late Screaming Trees frontman Mark Lanegan, who passed away earlier this week at age 57.

Speaking with the U.K.’s The Independent, the Foo Fighters leader recalls when he first met Lanegan. He had just joined Nirvana, which was about to explode in the Seattle grunge scene that Screaming Trees, a fellow Washington State band, had helped pioneer.

“When I first joined Nirvana I was living with Kurt [Cobain] in our tiny apartment,” Grohl shares. “One weekend he said, ‘Hey, I’m gonna go up to Seattle for the weekend and hang out with a friend, do you want to come?'”

“We went up to stay with his friend…and we went to a show,” he continues. “I passed out on the couch and woke up in the morning and opened my eyes and Mark Lanegan was sitting in a chair right across from me.”

Lanegan’s first words to Grohl? “Who the f*** are you?”

Grohl adds that he thinks Lanegan’s first solo album, 1990’s The Winding Sheet, is a “masterpiece,” and calls it one of the “most influential records” on him.

“It was so pure and so real,” Grohl says of Lanegan’s music. “If he sang about pain, you believed it and if he sang about love, you believed it.”

“There was nobody like him,” Grohl adds. “In Seattle he was much loved.”

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Billie Eilish appeared calm and collected when she attended and performed on the Academy Awards and appeared twice on Saturday Night Live, but that may have been all an act. 

“I’ve never been more nervous in my life. SNL and the Oscars are like the scariest things I’ve ever experienced because they are not people that I really know,” Billie said during her Wednesday interview on Late Night with Seth Meyers.  She specifically said the Oscars were the “coolest, scariest thing ever.”

“It’s actors and actors are so much more eloquent than musicians. Musicians are weird and gross and smelly,” Billie joked. “It was intimidating.”

The Grammy winner revealed there’s one actor she was intimidated by — Daniel Craig.  “When I met him I was like, ‘Whoa,'” she said of being blown away by his intense blue eyes. “You literally would not believe them.” 

Billie then explained why she is so proud of her James Bond theme, “No Time to Die,” which is up for Best Original Song — her first Oscar nod ever.  Billie detailed, “We made the song in October of 2019… [I was] 17 when I made it. I’m now 20.”

She continued, “It was a very long strategic process. It wasn’t like ‘You got the job! Here it is!’ We were auditioning pretty much. So it was not like an ego thing. It was really, ‘It’s got to be perfect.  We got to do it right.'”

Billie said she and her brother, FINNEAS, “Worked really hard” to earn the opportunity and, later, were provided a “bit of the script, just the opening.”  That snippet, she said, “Was literally what wrote the song” because it gave them “a little taste of the movie.”

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Tool is number one on the first Billboard Boxscore chart in 2022.

Maynard James Keenan and company had the highest grossing tour to start off the year, raking in more than $13 million over the course of 10 reported shows in January.

Elton John was second, with just over $10 million from five shows, followed by country stars Reba McEntire, Kane Brown and Eric Church.

Billboard notes that January is traditionally a slow month for concert ticket sales, adding that the Omicron surge of late 2021 and early 2022 postponed a number of high-profile shows, including Adele‘s much-hyped Las Vegas residency, paving the way for Tool to take the top spot.

Tool is currently on tour in support of the band’s 2019 comeback album, Fear Inoculum. Their show in Washington, D.C. earlier this week was briefly halted due to a fan in the crowd experiencing a medical situation. Rock Feed obtained footage of Keenan pausing the show and instructing the audience to make way for EMTs. The show continued after the situation was addressed.

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Jason Aldean has sold 90 percent of his catalog of recorded music to independent publishing company Spirit Music Group. Variety reports that the sale yielded upward of $100 million.

Included in the sale are Jason’s first nine albums, beginning with his self-titled debut from 2005 and encompassing every release through 2019’s 9. The singer, who retains income interest on the music, says he’s excited to place his music with a publishing company where it’ll be well cared for.

“It’s something really important to me, so I’m glad it’ll be looked after,” he notes.

Notably, Jason’s 10th studio album, the double project Macon, Georgia, isn’t included in the Spirit Music Group acquisition. The first half of that album, Macon, dropped last November, with Georgia set to follow in April.

Jason’s newest single off Georgia is “Trouble with a Heartbreak,” which came out last month.

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Foo Fighters have made some special announcements ahead of the premiere of the band’s Studio 666 movie.

Dave Grohl and company will be making a “special appearance” during select Los Angeles-area screenings of the film this Friday. The specific showings will take place 7 and 7:15 p.m. at the AMC Promenade 16 at Woodland Hills, and 8:30 p.m. at the Regal Sherman Oaks Galleria.

Director BJ McDonnell will also join the Foos at the screenings.

Meanwhile, Foo Fighters have teamed up with Coors Light to create their own signature, Studio 666-themed beer: Coors Almighty Light. Apparently, the brew includes “blessed” water, which the fine print tells us was “blessed by a non-denominational ordained minister.”

“Coors Almighty Light is the first spiritually-enhanced beer developed specifically to ward off demons while viewing the Foo Fighters’ dangerous new film Studio 666,” the Coors website reads.

In other news, Grohl’s Studio 666 promotional duties took him to CBS’ The Late Late Show Wednesday, where he and fellow guest Hilary Duff played — or, one might say, were subjected to — host James Corden‘s “James That Tune” game.

As Corden explained, the point of the game is to guess the name of the famous song he’s playing on a keyboard. Crucially, however, Corden does not know how to play the keyboard, which led to him banging away at random notes as Grohl and Duff looked on in confusion.

After failing to guess Corden’s interpretation of the Foo Fighters songs “Learn to Fly” and “My Hero,” Grohl was able to discern the host’s take on “Best of You,” though didn’t want to admit it “for fear that people will think it sounds like that.”

For all your Studio 666 needs, visit Studio666Movie.com.

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Metallica has added a pair of U.S. stadium shows to the band’s summer schedule.

The metal legends will headline Highmark Stadium in Buffalo, New York, on August 11, and PNC Park in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on August 14. Both shows will feature support from Greta Van Fleet and Ice Nine Kills.

Tickets to both concerts go on sale next Friday, March 4, at 10 a.m. ET, though if you’re a member of Metallica’s Fifth Member fan club, you’ll have access to a pre-sale beginning Monday, February 28.

For all ticket info, visit Metallica.com.

Tonight, Metallica is set to play Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas. Their other current 2022 U.S. tour plans include headlining sets at the BottleRock Napa Valley and Boston Calling festivals.

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