Following Uncanny Valley‘s release, COIN will travel to Europe in April to open for 5 Seconds of Summer. They’ll return to the U.S. to play a number of festivals in May and June, including Governors Ball and Bonnaroo.
Here’s the Uncanny Valley track list:
“Learning”
“Cutie”
“Chapstick”
“Take a Picture”
“Brad Pitt”
“Killing Me”
“I Think I Met You in a Dream”
“Blackbox”
“It Works”
“Take the Stairs”
“Getting Older”
“Watering a Dead Flower”
“Plug Me In”
“Loving”
Sam Smith helped kick off the start of London Fashion Week on Friday by giving a surprise performance while a collection of models strutted on the catwalk.
According to the U.K.’s Evening Standard, Sam performed “I’m Kissing You” by Des’ree as models teased the new Harris Reed collection, dubbed 60 Years a Queen. The Perfect Magazine shared video from the impassioned performance on their Instagram, which featured a model wearing a top that was split in half, showing a male and a female torso. The festivities took place at a church, which helped amplify the singer’s vocals.
The “Latch” singer said in their own Instagram post that they were “honored” to be part of the “magic,” and shared some snaps from Friday’s fashion show.
Last week, Smith appeared to be teasing new music is on the horizon by sharing a black-and-white photo of them listening to something with headphones. The picture was without a caption, but fans took note that Calvin Harris was among the first to comment on the update, leading fans to predict a potential collaboration.
Luke Bryan kicked off his Las Vegas residency last week, and he’s got shows booked for Friday night as well as through the weekend.
There also will be a VIP guest in the audience for his upcoming dates: His mom, LeClaire, is officially in town, according to the singer’s social media.
“The eagle has landed,” Luke captioned a recent post, along with an image of his mother with a beer in front of her and a cigarette in hand.
Over the years, LeClaire has become a star in her own right, becoming the beloved “Mama” to Luke’s enormous fan base, thanks to her hilarious social media presence and frequent participation in family pranks.
In an interview with ABC’s Good Morning America earlier this month, Luke confirmed that his mom would indeed be joining him in Vegas. “What’s the big shopping center out here? Crystals and all that? Yeah, my credit card will be in flames come Friday,” the singer joked.
Luke’s residency is taking place at the city’s Resorts World Theatre. He’s booked throughout February, with another batch of shows scheduled for June and even more dates into the early fall of 2022.
Speaking with Consequence.net, guitarist Slash reveals that the “Welcome to the Jungle” rockers plan to drop some fresh tunes ahead of their European tour launching in June.
“There is new material coming — everybody’s always asking,” Slash says. “I would imagine that there will be one or two songs that come out around the time that we hit the road in June.”
Last year, GN’R released two new songs, “Absurd” and “Hard Skool.” Prior to that, the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers hadn’t put out anything since 2008’s Chinese Democracy, which featured Axl Rose as the only remaining original member in the band. Slash and bassist Duff McKagan rejoined the group in 2016 after leaving in the mid-’90s.
Ahead of the European tour, Guns N’ Roses will headline Florida’s Welcome to Rockville festival in May.
Meanwhile, Slash is currently on tour with his solo band Myles Kennedy & the Conspirators in support of their new album, 4.
Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers guitarist Mike Campbell and his current band, The Dirty Knobs, have released a second advance single from their forthcoming sophomore album, External Combustion, due out on March 4.
The new tune, “Electric Gypsy,” is available now via digital formats, while a music video for the song has debuted on Campbell’s official YouTube channel.
The clip begins with Campbell hitchhiking in the desert, where he’s picked up by RV driven by a tattooed woman. Inside the motor home are The Dirty Knobs’ members and some female friends. The vehicle soon stops, and the musicians and their friends get out, and band proceeds to play the song out in the desert around a fire pit.
In a recent Facebook post, Campbell writes, “‘Electric Gypsy’ is one of my favorite songs on the new record. The song came to me in a moment of inspiration before a session with the band — and we recorded it that day in one take, guitar solo and all.”
As previously reported, External Combustion is an 11-track collection that features guest appearances by Ian Hunter of Mott the Hoople fame, Heartbreakers keyboardist Benmont Tench and alt-country artist Margo Price.
Campbell wrote most of the songs on External Combustion during the past year, although two tunes date back to the 1990s and were recently rediscovered by Mike in his vault of unreleased tracks.
Prior to “Electric Gypsy,” Campbell and the group also released the album’s lead track, “Wicked Mind,” as an advance digital single, along with a companion music video.
External Combustion can be pre-ordered now, and is available on CD, on vinyl and via digital formats.
Campbell and The Dirty Knobs kick off a U.S. tour on March 9 in Tampa, Florida. Visit TheDirtyKnobs.com for the band’s full schedule.
Hot on the heels of an album announcement on Thursday, Dylan Scott is keeping the momentum going by releasing his romantic new song, “Can’t Have Mine.”
Addressed to all the guys out there looking for their one true love, Dylan advises them to find a girl who “gets wild on the town but still loves Jesus,” and is “worth the wait even when she ain’t on time.” There’s just one caveat — they can’t have his girl.
The girl in question, of course, is Dylan’s wife, Blair, who makes an appearance alongside the singer in the lyric video for his new song. The pair have been together since Dylan was 15, but they once briefly took a break from their relationship, and that miserable three months inspired his current single, “New Truck.”
Both “New Truck” and “Can’t Have Mine” will appear on Dylan’s upcoming new album, Livin’ My Best Life, which will be out in August. He’s also hitting the road for his Livin’ My Best Life Tour next week.
With his latest album, DS4Ever, sitting at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, Gunna has released a new single that has been a TikTok favorite, “Banking on Me,” produced by Metro Boomin. It follows his duo track with Chloe, “you & me,” which they dropped for Valentine’s Day.
The Atlanta rapper is performing with DJ Khaled, Mary J. Blige, Ludacris, Lil Wayne, Lil Baby and Migos during the State Farm NBA All-Star Saturday Night festivities in Cleveland that begin Saturday, February 19, and air at 8 p.m. ET on TNT.
Ty Dolla Sign is celebrating the Los Angeles Rams’ 23-20 Super Bowl victory over the Cincinnati Bengals on Sunday with his new track, “Champions,” featuring Wiz Khalifa. Ty attended the game at Sofi Stadium in Inglewood, California, and posted a series of photos from the event, including one of him sitting in field-level seats as he celebrated the Rams championship.
Jack Harlow dropped his new “Nail Tech” video featuring Yung Miami. The “Whats Poppin” MC just became a New Balance brand ambassador this week, and he’ll debut a new shoe tonight when he plays in the Ruffles NBA All-Star Weekend Celebrity Game.
The visual opens with Harlow in a nail salon, walking alongside the City Girls rapper. He goes from salon to boardroom, serves as a motivational speaker, and plays football with his friends. “My nail tech knows how to keep a lil’ secret/ I don’t wish for my success, I speak it,” he raps.
Finally, Kid Cudi is featured on the new single “Want It Bad” from Japanese artist Nigo. Pharrell Williams serves as executive producer for the I Know Nigo album, which drops March 25 and features Tyler the Creator, Gunna, A$AP Rocky and Lil Uzi Vert.
If you’ve ever wanted to see Ed Sheeran in relatively intimate surroundings, book yourself a ticket to the U.K. now. That’s because Ed has announced a handful of smallish shows in advance of his upcoming stadium tour.
On Instagram, Ed wrote, “I’m going to be doing some warm up shows for my tour in the next few weeks. These are very low key shows where I get to try out all the new tunes before taking them into the stadiums. Some nights there will be mistakes. But that is where the fun starts.”
Starting March 21, Ed will play three dates at London’s Electric Ballroom, two shows at Concorde 2 in Brighton, and two shows in London’s Alexandra Palace Theater. You can get tickets at EdSheeran.com.
The Electric Ballroom only holds 1,500 people, the Alexandra Palace Theater between 900 and 1,300, and the Concorde 2 just 600. So by the time you read this, all those shows may very well have sold out.
Ed’s European stadium tour kicks off April 23 in Dublin. So far, no North American dates have been announced.
All the dates come in support of Ed’s latest album, = (Equals).
Here’s your chance to party in wine country with Metallica.
The metal legends have announced a charity raffle with the grand prize of two VIP three-day passes to the ‘Tallica-headlined BottleRock Napa Valley festival, taking place May 27-29 in Napa, California.
The campaign will raise money for Metallica’s All Within My Hands charity foundation. The more you donate, the more entries you’ll receive.
In related news, Metallica’s hometown baseball team, the San Francisco Giants, have announced the details of its 2022 Metallica Night. The annual celebration, which has missed the past two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, makes its return to Oracle Park on May 24.
Previous Metallica Nights have featured the band performing the national anthem and throwing out the game’s ceremonial first pitch.
Brett Young enlisted the help of a very special co-star to make his newest music video: His wife, Taylor.
In the video for his song “You Didn’t,” Brett plays the role of a guy who’s had his heartbroken, and Taylor is the one who got away, appearing as a ghost and then fading away as soon as he reaches out for her. In the video, Brett is tormented by painful memories of the relationship, finally crawling into bed with a picture of himself and Taylor taken during happier times.
Taylor was an appropriate choice to play the role of Brett’s ex. Though they’re happily married now, the pair once went through a two-year-long hiatus when he first moved to Nashville to pursue country music.
Fortunately, they’re now back together and happier than ever: Brett and Taylor got married in 2018 and are now parents to two daughters, two-and-a-half-year-old Presley and six-month-old Rowan.
