The first two episodes of the new reality music competition show No Cover have premiered online.
No Cover, which was first announced in 2020, finds a panel of judges — including Alice Cooper, Bush‘s Gavin Rossdale and Halestorm‘s Lzzy Hale — searching to discover the next best unsigned bands.
Each week, the competing artists perform for the judges live at the iconic Troubadour club near Los Angeles. Kellin Quinn of Sleeping with Sirens co-hosts the show. The other judges are alt-pop singer/songwriter Bishop Briggs and prog-metal guitarist Tosin Abasi.
As opposed to shows like American Idol or The Voice, the No Cover contestants only perform original material, hence the show’s title.
The winner of No Cover will earn a recording contract with Sumerian Records, and a slot at a festival produced by Danny Wimmer Presents, the company behind the Aftershock, Welcome to Rockville and Louder than Life festivals. The victorious act also will get signed to a management and booking agency, and will receive a whole lot of gear.
Pop Evil has premiered a new song called “Eye of the Storm.”
“It doesn’t matter who you are or where you come from, at some point we all face a situation beyond our control,” Pop Evil says of the track. “The wind howls at your door as darkness fills the sky and everything you know is being tested. You don’t know if you can survive it. At times, it feels hopeless, but it’s not.”
“There is a path through the chaos and a way out of the confusion,” the band adds. “You are stronger and closer than you think you are. The storm will pass. Don’t let it bury you.”
You can listen to “Eye of the Storm” now via digital outlets, and watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.
“Eye of the Storm” follows Pop Evil’s 2021 album Versatile, which features the singles “Breathe Again,” “Work” and “Survivor.”
A collection of rare recordings by 10cc co-founders Kevin Godley and Lol Creme from the late 1960s will be released on June 10.
Frabjous Days — The Secret World of Godley & Creme 1967-1969 includes tracks that the duo made under the name Frabjoy and Runcible Spoon for a planned 1969 album for British music impresario Georgio Gomelsky‘s Marmalade label that was never released.
The compilation also features a 1969 solo track that Godley and Creme’s future 10cc band mate Graham Gouldman recorded for Marmalade called “The Late Mr. Late,” and two unreleased songs written by Gouldman that the duo recorded in 1969 — “Hot Sun” and “Virgin Soldiers.”
Other tracks on the album include two songs from a January 1968 single that Godley and Crème released under the moniker The Yellow Bellow Room Boom, and two unreleased tracks from a June 1968 acetate recording.
Frabjous Days comes packaged with a 28-page booklet featuring a new essay, as well as rare photos and memorabilia.
“These songs sound like they were written and recorded before we were born…and in a sense they were,” Godley says. “It’s the sound of two young art students messing around at weekends, stringing chords and words together for the sheer, explosive buzz of hearing what happens. There’s a thrill in not knowing what you’re doing but aiming high anyway and that, I believe, is exactly what’s going on in these recordings.”
The Marmalade Sessions 1969
1. “I’m Beside Myself” (album version)*
2. “Chaplin House”*
3. “Cowboys and Indians”*
4. “It’s the Best Seaside in the World”*
5. “Fly Away” (Frabjoy and Runcible Spoon LP version)*
6. “Take Me Back”*
7. “Today”*
8. “Hot Sun”*
9. “Virgin Soldiers”*
10. “The Late Mr. Late” — Graham Gouldman
11. “To Fly Away” (Marmalade sampler LP version)
12. “I’m Beside Myself” (single version)
13. “Animal Song”
Bonus tracks (recorded 1967-1969)
14. “Seeing Things Green”
15. “Easy Life”
16. “One and One Make Love”*
17. “Over and Above My Head”*
18. “Hello Blinkers”
19. “Goodnight Blinkers”
1-7: Unreleased Frabjoy and Runcible Spoon album, recorded circa September 1969
8-9: Unreleased acetate of Graham Gouldman songs performed by Godley and Creme, recorded circa July 1969
10-11: From label sampler Marmalade – 100% Proof, released June 1969
12-13: Frabjoy and Runcible Spoon single, released September 1969
14-15: The Yellow Bellow Room Boom single, released January 1968
16-17: Unreleased acetate, recorded circa July 1968
18-19: Promo vinyl pressing for Blinkers nightclub, circa late 1969
Charlie Puth channeled Risky Business in his latest Instagram post, opting to wear just blue boxer briefs, socks and a loosely buttoned shirt — similar attire to what Tom Cruise wore in the 1983 movie classic. The “Light Switch” singer also threw in a thirst trap, sharing a photo of him just wearing those briefs.
Got a Mork & Mindy lunchbox? Pink is looking for one. “When I was a kid I had a mork and mindy lunchbox with matching thermos,” she tweeted Thursday. “Anyone have one they wanna sell me?” Soon after, she announced, “Thanks y’all! I knew I could count on you! Got it!”
Taylor Swift will be honored by the GRAMMY museum in a new exhibit, called The Power of Women in Country Music, which honors the genre’s biggest stars. Taylor will be featured alongside the likes of Dolly Parton, Shania Twain, and Maren Morris. The exhibit opens May 27 and runs through October.
PSY is teasing yet another song, this time called “Celeb,” featuring Bae Suzy from the K-pop group Miss A. The “Gangnam Style” rapper shared a colorful, 20-second teaser of the video for the upbeat song, which shows him parodying the lavish lifestyles of the rich and the famous. The track drops April 29 at 6 p.m. Korean time.
The German metallers have announced a listening event for their upcoming album that will be held in movie theaters across the globe on April 28.
Attendees will get to hear Zeit in its entirety, and in cutting-edge Dolby Atmos audio, ahead of the record’s official release on April 29. Additionally, the event will feature the premiere for the music video for the Zeit song “Angst.”
For the list of participating theaters and all ticket info, visit Rammstein.com.
Rammstein will launch their long-awaited North American stadium tour in August. The outing was originally planned for 2020 before it was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
The latest trend among country music superstars is opening their own bar, restaurant or music venue in downtown Nashville. Now it seems as though Jon Bon Jovi may want a piece of the action.
The Nashville Business Journalshared reports this week that Jon might be attaching his name to a new venue at the prime downtown location of 405 Broadway. That site is currently a vacant lot situated between a famous honky tonk and an upscale restaurant, on the same block as iconic Nashville locations like Tootsies Orchid Lounge.
The Business Journal cites multiple unnamed reports linking Jon to the new development. Though his involvement hasn’t been confirmed, the Nashville Postreports that work is underway at the site, with a “celebrity partner” in the mix.
Nashville-based investment group Big Plan Holdings owns the property, and founder and CEO Josh Joseph has hinted that he’ll soon reveal the star who’s partnered in the project.
Though Bon Jovi isn’t country, the band has had a country hit: In 2006, they put out a duet version of “Who Says You Can’t Go Home” with country star Jennifer Nettles, which hit number one on the country charts. It won Bon Jovi their only Grammy, for Best Country Collaboration with Vocals. Bon Jovi re-teamed with Jennifer in 2020 for a duet version of “Do What You Can.”
Bon Jovi also recorded songs with country acts Big & Rich and LeAnn Rimes on the band’s 2007 album Lost Highway.
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If you’ve been wanting to own a home that once housed music royalty, you’re in luck. Madonna haslisted her sprawling Hidden Hills, California, estate that she previously bought from The Weeknd for a cool $26 million.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, Madge purchased the home from the “Take My Breath” singer about a year ago for $19.3 million. The contemporary farmhouse offers nine bedrooms, 11 bathrooms and spans over 12,500 square feet. Not only that, the property boasts a separate, two-bedroom guest house on its nearly three-acre plot.
Additionally, Madonna reportedly renovated the barn so that its new owners can enjoy a private gym and dance-Pilates studio. In addition, the main house offers a home theater, music lounge, indoor/outdoor bar, infinity saltwater pool with adjacent 10-person hot tub, a steam shower, stone bath, a full-sized basketball court and an outdoor kitchen, among other expensive perks.
While the “Express Yourself” singer resided in the estate for a little over a year, The Weeknd previously called it home for four years after acquiring it in 2017. He listed the property in 2020.
—Janelle Monae sat down with the hosts of Jada Pinkett Smith‘s Red Table Talk on Wednesday and in the personal interview, the Grammy-nominated singer opened up about gender identity, again declaring herself as non-binary.
“I’m non-binary, so I just don’t see myself as a woman, solely,” Monae said to Smith. “I feel like God is so much bigger than the ‘he’ or the ‘she’ and if I am from God, I am everything.”
The “Make Me Feel” singer previously declared her gender identity in a 2020 post on Twitter, saying, “#IAmNonbinary.”
Regarding the decision to come out now, it was advice Monae was once given. “Somebody said, ‘If you don’t work out the things that you need to work out first before sharing it with the world, then you’re going to be working it out with the world’,” Monae said. “That’s what I didn’t want to do.”
–Legendary rapper Ice Cube is set to headline the 2022 NFL Draft concert series in Las Vegas on April 28-30. He’ll take the stage on day two of the three-day event, following the end of round three of draft picks.
Cube also took to his Instagram on Wednesday to provide an update on his Big3 basketball league, an organization where fans can purchase team ownership stakes in the form of NFTs.
—Oprah Winfrey has selected Viola Davis‘ memoir, Finding Me, as the 95th selection to her famed book club.
“After I finished reading the first paragraph, I knew this was a book I wanted to share with the world,” Winfrey said in Thursday’s announcement.
News of the selection comes a day before the premiere of the highly anticipated, Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event, where Davis chats with Winfrey about the book and other private life stories.
Bring Me the Horizon‘s collaboration with Norwegian pop musician Sigrid has arrived.
The joint track, titled “Bad Life,” is available now via digital outlets. It’s accompanied by a video featuring both Sigrid and Horizon frontman Oli Sykes singing in a rainstorm, which you can watch now streaming on YouTube.
“Bad Life” will also appear on Sigrid’s upcoming album How to Leg Go, due out May 6.
Bring Me the Horizon first announced the Sigrid collaboration last week. It follows the band’s recent run of songs with other artists, including Machine Gun Kelly, Masked Wolf, Ed Sheeran and Tom Morello.
TJ Osborne, one half of the sibling duo Brothers Osborne, is one of the Grand Marshals in this year’s Nashville Pride Parade.
He’ll share the role with Leslie Jordan, who recently starred in the music video for Brothers Osborne’s “I’m Not for Everyone,” as well as Greg Cason — who’s held board positions on an array of LGBTQ+ Nashville organizations — and Alberta Hardison, whose activism work with the HIV community dates back to 1998.
TJ came out as gay in early 2021 and, in so doing, became the first openly gay act signed to a major country label. Subsequently, Brothers Osborne put out their song “Younger Me,” which they wrote in part as a reflection on TJ’s experience of growing up and moving into an industry that he never thought would accept him.
The Nashville Pride Parade will be held on June 25. It’s free to attend.
