Halestorm has premiered the video for “The Steeple,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Back from the Dead.
The clip finds frontwoman Lzzy Hale dressed in all white and surrounded by interpretive dancers as she preaches rock n’ roll salvation. You can watch it now streaming on YouTube.
“The Steeple,” which premiered earlier this month, is the second track to be released from Back from the Dead, following the lead single and title track. The record is set to arrive in full on May 6.
Halestorm is about to launch a tour of the U.K. this weekend. They’ll be back in the U.S. in May to play the Welcome to Rockville festival.
Mod Sun has announced a new song called “Rick Kids Ruin Everything.”
The track, which follows Mod’s album Internet Killed the Rockstar, will drop March 11.
“This one’s for the kids who grew up broke [and] didn’t have s***,” Mod says. “The new era is here.”
Internet Killed the Rockstar, which features the Avril Lavigne collaboration “Flames,” was released in 2021. Mod later dropped an expanded, deluxe version of the record, plus “Down,” a new tune with Blink-182‘s Travis Barker.
After over 100 million people viewed the Super Bowl halftime show, Dr. Dre and Eminem — who performed alongside Mary J. Blige, Snoop Dogg and Kendrick Lamar — are reaping the benefits on the Billboard 200.
Slim Shady signed to Dre’s Aftermath Entertainment label in 1998, and now both stars have returned to the top 10 of the album chart. Eminem’s 2005 compilation Curtain Call: The Hits, which has been certified seven-times Platinum by the RIAA, vaulted from #126 to #8 this week. The album includes his Academy Award-winning “Lose Yourself,” which he performed during the halftime performance. This is the first time Curtain Call has been in the Billboard 200’s top 10 since 2006.
Dre’s second studio album, 2001, which was released in 1999, jumped from #109 to #9. The six-times-Platinum record has not been in the top 10 since 2000. Songs from the album performed at the Super Bowl included “The Next Episode,” “Forgot About Dre” and “Still D.R.E.”
As previously reported, all the Super Bowl performers experienced big sales bumps immediately after the game.
Sales of the songs heard during the performance increased by an overall factor of 775% compared to the two days prior to the show. The top-selling song performed was “The Next Episode,” which opened the show. Sales of that song alone increased 994%.
The next best-selling songs were “Lose Yourself“; “Still D.R.E.”; Blige’s Dre-produced 2001 hit “Family Affair”; and 2Pac‘s 1995 song “California Love,” which also was produced by Dr. Dre and was performed by Dre and Snoop during the show.
Katy Perry is finding out real fast how stressful it can be to have a toddler. Her daughter, Daisy Dove, is doing a great job preparing her for the so-called “terrible twos” after developing a fascination with electrical outlets.
Speaking Tuesday on Live with Kelly and Ryan, Katy opened up about her child’s stressful new habit. “If you gave [her] all of the toys that you ever wanted to [give] to a kid, they would still want to touch electrical outlets,” Katy lamented, which earned sympathetic remarks from host Kelly Ripa.
The Grammy nominee then beseeched toymakers to “make a plushy electrical outlet” so she can use “reverse psychology” on Daisy. “She loves to push her boundaries,” Katy explained, hinting that is how she hopes to teach her daughter that electricity is not a toy.
In other developments, Katy revealed her little one also has a penchant for throwing her “food on the floor to the dogs.” The singer then recreated the creepy, wide-eyed smile her daughter displays whenever she drops her food.
Speaking alongside her fellow American Idol judges about the times they prefer to record music, Katy also revealed she puts Daisy to bed at 7 p.m. before she heads into the studio.
Another round of ACM Awards performers have been announced, adding more superstars to the lineup.
Carrie Underwood, Luke Bryan, Kane Brown, Jason Aldean, Eric Church and Jordan Davis have been tapped to perform at the show, along with Brothers Osborne, Chris Young, Mitchell Tenpenny, Brittney Spencer, Kelsea Ballerini and host Dolly Parton in a series of collaborative performances.
Dolly and Kelsea are set to team up on “Big Dreams and Faded Jeans,” an original song featured on Dolly’s album Run, Rose, Run, that will be released in tandem with a book of the same name. Dolly’s co-hosts, Jimmie Allen and Gabby Barrett, will open the show with a two-song set, while Luke will take the stage with Jordan to perform their recent #1 hit, “Buy Dirt.”
Brittney will make her ACM Awards debut with a special performance with Brothers Osborne, while Chris and Mitchell will join forces on their duet, “At the End of a Bar.” Kane will use the ACMs to debut his brand-new song, “Leave You Alone.”
The ACM Awards air live from Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on March 7 at 8 p.m. ET. The two-hour show will air uninterrupted on Amazon Prime Video.
Sum 41 and Simple Plan are joining forces for a co-headlining tour.
The joint outing, dubbed the Blame Canada tour after the two bands’ home country, will launch April 29 in Raleigh, North Carolina, and will conclude August 18 in Denver.
For the tour, both Sum 41 and Simple Plan will be celebrating the 20th anniversary of their respective debut albums, All Killer No Filler and No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls.
“We have known the guys in Simple Plan for a very long time and know these shows are going to be great, ” says Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley. “We cannot wait to hit the road with them!”
Tickets go on sale this Friday, February 25, at 10 a.m. local time. For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit Sum41.com or OfficialSimplePlan.com.
In the meantime, you can also check out Simple Plan’s new song “Ruin My Life,” which features Whibley.
Yes, we are still talking about Bruno — because the viral song from Disney’s Encanto is once again the number one song in the U.S., spending a fourth straight week atop the BillboardHot 100.
“We Don’t Talk About Bruno” is now the longest-running number one song from a Disney movie, either animated or live-action. It passes 1994’s “All for Love,” which Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart and Sting recorded for The Three Musketeers, which topped the chart for three weeks.
In addition, the Encanto soundtrack is number one on the Billboard 200 for a sixth week. This marks the first time in 29 years that a soundtrack and one of its songs simultaneously led both the album chart and Hot 100 charts for four weeks.
The last time that happened was when Whitney Houston‘s The Bodyguard topped the albums chart while “I Will Always Love You” dominated the singles chart between December 1992 and February 1993.
Elsewhere on the chart, Glass Animals‘ “Heat Waves” has risen to number two, after a record-setting climb of 57 weeks. GAYLE is also racing up the chars: Her hit “abcdefu” jumped into fourth place this week, up from last week’s seventh place finish.
After it was postponed in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic, The Black Crowes hit the road last year on a major tour celebrating the 30th anniversary of their debut album, Shake Your Money Maker. The veteran rockers have now announced a new 2022 North American leg of the trek.
The outing, dubbed The Black Crowes Present: Shake Your Money Maker, features more than 30 dates. It kicks off June 9 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and runs though an August 27 concert in Miami, Oklahoma.
Tickets for most dates go on sale to the general public this Friday, February 25, at 10 a.m. local time, while a pre-sale offer from the band begins Wednesday, February 23, at 10 a.m. local time. For more details, visit TheBlackCrowes.com.
For each ticket purchased via Ticketmaster in North America, the buyer will receive an exclusive free collectible NFT of the tour poster. This marks the first time that Ticketmaster has teamed up with an artists to offer these unique digital tokens.
The Shake Your Money Maker trek features The Black Crowes playing their 1990 debut album in its entirety, as well as hits and select other songs from their catalog. The group’s current lineup features co-founding siblings Chris and Rich Robinson on lead vocals and lead guitar, respectively, plus longtime bassist Sven Pippien and three other newer members.
The Black Crowes also have some previously announced festival appearances on their 2022 itinerary, including May 1 at the Stagecoach Festival in Indio California; May 6 at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival; May 28 at the BottleRock Napa fest in Napa, California; and June 3 at The Peach Music Festival in Scranton, Pennsylvania.
The trailer has been released for Evan Rachel Wood‘s Phoenix Rising documentary, in which she details allegations of abuse against Marilyn Manson.
“I’m here today to talk about Brian Warner, also known to the world as Marilyn Manson,” Wood says in the clip.
The preview also shows how Wood’s experience with Warner led to her becoming an advocate for domestic violence survivors, including lobbying for legislation extending the statute of limitations for domestic violence cases. The bill, known as the Phoenix Act, inspired the documentary’s name.
When Wood first spoke in support of the Phoenix Act, including in front of the California Senate in 2019, she did not name her abuser. She publicly accused Warner for the first time in February 2021, writing that he had “horrifically abused [her] for years.”
Later that day, Warner addressed unspecified “recent claims” made about him, which he called “horrible distortions of reality.”
Warner has since been accused of abuse by several more women, including actor Esmé Bianco, model Ashley Morgan Smithline, and Warner’s former assistant, Ashley Walters, all of whom filed lawsuits against him. Warner has denied the allegations.
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the allegations Wood makes against Warner in Phoenix Rising include that he drugged and raped her during the filming of his “Heart-Shaped Glasses” music video. Warner’s lawyer denied the claim as “false” and an “imaginative retelling.”
Phoenix Rising premieres on HBO in two parts airing March 15 and 16. It’ll be available in full on HBO Max beginning March 15.
For anyone affected by abuse and needing support, call the National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-7233, or if you’re unable to speak safely, you can log onto thehotline.org or text LOVEIS to 1-866-331-9474.
Luke Bryan couldn’t be more excited to return to the judges’ table on American Idol.
On Tuesday, Luke and his fellow judges Lionel Richie and Katy Perry visited Good Morning Americato chat about the show’s upcoming season, and how their approach has evolved now that they’ve been working together for five seasons.
“The more comfortable we get, we know how far we can take it joking with one another. I think the fans at home really they want to see us having fun, they want to feel that we’re enjoying the moment too,” the country star describes. “It’s so fun sitting at that judging table because you never know if the next Jennifer Hudson‘s going to walk in or the next Carrie Underwood, so we got to be on our game.”
In honor of the show’s 20th season, the judges awarded a platinum ticket to one contestant in each city where they held auditions, which allows that contestant to sit out a round during Hollywood week and observe the competition.
“We’ve inadvertently been a little tougher on our platinum ticket holders because they showed out in auditions, and then sometimes they have a bad audition and we’re being a little more critical with them,” Luke teases.
American Idol season 20 premieres on Sunday night at 8 p.m. ET on ABC.
