Lana Del Rey has premiered the video for “Blue Banisters,” the title track off her upcoming new album.
The clip reflects the melancholy mood of the tune by recreating images from its lyrics, including Del Rey riding a John Deere tractor, baking a birthday cake, and, of course, painting her banisters blue.
You can watch the “Blue Banisters” video streaming now on YouTube.
The album Blue Banisters, which also features the previously released songs “Text Book,” “Arcadia” and “Wildflower Wildfire,” is due out October 22. It’s Del Rey’s second record this year, following March’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club.
Luke Bryan may be a massively successful country star these days, but early on in his career, both he and his wife Caroline made plenty of sacrifices so that he could chase his dream.
Specifically, Caroline says in a new appearance on the Uncut with Jay Cutler podcast, she gave up the comforts of sleeping in a bed. During one early tour, the singer’s wife came up with a particularly creative sleeping situation — with the couple’s then-newborn baby, Bo, in tow.
“When Luke was starting out, you know, you’re on one bus. And Bo Bryan was six, seven weeks old,” Caroline remembers. “We would tour with Luke, because he wanted us there. We would sleep on suitcases in the back of the bus.”
At the time, she says, she put Luke in a bunk so that he could be rested for his shows.
“And me and Bo would make a pallet with suitcases. Seriously. And there’s where I slept with an infant. And I’d get up and I’d make bottles in the night,” she continues. “Looking back now, I’m like, ‘How the hell did I do that?’”
Much has changed since then for the country superstar family. Not only is Luke a massively successful country artist, but the couple also recently starred in a series of Jockey commercials. More recently, Luke’s gearing up for the next season of American Idol, where he’ll return as a judge.
Miley Cyrus’ cover of Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters” actually mattered quite a lot to her.
In a new piece for Interview magazine, the singer tells Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich that she appreciated being able to sing the song — which appeared on this year’s Metallica Blacklist tribute album — in her true voice.
“My whole life, whether in vocal training or just continuing to hone my craft, it’s always been about, ‘Why do you sound like a man? Where’s your f****** falsetto, b****? Why can’t you sing the high octave of “Party in the U.S.A.” anymore?’” Miley says.
“In this song, I get to sing in that low register, and I get to live in that authentic, genuine sound,” she adds.
Miley points out that her voice is how she expresses herself and she’s not about to sing in a way that is “false” just to fit a mold.
“I was honored by the fact that I didn’t have to sing this song in the way that females are ‘supposed’ to sing.” she says. “You can hear that at the end of the song, when I take the gloves off and just start flying. That part of the song really grabs people. It’s that lower register of my voice. So I’m grateful to have a song where I can lean into that.”
(NOTE LANGUAGE) Metallica and Miley Cyrus are taking their collaboration from the studio to the page.
Drummer Lars Ulrich and the “Wrecking Ball” star have interviewed each other for a piece in Interviewmagazine. In the conversation, Cyrus shares what originally inspired her to cover Metallica’s “Nothing Else Matters,” which she performed at Glastonbury in 2019 ahead of recording it for this year’s Metallica Blacklist tribute album.
“When I think about the sentiment behind ‘Nothing Else Matters,’ it aligns completely with my morals and my values,” Cyrus explains. “When I listened to ‘Nothing Else Matters,’ and I knew that I was confirmed for Glastonbury — I actually have chills talking about this — it was the only song that I could imagine playing.”
Cyrus’ experience of recording “Nothing Else Matters” for the Blacklist album, though, felt like the “polar opposite” of playing it at Glastonbury.
“I recorded it at home, in the middle of a f***ing global pandemic, because I couldn’t leave my house,” she says. “It was no less poignant than playing it at Glastonbury — if anything, it was more powerful. The lyrics truly f***ing resonated.”
Elsewhere in the interview, Cyrus speaks on her sound becoming more rock-driven. In addition to covering songs including Temple of the Dog‘s “Say Hello 2 Heaven” and The Cranberries‘ “Zombie,” her new album Paper Hearts features Stevie Nicks, Billy Idol and Joan Jett. Her live band also includes Jane’s Addiction bassist Chris Chaney.
“I love having these authentic, real rock dudes in my band,” Cyrus says. “We even revisit songs that I wrote before I was able to make this huge sonic pivot in my career, before I discovered rock and roll. Now, we cover my own songs. We take my original songs, and turn them on their head, and make them kick a**.”
In honor of late Rush drummer Neil Peart, Modern Drummer magazine has announced the launch of an annual scholarship in his name that’s geared toward inspiring a young drummer to pursue a career as a musician.
The “Neil Peart Spirit of Drumming Scholarship” will provide the chosen recipient with 52 weeks of free drum lessons from respected drum instructor Dom Famularo, as well as a one-year subscription to the Modern Drummer All Access service, and a selection of classic Rush albums.
Entrants must be between 14 and 21 years old, not a professional musician, and not under any entertainment contract or sponsorship that Modern Drummer would consider a conflict with scholarship’s spirit.
To be considered for the scholarship, potential recipients must submit a video displaying their drumming skills running two minutes or less, as well as a brief essay explaining why the scholarship will make a significant positive impact on their life and playing, and how they’ve been inspired by Peart and his legacy.
Submissions, which can be made at ModernDrummer.com, must be received before November 26 of this year.
The scholarship originally was announced during the 2020 Modern Drummer Festival by Neil’s widow, Carrie Nutall-Peart. The first recipient of the scholarship will be revealed at this year’s festival, and the honoree will be featured in an upcoming issue of Modern Drummer.
Peart, widely considered one of the greatest rock drummers of all time, died in January 2020 of brain cancer. He was 67.
Of Mice & Men has announced a new album called Echo.
The seventh studio effort from the SoCal metal outfit — and their first since 2019’s EARTHANDSKY — will arrive on December 3. It consists of the songs from OM&M’s recent EPs Timeless and Bloom, as well as a third and final EP, Ad Infinitum.
“Echo is a snapshot of the last year-and-a-half of our lives,” OM&M says. “It covers loss and growth, life and impermanence, love, and the infinite — how the most wonderful and most tragic parts of the human experience are deeply intertwined.”
Along with the album announcement, Of Mice & Men has also shared another new song from the record, “Fighting Gravity.”
With the Timeless and Bloom EPs already out, along with the single “Mosaic” and now “Fighting Gravity,” there are actually only two songs left on Echo that have yet to be heard: the title track, and a cover of Crosby, Stills, and Nash‘s “Helplessly Hoping.”
Issa Rae is opening up about her wedding to Louis Diame and why she decided to share some of those moments with the world.
During an interview on the Tamron Hall Show, the Insecure creator and star revealed that the only reason she posted photos from her wedding day was to get ahead of the story.
“I worked with Vera Wang, who were really great, and they wanted to post the photo and at the time, I was like, ‘OK, yeah, no problem.’ And then later, you know, I was like, ‘Oh, they’re gonna post the photo before me.’ Let me tell it my way, in the best way I know how and that’s the only reason that I let it go,” she explained of the July Instagram post. “I wanted to release the photo my way first without having them release it.”
While Insecure star’s marriage may have come as a shock to fans, she shared that it wasn’t a surprise to friends and family. And the actress, writer and producer gushed that her wedding, overall, was “just a beautiful experience.”
“People tell you that it goes by fast, and they’re right,” Rae admitted. “But my thing was, it was a party. At the end of the day, it was just a big party. And it was a lot of fun. And I’m really blessed, I feel so blessed to be surrounded by people who took the time out to just come and celebrate and that’s something that I’ll cherish for the rest of my life.”
Carrie Underwood is exposing her husband’s bad habits in a hilarious new TikTok video centered around her latest single, a duet with Jason Aldean called “If I Didn’t Love You.”
As the song plays in the background, Carrie pans the camera to piles of laundry on the floor, taxidermied animals hanging on the walls and an out-of-control hat collection. “I must truly love him…Who can relate?” she wrote in the caption of her video.
The hit duet will feature on Jason’s upcoming album, Macon, which is due out November 12. Carrie recently revealed that she and Jason had planned to work together for years, explaining, “I feel like I always knew at some point I’d probably sing with him officially, and this just seemed like the stars were aligning and it just seemed like it was going to be the perfect fit.”
“If I Didn’t Love You” is currently nearing the top spot at country radio.
If you’re a female music star, it seems to be a rule that you have to release a signature fragrance. So, following in the footsteps of Britney Spears, Katy Perry, Mariah Carey, Ariana Grande, Christina Aguilera and more, Billie Eilish is getting into the perfume business, too.
Billie announced that her new fragrance, called Eilish, is “coming this fall.” She paired the announcement with a glam shot of herself holding a bottle of the perfume, along with a link to the website BillieEilishFragrances.com, where you can sign up for updates on when exactly you can buy the stuff.
On the website’s Instagram account, you can get a good look at the bottle. It’s bronze-colored and is in the shape of a female bust that’s been cut off underneath the breasts; the top of the head above the nose is also cut off, as are the arms.
The friendship between James Taylor and Carole King has lasted 50 years, and now it’s being examined in a new concert documentary that’s coming to CNN and HBO Max.
The movie is called Carole King & James Taylor: Just Call Out My Name, and is being directed and produced by Frank Marshall. Marshall is pretty comfortable with projects involving superstars of the 1960s and ’70s: He directed HBO’s acclaimed Bee Gees documentary How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, and produced Hulu’s McCartney 3, 2, 1.
The documentary takes as its starting point the concert that Carole and James did together in 2007 to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Los Angeles’ famous club The Troubadour, where they’d first played together in 1970. The ’07 show, which featured them collaborating on songs like “You’ve Got a Friend,” led to a 2010 arena tour.
The film documents the tour and also features interviews with the now-legendary session musicians who played with the duo in 1970, 2007 and 2010, including guitarist Danny Kortchmar, bass player Lee Sklar and drummer Russ Kunkel.
On October 30, King will be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame for the second time; she was previously inducted as a songwriter in 1990. Inducting her will be Taylor Swift, who, incidentally, was named after James Taylor.
