Just in time for Christmas, ABBA has announced their first-ever holiday single. The Swedish superstars will officially release the song “Little Things” on December 3.
Taking to Instagram on Tuesday to share the track’s official artwork, the band teased, “Christmas is around the corner — Take a look at the cover art for ABBA’s Christmas song ‘Little Things’ being released December 3d on CD. Maybe something for the Christmas stocking?”
The gentle song centers on the joy parents feel waking up on Christmas morning and imagining what it’ll be like to watch their children open presents under the tree.
“Little Things” is featured on ABBA’s new album, Voyage, which is their first in 40 years. The track is available for pre-order now.
Ahead of the release of her new album 30, Adele sat down with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe for an in-depth chat. The full interview is out tomorrow, Wednesday, but you can watch the trailer now.
In the trailer, Adele and Zane are seen enjoying cocktails while she explains that one of her motivations for making 30 was to explain to her son Angelo why she made the decision to divorce his dad, knowing it would uproot his life.
Adele tells Zane that she played one of her new songs, “My Little Love,” for a friend whose mom died when he was 15. “He burst into tears,” she notes. “He was like, ‘I never thought about who my mum was, other than being my mum.'”
“And that, for me is why I was trying to do the album,” she continues. “…To show Angelo, like, his happiness is my happiness, but, ‘I also have a lot of other things going on that went on before we were born, that have been going on since you were born and will go on when you leave me, when you fly the nest.'”
“It was just…I could have really done with a record like that for me to really forgive my parents for a lot of the things,” she adds. Adele’s parents split when she was two.
The full interview debuts November 17 at 1 p.m. ET only on Apple Music.
Kane Brown is set to perform on the 23rd annual A Home for the Holidays at the Grove TV special, which shines a spotlight on adoption and foster care.
The special will profile the inspiring adoption stories of four families, including the Rodriguez family, which is adopting Marjorie, who by the time she was 5 years old had lived in six different households and been subjected to abuse. Kane will introduce the Rodriguez family for a special live adoption on air. The event is filmed at the Grove, a shopping complex in Los Angeles.
Justin Bieber, Alessia Cara and Glee star Darren Criss are also slated to perform when A Home for the Holidays at the Grove airs on CBS December 5 at 9:30 p.m. ET.
Dream Theater has announced the rescheduled dates for the band’s postponed Top of the World tour.
The outing, which was originally set to kick off last month before being delayed to “varying local mandates across North America” related to the COVID-19 pandemic, is now set to kick off February 2 in Mesa, Arizona.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit DreamTheater.net.
On the Top of the World tour, Dream Theater will be touring in support of their new album, A View from the Top of the World, which was released in October.
First it was “Whiskey in the Jar,” and now it’s “Metallica in the box.”
The metal legends have announced the Metallica Black Box, an ever-changing and evolving retrospective project celebrating the band’s now 40-year career.
“Years in the works, we are now officially ‘unboxing’ our collections and pulling our favorite, most significant, and personally meaningful artifacts,” Metallica says of the Black Box. “In the weeks, months, and years ahead, the Black Box will venture progressively deeper into the vaults, the sounds, the visuals, the instruments, the culture, and beyond.”
The Black Box launches with an exhibit dedicated to Metallica’s iconic Black Album, which celebrated its 30th anniversary this year. It features various photos from the Black Album era, as well as full concert footage from 10 live shows between 1991 and 1993.
The Dr. Dre/Nicole Young divorce is becoming more bitter. She’s reportedly now asking the Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department to collect over a million dollars from the iconic rapper/producer.
Young’s legal team filed court documents seeking to collect $1.2 million in past legal fees they claim to be owed, according to Radar OnLine. Young claims to have $1 million in the bank, and says she owes her lawyers over a million.
“Andre is doing whatever he wants to do because he is an enormously entitled and well-funded litigant who seeks to exact revenge on his former wife by decimating her financially leaving her without legal representation in this case,” her motion reads. She says Dre has only paid $300,000 of what she says she’s owed.
Young filed for divorce from Dre in July 2020 after 24 years of marriage. She accuses him of carrying out affairs with multiple women during their union. Dre’s net worth is estimated at $800 million. The estranged pair share a son, Truice, 24, and a daughter, Truly, 20. Dre says they signed a prenuptial agreement, but Nicole claims they tore up the prenup a couple of years into the marriage.
As previously reported, Young had papers served to the six-time Grammy winner last month at a cemetery in Los Angeles, where he was burying his grandmother
Maren Morris and Chris Stapleton are spreading Christmas cheer and singing loud for all to hear with a performance at The National Christmas Tree Lighting.
The annual event officially kicks off the Christmas season with the lighting of the National Christmas Tree in President’s Park in Washington, D.C. The two country stars will perform holiday classics alongside a range of music artists including Patti LaBelle, Kristin Chenoweth, Keb’ Mo, Pose star Billy Porter, H.E.R. — with whom Chris collaborated at the 2021 CMT Music Awards — and Juanes. LL Cool J will serve as host.
News of Maren and Chris’ performances at the holiday event comes as Maren’s duet with husband Ryan Hurd, “Chasing After You,” is #1 on the country charts, and Chris picked up four wins at the CMA Awards last week.
The National Christmas Tree Lighting airs on December 5 at 8:30 p.m. ET on CBS.
A collection of eight archival concert films by Pink Floyd, guitarist David Gilmour, and Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets, the new project featuring the group’s drummer, were released worldwide for purchase and rental on multiple digital platforms today.
The Pink Floyd films are 1988’s Delicate Sound of Thunder, 1994’s Pulse and 2014’s The Endless River. The Gilmour movies are 2001’s David Gilmour in Concert, 2006’s Live in Gdańsk and Remember That Night: David Gilmour Live at The Royal Albert Hall, and 2016’s Live at Pompeii.
Rounding out the collection is the 2020 Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets concert flick Live at the Roundhouse.
Delicate Sound of Thunder features a performance by Pink Floyd’s trio lineup of Gilmour, Mason and keyboardist Richard Wright performing at New York’s Nassau Coliseum.
Pulse features the same Pink Floyd lineup performing at London’s Earls Court venue while the band promoted 1994’s The Division Bell album.
The Endless River is a film created by director Ian Emes set to the band’s final studio album of the same name, which was put together using unheard recordings from The Division Bell sessions.
David Gilmour in Concert features Gilmour performing at London’s Royal Festival Hall during the 2001 Meltdown Festival.
Live in Gdańsk features David playing in the Polish city with accompaniment from the Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra.
Remember That Night captures Gilmour’s solo group performing at London’s Royal Albert Hall, joined by some famous special guests, including David Bowie and David Crosby & Graham Nash.
Live at Pompeii features Gilmour performing at Italy’s Pompeii Amphitheatre, the first artist to play to an audience at the historic site.
Lastly, Live at the Roundhouse captures Mason and his group, which pays tribute to early Pink Floyd, playing at the London venue.
Netflix released the full trailer for its upcoming apocalyptic dark comedy, Don’t Look Up, on Monday. The movie stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence, Meryl Streep and many others– including Ariana Grande.
While Leo and Jennifer want to tell the world the end is near because of a planet-killing comet hurtling towards Earth, others don’t seem to care and continue to joke about the growing threat.
Ariana is featured in a smaller role, playing air-headed superstar Riley Bina. The trailer shows her interacting with Leo and Jennifer’s characters, the two whistleblowers who discovered the apocalyptic comet.
“You guys discovered a comet? I have a tattoo of a shooting star on my back,” Ari says in the trailer. Another scene features her suspended in the air, dressed in white, as she sings into a glittery microphone while accompanied by Kid Cudi.
Don’t Look Up premieres in select theaters on December 10 and hits Netflix on December 24.
As previously reported, both Ariana and Kid Cudi are nominated for Hollywood Music in Media Awards for their work in Don’t Look Up. In the category of Song: Feature Film, Ariana and Cudi are nominated for co-writing the movie’s title song. Ariana is up for another nomination and is also vying for Song: Onscreen Performance.
If the “Missing Piece” in your life is not seeing Vance Joy live, you’ll have two chances next year to fill that void.
The “Riptide” singer has announced a pair of headlining U.S. concerts for 2022, taking place at the Ryman Auditorium in Nashville on June 2, and Pier 17 in New York City on June 4.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, November 19, at 10 a.m. local time. For all ticket info, visit VanceJoy.com.
Should you be able to travel Down Under, Vance is also touring his native Australia starting September 2022.
Vance released his latest single, “Missing Piece,” earlier this year in May. It currently sits at number two on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart.
