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Radiohead has shared a new trailer for Kid A Mnesia Exhibition, an upcoming video game/virtual experience based on the band’s new Kid A Mnesia release.

The 48-second clip shows footage from the game based on the artwork of frontman Thom Yorke and Radiohead’s longtime artistic collaborator, Stanley Donwood, along with sound design by frequent producer Nigel Godrich. You can watch it streaming now on YouTube.

Kid A Mnesia Exhibition will be released November 18 as a free download for PlayStation 5, PC and Mac. It was made in collaboration with Epic Games Publishing, the company behind the massively popular Fortnite.

The Kid A Mnesia box set, meanwhile, dropped last Friday. It includes reissues of Radiohead’s albums Kid A and Amnesiac, as well as a bonus disc featuring previously unreleased material from those records’ eras, including the songs “Follow Me Around” and “If You Say the Word.”

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Maxwell, Ashanti, and Silk Sonic will be among the performers at the 2021 Soul Train Awards.

As previously reported, Maxwell will receive the Legend Award, and Ashanti will be honored with the Lady of Soul Award. Silk Sonic, consisting of Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak, has three nominations for “Leave the Door Open”: Song of the Year, Video of the Year, and the Ashford & Simpson Songwriter’s Award.

The list of performers for the Soul Train Awards includes Ari Lennox, Leon Bridges and Lucky Daye. The annual Soul Cypher, originated by former show host Erykah Badu, will feature D-Nice, Musiq Soulchild, Jac Ross, Koryn Hawthorne, Elle Varner, and Tone Stith. In honor of the 20th anniversary of the late Aaliyah‘s 2001, RIAA double-Platinum, self-titled album, the third single from the project, “Rock the Boat” will be the theme for the cypher.

Presenters at the show will also include H.E.R., who leads all artists with eight nominations, plus Tristan Mack Wilds and the casts of the BET series Games People Play and Sacrifice.

Jazmine Sullivan and Chris Brown follow H.E.R. with six nominations each. For the fourth year in a row, former Martin stars Tisha Campbell and Tichina Arnold will return as co-hosts.

The 2021 Soul Train Awards, which will be held for the first time at the iconic Apollo Theater in New York City, airs Sunday, November 28, at 8 p.m. ET/PT on BET and BET Her.

 

 

 

 

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Volbeat has premiered the video for “Shotgun Blues,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Servant of the Mind.

The clip takes us to New York City in the year 1902, and finds the Danish rockers providing the soundtrack to a condemned man’s final moments before his execution by electric chair. You can watch it streaming now on YouTube.

Servant of the Mind, the follow-up to 2019’s Rewind, Replay, Rebound, arrives December 3. It also includes the single “Wait a Minute My Girl.”

Volbeat will hit the road next year in support of their new album on a co-headlining tour with Ghost, kicking off January 25 in Reno, Nevada.

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(NOTE LANGUAGE) Less than 24 hours stand in the way between us and Taylor Swift‘s re-recorded Red album. To amp up the excitement, one of the album’s collaborators admits just being able to be a part of it made her cry.

Phoebe Bridgers, who is featured on the song “Nothing New,” tells Billboard that working with Taylor has “just been a dream.”

The indie rock artist teased, “I just am so excited to have people take it at face value the day that it comes out, because I got teary recording it. I just couldn’t be more excited.”

Red (Taylor’s Version) — her remake of the 2012 Grammy-nominated album — drops Friday.” Nothing New” is a song Taylor wrote when recording the original album, but it didn’t make the cut.  Now, it’s being released as one of the “Songs from the Vault” tracks on the re-recording.

Bridgers says Taylor’s decision to rerecord her old albums has taken the music industry by storm.

“It’s really inspiring for me and a lot of musicians,” she said. “I think a lot of people make a couple of records [and are] like, ‘Oh wow, I hit the top, I’m great now,’ and the fact that she just has always wanted more from the world — like, “No, no, no, f*** you, I’m going to make it again, I’m going to make it better, and it’s going to belong to me’ — is the coolest.”

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Get ready for a double dose of Jack White in 2022.

The White Stripes/Raconteurs/Dead Weather rocker has announced not one, but two new solo albums to be released next year. The first, titled Fear of the Dawn, will arrive April 8, followed by the second, Entering Heaven Alive, dropping July 22.

The records mark White’s fourth and fifth solo releases, and his first since 2018’s Boarding House Reach.

White’s single “Taking Me Back,” which just dropped in October, is the opening track off Fear of the Dawn. The acoustic version of the song, dubbed “Taking Me Back (Gently),” closes out Entering Heaven Alive.

Along with the album announcements, White has premiered the video for “Taking Me Back,” which finds him rocking both guitar and drums while showing off his new blue hairstyle. You can watch it now streaming on YouTube.

Here are the track lists for Fear of the Dawn and Entering Heaven Alive:

Fear of the Dawn
“Taking Me Back”
“Fear of the Dawn”
“The White Raven”
“Hi-de-ho” feat. Q-Tip
“Eosophobia”
“Into the Twilight”
“Dusk”
“What’s the Trick?”
“That Was Then (This Is Now)”
“Eosophobia (Reprise)”
“Morning, Noon and Night”
“Shedding My Velvet”

Entering Heaven Alive
“A Tip from You To Me”
“All Along the Way”
“Help Me Along”
“Love Is Selfish”
“I’ve Got You Surrounded (With My Love)”
“Queen of the Bees”
“A Tree on Fire From Within”
“If I Die Tomorrow”
“Please God, Don’t Tell Anyone”
“A Madman from Manhattan”
“Taking Me Back (Gently)”

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Korn has announced a new album called Requiem.

The 14th studio effort from the “Freak on a Leash” metallers will arrive February 4, 2022. It’s the follow-up to 2019’s The Nothing.

Our first preview of Requiem is the lead single “Start the Healing,” which is available now for digital download. You can also watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.

Here’s the Requiem track list:

“Forgotten”
“Let the Dark Do the Rest”
“Start the Healing”
“Lost in the Grandeur”
“Disconnect”
“Hopeless and Beaten”
“Penance to Sorrow”
“My Confession”
“Worst Is on Its Way”

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Meghan Trainor is a first-time mom, which means she’s still learning her fair share of painful parenting lessons. However, she hopes that by sharing her biggest parenting fail “so far,” she can spare other moms from the same embarrassment.

The Grammy winner revealed to Ellen DeGeneres‘ Mom Confessions that she and husband Daryl Sabara would take their newborn son, Riley, out on morning walks. But instead of giving the baby some fresh air and sunshine, they accidentally gave him heat rash.

“We would take him on these walks out here in California, and I would come home and he would have these little red bumps all over him,” said Trainor, 27. “I sent pictures to my pediatrician after the third day in a row, and I was like, ‘What’s going on? I rub cream on him. I don’t know what this is!'”

After finding out that Riley had heat rash, the Clash of the Cover Bands judge sheepishly admitted, “I was boiling my son on my morning walks. So, don’t do that!”

Mayo Clinic says infants can develop heat rash in hot, humid weather. However, the biggest culprit is overdressing, with the institution advising parents to dress their infants in lightweight, cool clothing when in those conditions.

Mayo Clinic says heat rashes go away on their own, but notes that cool baths or being taken out of the hot temperatures can also help.

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Selena Gomez is heading back to the kitchen with a fourth season of her HBO Max show Selena + Chef.

The streamer announced the renewal of her home cooking show on Wednesday and revealed that the upcoming season will feature an exciting change of scenery. For season four, Selena, along with her friends and family, will head to a beach house to continue their cooking lessons. 

Like previous seasons, the “Lose You to Love Me” singer will expand on her cooking skills with the help of all-star chefs. They’ll also continue to highlight a different charitable organization during each episode, hopefully adding to the already $400,000 raised. 

Selena said in a statement, “I am looking forward to another season of being in the kitchen with some of the world’s best chefs. Hopefully, my skills have improved. More importantly, we’ve been able to raise money for incredible charitable organizations.”

Season four of Selena + Chef is slated to premiere next year. 

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Travis Scott‘s attorney has issued a statement saying that authorities should stop insinuating that the rapper is to blame for the tragedy at last weekend’s Astroworld Festival — which left eight fans dead and hundreds more injured — because Scott didn’t immediately stop the show.

In the statement, obtained by ABC News, Attorney Edwin F. McPherson said, “There has been multiple finger-pointing, much of which has been by city officials, who have sent inconsistent messages and have backtracked from original statements.”

McPherson goes on to say that Houston Police Chief Troy Finner had been quoted as saying that officials felt they couldn’t stop the concert because there were 50,000 people there, and they were concerned that “a group [of fans] that young” would start to riot.  However, McPherson says that Finner later stated that it was Travis Scott’s responsibility to stop the show.

McPherson notes, “It was reported that the Operations Plan designated that only the festival director and executive producers have authority to stop the show, neither of which is part of Travis’s crew.”

McPherson also points out that at 2019’s Astroworld Festival, it was the Houston PD that “shut down the power and sound…when the performance ran over 5 minutes.”

“Investigations should start proceeding over finger-pointing so that together, we can identify exactly what transpired and how we can prevent anything like this from happening again,” McPherson concludes.

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