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AWOLNATION has revealed the full details of the band’s upcoming covers album, My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers and Me.

Among the songs the “Sail” outfit will be tackling on the record include ABBA‘s “Take a Chance on Me,” Madonna‘s “Material Girl,” Biz Markie‘s “Just a Friend” and Harvey Danger‘s “Flagpole Sitta.” Aaron Bruno and company will also be accompanied by a number of special guests, such as Rise Against‘s Tim McIlrath, Beck, Jewel, Grouplove, Hyro the Hero, Hanson‘s Taylor Hanson and Nothing but Thieves‘ Conor Mason.

The collaboration with McIlrath, a cover of the Midnight Oil song “Beds Are Burning,” is out today via digital outlets. An accompanying video is streaming now on YouTube.

My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers and Me will be released May 6. It also includes AWOL’s previously released cover of the Scorpions hit “Wind of Change,” featuring Incubus‘ Brandon Boyd and Portugal. The Man.

Here’s the My Echo, My Shadow, My Covers and Me track list:

“Beds Are Burning” feat. Tim McIlrath of Rise Against
“Eye in the Sky” feat. Beck
“Take a Chance on Me” feat. Jewel
“Maniac” feat. Conor Mason of Nothing But Thieves
“Just a Friend” feat. Hyro The Hero
“Material Girl” feat. Taylor Hanson of Hanson
“Wind of Change” feat. Brandon Boyd of Incubus & Portugal. The Man
“Waiting Room” feat. Grouplove
“Drive” (Digital only)
“Flagpole Sitta” feat. Elohim
“Alone Again” feat. Midland

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Just days after dropping his new single, “Last Night Lonely,” Jon Pardi has announced a summer tour.

Jon’s Ain’t Always the Cowboy Tour begins in July, he revealed via American Songwriter this week.

The string of dates both opens and closes with a hometown connection. Jon’s first stop, in late July, is in Sacramento, California — the same state in which he grew up. He’ll end the tour with a performance at Ascend Amphitheater in his adopted home city of Nashville.

Joining Pardi on tour will be up-and-coming acts Lainey Wilson and Hailey Whitters. Lainey’s one of Nashville’s fastest-rising stars, who earned her first number-one in 2021 with “Things a Man Oughta Know.” Meanwhile, Hailey just announced a new album, Raised, which is due out in March.

With “Last Night Lonely” already out in the world, Jon’s gearing up for a new album cycle himself, though he doesn’t have an exact release date to share just yet. Per American Songwriter, he’s hoping for a fall 2022 release date.

For dates and details about all the stops on Jon’s next tour, visit his website.

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Slipknot‘s Corey Taylor has released his new EP CMFB…Sides, a collection of acoustic tracks, live recordings and covers to follow his 2020 solo debut album, CMFT.

Among songs Taylor chose to put his spin on for the EP include Red Rider‘s “Lunatic Fringe,” KISS‘ “Got to Choose,” Eddie Money‘s “Shakin'” and Dead Boys‘ “All This and More.” The “Lunatic Fringe” cover is accompanied by a lyric video, which is streaming now on YouTube.

CMFB…Sides also includes Taylor’s previously released cover of “On the Dark Side,” originally recorded by John Cafferty & The Beaver Brown Band for the 1983 film Eddie and the Cruisers, and his Metallica Blacklist rendition of “Holier Than Thou.”

Next month, Taylor and Slipknot will resume their Knotfest Roadshow tour, beginning March 16 in Fargo, North Dakota. The masked metallers have also been teasing a new album to be released later this year.

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Avril Lavigne‘s eagerly awaited new album, Love Sux, is out today, featuring guest appearances and production work from blackbear, Blink-182’s Travis Barker and Mark Hoppus, her boyfriend Mod Sun, and Machine Gun Kelly.  Now in her 20th year as a recording artist, the Canadian star says she’s still enjoying that pop-punk life. 

Appearing on ABC’s Good Morning America, Avril said of being two decades past the release of her 2002 debut album, Let Go, “I feel like it’s gone by so fast but I’m really grateful to still be here and making music. This is my seventh record and I’m still having so much fun, and I’m looking forward to going out on tour this year.”

Avril was also asked about young female artists like Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo citing her as an inspiration.

“Oh my God, it’s so crazy to hear that,” Avril told GMA. “I mean, those ladies are incredible songwriters and performers and I’ve met both of them. They’re lovely and I love what they’re dong musically.”

The first leg of Avril’s tour starts in Canada in May 3 and wraps up May 27 at the Boston Calling Festival. In September, she’ll perform at the Firefly Festival in Delaware and in October, she’ll appear at the the all-emo and pop-punk festival When We Were Young in Las Vegas.  She gave the GMA audience a taste of her tour by performing her latest single, “Love It When You Hate Me.”

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Here’s what it would sound like if Billie Eilish wrote music for a boy band.

As previously reported, the “Happier Than Ever” artists and her brother/collaborator, FINNEAS, are contributing original songs to the upcoming Disney/Pixar film Turning Red. Eilish won’t be performing the songs, however — that duty belongs to 4*Town, a fictional boy band that’s the obsession of Turning Red‘s teenage protagonist, Mei.

Now, one of 4*Town songs Eilish and FINNEAS wrote for the film, called “Nobody Like U,” has been released. The track is available via digital outlets, and you can watch its accompanying lyric streaming on YouTube.

Turning Red follows Mei, a 13-year-old girl who spontaneously transforms into a giant red panda whenever she feels strong emotions. The film premieres on Disney+ March 11, and its soundtrack, which includes “Nobody Like U” and two other 4*Town songs, drops that same day.

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If you’ve ever wondered how Tim McGraw and Faith Hill are able to ride horses and drive wagons so effortlessly during their scenes in the Yellowstone prequel 1883, the answer’s simple: They went to cowboy camp.

That’s because, as show creator Taylor Sheridan puts it, “There’s no way for me to inform them what this way of life is, you just have to do it.” So Tim, Faith and the rest of the cast showed up each morning and put themselves into real-life cowboy situations, with guidance from professional horse trainers.

“Cowboy camp was probably the most helpful thing in the world,” says Tim, who plays James Dutton on the show.

Learning the ropes — no pun intended — also forced the cast mates out of their comfort zone, and helped them bond with each other.

“We’re all doing this together. So we were all dedicated to it. And that’s been extraordinary to watch,” explains Faith, who plays Margaret Dutton.

1883 streams Sundays on Paramount+.

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Ashley McBryde is cooking up something in the studio.

The singer shared a post on socials this week looking back on what a tumultuous couple of months 2022 has brought so far — and how it all led to new music. In early January, she explained, she and her band were dealing with some confusion on exactly what lay ahead.

“At the top of the year, we didn’t know what was going to happen,” Ashley wrote. “One of us was hurt. One of us was sick. We just didn’t know what was going to happen.”

But fortunately, all those question marks have since turned into arrows pointing towards her next album. “But of Feb 1st I knew exactly what was going to happen…record three,” she continued.

Ashley shared some sneak peeks into the music-making process, posting photos of herself in the studio, as well as a shot of guitars and what appear to be lyrics sheets strewn over a coach.

She also confirmed to CMT that her new album is done, saying “It’s scary to say finished, but we just finished our third record.”

The singer’s next project, when it does arrive, will be the follow-up to her 2020 sophomore album, Never Will. That album was a landmark release for Ashley, producing the single “One Night Standards,” her first-ever top-ten country radio hit.

Last September, Ashley also shared that she was hitting the studio to make new music, and she debuted a new song called “Whiskey and Country Music” at the Grand Ole Opry that month.

In the meantime, Ashley’s nominated for Female Artist of the Year at the upcoming ACM Awards. “Never Wanted to Be That Girl,” her duet with Carly Pearce, also scored two nominations.

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Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider pays tribute to the victims of tragic 2003 Station nightclub fire in a brand-new music video for his recent solo song, “Stand,” which got its premiere today at the Napalm Records label’s YouTube channel.

The clip features Snider and his solo band performing the song along with footage from a new documentary titled America’s Deadliest Rock Concert: The Guest List, which debuted last Sunday on the Reelz channel. Dee was interviewed for the doc, and the video begins with a clip of him saying of the tragedy, “Nobody deserves to die because they wanted to see a band.”

The fire took place during a Great White show at Warwick, Rhode Island, club on February 20, 2003. One hundred people died in the horrifying incident, and over 200 were injured.

“While I didn’t write ‘Stand’ for the Station nightclub fire documentary America’s Deadliest Rock Concert: The Guest List, it is a perfect fit,” Snider says. “The full tragedy of that horrific night was the despicable lack of support shown for a community in desperate need. ‘Stand’ speaks to the importance for us all to recognize these moments of desperation and do something about them. ‘Don’t leave your mark…leave a scar!'”

Dee adds, “This documentary not only serves as a reminder of this incredible tragedy, but it shines a light on an amazing group of people who overcame unfathomable loss, and survived, even thrived in the aftermath.”

Snider had performed at the Station, and after the fire he helped bring fellow music artists together for a charity concert to aid the survivors and victims’ families.

The documentary will air again on Reelz this Sunday, February 27, at 3 p.m. ET.

“Stand” is featured on Snider’s 2021 album Leave a Scar.

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Avril Lavigne‘s new album Love Sux is out today, and it includes collaborations with Machine Gun Kelly and Blink-182‘s Mark Hoppus.

MGK guests on a track called “Bois Lie,” — as in “Sk8er Boi” — while Hoppus hops on the tune “All I Wanted.” Both songs are available now via digital outlets.

Love Sux, which also features the lead single “Bite Me,” has been touted as Lavigne’s return to pop-punk, and is influenced by bands including Blink, Green Day and NOFX. The album was released on Blink drummer Travis Barker‘s label, DTA Records.

Lavigne will hit the road behind Love Sux on a tour of her native Canada in May, with support from grandson on select dates. She’ll head down south to the U.S. to play the Boston Calling festival over Memorial Day weekend.

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Here’s something to talk about: Bonnie Raitt has released a new single from her upcoming album, Just Like That…, which will be released on April 22.

The song, “Made Up Mind,” is a cover of a song by the Canadian alt-country-folk group The Bros. Landreth.  In a statement, Raitt says, “On this record, I wanted to stretch. I always want to find songs that excite me, and what’s different this time is that I’ve tried some styles and topics I haven’t touched on before.”

Just Like That…, Raitt’s first album in more than six years, was recorded last summer in Sausalito, California, along with three of her longtime musical collaborators and a few new ones. It’s available for pre-order now.

In a statement, Bonnie says she’s grateful that she’s been able to continue making music, 50 years after her debut album. “I’m really aware of how lucky I am,” she says, “and I feel like it’s my responsibility to get out there and say something fresh and new — for me and for the fans. But I need to have something to say or I won’t put out a record.”

On March 2, the veteran star will receive the Icon Award at the Billboard Women in Music Awards, and this spring, she’ll receive a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.  Her tour kicks off March 28 in Modesto, CA and is scheduled to take her all the way through late November.

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