Bush has canceled the band’s upcoming co-headlining tour with Stone Temple Pilots due to “unavoidable COVID-related circumstances.”
“We cannot stress enough how heart-breaking it is not to be able to got out and play after all this time, and after all of our attempted stars and ensuing stops over the past year and a half,” Gavin Rossdale and company write on their social media. “We wish to extend our deepest apologies as this is the last thing we would want for all our great fans as well as our good friends in Stone Temple Pilots.”
The tour was set to kick off September 30 Mesa, Arizona, and stretch into mid-October.
Along with the STP run, Bush’s festival appearances for this fall have been scrapped, as well.
Lana Del Rey is stepping away from social media to give her full attention to her upcoming projects.
The “Summertime Sadness” singer announced Saturday that she will be pulling the plug on her Twitter, Instagram and other social accounts.
“Hi, guys. I just wanted to let you know that tomorrow we are going to be deactivating our social media accounts, my social media accounts,” she told her followers, according to Rolling Stone. “That is simply because I have so many other interests and other jobs I’m doing that require privacy and transparency.”
Naming her announcement video “On the record,” the six-time Grammy nominee expressed gratitude to her fans for supporting her over the years and promised she will continue to release new music and dabble in poetry.
“I’m still very present and love what I do. I’m absolutely out here for the music and that I’m also just going on some different endeavors,” Lana said. “For right now, I think I’m going to just keep my circle a little bit closer and continue to develop some other skills and interests.”
The 36-year-old signed off by telling fans she will now spend her days “living life” and that she had enjoyed sharing “all these very small tidbits” with her followers.
Lana did not reveal when or if she will return to social media.
In the meantime, her eighth album, Blue Banisters, is due out October 22. Last week, she released the single “Arcadia,” which will be featured on the upcoming studio effort.
Dua Lipa is finally getting the chance to bring her chart-topping music to her U.S. fans in person.
The superstar has officially announced the North American leg of her Future Nostalgia tour, which will kick off February 9 in Miami, FL and conclude on April 1 in Vancouver, Canada. The opening acts will vary based on the show date, but they include Megan Thee Stallion, Caroline Polachek and Lolo Zouaï.
The tour will include Dua’s first-ever headlining shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden and at The Forum in Inglewood, CA. Tickets and VIP packages go on sale Friday, September 17 at 12 p.m. local time via Ticketmaster.
“I’m so thrilled to tour again and see my angels in person! How amazing that we all get to dance and celebrate together once again,” says Dua in a statement.
“When I was writing Future Nostalgia, I imagined the songs being played in clubs on nights out with your mates,” she adds. “I’m so excited that this fantasy is finally coming true. I can’t wait to experience these songs with you together live!”
Foo Fighters, Machine Gun Kelly and Twenty One Pilots all performed during Sunday’s 2021 MTV Video Music Awards.
Dave Grohl and company, who were honored at the ceremony with the Global Icon Award, performed a three-song medley including the classics “Everlong” and “Learn to Fly,” as well as “Shame Shame,” the lead single from their latest album, Medicine at Midnight.
Meanwhile, Kelly and his Tickets to My Downfall collaborator Travis Barkerrocked his new single, “Papercuts,” and Tyler Joseph and Josh Dunpainted the town with their song “Saturday.”
Kelly also won won the Best Alternative VMA for his song “My Ex’s Best Friend” with blackbear. Other VMA winners include John Mayer‘s “Last Train Home” for Best Rock, and Billie Eilish‘s “Your Power” for Video for Good.
MGK, by the way, seemed to have quite the eventful night. In addition to his performance and award win, he also appeared to get into some sort of confrontation with MMA fighter Conor McGregor on the red carpet. Photos and footage from the event seem to show McGregor charging towards Kelly as the two appeared to exchange words. A source tells People that McGregor had asked MGK to take a photo with him, but was denied by the “Bloody Valentine” rocker’s team.
“Conor went in on it a little bit,” the source said. However, a rep for the fighter denies to People that the photo request happened, and notes that Kelly attended McGregor’s last match. Meanwhile, McGregor spoke with Entertainment Tonight on the carpet shortly after the incident and downplayed the whole affair.
“No scuffle at all,” McGregor said. “I don’t know the man!”
“I only fight real fighters, people that actually fight,” he added. “I certainly don’t fight little vanilla boy rappers.”
ABBA in 2021, in motion-capture suits/Credit: Baillie Walsh
ABBA‘s long-awaited return has British fans saying “Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!” to their new music.
“Don’t Shut Me Down,” one of two new songs the Swedish superstars released earlier this month, has debuted in the top 10 of the Official U.K. Singles chart. It’s the first time ABBA’s been in the top 10 on that chart since 1982. “I Still Have Faith In You,” ABBA’s other new song, debuted at number 14.
The two new entries brings the band’s total of top-40 U.K. singles to 28. In addition, the group’s best-of album, Gold, is back in the top five on the British album chart for the first time since 2008.
Both of the new songs will appear on ABBA’s new album, Voyage, due out November 5. As previously reported, it’s set a record as Universal Music U.K.’s biggest-ever album pre-order.
All the ABBA hype is leading up to the debut of a virtual concert experience, which will debut next year in London. It’ll feature digital avatars of ABBA’s four members performing all their legendary hits.
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After opening Sunday night’s MTV VMAs with Justin Bieber, The Kid LAROI has announced his debut headlining tour.
The End of the World Tour kicks off January 29 in Phoenix, AZ and is currently scheduled to wrap up March 10 in Atlanta, GA, reports Billboard. Tickets go on sale Friday, September 17 at 10 a.m. local time. Following LAROI’s North American tour, he’ll travel to Europe and then to his home country of Australia, plus New Zealand.
Billboard quotes LAROI as saying, “I am beyond excited to share this experience with you all. It’s always been a dream of mine to headline a global tour. I cannot wait to see my fans all around the world and give them something that they won’t ever forget. It’s been a long time coming.”
Billboard reports that the tour will find LAROI performing songs from all three installments of his F*ck Love release, including his smash hits “Stay” and “Without You.”
Following his MTV VMA debut, LAROI tweeted to his fans, “I love you family. Thank you for everything. NONE of this s**t would be possible without you. I’m forever in debt to you all.”
“I’m forever grateful for the opportunity to do what I love and support the people I love most around me,” he added. “There’s no way I will ever be able to repay you.”
Last week, BTS teamed up with Coldplay‘s Chris Martin for an episode of YouTube Originals’ series RELEASED. Now the two are teaming up on music.
“My Universe,” a collaboration between the superstar British band and BTS, will be released on September 24. Produced by Max Martin, it was co-written by both acts and is sung in both English and Korean. You can pre-order it now atmyuniverse.coldplay.com.
“My Universe” is the second single from Coldplay’s upcoming album Music of the Spheres, due out October 15.
Ashley McBryde is one of the most-nominated artists at the upcoming 55th Annual CMA Awards, competing for Female Vocalist of the Year, as well as Single and Song of the Year for her top-10 hit “One Night Standards.”
But the “Little Dive Bar in Dahlonega” hitmaker is not just sitting back waiting for her next trophy. She’s already hard at work on the follow-up to last year’s Never Will.
“We jumped back in the studio August 8th,” she recently told ABC Audio backstage at the Opry. “So this is our first time to make a record this way.”
“We usually get everything together,” she explains, “get our ducks in a row, go rehearse it, talk to [producer] Jay [Joyce] about it, select which ones we’re gonna keep, and go cut ’em. And we’re not able to do that right now ’cause we’re on the road.”
That means historic venues like the Grand Ole Opry are often testing grounds for the new tunes from Ashley and her band Deadhorse.
“We’re using soundchecks to kind of test and arrange a song, and then we may throw it in the set that night and see if it sinks or swims,” she says. “And that’s how we’re choosing what’s going on this record right now. So it’s a little bit nerve-racking, but the first three I’m very happy with.”
She adds, “We’re gonna do one of them tonight. We’re gonna do ‘Whiskey and Country Music’ tonight.”
This fall, you can listen for new music from Ashley as she’s on tour with longtime pal Luke Combs. Meanwhile, the Grand Ole Opry is counting down to its mammoth 5000th show on October 30.
Last November, founding Byrds bassist Chris Hillman published an autobiography called Time Between: My Life as a Byrd, Burrito Brother and Beyond, and now an audiobook version is set for release on October 19.
In addition to Hillman reading the entire book, the audio version of Time Between also includes newly recorded snippets of 21 songs that span the influential musician’s long and wide-ranging career.
“Recording my narration for the book was far more challenging than I could have ever imagined,” Hillman notes. “For me it was completely different from going into a studio and recording music, and vocals, which I’ve been doing for nearly six decades.”
He adds, “We tossed around the idea of adding a bit of music to embellish the title of each chapter. Each chapter was named after a song I had written, and or had recorded. This began to take on a whole new dimension in the presentation.”
As previously reported, Time Between follows Hillman from his childhood in Southern California, through the adversity of his father’s death by suicide when he was a teenager, and the development of his passion for bluegrass music, to becoming a member of legendary ’60s folk-rock band The Byrds and beyond.
The book not only details Chris’ adventures with The Byrds, but also his experiences with The Flying Burrito Brothers, the influential country-rock band he co-founded with Gram Parsons, and with his later groups Manassas, Souther-Hillman-Furay, McGuinn, Clark & Hillman and The Desert Rose Band.
Meanwhile, Hillman has several concerts lined up this year and about a dozen in 2022 that will feature him performing with his former Desert Rose Band mates Herb Pedersen and John Jourgenson. Echoing his memoir’s title, the concerts have been dubbed “Time Between: An Evening of Stories and Songs.”
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The 2021 MTV Video Music Awards celebrated another year in music during the pandemic era, with the celebration rolling out the red carpet and inviting the industry’s finest to Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Doja Cat hosted the main event and helped dole out statues to the night’s big winners, which included Lil Nas X, Olivia Rodrigo and Justin Bieber.
Lil Nas X was the night’s biggest winner, taking home the most awards with four wins. The “Industry Baby” rapper collected the night’s top prize, Video of the Year, for “Montero (Call Me By Your Name).” He also won Best Direction, Best Visual Effects and Best Art Direction.
Rodrigo, who collected the second-most awards of the night, walked away with three Moonpersons: Song of the Year — for her emotional debut single “Drivers License” — as well as Best New Artist and Push Performance of the Year.
Bieber, who was this year’s leading nominee, returned to the VMA stage for the first time in six years, where he was crowned Artist of the Year and awarded Best Pop for his “Peaches” collaboration with Daniel Caesar and Giveon.
Here’s a list of this year’s winners:
Video of the Year
Lil Nas X “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)”
Artist of the Year
Justin Bieber
Song of the Year
Olivia Rodrigo “Drivers License”
Best New Artist
Olivia Rodrigo
PUSH Performance of the Year
Olivia Rodrigo “Drivers License”
Best Collaboration
Doja Cat ft. SZA “Kiss Me More”
Best Pop
Justin Bieber ft. “Peaches”
Best Hip-Hop
Travis Scott ft. Young Thug & M.I.A.”FRANCHISE”
Best R&B
Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic “Leave the Door Open”
Best K-Pop
BTS “Butter”
Best Latin
Billie Eilish & ROSALÍA “Lo Vas A Olvidar”
Best Rock
John Mayer “Last Train Home”
Best Alternative
Machine Gun Kelly ft. blackbear “my ex’s best friend”
Best Group
BTS
Video For Good
Billie Eilish “Your Power”
Best Direction
Lil Nas X: “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)”
Best Cinematography
Beyoncé, Blue Ivy, SAINt JHN, WizKid “Brown Skin Girl”
Best Art Direction
Lil Nas X “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)”
Best Visual Effects
Lil Nas X “Montero (Call Me By Your Name)”
Best Choreography
Harry Styles “Treat People With Kindness”
Best Editing
Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak, Silk Sonic “Leave the Door Open”
For the full list of winners and nominees, check out MTV.com.
