Cold War Kids have released a new song called “Wasted All Night.”
The winding track, which lasts over seven-and-a-half minutes, is available now for digital download, and is accompanied by an equally epic video. You can watch the clip streaming now on YouTube.
“Wasted All Night” will appear on the upcoming Cold War Kids release New Age Norms 3, the final installment in a trilogy of miniature albums, following 2019’s New Age Norms 1 and 2020’s New Age Norms 2. New Age Norms 3, which also includes the single “What You Say,” is due out September 24.
Cold War Kids are currently on tour opening for Kings of Leon.
Jameson Rodgers is knocking back the second top ten of his career right now: “Cold Beer Calling My Name,” with longtime supporter and label mate Luke Combs.
It’s quite fitting that Jameson and Luke are finding success with an alcohol-related tune, since having a drink or two is definitely part of their friendship. Back in 2019, Luke took Jameson on the road with him, and the relative newcomer was bracing for his first end-of-tour prank.
“I’d never been on a tour like that, and so I was nervous,” Jameson explains. “I was like, ‘Man, I’m about to be onstage in front of 12,000 people and they’re gonna come up here and do something crazy and embarrass me.'”
“And so I made the band take…like, three shots before the show,” he recalls. “I was like, ‘If they’re gonna come up here and do anything, at least we’re gonna be a little buzzed.'”
That turned out to be a prophetic mistake.
“We get up there, play the first song, and here they come with a shot,” Jameson remembers. “And I was like… ‘That was an easy prank. One shot?'”
“So we play the second song,” he continues. “Here they come again with another shot. Third song, another shot.”
“And it was a different kind of liquor every time, too,” he adds. “So it’d be like vodka, Jack Daniels, tequila. I mean, it was just mixing ’em. And the last one was Jager. And it took everything in my body not to projectile vomit in front of 12,000 people in an arena in Omaha, Nebraska.”
Jameson confesses he doesn’t even remember playing the last two songs in his show that night.
“Cold Beer” is the follow-up to Jameson’s debut #1, “Some Girls.”
Doors guitarist Robby Krieger has lined up a solo concert at one of his old band’s famous haunts in the Los Angeles area, the Whisky a Go Go club, on December 8.
The show, which currently is Krieger’s only confirmed upcoming gig, coincides with what would’ve been late Doors frontman Jim Morrison‘s 78th birthday. Tickets are available now at WhiskyaGoGo.com.
Meanwhile, Krieger and The Doors’ other surviving band member, drummer John Densmore, were interviewed together for a segment about Morrison that aired on CBS Sunday Morning over the weekend.
Ice Nine Kills has premiered a new song called “Assault & Batteries,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Welcome to Horrorwood: The Silver Scream 2.
“Assault & Batteries” follows the Jacoby Shaddix-featuring Horrorwood lead single “Hip to Be Scared.” While “Hip to Be Scared” references the movie American Psycho, “Assault & Batteries” was inspired by Child’s Play and the Chucky films.
You can download “Assault & Batteries” now via digital outlets. Its accompanying video is streaming now on YouTube.
Welcome to Horrorwood: The Silver Scream 2 will be released October 15.
St. Vincent is sharing a different version of her cover of Metallica‘s “Sad but True.”
The “Los Ageless” rocker has shared an Instagram video of her performing the opening riff of the Black Album classic on an acoustic guitar.
“Prepping for my ‘Sad but True’ cover,” she wrote in the caption. “Acoustic metal. Omg is that already a genre?”
St. Vincent previously premiered her electric, industrial-rock-influenced cover of “Sad but True” in June for the upcoming The Metallica Blacklist tribute album. The all-star compilation includes 53 artists covering every song off The Black Album in honor of its upcoming 30th anniversary.
The Metallica Blacklist will be released September 10, along with a 30th anniversary deluxe reissue of The Black Album.
St. Vincent, meanwhile, released a new album called Daddy’s Home in May.
Though she only had five concerts planned for 2021, Stevie Nicks is calling them all off.
The singer, who spent much of last year isolated and asked fans to respect social distancing and wear masks, has now announced that out of an abundance of caution, she won’t be performing this year.
In an Instagram post, she writes, “These are challenging times with challenging decisions that have to be made. I want everyone to be safe and healthy and the rising COVID cases should be of concern to all of us.”
The longtime Fleetwood Mac member continues, “While I’m vaccinated, at my age, I’m still being extremely cautious and for that reason have decided to skip the [five] performances I had planned for 2021.”
She concludes, “Because singing and performing have been my whole life, my primary goal is to keep healthy so I can continue singing for the next decade or longer. I’m devastated and I know the fans are disappointed, but we will look towards a brighter 2022.”
Stevie was to have performed at the 2021 New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, but that event was called off a few days ago anyway. She had also been scheduled to perform at the Jazz Aspen Festival in Snowmass, Colorado, and California’s BottleRock Napa Valley, both over Labor Day weekend, as well as twice during Texas’ Austin City Limits Music Festival in October.
Camila Cabello, who immigrated from Cuba at the age of six, recently visited the U.S./Mexico border so she could get a deeper understanding of the situation there. Speaking to People, she calls the visit, conducted alongside the organization This Is Humanity, “transformational.”
Camila visited the Caritas migrant shelter in Tijuana, and she tells People, “Without a doubt, these are some of the most resilient people I have ever met. Many of them are fleeing life-threatening situations and experiencing unspeakable traumas just for the chance to live a safe life with more opportunity.”
“These parents have some of the same hopes and dreams for their children as my mom had for me when we left Cuba,” the singer notes. “Our stories started out in search of a better life but timing created two completely different outcomes. This realization will always stay with me.”
“There are so many articles in the news about policies and crises at the border, but it is important to remember that these are stories about real people,” says Camila.
She adds, “Spending time with and hearing the stories of these families and children during our trip was transformational for me….the visit helped me better understand…the heartbreaking realities that so many migrants and asylum seekers are facing at our borders.”
Camila explains that watching the young children at the shelter was “a simple but heartbreaking reminder that they are all just kids.”
“The difference is that these children are forced to deal with incredible challenges and trauma that no child or person should ever have to face,” Camila notes.
The Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam, scheduled for September 3-5 in Panama City Beach, Florida, will not take place this year after all. Instead, the festival has been moved to June 3-5, 2022, according to a statement from festival organizers.
The postponement comes amid the current uptick in COVID-19 cases in Bay County, where the festival was set to be held, as well as across the country.
It’s the second time the Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam has been postponed. It originally rescheduled its 2020 lineup to 2021, keeping previously-booked headliners Lynyrd Skynyrd, Luke Bryan and Brad Paisley on the lineup for the makeup dates. It’s not yet clear whether those artists, or the others scheduled to perform, will be a part of the event in 2022.
The news from Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam comes as many festivals and events are implementing different levels of COVID-19 safety protocols. Last week, Live Nation announced they’ll give touring artists the option to mandate proof of vaccination or a current negative test from anyone attending their shows.
This week, Milwaukee’s all-genre Summerfest and Bonnaroo both decided to enact that policy for their events this year. A few artists, such as Jason Isbell, are also beginning to require proof of COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test at their shows.
Tickets for this year’s Pepsi Gulf Coast Jam will be honored in 2022; alternately, concertgoers can request a refund on the event’s website.
Following the news that Alessia Cara had recorded a new song for the upcoming animated film PAW Patrol: The Movie, the song has now been officially released.
Called “The Use in Trying,” the song carries a message of encouragement, urging the listener not to give up, because you’ll learn a valuable lesson if you keep on pushing.
“Hold your head up/You’ll find your way home/You won’t get what you give sometimes,” Alessia sings. “When the dust all settles/And the smoke all clears up/There’s pieces of yourself you’re gonna find/Maybe that’s the use in trying.”
As previously reported, Alessia wrote the song for a specific scene in the movie that emphasizes “the importance of courage.”
“I wanted to write something that could not only teach kids that they’re not always going to win, but that there’s real value in trying anyways because of the lessons you find on the other side,” she explained. “That’s a sentiment we can all understand, the further into life we go. Navigating life is never easy, but it is always worth the shot.”
PAW Patrol: The Movie, based on the preschool series, arrives in theaters and on streaming on Paramount+ on August 20. Adam Levine also has a song in the movie, titled “Good Mood.”
Alessia’s no stranger to movie songs, of course: She sang “How Far I’ll Go,” which appears over the end credits of the 2016 Disney film Moana, and the song “I Choose,” which appeared in the 2020 Netflix animated film The Willoughbys. She voiced one of the characters in that film.
Tinashe is sharing why she’s “so excited” about her fifth studio album, 333.
In an interview with Billboard prior to the album’s release on August 6, Tinashe says she couldn’t “wait to finally” have her fans hear her completed work.
“Especially thinking about shows and performing these songs live,” she says. “The best part is always before a project drops, when the anticipation is building.”
It’s safe to say that this album is extremely meaningful for Tinashe, who reveals that she actually finalized her album in 2020 amid the pandemic.
“There were things I learned out of having time to sit with myself and my thoughts and I think that led to creating this music,” she explains.
After ending her record deal with RCA Records in 2019, and releasing 333 independently under her own label, Tinashe Music, the independent singer-songwriter says it’s been “awesome” to have “full creative control.”
“The majority of the songs, I wrote myself in my studio in my house where I feel the most in tune,” she says. “It’s empowered me and feels good to have that thread of continuity in my work, it’s been a game changer.”
As an independent artist, Tinashe also is managed by Jay Z‘s Roc Nation. She says working on Jay’s imprint “has been a great home” for her.
“They’ve allowed me the space to have creative freedom and given me that confidence, because they really support all of my creative decisions,” she adds.
