Gojira has premiered the video for “Sphinx,” a track off the band’s new album, Fortitude.
Fittingly, the clip transports the French metallers to Egypt where they rock out beside the famed Giza statue. You can watch the “Sphinx” video streaming now on YouTube.
Fortitude, Gojira’s seventh album, was released in April. It also includes the single “Amazonia.”
Gojira’s current headlining tour behind Fortitude continues Thursday in Rochester, New York, and will wrap up November 10 in North Charleston, South Carolina. The band will return to the road next spring for a tour supporting Deftones.
A new trailer for House of Gucci is out and it features even more glimpses of Lady Gaga as Patrizia Reggiani, the ex-wife of Italian designer Maurizio Gucci, who hired a hitman to kill him in 1995.
In the clip, we see Patrizia meeting the Gucci family for the first time and then we see her as she slowly starts to assert more of a role in their fashion empire.
“Gucci’s not exciting, and everybody knows it,” Gaga as Patrizia tells her husband, played by Adam Driver.
“At least it’s my name, sweetie,” he says.
Gaga points to her wedding ring and shoots back, “Our name, sweetie.”
House of Gucci, directed by Ridley Scott and also starring Jared Leto, Jeremy Irons and Al Pacino, debuts in theaters on November 24.
Spoon has announced a new album called Lucifer on the Sofa.
The group’s tenth studio effort will arrive February 11, 2022. As frontman Britt Daniel explains, Lucifer will be a more straight-rock record compared to the last Spoon album, 2017’s dance and electronic-oriented Hot Thoughts.
“I liked where we’d gone on Hot Thoughts — it had a specific style and it covered new ground for us — but we kept noticing on the road that the live versions of the songs were beating the album versions,” Daniel says in a statement. “And it got us thinking: The best rock music is not about dialing in the right patches and triggering samples. It’s about what happens in a room.”
The resulting sound of Lucifer, Daniel shares, is “classic rock as written by a guy who never did get Eric Clapton.”
Our first preview of said sound is the lead single “The Hardest Cut,” which is available now for digital download.
Here’s the Lucifer on the Sofa track list:
“Held”
“The Hardest Cut”
“The Devil & Mister Jones”
“Wild”
“My Babe”
“Feels Alright”
“On the Radio”
“Astral Jacket”
“Satellite”
“Lucifer on the Sofa”
Here’s your chance to show your love for Motörhead and compassion for men’s health issues at the same time.
Each November, the organization Movember launches a campaign in an effort to raise funds and awareness for men’s mental health and suicide prevention, prostate cancer and testicular cancer by asking people to grow — or otherwise wear — a mustache for the month. This year, the project includes a special Motörhead twist.
In partnership with the “Ace of Spades” rockers, Movember is inviting participants to grow a mustache modeled after the late Lemmy Kilmister‘s signature facial hair. Not only will your Lemmy ‘stache benefit an important cause, but, with enough money raised, you may be entered to win special Motörhead-related prizes.
If you’re unsure whether the Kilmister look is right for you, you can check out a preview thanks to a Lemmy mustache filter.
This November, Gabby Barrett will drop a deluxe version of Goldmine, the hit debut project that propelled Gabby from an up-and-comer to bonafide superstar.
The singer announced the news during a stop on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, where she was also performing her current single, “Footprints on the Moon.” That song — off the track list of the original Goldmine — follows back-to-back number-one hits “I Hope” and “The Good Ones.”
Gabby hasn’t yet shared many details about her deluxe project, beyond the fact that it will feature an extended track list and a special new album cover. It’s due out November 19, and is available to pre-save and pre-add now.
Next up, Gabby’s headed to the 2021 CMA Awards show. She’s up for four trophies, including Female Artist of the Year and New Artist of the Year.
The opening bands on All Time Low‘s ongoing tour have dropped off the bill following allegations of sexual misconduct against the “Monsters” group.
Bothnothing,nowhere. andMeet Me @ the Altar announced Wednesday that they will no longer be a part of the tour. Instead, the two groups will be playing a run of newly announced shows together throughout the next week.
The allegations against All Time Low first surfaced following a TikTok video in which someone states that a “famous pop punk band” invited them onto the group tour bus when they were only 13, and engaged in inappropriate behavior, including giving them alcohol. The person who posted the TikTok did not name All Time Low specifically, but heavily implied they were talking about the “Dear Maria” rockers.
The TikTok was then followed by an anonymous social media account specifically accusing guitarist Jack Barakat of grooming, abuse and sexual assault.
In a statement credited to all four band members posted this past Monday, All Time Low denied all allegations as “absolutely and unequivocally false.”
All Time Low’s tour is scheduled to continue Thursday in Des Moines, Iowa, and run through a November 12 date in San Diego.
The Weeknd was nominated for six American Music Awards Thursday and is competing against his good friend Drake in two categories.
The two Toronto superstars are both up for Artist of the Year and Favorite Male Pop Artist. Drizzy received a total of five nominations. The Weeknd’s nominations also include Favorite Male R&B Artist.
Doja Cat and Giveon tied Drake with five nods. Artists with three nominations include Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, Silk Sonic, H.E.R., SZA, and the late Pop Smoke.
The 2021 American Music Awards will take place Sunday, Nov. 21 at 8 p.m. ET. The ceremony will broadcast live on ABC.
Here’s a list of the nominees in some of the major categories:
Artist of the Year
Taylor Swift
Ariana Grande
The Weeknd
Olivia Rodrigo
BTS
Drake
Favorite Male Hip-Hop Artist
Drake
Lil Baby
Moneybagg Yo
Polo G
Pop Smoke
Favorite Female Hip-Hop Artist
Cardi B
Coi Leray
Erica Banks
Megan Thee Stallion
Saweetie
Favorite Hip-Hop Album
Drake, Certified Lover Boy
Juice WRLD, Legends Never Die
Megan Thee Stallion, Good News
Pop Smoke, Shoot for the Stars Aim for the Moon
Rod Wave, SoulFly
Favorite Hip-Hop Song
Cardi B, “Up”
Internet Money ft. Gunna, Don Toliver & NAV, “Lemonade”
Lil Tjay ft. 6LACK, “Calling My Phone”
Polo G, “RAPSTAR”
Pop Smoke, “What You Know Bout Love”
Favorite Male R&B Artist
Chris Brown
Giveon
Tank
The Weeknd
Usher
Favorite R&B Album
Doja Cat, Planet Her
Giveon, When It’s All Said and Done… Take Time
H.E.R., Back of My Mind
Jazmine Sullivan, Heaux Tales
Queen Naija, missunderstood
Favorite R&B Song
Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak), “Leave the Door Open”
Chris Brown & Young Thug, “Go Crazy”
Giveon, “Heartbreak Anniversary”
H.E.R., “Damage”
Jazmine Sullivan, “Pick Up Your Feelings”
Favorite Gospel Artist
Kanye West
Kirk Franklin
Koryn Hawthorne
Maverick City Music
Tasha Cobbs Leonard
Favorite Music Video
Silk Sonic (Bruno Mars, Anderson .Paak), “Leave the Door Open”
Cardi B, “Up”
Lil Nas X, “MONTERO (Call Me By Your Name)”
Olivia Rodrigo, “drivers license”
The Weeknd, “Save Your Tears”
Collaboration of the Year
24kGoldn ft. iann dior “Mood”
Bad Bunny & Jhay Cortez “DAKITI”
Chris Brown & Young Thug “Go Crazy”
Doja Cat ft. SZA “Kiss Me More”
Justin Bieber ft. Daniel Caesar & Giveon “Peaches”
Favorite Male Pop Artist
Drake
Ed Sheeran
Justin Bieber
Lil Nas X
The Weeknd
Favorite Female Pop Artist
Ariana Grande
Doja Cat
Dua Lipa
Olivia Rodrigo
Taylor Swift
Favorite Pop Duo or Group
AJR
BTS
Glass Animals
Maroon 5
Silk Sonic
Favorite Pop Song
BTS, “Butter”
Doja Cat feat. SZA, “Kiss Me More”
Dua Lipa, “Levitating”
Olivia Rodrigo, “drivers license”
The Weekend & Ariana Grande, “Save Your Tears (Remix)”
Elton John made a virtual appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon Wednesday night and shared a couple of stories about fellow musical icons.
In one of the stories, he talked about performing with John Lennon at Madison Square Garden in 1974, which turned out to be Lennon’s last live public performance before his death in 1980.
“It was one of the most magical moments of my life,” Elton said. “Probably for me, the memory of him coming onstage and getting so much applause. I think all the band, and myself, were moved to tears. And it was such a wonderful occasion.”
He also recalled the not-so-magical moment when he almost rejected a birthday surprise from Stevie Wonder. Elton was on board a private plane called the Starship and was bummed out about a performance he had.
“I went up front and sat on my own and they said, ‘Come up to the bow. We want to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you’ and I went, ‘I’m not interested in my birthday,’” he recalled. “And this happened about three or four times until my publicist burst into tears and said, ‘You have to come up there. Stevie Wonder is at the organ’ — of course the plane had an organ on it — ‘and he wants to sing ‘Happy Birthday’ to you.”
Elton finally got to collaborate with Stevie on the song “Finish Line” from his new album, The Lockdown Sessions.
Volbeat has premiered a new song called “Becoming,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Servant of the Mind.
“Becoming” is the fourth cut to be released from Servant, following the singles “Wait a Minute My Girl” and “Shotgun Blues,” and the song “Dagen Før,” featuring Stine Bramsen. The whole album is set to arrive December 3.
Servant of the Mind is Volbeat’s eighth studio album, and their first since 2019’s Rewind, Replay, Rebound.
Volbeat will hit the road in support of their new record next year on a co-headlining U.S. tour with Ghost, which kicks off January 25 in Reno, Nevada.
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This weekend in Cleveland, it’s the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. And each year, there’s always a story about an artist who doesn’t want to go because they either don’t like Rock Hall, or they’re feuding with their former band mates. Back in 2017, Steve Perry was one of those artists who wasn’t going to show up for his induction as a member of Journey…but now, looking back, he’s really glad he did.
“Yeah, it turned out to be one of the most fun things I’ve ever done,” Perry told ABC Audio. In his case, he said he was concerned because “it had been so many years and the band’s moved on.” In addition, he didn’t want to make Journey’s current lead singer, Arnel Pineda, feel uncomfortable.
“I love Arnel and I thought, y’know, out of respect for him and just where they’d gone, I thought I would just leave it alone,” he says. “Then I had a friend of mine telling me, ‘Look, you deserve to be there — you should be there too.'”
“One thing led to another, and I went,” he recalls. “And backstage, it became clear to me what I was doing there, and what I needed to say. I sketched some stuff on a paper, and when I got out there, I pulled the paper out and said, ‘I got some things to say!'”
He laughs, “They gave us all about five to six minutes…and I thought, ‘That’s not going to cut it for me!’ So I went ahead and took the moment, and thanked everybody.”
The first person Perry thanked was ex-Journey manager Herbie Herbert, who was responsible for him joining the band. Herbert passed away Monday at age 73.
Perry’s first Christmas album,The Season, is out November 5.
