Nikki Sixx and Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe perform at GIANTS Stadium on November 11, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. (Don Arnold/WireImage)
Mötley Crüe will be celebrating America’s birthday up north in Canada.
The “Home Sweet Home” rockers will headline Winnipeg’s Rockin’ Thunder concert series on July 4. The bill will also include Three Days Grace, Halestorm and Canadian musician JJ Wilde.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. CT. For all ticket info, visit Motley.com.
Mötley will return to the U.S. later in July to launch the Return of Carnival of Sins tour celebrating the band’s 45th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of their 2005-06 Carnival of Sins tour.
Taylor Swift, ‘The Life of a Showgirl’ cover image (Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot)
It’s been rumored for months, but now it’s true: Taylor Swift is releasing a video for “Opalite,” one of the most popular songs on her album The Life of a Showgirl.
According to the Taylor Nation Instagram account, “Opalite” will be the next official single from the album, and the video will be released on Spotify Premium and Apple Music on Friday at 8 a.m. ET.
Taylor is also releasing a 7-inch vinyl of “Opalite,” which is available at her online store until Feb. 6 at 7 p.m. ET or while supplies last. It’ll ship on or around Feb. 9. The vinyl features the regular version of the song and an acoustic version on the flip side.
According to Billboard, following the premieres on Friday, the video will hit YouTube on Sunday.
“Opalite” is the second official single from The Life of a Showgirl, following the #1 hit “The Fate of Ophelia.”
When Zach Top walked away with the best traditional country album trophy at Sunday’s Grammys, it was the fulfillment of the vision he’d had with the record’s title.
“I wanna be making these records that people love for the next 40 years, hopefully,” he told ABC Audio at November’s CMA Awards. “My idea is it’s not gonna be a flash in the pan and that’s kind of, you know, a little bit of the mission statement of the title of that album, too, I Ain’t in It for My Health. It’s not a one-hit wonder thing, I’m around to stay.”
Next up, Zach gets back to the things he hasn’t been able to do since the release of Cold Beer & Country Music in April 2024.
“I haven’t hardly written the last two years just being so busy on the road,” he says, “so it’ll be fun to kind of start hopefully writing another pile of hits and be ready for a third record whenever that comes around.”
“We’ll be busy on the road again,” he adds, “getting our first taste of headlining a bunch of the bigger festivals. Not too many daylight sets for us anymore, so that’ll be kind of fun.”
After a Thursday show in Scottsdale, Arizona, Zach sets out on a European tour Feb. 21.
Cover of ‘R.E.M. at the BBC’ box set (Craft Recordings)
R.E.M. fans will once again be able to get their hands on the band’s 2018 live album box set R.E.M. at the BBC.
The band announced on Instagram that the box set is “Back by demand” and will be available again starting March 6.
The eight-CD/one-DVD set features rare live and in-studio recordings taken from the BBC archives, with all the performances recorded between 1984 and 2008.
The compilation includes a 60-minute Later … with Jools Holland performance, plus performances from Radio 1’s Live Lounge and John Peel Studio Sessions. There are also recordings of several live U.K. broadcasts, including R.E.M.’s 1999 set at the Glastonbury Festival, a 2004 show at St. James’s Church in London and a 1995 broadcast from Milton Keynes.
The set features performances of such R.E.M. classics as “Losing My Religion,” “Man on the Moon,” “Radio Free Europe,” “Drive,” “Everybody Hurts” and “It’s the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine).”
The set also includes a DVD with the short film Accelerating Backwards and the Later … with Jools Holland performance, plus three bonus videos: “I’ve Been High,” “Nightswimming” and “Bad Day.”
‘Tenterhooks’ album artwork. (New Machine Recordings)
The Silversun Pickups‘ new album, Tenterhooks, is out Friday. It marks their third collaboration with Garbage drummer and Nevermind producer Butch Vig.
“The new album’s great,” Vig tells ABC Audio of Tenterhooks. “Some very powerful songs on it.”
Vig adds that he feels Tenterhooks “has a quite eclectic feel to it.”
“Yet it still sounds like Silversun Pickups,” Vig continues. “They have something in their DNA, the way they play together and [frontman] Brian [Aubert]’s guitar playing and his singing, and the way he and [bassist] Nikki [Monninger] sing, ’cause Brian can sing really high, as can Nikki, and sometimes, their voices, you can’t even really tell who’s singing what.”
Vig also produced the last two SSPU albums, 2022’s Physical Thrills and 2019’s Widow’s Weeds, making them his most frequent collaborator outside of Garbage in recent years.
“I love how they approach their music,” Vig says of the Pickups. “We don’t do demos and rehearse, we just start recording and see what happens.”
Silversun Pickups will play an album release show in Los Angeles on Friday, which will stream live on Veeps. They’ll launch a full U.S. tour Feb. 19 in Santa Ana, California.
Nikki Sixx and Vince Neil of Mötley Crüe perform at GIANTS Stadium on November 11, 2023 in Sydney, Australia. (Don Arnold/WireImage)
Mötley Crüe will be celebrating America’s birthday up north in Canada.
The “Home Sweet Home” rockers will headline Winnipeg’s Rockin’ Thunder concert series on July 4. The bill will also include Three Days Grace, Halestorm and Canadian musician JJ Wilde.
Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. CT. For all ticket info, visit Motley.com.
Mötley will return to the U.S. later in July to launch the Return of Carnival of Sins tour celebrating the band’s 45th anniversary and the 20th anniversary of their 2005-06 Carnival of Sins tour.
DaBabySouth Coast Music Group (SCMG) and Interscope Records.
DaBaby has followed the release of Be More Grateful with the announcement of a tour in support of the album.
According to press release, the trek “is built to give day-one supporters a closer connection to DaBaby and the new material.” Fans can also expect performances from supporting acts Zeddy Will, H3adband and Bri3.
The Be More Grateful tour will kick off at the House of Blues venue in Houston on March 29, with following shows scheduled in Dallas, Atlanta, Miami, Orlando and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. The trek will also hit New York, Detroit, Chicago and other cites before wrapping up in Los Angeles on May 14.
Live Nation and Ticketmaster presales for the tour are underway, with the Spotify presale beginning Thursday at 10 a.m. ET. Tickets go on sale to the general public Friday at 10 a.m. local time.
Several artists saw an added bonus following the 2026 Grammys, when streams of their songs experienced major boosts tied to their award wins.
As Billboard reports, best new artist winner Olivia Dean‘s entire discography scored gains following the telecast, with a 65% increase in streams. The biggest gain was for her song “Man I Need,” which she performed on the show: It experienced a 67% gain in streams and a 550% increase in digital song sales.
Billboard speculates that this might be enough to push the song to the top of the Hot 100 next week; it previously peaked at #2.
Billie Eilish was the surprise song of the year winner for “Wildflower,” marking her third victory in that category. The day after the Grammys, the song saw a 127% increase in streams.
Another surprise winner, Lola Young, experienced a significant boost as well. Streams of her hit “Messy” jumped 113%, while her entire catalog experienced a 108% surge, and digital downloads increased by nearly 1,580%. Lola won best solo pop vocal performance for “Messy,” which she also performed during the broadcast.
Bad Bunny and Kendrick Lamar did quite well too. After Bad Bunny won the album of the year trophy, his song “DtMF” experienced a 273% boost in streams, and his catalog streams increased by 117%. Meanwhile, Kendrick’s hit “luther,” which won record of the year, saw an 83% surge in streams.
The Weeknd‘s hit “Blinding Lights” has more than 5 billion streams on Spotify, while its music video has officially crossed the 1 billion-view mark on YouTube. It’s his seventh video to reach the milestone, reaching the milestone following hits including “The Hills,” “Die for You” and “Starboy,” which, while successful, didn’t reach the same level as “Blinding Lights.”
In case you missed it, Lady Gaga has now shared her reimagined Grammys performance of “Abracadabra” on Instagram. She revealed that her outfit, featuring an intricate basket-like headpiece, was archival Alexander McQueen from the late designer’s Fall/Winter 2009 The Horn Of Plenty collection. Gaga noted that the performance was “In memory of and inspired by Lee,” which is McQueen’s nickname.
Glossy.com reports that Selena Gomez‘s Rare Beauty cosmetics line has become Ulta Beauty’s largest brand debut in the retailer’s history.
A remix of Tame Impala‘s hit “Dracula,” featuring BLACKPINK‘s Jennie, is set to drop on Feb. 6.
Cover art for J. Cole’s ‘The Fall-Off’ (Dreamville Records/Interscope Records)
With The Fall Off arriving Friday, J. Cole has shared the album’s back cover, revealing the track lists for both sides of the double disc. As he’s done with each reveal tied to the project, he also provided some context, describing the album as a full-circle moment connected to his very first release, The Come Up.
“Some of the very first verses for The Come Up were written when I was just 19 years old,” he wrote on his socials. “The title of that project—the first one I would ever release—had a double meaning. There was the obvious one: my ambitions to ‘come up’ in the rap game.”
The second had to do with his decision to leave Fayetteville, North Carolina, and “‘come up’ to New York City on a dream-chasing mission.”
As Cole notes, The Come Up finds him “telling the world how he’s going to make it and proudly put his unknown city on the map,” complete with skits of phone calls home to his mother and friends ahead of holiday breaks.
Disc 29 tells the story of his return to Fayetteville at age 29, when he was “at a crossroads with the three loves of my life: my woman, my craft, and my city.”
Disc 39 is about his trip to the city at age 39, when he was “older and a little closer to peace.”
The back cover features a photo of Cole’s bedroom walls when he was 15 years old. That image and all other photos included on that version of the album were taken by Cole.
Cole also took a moment to thank “every artist and photographer that cleared these pictures.”
“When this album releases,” he added, “please know that you…are in the music too.”
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