Amidst a tour and the continued rollout for Chromakopia and his surprise album Don’t Tap The Glass, Tyler, The Creator has another announcement: the lineup for his Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival.
He’ll be taking the stage at the 2025 event, which will also feature performances from Tems, T-Pain, Childish Gambino, Doechii, A$AP Rocky, Clipse, 2 Chainz, Larry June and The Alchemist. The full lineup is available via a word search puzzle found on the Camp Flog Gnaw website.
The carnival, produced with Goldenvoice, is slated to go down on the Dodger Stadium grounds on Nov. 15 and Nov. 16.
Brent Hinds performs during the VII Mexico Metal Fest at Parque Fundidora on November 10, 2023 in Monterrey, Mexico. Medios y Media/Getty Images
Artists including Queens of the Stone Age, Soundgarden and Alice in Chains‘ William DuVall have shared tributes to late Mastodon guitarist Brent Hinds, who died Wednesday at age 51.
“Rest in Peace Brent Hinds,” QotSA writes. “With love & respect. See you on the other side old friend.”
“Oh man, we’ll all miss you, Brent,” Soundgarden says. “Peace & love to you, your family, friends, colleagues, and to your long time Mastodon brothers, [bassist] Troy [Sanders], [guitarist] Bill [Kelliher] & [drummer] Brann [Dailor].”
DuVall, who played with Hinds in the band Giraffe Tongue Orchestra, adds, “This has knocked the wind out of me. RIP to the great Brent Hinds.”
Hinds was a founding member of Mastodon and played alongside the unchanging lineup of Sanders, Kelliher and Dailor for 25 years before parting ways with the metal outfit in March.
Mastodon announced Hinds’ death Thursday, saying he “passed away as a result of a tragic accident.”
“We are in a state of unfathomable sadness and grief,” they added.
A press release from the Georgia’s Fulton County medical examiner says Hinds died Wednesday of multiple blunt force injuries. The Atlanta Police Department had reported that a man driving a motorcycle Wednesday night was killed in a crash with a BMW SUV that failed to yield.
“Electric Dreams” single artwork. Serjical Strike Records/Create Music Group; Art by by D.S. Bradford
System of a Down frontman Serj Tankian has released a new solo song called “Electric Dreams.”
The track will appear on an upcoming compilation called Covers, Collaborations & Collages, due out Oct. 24. As Tankian explains, the set consists of “pre-existing archival recordings, some of them from way back.”
“I wanted to put out a record of collaborations I haven’t released before, along with covers, which I haven’t done,” Tankian shares. “The rest, the collages, are parts that fit the puzzle in the same tone, the same vibe.”
“Electric Dreams” is out now via digital outlets. Tankian will put out one song from Covers, Collaborations & Collages each week leading up to its official release.
Covers, Collaborations & Collages follows Tankian’s 2024 solo EP, Foundations.
System of a Down, meanwhile, will launch a run of stadium concerts starting Aug. 27 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.
“We’re onto Something” single artwork. Love Tap Records
Kings of Leon and Zach Bryan are jamming together once more.
After collaborating with the country star on the song “Bowery,” the “Use Somebody” rockers have released a second track alongside Bryan, “We’re onto Something.”
You can listen to “We’re onto Something” now via digital outlets, and watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.
In addition to teaming up in the studio, Kings of Leon opened for Bryan at his shows at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey, and San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Those gigs marked KoL’s first live shows back after frontman Caleb Followill was sidelined due to breaking his foot in May.
The most recent Kings of Leon album is 2024’s Can We Please Have Fun.
Bruce Springsteen’s third studio album, Born to Run, is celebrating its 50th anniversary on Monday and to mark the occasion The Boss has released a song that didn’t make it on the album.
The New Jersey rocker has just released “Lonely Night in the Park” to digital services for the first time. The track was recorded during the Born toRun sessions at the Record Plant in New York, and was considered for the album, but ultimately was left off.
According to a post on Instagram, the song, which has spent “five decades in the vault,” can now be enjoyed “in full studio quality as it has never been heard before.”
Released Aug. 25, 1975, Born to Run became a breakthrough hit for Springsteen, propelling him to mainstream success. The album peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200, certified seven-times Platinum by the RIAA.
“What Kinda Man” doesn’t love a happy ending? Well, quite simply, his name is Parker McCollum, who’s made no bones about the fact that he much prefers a sad song.
It’s actually such a trademark for Parker that his wife had begun to wonder if he even had a happy ending in him. So, for his self-titled fifth album, he acquiesced, at least a little bit.
“The whole record’s super vulnerable, but you know, Hallie Ray [McCollum] was always asking me, ‘Are you ever gonna write songs that end happy?’ Which I’ve never liked,” he admits. “And so there’s a couple on this record, this one included, [‘What Kinda Man’], that kind of have a happy resolution.”
“But they’re not cheesy,” he adds. “I think it’s said in a way that still allows a song to have quite a bit of integrity. So I think the songwriting is good. That’s a hard thing to do, have a happy ending. There’s a way to do it. It’s just, it’s not as easy, I think, as making it go terribly wrong.”
Fortunately for Parker and Hallie Ray, his penchant for sad songs isn’t a reflection of his life. Their son, Major Yancey Tyler McCollum, celebrated his first birthday on Aug. 8.
Shinedown is currently out on their Dance Kid Dance tour, named after one of two singles the band dropped earlier this year; the other, “Three Six Five,” is still climbing the pop chart. And while it’s a powerful song about loss and grief, Shinedown singer Brent Smith says the track also offers a glimmer of hope.
“Three Six Five” was inspired by the fact that Shinedown bassist Eric Bass lost his father and his aunt, and Eric’s wife, Kellie Bass, lost her sister, all in the same year. Brent says the song addresses that, but also talks about your loved ones remaining a presence in your life, even if they’re not with you anymore.
“Me and Eric were having so many conversations about, you know, his dad and what his dad taught him and his aunt and Kellie and her sister. And they were trying to reflect on all of the good times versus any of the bad times,” he says. “And it’s reflecting on that, and how that hurts and can sadden you.”
“But at the same time, you have to think about that person from beyond, when they kinda wink at you in your own everyday life — even when they’re gone,” he adds. “That they’re reminding you that they see you and they’re telling you to keep going.”
The song also carries an important reminder to not be permanently weighed down by loss, Brent says.
“Time is precious, but it’s not promised,” he notes. “So it’s about going after the things in your own life that mean something to you, [and to not] hold back and to live every day to the fullest.”
Shinedown’s tour wraps Aug. 30 in Memphis. They released a new song, “Killing Fields,” in July, but there’s been no word on a new album.
Ciara‘s new album, Cici, has arrived, marking her first release since 2019’s Beauty Marks.
“It’s time. Honestly, I’ve been working on this album for almost five years. I put a lot of blood, sweat, and tears, as they would say, into this project,” she told The Associated Press, noting she’s been “still actively putting out music” in between albums.
Ci says she will put a complete stop to her music career if and when she stops “loving the process and experience,” but for now she has the “same excitement I had as a little girl.”
Yet, despite her continued passion and excitement for the genre, she clarifies that music is not her sole focus or the only way she measures success.
“Not every year has been about music. And sometimes, it’s been about me just growing as a human. Sometimes, it’s been about me finding my way obviously as a mom, and then I have family now and my husband, being there for him. These are all real things,” Ciara says, sharing that her days often consist of going from the stage to the classroom to the football field and back home.
“Success to me is yes, putting out music. Being the best artist I can be, hopefully being known as one of the best to ever do it. … But it’s not solely in that,” she continued. “People lose themselves because they didn’t live. I don’t want to be that girl – I’m not going to be that girl.”
