Thrice has shared a new song called “Albatross,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Horizons/West.
“Albatross” is accompanied by a lyric video, which you can watch on YouTube. It’s the second track to be released off Horizons/West, following the single “Gnash.”
Horizons/West is due out Oct. 3. It’s described as a companion to Thrice’s last record, 2021’s similarly titled Horizons/East.
Thrice will launch a U.S. tour in October.
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On This Day, Aug. 25, 1970 …
Elton John played his first-ever live show in North America, kicking off a six-night stand at The Troubadour in Los Angeles.
According to setlist.fm, Elton’s nine-song set opened with the now-classic “Your Song” and also featured “Border Song,” “Take Me to the Pilot” and “Burn Down the Mission.” He also performed a cover of The Rolling Stones’ “Honky Tonk Woman.”
Elton played shows in San Francisco, New York and Philadelphia, and eventually launched his first full-length tour that October in Boston.
Elton’s more than 50-year touring career had him performing in the U.S. countless times. He wrapped the final U.S. leg of his final tour, the Farewell Yellow Brick Road Tour, with a three-night stand at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium in November 2022. The tour wrapped on July 8 in Stockholm, Sweden.
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Snoop Dogg wishes kids films these days didn’t have LGBTQ characters — because he doesn’t want to have to explain it to his grandchildren.
While appearing on the It’s Giving podcast, Snoop related a story about the time he was watching the 2022 Pixar film Lightyear — a Toy Story spinoff — with his 7-year-old grandson. In the film, Buzz’s best friend Alisha is said to have had a baby with her wife, Kiko.
“Well, my grandson, in the middle of the movie, [was] like, ‘Papa Snoop, how she have a baby with a woman? She a woman,'” Snoop recalled. He said he thought, “Oh s***, I didn’t come here for this s***, I just came here to watch the goddamn movie!”
He said he had the following conversation with his grandson: “Just watch the movie!” “Uh-uh. They just said she and she had a baby. They both women! How did she have a baby?” “Shh, the movie ain’t over yet!”
“So it’s like … I’m scared to go to the movies now!” Snoop exclaimed. “Like, y’all throwing me in the middle of s*** that I don’t have an answer for.”
“It threw me for a loop,” Snoop admitted. “These are kids. Like, we have to show that at this age? Like, they’re going to ask questions. I don’t have the answer!”
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If you follow Dua Lipa on Instagram, you’ve got to admit, her life looks pretty great — and in a post thanking fans for their support following her 30th birthday on Aug. 22, she confirmed that it is.
“I love this life, I love this journey, and I never take a single moment of it for granted,” she wrote. “Here’s to the next 30 and beyond… it just keeps getting better.”
“Thank you all so much for the birthday wishes,” she wrote. “This last lap around the sun has been, without a doubt, my favorite year yet. The past 10 years have been the most incredible ride I could’ve ever dreamed of … my 20s were pure MAGIC. Not without their challenges or awkward moments, but filled with more love, joy, and lessons than I ever imagined. I’m so deeply grateful for every step of the journey and everything it’s taken to get here.”
She then thanked her family and her parents, who are “the heart of it all,” and also offered thanks to “everyone who’s been on this journey with me from tiny club shows to Wembley Stadium, anywhere and everywhere in the world.” She wrote, “Thank you for letting the music be the place where we’ve met, grown, and shared so much of life together.”
The readers of her Service95 newsletter and members of her Service95 book club also got a shoutout: She wrote, “You’ve helped me feel proud, grounded, and fulfilled in ways I never thought possible.”
She didn’t mention her fiancé, Callum Turner, by name, but noted that the “people I keep close,” including “my partner,” are “my greatest achievement.”
Dua brings her Radical Optimism tour to North America starting Sept. 1 in Toronto.
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The Oasis reunion tour has finally crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
Liam Gallagher and Noel Gallagher kicked off the North American leg of their long-awaited comeback trek on Sunday in Toronto.
According to setlist.fm, the show featured performances of Oasis classics including “Wonderwall,” “Champagne Supernova” and “Don’t Look Back in Anger.”
Oasis posted footage from the gig on their Instagram, adding in the caption, “TORONTO VIBES IN THE AREA.”
The Oasis reunion tour, which marks the first time the formerly feuding Gallagher brothers have shared the live stage since 2009, kicked off in July in Wales and hit England, Scotland and Ireland before landing in North America.
The tour continues with another show in Toronto on Monday, followed by stops in Chicago; East Rutherford, New Jersey; and Los Angeles.
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Neil Young played his song “Long Walk Home” for the first time in 36 years during his concert in Wantagh, New York, on Saturday.
“Long Walk Home” was originally recorded for Young’s 1987 album Life with Crazy Horse, and he last performed it in 1989. In breaking it out again nearly four decades later, Young slightly updated the lyrics during Saturday’s performance, changing “From Vietnam to old Beirut” to “From Canada to old Ukraine.”
Young is currently on tour with his band Chrome Hearts. During a show in Toronto on Aug. 17, he played his song “This Note’s for You” for the first time since 1997.
The Chrome Hearts tour continues Monday in Bethel, New York.
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Even though football fan Riley Green will be on the road during many of this season’s big games, he’s well equipped to keep up with his favorite teams, thanks to his home away from home.
“I’ve got a new bus and it’s got TVs like everywhere,” he says. “There’s TVs in the bathroom. There’s like two TVs above my bed, so I think I’ll be able to watch a lot of college football this year.”
“[It’s] definitely a way to pass time when you’re on the road, when you’re wishing you could potentially be at some of these ballgames. It’ll be good to be able to watch them on the road,” he adds.
On Monday night Riley plays Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre with Drake White, Mike Ryan and Preston Cooper.
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It was 50 years ago — Aug. 25, 1975 — that Bruce Springsteen released his third studio album, Born to Run, which was a massive hit. But it turns out, it was a make-or-break album for the New Jersey rocker.
After the commercial failure of his first two albums, 1973’s Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J. and The Wild, The Innocent and the E Street Shuffle, Bruce was in danger of being dropped from his label, Columbia Records, if he didn’t come up with a hit.
Peter Ames Carlin, author of the recently released book Tonight in Jungleland: The Making of Born to Run, tells ABC Audio it was a “do or die” moment for Springsteen and his career.
“Bruce has got his back to the wall. It’s like now or never, basically,” he says. “You could see how he would fear that he was just gonna end up being the New Jersey bar band musician he had been up to that point.”
That needed hit turned out to be the album’s title track. But it took a lot of work for it to get where Springsteen wanted it to be, with the rocker spending almost six months perfecting it.
“It’s like everything they could think might work, they threw at the wall and eventually winnowed it down to the song that we know now,” says Carlin. “Which is, 50 years later, it’s as overwhelming as it was when it came out.”
Born to Run wound up being everything Springsteen needed it to be. The album peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 and helped Springsteen reach mainstream audiences, with songs like the title track, “Thunder Road” and “Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out.” It has since been certified seven-times Platinum by the RIAA and was added to the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry in 2015.
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2025 marks Gloria Estefan‘s 50th year in the music business and the 40th anniversary of “Conga,” her breakthrough hit with Miami Sound Machine. But she’s not slowing down: She has a new album, Raíces; an upcoming movie, Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie; and a stage musical set to open next year. “It just converged all in this 50th year — it wasn’t planned this way,” she tells ABC Audio.
In fact, Gloria says she’s loving her life these days.”There’s just a kind of peace that comes with this decade and the fact that my kids are grown; I can enjoy my grandson,” she says. “And even though I’m busy as all hell, I’m only doing things that I really wanna do and when I wanna do them.”
Gloria performed “Conga” Friday on ABC’s Good Morning America; she told ABC Audio the idea for the song came when she and Miami Sound Machine were performing in the Netherlands.
“We ran out of material in English, so … we played this medley of old Cuban congas that we used to do at the end of our gigs — weddings, bar mitzvahs, quinceañeras — and they went crazy for them,” she recalls. “I tell my drummer, ‘Hey, we need to write an original song that talks about what this rhythm is.'”
According to Gloria, “Conga” became the first song to be a hit on four different Billboard charts: Latin, pop, dance and R&B. “It’s part of my essence now for sure,” she says. “That’s probably the most recognizable song worldwide.”
Back then Latin music hasn’t considered pop music like it is today, but Gloria’s hits were instrumental in making it mainstream. Her 1987 hit “Rhythm is Gonna Get You” is now in the Library of Congress’ National Recording Registry for being “a song that changed the cultural fabric of the nation.”
“I never had in my brain that wall, thinking, ‘Oh no this can’t happen,'” she says. “If the door closes, you find a window, like they say. And we found a lot of windows.”
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Ice-T lost his friends Coolio and Michael K. Williams to drug overdoses in the span of a year, forcing him to have a reality check about drug use. Speaking to Entertainment Weekly, he said their deaths made him realize how dangerous drugs can be.
“I don’t do drugs, but I never expected it,” he said. “When it hit Coolio and it hit Mike, that was the nail in the coffin. That’s when you go, ‘Yo, this s*** is real.’ You know what I’m saying? It’s real.”
Williams died in September 2021 after consuming fentanyl-laced heroin. Coolio passed away in September 2022 due to the effects of fentanyl, heroin and methamphetamine.
Ice-T further discusses drugs, more specifically fentanyl, in the trailer for the Fame and Fentanyl documentary, premiering Monday on A&E.
“Everyone knows someone who has fallen victim to fentanyl,” he says in the doc, for which he serves as host and executive producer. “These are the stories that everyone needs to hear.”
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