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After the heavy topics discussed on Tyler, The Creator‘s Chromakopia album, he set out to create Don’t Tap the Glass with the goal of being “silly again.”

“Chromakopia was so… I’m not saying it’s the most mature, deep s***,” he said in an interview with Apple Music 1’s Zane Lowe. “But whether it’s me talking about my relationship with my hair and how that’s affected me, or me almost being a father last year, or the relationship that I have with my father now, just so many things that I decided to dive deep into. After the weight of that got off, I just wanted to be silly again.”

“I just want to be fun and say outrageous s*** and say s*** that… inside jokes that me and my friends laugh at, and just talk big fly s***,” he continued. “That was the goal. That was the main 100% goal.”

Tyler notes he also created Don’t Tap the Glass with the desire to make danceable music like Usher did with My Way.

“It’s just some s*** that I would love people to dance to because it’s music that I will want to dance my body to,” he said, adding the album includes New Orleans bounce, Atlanta bass, Miami bass and U.K. jungle music.

“I was like, ‘Oh, this is finally the album where I could really just dance for real and just groove and have fun,’” Tyler said elsewhere in the interview. “Yeah, I just wanted to make super urgent, upbeat s***.” 

Don’t Tap the Glass is now available to stream.

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Following the success of “can’t slow down” and “jupiter,” almost monday is out with a new song and video.

Singer Dawson Daugherty says the song, “enjoy the ride,” is about “anxiety and trying to confront the things you fear.”  He explains, “It’s a reminder to ourselves to hold on to the beauty in life, even when things feel like they are spinning out of control.”

Unlike “can’t slow down” and “jupiter,” “enjoy the ride” isn’t on the deluxe version of the band’s debut album DIVE. On Instagram, the band shared, “wrote this song a few weeks ago and felt like it wasn’t summer if almost monday wasn’t dropping a song.”

The band will play the Outside Lands festival in San Francisco on Friday and kick off a tour with The Band CAMINO starting in October.

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Covering a song you like in concert isn’t unusual, but when that song is 10 minutes long, you’ve set quite a challenge for yourself. Gracie Abrams managed to pull it off, though.

Performing her second show at LA’s KIA Forum, Gracie busted out a cover of Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well (10 Minute Version),” which she performed solo, with just herself and a piano. The fans sang along with every word.

Gracie, of course, heard the song every night as the opening act on her friend Taylor’s Eras Tour in 2023 and 2024. On her current tour, she’s been taking a page from Taylor’s book, doing “surprise songs” as well as unreleased material.

Gracie plays the Outside Lands festival on Saturday and will then wrap up her tour Aug. 27 in Mexico City.

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Lauren Alaina‘s addressing the death of her dad in her new song, “Little Things.”

J.J. Suddeth passed away suddenly in July 2024.

“The loss of my father was unexpected and life shattering,” she reflects. “When you have a loss of this magnitude, the little things in life start to matter a lot less.”

The new song came out of a conversation she had with her brother before a writing session. 

“He said someone had complained to him about the cost of eggs,” Lauren recalls. “He said he just kept thinking to himself, ‘My dad just died. I don’t really care about the cost of eggs anymore.’ It really struck me.”

“I told him when something that really matters happens, your eyes are opened to what doesn’t,” she continues. “I told him I was going to write that song for us that day. I know our dad would be proud of us both.” 

“Little Things” follows Lauren’s recent releases “All My Exes (featuring Chase Matthew),” “Household,” “Those Kind of Women” and “Heaven Sent,” which was inspired by the arrival of her daughter, Beni Doll Arnold, in June.  

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Bad Wolves have announced a deluxe edition of their 2023 album Die About It, due out Sept. 19.

Among the nine new tracks is a reworking of “Say It Again,” featuring Lauri Ylönen, frontman of Finnish  rockers The Rasmus. Bad Wolves drummer John Boecklin says, “This song has always meant a lot to me—I’ve always loved it — but I never expected it to evolve the way it did with The Rasmus.”

“In my opinion, it’s some of the best lyricism on the album, and I’m really glad it’s finally getting the spotlight it deserves,” he notes. “It’s truly some of our best work.”

Ylönen adds, “This song hit me hard and energized me. It used to be one of my top workout songs before I got to sing on it!”

Among the nine new tracks are orchestral and live versions of “Legends Never Die” and a live version of “Bad Friend.”

“It’s fun for us to be able to continue celebrating the Die About It album in this way,” says Boecklin. “It gives us a chance to revisit our material with a different perspective and refresh the release that we’re still in love with.”

“There are songs that were written during the album sessions that you never got to hear and some fun reinterpretations of tracks that you’ve already heard,” he adds. “Lots to dig in on here, see you soon Wolfpack!”

Here’s the track listing:

“Intro”
“Bad Friend”
“Die About It”
“Savior”
“Hungry for Life”
“Legends Never Die”
“NDA”
“Move On”
“Masquerade”
“Say It Again”
“It’s You (2 Months)” (feat. KILLBOY)
“Turn It Down”
“Set You on Fire”
“Hungry for Life” (feat. Daughtry)

New Tracks:
“Hanging on to Thunder” (feat. Stand Atlantic)
“Made for the Misery”
“Home”
“Because of You”
“All I Need Is Hope”
“Say It Again” (feat. The Rasmus)
“Legends Never Die” (Orchestral)
“Bad Friend” (Live)
“Legends Never Die” (Live)

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Miranda Lambert and Chris Stapleton have their first hit together with “A Song to Sing,” a tune they co-wrote a couple years ago and recorded in South Georgia. 

“This song, I think we wrote it two years ago and then we cut it last year in Savannah,” Miranda reveals. “We went down to Dave Cobb Studio in Savannah and worked on it for two days. And it was really a vibe.”

It’s a laid-back rhythm and blues feel that made its way onto the finished recording. 

“Everyone that I played it for, and Chris and [his wife and background vocalist] Morgane [Stapleton] said the same [thing], like, it just makes people smile,” Miranda says. “It kinda has this old-school feel that just makes you want to groove and smile, and I hope people find joy in it.”

“A Song to Sing” is Miranda’s first new music since 2024’s Postcards from Texas. 

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Eve has a discography of songs that capture a wide range of emotions and experiences, but “Love is Blind” is the one that showed her the powerful impact music can have on people. While a guest on the Apple radio station The Message with Ebro Darden, she said the song was based on a poem she wrote, inspired by something she’d witnessed.

“The two verses of ‘Love is Blind’ is a poem that I wrote when I was 16, because my friend at the time who was 17 was dating this dude, older dude who was basically putting her up in an apartment,” Eve explained. “She got pregnant. Come to find out this dude had a whole other life, whatever. He used to beat her. She used to come to my house and have black eyes. It was crazy.”

Eve notes she didn’t really understand the impact of “Love is Blind” until the song dropped and she began to see fans’ reactions.

“That’s when I started to understand how music can really affect people and, I don’t know, where people can see themselves in your lyrics,” she said. “Because people would come up to me and be like, ‘Thank you so much for that song. My sister went through this,’ or ‘I’m going through this, but I went and found some help.'”

Eve says she’s grateful to her label Ruff Ryders Entertainment for allowing her to release a song that was different than the others playing on the radio.

“At that time, there was no music out like that,” she said. “And especially coming from a female, the fact that they were like, ‘Nah, let’s do it.’ They knew that was something. It was really important for me to get that song out.”

The full episode is now available on Apple Music.

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