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.
Taylor Swift performs onstage during the 1989 World Tour in 2015 (George Pimentel/LP5/Getty Images for TAS)
Sure, summer road trips are fun, but what if the people riding in the car with you — like your kids — are miserable? Well, Fiat has an answer for that.
Specifically, Fiat worked with music psychologist Dr. Claire Renfrew to find songs that are formulated to “deliver joy.” The songs in question all use a 4/4 time signature and are at least 137 beats per minute. They have a “repetitive, simple structure,” and positive lyrics, and they all use a melodic major seventh chord, which lends them a “smooth, dreamy and jazzy” feel.
Taken all together, the tracks are designed to raise your heart rate and release dopamine into your brain, bringing feelings of joy and wellbeing along with it.
Among the songs included on the playlist are Taylor Swift‘s “Shake It Off,” Dua Lipa‘s “Levitating,” Katy Perry‘s “Firework,” “Uptown Funk” by Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars, Justin Timberlake‘s “Can’t Stop the Feeling!,” Pink‘s “Get the Party Started” and Pharrell Williams‘ “Happy.”
Some of the tried-and-true classic bops are Earth, Wind & Fire‘s “September,” Gloria Gaynor’s “I Will Survive,” Hall & Oates‘ “You Make My Dreams,” The Beach Boys‘ “Good Vibrations,” ABBA‘s “Mamma Mia” and The Cranberries‘ “Dreams.”
Of course, if the music doesn’t work, you can always fall back on Plan B: snacks.
The Doors L-R Robby Krieger, Ray Manzarek, John Densmore and Jim Morrison pose for an Electra Records publicity still circa 1967. (Photo by Electra Records/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
The Doors have dipped into their archives and shared a classic live concert with fans.
The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers just released Live at Bakersfield to digital services for the first time. It’s a recording of their Aug. 21, 1970, concert at the Bakersfield Civic Center, which, according to a post on Instagram, is “one of the most sought-after live shows of 1970.”
“For an audience member watching the concert unfold, it probably seemed like The Doors had rehearsed everything, but many of that night’s lyrical and musical twists and turns had never been discussed by the band, let alone rehearsed,” reads the post. “Odds are the band didn’t even have a set list.”
The concert, recorded on a two-track reel-to-reel recorder, features performances of songs like “Love Me Two Times,” “Roadhouse Blues” and “The End,” including a 13-minute version of “When the Music’s Over.”
The Doors Live At Bakersfield August 21, 1970 is available now via digital outlets.
Three Days Grace‘s new album, Alienation, is out now. It marks the band’s first record with returning frontman Adam Gontier, forming a two-vocalist lineup alongside longtime 3DG singer Matt Walst.
Gontier had previously left Three Days Grace in 2013, but, as drummer Neil Sanderson tells ABC Audio, there weren’t any hard feelings to overcome in welcoming him back into the group.
“Any sort of hatchet burying was done a while ago,” Sanderson says.
Sanderson adds there was “no awkwardness” in beginning to write again with Gontier after over 10 years.
“It felt like time had stood still in a lot of ways … in the writing process of sitting with acoustic guitars and flushing out what we all agree are the most exciting ideas,” Sanderson says.
Said process confirmed to all the members of Three Days Grace that they had something with their revamped lineup.
“Once all that felt naturally and organically happening, then it gave us a lot of confidence that we were gonna be able to all get on a bus together and go out and try to conquer the world again,” Sanderson says.
Alienation includes the singles “Mayday” and “Apologies.” Three Days Grace will launch a U.S. tour in support of the album alongside Breaking Benjamin Aug. 29 in Ridgedale, Missouri.
