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Kenny Chesney will talk about his new book, HEART*LIFE*MUSIC, for the first time on TalkShopLive.
“I always said I’d never write a book, and now here we are. And I have to admit: I’m really glad I did it,” he says. “I remembered moments, connected dots and laughed a lot about some of the places I’ve been.”
“When you’re so busy going forward,” he adds, “you don’t always realize. Being in the revision and copy-editing part of the process, I am so grateful and fired up for the journey.”
Co-author Holly Gleason will lead the TalkShopLive conversation on Tuesday at 7 p.m ET.
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When Hamilton was the hottest ticket on Broadway, celebrities flocked to see it — but it appears some of those celebrities were more captivated by the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical than others.
Appearing on Bravo’s Watch What Happens Live! on Thursday, host Andy Cohen asked Anthony Ramos a series of questions about the scariest situations he’s found himself in. Questions included the scariest audition he ever had and the actor who he was most scared to share a scene with — that was Liam Neeson, by the way.
Cohen then asked, “Who was the most terrifying celebrity to spot in the audience during your Hamilton days?”
Ramos, who played John Laurens and Philip Hamilton in the musical, answered, “The most terrifying was Madonna, with her iPad in her face. She was like this the whole time” — and mimed looking down at his lap.
Ramos added, “I’m like, ‘Damn, shorty, if you’re not enjoying it that much, yo, you know the door’s right there, you ain’t gotta stay here.'”
In addition to Hamilton, Ramos appeared in A Star Is Born,In the Heights,Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and last year’s hit action film Twisters.
The Bee Gees‘ 1978 #1 hit “Stayin’ Alive” has inspired a new song by Jonas Brothers.
The sibling trio just released their new single, “No Time To Talk,” which interpolates the Bee Gees track, and they say they got the Rock & Roll Hall of Famers’ permission to use the disco classic.
JoBros write on Instagram, “Growing up on the music that our Dad played for us led to a lifelong influence from the legends that came before us. That influence was undeniably felt while writing what is now ‘No Time To Talk’ and putting it out into the world today with The Bee Gees’ blessing feels unreal.”
The song takes the opening verse of the Bee Gees’ song — “Well you can tell by the way I use my walk/ I’m a woman’s man, no time to talk/ Music loud and women warm/ I’ve been kicked around since I was born” — and flips it to, “I can tell by the way you use your walk/ That you came to dance, no time to talk/ Turning up with all your friends/ You came to dance, around the clock.”
Instead of the Bee Gees’ iconic chorus, “Ah, ah, ah, ah, stayin’ alive, stayin’ alive,” they sing, “She said ‘I, I, I, I/ came to dance, no time to talk.'”
“Stayin’ Alive” originally appeared on the soundtrack of the 1977 John Travolta film Saturday Night Fever. It was the second single released from the soundtrack and spent four weeks at #1 on the Billboard Hot 100. It was the second of the Bee Gees’ six consecutive #1 singles.
HAIM‘s new album I quit is out now, and to celebrate, the sister trio has released a video for the track “All over me.”
The clip features Danielle, Alana and Este Haim dancing alongside actors Archie Madekwe, Nabhaan Rizwan and Will Poulter. It’s now streaming on YouTube.
I quit marks the fourth HAIM album and follows 2020’s Women in Music Pt. III. It also includes the lead single “Relationships.”
HAIM will launch a U.S. tour in support of I quit in September.
Three Days Grace has premiered another new song off their upcoming album, Alienation, the first from the band’s revamped lineup featuring both original frontman Adam Gontier and longtime vocalist Matt Walst.
The latest track is called “Dominate,” which Walst says is about “the fire that wakes you up when the world doesn’t.”
“‘Dominate’ isn’t just a word — it’s a mindset,” Walst says. “You take the hits. You push through the pain. You don’t wait — you take what’s yours. That’s how I see it. That’s how I live it. This one’s for anyone who’s ever been counted out — and came back to own it all.”
You can listen to “Dominate” via digital outlets and watch its accompanying lyric on YouTube.
Alienation is due out Aug. 22. It also includes the previously released singles “Mayday” and “Apologies.”
Three Days Grace is currently touring Canada with Volbeat. They’ll launch a U.S. tour alongside Breaking Benjamin in August.
Foreigner released their second studio album, Double Vision, which peaked at #3 on the Billboard 200 Albums chart.
The album featured such future Foreigner classics as the title track, which spent two weeks at #2 on the Billboard Hot 100, and “Hot Blooded,” which went to #3.
The album was the last with the band’s original bassist Ed Gagliardi, who was replaced by Rick Wills.
Double Vision was a huge commercial success for Foreigner, and went Platinum just a week after release. It has since been certified seven-times Platinum by the RIAA.
Muse has premiered a new song called “Unravelling.”
“‘Unravelling’ puts a new spin on the genre-clash creativity that has become a hallmark of the Muse experience,” a press release says. “Haunting, arpeggiated synths establish a foreboding tone before it suddenly detonates into a colossal wall of barbed riffs and unleashing a full-drama hook that pulsates with their renowned maximalist theatricality.”
Listen for yourself now via digital outlets. You can also watch the “Unravelling” lyric video on YouTube.
“Unravelling” follows Muse’s 2022 album, Will of the People, which spawned the singles “Won’t Stand Down,” “Compliance,” “You Make Me Feel Like It’s Halloween” and “Kill or Be Killed.”
Muse is currently on a tour of Europe, which includes festivals filling in for Kings of Leon after frontman Caleb Followill broke his foot.
Ed Sheeran has released “Drive,” his contribution to the soundtrack of the upcoming Brad Pitt racing-themed film F1. There’s also a video to go along with the rocking track, which features guitar by John Mayer and drums courtesy of Foo Fighters‘ Dave Grohl.
“i knew that i wanted to make a proper rock song for [the movie], a proper driving song. something you’d wanna turn up to the fullest amount whilst driving,” Ed writes on Instagram. He notes that he co-wrote the song with Mayer, among others, and that Grohl was “the final jigsaw pieces of the song.”
“pure dream team for the genre of rock, and i really feel what we created fits the scene in the movie so well,” he continues. “i LOVE making songs for movies, ever since i did ‘I See Fire’ for The Hobbit. it really lets me as a movie fan, behind the curtain, help create the perfect song for a scene in a movie.”
In the video, Ed sings on a race track while Formula 1 cars whiz by him and fly through the air. At the end, he gets behind the wheel of what looks like a super-charged dune buggy, and drives through the desert and onto a beach.
“Movies and art are the only hobbies outside of music i really have, and i love my time at [F1 events] whenever i get to go play there. so this was like a match made in heaven,” Ed writes. “i’m so honored to work with such great musicians on it, and hope you guys love the end result.”
The movie and the soundtrack are both out June 27.
Tim McGraw‘s set to play a special show this fall to help the mothers and babies of Music City.
The superstar will do an acoustic set Sept. 18 during the Rock the Cradle fundraiser at The Pinnacle at Nashville Yards.
In addition to the show, the evening will feature dinner, specialty cocktails and a silent auction, all to help the Beaman Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Labor and Delivery, and Postpartum at Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown in Nashville.
Tickets aren’t exactly inexpensive, though, with prices starting at $400.
In the past, Old Dominion, Wynonna Judd, Martina McBride, Jake Owen and Tim’s wife, Faith Hill, have all headlined the benefit.
Bruce Springsteen is giving fans some insight into his upcoming box set with a 17-minute short film, Inside Tracks II: The Lost Albums.
“The Lost Albums are records that were full records, some of them even to the point of being mixed and not released,” he says in the clip. “For one reason or another something I felt was missing from some of them, or they just didn’t feel complete at the time.” He adds, “I often read about myself in the ’90s as having some lost period or something … really I was working the whole time.”
Tracks II includes seven albums that have never been released before — LA Garage Sessions ’83,Streets of Philadelphia Sessions, Faithless, Somewhere North of Nashville, Inyo, Twilight Hours and Perfect World — and in the film Springsteen and essayist Erik Flanningan go through each one of them individually, as music from the records play in the background. The black and white film also features archival footage of Springsteen in the studio recording the albums.
Springsteen ends the video by teasing a follow-up to Tracks II.
“During Covid, the pandemic, where what I did for that period of time was I finished everything I had in my vault,” he says. “So this is Tracks II: The Lost Albums, but there will be a Tracks III.”
