The Band Perry is back in the studio and ready to return to country music.
Original members Reid Perry and Kimberly Perry are back, with Kimberly’s husband, Johnny Costello, replacing sibling Neil Perry.
“After stepping away to take a break and evolve, we’re feeling more grounded, more fired-up, and more connected to our roots than ever,” the trio says in a news release. “Country music has always been home for us — and we feel so grateful to still have a seat at the table.”
“We’re bringing everything we’ve lived, everything we’ve learned, and a whole new energy into this next season,” they add. “We can’t wait to share what’s coming.”
The band’s return includes a surprise Friday evening appearance on CMA Fest’s Hard Rock Stage.
It’s been almost 15 years since the release of The Band Perry’s nine-times Platinum 2011 CMA song and single of the year “If I Die Young.” In early 2017, they announced their intention to pursue a pop career.
In the new video for her song “Manchild,” Sabrina Carpenter uses hitchhiking across the country with one total loser after another as a metaphor for going from bad relationship to bad relationship.
The surreal clip finds Sabrina catching rides with multiple men, some of whom are driving impossible vehicles, such as a jet ski and an armchair, both with wheels; a motorcycle with a supermarket shopping cart bolted to the side; and a truck with a tree growing out of the roof.
She also swims with sharks, literally, in a pool, takes a bath with some adorable pigs, runs from a shotgun-toting guy and then takes aim with her own machine gun.
At the end of the clip, she gets out of one car and immediately flags down another that pulls up next to her. She gets into that one and drives away.
In the song, Sabrina dismisses a guy for being stupid, slow and dumb, but then admits, “I like my boys playing hard to get/ and I like my men all incompetent.”
It’s not clear if “Manchild” is a standalone single or the first release from a new album, but either way, Sabrina will likely give it its live premiere when she performs Saturday at Primavera Sound in Barcelona.
A new box set dedicated Rush’s final years with Atlantic Records is out now.
The Albums: 2002-2012 is made up of vinyl copies of four records: 2002’s Vapor Trails, the 2004 EP Feedback, 2007’s Snakes & Arrows and their final album, 2012’s Clockwork Angels.
The Albums: 2002-2012 is available as a limited-edition seven-LP set, with only 3,000 copies being released worldwide. It can be purchased at RushBackstage.com and Rhino.com.
This marks the second box set dedicated to Rush’s years at Atlantic. The first, The Albums: 1989-1996, was made up of their first four studio albums with the label, 1989’s Presto, 1991’s Roll the Bones, 1993’s Counterparts and 1996’s Test the Echo.
With two sons and a wife who’s his muse, Russell Dickerson‘s focusing on being Famous Back Home on his fourth album.
“Growing up in a small town, I had this idea ‘I’m going to make it out of here. I’m going to make it big. Everybody is going to know my name,’” he says. “But then you have a family and it’s like, ‘Actually, all I want to do is be famous at home.’ The further down this road I get, the more I realize the only thing that matters is my family.”
The 12-track collection includes his hits “Bones” and “Happen to Me,” as well as two songs he didn’t write — a career first.
Vince Gill guests on “Never Leave,” while “Dust” tips its hat to David Lee Murphy‘s “Dust on the Bottle.” “Heard It in a Country Song” taps into the nostalgia of the ’90s.
Here’s the complete track list for Famous Back Home, which arrives Aug. 22: “Dust” “Sippin on Top of the World” “Happen to Me” “Worth Your Wild” “Heard It in a Country Song” “Sunrise in my Silverado” “For a Truck” “Love That I Love You” “Never Leave” “Bones” “16 Me” “Famous Back Home”
Turnstile celebrated the release of their much-anticipated new album, NEVER ENOUGH, with a show in New York City Thursday, which featured a surprise appearance from Hayley Williams.
The Paramore frontwoman joined the hardcore outfit onstage to perform the NEVER ENOUGH track “SEEIN’ STARS,” which features Williams’ vocals on the studio version.
Also on Thursday, Turnstile premiered their NEVER ENOUGH visual album at NYC’s Tribeca Festival. Williams showed up to the premiere, as well.
NEVER ENOUGH, the follow-up to Turnstile’s 2021 breakout album GLOW ON, is out now. The NEVER ENOUGH visual album is currently showing in theaters.
Teddy Swims has just released a new song, and he’s revealed that it’s part of an upcoming 32-song project called I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Complete Edition).
The album, due June 27, includes all the songs from Teddy’s albums I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1) and (Part 2), as well as six new tracks. The new single, “God Went Crazy,” is one of them, and there’s also a song called “Small Hands” that features Teddy’s partner, Raiche. The two are expecting their first child on Father’s Day, June 15.
In the new song, Teddy sings, “God went crazy when he painted you/ Ain’t seen nothing like this before / Took a little extra time on you/ Before he let you walk out the door.”
He says in a statement that he hopes the song makes fans “think about that special person in their lives.” He adds, “I’m lucky enough to have found a sweet, sweet love who, when I look at her, I just know there was some extra time spent on her. I know perfection is subjective, but she’s pretty damn close.”
“‘God Went Crazy’ is about the indescribable feeling you have when you know you’ve met your person,” he notes. “It is my way of trying to put into words what a soul mate means to me. When you find that special person in your life, they just feel like home.”
Complete Edition also includes Teddy’s previous singles “Bad Dreams,” “The Door,” “Are You Even Real” and, of course, “Lose Control,” which has been on the Hot 100 for 93 weeks, longer than any other song in history.
Here’s the track list for Complete Edition:
“Need You More” “God Went Crazy” “Free Drugs” “Small Hands” (feat. Raiche) “Dancing With Your Ghost” “All Gas No Brakes” (feat. BigXthaPlug) “Not Your Man” “Funeral” “Your Kind of Crazy” “Bad Dreams” “Are You Even Real” (feat. Giveon) “Black & White” (feat. Muni Long) “Northern Lights” “Guilty” “It Ain’t Easy” “If You Ever Change Your Mind” “She Got It” (feat. Coco Jones & GloRilla) “Hammer to the Heart” “She Loves the Rain” “Apple Juice” “Tell Me” “Growing Up is Getting Old” “Some Things I’ll Never Know” “Lose Control” “What More Can I Say” “The Door” “Goodbye’s Been Good to You” “Last Communion” “You Still Get to Me” “Suitcase” “Flame” “Evergreen”
The singer has just released the new single she’s been teasing online for several days — “Type Dangerous” — and it is indeed the lead single off her 16th studio album, which she also teased. The song samples the hip hop classic “Eric B Is President” by Eric B. & Rakim.
In a statement, Mariah says, “I’m so excited to finally be releasing ‘Type Dangerous’ into the world! I’ve been locked up in the studio for quite some time working my behind off on new music, and I’m thrilled for the unveiling of it to my fans, starting with ‘Type Dangerous!'”
The song begins with Mariah saying, “To show my appreciation for your support, thank you DJs,” which echoes what a female voice says in the beginning of the Eric B. & Rakim song. As she says that, you hear the sampled words “Make ’em clap to this” from the intro of that song.
On the sassy track, Mariah refers to aspects of her life. “Taking off my coat, clearing my throat/ Certified diamonds like the songs I wrote,” she says in one line.
In another, she croons, “Fresh outta Sing Sing, nah, I’m just playin’/ That was just a castle and an evil king.” That’s a reference to her former husband Tommy Mottola and the huge home they shared, which she jokingly called “Sing Sing” after the prison in New York State.
A video for the song will arrive soon, directed by Joseph Kahn, who was behind the camera for her hit “All I Want for Christmas Is You” video.
Mariah will accept the BET Ultimate Icon Award on Monday, June 9, and on June 15, she’ll headline Capital’s Summertime Ball at London’s Wembley Stadium.
Trisha Yearwood will be the artist of the day on Friday at Fan Fair X inside Music City Center.
She’ll kick off her CMA Fest appearance at 10:45 a.m. CT, appearing on the CMA Close Up Stage to talk about her new music.
Trisha will be joined by several of her co-writers on The Mirror, the first project for which she’s co-written every track.
“The people that have come to hear me have really been supportive of the new things,” Trisha reflects. “And you hear something a little different at every show, and you see what’s resonating with people in a different way. And so, I think that’s been the biggest surprise of all is watching people and seeing what songs resonate with them and why.”
Some fans may also be surprised to see Trisha picking up the pace with her self-penned project.
“I love serious ballads, and I actually didn’t write a ton of ballads for this project,” she says. “I was hesitant to put some of the ‘lighter’ things on the record, and those are the songs that people really respond to.”
Walk This Road, the Doobie Brothers‘ first album of original material with Michael McDonald since 1980, is out now. It’s named after a song called “Walk This Road,” a track about unity and coexistence that features Mavis Staples. McDonald explains why the song’s theme made it the right album title.
“With titles for records, we were always looking for … something that encapsulates the idea of the whole project, or at least an idea of where you are as an artist at that moment,” he tells ABC Audio. “And I think for us, it checked a few boxes: A. That we’re back together in a form that we haven’t been [before] and kind of trudging this road together once again.”
McDonald, the voice behind Doobie hits like “What a Fool Believes” and “Minute by Minute,” adds that the title “seemed to, in the immediate sense, speak to us as a band, as individuals getting back together to do a record again.” In addition, it represents “where we’re at in the big picture, as a people.”
The Walk This Road lineup also features founding members Tom Johnston and Patrick Simmons, plus John McFee, who joined in 1979. McDonald and Johnston previously overlapped for one album —1976’s Taking It to the Streets — so Simmons says Walk This Road was “an opportunity for those two to connect musically.”
“They’re both real R&B freaks. So being able to employ that on this record really made a difference in terms of just the enjoyment factor,” he says.
And Simmons also appreciates having McDonald back in the mix.
“A lot of people often, rightly so, talk about what a wonderful voice Mike has, and that’s kind of been what gets spotlighted a lot in his music,” says Simmons. “But he is a heck of a keyboard player.”
