The All-American Rejects have premiered a new song called “Easy Come, Easy Go.”
The track, which is out now via digital outlets, is set to be featured on the upcoming new AAR album, their first in over 10 years. You can watch its accompanying video, which stars a claymation version of frontman Tyson Ritter, on YouTube.
As previously reported, Ritter launched an OnlyFans account to promote “Easy Come, Easy Go.” An alternate version of the song’s video will premiere on the platform, which is known for its explicit content.
“This new record from the Rejects is something close to the bone for me lyrically, so why not bear it all,” Ritter said. “Get a taste of full frontal rock ‘n’ roll.”
“Easy Come, Easy Go” follows the single “Sandbox,” which was released in April.
Rod Stewart has canceled another show of his Las Vegas residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace.
In a post on Instagram, Stewart apologized to fans for being unable to perform his show Thursday, noting, “My doctor ordered a bit more rest while I recover from the flu. Thanks for your love and understanding.”
The latest cancellation comes after Stewart postponed his June 1 show about 3 1/2 hours before the concert was scheduled to begin. At the time he revealed that he was “not feeling well.”
Stewart has shows planned at The Colosseum on Saturday and Sunday. He’ll then kick off a North American tour on June 12 in Rancho Mirage, California. He’s also set to headline the U.K.’s iconic Glastonbury Festival on June 29. A complete list of Rod dates can be found at RodStewart.com.
Talking Heads — David Byrne, Tina Weymouth and Chris Frantz — made their live debut at the New York club CBGB, where they opened for the Ramones.
The set consisted of songs like “Psycho Killer,” “The Girls Want to Be With the Girls,” “I Want to Live” and more.
Jerry Harrison joined the group in 1977, the same year they released their debut album, Talking Heads: 77, which included “Psycho Killer,” which went on to be one of their signature tunes. Their commercial breakthrough came in 1983, thanks to the top 10 hit “Burning Down the House,” which appeared on their fifth studio album, Speaking in Tongues.
Talking Heads released eight studio albums over the course of their career, their final being 1988’s Naked. They stopped touring in 1984, with their final show happening in February at Sweetwaters South Festival in Christchurch, New Zealand.
Talking Heads were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
Linkin Park provides the soundtrack in a new promo for NHL’s 2025 Stanley Cup Finals.
The clip, which you can watch now on YouTube, features footage of LP rocking their single “Heavy Is the Crown” in between highlights of the two competing teams, the Florida Panthers and the Edmonton Oilers.
Game 1 of the 2025 Stanley Cup Finals took place Wednesday, and saw the Oilers beat the Panthers in overtime 4-3.
In addition to bringing their music to the hockey world, Linkin Park just performed at the final for the 2025 Champions League soccer tournament over the weekend in Munich, Germany.
“Heavy Is the Crown” appears on Linkin Park’s 2024 album From Zero, which marked their first with new vocalist Emily Armstrong. The band’s world tour in support of From Zero will return to the U.S. in July.
Sabrina Carpenter teased her new single “Manchild” with footage of herself hitchhiking on a highway as cars and trucks pass her by. Now she’s announced a promotional stunt which is also automobile-themed.
It’s not clear where the experience is being held, but the URL for the ticket page says “upstate ny fan experience,” indicating that it’s going to be somewhere north of New York City. When you apply for tickets, it asks if you want to drive yourself or take a shuttle from Manhattan.
“Manchild” will arrive today, Thursday, at 8 p.m. ET.
Early in Part One of the new documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes, which premiered Wednesday night at New York’s Tribeca Festival, Billy sits at the piano in his palatial mansion in Long Island, which is being renovated. “It’s not finished yet,” he says. “And neither am I.”
Despite the brain disorder which kept him from attending the documentary’s premiere, Billy wanted everyone to know that, as the filmmakers told the audience, “He will be back.” They also read a message that he’d asked them to share: “Getting old sucks, but it’s still preferable to getting cremated.”
Director Susan Lacy admitted that it “wasn’t always easy” to get Billy to open up. But, she noted, “He peeled back the layers of his music and his life with courage, humor and vulnerability.”
The premiere was introduced by Tribeca Festival co-founders Robert De Niro and Jane Rosenthal.
“Billy may be considered the poet laureate of New York,” De Niro said. He even sang a little bit of “New York State of Mind,” before noting, “He’s our Piano Man, and a wonderful, integral part of the heartbeat of our city.”
Only part one of the documentary, which will air in July on HBO and HBO Max, was shown. Through archival footage, photos and new interviews, it covers Billy’s childhood in Hicksville, Long Island, his first bands, his early solo career and his relationship with his first wife, Elizabeth Weber, his muse and manager who guided him to superstardom.
Part one, which ends with Billy’s 1982 motorcycle accident and impending divorce from Weber, drew spontaneous applause from the audience numerous times.
Weber is featured in interviews in the documentary, along with Paul McCartney, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Pink, Jackson Browne, Garth Brooks, rapper Nas and the surviving members of Billy’s original band.
Blake Shelton‘s set to step on the main CMA Fest stage at Nashville’s Nissan Stadium Saturday night, and if it seems like he’s been away for awhile — well, he says you’re right.
“I have been. … For 12 years I was a coach on The Voice and we were filming two seasons a year,” he told ABC Audio at the 60th ACM Awards. “And funny, I just saw Kelsea [Ballerini] walking around in here, and she’s got my old seat now. And as much as I miss my friends and family that work at that show, I do not miss that job.”
What he has missed, however, is being part of the music scene in Music City.
“It had taken over, you know, for sure,” he says of The Voice. “And that’s the reason I wasn’t around as much, because even if my schedule did work out, the last thing I wanted to go do is something else, you know.”
“It got just to be too much,” he says. “And now I’ve had a couple of years off and I’m just really enjoying stepping back into this role again, and being a part of the music industry again. It’s a lot of fun.”
CMA Fest fans can expect to hear his new single, “Stay Country or Die Tryin’,” from his new album, For Recreational Use Only.
Even though he wrapped his tour earlier this year, Blake still has a handful of festival dates this summer.
The Who’s March shows at London’s Royal Albert Hall helped raise a record amount of money for Teenage Cancer Trust.
The Teenage Cancer Trust shows, which also included concerts by the Sex Pistols with Frank Carter and The Corrs, raised close to $2.8 million for the organization, which was a new record for the charity concerts, according to Music Week.
This year marked the 25th anniversary of the Teenage Cancer Trust concerts. In total they’ve raised over $48 million for the organization, which is dedicated to providing specialized treatment and support for young people with cancer. The Who’s Roger Daltrey is a patron of the charity.
“For a young person hearing the words ‘you have cancer,’ everything changes,” Jamie Johnson, head of music and entertainment at Teenage Cancer Trust, said. “The money raised through these shows helps make sure they have the right support around them – people who understand what they’re going through and are there every step of the way.”
The Who played two nights for this year’s Teenage Cancer Trust shows. It was during those concerts that Daltrey seemed to have an issue with drummer Zak Starkey’s playing, and they’ve since parted ways with the him.
Nearly all of Coheed and Cambria‘s albums follow a long-running, epic sci-fi concept called the Amory Wars. When a song from an album becomes a single, though — such as Coheed’s first radio hit, “A Favor House Atlantic,” or their current focus track, “Someone Who Can” — how does frontman Claudio Sanchez feel about them being removed from the context of the Amory Wars?
As Sanchez tells ABC Audio, “It wasn’t weird for me to be, like, we pick a single and that single goes off and lives on its own in the radio world.”
That’s partly because Sanchez first created the Amory Wars concept, as he puts it, “purely out of insecurity.”
“I just had a hard time being a frontman, really,” Sanchez says of Coheed’s early days. “Whatever attention came to me with that, it was just very difficult to navigate, and the songs that I was singing about I didn’t want people to know what they were really about.”
He continues, “It was easy for me to use my imagination and create a piece of fantasy that I could basically hide my life inside.”
For example, the initial main characters of the Amory Wars, who are named Coheed and Cambria, are “loosely based” on Sanchez’s parents, while the title “Amory Wars” comes from the street he grew up on.
“I mean, all of these records are about family,” Sanchez says.
“Someone Who Can” appears on Coheed’s new album, The Father of Make Believe. Coheed’s current tour in support of the record, which also includes Mastodon on the bill, concludes Sunday in Waukee, Iowa.
When Lady Gaga released “Abracadabra” earlier this year, she made a big splash by debuting the song’s elaborate video during the Grammy Awards telecast. Since then, she’s performed the video’s now-iconic choreography at her stadium shows, on Saturday Night Live and even at Tudum, Netflix’s fan event. One of Gaga’s main collaborators believes that with “Abracadabra,” she’s created one of those rare instances where you can’t separate the song from the video — and you shouldn’t, either.
Andrew Watt, who co-wrote and co-produced the song — and Gaga’s album Mayhem — told ABC Audio, “I love the record, I think it’s so exciting. [But] I think a lot of times … you hear a song that you love and then the music video can either be just okay, or elevate the song to another planet.”
“For me it’s just like, ‘Okay, that was cool,’ or it’s like, it takes it to another stratosphere — you can’t imagine the song without the video,” he continued. “And I think she really achieved that.”
“I think the video is unbelievable,” he added of “Abracadabra.” It was hailed as a return to form for Gaga, and in fact, it even used costumes and imagery from one of her previous videos.
Watt notes, “The choreography and the dance have just like, elevated the song to another place, where you really feel that level of pop, that only she is capable of making, is fully brought to life.”
Fans believe that Gaga is teasing a new video for another track from Mayhem. Meanwhile, her Mayhem Ball Tour starts July 16 in Las Vegas.
