almost monday has premiered a new song called “only wanna dance.”
The track follows the “broken people” outfit’s three 2022 singles, “cough drops,” “sunburn” and “sun keeps on shining.”
You can listen to “only wanna dance” now via digital outlets and watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.
Along with the singles, almost monday has released two EPs: 2020’s don’t say you’re ordinary and 2021’s til the end of time.
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Zero 9:36 has premiered a new single called “Self-Destruct.”
The track arrives ahead of the “Adrenaline” artist returning to the road in May for a live run, including sets at the Welcome to Rockville and Sonic Temple festivals.
“I’m looking forward to playing shows again this spring/summer and hearing the reaction to ‘Self-Destruct,'” Zero 9:36 says. “The track is really everything I do in one package; it was a lot of fun to make.”
You can listen to “Self-Destruct” now via digital outlets.
“Self-Destruct” follows Zero 9:36’s 2022 single “Stuck in My Ways.”
(Video contains uncensored profanity.)
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Queen has just landed a new Spotify milestone: The band’s classic track “We Will Rock You” has surpassed one billion streams on the streaming service.
“We Will Rock You,” written by guitarist Brian May, was featured on the band’s 1977 album, News of the World, and was released as a single on October 7 of that year. It went on to be certified six-times Platinum by the RIAA, and was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 2009.
The song isn’t the only Queen track to reach such a milestone on the streaming service: Back in December, “Bohemian Rhapsody” surpassed two billion steams on Spotify.
(A previous version of this story published on February 23 erroneously stated a million streams. The text above has been updated to correct the error.)
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Richie Sambora says he’s proud that the Bon Jovi song “It’s My Life” became an inspiration for Ukrainians as they were dealing with the initial days of the Russian invasion.
“I am proud to be a part of the writing,” Sambora tells People of the song he co-wrote with former bandmate Jon Bon Jovi. “Those songs were about the way we grew up, and it just transpired to be songs that inspired people to be themselves and to take strength.”
Video surfaced last March showing Odessa citizens on a beach filling sandbags while singing along to the Bon Jovi track backed by a drummer.
“What I found in Ukraine is that these people have heart,” Sambora added. “They’re defending their families, their sovereignty as a country, their elders, their mothers and fathers, and the children that are the future. And that’s a lot of heart.”
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The second season of Tim Allen‘s hit Disney+ series The Santa Clauses has just hired a bad Santa.
According to the streaming service, Emmy-winning former Modern Family star Eric Stonestreet will play Magnus Antas aka the Mad Santa, “who reigned during the 14thcentury and is now returning to try and take down Scott Calvin and reclaim the North Pole.”
According to Disney+, “In the second season, the Calvin family is back in the North Pole as Scott Calvin continues his role as Santa Claus after retirement plans were thwarted when failing to find a worthy successor in season one. Now that Scott and his family have successfully saved Christmas, Scott turns his focus towards training his son Calvin to eventually take over the ‘family business’ as Santa Claus.”
Undoubtedly, the Mad Santa will have something to say about that.
Incidentally, Stonestreet previously worked with award-winning Clauses producer Jack Burditt on Modern Family.
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Robert Trujillo has officially spent two decades in Metallica.
The bassist first joined the metal legends on February 24, 2003. In an Instagram post marking the milestone, Trujillo writes, “Crazy to think it’s been 20 incredible years since James [Hetfield] picked me up from Oakland Airport with Lars [Ulrich] and Kirk [Hammett] as passengers in his big white truck.”
“That night changed my life forever,” Trujillo continues. “Much Love to Lars, James, and Kirk and to the best frikin fans on the planet for the respect, love and support you’ve given me, I can’t wait to take the stage again with my brothers very soon!”
Trujillo is Metallica’s fourth official bass player, following original bassist Ron McGovney, the late Cliff Burton and Jason Newsted. His process of joining the band was memorably featured in the 2004 ‘Tallica documentary, Some Kind of Monster.
Metallica has released two albums with Trujillo — 2008’s Death Magnetic and 2016’s Hardwired…to Self-Destruct. A third, 72 Seasons, arrives on April 14.
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The copyright case against Ed Sheeran‘s “Thinking Out Loud” is heating up, with both sides battling over a YouTube clip.
Ed is being sued for allegedly stealing elements of Marvin Gaye‘s “Let’s Get It On” to make his 2014 hit.
Billboard reports the case was brought on by the heirs of singer Ed Townsend, who co-wrote “Let’s Get It On” with Gaye. The YouTube clip in question sees Ed playing the two songs simultaneously during a 2014 concert in Switzerland.
Ed’s team is trying to bar the video from being played during the trial because they say it will confuse the jurors. Meanwhile, his accusers state the clip is “among the most important and critical evidence in this case” and, to them, proves he stole the song.
Ed’s team says the video showing him toggling between two songs requires more nuance to understand. They claim the clip demonstrates how the songs share a chord progression, which they say is “freely available to all songwriters.”
They also noted the same elements were found in a song that predates “Let’s Get It On” — The Temptations‘ 1965 hit “Since I Lost My Baby.”
Attorney Patrick Frank, who represents Townsend’s heirs, disagrees with the argument, saying, “The video of the medley at issue provides helpful guidance to highlight and/or illustrate those similarities and why they are significant.”
“The medley which defendants belatedly seek to exclude from admission at trial … is among the most important and critical evidence in the case,” he added.
Townsend’s heirs filed suit in 2017. Gaye’s heirs are not part of this case.
No date has been set for a trial, but it is expected to take place in a Manhattan federal courthouse.
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Billboard chart records are falling thanks to Fall Out Boy and Shinedown.
The “Sugar, We’re Goin Down” outfit has hit #1 on the Alternative Airplay ranking with “Love from the Other Side,” the lead single off the group’s upcoming album, So Much (for) Stardust. Not only is “Love from the Other Side” the first Fall Out Boy single to reach the top Alternative Airplay spot, it sets the record for the longest wait between an artist’s first appearance on the chart and their first #1.
Having made their debut on Alternative Airplay with “Sugar” in June 2005, Fall Out Boy waited a total of 17 years and nine months to finally conquer the tally.
The previous record was set by Stone Temple Pilots, who took 17 years and two weeks to hit #1 in 2010 with “Between the Lines” after first charting in 1993 with “Plush.”
So Much (for) Stardust, the follow-up to 2018’s M A N I A, arrives March 24.
Shinedown, meanwhile, now holds the record for the most top-10 hits on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. Brent Smith and company’s latest single, “Dead Don’t Die,” is the group’s 30th entry on Mainstream Rock Airplay to reach that threshold, breaking a three-way tie with Foo Fighters and Five Finger Death Punch, who each have 29.
The “Second Chance” rockers are used to making Billboard history, having already set the record for the most #1s on Mainstream Rock Airplay, with 18.
“Dead Don’t Die” appears on Shinedown’s new album, Planet Zero, which was released last July.
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“Numb Little Bug” singer Em Beihold is back with a new single, which was, coincidentally, inspired by the huge success of “Numb Little Bug.”
The song’s called “Roller Coasters Make Me Sad” and it, Em sings, “First they take you up the track/ Build you up then take it back/ Everybody else/ will laugh/ but Roller coasters make me sad/ Upside down, the cameras flash/ Messin’ up my brain real bad/ All I know is this can’t last/ Roller coasters make me sad.”
She says it describes how she felt after “Numb Little Bug” seemingly blew up overnight. “On the day it dropped, the response was insane. I should’ve been happy. Instead, I felt this pressure to keep the momentum going,” she explains.
That’s why later in the song she literally sings, “I should be having fun” over and over again.
She adds, “I knew that everything that goes up must come down. I was bracing for the fall, because it was so unbelievably good. I couldn’t just enjoy the ride. At the same time, I do hate roller coasters.”
In other Em Beihold news, she’s going to open for Lewis Capaldi on his North American tour this year, starting March 30 at Nashville’s Grand Ole Opry House. She’ll also play New York’s Radio City Music Hall with Lewis on April 6, as well as other major venues around the country.
Finally, have you heard the duet version of Stephen Sanchez‘s “Until I Found You” that Em recorded with him last year? It was most recently featured in the final episodes of the Netflix hit series Ginny + Georgia.
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Whitesnake is revisiting their 2008 comeback album, Good To Be Bad, with a new reissue. They’re set to drop the new retrospective Still Good To Be Bad on April 28, just a few days after the original release’s 15th anniversary.
Still Good To Be Bad will be released in a variety of formats, including a four-CD/Blu-ray set that includes a newly remastered version of the original album, along with a newly remixed version. There will also be rare and unreleased studio and live recordings, plus music videos, interviews and performance clips from the world tour that accompanied the original release.
But that’s not all. The 2023 remix album will be released as a two-LP vinyl set, as well.
And fans are now getting their first taste of what to expect from the remixed record, with the release of the new version of “Can You Hear The Wind Blow.”
Good To Be Bad, released April 21, 2008, was Whitesnake’s 10th studio album. At the time it was their first album in over a decade, their first release since 1997’s Restless Heart.
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