Slipknot has premiered a new song called “Yen,” which will appear on the band’s upcoming album, The End, So Far.
The track begins as a brooding ballad before exploding into a heavy chorus. You can listen to it now via digital outlets.
“Yen” is the third cut to be released from The End, So Far, following “The Chapeltown Rag” and “The Dying Song (Time to Sing).” The whole album will arrive September 30.
Slipknot will hit the road in support of The End, So Far on their fall Knotfest Roadshow tour, beginning September 20 in Nashville.
It’s been a little over two years since John Legend dropped his last LP, but he’s finally ready to release another body of work. The singer’s eighth studio album is slated to come out in roughly a month — September 9.
Legend will come in the form of a double album complete with collaborations from Rick Ross, Ty Dolla $ign, Jhené Aiko, Jazmine Sullivan, Ledisi and more. It includes previous singles “Honey” featuring Muni Long and the JID-assisted “Dope,” as well as “All She Wanna Do” featuring Saweetie, which just dropped early Friday.
As the title implies, Legend derives from John’s stage name, as well as the word meaning “a famous or important person who is known for doing something extremely well,” as defined by Brittanica.
After years of putting in the work in the music industry, John is finally embracing the name for this album, as he’s confident he’s earned that right.
“Until this point, I’ve never used an aspect of my name as the title of an album,” he said in a press release. “I had to earn that, to live up to it by delivering in the performance and the music. And this is me saying, I’m proud of who I am, I’m confident in the work I’ve done, and I’m just going to declare it.”
In addition to the album announcement and release of his new single with Saweetie, John has a lot to look forward to. He kicks off the second leg of his Love in Las Vegas residency Friday, August 5 and is expecting another child with wife Chrissy Teigen.
Kane Brown’s Different Man album is slowly coming into focus: the singer shared the track list for the project on his social channels this week.
The 17-song collection includes several tracks fans have heard already, such as “Whiskey Sour,” current single “Like I Love Country Music” and chart-topper “One Mississippi.” But there’s plenty on the list that fans haven’t heard yet, including unreleased tracks “Bury Me in Georgia,” “Go Around,” “Pop’s Last Name” and “Dear Georgia.”
Kane has been teasing a long-awaited duet with his wife, Katelyn, hinting that fans would be able to hear her voice on Different Man. As promised, she’s a featured duet partner on a song called “Thank God.”
But Katelyn’s not the only guest artist on the project: The title track, “Different Man,” is a duet with Blake Shelton.
Different Man is due for release September 9. Most recently, Kane dropped a pop-focused single off the project called “Grand.”
Mötley Crüe has teamed up with fellow hard rockers Asking Alexandria, Ice Nine Kills and From Ashes to New on a new song for the soundtrack to the upcoming thriller film The Retaliators.
The track, titled “The Retaliators Theme Song (21 Bullets),” was co-written by Mötley’s Nikki Sixx and his Sixx:A.M. bandmate James Michael. It marks the first new music from the “Dr. Feelgood” rockers to follow the 2019 soundtrack to The Dirt, which featured four new Crüe recordings, including the Machine Gun Kelly collaboration “The Dirt (Est. 1981).”
“Writing a new theme song for a horror flick was inspiring,” Sixx says. “This was my first time writing for a horror-thriller film, and it took me in a different direction from the first theme song I wrote — ‘The Dirt (1981)’ by Mötley Crüe.”
The bassist adds, “I worked with some great new artists to create a new sound that will stretch Mötley Crüe’s audience to new fans. I had a great time writing it, and I think our fans will love it, too!”
You can listen to “21 Bullets” now via digital outlets and watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.
The Retaliators will be released September 14, and its soundtrack, which also songs featuring Mötley Crüe members Tommy Lee, Vince Neil and Mick Mars, as well as contributions from Papa Roach, Five Finger Death Punch, The Hu and others, drops September 16.
Lee, Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix and members of Five Finger Death Punch have roles in the film, as well.
Meanwhile, you can catch Mötley Crüe on their ongoing Stadium Tour with Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, which continues Friday in Boston.
Andy Grammer is the father of two young daughters — 5-year-old Louisiana and 2-year-old Israel — and they’ve changed how he makes music.
Speaking with The Harvard Crimson, the “Honey, I’m Good” singer said having girls altered the messaging in his songs.
“It’s been really fascinating to have a whole different relationship with the feminine,” he disclosed. “I spent most of my life writing love songs, like straight across to my wife. And there’s something really fun about writing downward.”
Andy garnered a reputation for being music’s “good guy” because he tends to write lighthearted and upbeat music. He broke out into the music scene in 2011 with his hit “Keep Your Head Up” and he says he infuses all his music with that sincerity.
“At the core, [it’s] just who I am,” he explained, noting he writes songs about “life proofs” — or life experiences.
“That’s my main goal [when writing]: How do I find a part of life that we’re all going through?” said the Dancing with the Stars alum. “I think that music has a way of getting at those things better than anything else.”
Now he’s writing music with his two girls in mind. He’s released a track that is father-daughter dance worthy titled “Good Man (First Love).”
Andy is set to release his fifth studio album, which he says will include all the singles he’s released over the past few months. “Even for me if someone drops an album, even if I love them, I find my attention span is [too] low to appreciate all of it,” he admitted. “I don’t want a track eight to just never get heard. I care so much about every one of these songs.”
It is currently unknown when Andy’s still-untitled new album will arrive.
WILLOW has released a new song called “hover like a GODDESS.”
The track is available now via digital outlets and will appear on the “Transparent Soul” artist’s upcoming album , due out September 23.
follows 2021’s lately I feel EVERYTHING, and appears to continue in the pop-punk footsteps of its predecessor with the guitar-driven “hover” and the previously released “ it’s my fault.”
Meanwhile, WILLOW will compete at the upcoming 2022 MTV Video Music Awards with the Avril Lavigne and Travis Barker-featuring “Grow” and the Machine Gun Kelly collaboration “Emo Girl,” both of which are up for Best Alternative at the August 28 show.
Highly Suspect has premiered two new tracks off the band’s upcoming album, The Midnight Demon Club.
The tracks include the previously teased “Ice Cold,” as well as a cut titled “New California.” Both are available now via digital outlets.
The Midnight Demon Club, the follow-up to 2019’s MCID, will arrive September 9. It also includes the previously released songs “Natural Born Killer” and “Pink Lullabye.”
Highly Suspect will launch a U.S. tour in support of The Midnight Demon Club September 16 in Minneapolis.
There’s a reason why Meghan Trainor named her new album Takin’ It Back — it’s a promise to fans she’s returned to her roots.
The Grammy winner’s experimented with her music since coming out with her breakthrough debut album, but she tells Billboard it’s time to go back to doo-wop.
“I’m taking it back to my sound that apparently I had,” she revealed. “I started writing and one of my co-writers were like, ‘It’s crazy, these artists are coming in saying I want to do Meghan Trainor sound.’ And I was like, ‘I have a sound?’ I have the doo-wop sound!”
“At the same time, [my song] ‘Title’ blew up on TikTok, which is 7 years old and it’s very doo-woppy. I was like, ‘Wow, universe is talking to me, and I’m listening.'” She said when “Title” blew up, it “felt like my birthday.”
Meghan’s first album, Title, emulated music by the Beach Boys, Dion and other doo-wop greats. For example, Meghan’s hit “Dear Future Husband” sampled Dion’s “Runaround Sue.”
“I’m taking it back to the old school music,” she grinned. The singer said her new album’s title starts with a “T” to honor her last name and her family, as with her other albums: Title, Thank You and Treat Myself.
Meghan added she went into making Taking It Back with a different approach. “Usually, as a songwriter, I go in with melody and this time I went in with a concept,” she explained, noting her recently released single “Bad For Me.”
She said the song was born after “a real tough therapy session.” Meghan added she initially wanted to name the track “Reality,” as it was about hating a toxic family member’s reality that’s “wrong.”
The recently announced limited-edition box set gathering together Paul McCartney‘s three self-titled solo albums — 1970’s McCartney, 1980’s McCartney II and 2020’s McCartney III — hit stores today.
The McCartney I II III collection is available in three formats -– a three-CD set, a three-LP black-vinyl package and a limited-edition three-LP colored-vinyl set.
All three versions feature three photo prints with notes from the former Beatles star about each record.
Coinciding with the release of the box set, McCartney, McCartney II and McCartney III have become the first solo albums by Sir Paul to be mixed in the high-res Dolby Atmos format. You can listen to the Dolby Atmos mixes via various streaming outlets.
The common thread between all three albums is that Paul wrote, produced and recorded them almost entirely by himself.
Released in April 1970, McCartney was Paul’s debut solo album and signaled the breakup of The Beatles. The record spent three weeks at #1 on the Billboard 200 chart, although no singles were released from it. The album included the enduring song “Maybe I’m Amazed,” as well as such gems as “Every Night,” “Junk” and “Teddy Boy,” three tunes that McCartney previously had worked on with The Beatles.
McCartney II was released in May 1980 and found the veteran rocker experimenting with synthesizers and modern recording techniques. The album reached #3 on Billboard 200 and included the chart-topping hit “Coming Up” and the tune “Waterfalls,” which was a top-10 single in the U.K.
McCartney III was recorded during the COVID-19 lockdown and was released at the end of December 2020. It debuted at #2 on the Billboard 200.
Here’s the McCartney track list:
“The Lovely Linda”
“That Would Be Something”
“Valentine Day”
“Every Night”
“Hot as Sun/Glasses”
“Junk”
“Man We Was Lonely”
“Oo You”
“Momma Miss America”
“Teddy Boy”
“Singalong Junk”
“Maybe I’m Amazed”
“Kreen-Akrore”
Here’s the McCartney II track list:
“Coming Up”
“Temporary Secretary”
“On the Way”
“Waterfalls”
“Nobody Knows”
“Front Parlour”
“Summer’s Day Song”
“Frozen Jap”
“Bogey Music”
“Darkroom”
“One of These Days”
Here’s the McCartney III track list:
“Long Tailed Winter Bird”
“Find My Way”
“Pretty Boys”
“Women and Wives”
“Lavatory Lil”
“Slidin'”
“Deep Deep Feeling”
“The Kiss of Venus”
“Seize the Day”
“Deep Down”
“Winter Bird/When Winter Comes”
Mötley Crüe, Asking Alexandria, Ice Nine Kills and From Ashes to New have teamed up on a new song for the soundtrack to the upcoming thriller film The Retaliators.
The track, titled “The Retaliators Theme Song (21 Bullets),” was co-written by Mötley’s Nikki Sixx and his Sixx:A.M. bandmate James Michael. It marks the first new music from the “Dr. Feelgood” rockers to follow the 2019 soundtrack to The Dirt, which featured four new Crüe recordings, including the Machine Gun Kelly collaboration “The Dirt (Est. 1981).”
“Writing a new theme song for a horror flick was inspiring,” Sixx says. “This was my first time writing for a horror-thriller film, and it took me in a different direction from the first theme song I wrote — ‘The Dirt (1981)’ by Mötley Crüe.”
“I worked with some great new artists to create a new sound that will stretch Mötley Crüe’s audience to new fans,” the bassist adds. “I had a great time writing it, and I think our fans will love it, too!”
You can listen to “21 Bullets” now via digital outlets and watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.
The Retaliators will be released September 14, and its soundtrack, which also includes contributions from Papa Roach, Five Finger Death Punch, The Hu and Band Wolves, drops September 16.
Mötley’s Tommy Lee, Papa Roach’s Jacoby Shaddix and members of FFDP have roles in the film, as well.
Meanwhile, you can catch Mötley Crüe on their ongoing Stadium Tour with Def Leppard, Poison and Joan Jett & the Blackhearts, which continues Friday in Boston.
