Forget swoon-worthy tales of romance, white horses and steamy love scenes: Kelsea Ballerini’s latest song is all about the little moments that make a relationship great.
“It’s when we’re in a crowded room, put your hand on my back / And waiting on me in the morning with my coffee black,” Kelsea sings in the chorus of her song. “Back to the basics, ‘cause they’re bigger than they seem / Give me that typical, simple love, it’s the little things.”
“The Little Things” is the latest song to come off of Kelsea’s forthcoming new project, Subject to Change, which comes out in full on September 23. Fans have already heard a couple of other new songs off the album, including “Love is a Cowboy” and the lead single, “Heartfirst.”
“Let’s not go big, let’s just go home,” Kelsea wrote on social media when she shared her new song. “My little ‘90s inspired windows down giddy song ‘The Little Things’ is out now.”
If you’re of a certain age, you might remember what became known as the Satanic Panic of the 1980s, when everything from Dungeons and Dragons to heavy metal was seen as promoting Satanism.
Peacock has announced it’s capturing that era in a drama series called Hysteria!, written and directed — most appropriately — by John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein, the guys behind the upcoming role-playing game-inspired adventure Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves.
According to the streaming service, the series will be a “coming of age” story that follows a group of high school misfits “as they exploit the growing hysteria around teen occult activity.”
Peacock teases, “When a beloved varsity quarterback disappears during the ‘Satanic Panic’ of the late 1980s, a struggling high school heavy metal band of outcasts realize they can capitalize on the town’s sudden interest in the occult by building a reputation as a Satanic metal band, until a bizarre series of murders, kidnappings, and reported ‘supernatural activity’ triggers a leather-studded witch hunt that leads directly back to them.”
Yungblud has premiered a new song called “The Emperor.”
The track will serve as the anthem for ESPN’s coverage of the upcoming 2022 college football season. You can hear a clip of “The Emperor” in a new ESPN college football commercial and listen to it in full now via digital outlets.
Meanwhile, Yungblud is gearing up to release his new, self-titled album on September 2. The record — Yungblud’s third full-length effort — features the previously released songs “The Funeral,” “Don’t Feel Like Feeling Sad” and the WILLOW collaboration “Memories.”
You can also catch Yungblud at a number of U.S. festivals this fall, including Riot Fest, Firefly and Austin City Limits.
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Doja Cat is tired of having hair, so she shaved her head and her eyebrows — all on Instagram Live.
The Grammy winner shocked fans on Thursday night when she spoke about how her hair had been making her uncomfortable. She said wearing wigs made her obsess over her appearance because they were “sliding and peeling off my head.”
“I would be working out, but I couldn’t focus because I was more concerned about how I looked, and how my hair was doing and how to keep it adhered to my scalp,” the “Kiss Me More” hitmaker explained.
“I don’t like having hair,” she said. “I never liked having hair. I cannot tell you one time, since the beginning of my life, that I’ve ever been like, ‘This is cool.'”
Doja added she began using wigs because she was tired of maintaining her natural hair. “You guys have seen me wear my natural hair out,” she told fans. “I would straighten it … I don’t even wear it natural ’cause I don’t feel like it and it’s just a f***ing nightmare, dude. I’m over it.”
With all that said, the rapper said she saw “no point” to having hair — and that included eyebrows.
“What is [the] use of having hair if you’re not going to f***ing wearing it out? I don’t even sport it, so I’m shaving it off,” said Doja — who revealed her new look on Instagram Live. She then shaved off her eyebrows.
Doja said she is “obsessed” with her new look and described how freeing it feels. “I can swim, which is a big deal for me because I love to surf,” she said. “I can work out, I can do like real strenuous workouts … Either way, it’s much easier all around.”
Drowning Pool has premiered a new song called “Mind Right,” the first preview of the band’s upcoming album, Strike a Nerve.
The track, which is available now via digital outlets, is described as a tribute to the late Pantera brothers “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott and Vinnie Paul.
“This song was written not long after Vinnie Paul died, as a tribute of sorts to him and Dime and a way for us to honor the impact Pantera had on our local Dallas scene,” says guitarist CJ Pierce, adding that “Mind Right” is “probably the heaviest song we’ve recorded.”
Strike a Nerve — the seventh Drowning Pool album and the first since 2016’s Hellelujah — arrives September 30. Here’s the track list:
“Doing Time in Hell”
“Hate Against Hate”
“Stay and Bleed”
“Strike a Nerve”
“Racing to a Red Light”
“Choke”
“Everything But You”
“Down in the Dirt”
“Rope”
“A Devil More Damned”
“Mind Right”
(NEW YORK) — Ten miners remain trapped underground in a flooded tunnel in northern Mexico on Friday after first becoming trapped nearly two days ago.
Mexican officials said the incident was reported around 1:35 p.m. on Wednesday, when miners allegedly encountered a tunnel filled with water that then flooded the Sabinas mine.
There were 15 miners inside when the flooding began, but rescuers were able to extract five of them on Wednesday, according to officials.
The remaining miners are trapped between two 200-foot deep mine shafts, with half of the area flooded with water, authorities said.
Laura Velazquez, Mexico’s national coordinator of civil protection, said on Thursday that authorities are now working to pump water out of the flooded areas of the mine.
“We have not slept, we are working day and night, uninterrupted,” Velazquez said at a briefing Thursday.
Velazquez said officials are strategically using the pumps to extract the greatest amount of water and gain access to the miners inside as soon as possible.
No one has had contact with the 10 miners who remain trapped since Wednesday.
Six special force divers arrived from the National Guard on Thursday morning, but officials had not given updates on their mission as of Friday morning.
Gov. Miguel Riquelme of Coahuila and Zaragoza state visited the Sabinas mine, located about 75 miles southeast of the Texas border, on Thursday.
Riquelme tweeted that work was being done through three wells to extract water using eight specialized pumps. Seventeen additional pumping teams with more resources were being called in, he added.
Riquelme said 150 people were working on the rescue, with officials from the Mexican Office of National Defense, the National Guard and expert rescuers from the Carboniferous region adding to the effort.
“The rescue work at the Agujita coal mine continues without rest, #Sabinas,” Riquelme tweeted on Thursday evening.
This is the third mining incident in Sabinas since 2006; 65 people were killed that year in a mining blast, followed by another 14 miners that were trapped and confirmed dead after a different explosion in 2011.
Officials have not yet begun investigating this new incident’s cause.
President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said in his daily press briefing on Thursday that investigations will have to come later.
“Those responsible — the permits, the inspections, everything, all of that — we are leaving until after. We already have the basic information. But let’s not talk about that now, let’s look to save the miners,” he said.
The specific mine shaft where 10 workers are now trapped only began operations in January 2022, the secretary of Labor and Social Welfare said in a statement. However, the agency said there has been “no history of complaints of any type of anomaly.”
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.
