Hayley Williams is hosting a new audio program on BBC Sounds called Everything Is Emo.
Each episode will find the Paramore frontwoman running through “the very best emo music from the ’90s until now.”
“You can expect to hear classic tracks, new music from new artists, and personal stories from me,” Williams says.
The first episode’s playlist includes Panic! at the Disco‘s “I Write Sins Not Tragedies,” Yeah Yeah Yeahs‘ “Maps,” Linkin Park‘s “Leave Out All the Rest,” and My Chemical Romance‘s “Helena.”
Halestorm has released an acoustic version of “The Steeple,” a track off the band’s upcoming album, Back from the Dead.
The unplugged performance gives a twangy, Western feel to the hard-rocking original. You can listen to it now via digital outlets.
The electric “The Steeple” currently sits in the top 10 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart. It follows the Back from the Dead lead single and title track, which hit number one on the ranking.
Back from the Dead the album will be released May 6.
(WASHINGTON) — Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., chairman of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, has promised the panel will tell the “story about what happened” when the first of at least eight public hearings starts on June 9, he told reporters Thursday.
“We’ll tell the story about what happened. We will use a combination of witnesses, exhibits, things that we have — to the tens of thousands of exhibits we’ve interviewed and looked at as well as the hundreds of witnesses we deposed or just talked to in general,” Thompson said, as the committee works to wrap up more witness interviews in the coming weeks.
“It will give the public the benefit of what more than a year’s worth of investigation has borne to the committee,” he added.
Thompson told reporters that the eight hearings on tap so far will be held in a “mixture” of daytime and prime-time programming. The committee has set a self-imposed fall deadline to share its findings with the American public — coinciding with the 2022 midterm elections which will determine the balance of power in Congress.
He also said the panel will re-invite House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy and other Republicans linked to the Jan. 6 conversations inside the Trump White House to cooperate with their investigation “before the week is out.”
“We’ve collected an awful lot of information. And some of that information has bearing on members. And we want to give those members an opportunity to tell their side,” he said, adding that senators will also be invited to cooperate.
Asked what the panel will do if lawmakers refuse, as they have in the past, Thompson said, “We’ll cross that bridge when we get to it.”
Thompson was also asked Thursday about the tranche of text messages that former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows handed over to the committee late last year before he decided not to cooperate with the panel. The authenticity of the messages, first reported by CNN, was confirmed to ABC News by people who have seen them.
“It does not bode well for members of Congress,” Thompson said. “People send us here to be truthful. People send us here to make sure that we present the facts. People don’t send us here to lie.”
Meadows was held in contempt by the House in December for not complying with his subpoena, but has yet to face charges from the Justice Department.
The Jan. 6 committee held its first public hearing in July 2021 and featured emotional testimony from Capitol Police officers who protected the complex on Jan. 6, 2021.
The four officers testifying then — Capitol Police officers Aquilino Gonell and Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police Department officers Michael Fanone and Daniel Hodges — flatly rejected what they called attempts to rewrite history and downplay the attack as one that shouldn’t be investigated further, telling lawmakers they all feared for their lives on Jan. 6.
All four said they also wanted the panel to investigate whether those in power may have aided and abetted rioters.
A new archival Creedence Clearwater Revival documentary focusing on a historic April 1970 concert that the band played at London’s famed Royal Albert Hall us currently in production.
The movie, titled Travelin’ Band: Creedence Clearwater Revival at the Royal Albert Hall, is narrated by Oscar-winning actor and CCR fan Jeff Bridges, and directed by Grammy-winning filmmaker Bob Smeaton, whose credits include The Beatles Anthology series and Jimi Hendrix Band of Gypsies.
Travelin’ Band will be the first movie ever to feature footage of a full concert by Creedence Clearwater Revival‘s classic lineup of John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, Stu Cook and Doug “Cosmo” Clifford.
The film follows the band from their early years in their hometown of El Cerrito, California, to their emergence as one of the most popular rock groups in the world, performing at Woodstock and selling out the Oakland Coliseum before heading overseas for a European trek that included the Royal Albert Hall show.
Travelin’ Band offers a treasure trove of rare and unseen footage, including recently rediscovered 16-mm film of the concert, behind-the-scenes clip of the band members, and interviews from the archives of the Fantasy Records label. The movie also includes what is thought to be the earliest known footage of the group playing live.
Audio of the concert has been mixed and restored using the original multi-track tapes by Beatles reissue producer Giles Martin and his studio collaborator Sam Okell.
Smeaton says that while working on the film, “I was able to see and hear why [CCR] are worthy of their status as one of the greatest bands of all time. I knew they were good, I never knew they were that good.”
Adds Bridges, “What a band! Love listening to ’em, love playin’ Fogerty’s tunes.”
The Pete Davidson takeover shows no signs of stopping, with the SNL player and stand-up now becoming the face of H&M.
The King of Staten Island star is apparently taking a page from current squeeze Kim Kardashian and getting into the fashion business, bringing his “fresh energy” to the retailer’s menswear campaign.
In the collab announcement, H&M says the line, “captures the fresh energy in men’s fashion, such as freedom of expression and self-confidence in personal style every single moment,” and calls it, “an invitation to turn up the volume, have fun, be bold and add fresh pieces to much-loved wardrobe favorites.”
Pete, whose new comedy series Bupkis was just picked up by streamer Peacock, called the partnership a “great experience,” adding, “The clothes are comfortable and feel great to wear which is what I love about H&M.”
Henrik Nordvall, Global Business Unit Director for Menswear at H&M, says Davidson “encapsulates everything H&M loves about the new menswear mood, with his self-confidence and play with personal style.”
Red Hot Chili Peppers‘ headlining performance at the New Orleans Jazz Fest this weekend will be a “celebration” of late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
“We’re going to play our hearts out,” drummer Chad Smith tells Billboard.
The Peppers joined the Jazz Fest lineup in place of Foo Fighters, who canceled all of their upcoming tour dates following Hawkins’ unexpected death on March 25.
“We’re taking Alison, [Hawkins’] wife, with us and it’s going to be a celebration,” Smith says. “That’s what she wants. She doesn’t want it to be anything other than, ‘Let’s celebrate music, let’s celebrate our friends, let’s celebrate Taylor. This is what he would want and he would be very happy that you guys are playing and he would want it be nothing but a positive experience.'”
Smith adds, “So we’re going to do all that and she’s going to be part of that and I’m very honored that we can do that with her.”
As previously reported, Nine Inch Nails will be replacing Foo Fighters at the Boston Calling and Welcome to Rockville festivals, while Arcade Fire will be stepping in for them at Osheaga. Arcade Fire’s Win Butler has said that his band will be dedicating their set to Hawkins.
Dolly Parton’s Grace and Frankie cameo is getting closer, according to the Netflix show’s co-stars, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin.
Jane, Lily and Dolly all co-starred in the classic workplace comedy 9 to 5 back in 1980, so it seems only fitting that they’d reunite on Grace and Frankie. Now that the show’s in its final season, time is running out for Dolly to make her appearance — but she’s showing up in the nick of time.
Jane and Lily offered some details on the reunion to ET Online recently, explaining that Dolly’s cameo will be in the series finale, and her story line is truly something special.
“It’s not just the fact that Dolly shows up. It’s how she shows up. What the story is that brings her on. It’s just beyond perfect,” Jane explained. “We were both just so moved when she turned that chair around and there she was.”
Grace and Frankie, Netflix’s longest-running original series, concludes this year after seven seasons. The final episodes will drop April 29.
And though Jane and Lily — frequent collaborators since the ‘70s — are sad to say goodbye to their characters, their time working together isn’t done yet.
“Over the last few months, we made a movie together, right after, and we are working on another movie right now,” Jane explains.
So who knows? Lily and Jane might get another shot at sharing the screen with Dolly in the years to come, even after the curtains close on Grace and Frankie.
After multiple teases, Sam Smith has finally dropped their new single and video, “Love Me More.”
In the song, Sam starts out full of self-doubt, singing, “Have you ever felt like being somebody else?/Feeling like the mirror isn’t good for your health?” but then, they turn a corner, singing, “Every day I’m trying not to hate myself/but lately it’s not hurting like it did before/Maybe I am learning how to love me more.”
The video opens with footage of Sam as a toddler, cuts to them alone in their house while a friend leaves a voice mail urging them to come out, and ends with them dancing with a crowd of people at a club and getting cozy with a guy on the dance floor.
“I wrote this song for anyone who feels different, anyone who has to stop themselves every day from saying unkind things to themselves, in their head, all the time,” Sam explains in a statement. “I felt like that for the longest time and slowly I’m learning how to just be nice to myself.”
“I wanted to share that because I captured it in this song,” they add. “Over the last two years, music has been my therapy more than ever. So I hope this song can be your friend.”
“Love Me More” is described as “the beginning of what will undoubtedly be yet another remarkable chapter for Sam.” No word yet on a new album, though.
After teasing it earlier this week with a goofy teaser video called “I Feel Funny,” Justin Bieber has now officially dropped his new single, “Honest,” featuring Houston rapper Don Toliver.
Speaking to Ebro Darden on Apple Music 1 about why he collaborated with Toliver, Justin explains, “I just love his melodies…he has a really amazing cadence to his songs and his music. And I’m just a genuine fan. He’s very unique. And he just is himself. And that’s what I love about any artist that can just has a lane and does what they do and does it well.”
In the video, Justin and Toliver, along with two women, ride snowmobiles through mountains and hang out in the snowy woods, wearing a variety of fabulous puffer coats. In one James Bond-ish moment, a man in black starts shooting at them, but the woman riding with Justin on the back of the snowmobile takes him out.
Lyrically, the song seems to be another tribute to Justin’s love for his wife, Hailey: “You’re modest, I like it/You stay down and you the baddest/You kept it real with me from jump” he sings. “I like that hazel on you/I look straight in your eyes, holy matrimony.”
When Toliver comes in, he raps about “me and JB smoking skunk” and hands Justin what appears to be a joint, from which he takes a hit. The clip ends with Toliver, Justin and the two women sitting around a fire in the snowy woods, smoking.
Future’s highly anticipated new album, I NEVER LIKED YOU, dropped on Friday and the hot new project is filled with star-studded features from Drake, Gunna & Young Thug, Kodak Black, Kanye West and more.
Ye appears alongside his longtime friend Future in the music video for “Keep It Burnin,” which was also delivered on Friday. The fiery new track, which Future teased earlier this week, first showed up on Ye’s Donda 2.
The 16-track project comes nearly two years after his RIAA Platinum-selling album, High Off Life, marking the Atlanta rapper’s ninth studio collection and first full-length project since his collaboration with Lil Uzi Vert on Pluto x Baby Pluto.
In a recent cover story for GQ, Future opened up about his vulnerability on the album, saying, “I’m putting myself out there. Sharing my lifestyle with the world. Sharing my pain with the world. Sharing my ups, sharing my downs with the entire universe. I believe in the energy of the universe and manifestation. That’s why I’m giving myself, because I’m willing to correct myself. I don’t want to just…be wrong. I’m willing to give you all of me, so you can tell me how to build on me, and make me a better me.”
It may be safe to say Future’s proud of his latest body of work: Prior to the album’s release, the rapper tweeted about his ambitious expectations, saying, “When the album drop ain’t no being humble…Da biggest.”
I NEVER LIKED YOU is now available for streaming on all major platforms.
