I DONT KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME has announced a North American tour for 2022.
The outing is set to kick off January 18 in Phoenix, and will conclude February 26 in Dallas. Tickets go on sale this Friday, October 22, at 10 a.m. local time.
For the full list of dates and all ticket info, visit iDKHOW.com.
If you can’t wait until 2022, iDKHOW is also launching a U.S. tour this November.
iDKHOW released their debut album, Razzmatazz, almost exactly a year ago in October 2020. It includes the single “Leave Me Alone,” which hit number one on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart.
The annual event, which raises money for the MusiCares charity, was previously held in 2018 and 2019, but was put on hold in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’ll now make its return this year at The Fonda Theatre in Hollywood on December 20.
Along with Navarro and Morrison, the lineup includes Idol and his other guitarist, Steve Stevens; Perry and Etty Lau Farrell; Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins; Slipknot‘s Corey Taylor; and Sugar Ray frontman Mark McGrath.
As with previous years, the Above Ground performers will play songs off two seminal albums. This year’s selections are Lou Reed‘s Transformer and Sex Pistols‘ Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols.
You can check out a video of Navarro and Morrison talking about this year’s show at the Above Ground organization’s YouTube channel.
Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday, October 22, at AXS.com.
Billy Idol and Sugar Ray‘s Mark McGrath are among the performers scheduled to take part in the 2021 edition of their Above Ground benefit concert, an event organized by Dave Navarro of Jane’s Addiction and longtime Idol touring guitarist Billy Morrison.
The annual fundraising show, which supports the MusiCares charity, was previously held in 2018 and 2019, but was put on hold in 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’ll now make its return this year at The Fonda Theatre in Hollywood on December 20.
Along with Idol, McGrath, Navarro and Morrison, the lineup includes Billy idol’s other guitarist, Steve Stevens; Perry and Etty Lau Farrell; Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins; and Slipknot‘s Corey Taylor.
As with previous years, the Above Ground performers will play songs off two seminal albums. This year’s selections are Lou Reed‘s Transformer and Sex Pistols‘ Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols.
You can check out a video of Navarro and Morrison talking about this year’s show at the Above Ground organization’s YouTube channel.
Tickets go on sale to the general public this Friday, October 22, at AXS.com.
Jason Aldean and Carrie Underwood‘s duet, “If I Didn’t Love You,” was years in the making.
While the duet may have come as a surprise to some, Carrie reveals that she and Jason have been plotting for years to set up a collaboration. While the pair have teamed up for live performances over the years, including a cover of Guns N’ Roses‘ “Paradise City” at the 2010 CMA Fest, this marks their first official studio duet.
“Jason asked if I would sing ‘If I Didn’t Love You’ with him. I knew I liked the song, and Jason and I have actually been trying to do things together over the years,” Carrie says. “We’ve sang together before, but we’ve never officially recorded anything together. It just kind of felt like this could be our moment.”
Carrie continues: “I felt like it was a little bit of an unexpected duet to other people, but I feel like I always knew at some point I’d probably sing with him officially, and this just seemed like the stars were aligning and it just seemed like it was going to be the perfect fit.”
“If I Didn’t Love You” is nearing the top spot at country radio. The hit duet is featured on Jason’s upcoming album, Macon, set for release on November 12.
Former President Donald Trump famously lived on Fifth Avenue in New York and Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., but he may have to stay away from “Electric Avenue.”
Trump has until the end of the day to respond to a copyright lawsuit brought by Eddy Grant, the British-Guyanese singer/songwriter who wrote and recorded the 1983 hit “Electric Avenue.”
Grant sued over alleged unauthorized use of the song in an animated video created by a third party during the 2020 campaign and posted by former President Trump on his personal Twitter account. The 55-second video endorsed Trump’s reelection and “sought to denigrate the Democratic Party’s 2020 presidential nominee, now-President Joseph R. Biden,” court records said.
Trump unsuccessfully sought to dismiss Grant’s claim, making a fair use argument, but a federal judge in New York would not allow it.
“The defendants concede that the video here is clearly satire, not a parody of Electric Avenue or Grant, and the defendants have offered no justification for their extensive borrowing,” Judge John Koeltl wrote.
The judge later set October 18 as the date the former president’s answer is due.
“Electric Avenue” spent five weeks at #2 on Billboard‘s Hot 100 chart, and was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America.
(NOTE CONTENT) ABC News has confirmed that Oscar-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. will stand trial in New York City on February 1 in connection with forcible touching and sexual abuse charges.
A judge set Gooding’s trial date Monday in connection with charges that the actor groped women in Manhattan bars or nightclubs in 2018 and 2019,
In October 2018, Gooding allegedly pinched the buttocks of a woman in the TAO downtown nightclub on 9th Avenue. When confronted, he claimed he had only touched her back.
In June 2019, Gooding allegedly made a sexually suggestive remark to a woman at the Magic Hour Rooftop Bar inside the Moxy Hotel on 7th Avenue. He then put his hand on the woman’s left breast and squeezed it without her consent, court records show. The alleged victim had sat down at the bar where Gooding was with Claudine De Niro, Robert De Niro‘s ex-daughter-in-law. Prosecutors said the encounter was caught on video.
Gooding was formally charged with misdemeanor forcible touching at the NYPD’s 25th Precinct in Harlem, New York, in 2019, and later indicted. He subsequently pleaded not guilty to one misdemeanor count each of forcible touching and sexual abuse in the third degree.
Attorneys for the Jerry Maguire star had unsuccessfully sought to dismiss the case.
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One member of BTS has put a new spin on “My Universe,” the group’s collaboration with Coldplay.
Suga has created a remix of the track, which according to Coldplay’s record label came about “following a conversation over lunch when the two groups met up in New York recently.” A lyric video for the remix is also available.
“I’m thrilled to be able to work together with Coldplay, who I’ve admired since I was a kid, and honored to be a part of this remix,” says Suga in a statement. The original version of the song hit number-one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Coldplay wrote on Twitter, “We’re so grateful to SUGA for this glorious remix. A BRILLIANT producer on top of everything else.”
In other BTS news, their label, BIG HIT Music, has put out a global call for guys to audition to be the next K-Pop superstar. Any male born after 2002 is eligible, and you have until December 20th to apply.
You can apply to be a singer, rapper, dancer or producer, and BTS themselves have made a video encouraging you to participate and a second video explaining the application process.
“I can say this could be a turning point in your life,” Suga says in the first video. “So I highly recommend you to not be hesitant to apply! It’s more about showing how much you love music and your dream, rather than being good at it.”
Credit: James Marcus Haney x Heo Jae Young x Kim So Jung
One member of BTS has put a new spin on “My Universe,” the group’s collaboration with Coldplay.
Suga has created a remix of the track which, according to Coldplay’s record label, came about “following a conversation over lunch when the two groups met up in New York recently.” A lyric video for the remix is also available.
“I’m thrilled to be able to work together with Coldplay, who I’ve admired since I was a kid, and honored to be a part of this remix,” says Suga in a statement. The original version of the song hit number-one on the Billboard Hot 100.
Coldplay wrote on Twitter, “We’re so grateful to SUGA for this glorious remix. A BRILLIANT producer on top of everything else.”
You’ll also find “My Universe” on Coldplay’s new album, Music of the Spheres, which dropped last Friday.
Two of new York City’s legendary rappers, Big Daddy Kane and KRS-One, went one on one Sunday night during the Verzuz battle in NYC.
Fat Joe hosted the 20-round event at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, which kicked off with Big Daddy delivering “Just Rhymin” from his 1988 album, Long Live the Kane.
KRS fired back from the same year with the Boogie Down Productions cut, “I’m Still No. 1.” He continued with “The MC,” “Jack of Spades,” “Outta Here,” “9MM Goes Bang,” “MCs Act Like They Don’t Know” and many more.
Kane blazed through a set list including “Smooth Operator,” “Pimpin’ Ain’t Easy,” “Set It Off,” “Mortal Combat” and “Raw.”
With DJ Scratch backing Kane on the 1s and 2s, and Kid Capri rocking the turntables for KRS, the event included guest appearances by Roxanne Shanté, Masta Ace and Craig G, Das EFX, Mad Lion, Buckshot, and Kool DJ Red Alert. There was also a dance battle between legendary breakers Crazy Legs and Pop Master.
Triller announced there will be a limited commemorative NFT bundle of the ten best all-time Verzuz battle moments, according to Billboard.
“What Swizz [Beatz] and Timbaland have built with Verzuz is an entirely new form of entertainment, one that continues to grow and excite audiences literally around the world,” said Bobby Sarnevesht, co-controlling shareholder of TrillerNet.
“We wanted a way for our fans to be able to own a piece of Verzuz for themselves and tapping into the unique ownability and collectability of NFTs seemed like the perfect way to do that,” he added. “This is the beginning of many exciting Verzuz NFT drops.”
The first Verzuz NFT collectibles will be available for $199 at TrillerNfts.com.
Why do some people hate Kenny G‘s music? That’s the question that a new HBO documentary aims to explore.
The film, titled Listening to Kenny G, follows the saxophonist — the best-selling instrumentalist of all time globally — as he works on his first album in seven years. It also examines his career through archival footage and interviews with fans, critics, record executives and radio personalities.
But according to a press statement, because Kenny G is “arguably the most famous living jazz musician,” the movie is really “about why that makes certain people so mad.” It’s described as a look at “how our artistic tastes shape our personal identities and signal our social belonging.”
Of course, Kenny G isn’t as square as some people make him out to be. The Weeknd tapped him to play on the remix of his song “In Your Eyes,” and Kanye West famously hired him to serenade the rapper’s soon-to-be-ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, and also had him play on his number-one gospel album, Jesus Is King.
What’s more, Kenny made a cameo in a Katy Perry video, appeared in a Super Bowl commercial, and performed with Foster the People on SNL. He’s also one of only five artists to have appeared in the Billboard top 40 in every decade from 1980 to 2010.
Listening to Kenny G premieres on HBO on December 3. It’s part of HBO’s Music Box film series, which includes the Alanis Morissette documentary Jagged, the Woodstock ’99 documentary Peace, Love & Rage, docs about the late rappers DMX and Juice WRLD, and a profile of Robert Stigwood, the entertainment tycoon who managed the Bee Gees, made John Travolta a movie star and gave us Grease and Saturday Night Fever.
