Yungblud dropped from the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge this week, at which he presented a beautiful mashup of Taylor Swift’s folklore cut “cardigan” along with Avril Lavigne’s 2002 ballad, “that I ’m alongside you. ” The rocker, whose record Outrageous! Is falling on Nov. 13, is viewed belting the song in an acoustic guitar, backed […]
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Metallica Give $250,000 into West Coast Wildfire Relief Efforts
Metallica have contributed $250,000 to five associations around the front areas of this country ’s catastrophic wildfire crisis by using their All Within My Hands charity. The contributions are allowed for its California Community Foundation’s Wildfire Relief Fund, the Oregon Community Foundation’s Wildfire Relief and Recovery Fund, the Community Foundation Santa Cruz County’s Fire Response Fund, […]
Pass the Cranberry Juice, Because Fleetwood Mac Is Loving This Viral ‘Dreams’ Skateboarder
It’s safe to say Fleetwood Mac is just as obsessed with the viral TikTok user skateboarding to their hit “Dreams” as the rest of the internet. “We love this!” the venerable rock band tweeted on Saturday (Sept. 26) while re-sharing the delightful video on their feed. In the cheery clip, which made its rounds over […]
Brent Young, Former Trivium Bassist, Dies
Former Trivium bassist and guitarist Brent Young has died. The news of his death was confirmed by Trivium frontman Matt Heafy on social media. “We have just been given word on the passing of one of the early members of Trivium, Brent Young,” Heafy wrote on Instagram Saturday (Sept. 26), noting that Young played on […]
This TikTok Has Everyone Listening to Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’ Again
Fleetwood Mac’s “Dreams” cruised to No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1977. Forty-three years later, TikTok user @420doggface208 is jamming to the hit while cruising on his skateboard, and it’s gaining rotation again. In the short clip that’s already received 2.7 million views on the social platform, he’s seen boarding on the road, lip-syncing […]
Metallica Rules Top Facebook Live Videos Chart With Final #MetallicaMondays Video
Metallica’s final installment of Metallica Mondays on Facebook Live finds the band going out on top, as the rockers rule Billboard’s Top Facebook Live Videos chart for August 2020. The chart, the latest of which recaps August 2020 activity, is a monthly look at the widest-reaching and most-reacted-to videos posted by musicians on Facebook Live, […]
Machine Gun Kelly’s Pop-Punk Album ‘Tickets to My Downfall’ Is Here: Listen
Machine Gun Kelly has changed ammo and is now firing a different type of musical bullet. On Tickets to My Downfall, MGK turns his back on rap and takes on a pop-punk sound. The new album, his fourth, dropped early Friday and features 15 songs. From start to finish, Tickets to My Downfall races at a speedy […]
Tame Impala Spills Blood Orange Remix of ‘Borderline’: Stream It Now
Kevin Parker is used to being hit up for production work. This time, the Tame Impala maestro taps Blood Orange to rework one his latest and greatest, “Borderline.” Blood Orange (aka Dev Hynes) overhauls the single with original instrumentation by the Englishman, does a gear-shift on Parker’s vocals, and drums by Porches’ Aaron Maine. The […]
Billy Corgan Says Halsey & Lady Gaga Exist in a Genre-Bending ‘Musical World That I Dreamed Of’
The Smashing Pumpkins’ frontman Billy Corgan chatted with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about reassembling the Chicago alt-rockers for a new album and the evolving state of mainstream pop. Corgan listed his rock-leaning musical influences David Bowie, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath and The Beatles, but he appreciates how pop stars like Halsey and Lady Gaga have been leaning into […]
‘The Umbrella Academy’ Dominates Top TV Songs Chart With Entire Top Seven, Nine of Top 10
Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy runs circles around the competition on The Hollywood Reporter’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind, for August 2020, claiming the entire top seven and nine of the top 10. Rankings for the Top TV Songs chart are based on song and show data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a […]