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Steve Harwell, who performed as the lead singer of Smash Mouth until announcing his retirement from the group in 2021, is in hospice care, a representative for the band tells Billboard. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Harwell, 56, is resting at home …
× Skip to main content Music, fashion and artistry blended seamlessly into a mesmerizing, three-hour extravaganza at Beyoncé’s weekend shows at SoFi Stadium. Beyoncé performs onstage at SoFi Stadium on Sept. 1, 2023 in Inglewood, California. Kevin Mazur/WireImage for Parkwood Beyoncé hit all the right notes as her highly-anticipated Renaissance …
Ghost‘s viral song “Mary On a Cross” has officially been certified platinum by the RIAA, giving the band their first-ever such honor in the United States. The song received the certification yesterday (Sept. 7), just five days shy of the third anniversary of its release as part of the Seven Inches …
Rodriguez, the Detroit singer-songwriter who was the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary Searching for Sugar Man, has died. The news was announced on his official website and social media pages. He was 81. Sixto Rodriguez was born in Detroit, the child of Mexican immigrant parents. He recorded two albums, 1970’s …
The rain persisted Sunday (Sept. 3) at Burning Man, leaving the event’s roughly 73,000 attendees still confined to the site. Rain came down hard in Black Rock City, located in the remote Black Rock Desert of northern Nevada, on Sunday around noon and then again around 6 p.m., making it …
A lot of musicians are able to name the four or five albums that they consider the best of all time pretty easily, but choosing one as the absolute greatest is a much more daunting task. Buckcherry frontman Josh Todd was up for the challenge, though, and he also tackled …
Long Beach, CA based Rockers OF LIMBO have released their controversial and provocative new single “California Demon”. The heavy and sinister groove-laden track explores the concept of making a Mephistophelian bargain for diabolical favors to achieve your Hollywood dreams. The song was recorded at Fab Factory Studios and produced by Mike Pepe (Taking Back …
Ozzy Osbourne has shed more light on why he canceled his scheduled concert appearance at this October’s inaugural Power Trip Festival, where the heavy metal “Prince of Darkness” was due to perform in Indio, California, alongside a headlining roster that includes Metallica, AC/DC and Guns N’ Roses. In a statement issued by …
Slowdive have released a new song from Everything Is Alive, their first album in six years. The track, “The Slab,” is “the heaviest on the record and as the name suggests we wanted it to feel like a big slab of music,” said Neil Halstead in a press release. “We …
A new study conducted by eBikes.org reveals which artists, songs and genres are the most popular on Spotify’s cycling playlists and it turns out that rock and metal are quite popular with those pedaling away on bicycles. To tabulate the results, the study was done by analyzing every single playlist …
Mykki Blanco has announced a new six-song EP. Postcards From Italia arrives September 22 via Transgressive. Ahead of the record, Blanco has dropped closing track “Holidays in the Sun,” which marks their first song of 2023. Give it a listen, and find the single and EP artworks, to below. Postcards …
Bob Dylan made his Japanese debut 45 years ago this year as part his 1978 world concert tour. Now, those shows are being commemorated in the new comprehensive box set The Complete Budokan 1978, out on Friday, November 17th. Available in 4xCD, 8xLP (Japan only), and digital formats, the fully remastered …
Róisín Murphy has tapped Moodymann to remix “What Not to Do,” an as yet unreleased song from her upcoming album Hit Parade. Listen to the Detroit musician’s spin on the track below. There’s still some time to go before the DJ Koze–produced Hit Parade is finally out on September 8 …
The 1980s: a decade known for its sleazy guitar riffs and flamboyant rock stars (…also Aquanet. You can’t forget the Aquanet). Artists of the late ‘70s, such as Van Halen, were at the forefront of what would become the glam metal movement; paving the way years prior, and opening up …
Motley Crue have had a really successful run touring with Def Leppard since it kicked off in the summer of 2022, but Nikki Sixx says there’s another band he thinks Motley Crue would “destroy the world” with if they were to tour together. Crue and Def Leppard first embarked on …
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Dreamin’ Wild director Bill Pohlad first had his mind blown by Radiohead’s seminal 1997 release OK Computer while working in Dublin, and it’s been a go-to album ever since. On this bonus episode of The Spark Parade, Pohlad explains how, beyond finding pure …
Not that we ever expect Kid Rock to be much of a stand-up guy, but we now have new photographic evidence that he’s not always a man of his word. Just a few months after posting a video of himself decimating a case of Bud Light with his beloved AR-15, …
Burna Boy bags his first U.K. chart crown – and a piece of history – with his latest album I Told Them…(via Atlantic). The Nigeria-born artist (real name: Damini Ebunoluwa Ogulu) blasts to the top of the latest Official U.K. Albums Chart, published Sept. 1, becoming the first international Afrobeats …
Drummer Nicholas Barker (ex-Cradle of Filth, ex-Dimmu Borgir, ex-Brujeria, ex-Lock Up, Shining) has been diagnosed with kidney failure and a GoFundMe page has been launched to help with financial aid as he is currently unable to work as a musician. The crowdfunding page was launched by Brandi Campanile, who first shares some warm …
Song of the Week delves into the fresh songs we just can’t get out of our heads. Find these tracks and more on our Spotify Top Songs playlist, and for our favorite new songs from emerging artists, check out our Spotify New Sounds playlist. This week, Dolly Parton recruits a few familiar …
Generation Z is bringing nu-metal back. What more proof could you need than a New York Times piece this week (July 24) arguing just that — that the nu-metal renaissance is upon us — while pointing to recent music festivals such as the nu-metal-focused Sick New World as proof? Indeed, the kids are all …
Marvin Gaye’s 1973 album, Let’s Get It On, will be reissued on digital platforms on August 25 for its 50th anniversary. The expanded version comes with 33 bonus tracks, 18 unreleased, including the 1973 sessions for an album of ballads that was eventually scrapped, then re-recorded later in the decade. …
Offset has filed to dismiss his 2022 lawsuit against longtime Migos label Quality Control Music, TMZ reports and documents viewed by Pitchfork confirm. In the initial complaint, the rapper alleged that Quality Control was continuing to claim ownership over his solo recordings, even though he bought the rights to those …
Olivia Rodrigo’s “Vampire” (via Geffen) hasn’t lost any of its bite. The U.S. pop phenomenon’s GUTS-era hit finds new wings as it lifts 3-1 on the latest U.K. chart, published Friday, Sept. 1. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news That’s the first stint …
It was a double dose of Queens this past weekend when Queens of the Stone Age brought their North American tour to Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, New York. Heavy Consequence photographer Rodrigo Fredes was there to capture the band in action. As we mentioned when recapping the August 3rd …
Statues of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were unveiled today in their hometown of Dartford, The Guardian reports. The two Rolling Stones met as teenagers at a train station in 1961 and went on to join the band the next year. Now, they are enshrined in bronze mid-performance, destined to …
Ask yourself which band among thrash metal’s so-called Big Four has been the most unstable over the past quarter-century and the answer, ten out of ten times will probably be Megadeth. And yet Dave Mustaine’s eternally shape-shifting musical vehicle has traversed those controversy-filled years by delivering, at press time, no …
Yeule has shared another new song from their forthcoming album, Softscars. This one’s called “Ghosts.” They said of the new song: “Love without obsession and an undying innocence, like shattered memories and floating so empty, finally, I am enfleshed after being so hollow.” Listen below. Softscars is out September 22 …
Fever Ray has announced new U.S. tour dates and shared a video for the Radical Romantics track “North,” which Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross co-produced. Watch the video, directed by Martin Falck in the Swedish tundra, below. The dates will take Karin Dreijer and their band to …
After a four-year hiatus, Tyler, the Creator’s celebrated Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival is returning to Los Angeles, and the lineup is stacked. Joining Tyler at this year’s festival are The Hillbillies (aka Kendrick Lamar and Baby Keem), SZA, and Clipse. It all goes down on November 11th and 12th at …
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