Pearl Jam Released A Digital Archive With Over 5,000 Songs In It, Coldplay Dropped A New Max Martin Produced Single, A New Phife Dog Single Surfaced, And Skrillex Is Back!
Last week saw a ton of new album releases, tour announcements, and more as it seems the music industry is getting back in the swing of things. Finally.
I updated my "New New" Spotify playlist with all the new stuff from the past couple weeks I'm feeling. All genres
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POP
- My girl Miley Cyrus covered Dolly Parton’s “Light Of A Clear Blue Morning” on SNL and ripped it per usual.
She also performed her remix with Kid Laroi of his song "Without You" which I absolutely cannot stand. Possibly the first thing Miley's ever done that I can't get on board with.
My guy Sammy Adams and I discussed "Without You" and four other tracks in our new vlog series "Cash Or Trash". Check it out and throw us a follow if you like. New episode dropping this week.
- P!NK shared a new single “All I Know So Far” off her upcoming album by the same name.
- Bebe Rexha, the two-time Grammy Award-nominated New York City native, returned with her sophomore album, Better Mistakes.
She’s tapped a lineup of stars for her latest effort, which dropped at midnight. Better Mistakes features Travis Barker, Lil Uzi Vert, Lunay, Ty Dolla $ign, Rick Ross and more, and includes her collaboration with Doja Cat, “Baby I’m Jealous.”
Her song "Amore" samples the Dean Martin classic in a chopped and screwed style and features Rick Ross.
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- Kelly Clarkson took us "Home" for her nostalgia-inducing cover of Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros on Friday's (May 7) Kellyoke segment.
- Megadeth frontman Dave Mustaine’s daughter Electra Mustaine has released a new electro-pop single, “Evergreen”, as the first official song off her upcoming debut album.
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RAP
- The estate of late A Tribe Called Quest rapper Phife Dawg has continued the rollout for his first posthumous album, Forever, with a new single titled “French Kiss Deux”.
- Nicki Minaj tweeted out a tease at new music being released this Friday-
- J. Cole sent Dreamville fans into a frenzy on Tuesday by announcing a new album titled The Off-Season, and now he’s shared its lead single, “i n t e r l u d e”
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- DMV area hip-hop artist McKinley Dixon has today released his new album, For My Mama and Anyone Who Look Like Her. For My Mama completes a trilogy Dixon launched as an independent artist. First came 2016’s Who Taught You to Hate Yourself?, followed two years later by The Importance of Self Belief.
- Czarface have just released Super What?, their new collaborative album with the late MF DOOM. The two recorded the LP together before the masked rapper’s unexpected death in October 2020.
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- Isaiah Rashad has finally announced his new album The House Is Burning. It’s slated for a June release, and Zay is offering an early taste with the new single “Lay Wit Ya” featuring Duke Deuce.
- Colombian superstar J Balvin is celebrating his 36th birthday today, and he’s released a new song titled “7 De Mayo” to mark the occasion.
- Xscape vs. SWV in Verzuz Battle of '90s R&B Greats. Billboard did a great recap of it round by round here.
- After breaking through on the Hot 100 last year with the undeniable “Tap In,” then scaling the chart in recent weeks with the shimmering “Best Friend” alongside Doja Cat, Saweetie has unveiled her song of the summer bid. “Fast (Motion)” finds the Bay Area rapper rising to meet her moment, spitting game over an elastic beat and twisting a flammable hook around her finger; don’t be surprised if this becomes Saweetie’s biggest hit to date.
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- Flipp Dinero went off on his latest single "The Get Back"
- Plies & Yung Bleu offer TMI On "Nasty Nasty"
- Detroit's Tee Grizzley dropped his new album ‘Built for Whatever’ featuring Lil Durk, King Von, Big Sean, and More
- Kodak Black tapped Pooh Shiesty & Syko Bob for "Rip Stick"
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- Chief Keef, Ballout & Tadoe collabed on "On Gang"
ROCK
- Pearl Jam launched a new digital archive titled DEEP featuring 186 Live Shows and containing 5,404 songs in total.
Members of the Pearl Jam Ten Club will have access to official bootlegs from tours during 2000, 2003, 2008, and 2013. Fans will be able to search shows by city, year, and category, as well as accessing custom playlists such as “Best Political Songs”, “Best Covers”, and, for new fans, “Pearl Jam for Dummies”.
Besides that, DEEP comes equipped with a custom setlist generator. User can input their names and birthdays, and in return receive their very own personalized setlist written in a font based on Eddie Vedder’s handwriting. These setlists can then be transformed into streamable playlists, with the bootlegs enhanced with written descriptions by Ten Club superfans. You can access DEEP through the Pearl Jam website.
- Coldplay are back with “Higher Power”, their first new song in two years. The track reunites the British rockers with Max Martin, the Swedish super producer responsible for dozens of No. 1 hits.
- Red Hot Chili Peppers are ready to part ways with their song catalog, but they’re not just going to give it away, give it away, give it away now. As Variety notes, the California rockers have reached a deal with Hipgnosis Songs that is said to be worth upwards of $140 million.
It’s unclear if the deal has actually been finalized, but when it closes, it’s expected to include all of the band’s albums and biggest hits, including “Under the Bridge”, “Otherside”, “Can’t Stop”, “Dani California”, “Scar Tissue”, and “Give It Away”. Also unknown at this time is the ownership of future albums, such as the one that the group is currently writing. It will be Red Hot Chili Peppers’ first project with Frusciante since 2006’s Stadium Arcadium.
- Perry Farrell announced a new song “MEND” with Kind Heaven Orchestra - Foo Fighters' Taylor Hawkins, The Cars' Elliot Easton, and Bon Jovi's David Bryan. It drops May 21st
- Van Weezer was originally imagined as Weezer’s fourteenth studio album, instead of the band’s fifteenth: announced before the pandemic, the album was shelved for a year, and in the meantime, Rivers Cuomo and co. completed the off-kilter baroque pop project OK Human first. Fortunately, Van Weezer -- a paean to power-pop, hard rock and hair metal, conceived to be supported during Weezer’s Hella Mega stadium run with Green Day and Fall Out Boy -- hasn’t lost any of its guitar heroism over that downtime, with single “The End of the Game” and new tracks like “1 More Hit” and “All The Good Ones” scratching the stomp-clap itch that “Beverly Hills” located years ago.
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- Michael McDonald and Willie Nelson covered “Dreams of the San Joaquin” for Charity. Proceeds from the single, which also features Los Lobos' David Hidalgo, benefit RAICES and the United Farm Workers of America
- Florence and The Machine contributed a new song to Disney’s Cruella Soundtrack “Call Me Cruella”-
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- St. Vincent shared a new Single “Down” off her upcoming album, Daddy's Home, out this Friday
-Back in the fall, HEALTH dropped a guest-heavy album called DISCO4 :: PART I. As great as it was to hear the Los Angeles noise rockers alongside the likes of JPEGMAFIA, Soccer Mommy, and 100 gecs, nothing could top the collaboration they just released today. HEALTH have been joined by Nine Inch Nails on the new joint single “ISN’T EVERYONE”
- Death Cab for Cutie have announced a new album, Live at the Showbox, out May 7th as a Bandcamp Friday exclusive. It will be available for only 24 hours and a portion of the proceeds will benefit NIVA (National Independent Venue Association). The LP will then receive an official release later this year.
- On Tuesday night, Wolf Alice delivered a blistering performance of “Smile” from their upcoming album, Blue Weekend, on Corden. The Londoners shredded their way through the bruising alt-rock tune, with flashing lights in the background accentuating the riffier parts of the track.
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- Modest Mouse are returning with their first album in six years. Titled The Golden Casket, it is due out June 25th on Epic. Alongside the announcement, the band has shared a new single, “We Are Between”.
- Myles Kennedy shared an intimate ballad “Love Rain Down” from his upcoming solo album, The Ides of March, arriving on May 14th
- Nine Inch Nails announced Rock & Roll Hall of Fame concerts with Pixies. They have scheduled a pair of concerts in Cleveland taking place September 21st and 23rd, and the band has specified that these are “the only NIN headline shows of 2021.”
- REI AMI Shares New Song “F.R.A.”
- Did anybody else know Jada Pinkett Smith was once in a hard rock metal band? News to me.
Willow Smith's Mother's Day surprise for Jada Pinkett Smith was a special reunion performance with her mother's old metal band, Wicked Wisdom. "This is the music that I grew up around. My mother was Superwoman, she was a rock star, she was a warrior and a nurturer, all in one. So unapologetically badass. … I was my mom's biggest fan," Willow said during Wednesday's (May 5) Red Table Talk episode. The 20-year-old artist sang one of her favorite Wicked Wisdom songs, "Bleed All Over Me," with Jada's original bandmates.
- Rise Against are set to support their upcoming album, Nowhere Generation, with a US summer tour of primarily open air venues. The Chicago punk rockers have announced a 17-date run that will take them across the country.
- Andrew WK has announced his fifth album God Is Partying, out September 10th, and shared the lead single “I’m in Heaven”.
- The kings of the beach are ready to reclaim their throne: Wavves will release their new full-length, Hideaway, on July 16th via Fat Possum Records. As a preview, the band has shared the album’s latest single “Help Is on the Way”.
- The Record Company with "I Wanna Get High." Sounds about right, and the music sounds right too.
- The Black Keys dropped "Going Down South"
- Tonic's 25th Anniversary of "If You Could Only See"
- Boston's Matt Byrnes released a song dedicated to Lord Stanley's Cup," Kiss The Cup".
- Less than three months before his death in 1991, Miles Davis performed one of his final concerts at the Vienne Jazz Festival in France. A recording of the concert will finally see the light of day as a live album, MERCI MILES! LIVE AT VIENNE, on June 25th via Rhino Records.
- On the new episode of Deep Hidden Meaning Radio with Nile Rodgers on Apple Music 1, Lindsey Buckingham reveals the secrets behind writing some of his best-loved songs from Fleetwood Mac and his solo career. Lindsey tells Nile Rodgers about the "musical soap opera" of Fleetwood Mac, how his relationship with Stevie Nicks has been played out in his songs, and the stories behind classics like "Go Your Own Way" and "Big Love." Lindsey also describes the process of following up ‘Rumours,' one of the biggest albums of all time.
- Frank Turner has recruited Jason Isbell and Dom Howard of Muse for “The Gathering”, his first new music in nearly two years. The song title doubles as the name of his newly announced traveling, outdoor one-day festival, which the UK folk punk singer says will bring live music “back to the basics.”
EDM
- Skrillex never technically went anywhere—but god damn is it good to have him back. The OWSLA head honcho returns with his first single since summer 2019 when he dropped off his Show Tracks twofer, closely followed by his Grammy-nominated Boys Noize and Ty Dolla $ign feature, “Midnight Hour.” Now, Sonny Moore is delivering fresh new Skrillex material, this time bringing frequent collaborators Four Tet and Starrah along for “Butterflies.”
- Felix Cartal Taps Karen Harding In Romantic New Single “Only One" From Forthcoming Album
- Dancehall vet Ape Drums has finally consolidated and distributed his highly anticipated solo EP, soundboy.
- Nicky Romero expanded his Monocule EP series with a second volume
- Flight Facilities realize 2021 return with ‘Lights Up’ featuring Channel Tres
- In a new year of music, my boy LODATO continues to assert his status as an ascending authority in dance-pop sound via “Neon Lights,” an ’80s-inflected tack-on to January’s “Blurry” and March’s “Feel All My Lovin’.”
- Chicago's Gianni Blu and D. Lylez give Usher’s ‘OMG’ a house makeover
- Anti Up are here to singlehandedly stock the house music shelves before the live event floodgates reopen in the coming months. Chris Lake and Chris Lorenzo set the wheels in motion for their alias’ presently nameless album with “Sensational” at the top of March, and now, the two-headed side project returns for the LP’s even more coveted sophomore branch, “Shake.”
REGGAE
- Ziggy Marley dropped "Lift Our Spirits Raise Our Voice"
COUNTRY
- Cody Jinks released Adobe Sessions Unplugged… a live, stripped-down project of his 2015 Adobe Sessions album. It fucks.
- On the latest episode of Essentials Radio on Apple Music Country, Alan Jackson joins Kelleigh Bannen for an in-depth look at his life and career as one of country music’s biggest icons and most prolific songwriters. From 1990’s “Here In the Real World” to “Where Have You Gone” in 2021, Jackson never waivers from the timeless elements intrinsic to traditional country music. The legendary singer discusses his humble beginnings in honky-tonks, waking up in the middle of the night to write “Where Were You (When the World Stopped Turning)” in the aftermath of 9/11, the stories behind his most beloved songs, and more.
- Kenny Chesney goes deluxe adding 4 new songs to his recent album Here and Now
- Driveway Jams… someone used a potato to record Zach Bryan cover Tyler Childers' "Feathered Indians". Childers is a major influence on Bryan's career.
- Walker Hayes released a new track feat. Jake Owen, "Country Stuff"
RED DIRT
- Randy Rogers Band collabbed with La Maquinaria Norteña on "Chupacabra"
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