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K-pop star G-DRAGON dropped his first full-length album in more than a decade on Tuesday (Feb. 25), Übermensch. The eight-song collection released through Galaxy Corporation as part of their deal with indie label EMPIRE kicks off with the rock-adjacent banger “Home Sweet Home” featuring fellow former BigBang members TAEYANG & DAESUNG.
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The LP features DRAGON’S patented mix of singing and swaggering rhymes over big beats and air-tight pop productions on tracks such as the funky Anderson .Paak collab “Too Bad,” as well as “Drama,” “Ibelongiiu,” “Take Me,” “Bonamana” and “Gyro Drop.”
Describing the album’s title — an allusion to philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche’s concept of a future human ideal of the “overman” or “superman” — G-DRAGON said in a statement, “Übermensch means ‘Beyond-Man,’ representing an individual who transcends themselves. This album embodies the idea of presenting a stronger and more resilient version of oneself to the public. I hope this strength resonates with my fans through my music.”
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Übermensch is the long-awaited follow-up to DRAGON’s sophomore solo effort, 2013’s Coup D’Etat, which also mixed rock, pop, hip-hop and electro on songs featuring collabs with Missy Elliott, Sky Ferreira, BLACKIPINK’S JENNIE, Diplo, Baauer and Boys Noize, among others.
To celebrate the album’s release, G-DRAGON released the colorful video for “Too Bad,” spotlighting the singer’s signature eclectic, oddball fashion sense and playful, Michael Jackson-inspired choreography in a clip in which he models a series of street couture looks and neon hair styles. The visual also features a surprise cameo from aespa’s Karina.
DRAGON also shared the more sedate video for the sedate ballad “Drama,” in which he plays a giant wind-up dancer — with a big metal crank in his back — who does an emotion-filled routine with a a ballerina whose face is obscured by a white mask.
“You never like it when it’s nice/ Drama queen got it from her mama/ Rather hang up to pick a fight/ What goes around here comes the karma,” he sings over a moody piano.
G-DRAGON will play his first solo concert in eight years when he kicks off a global tour on March 29 at Goyang Stadium in Seoul; a pre-sale will open on Wednesday (Feb. 26) here. The singer will continue the first outing since his 2017 Act III, M.O.T.T.E. world tour with a second Seoul show on March 30, followed by a headlining set at the Head in the Clouds Festival at the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles in May and a performance at the F1 Singapore Grand Prix race in October, where he will co-headline with Elton John. More details about the tour will be released soon.
Watch the “Too Bad” and “Drama” videos below.
In December 2014, I saw Ariel Camacho perform at Guelaguetza, a popular Mexican restaurant in Los Angeles. He was making the rounds as the emerging sierreño act to watch from Sinaloa, known for his extraordinary guitar skills and striking vocals. In his early 20s and on the brink of stardom — signed to the indie label DEL Records — Camacho stood confidently in the middle of the stage with his band Los Plebes del Rancho with a pumping tuba that commanded attention and his mesmerizing requinto. All eyes were on this new artist, who had modernized a música Mexicana subgenre that was mainly popular in the Northern regions of Mexico, and played in the rancho.
Two months later, in February 2015, Camacho died in a tragic car accident in his native Sinaloa at age 22 and instantly became a legend. While the young signer’s career was extremely brief — he had only emerged in the musical spotlight in 2013 — he’s had one of the most consequential careers in Mexican music since corridos icon Chalino Sánchez. Ask anyone from Peso Pluma to Fidel Castro (Grupo Marca Registrada), Christian Nodal and Jesús Ortiz Paz (Fuerza Regida), and they will all categorically say that it was Camacho who paved the way for them. In fact, Castro, Peso and Paz all spoke at the 2024 Billboard Latin Music Week about how the late artist has impacted their respective careers.
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“Ariel Camacho was the pioneer of everything,” says Ángel del Villar, CEO of DEL Records, the label that signed Camacho early on and eventually brought Ariel Camacho y Sus Plebes del Rancho to the United States for promo and shows. “Only someone with his essence could take such a local genre to an international level. What we are living now in the regional Mexican genre has its roots in the music he created. He led the way for a revolution in the genre.”
Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes Del Rancho earned their first Billboard chart entry, and top 10 hit, through “El Karma,” which debuted at No. 40 on the Latin Digital Song Sales in August 2014. The song returned to the chart seven weeks later, for its second week, peaking at No. 7 in March 2015, a month after Camacho’s death. The track earned Camacho his first No. 1 on any chart: the posthumous champ surged 30-1 on the multi-metric Hot Latin Songs chart in March 2015. Overall, Ariel Camacho y Los Plebes del Rancho’s albums have earned a combined 2 million equivalent albums units, according to Luminate, and 2.7 billion on-demand official streams in the U.S.
When Camacho launched his career in 2013, regional Mexican music wasn’t the global force that it is today. The genre was mainly dominated by corrido singers and banda ensembles like Banda MS and Julión Álvarez y su Norteño Banda led by a frontman — most were older men that didn’t play an instrument onstage. Camacho — who was managed by Jaime González (Christian Nodal’s father) — was refreshingly different. He was very young compared to his fellow genre mates, he sang romantic songs and he brought along his requinto (a six-string guitar), which he learned to play thanks to his father, also a singer and musician.
“He was a boy with his guitar,” Nodal told Billboard during his interview for his 2024 Billboard SXSW cover story. “It was something so simple that made such an impact at the time that, when Ariel passed away, he invited me to dream. It was because of him that I started listening to regional Mexican music and began to write songs.”
The guitar part of it all is “extremely notable,” says Tere Aguilera, Billboard and Billboard Español‘s correspondent in Mexico who has covered música mexicana extensively. “It was no longer just about wanting to be a singer or the vocalist of a group. All the kids who were looking for a start found a reference point in Ariel because he was a young person singing something that wasn’t just their parents music anymore. It’s also important to note that because Ariel was mainly successful in the U.S., aspiring Mexican-American artists took note. They too could succeed outside of Mexico, it was no longer a ‘regional’ thing.”
It’s precisely what Paz, frontman of Fuerza Regida born and raised in San Bernardino, Calif., saw in Camacho. “He really lived life to the fullest — doing his thing, getting on radio shows in L.A, and pushing a genre that was part of our childhood. He was making space for us outside of Mexico, and as someone from California with Mexican roots, that hit close to home,” he tells Billboard, adding that his favorite Ariel Camacho song is the emotionally-charged “Hablemos.”
Marca Registrada’s Fidel Castro was perhaps one of the few artists who actually met and hung out with Ariel Camacho. They also recorded together. “The first time I heard Ariel’s voice it caught my attention,” Castro remembers. “It was a voice with a lot of feeling. And whatever song he sang, it was beautiful because he had the talent to not only feel it but make it his own.”
Castro and Camacho met in Sinaloa through a colleague: “When he arrived to the house we were meeting at, he was listening to a song of mine called ‘La Vida Ruina,’ and in fact we re-recorded it together. For me it was an honor, it was immediate chemistry and we became friends. After that we went everywhere together.”
Castro’s relationship to Camacho is peculiar, in the way that not many in the industry had the chance to meet this ephemeral talent. “Ariel was super humble, but had a lot of personality. He was a great friend, he loved jokes, and he was a big foodie,” Castro shares. “If we were in Culiacán and all of a sudden craved something from Guamuchil, where he lived with his parents, we had to travel from Culiacan to Guamuchil just for a torta from Tortas El Rey. If something got into his head, there was no one to stop him.”
It’s hard to pinpoint just one reason why so many artists that are ushering a new generation of regional Mexican music look to Camacho for inspiration. Whether it was because he was young, successful outside of Mexico or because he dared to refresh a decades-old genre with his requinto and the mighty tuba, it’s clear that Camacho left a blueprint for hitmakers today.
“Even if they don’t sing the same style as Ariel, those new artists are influenced by what Ariel did,” Castro adds. “Today, Peso and Fuerza Regida are monsters in music, and their foundation is Ariel Camacho. That’s his legacy: starting a new era of Mexican music.”
Read manager Jaime González share his first-hand memories of Camacho here.
Drake and PartyNextDoor blast onto the latest Billboard Hot 100 chart (dated March 1), thanks to the pair’s new collaborative album, $ome $exy $ongs 4 U.
The set debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 246,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in its opening week (Feb. 14-20), according to Luminate. PartyNextDoor earns his first leader, while Drake adds his 14th, tying Jay-Z for the most among rappers. He also joins Jay-Z and Taylor Swift for the most No. 1s among soloists; among all acts, only the Beatles have more, with 19.
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All 21 songs from the project debut on the Hot 100, including two solo-billed Drake tracks in the top 10: “Gimme a Hug” (No. 6) and “Nokia” (No. 10). Below is a recap.
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Rank, Artist Billing, Title:
No. 6, Drake, “Gimme a Hug”
No. 10, Drake, “Nokia”
No. 18, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “CN Tower”
No. 21, PartyNextDoor, Drake & Yebba, “Die Trying”
No. 26, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Something About You”
No. 29, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Moth Balls”
No. 30, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Somebody Loves Me”
No. 31, PartyNextDoor, “Deeper”
No. 35, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Spider-Man Superman”
No. 37, Drake, “Crying in Chanel”
No. 40, Drake, “Small Town Fame”
No. 43, Drake, “Raining in Houston”
No. 45, Pimmie, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Pimmie’s Dilemma”
No. 47, Drake, “Brian Steel”
No. 60, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Lasers”
No. 63, PartyNextDoor, Drake & Chino Pacas, “Meet Your Padre”
No. 66, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Celibacy”
No. 70, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Greedy”
No. 73, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “When He’s Gone”
No. 74, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “OMW”
No. 83, PartyNextDoor & Drake, “Glorious”
Thanks to 20 new entries on the chart (one song, “Deeper,” is credited solely to PartyNextDoor), Drake extends several of his historic records on the Hot 100, spanning the chart’s 66-year history:
Most Hot 100 Hits: 358Most Top 10 Hits: 80Most Top 20 Hits: 139Most Top 40 Hits: 216Most Top 10 Debuts: 64Most Top 20 Debuts: 115Most Top 40 Debuts: 182Most Cumulative Weeks Spent in the Top 10 (all titles combined): 389
Meanwhile, thanks to her appearance on “Pimmie’s Dilemma,” Pimmie earns her first career entry on Billboard’s charts. Pimmie is, notably, the only vocalist on the cut. The unsigned Houston singer-songwriter has released 10 solo songs, including her debut six-track EP, Bittersweet, in February 2024.
Plus, Yebba scores her third Hot 100 hit via her billing on “Die Trying.” She previously charted with another Drake collab, “Yebba’s Heartbreak” (No. 24 peak in 2021), and as featured on Ed Sheeran’s “Best Part of Me” (No. 99, 2019).
Released Feb. 14 on the deluxe version of Sabrina Carpenter’s album Short n’ Sweet, the remix of her originally solo smash “Please Please Please” — adding Dolly Parton in a featured role — debuts on Billboard’s Hot Country Songs chart (dated March 1). The remix opens at No. 17 on the survey after it drew […]
A feature-length documentary chronicling heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne‘s six-year struggle to recuperate from a devastating 2019 fall, Ozzy Osbourne: No Escape From Now, will debut on Paramount+ later this year. The movie, currently in production, is described as an intimate look into the 76-year-old rock legend’s personal life since the injury that has colored much of his life in the years since.
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“This is Ozzy Osbourne like you’ve never seen before: an honest, warm and deeply personal portrait of one of the greatest rock stars of all-time, detailing how the singer’s world shuddered to a halt six years ago, forcing him to contemplate who he really is, confront his own mortality and question whether or not he can ever perform on stage for one last time,” reads a release announcing the project that is being directed by BAFTA-winner Tania Alexander (Celebrity Googlebox). “Addressing his health issues and impact of his Parkinson’s diagnosis, the film showcases the central role music continues to play in Ozzy’s life – also proving his mischievous sense of humor remains resolutely intact despite it all.”
In a statement, Osbourne added, “The last six years have been full of some of the worst times I’ve been through. There’s been times when I thought my number was up. But making music and making two albums saved me. I’d have gone nuts without music.”
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Osbourne released the albums Ordinary Man (2020) and Patient Number 9 (2022) before announcing in 2023 that he had been forced to permanently cancel the European leg of his No More Tours II outing and retire from touring after a cascading series of health problems following a 2019 fall at home in which he damaged his spine. That incident was followed by diagnoses of Parkinson’s disease — which has rendered him unable to talk — and emphysema.
According to the release, Alexander began filming the doc in 2022, during recording sessions for the double-Grammy-winning Patient Number 9 album, and the cameras will continue to roll into this summer as Osbourne prepares to take the stage for what he says will be his final performance with Black Sabbath on July 5.
“My fans have supported me for so many years, and I really want to thank them and say a proper goodbye to them. That is what the Villa Park show is about,” Osbourne said of the sold-out, all-star gig in his hometown of Birmingham that will feature support from Metallica, Slayer, Anthrax, Guns N’ Roses, Tool, Rival Sons, Pantera, Lamb Of God, Mastodon, Alice In Chains, Halestorm, Gojira and a supergroup featuring Smashing Pumpkins singer Billy Corgan, Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, David Ellefson, Fred Durst, Jonathan Davis, Wolfgang Van Halen and more; actor Jason Momoa will host the event.
Ozzy recently revealed that due to his physical limitations and an inability to walk anymore he will not play a full Black Sabbath set at the final show. Profits from the mega-gig will go towards organizations including Cure Parkinson’s, a U.K. charity working to end the disease.
The documentary will feature Ozzy and wife/manager Sharon Osbourne and the couple’s children, as well as many of the singer’s musical compatriots, friends and bandmates, including: Tony Iommi (Black Sabbath), Duff McKagan (Guns N’ Roses), Robert Trujillo (Metallica), Billy Idol, Maynard James Keenan (Tool), Chad Smith (Red Hot Chili Peppers), guitarist Zakk Wylde, producer Andrew Watt and friend/musician Billy Morrison.
“This film is an honest account of what has happened to Ozzy during the last few years. It shows how hard things have been for him and the courage he has shown while dealing with a number of serious health issues, including Parkinson’s,” said Sharon Osbourne in a statement. “It’s about the reality of his life now. We have worked with a production team we trust and have allowed them the freedom to tell the story openly. We hope that story will inspire people that are facing similar issues to Ozzy.”
Two of the most prominent names in New Zealand music have joined forces, with Lorde appearing on “Kāhore He Manu E”, the latest single from Marlon Williams’ first Māori language album.
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Set for release on April 4, Williams’ forthcoming album – Te Whare Tīwekaweka – was first announced in January as the follow-up to 2022’s My Boy, his second-consecutive chart-topper in his native country. Most notably, it’s also his first album recorded in te reo Māori. In addition to being the language of New Zealand’s indigenous population, it’s also Williams’ ancestral tongue, and one which he spent much of the past five years developing.
According to Williams, the motivation behind the album came via the Māori whakatauki (proverb) “Ko te reo Māori, he matapihi ki Te Ao Māori,” which translates to English as “The Māori language is a window to the Māori world.”
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“Through the process of constructing these songs, I’ve found a means of expressing my joys, sorrows and humour in a way that feels both distinctly new, yet also connects me to my tīpuna (ancestors) and my whenua (land, home),” Williams explained.
Previewing the album with first single “Aua Atu Rā,” Williams has now unveiled a collaboration with New Zealand pop superstar Lorde (also known as Ella Yelich-O’Connor).
The track, titled “Kāhore He Manu E,” also comes paired with a music video which captures the pair working together in the studio. The clip itself is taken from the larger forthcoming documentary Marlon Williams: Ngā Ao E Rua – Two Worlds, directed by Ursula Grace Williams about the making of the record.
“‘Kāhore He Manu E’ was one of those gentle labours. It played itself out to me, easily and near complete from the first,” Williams said of the collaboration. “It was also obvious who should be singing it; Ella’s voice in a very real sense wrote the song. The distinct and striking characteristics in her voice cornering and demanding of the melody and phrasing what only her voice could.
“Singing with Ella is incredible; the amount of mind she’s able to pour into the vessel,” he added. “We got to know each other through sharing the highs and lows of touring life, and in a real sense this song is an ode to the colourful but grim wormhole of road life, to the friends made and lost in the folds of time, ‘visions lost in the blur.’”
“Over the course of several years I watched Marlon pull at the threads that became Te Whare Tīwekaweka,” added Lorde. “I saw that the further he got into the album, the deeper my friend came to know himself, his whānau (family) and his world at large. Marlon is an undercover perfectionist, and he was never going to embark on this journey without turning over every stone, crafting complex waiata (songs) that speak to the past while also braiding in his characteristic humour and X-ray vision.
“Singing with Marlon is one of my favourite things to do on earth, whether we are tipsy backstage by a pool table or in a luscious studio, and I was honoured he asked me to sing with him on this album. I’m so proud of my friend.”
Williams first found fame as a teenage musician in New Zealand before moving to Melbourne, Australia in 2013 and launching a solo career. His self-titled debut was issued in 2015 and resulted in widespread acclaim, including an appearance on U.S. television the following year when he was invited to perform on Conan with his band the Yarra Benders.
Williams has also dabbled in acting alongside his musician career, arguably becoming best known to U.S. audiences when he appeared in Bradley Cooper’s 2018 A Star is Born as himself, and as Johnny Abbot in the Netflix series Sweet Tooth.
The new single isn’t the first time that Williams and Lorde have collaborated together, either. In 2019, the pair performed at a benefit concert for victims of the Christchurch terror attack, sharing an arresting duet of Simon & Garfunkel’s classic No. 1 hit “The Sound of Silence.” In 2021, Lorde appeared at Williams’ Auckland concert to guest on a cover of Bruce Springsteen‘s “Tougher Than the Rest,” lifted from his 1987 LP Tunnel of Love.
Months after their tribute to The Boss, Lorde herself dabbled with the Māori language when she shared Te Ao Mārama – a five-track companion EP to Solar Power, sung entirely in te reo Māori.
Colombian pop-rock band Morat headlines Day 3 of the 2025 Viña del Mar International Song Festival, performing Tuesday night (Feb. 25) at the Quinta Vergara amphitheater in the coastal city of Viña del Mar in Chile.
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Morat is slated to take the stage at approximately 7:30 p.m. ET, followed by countryman Sebastián Yatra. The pop star’s performance is scheduled for around 11:15 p.m. ET, after the presentation of comedian Pedro Ruminot.
All performances are part of the six-day lineup of the 64th annual Viña del Mar broadcast, which year after year is Chile’s highest-rated television show. Each night features a headliner, a supporting artist, a comedian and an international song festival in folk and pop categories, where contestants compete every night for a winner in each.
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Morat, whose hits include “No Se Va,” “Besos en Guerra” and “Cuando Nadie Ve,” debuted in 2016 with the album Solo El Amor y Sus Efectos Secundarios, and received a Latin Grammy nomination for best new artist the same year. Its fourth and latest LP, 2022’s Si Ayer Fuera Hoy, gave the band its first entry on the Billboard Latin Pop Albums chart, where it peaked at No. 18. On Tuesday, Morat is making its debut at the Chilean festival.
Yatra, with almost a dozen No. 1s on the Billboard Latin Airplay chart — including “Robarte un Beso” with Carlos Vives, “Tacones Rojos” and “Un Año” with Reik, to name a few — had previously performed in Viña del Mar in 2019 with a full show, as well as the previous year during Vives’ concert, joining him on “Robarte un Beso.”
Viña will continue Wednesday (Feb. 26) with Carlos Vives headlining and Carín León closing; Thursday (Feb. 27) with Incubus, Juan Carlos López and The Cult; and Friday (Feb. 28), urban night, with headliner Duki, Eladio Carrión and Kid Voodoo.
All nights will be livestreamed in the United States on Billboard.com and Billboard Español. Performances can be viewed on the player in this story beginning at 7:15 p.m. ET, or throughout billboard.com and billboardespañol.com.
Grimes posted a pair of previously unreleased demos on Monday (Feb. 24) that the singer said are among her favorite unheard tracks. Both songs are somewhat of a departure for the singer, including the mostly acoustic “The Fool,” which finds her singing new lyrics over Mazzy Star’s beloved 1994 ballad “Fade Into You.”
“Ok I always loved this one I just wrote a diff song over Mazzy Star but the files are forever lost on my laptop that a child poured liquid on,” she wrote on X. “It was just a rly beautiful jam on a poem I wrote I wish I didn’t get discouraged away from it.”
On the gentle track — which she first teased the day before the 2024 presidential election — she sings in her signature helium voice, “Oh you’re a fool, ’cause you tried to give me the moon/ And all I can give back is poetry/ So tell me what to do/ And I’ll convince the stars to love you.”
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The second song, “I Don’t Give a F–k, im Insane,” is more in line with the dance pop star’s typical vibe, with a bouncy bass line, ethereal vocals and spare drums. “I don’t give a f–k, I’m insane/ Everybody walk through my brain/ One day, you told me, I’ll fly away, safe,” she sings over the sparse, new wave-like beat.
Of that one she wrote, “Just for good vibes we put up a few ancient demos on SoundCloud 2day – 2019 demo I made. Obviously no time was spent on it but my old manager at would always pester me to finish it and make it a banger but i forgot I suppose… Def has a lot of potential tho I’ll probably make a better topline and produce it one day.”
Meanwhile, as her ex, Elon Musk, buzzsaws through the federal government in his role as an unelected cost-cutter, Grimes also answered some questions from TIME magazine about AI and her strong reaction to the world’s richest man parading their four-year-old son, X, on his shoulders during a recent White House visit.
“It was like, ‘Grimes slams,’ ‘Grimes speaks out.’ It’s like, OK, it was a reply. But I would really like people to stop posting images of my kid everywhere,” she said of the many headlines in which she criticized the “special government employee” for bringing their son to work. “I think fame is something you should consent to. Obviously, things will just be what they are. But I would really, really appreciate that. I can only ask, so I’m just asking,” added the artist who was honored at the TIME100 Impact Awards ceremony in Dubai earlier this month.
At the time, Grimes seemed surprised to see her son sticking his fingers in his dad’s ears as Musk stood over a seated Donald Trump while the president signed an executive order giving the DOGE office more power to continue its legally suspect firing spree of non-partisan public servants. “He should not be in public like this. I did not see this, thank u for alerting me,” Grimes wrote earlier this month of her surprise at seeing the preschooler accompanying his dad for the Oval Office photo op.
Several days later, Grimes tweeted directly at X owner Musk, saying in a since-deleted tweet, “plz respond about our child’s medical crisis. I am sorry to do this publicly but it is no longer acceptable to ignore this situation.”
Listen to “The Fool” and “I Don’t Give a F–k, im Insane” below.
Paramount + has added more than 100 episodes of MTV Unplugged, VH1 Storytellers and CMT Crossroads to its streaming service. The return of the classic performances from seasons 1-8 and 10-13 includes some of the most beloved Unplugged sets ever, including Nirvana’s iconic Nov. 1993 performance, which was released seven months before the death of singer Kurt Cobain.
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The data dump of performances includes season one sets by Neil Young, Sinead O’Connor with The Church, Lenny Kravitz, Elton John, Shawn Mendes and Pearl Jam, with season two featuring Mariah Carey and Eric Clapton and season five spotlighting Bob Dylan, Tony Bennet and Stone Temple Pilots.
According to a press release, more than 70 of the episodes have not been available for more than 20 years.
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Season Six Unplugged highlights include KISS and Sheryl Crow, while season seven features Oasis, Alice in Chains and Seal, seasons eight has Shakira and R.E.M., season 13 brings a Korn set and season 17 has Queen Latifah, Wyclef Jean, Redman, Naughty By Nature’s Treach, Poor Righteous Teachers, Lady Luck, Lords of the Underground and the Sugar Hill Gang for a 2023 celebration of hip-hop’s 50th anniversary. (Click here for the full list of Unplugged episodes now available to stream).
The CMT Crossroads collection includes sets by Sheryl Crow & Willie Nelson, Melissa Etheridge and Dolly Parton, the Doobie Brother and Luke Bryan, Sting and Vince Gill, Black Pumas and Mickey Guyton, Boyz II Men and Brett Young, Halsey and Kelsea Ballerini, John Legend and Lee Ann Womack, Nelly & Friends (Kane Brown, Georgia Florida Line, Blanco Brown and Breland), OneRepublic and Dierks Bentley, Nick Jonas and Thomas Rhett and Stevie Nicks and Lady A.
The VH1 Storytellers list (which, like the Unplugged and CMT dumps, is missing random seasons) includes: Alicia Keys, Bruce Springsteen, Christina Aguilera, Coldplay, David Bowie, Ed Sheeran, Foo Fighters, Green Day, Mary J. Blige, P!nk, Ringo Starr, Snoop Dogg, Tom Waits and ZZ Top, among others.
Check out the full list of episodes below.
MTV Unplugged (Seasons 1-8, 10-13)Aerosmith (1990)Alanis Morissette (1999)Alice in Chains (1996)Alicia Keys (2005)Allman Brothers (1990)Annie Lenox (1992)Arrested Development (1993)Babyface & Friends feat. Stevie Wonder, Eric Clapton, and K-Ci & JoJo (1997)Bob Dylan (1994)Bryan Adams (1997)Chris Isaak (1995)Cranberries (1995)Crowded House/Tim Finn (1990)Dashboard Confessional (2002)Duran Duran (1993)Elton John (1990)Elvis Costello (1991)Eric Clapton (1992)Hall & Oates (1990)Hootie & the Blowfish (1996)Jewel (1997)John Mellencamp (1992)kd lang (1993)Kiss (1995)Korn (2007)Lenny Kravitz (1994)Live (1995)Mariah Carey (1992)Melissa Etheridge (1995)Neil Young (1990)Nirvana (1993)Oasis (1996)Paul McCartney (1991)Paul Simon (1992)Pearl Jam (1992)Queensryche (1992)R.E.M. (2001)Rod Stewart (1993)Seal (1996)Shakira (2001)Shawn Mendes (2017)Sheryl Crow (1995)Sinead O’Connor/The Church (1990)Smithereens/Graham Parker (1990)Soul Asylum (1993)Staind (2001)Sting (1991)Stone Temple Pilots (1994)The Wallflowers (1997)Tony Bennett (1994)Tori Amos (1996)Uptown Show feat. Jodeci, Father MC, Mary J. Blige, Christopher Williams, and Heavy D (1993)
VH1 Storytellers (seasons 1-9, 11-13, 15, 16)Alicia Keys (2012)Bee Gees (1997)Billy Joel (1997, 1998)Black Crowes (1996)Bruce Springsteen (2005)Christina Aguilera (2010)Coldplay (2005)Counting Crows (1997)Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (2000)Dave Matthews (1999)Dave Matthews Band (2005)David Bowie (1999)Def Leppard 1999)Ed Sheeran Live (2015)ELO (2001)Elton John LIVE (1997)Elvis Costello (1996)Eurythmics (1999)Foo Fighters (2009)Goo Goo Dolls (2002)Grace Potter & The Nocturnals (2012)Green Day (2005)Hanson (1998)Jewel (1999)Jill Scott (2012)John Mellencamp (1998)Johnny Cash & Willie Nelson (1997)Mary J. Blige (2008)Melissa Etheridge (1996)No Doubt (2000)P!nk (2012)Paul Simon (1997)Pete Townshend (2000)Phil Collins (1997)R.E.M. (1998)Ringo Starr (1998)Rod Stewart (1998)Sheryl Crow (1998)Snoop Dogg (2008)Stevie Nicks (1998)Sting (1996)Stone Temple Pilots (2000)The Chicks (2006)The Pretenders (1999)Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers (1999)Tom Waits (1999)Tony Bennett (1998)Tori Amos (1999)Wyclef Jean (1999)ZZ Top (2009)
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Jimmy Page and the The Black Crowes are revisiting their 1999 collaboration with an expanded edition of Live at the Greek, and they’ve just shared a fresh taste from it—a newly unearthed live recording of Led Zeppelin’s “The Lemon Song.”
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Originally recorded during a soundcheck, this take on the Led Zeppelin II classic captures the raw chemistry between Page and the Crowes as they breathed new life into Zeppelin’s bluesy, groove-heavy material. It’s one of several unreleased tracks included in the expanded reissue, which drops March 14.
“I’m really looking forward to the soon-to-be-available release of Jimmy Page & The Black Crowes material from concerts in 1999,” Page said in a statement. “The new mixes capture the collaboration of those historic encounters and provide the full explosive passion and exciting energy of those alchemical moments.”
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For the Black Crowes, the experience of playing alongside Page was a rare and memorable moment. “The new Live at the Greek box set brings the whole experience of our work with Jimmy into a vibrant, electric, mystical and powerful perspective,” frontman Chris Robinson said. “Hail, hail rock ‘n’ roll!”
Rich Robsinson added, “Going through the shows and putting together the new box set has been such an incredible dive back to that time in our history. It was a once-in-a-lifetime thrill to play these amazing iconic songs with the man who composed them. The sound of the new mixes and extra songs blew me away when I first heard them.”
The expanded edition of Live at the Greek adds 15 new tracks to the original 2000 release, including fresh recordings of Zeppelin classics like “Custard Pie,” “You Shook Me,” and “Ten Years Gone,” as well as additional Black Crowes originals like “Remedy” and “Wiser Time.”
The announcement comes as the Black Crowes continue a busy stretch. Just last month, the recently reunited band joined an all-star benefit concert in Los Angeles to raise funds for wildfire relief. Their set featured guest appearances from rock legends John Fogerty—who joined for Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Have You Ever Seen the Rain?”—and Slash, who strapped on an acoustic guitar for a rendition of Led Zeppelin’s “Going to California.”
The Live at the Greek deluxe edition arrives March 14.