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12 Jul 2023

Watch Paramore’s Hayley Williams Cover a Beyoncé Deep Cut in Houston

There are a few things synonymous with Houston: NASA’s Johnson Space Center, the Rockets and, of course, Beyoncé. When Paramore touched down in the city on Tuesday (July 11) during its This Is Why Tour, the band couldn’t help but pay tribute to one of Houston’s most iconic figures, with Hayley Williams delivering a haunting cover of Beyoncé’s “I Miss You.”

Co-written with Frank Ocean, “I Miss You” is a fan-favorite deep cut that appears on Queen Bey’s 4, her aptly titled fourth solo studio album. “It hurts my pride to tell you how I feel, but I still need to/ Why is that,” Williams crooned in the shadows as she and her bandmates remained strikingly still on the red-lit stage. She belted out half of the second verse, the chorus and the song’s bridge completely a cappella before launching into a rendition of “Crystal Clear,” a track from Petals for Armor, her debut solo studio album.

Paramore is currently in the midst of its This Is Why Tour in support of the band’s sixth studio album of the same name. At the top of this year, This Is Why became the band’s fourth consecutive top 10 album on the Billboard 200, reaching No. 2. The record also debuted atop Top Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums. Featuring supporting acts ranging from Bloc Party to The Linda Lindas, the band’s latest trek will wrap on Aug. 2 after visiting fans across North America, Europe and South America.

Those who missed the Grammy-winning band on this tour need not worry. Paramore is set to return the stage next year. Beginning May 9, 2024, the group will be the main supporting act for 14 stops on the European leg of Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour. Hayley Williams recently appeared as a featured artist on “Castles Crumbling,” a “From the Vault” track from Speak Now (Taylor’s Version), Swift’s latest re-recording.

Check out some fan clips of Hayley Williams covering “I Miss You” below:

11 Jul 2023

Boygenius Plot Fall 2023 Tour With Openers MUNA, 100 Gecs and More

Rock power trio Boygenius announced dates for a fall 2023 tour that will take the group from coast-to-coast in support of its 2023 full-length debut album, the record. The group comprised of singer/songwriters Julien Baker, Phoebe Bridgers and Lucy Dacus will set up shop at some iconic venues on the five-date swing, including New York’s Madison Square Garden on Oct. 2 and L.A.’s Hollywood Bowl on Halloween (Oct. 31).

The tour will feature support from Palehound, Samia, MUNA, as well as 100 gecs with special guest Sloppy Jane at gigs in Boston, New Haven, CT and Philadelphia. Tickets for the outing will go on sale on Friday (July 14) at 10 a.m. local time, with American Express card members getting a chance to get in on the Hollywood Bowl show early beginning today (July 11) through Thursday (July 13) at 10 p.m. PT.

The artist presale will kick off on Wednesday (July 12) at 10 a.m. local time.

Boygenius is currently on the road on a North American tour with Carly Rae Jepsen and the Illuminati Hotties that is slated to wrap with an August 5 show at Red Rocks Amphitheatre in Morrison, CO before the trio head overseas for European dates booked through August 28.

Check out the announcement and dates below.

Boygenius fall 2023 tour dates:

Sept. 25 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall !

Sept. 28 – New Haven, CT @ Westville Music Bowl !

Sept. 30 – Philadelphia, PA @ TD Pavilion at The Mann ~

Oct. 2 – New York, NY @ Madison Square Garden =

Oct. 31 – Los Angeles, CA @ Hollywood Bowl *

! with Palehound

~ with Samia

= with MUNA

* with 100 gecs and special guest Sloppy Jane

11 Jul 2023

Porno For Pyros Announce First Tour in 25 Years, ‘Horns, Thorns En Halos’

Perry Farrell is cranking up the Porno For Pyros machine. The Jane’s Addiction singer and Lollapalooza co-founder announced on Tuesday (July 11) that his long-dormant other band will regroup for their first tour in 25 years for an outing they’re calling Horns, Thorns En Halos.

The 21-date outing — which will also celebrate PFP’s 30th anniversary as a band — is slated to kick off on October 8 at the Hard Rock Live Sacramento in Wheatland, CA and wind down at Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater in Austin, TX on Nov. 20. The Live Nation-produced tour is the follow-up to last year’s series of get-back shows, which included a July gig at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles that reunited Farrell on stage with Jane’s drummer Stephen Perkins, guitarist Peter DiStefano and bassist Martyn LeNoble.

The band went on to play at Florida’s Welcome to Rockville and Lollapalooza festivals last year, as well as at Chicago’s beloved Metro club. According to a release announcing the dates, the band has also been working on new material in the studio with a possible release due out before year’s end.

PFP originally formed in 1992 following the dissolution of Jane’s, releasing two studio albums, their 1993 self-titled debut and 1996’s Good God’s Urge, which featured the band’s signature psychedelic pop hits, “Pets” and “Tahitian Moon,” respectively. The band went dark in 1998 and briefly reunited in 2009 for Farrell’s 50th birthday and then again in 2020 for that year’s Lollapalooza YouTube show in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Tickets for the reunion tour will be available during a presale beginning on Wednesday (July 12), with additional presales throughout the week until the general on-sale on Friday (July 14) at 10 a.m. local time here.

Check out the Porno For Pyros reunion tour dates below.

Oct. 8 – Wheatland, CA @ Hard Rock Live Sacramento

Oct. 10 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic

Oct. 13 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern

Oct. 15 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues Las Vegas

Oct. 17 – Salt Lake City, UT @ The Union*

Oct. 19 – Denver, CO @ Fillmore Auditorium

Oct. 21 – Omaha, NE @ Steelhouse Omaha

Oct. 23 – Madison, WI @ The Sylvee

Oct. 24 – Chicago, IL @ Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom

Oct. 27 – Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit

Oct. 29 – Port Chester, NY @ The Capitol Theatre

Oct. 30 – Boston, MA @ MGM Music Hall at Fenway

Nov. 1 – New York, NY @ Manhattan Center Hammerstein Ballroom

Nov. 3 – Bensalem, PA @ Parx Casino and Racing*

Nov. 5 – Silver Spring, MD @ The Fillmore Silver Spring

Nov. 7 – Charlotte, NC @ The Fillmore Charlotte

Nov. 8 – Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle

Nov. 15 – Nashville, TN @ Ryman Auditorium

Nov. 17 – New Orleans, LA @ Fillmore New Orleans

Nov. 19 – Dallas, TX @ House of Blues Dallas

Nov. 20 – Austin, TX @ Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater

*Not a Live Nation Date

11 Jul 2023

Red Hot Chili Peppers, Megan Thee Stallion, Ms. Lauryn Hill to Headline 2023 Global Citizen Festival

The Red Hot Chili Peppers and Ms. Lauryn Hill will headline the 2023 Global Citizen Festival in New York’s Central park on Sept. 23. The lineup of this year’s event on the Great Lawn will also feature Megan Thee Stallion, Conan Gray and Stray Kids.

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The free, ticketed event will focus on the organization’s drive to end extreme poverty now, with interested fans encouraged to earn passes by joining the movement and taking action on the Global Citizen app (or here) to help the organization’s work to level the playing field for women and adolescent girls around the world, combat climate change and continue the fight against the global food and malnutrition crisis.

According to a statement announcing this year’s lineup, for the first time in a generation, the number of people living in extreme poverty is on the rise. “The 2023 Global Citizen Festival campaign takes aim at the major issues perpetuating extreme poverty, including the impacts of climate change on the Global South, the inequities affecting women and girls around the world, and the global hunger crisis, and will call on governments to protect and defend advocates everywhere,” read the statement. “The campaign will unite millions of voices, amplified by the world’s biggest artists, to demand urgent action from world leaders gathering in New York City for the United Nations General Assembly in September.”

After this year’s COP27, G7, World Bank spring meetings and Paris climate finance summit failed to deliver any tangible results or disrupt the world’s “unjust systems,” Global Citizen CEO/co-founder Hugh Evans said in the statement that, “complacency can’t win. If we want to see breakthroughs on development and climate change, we need the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, and all G7 nations to meet the urgency of the hour. Every single citizen has a vital role to play, and together, we must be laser-focused on driving results and impact in September.”  

Global Citizen began holding concerts around the globe beginning in 2012 with a goal of ending global poverty. It has long attracted a variety of A-list acts, including last year’s lineup featuring Metallica, Charlie Puth, Jonas Brothers, Måneksin, Mariah Carey, Mickey Guyton and Rosalía performing in Central Park and Usher, SZA, Stormzy and Tems are among the headliners for a sister event in Ghana’s capital, Accra.

See the lineup announcement below.

11 Jul 2023

Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp to Headline 2023 Farm Aid in Indianapolis

The co-founders of Farm Aid are bringing the annual benefit for the country’s family farms back to the midwest this fall. Neil Young, John Mellencamp and Willie Nelson announced on Monday that the 2023 Farm Aid will return to the Indianapolis, IN area on Sept. 23 for the third time in the event’s 38-year history.

The show at Ruoff Music Center in Noblesville will mark Young’s first in-person attendance since 2019 after the Rock and Roll Hall of Famer took several years off from appearing live due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to the principles, other performers this year include: Farm Aid board member Margo Price, fellow board member Dave Matthews with Tim Reynolds, the Grateful Dead’s Bobby Weir & the Wolf Bros. featuring the Wolfpack, Lukas Nelson, Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats, Allison Russell, The String Cheese Incident, Particle Kid and more acts to be announced later.

Young did not attend in in 2021 or 2022 due to the pandemic; the 2020 event was presented online.

“We are honored and excited to bring the Farm Aid experience back to Indiana,” said Seymour, IN native Mellencamp in a statement about the first Farm Aid in the state in more than 20 years. “My home state holds deep meaning for me and for the generations of family farmers who have dedicated their lives to caring for the Earth and bringing us good food.”

Since launching in 1985, Farm Aid has raised more than $64 million to support programs that help family farmers.

Farm Aid first IV took place in 1990 at Indianapolis’ Hoosier Dome, with Elton John, Iggy Pop, Bonnie Raitt and Guns N’ Roses joining the three principles and returned in 2001 — shortly after the Sept. 11 terror attacks — with a lineup featuring then-new board member Matthews, as well as Martina McBride, the Doobie Brothers, Susan Tedeschi, Arlo Guthrie and more. Last years’ event in Raleigh, N.C. featured Chris Stapleton, Sheryl Crow, Rateliff, Russell, Charley Crockett, Brittney Spencer and others.

A limited number of pre-sale 2023 tickets will be available beginning at 10 a.m. ET on Wednesday (July 12); the pre-sale ends at 5 p.m. on Thursday (July 13), or when pre-sale tickets are sold out. General admission tickets will go on sale on Saturday (July 15) at 10 a.m. ET. here.

“Family farmers have the solutions to some of our toughest challenges,” Nelson added in a statement. “As we face a changing climate, farmers in Indiana, across the Midwest and all over the country are farming in ways that create more resilient farms to build healthy soils and protect our water.”

According to a release, this year’s event will honor Indiana family farmers and others who are taking on climate change using regenerative, organic and sustainable farming practices.

10 Jul 2023

Demi Lovato Teases ‘Sorry Not Sorry’ Rock Version Featuring Slash

Demi Lovato is out here lookin’ like revenge, feeling like a ten on Monday (July 10), announcing that they’re unveiling a rock version of their 2017 pop hit, “Sorry Not Sorry.”

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The 30-year-old superstar teased the track — which features Guns N’ Roses lead guitarist Slash, on her Instagram Stories — and while the lyrics are the same, “Sorry Not Sorry” got a edgy twist thanks to the guitar legend’s riffs and Lovato’s unbridled vocals.

See the tease before it disappears here.

Upon its original release in 2017, “Sorry Not Sorry” peaked at No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart, marking her highest-charting hit. The track spent an impressive 36 total weeks on the tally.

“Sorry Not Sorry” follows a string of rock-ified versions of Lovato’s prior hits. The star dropped an amped-up, guitar-centered version of their 2013 hit “Heart Attack” back in March, and followed it up with a rock version of “Cool for the Summer” in May.

Following the “Heart Attack” release, the singer explained they wanted a new version of the song that was more representative of the rock music presented on their most recent album, Holy Fvck. “I’m so happy to be able to give a new life to ‘Heart Attack’ with a sound that reflects where I am with my music,” Lovato said in a press release.

10 Jul 2023

Here’s What Billy Joel Thinks of Fall Out Boy’s ‘We Didn’t Start the Fire’ Update

Billy Joel’s history-filled, 1989 hit “We Didn’t Start the Fire” got a modern-day update thanks to Fall Out Boy, and now the OG is giving his thoughts.

In a new interview with BBC Radio2 this week, Joel said that he has heard the new verses. “Everybody’s been wanting to know when there’s going to be an updated version of it, because my song started in ’49 and ended in ’89 — it was a 40 year span. Everybody said, ‘Well, aren’t you going to do a part two?’ I said, ‘Nah, I’ve already done part one.’ So, Fall Our Boy, go ahead. Great, take it away.”

While Joel’s track was filled to the brim with pop-culture headlines from the middle of the 20th Century to 1989, Fall Out Boy took over from there and continued the references from 1989 to the present. Taylor Swift — who was born in 1989 — is mentioned alongside Kanye West who notoriously grabbed the microphone from her at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.

Among the many other references in the updated version are Woodstock ’99, Fyre Fest, Harry Potter, Twilight, Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man, Stranger Things, Avatar, SpongeBob SquarePants, Pokemon, MySpace and many more.

Listen to Billy Joel’s thoughts on “We Didn’t Start the Fire” part two below.

10 Jul 2023

Jack White Calls Out ‘Disgusting’ Mark Wahlberg, Joe Rogan & Other Celebs for Cozying Up to Donald Trump at UFC Fight

Jack White has no tolerance for those who rub elbows with Donald Trump, and he’s making sure everyone knows. On Monday (July 10), White took to Instagram to release a statement condemning celebrities who cozied up to the former POTUS at UFC 290 on Saturday.

“Anybody who ‘normalizes’ or treats this disgusting fascist, racist, con man, disgusting piece of sh– Trump with any level of respect is also disgusting in my book,” wrote the “Another Way to Die” singer. “That’s you Joe Rogan, you Mel Gibson, you Mark Wahlberg, you Guy Fieri. This is a statement from me, not a discussion/debate.”

Alongside his statement, White posted a photo set of the aforementioned celebrities saluting, posing and conversing with Trump during the event.

Over the weekend, Trump stopped by UFC 290 while carrying out a weekend of campaign stops in Las Vegas and Iowa. When he touched down at T-Mobile Arena, Trump was greeted by a slew of Hollywood stars, including two-time Academy Award winner Mel Gibson, Academy Award nominee Mark Wahlberg and celebrity chef Guy Fieri.

This is not the first time White has called out a fellow celebrity for supporting the former president: In November, the rocker called out former Twitter CEO Elon Musk for reinstating Trump’s Twitter account.

As a soloist, Jack White has earned six top 10 entries on the Billboard 200, including the No. 1 albums Blunderbuss (2012), Lazaretto (2014) and Boarding House Reach (2018). He also boasts a pair of entries on the Billboard Hot 100, the highest of which is his Beyoncé duet “Don’t Hurt Yourself” (No. 28) in 2016. As a member of The White Stripes, he has earned an additional three top 10 albums, as well as the seminal Grammy-winning hit “Seven Nation Army.”

Check out White’s statement below:

10 Jul 2023

Ozzy Osbourne Pulls Out of Power Trip Music Festival

Ozzy Osbourne will no longer be performing at Power Trip Festival in Las Vegas this October.

The rocker shared a statement to Instagram on Monday (July 10), revealing why he decided to pull out of his first performance since announcing that he will no longer tour due to health reasons. “My original plan was to return to the stage in the summer of 2024, and when the offer to do this show came in, I optimistically moved forward,” Osbourne wrote. “Unfortunately, my body is telling me that I’m just not ready yet and I am much too proud to have the first show that I do in nearly five years be half-a–ed.”

The statement continued, “The band that will be replacing me on Power Trip will be announced shortly. They are personal friends of mine and I can promise that you will not be disappointed. Above all, I want to thank my fans, my band, and my crew for their unconditional loyalty and continual support.”

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See Osbourne’s post here.

He was scheduled to take the stage on night two of the jam-packed rock event on Oct. 7 alongside AC/DC. Night one (Oct. 6) will feature performances by Guns N’ Roses and Iron Maiden, while the final night (Oct. 8) pairs Metallica with Tool. Power Trip festival will take place at Coachella Valley in Indio, Calif., with tickets available for purchase here.

In February, Osbourne shared a note to fans on social media, in which he announced that his touring days have come to an end and that his scheduled 2023 European/UK tour dates have been canceled. “Believe me when I say that the thought of disappointing my fans really f—s me up, more than you will ever know.”

Ozzy previously revealed that while his voice is “fine,” after three operations, stem cell surgeries and other procedures to deal with a spinal injury he suffered four years ago, touring has become increasingly difficult.

07 Jul 2023

Jelly Roll Back Atop Mainstream Rock Airplay Chart With ‘Need a Favor’

Jelly Roll scores his second No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, as “Need a Favor” rises to the top of the July 15-dated tally.

The coronation follows the one-week rule of his “Dead Man Walking” in May 2022.

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Both of Jelly Roll’s songs that have hit Mainstream Rock Airplay have reached No. 1. He’s the first act to send two initial entries on the list to No. 1 since the Wolfgang Van Halen-fronted Mammoth WVH in 2021, via “Distance” and “Don’t Back Down.”

Jelly Roll is also the first soloist to rule the chart since Ozzy Osbourne, whose “Patient Number 9,” featuring Jeff Beck, led for three weeks beginning in July 2022.

On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay survey, “Need a Favor” remains at its No. 5 high with 3.7 million audience impressions June 30-July 6, according to Luminate. In addition to its run on Mainstream Rock Airplay, the song also appeared at No. 39 on Alternative Airplay for a week (July 8).

Concurrently, “Need a Favor” lifts 7-6 on Country Airplay with 26.2 million audience impressions at the format. As previously reported, it’s the first song ever to enter the top 10 of both Country Airplay and Mainstream Rock Airplay.

The most recent, July 8-dated Hot Rock & Alternative Songs tally found “Need a Favor” at No. 2, with 11.5 million official U.S. streams and 5,000 downloads sold, in addition to its radio airplay (28.4 million all-format impressions). The song also placed at No. 4 on Hot Country Songs.

“Need a Favor” is the lead single from Whitsitt Chapel, Jelly Roll’s seventh studio album. The set debuted at No. 1 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart dated June 17 and has earned 266,000 equivalent album units since its release.