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The Band Camino had a jam-packed 2023, complete with their pensive sophomore album, The Dark, and non-stop touring worldwide. But they’re not slowing down yet.
The trio — Jeffery Jordan, Spencer Stewart and Garrison Burgess — announced exclusively via Billboard on Monday (May 13) that they’re unveiling a brand new EP, Bruises, on May 17. “Fresh starts are hard to come by when you’ve been a band for nine years and almost all of your 20s, but this release truly feels like one,” the band tells Billboard in a statement. “Honestly, for a while, it felt like we were chasing something. Having a fan base and any amount of success puts this pressure on your art and it’s easy to start chasing and predicting what you think people are going to like. In this next chapter, we’ve decided we aren’t chasing anything at all – just expressing. Making something you connect with is far more fulfilling, and the only reason we found our footing as a band in the first place. Just know we feel these songs in our bones and we have a feeling someone out there will too.”
The statement continues, “Making these songs and this EP brought us together in a way we haven’t felt in a long time, honestly. We took the process back to the place we started as a band and wrote and arranged the songs in a live rehearsal setting to truly create them together with instruments in our hands. Making music in 2024 has mostly turned into sitting in front of a computer, so we really put in effort to make music with no computers in sight until it was time to hit the studio with a fully-fleshed out arrangement. We tracked everything live as a band and left the takes as raw as we could. Our live show has always been what we’re most proud of, so we really just wanted to capture that in these recordings and not overcomplicate or overproduce anything. A touch more humanness, imperfectly perfect.”
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With so much emphasis on sharing the upcoming tracks directly with their fans, The Band Camino doubled down on the excitement by announcing an accompanying summer tour, with “Not The 1975” star Knox as the supporting act.
The month-long run will kick off on July 8 in Seattle, Wash., before hitting cities like Sacramento, Calif.; Phoenix, Ariz.; Austin, Texas; Orlando, Fla. and more before wrapping up on August 3 in Charlotte, North Carolina.
See the full list of tour dates below and on the band’s website here, and pre-save The Band Camino’s Bruises EP here.
July 8 – Seattle, Washington – Showbox SoDoJuly 11 – Sacramento, California – Ace of SpacesJuly 12 – Costa Mesa, California – OC FairJuly 13 – Phoenix, Arizona – The Van BurenJuly 15 – Austin, Texas – ACL Live at the Moody TheaterJuly 16 – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – The CriterionJuly 18 – St. Louis, Missouri – The PageantJuly 19 – West Des Moines, Iowa – Val Air BallroomJuly 20 – Milwaukee, Wisconsin – The Rave/Eagles ClubJuly 22 – Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Stage AEJuly 23 – Cincinnati, Ohio – Bogart’sJuly 25 – Royal Oak, Michigan – Royal Oak Music TheatreJuly 26 – Fort Wayne, Indiana – The Clyde TheatreJuly 27 – Cleveland, Ohio – The AgoraJuly 29 – Orlando, Florida – The VanguardJuly 31 – Raleigh, North Carolina – The RitzAugust 3 – Charlotte, North Carolina – The Fillmore Charlotte
Limp Bizkit have been playing their unique version of the Who’s “Behind Blue Eyes” during live shows since including the 1971 Who’s Next classic on their 2003 Results May Vary album. On Friday night at the Welcome to Rockville Festival at the Daytona International Speedway in Daytona Beach, Florida, Fred Durst and company roped in […]
Dave Grohl is a showman. The Foo Fighters frontman loves to surprise and delight his band’s fans by giving them a bit of the unexpected amid the sweat and rumble of a typically high-energy Foos show. On Saturday, during the Foos’ headlining slot at the Welcome to Rockville Festival at Daytona International Speedway in Daytona […]
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Dave Grohl is remembering late engineer/producer and noise-rock pioneer Steve Albini.
During the rock band’s concert in Charlotte, N.C., on Thursday (May 9), the Foo Fighters frontman dedicated the group’s hit song “My Hero” to Albini, who died earlier in the week at age 61.
“Tonight, I’d like to dedicate this song to a friend we lost the other day, who I’ve known for a long, long time. And he left us much too soon,” Grohl told the crowd. “He’s touched all of your lives, I’m sure. Talking about Steve Albini. For those of you who know, you know. For those of you who don’t know, just remember that name: Steve Albini. So let’s sing this one for him.”
Grohl first worked with the Chicago-based engineer/producer when recording Nirvana‘s 1993 album, In Utero. The pair reunited in 2014 for Grohl’s HBO series Sonic Highways. During the episode, the Foo Fighters recorded the song “Something From Nothing” at Albini’s Electric Audio Recordings studio in Chicago.
Last year, Grohl, Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic and Albini also sat down for an interview on the Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend podcast to discuss the making of In Utero.
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Following his death from a sudden heart attack, numerous artists paid tribute to Albini, including the Pixies, PJ Harvey, Failure, the Breeders, Urge Overkill, Jarvis Cocker, Superchunk and Butch Vig.
In addition to In Utero, Albini — who fronted the bands Shellac and Big Black — also worked on the Pixies’ beloved 1988 album, Surfer Rosa, along with projects by Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Mogwai, Flogging Molly, the Breeders, Newsom, the Stooges, and many others.
His band, Shellac, was gearing up to release its first album in a decade, To All Trains, and had booked a series of shows in England in June, followed by a run of U.S. dates in Chicago, New York and Los Angeles in July.
Watch Foo Fighters’ tribute to Albini here.
Scott Stapp and his wife, Jaclyn, are splitting.
The Creed frontman and former Miss New York, who were married for 18 years, are moving forward with a divorce following separate filings.
“Out of respect for their family, Scott intends to navigate this difficult time privately,” a representative for the Stapp wrote in a statement, obtained by Billboard.
Jaclyn, 43, filed for divorce first in June 2022 and later withdrew, and Stapp, 50, filed in May 2023, People confirmed through court documents filed in Williamson County, Tenn.
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News of the divorce was first reported by TMZ.
Stapp and Jaclyn Nesheiwat married in February 2006 after meeting at an event for Muscular Dystrophy Association in New York.
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The former couple share three children together: daughter Milan, 17, and sons Daniel, 13, and Anthony, 6. Scott has another son, Jagger, 25, with his ex-wife, Hillaree Burns.
Jaclyn previously served as Stapp’s co-manager. He signed with Shelter Management in 2020.
In 2014, Stapp suffered a self-described “psychotic break,” during which the singer, in a haze of drugs and alcohol, became convinced that his family was involved in a terrorist plot. Following a period of intensive therapy, Stapp and his wife began rebuilding their life together. Part of that experience was documented on VH1’s Couples Therapy in 2015.
Stapp is currently focusing on his music. The artist’s mega-selling hard rock group Creed reunited earlier this year with a slate of concerts that continue growing due to overwhelming ticket demand.
“So many positive things have already happened that are just mind-blowing, in terms of the level of Creed’s resurgence,” Stapp recently told Billboard.
The artist is also in the midst of a solo tour in support of his fourth album, Higher Power, which dropped through Napalm Records in March. The set was preceded by the highest-charting single of his non-Creed career, the hard-charging title track, which has climbed to No. 12 on Mainstream Rock Airplay and earned 1.4 million streams to date, according to Luminate.
Complaining about change in New York City is about as useful as moaning about rats on the subway tracks, but everyone – natives, adopted locals, frequent visitors – does it. And there’s a good reason why: It hurts to see a beloved haunt shutter for good.
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The pandemic wiped out plenty of storied Manhattan bars and restaurants, among them the East Village bar Black and White. With low ceilings, red-and-orange-striped walls, dark lighting and reliably great music (everything from Southern soul to British post-punk was spun on vinyl), Black and White occupied that necessary space between low-key and high-octane, making it suitable for everything from post-work happy hour to first dates to nightcaps after a concert.
It was effortlessly cool yet unpretentious, and you didn’t need to be a New Yorker to love it – case in point, Travis’ new song “Raze the Bar.” The cleverly titled single finds the Scottish rockers melding the elegiac with the anthemic to pay homage to the defunct bar, its owners and staff – with guest vocalists Chris Martin of Coldplay and Brandon Flowers of The Killers stopping by for a shot (at the mic).
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“If you played a show at Irving Plaza or Webster Hall, chances are you ended up at Black and White till the wee small hours,” explained frontman Fran Healy in a statement. “’Raze the Bar’ is a song about a fictional last night in the bar. [Co-owner] Johnny is in there, Jack, Richard and Johnny’s brother and bar co-owner Chris. The cameos were almost an afterthought! I just called Chris Martin in a bit of a panic because I couldn’t figure out what the track sequence should be. When Chris heard it, he was like, ‘That song is the best thing you’ve ever written!’ And because he and Brandon Flowers both live quite near…”
The track will feature on the band’s upcoming album L.A. Times, out July 12.
Black and White doesn’t just hold a special place in Healy’s heart – it occupies a spot in Billboard lore as well. Many a Billboard staffer (and alumni) gathered at the bar to celebrate, commiserate, come up with ideas and vent while draining the bar of Prosecco and Goose Island.
With “Raze the Bar,” Travis has delivered a rousing round of nostalgia to pour one out for an East Village mainstay.
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Metallica boasts four No. 1s in a row on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart for the first time, as “Screaming Suicide” jumps to the top of the tally dated May 18.
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The song follows reigns for “Too Far Gone?” (one week in November 2023), “72 Seasons” (two weeks last July) and “Lux Æterna” (11 weeks beginning in December 2022). All four tracks are from 72 Seasons, Metallica’s 11th studio album, which, also notably, becomes the band’s first to generate four Mainstream Rock Airplay No. 1s; previously, the group scored as many as two No. 1s apiece.
While “Screaming Suicide” is the fourth No. 1 from 72 Seasons, it became the LP’s second song to chart on Mainstream Rock Airplay. It debuted at No. 40 on the Feb. 18, 2023-dated survey after its release on streaming services, despite not then being promoted to radio. It returned to the ranking as the album’s fourth radio focus track this March.
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Metallica now boasts 14 career No. 1s on Mainstream Rock Airplay, having first reigned with “Until It Sleeps” in 1996. The band ties Five Finger Death Punch and Foo Fighters for the third-most leaders over the chart’s 43-year history.
Most No. 1s, Mainstream Rock Airplay:
19, Shinedown
17, Three Days Grace
14, Five Finger Death Punch
14, Foo Fighters
14, Metallica
13, Van Halen
12, Disturbed
12, Godsmack
Concurrently, “Screaming Suicide” lifts 17-15 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 2.6 million audience impressions, up 10%, May 3-9, according to Luminate.
On the most recently published multimetric Hot Hard Rock Songs chart (dated May 11, reflecting data April 26-May 2), “Screaming Suicide” placed at No. 24. In addition to its radio airplay, the song drew 112,000 official U.S. streams. It reached No. 8 upon its debut in February 2023.
72 Seasons launched at No. 1 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart in April 2023 and has earned 373,000 equivalent album units to date.
All Billboard charts dated May 18 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, May 14.
On Friday (May 10), producer-songwriter and TV/film composer Tommee Profitt released Covers, Vol. 2, a new 10-song collection of reworked hits featuring a variety of vocal collaborators. One of the highlights of the album is Skylar Grey’s gentle, stripped-down rendition of Linkin Park’s enduring smash “Numb,” which also received a sweeping music video on the day of the album release.
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Watch Profitt and Grey’s video for “Numb” below:
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“I connected with Skylar a few years ago, and it was instantly clear that we both loved making cinematic music for movies and TV shows,” says Profitt, whose genre-twisting production work has landed synch placements in dozens of trailers and on multiple streaming platforms. “Skylar’s voice is perfect for the kind of music I love to produce.
“When I told her I was working on a covers album,” he continues, “we started brainstorming on what song we could do together, and it didn’t take long for ‘Numb’ by Linkin Park to come up. I could hear exactly in my head how her voice would sound on it… and yet she still over delivered. We wanted it to be both raw and beautiful, while climbing to an epic conclusion… It definitely feels like a movie! And the emotional depth of Skylar’s performance brings that to life in a way that most couldn’t. Her voice is so unique, and was definitely meant for this song; this was a perfect first collab!”
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Meanwhile, Grey — who has scored hits as a solo artist, featured performer and as a songwriter for Eminem, Rihanna and Dr. Dre, among others — has a long-standing connection to Linkin Park: she performed the iconic hook to “Where’d You Go,” the 2006 smash from the band’s Mike Shinoda under his Fort Minor project, when Grey was still performing under the name Holly Brook. A deal with Linkin Park’s Machine Shop Records helped start her career as a teen in the mid-2000s, years before Grey was able to pay tribute to the band alongside Profitt.
“Multiple people had been telling me, ‘You should work with Tommee Profitt,’ since I really love working in the cinematic music space… and he’s the best in the biz!” says Grey. “So we finally connected over Instagram and made it happen. I’ve had writers block for about a year, so it seemed like the perfect opportunity to release a cover of one of my favorite Linkin Park songs. Linkin Park signed me to my very first record deal when I was 18, and I got to tag along on tour with them for a while, so there’s a huge nostalgic connection there.”
Linkin Park’s version of “Numb” peaked at No. 11 on the Hot 100 after being released on the band’s 2003 sophomore album Meteora. In addition to the collaboration with Grey, Covers, Vol. 2 features takes on Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” (featuring Fleurie), Goo Goo Dolls’ “Iris” (with Ruelle) and AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” (featuring William Joseph), among others.
Dennis Thompson, the high energy drummer for influential Detroit band MC5, died on Thursday (May 9). He was 75 years old. The rocker died at MediLodge of Taylor in Michigan, where he had been recovering following a heart attack in April, according to local news station Detroit Free Press. Thompson was the last surviving member […]