Kelly Clarkson covered Metallica’s “Sad But True” for the Kellyoke segment on today’s episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show. It was her first time covering the band, and it seems like we have Isla Fisher to thank for that. The actress appeared on Clarkson’s show back in February, and convinced Clarkson to cover them for a future segment: “You should do ‘Sad But True,’ your voice would be amazing,” Fisher said. Watch below.
On Friday, Dua Lipa released her new album Radical Optimism, which was co-produced by Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker. She celebrated by pulling double duty as host and musical guest on Saturday Night Live this weekend, and she also did a pop-up show in Times Square yesterday. Dua Lipa also recently recorded a session at Maida Vale Studios for the BBC Radio 1 Live Lounge, and she covered Cleo Sol’s “Sunshine” while there. Check out video of that and her doing “Illusion” below.
Drake doesn’t sound like he’s having fun anymore. In a different world, Aubrey Drake Graham might come off as Keyser SAPze on “The Heart Part 6,” the most recent volley (at least for now) in the extremely busy, extremely fun Drake/Kendrick Lamar feud. “The Heart Part 6” is the song where Drake says that he planted a fake story about having a secret 11-year-old daughter and says that Kendrick’s “Meet The Grahams” cover art was a setup, a way to reel Kendrick in. But Drake doesn’t sound like the master manipulator that he claims to be. Instead, he’s beat-up, surly, tired. “The Heart Part 6” is a Band-Aid, a chance for any remaining Drake partisans to claim that he’s really the winner of this past week’s events. We know better.
Last month, heart-on-sleeve punk Frank Turner announced he would attempt to break the Guinness World Record for most shows played in multiple cities in the span of 24 hours. He planned 15 sets between May 4 and 5 to promote his new album Undefeated. While the English musician accomplished that mission and is being praised for his feat, Manchester indie folk band Crywank played 16 sets in the span of 24 hours the day before.
In 2022, THICK shared Happy Now, their latest album. The Brooklyn punk duo released the song “Doomer” last year, followed by “Father” in March. Now, they’re back with “Mother,” out on Epitaph. Coincidentally or not, it arrives a few days before Mother’s Day, but it’s all about not being someone’s mom.
Mach-Hommy, enigmatic pillar of underground rap, is based in New Jersey, but he’s always proudly trumpeted his Haitian heritage. Since releasing his big 2021 albums Pray For Haiti and Balens Cho (Hot Candles), Mach-Hommy has been back to quietly cranking out records like Notorious Dump Legends, Vol. 2, a collaboration with Tha God Fahim that came out last year. Today, though, Mach-Hommy announces his new album #Richaxxhaitian, and he also shares its title track, which features a couple of big-name collaborators.
Dehd are releasing their latest album, Poetry, at the end of the week. They’ve shared “Mood Ring,” “Light On,” and “Alien” from it so far, and today they’re back with one final single, “Dog Days.” The band’s Jacob Balla shared this on the song:
Over a year ago, we got word of a docuseries about Lollapalooza coming to Paramount+. That series, fittingly titled Lolla: The Story Of Lollapalooza, is set to premiere this month. All three episodes of the series will go online Tuesday, May 21, and today a trailer for the project has emerged. The trailer hits the expected beats about rejecting the mainstream, offending The Man, et al, with appearances from co-founder Perry Farrell, Trent Reznor, Lars Ulrich, Flea, Ice-T, Tom Morello, journalist Jessica Hopper, and Chance The Rapper, who I guess was selected to represent Chicago and what Lollapalooza has become in its stationary era. Watch below.
Super-producer Metro Boomin doesn’t rap, but he’s still become a key figure in the big-news recent feud between Drake and Kendrick Lamar. The opening shot in the whole saga was Kendrick’s verse on Future and Metro Boomin’s “Like That,” and it reportedly came about, at least in part, because of long-simmering tensions between Metro and Drake. In the past couple of weeks, Drake has taken a couple of shots at Metro. Now, without having to do any rapping himself, Metro has fired back.
Fancy Gap is a duo made up of the Love Language’s Stuart McLamb and the songwriter/producer Charles Crossingham. Today, they’re announcing their debut album, which will be out in July. They introduced the project with “How To Dance” last month, and now they’re sharing the Sharon Van Etten-featuring single “Strawberry Moon.”
The Sheffield, UK indie-pop/”queer emo noise” band Slash Fiction released a new single called “Catastrophizing” in April, which boasted a pretty solid shout-along chorus and some quite nice lead guitar. A few days ago they followed it up with “Golden Hour,” an even better track that shimmers and jangles with the best of ’em, gliding along in a way that’s both danceable and aerodynamic.
Last year, the Washington DC duo Origami Angel released a mixtape called The Brightest Days, and the year before that they put out their sophomore album Gami Gang. Today, they’re back with a new single, “Fruit Wine,” which is teased in a press release as “a byte-sized sample of a monumental masterpiece still to come.” It was produced by Will Yip. Check it out below.
Half Waif has announced a new EP called Ephemeral Being, which will be released at the end of this month. Today, she’s sharing its lead single “Big Dipper.”
A week and a half ago, St. Vincent released her new album All Born Screaming. On Saturday night, Annie Clark performed on John Mulaney’s live Netflix show, and then she went straight to the Paramount, a 400-capacity venue in Los Angeles, to play a show that she only announced a few hours before. During her set, she played a bunch of the new album’s songs live for the first time, and she also dusted off a couple of relative obscurities that fit the joyously intense vibe of the new record.
Lana Del Rey has achieved stadium status. The world-building alt-pop singer already played two concerts at Mexico City’s Foro Sol last year, and now a after headlining Coachella and popping up at Stagecoach a she is adding her first stadium gig in the US. She’ll play “a special, one-night-only” show June 20 at Fenway Park in Boston. Presale tickets go on sale this Wednesday, May 8 at 10AM ET, with general onsale to follow this Friday via Live Nation.
In The Number Ones, I’m reviewing every single #1 single in the history of the Billboard Hot 100, starting with the chart’s beginning, in 1958, and working my way up into the present. Book Bonus Beat: The Number Ones: Twenty Chart-Topping Hits That Reveal the History of Pop Music.
Drake just dropped the latest installment in his ever-escalating feud with Kendrick Lamar. Friday night, immediately after releasing his own epic “Family Matters,” in which he accused Kendrick of physically abusing his fiancA(c)e Whitney Alford and suggested Kendrick’s business partner Dave Free actually fathered one of their children, Drake was hit with “meet the grahams,” in which Kendrick alleged that Drake has a secret 11-year-old daughter and is part of a sex trafficking network in Toronto. The next afternoon, Kendrick released yet another diss, “Not Like Us,” in which he outright called Drake a pedophile.
Madonna wrapped up her greatest-hits celebration tour with a free show at Copacabana Beach in Rio de Janeiro, and 1.6 million people were in attendance. It was Madonna’s biggest concert ever and is up there with the most-attended concerts of all time. Brazil’s own Anitta and Pabllo Vittar were special guests during the performance; she did “Music” with the latter for the first time on the tour, and Anitta came out during “Vogue.” Watch some video and check out some photos of the massive crowd below.
Cindy Lee has canceled their tour due to personal reasons. The drag queen hypnagogic pop project of former Women leader Patrick Flegel canceled today’s Chicago date, and now other venues have confirmed that the entire run is no longer taking place.
Kendrick Lamar is still at it. The rapper has been feuding with Drake, dropping the diss track “Euphoria” on Tuesday followed by “6:16 In LA” yesterday morning and “meet the grahams” at midnight. With each song, Lamar has been getting more ruthless. His newest one, “Not Like Us,” produced by Mustard, is brutal.
Last year, Usurp Synapse reunited for their first shows in 19 years. Yesterday, the Indiana screamo group released Polite Grotesqueries, their first EP in 20 years.
In February, Rapsody and Erykah Badu debuted a new collaboration at Badu’s birthday party in Dallas. Yesterday, the pair have released that song, which is titled “3:AM.”
This fall, Weezer are bringing celebrating the Blue Album by playing it in full on tour. Earlier this week, though, the indie-rock royalty reflected on other moments in their career by performing a bunch of rarities, plus a cover of Hole’s “Celebrity Skin.”
Last month, Taylor Swift released her latest album The Tortured Poets Department, which contained a lot of namechecks. Patti Smith, The Starting Line, and American Pieas Alyson Hannigan reacted to their references, and now so has Charlie Puth.
Last night, the first episode of John Mulaney’s live Netflix series, John Mulaney Presents: Everybodyas In LA, premiered as part of the Netflix Is A Joke Fest. It featured a performance from St. Vincent.
On Thursday, Charli XCX performed a surprise event in Brooklyn to promote her upcoming album Brat (out June 7). The pop star began by spinning tracks in the DJ booth at The Lot Radio, then went outside to dance on top of a car for a large crowd of fans.
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