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Slipknot’s Corey Taylor has teamed up with Hyro the Hero on a new version of ‘Kids Against The Monsters’.The release is the latest in a series of singles that Hyro the Hero has released over the last year, all of which feature high-profile collaborations.“Thrilled to be sharing the latest version of “Kids Against The Monsters” with Taylor, Hyro said.“Working with Corey Taylor was absolutely incredible. When I first heard him sing the words of the chorus we created, I got chills.”He continued: “‘Kids Against The Monsters’ is about the problems we deal with from generation to generation.
This generation is trying to find peace and fix past mistakes. When you press play and listen to my music, I want you to feel the positivity and love.”Taylor added: “It’s always nice to collaborate with up-and-coming talent, especially when you’re a genuine fan.
I was stoked to hop on this song with Hyro The Hero. He embodies what a true artist is meant to do: make you feel something.
This song is a great reminder that we’re stronger together when facing our demons.”The project is now available in full as an EP to stream – check it out below.Earlier this week (April 11), Slipknot took to social media to tease something called the “Knotverse” that is set to launch soon.Frontman Taylor confirmed last month that the masked metal titans had completed work on their “killer” new record, which will follow 2019’s ‘We Are Not Your Kind’. A release date is not yet known.Ahead of an announcement on the album, the band shared a mysterious teaser on Friday (April 8), soundtracked by their 1999 track ‘742617000027’.On the teaser, the word ‘Knotfest’ – the band’s travelling roadshow festival that has been running since 2012 and will return this year – is
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While many film fans know Judd Apatow from being the writer-director of some massive comedy films such as “Knocked Up” and “The 40-Year-Old Virgin,” the filmmaker actually started out as a stand-up comic. And because of that, you can see how he honors the craft of stand-up comedy in the film “Funny People,” as well as putting the spotlight on legends such as in the doc, “The Zen Diaries of Gary Shandling.” Now, Apatow is ready to showcase perhaps the most famous stand-up of them all, George Carlin.
Asylums have released a brand new single called ‘Crypto Klepto’ – you can check out the song’s video below.The rip-roaring new track is the Southend band’s first new music since the release of their third album, 2020’s ‘Genetic Cabaret’.According to a press release, the latest track from the four-piece rock outfit – comprising Luke Branch, Jazz Miell, Michael Webster, Henry Tyler – is the sound of “confusion and technological disorientation, borrowing musical bits from Beastie Boys, Bad Brains and Public Image Ltd, then refracting them through the mind of Philip K Dick at his most dystopian.”It added: “It’s the sound of the Web2 and Web3 paradigm shift reorganised using the William Burroughs cut-up technique.”Recorded at the legendary Rockfield Studios in Wales, ‘Crypto Klepto’ was produced by Dave Eringa (Manic Street Preachers, Idlewild, The Proclaimers).“I can honestly say this is one of the most unhinged songs I’ve ever produced and up above 215bpm one of the fastest too,” Eringa said of the track.
Architects have released a brand new single called ‘When We Were Young’ – listen to the track below.The Brighton metalcore band’s soaring new record is their first new music since the release of their 2021 album, ‘For Those That Wish To Exist’.“‘When We Were Young’ is a song that recognises what is gained and what is lost as we get older,” drummer Dan Searle said of the track. “As the world unfolds around us we can become overwhelmed by its endless complexity.”He continued: “When I was 20 I thought I had the whole thing sussed, today I’m pretty sure I’ll never understand reality. We lose our innocence as we age, and although fatalism and cynicism can creep in, we also begin to shift our focus toward gratitude for existence and for those that we love.”The song comes alongside a dizzying video, directed by Searle and produced by Jamie Whymark, which sees the band set up in the centre of a rotating camera rig which captures every angle of their explosive performance.Watch the video for ‘When We Were Young’ below:Architects are gearing up to head out on tour in the UK next month – you can see the full list of dates below and find any remaining tickets here.Meanwhile, Architects frontman Sam Carter and his fiancé Abby Kirk have released a children’s book about their fox dog Sophia.Sophia Fox Dog Gets Adopted aims to educate children on what foster dogs go through before they find their forever homes, while also giving a voice to young people who may have been through adoption and foster care themselves.In addition to the book, the pair are also selling a Sophia plushie and a signed card from Carter and Kirk, and a paw print from Sophia.
Psy has previewed a snippet of his new song ‘Happier’, featuring K-R&B singer-songwriter Crush.The animated teaser follows the life of a man from birth, who begins to lose sight of happiness as he grows older, panting as he desperately tries to keep up with the rat race as a snippet of the song plays.“I wanna be happier / I wanted to be someone’s love / I wanted to be proud,” the duo sing in the short clip. ‘Happier’ will be the eighth track of Psy’s upcoming comeback record, ‘Psy 9th’.‘Psy 9th’ is due out on April 29, and will mark the end of the singer’s five-year absence from music.
Maggie Rogers performed her latest single, ‘That’s Where I Am’ live for the first time during her Coachella 2022 set.The track is the lead single from her yet to be released album ‘Surrender’, which is due out on July 29 on Polydor.Although Rogers just dropped the track on Friday (April 8) of last week, fans sang along to the words as she played it today (April 17) on Coachella’s main stage..@Maggierogers just played ‘That’s Where I Am’ live on #Coachella ‘s main stage pic.twitter.com/TPOFvt2ogx— Erica Campbell (@ericacxmpbell) April 18, 2022‘That’s Where I Am” is a story I’d been carrying around for many years, the story of a love that had been with me and unfolding for a long time,’ she said of the track. “A lot of the events that ‘Surrender’ chronicles take place in New York City.”She continued: “In the stark solitude and distance of COVID, it was the backdrop for all my claustrophobic fantasies.
Megan Thee Stallion has debuted a new track today (April 17) during her set at this year’s Coachella festival.The new song, called ‘To Whom It May The Fuck Concern’, came during a hit-filled set on the second day of the Californian festival.The new song is a call for female empowerment, with Stallion rapping lines like “Ladies love yourself” – check out the footage and see the rapper’s full Coachella set list below.Megan Thee Stallion previews an unreleased song tonight at #Coachella pic.twitter.com/JNQ0aUl5Zc— Stallion Access (@StallionAccess) April 17, 2022.@theestallion performs a new song at #Coachella pic.twitter.com/sFt5w9C414— Nick (@nicksawaboy) April 17, 2022Megan Thee Stallion previews a new song at #Coachella.
Phoebe Bridgers just dropped a bright and bold new love song called ‘Sidelines’. Listen to the track below.Released via Dead Oceans, the song will appear in Hulu’s Conversations With Friends, the TV adaption of the popular Sally Rooney novel, when it premiers on May 15.Bridgers, a longtime fan of Rooney, was tapped to write the track by Hulu.
Finding love off the beach! Tia Booth may have not realized it at the time, but she met The One in Taylor Mock before she even returned to Bachelor Nation for a second stint in Paradise.
Witch Fever have returned today (April 12) with a thundering new track, ‘Blessed Be Thy’ – check it out below.The Manchester band appeared on NME’s 2021’s ‘Essential Emerging Artists’ list where they were described as “bringing the horror-show back to rock without any gimmickry because real life is scary enough after all” and “looking cool as fuck, they sound like a reckoning and they really mean it.”The new track was produced by Pigs x7’s Sam Grant at Blank Studios in Newcastle.Check out the new track here:Bassist Alex Thompson said of the track, “it just goes heavy”, adding: “it was literally the last song we wrote before we went into the studio but came together really quickly.“I think it still has an essence of some of our older material, so it’s a good way to bridge the gap.”According to a press release, the song’s video has been inspired by the likes of “Blur’s ‘Song 2’, The White Stripes’ ‘Seven Nation Army’, and early noughties music channels like Kerrang and Scuzz.”The band will also embark on a number of festival dates this summer. See the full list of dates below.
Billy Nomates aka Tor Maries has today (April 12) shared an emotive new single – listen to ‘Blue Bones’ below.The track comes accompanied by a new video that is directed by Tia Salisbury and features comedian Spencer Jones. It’s described as “a humorous yet emotional video about coming to the end of a relationship.”Speaking about the new track, Maries said it’s related to her experience of suffering from depression.Maries explained: “Like everything I write, after I’ve written it I spend the following months unravelling what it’s about.“I think ‘Blue Bones’ is a candid conversation with my own depression.
Wilson Chapman editorAfter hopping back on the Holiday movie train last year, CBS’ is taking it full steam ahead in 2022. The Eye network is expanding its presence in the lucrative holiday-themed film genre, ordering three new holiday themed projects set to air this December: “When Christmas Was Young,” “Fit For Christmas” and “Must Love Christmas.”“When Christmas Was Young” is described by CBS as a music-themed film set in Nashville, focusing on a music manager who attempts to secure the rights for a Christmas song that a failed singer-songwriter wrote years ago.
IDK and Kaytranada have joined forces on a new track called ‘Taco’ – listen to it below.It’s the first single to be released from the Maryland rapper’s upcoming new album ‘Simple’, and it marks his first new music since the release of his 2021 project, ‘USEE4YOURSELF’.“And I don’t mean the truck, boy/ They comin’ with the dicks for fuckboys/ They playin’ with clips like ‘fuck toys’/ With the silence on the tip like ‘fuck noise’,” IDK raps on the song’s chorus, underscored by a jazzy breakbeat and stomping kick drums.‘Taco’ is accompanied by a video directed by IDK and Anthony Sylvester. You can watch it below.The collaboration between the pair was first teased last month when IDK shared some behind-the-scenes footage of the song’s music video on his TikTok, recorded in a neighbourhood in Southeast Washington DC.Earlier this month, IDK issued a poll for his fans to choose between ‘Taco’ or another track, ‘Breathe’, to be his first single, both with Kaytranada production, resulting in ‘Taco’ spearheading the project.In a four-star review of IDK’s ‘USEE4YOURSELF’, NME‘s Kyann-Sian Williams wrote: “Despite turning down a deal with Kanye West’s label, the strictly independent star proves that producer-rapper hybrids are still a force to be reckoned with in the rap game.
Jussie Smollett has shared a new track that touches upon his recent high-profile court case – listen to ‘Thank You God’ below.The Empire actor was sentenced to 150 days in prison last month after being found guilty on five counts of disorderly conduct pertaining to a police report he filed on January 29, 2019 in which he claimed he was the victim of a racist and homophobic attack in Chicago.Following his sentencing, Smollett’s lawyers launched an appeal and he was released from Cook County jail on March 16 after signing a $150,000 (£114,000) personal recognisance bond, which doesn’t require him to pay any money if he appears in court for future proceedings.On Friday (April 8), the Empire actor shared a new single called ‘Thank You God’, a shiny R&B number that references his December court case.“It’s like they’re hell-bent on not solving the crime/ Taking out the elements of race and trans and homophobia that’s straight taking lives/ But turn around and act like I’m the one that killed the strides,” Smollett raps on the track.Later, he adds: “I can’t be mad/ Take my ego out/ Some people searching for fame/ Some people chasing that clout/ Just remember this, this ain’t that situation/ You think I’m stupid enough to kill my reputation?”You can listen to ‘Thank You God’ below:Smollett has dedicated ‘Thank You God’ to “the people who kept it real”, and he’s donating all profits from the track to social justice organisations Rainbow Push Coalition, Secure The Bag Safety, and Illinois Innocence Project.During Smollett’s trial in December last year, brothers Amimbola and Olabingo Osundairo testified that the actor had recruited them to help him stage an attack in an effort to boost the actor’s publicity, and were paid $3,500
Bullet For My Valentine have confirmed the release of a deluxe version of 2021’s self-titled album and shared the first new track – listen to ‘Omen’ below.‘Bullet For My Valentine’ is the group’s seventh album. The expanded version will feature the original ten tracks plus four new ones alongside b-side ‘Stitches’ which was previously only available in Japan.The first of those new tracks ‘Omen’ was released Friday (April 8).
Gwenno has shared a dreamy new track called ‘Men An Toll’ – listen to it below.Following on from her last single in February, ‘An Stevel Nowydh’, it’s the second track shared from the songwriter’s upcoming new album ‘Tresor’. That will arrive on July 1 via Heavenly.Speaking about the track, Gwenno said: “‘Men An Toll’ (also known as Mên-an-Tol and meaning holed stone) is a wonderful Bronze Age formation of standing stones near Madron, Cornwall.“With its obvious feminine symbolism its holed stone was believed to aid fertility.
Pink Floyd have come back together and released a new track in order to raise funds for Ukraine Humanitarian Relief. The track is called ‘Hey, Hey, Rise Up’ and features a sample of Andriy Khlyvnyuk, singer with the Ukrainian band Boombox.From the classic Pink Floyd line-up, David Gilmour and Nick Mason are both involved in the new recording.
Porridge Radio have shared their new single ‘The Rip’, which has been inspired by both Charli XCX and Deftones.The track is taken from Porridge Radio’s upcoming third album ‘Waterslide, Diving Board, Ladder To The Sky’ and follows on from ‘Back To The Radio’, which was released in February.Speaking about the song, vocalist Dana Margolin said: “We wanted it to sound like massive pop, like Charli XCX, but with the instrumentation of bands like Slothrust or Deftones.”Check the song out below, alongside a video directed by Margolin’s sister, Ella.“‘The Rip’ was the last song to be finished for the album, and we finished it about a week before we went into the studio to record it in March 2021,” explained Dana. “It took the longest a song has ever taken me to write lyrics for, and they took form over a few years.