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]]>No album this week created more buzz than Beyoncé’s brilliant new record Cowboy Carter, which will change the way you look at country. Each of the 27 songs on Queen B’s barrier-breaking new album deserves a spot on our list, and we decided to go with “II Most Wanted” ft. Miley Cyrus.
Most mainstream artists made a smart decision and avoided releasing new singles to avoid competing with Beyoncé, but that didn’t stop indie acts from sharing new music with the world.
Some of our favorite alternative rock bands dropped new music this past week, starting with Vampire Weekend’s “Mary Boone”, Twenty One Pilots’ “Next Semester”, and Kings Of Leon’s “Split Screen”. Sum 41 bid farewell with their final album Heaven :x: Hell, which produced their latest single “Dopamine”.
As for the rest of our list for this week, you’ll find everything from Latin collaborations, including “It Was Always You” by Carin León and Leon Bridges and “BYAK” by Alvaro Diaz and Rauw Alejandro, St. Vincent’s “Flea” featuring Dave Grohl on the drums, and several girl power bops, such as Isabel LaRosa’s “Favorite” and Becky Hill’s “Outside of Love”.
Twenty One Pilots – “Next Semester”
St. Vincent – “Flea”
Vampire Weekend – “Mary Boone”
Beyoncé, Miley Cyrus – “II Most Wanted”
Kings Of Leon – “Split Screen”
Carin León, Leon Bridges – “It Was Always You”
Isabel LaRosa – “Favorite”
Becky Hill – “Outside of Love”
Sum 41 – “Dopamine”
Alvaro Diaz, Rauw Alejandro – “BYAK”
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]]>Lollapalooza hosted around 40 performers a day last year, and they’re getting ready to keep that trend going in 2024. This year’s lineup is as massive and star-studded as it gets and offers an impressive mix of different genres, ranging from hip-hop and R&B to rock and indie pop.
In addition to Blink-182, Tyler, The Creator, Hozier, SZA, and The Killers, hip-hop duo Future x Metro Boomin, K-pop group Stray Kids, art pop singer Melanie Martinez, and DJ Skrillex are also among this year’s headliners, prominently featured on the festival’s poster.
Deftones, Pierce the Veil, Two Door Cinema Club, Vince Staples, and Kesha will also make it to the Lollapalooza stage, along with the young rising stars The Last Dinner Party, Tate McRae, Conan Grey, Reneé Rapp, Victoria Monét, and Chappell Roan.
Lollapalooza will return to its iconic venue, Grant Park in Chicago, from August 1 through August 4. Day-by-day lineups will be announced at a later date, and tickets are already available for pre-sale.
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]]>You Me At Six frontman Josh Franceschi announced they’re going on a hiatus in an emotional statement on social media. He explained they only ever wanted longevity, to travel, and to experience life as a group of friends when they started YMAS as kids – and they were lucky enough to achieve this goal.
“We feel like on the eve of our 20th anniversary as a band, now is a good time to call time. We’re in a fortunate position where our fans still want to see us live and come celebrate the life of this band. So that is what we will do for 2024 and 2025,” said Franceschi.
You Me at Six was founded in Weybridge, Surrey in the midst of the pop-punk craze during the mid-2000s. They went on to release eight studio albums by each other’s side, including last year’s Truth Decay and UK No. 1 albums Cavalier Youth and Suckapunch.
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]]>Saviors debuted at No. 1 with 31,361 album-equivalent units during its first week on the chart. It’s their fifth album to top the charts in the UK, following the success of American Idiot (2004), 21st Century Breakdown (2009), Revolution Radio (2016) and Father of All… (2020).
Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong said they’re “really, truly grateful” to everyone who made this success possible in a statement to Official Charts.
“We’re so excited about our future, about our album Saviors, and just want to thank all the fans everywhere; the most important people to us! Fans, friends, family, whatever you want to call it. It’s been an amazing run for us so far, for decades, and we love you all,” said Armstrong.
Green Day dropped Saviors on January 19, and they’re planning to promote it with a tour across North America and Europe this spring and summer. In addition to Saviors, they’ll perform their classic albums Dookie and American Idiot in their entirety during this tour.
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]]>Lavigne’s North American Greatest Hits Tour is set to cover the biggest hits from her entire discography, spanning over two decades. She dropped seven studio albums during that time, including the chart-toppers Under My Skin and The Best Damn Thing, and gave us hit songs “Complicated”, “Sk8er Boi”, “My Happy Ending”, “Girlfriend”, and “When You’re Gone”.
Lavigne will perform her “biggest songs to date” according to the tour’s official press release, and she won’t do it all alone. Simple Plan will also join her, after touring by her side during her very first tour, along with All Time Low, who’ve been friends of Lavigne’s for a while now and discussed the possibility of touring together for years before finally making it happen.
Royal & The Serpent and Girlfriends are also set to serve as Lavigne’s opening acts during her upcoming North American tour, set to kick off on May 22 in Vancouver, Canada. She’ll perform everywhere from Las Vegas and Nashville to Toronto and Chicago before the tour concludes in Edmonton, Canada on September 16.
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]]>The group announced on social media that they intend to play Dookie and American Idiot in full on every show during The Saviors Tour alongside “a bunch of your other favorites, new and old, all summer long.” The tour, which kicks off in May, will see the band perform 43 shows in Europe and North America.
— Green Day (@GreenDay) January 17, 2024
BIG NEWS
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Released in 1994, Dookie is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year. It is an album that put Green Day on the map and is often considered one of the greatest records in punk music. The record features songs like “Basket Case”, “Longview”, and “When I Come Around”.
American Idiot, on the other hand, turned 20 in 2024. It was a hit among the critics and audience, becoming the band’s first release that topped the US Billboard 200. It contained hits like “American Idiot,” “Boulevard of Broken Dreams,” and “Wake Me Up When September Ends.”
Green Day will officially release Saviors, their 14th studio album, on January 19. The early reviews of the record are positive, while the band is billing it as the “best of everything that Green Day has.”
“Whether it’s something from Dookie or American Idiot, I think somehow we were able to bridge the gap in making something that is like an essential record for us,” Billie Joe Armstrong shared in a recent interview.
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]]>Despite giving us many amazing new songs, this week has been pretty slow in terms of new album releases. That didn’t stop Lewis Capaldi from dropping an extended edition of his sophomore album Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent, which features five brand-new tracks, including “Strangers”.
Several songs on our list serve as the intrude for some of the most highly-anticipated new albums hitting the shelves this winter. That happens to be the case with “One Eyed Bastard” from Green Day’s Saviors and “Caesar on a TV Screen” from The Last Dinner Party’s Prelude to Ecstasy.
As for the rest of our list this week, we made sure to include a perfect mix of different genres, so everyone can find a song that suits their taste. Country fans can discover new music by Gabby Barrett, hip-hop lovers will enjoy 24kGoldn’s “Good Intentions”, while those who prefer Latin sound can vibe to Luis R Conriquez and Peso Pluma.
Lewis Capaldi – “Strangers”
The Last Dinner Party – “Caesar on a TV Screen”
Green Day – “One Eyed B——“
Alice Merton – “Run Away Girl”
Gabby Barrett – “You’re My Texas”
24kGoldn – “Good Intentions”
Luis R Conriquez, Peso Pluma – “Pixelados”
UMI, V – “wherever u r (ft. V of BTS)”
Bring Me The Horizon – “Kool-Aid”
Goddard. x Cat Burns – “Wasted Youth”
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]]>Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign – Vultures (January 12)
Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign are gearing up for the release of their collaborative album Vultures, and they teased several potential collaborations with everyone from Bad Bunny and Chris Brown to Lil Baby and Future.
Kid Cudi – Insano (January 12)
January 12 will be a great day for hip-hop because it will also mark the release of Kid Cudi’s ninth studio album Insano, which will see him joining forces with the likes of Travis Scott, Pharrell Williams, and ASAP Rocky.
Kali Uchis – Orquídeas (January 12)
Kali Uchis created a lot of hype for her upcoming fourth studio album Orquídeas with the Karol G collaboration “Labios Mordidos”, and its release date is just around the corner.
Green Day – Saviors (January 19)
Punk rock legends Green Day will be back with the new album Saviors this month, and they teased its release with singles “The American Dream Is Killing Me” and “Look Ma, No Brains!”.
James Arthur – Bitter Sweet Love (January 26)
The British singer James Arthur will drop his fifth studio album in just a few weeks, and he promoted its release with several singles, including “A Year Ago” and “Sleepwalking”.
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]]>Armstrong recently set down for an interview with The Guardian alongside his bandmates Mike Dirnt and Tre Cool. At one point, they were asked how they felt about the revival of 90s/00s punk and emo music in the last few years, and the Green Day frontman shared some interesting thoughts.
“I think streaming and the way things go viral now [is fuelling it]… Emo was dead – then just five years later we’re having emo club nights. Like, aren’t you supposed to wait another five years for this? My Chemical Romance just broke up!” joked Armstrong.
He singled out The Walters and Deftones as two bands whose emo-leaning music experienced a huge boom after their songs started showing up in TikTok videos. He added that there’s “this new algorithmic way of discovering new stuff”, where people are paying less attention to radio and other traditional platforms.
Green Day’s next album Saviors will be released on January 19, 2024, and it was preceded by singles “The American Dream Is Killing Me”, “Look Ma, No Brains!”, and “Dilemma”.
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]]>Hanna just announced a book tour across the United States supporting her upcoming memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life As A Feminist Punk. The tour will kick off on May 14, the same day the memoir comes out, at Greenlight Bookstore in Brooklyn, New York.
After that, Hanna will visit nine more cities, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, Boston, and Philadelphia.
In Rebel Girl: My Life As A Feminist Punk, Hanna gives the readers an insight into her early life and her road to becoming one of the most influential punk rock musicians in the 1990s. The book also promises to reveal more about her friendship with influential musicians of the era, like Nirvana’s late frontman Kurt Cobain.
When she wraps her book tour, Hanna will embark on a trip across Europe with Bikini Kill. The band, which reunited in 2019, is currently scheduled to play a string of solo shows and festival appearances through June in Spain, France, Netherlands, and Belgium, among other European countries.
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