Dua Lipa’s “Illusion” is definitely the week’s most talked-about new track, and it deserves all the attention coming its way. It’s the third single from her new album Radical Optimism, and it perfectly captures its nostalgic, Britpop-inspired sound.

This week also marked the release of Metro Boomin and Future’s second collaborative album We Still Don’t Trust You, and its title track made it to our list. Speaking of new albums, Maggie Rogers and Girl in Red made a comeback with their latest LPs this week and truly impressed us with their new sound.

It was a great week for female artists overall, and the songs that made the cut cover a wide range of different genres. In addition to Maggie Rogers and Girl in Red representing alternative pop-rock, R&B artists Chlöe, Tinashe, and Willow also made it to our list alongside the rising country star Tanner Adell.

Dua Lipa – “Illusion”

Linkin Park – “QWERTY”

Maggie Rogers – “The Kill”

Girl in Red – “I’m Back”

Future, Metro Boomin – “We Still Don’t Trust You”

WILLOW – “Big Feelings”

Suki Waterhouse – “My Fun”

Tinashe – “Nasty”

Tanner Adell – Whiskey Blues

Chlöe – “Boy Bye”

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SZA hasn’t dropped any new solo singles since sharing her acclaimed album SOS with the world, but that finally changed this week. She teased the release of its follow-up LANA with a new song “Saturn”, an escapist anthem about the lure of the unknown.

This week was pretty slow for new album releases, but some of our favorite indie artists still surprised us with new LPs. MGMT teased Loss of Life with “Dancing in Babylon” ft. Christine and the Queens, while Allie X promote her new album Girl with no Face with “Weird World”.

It was a great week for alternative and rock music in general, and we’ve seen several beloved bands share new music with the world. Kings of Leon dropped “Mustang”, Bleachers teased their next album with “Me Before You”, while Linkin Park paid homage to their late vocalist Chester Bennington by sharing the unreleased track “Friendly Fire”.

Norah Jones, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Kasabian, and Lil Durk also made it to our list, so grab your headphones and get ready to discover their new songs!

SZA – “Saturn”

Bleachers – “Me Before You”

Kings Of Leon – “Mustang”

Linkin Park – “Friendly Fire”

Norah Jones – “Staring at the Wall”

Allie X – “Weird World”

MGMT – “Dancing in Babylon” (feat. Christine and the Queens)

Catfish and the Bottlemen – “Showtime”

Kasabian – “Call”

Lil Durk – “Old Days”

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Members of Linkin Park have been on a hiatus since Bennington’s tragic passing in 2017, and they’ve only shared several previously unreleased tracks after their split. “Friendly Fire” is the latest, and it was originally recorded during the One More Light sessions.

The music video for this track was directed by Mark Fiore and mostly consists of footage from studio sessions and live performances. Bennington is prominently featured in the video, and “Friendly Fire” is one of the last songs he recorded with Linkin Park.

This will be one of the tracks featured on Linkin Park’s upcoming greatest hits album Papercuts, set to hit the shelves on April 12. It will feature songs released between 2000 and 2023, and Mike Shinoda said it was a joy to curate the tracklist.

“Each song in this collection is both a singular moment on our timeline and an evolving story that is as much ours as it is yours. From our first release ‘One Step Closer’ to the brand-new ‘Friendly Fire’, this tracklist spans all our chapters so far,” said Shinoda in a statement.

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Bushell shared the cover on Twitter over the weekend, saying that she discovered the nu-metal legends just recently and is impressed with “the keyboards and the DJ scratching.” She also praised the late vocalist Chester Bennington, writing that he “had such an incredible voice.”

It didn’t take long for the band to notice the cover, sharing it with six millions of their followers and writing: “Wow, this is awesome” in the caption.

Nandi Bushell started playing drums at the age of five, after hearing The Beatles’ “Hey Jude.” A year later, Bushell’s parents set up social media accounts to share her takes on various rock classics.

Her viral performances first drew the attention of Lenny Kravitz, who was impressed with her skills and invited her to play with him at The O2 Arena in 2019. Bushell’s covers were noticed by other musicians after that, with Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, and Muse’s Matt Bellamy being among those who publicly praised her.

In a recent interview, Bushell said that she wants to create her own music and is hoping to start a rock band Titans.

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The band already shared previously unknown track from 1999, titled “She Couldn’t,” which was made available on all major streaming platforms.

The nu-metal legends revealed that fans will be able to get their hands on a variety of special box sets, which will come in the form of CD, vinyl, and digital formats.

Depending on the box set, the release will contain the original Hybrid Theory album, B-Rarities from the era, remix record Reanimation, three full-length concerts, hours of previously unseen footage, demos, and much more.

“It’s incredible to think it’s been 20 years since Hybrid Theory was released,” said Linkin Park in a statement. “All gratitude to our fans who made this epic journey we started 20 years ago possible. We dedicate our music to you. We rededicate our Hybrid Theory to you.”

Linkin Park released Hybrid Theory in 2000 to commercial and critical acclaim. It reached No.2 in the U.S. while becoming the best-selling debut release since 1997’s Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction. The group also won the Best Hard Rock Performance for “Crawling” at the 44th Grammy Awards.

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Since Bennington’s untimely death in 2017, the band has understandably been in an indefinite hiatus. Now though, the DJ Joe Hahn has revealed to Korea newspaper Yonhap that the band has been talking about the idea of reuniting in the future to make some more music together.

“The members are taking care of themselves and their families and are going through the problems in their own way,” Joe Hahn explained. “And… Now the band has started talking about making new music together.”

When prompted to give more details about the chance of new music, Hahn admitted that it will probably quite a long way off.

“Maybe in about 10 years? (Laughs) It might be sooner,” he said. “I don’t want to set a deadline. We just want to focus on the present and talk about music. We aren’t discussing detailed plans. I just want to go back to those days when I made music in the warehouse.”

Whenever or if ever Linkin Park does decide to make music again, they will have our full support.

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2009 was the year when Lady Gaga became the biggest pop star on the planet and the Black Eyed Peas ruled the summer charts. It also introduced us to Ke$ha and Justin Bieber and saw Miley Cyrus transforming from Disney princess to chart-topping hit maker.

Don’t even get us started on that moment when Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift acceptance speech at MTV Video Music Awards because he believed Beyoncé was robbed. Long story short, 2009 was the most iconic year EVER and here are 10 songs we couldn’t stop listening to back in the day.

Beyoncé – Halo

Miley Cyrus – Party In The U.S.A.

Green Day – 21 Guns

Kelly Clarkson – My Life Would Suck Without You

Lily Allen – Not Fair

Lady Gaga – Bad Romance

Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Man

The Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling

Ke$ha – TiK ToK

Linkin Park – New Divide

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This is why we decided to remember some of the great records from 2000 that became 18-year-olds this year. Some of them are still getting a decent amount of recognition today, while others are maybe unfairly forgotten. Let’s check them out.

Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water

You either think that Limp Bizkit’s third studio album Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water is either terrible or great. There is no in-between. While the critics didn’t look at this release in the most favorable way, the record ended up topping the US Billboard 200 charts and contains some of the band’s biggest hits like “Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)” and “Take a Look Around.”

Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory

Yes, 18 years have passed since Linking Park released their acclaimed debut album. Hybrid Theory came out of nowhere and conquered the music world overnight with the band’s nu-metal sound bringing some fresh air to the stale music scene. The record still stands as the bestselling rock album of the 21st century.

OutKast – Stankonia

Hardly anyone was ready for Stankonia, OutKast’s fourth studio album. The duo of André 3000 and Big Boi created a lyrically perfect album which revolved around themes of politics, love, parenthood and much more while featuring numerous influences including funk, rave, gospel, and rock. The album received universal acclaim following its release and is now considered as one of the best hip-hop records of all time.

Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP

Follow up to Eminem’s breakout record The Slim Shady LP, this album showed that the rappers earlier success wasn’t an accident. The Marshall Mathers LP won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album and became the fastest selling LP by any solo music artist in the United States. Now old enough to drink alcohol in Europe, it is still one of Eminem’s brightest moments.

Radiohead – Kid A

While Radiohead divided both the critics and the audience with this experimental album in 2000, Kid A went to achieve critical acclaim in later years. Some magazines and publications, like Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and the Times, even went so far to call it the greatest album of the decade. Tom York and the gang close to their finest.

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Linkin Park co-founder Mike Shinoda, who is currently promoting his first solo album Post Traumatic, recently had an interview with iHeartRadio’s Inside The Studio podcast and inevitably had to answer the question about the band’s future.

“I don’t know,” said Shinoda. “That’s the million-dollar question, right? And, unfortunately, I’ve said it before, but there aren’t any answers to that at this point. It would be awesome if there were. That would be really easy.”

Shinoda said that things would be much easier if they had found themselves in the situation AC/DC was in 1980.

“I wish we were in a Brian Johnson/Bon Scott situation where it’s, like, no, the guy, our best friend, who sang for the band who passed away, he literally said, ‘This is the guy,’ and we listened to the guy and the guy’s definitely the guy, and we all love hanging out with him, and we want to play with him. That didn’t happen to anybody else, really. That hasn’t happened to us,” he added.

Mike Shinoda also talked about the future of Linkin Park with Billboard, and said that the rest of the band will reveal the plans when “there’s a clear message.”

“We’ll let everybody know when there’s a clear message,” Shinoda told Billboard. “We all have different, varying degrees of interest and stamina right now, and I don’t want to hold anybody to anything they can’t or they don’t want to do. We still talk all the time. I joined Dave (Farrell) for his Member Guest podcast, and I just shot some emails back and forth to Joe [Hahn]. We’re always talking.”

Mike Shinoda released his first new music since Chester Bennington’s death in January 2018, presenting a three-song EP Post Traumatic. He then decided to make a full-length album, his first solo release. The album, also titled Post Traumatic, is out now.

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Shinoda will be performing songs from his recent 3-song EP and upcoming full-length album which are both titled Post-Traumatic.

Linkin Park have been inactive since Chester Bennington, who shared vocal duties with Shinoda, passed away last August. In spite of this, the band have not announced that they are breaking up.

Shinoda released an EP titled Post-traumatic in January, where he appears to reflect on his feelings and experiences following the death of Bennington.

While speaking about his upcoming performances, Shinoda said: “I’m looking forward to getting back to releasing music and touring,” Shinoda said. “Those things are ‘normal’ to me — it’s what my professional life has revolved around for years. And I know this will be different, so I’m excited to figure out what this new normal is.”

The dates for the shows are as follows:

August 7 — Hong Kong, China
August 9 — Bangkok, Thailand
August 18 — Osaka, Japan
August 19 — Tokyo, Japan

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Dua Lipa’s “Illusion” is definitely the week’s most talked-about new track, and it deserves all the attention coming its way. It’s the third single from her new album Radical Optimism, and it perfectly captures its nostalgic, Britpop-inspired sound.

This week also marked the release of Metro Boomin and Future’s second collaborative album We Still Don’t Trust You, and its title track made it to our list. Speaking of new albums, Maggie Rogers and Girl in Red made a comeback with their latest LPs this week and truly impressed us with their new sound.

It was a great week for female artists overall, and the songs that made the cut cover a wide range of different genres. In addition to Maggie Rogers and Girl in Red representing alternative pop-rock, R&B artists Chlöe, Tinashe, and Willow also made it to our list alongside the rising country star Tanner Adell.

Dua Lipa – “Illusion”

Linkin Park – “QWERTY”

Maggie Rogers – “The Kill”

Girl in Red – “I’m Back”

Future, Metro Boomin – “We Still Don’t Trust You”

WILLOW – “Big Feelings”

Suki Waterhouse – “My Fun”

Tinashe – “Nasty”

Tanner Adell – Whiskey Blues

Chlöe – “Boy Bye”

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SZA hasn’t dropped any new solo singles since sharing her acclaimed album SOS with the world, but that finally changed this week. She teased the release of its follow-up LANA with a new song “Saturn”, an escapist anthem about the lure of the unknown.

This week was pretty slow for new album releases, but some of our favorite indie artists still surprised us with new LPs. MGMT teased Loss of Life with “Dancing in Babylon” ft. Christine and the Queens, while Allie X promote her new album Girl with no Face with “Weird World”.

It was a great week for alternative and rock music in general, and we’ve seen several beloved bands share new music with the world. Kings of Leon dropped “Mustang”, Bleachers teased their next album with “Me Before You”, while Linkin Park paid homage to their late vocalist Chester Bennington by sharing the unreleased track “Friendly Fire”.

Norah Jones, Catfish and the Bottlemen, Kasabian, and Lil Durk also made it to our list, so grab your headphones and get ready to discover their new songs!

SZA – “Saturn”

Bleachers – “Me Before You”

Kings Of Leon – “Mustang”

Linkin Park – “Friendly Fire”

Norah Jones – “Staring at the Wall”

Allie X – “Weird World”

MGMT – “Dancing in Babylon” (feat. Christine and the Queens)

Catfish and the Bottlemen – “Showtime”

Kasabian – “Call”

Lil Durk – “Old Days”

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Members of Linkin Park have been on a hiatus since Bennington’s tragic passing in 2017, and they’ve only shared several previously unreleased tracks after their split. “Friendly Fire” is the latest, and it was originally recorded during the One More Light sessions.

The music video for this track was directed by Mark Fiore and mostly consists of footage from studio sessions and live performances. Bennington is prominently featured in the video, and “Friendly Fire” is one of the last songs he recorded with Linkin Park.

This will be one of the tracks featured on Linkin Park’s upcoming greatest hits album Papercuts, set to hit the shelves on April 12. It will feature songs released between 2000 and 2023, and Mike Shinoda said it was a joy to curate the tracklist.

“Each song in this collection is both a singular moment on our timeline and an evolving story that is as much ours as it is yours. From our first release ‘One Step Closer’ to the brand-new ‘Friendly Fire’, this tracklist spans all our chapters so far,” said Shinoda in a statement.

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Bushell shared the cover on Twitter over the weekend, saying that she discovered the nu-metal legends just recently and is impressed with “the keyboards and the DJ scratching.” She also praised the late vocalist Chester Bennington, writing that he “had such an incredible voice.”

It didn’t take long for the band to notice the cover, sharing it with six millions of their followers and writing: “Wow, this is awesome” in the caption.

Nandi Bushell started playing drums at the age of five, after hearing The Beatles’ “Hey Jude.” A year later, Bushell’s parents set up social media accounts to share her takes on various rock classics.

Her viral performances first drew the attention of Lenny Kravitz, who was impressed with her skills and invited her to play with him at The O2 Arena in 2019. Bushell’s covers were noticed by other musicians after that, with Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, and Muse’s Matt Bellamy being among those who publicly praised her.

In a recent interview, Bushell said that she wants to create her own music and is hoping to start a rock band Titans.

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The band already shared previously unknown track from 1999, titled “She Couldn’t,” which was made available on all major streaming platforms.

The nu-metal legends revealed that fans will be able to get their hands on a variety of special box sets, which will come in the form of CD, vinyl, and digital formats.

Depending on the box set, the release will contain the original Hybrid Theory album, B-Rarities from the era, remix record Reanimation, three full-length concerts, hours of previously unseen footage, demos, and much more.

“It’s incredible to think it’s been 20 years since Hybrid Theory was released,” said Linkin Park in a statement. “All gratitude to our fans who made this epic journey we started 20 years ago possible. We dedicate our music to you. We rededicate our Hybrid Theory to you.”

Linkin Park released Hybrid Theory in 2000 to commercial and critical acclaim. It reached No.2 in the U.S. while becoming the best-selling debut release since 1997’s Guns N’ Roses’ Appetite for Destruction. The group also won the Best Hard Rock Performance for “Crawling” at the 44th Grammy Awards.

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Since Bennington’s untimely death in 2017, the band has understandably been in an indefinite hiatus. Now though, the DJ Joe Hahn has revealed to Korea newspaper Yonhap that the band has been talking about the idea of reuniting in the future to make some more music together.

“The members are taking care of themselves and their families and are going through the problems in their own way,” Joe Hahn explained. “And… Now the band has started talking about making new music together.”

When prompted to give more details about the chance of new music, Hahn admitted that it will probably quite a long way off.

“Maybe in about 10 years? (Laughs) It might be sooner,” he said. “I don’t want to set a deadline. We just want to focus on the present and talk about music. We aren’t discussing detailed plans. I just want to go back to those days when I made music in the warehouse.”

Whenever or if ever Linkin Park does decide to make music again, they will have our full support.

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2009 was the year when Lady Gaga became the biggest pop star on the planet and the Black Eyed Peas ruled the summer charts. It also introduced us to Ke$ha and Justin Bieber and saw Miley Cyrus transforming from Disney princess to chart-topping hit maker.

Don’t even get us started on that moment when Kanye West interrupted Taylor Swift acceptance speech at MTV Video Music Awards because he believed Beyoncé was robbed. Long story short, 2009 was the most iconic year EVER and here are 10 songs we couldn’t stop listening to back in the day.

Beyoncé – Halo

Miley Cyrus – Party In The U.S.A.

Green Day – 21 Guns

Kelly Clarkson – My Life Would Suck Without You

Lily Allen – Not Fair

Lady Gaga – Bad Romance

Mumford & Sons – Little Lion Man

The Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling

Ke$ha – TiK ToK

Linkin Park – New Divide

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This is why we decided to remember some of the great records from 2000 that became 18-year-olds this year. Some of them are still getting a decent amount of recognition today, while others are maybe unfairly forgotten. Let’s check them out.

Limp Bizkit – Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water

You either think that Limp Bizkit’s third studio album Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water is either terrible or great. There is no in-between. While the critics didn’t look at this release in the most favorable way, the record ended up topping the US Billboard 200 charts and contains some of the band’s biggest hits like “Rollin’ (Air Raid Vehicle)” and “Take a Look Around.”

Linkin Park – Hybrid Theory

Yes, 18 years have passed since Linking Park released their acclaimed debut album. Hybrid Theory came out of nowhere and conquered the music world overnight with the band’s nu-metal sound bringing some fresh air to the stale music scene. The record still stands as the bestselling rock album of the 21st century.

OutKast – Stankonia

Hardly anyone was ready for Stankonia, OutKast’s fourth studio album. The duo of André 3000 and Big Boi created a lyrically perfect album which revolved around themes of politics, love, parenthood and much more while featuring numerous influences including funk, rave, gospel, and rock. The album received universal acclaim following its release and is now considered as one of the best hip-hop records of all time.

Eminem – The Marshall Mathers LP

Follow up to Eminem’s breakout record The Slim Shady LP, this album showed that the rappers earlier success wasn’t an accident. The Marshall Mathers LP won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album and became the fastest selling LP by any solo music artist in the United States. Now old enough to drink alcohol in Europe, it is still one of Eminem’s brightest moments.

Radiohead – Kid A

While Radiohead divided both the critics and the audience with this experimental album in 2000, Kid A went to achieve critical acclaim in later years. Some magazines and publications, like Rolling Stone, Pitchfork and the Times, even went so far to call it the greatest album of the decade. Tom York and the gang close to their finest.

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Linkin Park co-founder Mike Shinoda, who is currently promoting his first solo album Post Traumatic, recently had an interview with iHeartRadio’s Inside The Studio podcast and inevitably had to answer the question about the band’s future.

“I don’t know,” said Shinoda. “That’s the million-dollar question, right? And, unfortunately, I’ve said it before, but there aren’t any answers to that at this point. It would be awesome if there were. That would be really easy.”

Shinoda said that things would be much easier if they had found themselves in the situation AC/DC was in 1980.

“I wish we were in a Brian Johnson/Bon Scott situation where it’s, like, no, the guy, our best friend, who sang for the band who passed away, he literally said, ‘This is the guy,’ and we listened to the guy and the guy’s definitely the guy, and we all love hanging out with him, and we want to play with him. That didn’t happen to anybody else, really. That hasn’t happened to us,” he added.

Mike Shinoda also talked about the future of Linkin Park with Billboard, and said that the rest of the band will reveal the plans when “there’s a clear message.”

“We’ll let everybody know when there’s a clear message,” Shinoda told Billboard. “We all have different, varying degrees of interest and stamina right now, and I don’t want to hold anybody to anything they can’t or they don’t want to do. We still talk all the time. I joined Dave (Farrell) for his Member Guest podcast, and I just shot some emails back and forth to Joe [Hahn]. We’re always talking.”

Mike Shinoda released his first new music since Chester Bennington’s death in January 2018, presenting a three-song EP Post Traumatic. He then decided to make a full-length album, his first solo release. The album, also titled Post Traumatic, is out now.

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Shinoda will be performing songs from his recent 3-song EP and upcoming full-length album which are both titled Post-Traumatic.

Linkin Park have been inactive since Chester Bennington, who shared vocal duties with Shinoda, passed away last August. In spite of this, the band have not announced that they are breaking up.

Shinoda released an EP titled Post-traumatic in January, where he appears to reflect on his feelings and experiences following the death of Bennington.

While speaking about his upcoming performances, Shinoda said: “I’m looking forward to getting back to releasing music and touring,” Shinoda said. “Those things are ‘normal’ to me — it’s what my professional life has revolved around for years. And I know this will be different, so I’m excited to figure out what this new normal is.”

The dates for the shows are as follows:

August 7 — Hong Kong, China
August 9 — Bangkok, Thailand
August 18 — Osaka, Japan
August 19 — Tokyo, Japan

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