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Yahoo
17-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Quavo, Eric Church, Rico Nasty, And All The Songs You Need to Know This Week
Welcome to our weekly rundown of the best new music — featuring big singles, key tracks from our favorite albums, and more. This week, Quavo communes with his late Migos partner Takeoff, Eric Church reanimates a hero from country music's past, and Rico Nasty comes through with a banger from her forthcoming album. Plus new music from Ed Sheeran, Mei Semones, Jorja Smith, Turnstile, and more. Quavo feat. Takeoff, 'Dope Boy Phone' (YouTube) More from Rolling Stone Miley Cyrus, André 3000, Tyla, and All the Songs You Need to Know This Week Eric Church Performs Live Debut of 'Hands of Time' at 2025 ACM Awards Takeoff's Mom Hosts Brunch of Joy and Grief for Mothers Scarred by Gun Violence Rico Nasty, 'Butterfly Kisses' (YouTube) KATSEYE, 'Gnarly' (YouTube) Eric Church, 'Johnny' (YouTube) Ed Sheeran, 'Old Phone' (YouTube) Yung Lean, 'I'm Your Dirt, I'm Your Love' (YouTube) Jorja Smith, 'The Way I Love You' (YouTube) Niko Rubio, 'Ring Ring' (YouTube) Ivan Cornejo, 'Me Prometí' (YouTube) Grupo Frontera feat. Netón Vega, 'La Buena Eras Tú' (YouTube) Gabito Ballesteros, 'Cleopatra' (YouTube) Car Seat Headrest, 'The Catastrophe (Good Luck With That, Man)' (YouTube) Turnstile, 'Seein Stars/Birds' (YouTube) PUP, 'Hallways' (YouTube) Blondshell, 'Event of a Fire' (YouTube) New Found Glory, '100%' (YouTube) Model/Actriz, 'Vespers' (YouTube) Mei Semones, 'Dangomushi' (YouTube) Jenny Hval, 'All Night Long' (YouTube) Hotline TNT, 'Candle' (YouTube) Brògeal, 'Friday On My Mind' (YouTube) Jawdropped, 'Fantasy' (YouTube) Suki Waterhouse, 'On This Love' (YouTube) Lord Huron, 'Nothing I Need' (YouTube) Olamide, Wizkid, 'Kai!' (YouTube) Mimi Webb and Meghan Trainor, 'Mind Reader' (YouTube) Aly & AJ, 'Lasso' (YouTube) Samara Cyn, 'Bad Brains' (YouTube) Fuerza Regida, 'Caperuza' (YouTube) Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Eric Church performs new music from 'Evangeline vs. The Machine' at ACM Awards 2025
Eric Church's performance of "Hands of Time" at the 60th annual Academy of Country Music Awards came just after the May 2 release of "Evangeline vs. The Machine," the most ambitious album of his storied career. Clad in a brown leather jacket and his trademark Ray-Ban sunglasses, Church delivered a rousing performance of the album's first single. The eight-track album features the accompaniment of a symphony-style orchestra, gospel choir and swampy, rock-style instrumentation. "Hands of Time" is the most solo-empowered and award-stage ready of the album's tracks. Notably, it name-checks artists who have inspired his latest, plus his eight prior critically-acclaimed releases, including Waylon Jennings, Tom Petty, Bob Seger and Frank Sinatra. Church said that the album celebrates artists' perpetual struggle against the music industry's fear-driven desire to make risk-averse music that "denies the faith artists need to have in their creative spirit to feel artistically or commercially fulfilled," in a press release. "Creativity is untamable and often requires faith for it to show itself. The Machine will often whisper, or even scream, doubt. Yet, the rewards were evident every time I stayed true to this path. An artist, musician, songwriter, or peer sending me a text, calling me, or stopping me somewhere in person and telling me (the risks I take) inspired don't think they could ever get away with that same risk themselves. The real truth is that they absolutely can and they absolutely should." Since its release, "Hands of Time" has climbed into the Top 30 at country radio after receiving Church's career-best 135 first-week station rotation additions. Church will also bring "Evangeline vs. The Machine" on the road to fans in arenas nationwide with his Free the Machine Tour. Tickets to most shows are available to the general public beginning May 9 at 10 a.m. local time (with the Philadelphia date on sale May 16). For more information, visit This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Eric Church performs music from new album at ACM Awards 2025
USA Today
02-05-2025
- Entertainment
- USA Today
Eric Church gets candid about music, politics and how Vegas festival shooting changed him
Eric Church gets candid about music, politics and how Vegas festival shooting changed him Show Caption Hide Caption Country singer Eric Church talks about his love for Western North Carolina Country singer Eric Church talks about his love for Western North Carolina, hard hit by Tropical Storm Helene, during a trip to Banner Elk Oct. 31, 2024. If you're talking to Eric Church, you've found a steadfast spirit devoted to the resonance of music. He isn't interested in churning out quick hits or viral bait for social media. He wants to make music that matters. His just-released album, 'Evangeline vs. the Machine,' his first since 2021, is flooded with meaning despite only being 36 minutes across eight songs In the opening 'Hands of Time,' Church, who turns 48 on May 3, acknowledges the realities of aging with a wink by namechecking songs from AC/DC, Bob Marley, Meat Loaf and other artists who spoke to him in his youth. The album's title spotlights the battle between technology's soullessness and a creative muse, which he explains in the song 'Evangeline' ('Take me down to the water/dunk my head into the river/raise your hands, all hail rock 'n' roll'). 'The way people consume music, it puts chains on creativity,' Church says from his home in Nashville. 'The more machines involved in our lives, whether tech or phones or AI, the less life we're able to experience.' Church will bring his omnipresent dark glasses and his new round of rock-rooted country songs along with favorites such as 'Smoke a Little Smoke," 'Springsteen,' and 'Drink in My Hand' to arenas around the country starting Sept. 12 in Pittsburgh. Tickets for the Free the Machine tour, with guests Elle King, Marcus King Band and Wesley Godwin, are on sale at 10 a.m. local time on May 9 via The concerts, Church says, will 'start out in a big way and move to me and a guitar … go from big to small.' In a thoughtful conversation, Church elaborated why he writes albums for his '10-year-old self,' is 'bored' by the chaos of politics and why he has no regrets after last year's polarizing Stagecoach performance. More: AC/DC storms back on Power Up tour, the band's first US trek in nearly a decade Question: Both 'Evangeline' and 'Hands of Time' have some great classic song references. Are those songs also about the importance of music in your life? Answer: One thousand percent. Music is the way I've dealt with anything good or bad in my life. I'm a fan first. Music was this siren for me at an early age and has always been the thing I've leaned on when I've had struggles, devastation, triumphs. A lot of those inspirational artists show up on this album. You think about the way they committed themselves to their art and I see that lacking today, that care and thoughtfulness. Do you think it's because the process of putting out music has changed? I do. A lot of artists nowadays, you write a song on Tuesday and put it out Friday. There's this flooding the zone. I'm an album kid and I still know it's the right way. We're going through a period that a lot of people aren't listening to an album front to back. I see this with my kids that music becomes something happening in the background versus something that really affects them emotionally and artistically. And it definitely wasn't just a background for you growing up. For me, it was something you committed yourself to and spent 45 minutes listening to that artist. You didn't have the TV on or weren't sitting there on your phone. When I make an album, I do it for my 10-year-old self who would have listened front to back. I don't have a desire to make a song or two, here or there. I have to have something to say. That's what inspires me. That's what gives me my why. Even if I'm the guy yelling at clouds, I don't care. I still believe if you're going to be a longtime artist in the business and have a loyal fan base who you can play to in your 20s and your 50s, you have to build your career around albums. The French horn that segues into 'Evangeline' sounds like an homage to the Rolling Stones' 'You Can't Always Get What You Want.' Is it? (Laughs) Two things I didn't see coming on this album were the French horn and the flute! Yeah, there's a lot of Stones and a lot of The Band, who I also love. A lot of the music on this record comes from the Stagecoach show last year, when instead of a regular show, it was just me and a choir. It might not have been the exact spot for it, but also the perfect spot because it got the biggest megaphone and was a one-of-a-kind show. At a festival where a lot was about 30,000 TikTokers and the whole 'look at me' stuff, we wanted to do something that would last for fans, and that's when I started thinking about the orchestral parts for the album. The enjoyment I got from that show was really doubling down on creativity. The more success you have, the more rope you have and I believe in using every strand of that rope. You wrote 'Johnny' after the Covenant School shooting in Nashville in 2023. Do you ever worry what some in your fan base will think about songs that take a stand against anything to do with guns? No. I've been very upfront about this. I'm an artist who played the deadliest mass shooting in history in Vegas (2017's Route 91 Harvest Festival, where 60 people were killed and more than 400 injured), and we lost a lot of fans at that. I own guns and am a Second Amendment guy, but I never really had a viewpoint one way or another until Vegas. When you leave something like that, it changes your viewpoints. I'm still a Second Amendment guy, but when it came to 'Johnny' and school shootings, I've always said about the Vegas shootings, those wounds don't heal, they scab over. When something else happens – and it is inevitable ‒ it rips the scabs off and they bleed again. And 'Johnny' came to you after dropping your sons (Boone, now 13, and Tennessee "Hawk", now 10) off at school? The school they go to is a mile from Covenant and the hardest thing I've ever done is drop them off the day after the shooting. I remember pulling off in the parking lot after they got out and I sat there and didn't want to leave. I looked to my left and to my right and there were four or five other parents doing the same thing. There was a helplessness and fear to that. As fate would have it, 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' was on the radio and the lyric that jumped out at me was, 'Johnny rosin up your bow and play your fiddle hard because hell has broke loose in Georgia and the devil deals the cards. If you win, you get this shiny fiddle made of gold. If you lose, the devil gets your soul.' I remember thinking, if it were only true that the devil was just in Georgia, but he's everywhere, wreaking havoc. Johnny kept rolling through my head, how we need that hero to fight the devil, and I went home and the song just fell out of me. More: Bryan Adams on new tour with Pat Benatar, 'the power' of Tina Turner and his rescue dog I'm sure it will resonate with a lot of people. I think it's my job. I'm not an overly political person. Politics, in general, bore me. It's nonsense and chaos and makes my eyes and ears bleed, no matter what side you're on. My viewpoints, a lot of times, are derived from things I've experienced and I did play Vegas and had fans killed and then played the Grand Ole Opry three days later and left seats open in memory of them. I've had those personal moments of loss and hurt, and when something else happens, like Covenant, the emotion was a little deeper and I was back in that same spot. You wrote 'Darkest Hour' before Hurricane Helene devastated part of your home state of North Carolina last year, but immediately released it and directed all royalties from the song to those affected. What was it like for you to play the benefit Concert for Carolina in October? We still spend half our year in North Carolina and the community we were in was destroyed. We had just recorded the song and I felt that this needs to be out now. So we gave it to the people in perpetuity and that led to the concert, which is the most important musical thing I've done as far as concerts. The emotion of that night, the artists who came together, the quality of the music for 80,000 people … that's when music is at its best, when it's making a difference.
Web Release
01-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Web Release
Revelle27 Drops Reflective New Single Capturing Nostalgia with 'Hands of Time'
By Editor_wr On May 1, 2025 Revelle27, the personal project of British DJ/producer Laurie Revell (also one half of the globally streamed duo Just Kiddin), today shares his evocative new single 'Hands of Time'. Following the emotionally charged 'Mother' on Selected which amassed over 10 million streams, this latest offering sees Revelle27 transform themes of longing and the past into an undeniably uplifting sonic experience. 'Hands of Time' beautifully blends rhythmic textures, joyful percussions, and spirited melodies with character and finesse. Revelle27 gently guides listeners into a reflective yet warm space reminiscent of a sun-drenched memory, where delicate melodies intertwine with spirited, joyful rhythms. Like a cherished photograph brought to life, 'Hands of Time' blends a tender nostalgia with an undercurrent of elevating energy, painting a sonic picture of moments longed for but embraced with a powerful optimism. Revelle27 elaborates on the inspiration behind the track: 'It's the feeling of wanting to go back and experience the past again, do the things we don't do so much any more, spend time again with the people we've lost, and cherish it even more this time, hoping maybe we could do things a little differently. It's OK to have regrets, it's OK to want to go back. I allow myself to feel these things sometimes, for a moment, in a daydream. Have a cry. Get it all out. Then come back to reality, in pursuit of embracing every moment.' The release of 'Hands of Time' also signifies a key moment in Revelle27's artistic evolution, arriving via his new independent label, Dance Music Therapy. This platform allows Laurie Revell to delve into more introspective and emotionally resonant soundscapes, blending profound reflection with the compelling energy of the dance floor, creating a unique space where vulnerability meets euphoria. Prev Post Get a Grip on Glow with SHEGLAM's Newest Prime & Set Spray Comments are closed.
Yahoo
24-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
5 Must-Hear New Country Songs: Eric Church, Lukas Nelson, Valerie June & More
This week's collection of new music features a somber new track from Eric Church, who has set his upcoming album, Evangeline Vs. The Machine, for May. Jeannie Seely welcomes Hannah Dasher and Tiera Kennedy for a new collaboration, while Lukas Nelson, Valerie June and Riley Roth offer new music. Check out all of these and more in Billboard's roundup of the best country, Americana and bluegrass songs of the week below. More from Billboard Playboi Carti Scores Second No. 1 on Billboard 200 With 'MUSIC' Selena Gomez Drops Narrated Version of 'I Said I Love You First' - Plus 'Stained,' an Unreleased Track From Eight Years Ago J Balvin Lights Up Miami With Back to the Rayo Tour Stop: Best Moments Eric Church, 'Hands of Time' Horns, guitars, passionate choral voices and Eric Church's signature swaggering voice swirl together on this new release written by Church and Scooter Carusoe. The song builds into a punchy, rock-fueled anthem as Church sings of turning to simple pleasures — particularly music — to fend off the impact of the passing decades. 'We ain't as young as we used to be, but young at heart is so easy/ When you let some loud guitars and words and rhymes handle the hands of time,' he sings, giving praise to artists including Kris Kristofferson, Tom Petty and Bob Seger; suitably, the sound of a ticking clock winds down the song. 'Hands of Time' is from Church's upcoming new album, Evangeline Vs. The Machine, out May 2. Lukas Nelson, 'Ain't Done' After parting ways with his longtime band Promise of the Real in 2024, Lukas Nelson transitions into his first solo outing with 'Ain't Done,' from his upcoming debut solo album American Romance, out June 20 on Sony Music Nashville. Written by Nelson and Aaron Raitiere, 'Ain't Done' pulls back on the hard-charging, full-band sound, opting for a more bare-bones sound bolstered by slabs of fiddle. He looks at life's various shifts with an even-keeled perspective, in a song that seems in some ways to mirror his own current season of musical transition. 'There's a guarantee with every evening sun/ Nothing lasts and God ain't done,' he sings. Though in a newly solo venture, Nelson's new music still brims with the insightful songwriting and grizzled voice he's known for. Valerie June, 'Sweet Things Just For You' Valerie June previews her upcoming album Owls, Omens and Oracles (out April 11 on Concord Records) with this musical collaboration with Norah Jones (on backing vocals) and producer M. Ward. Breezy and straightforward, this romantic track finds June singing about absorbing the light and positivity from a significant other, and desiring to mirror that love and affection back toward them. Plucked guitar bolsters this sweetly sung piece of sincere affection, which offers a charming glimpse into June's upcoming project. Jeannie Seely, Hannah Dasher and Tiera Kennedy, 'Who Needs You' 'Miss Country Soul' Jeannie Seely, who has performed more than 5,400 times on the Grand Ole Opry during her 58-year career, teams with a new generation of country artists — Tiera Kennedy and Hannah Dasher — on this twangy post-breakup anthem that feels perfectly suited for a girls' night out. Written by Seely, 'Who Needs You' features the three entertainers musing that 100-proof whiskey, a new romance and some moments of recreational smoking are all preferred alternatives to returning to an ex-lover. Seely's voice brings in a slice of gritty wisdom, Dasher's vocal purrs with sweetness, while Dasher offers up both humor and wit. 'Who Needs You' is one of a slate of collaborations Seely is releasing, including work with Mae Estes ('Let's Get Together') and Madeline Edwards ('Anyone Who Knows What Love is (Will Understand)'). Riley Roth, 'Right Where We Left Off' After releasing the 2024 TikTok wedding anthem 'Give Me Away,' Riley Roth returns with a sentimental new song centered on paying homage to unbreakable friendship. Time and distance can't chip away at the rock-solid bond these friends have forged over years of supporting each other through heartbreak, life pivots and a host of trials and triumphs. This sweetly sentimental track and churning, bubbly instrumentation fits her soft, conversational voice well. 'Right Where We Left Off' was written by Roth with Lauren McLamb and Kyle Schlienger. Best of Billboard Chart Rewind: In 1989, New Kids on the Block Were 'Hangin' Tough' at No. 1 Janet Jackson's Biggest Billboard Hot 100 Hits H.E.R. & Chris Brown 'Come Through' to No. 1 on Adult R&B Airplay Chart
