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Duff McKagan Teases New Guns N' Roses Album: "Oh, It's Real"

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Following the wildly successful reunion for the Not In This Lifetime... Tour, GN'R's bassist provides a promising update on new material
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
Feb 25, 2019 - 5:26 pm

At this point, Guns N' Roses fans are used to two things: extended waits for new music and big surprises. The band's 2008 album, Chinese Democracy, came after a notorious 15-year hiatus, and their blockbuster 2016 reunion for the Not In This Lifetime... Tour shocked and delighted fans on its way to becoming the fourth-biggest tour ever. Questions about new music were bound to arise, and now GN'R bassist Duff McKagan is fanning the flames of anticipation for a new album.

"Oh, it’s real, but the fun part and the cool part about Guns N’ Roses is we don't really talk about it, and what happens next just happens,” McKagan said on the Trunk Nation radio show. "It’s never been that band that there’s a direct schedule of how we do things. I’ve heard some magnificent stuff that Axl [Rose] has, really cool stuff he’s been working on. So I’m excited about the possibilities with that, of course. I don’t mean to get anybody rabid. Our day will happen when it happens, that’s for sure.”

Earlier this month, the band's unmistakable guitarist Slash gave an equally hopeful yet murky glimpse into the new project. “Axl, Duff, myself and Richard [Fortus] have all talked about… there’s material and stuff going on already for a new record,” Slash said. “It’s just, with Guns N’ Roses, you don’t go, ‘Oh, there is a plan, and it’s gonna be like this,’ because that’s not how it works. So, basically, the only real answer to give is we’re hoping to put a new record out, and we’ll just see what happens when it happens.”

Guns N' Roses have been nominated for the Best Hard Rock Performance GRAMMY Award three times in their career. Last year the group released a sprawling 73-track box set to commemorate the anniversary of their 1987 debut, Appetite For Destruction. The collection, titled Locked N' Loaded, earned its art directors a GRAMMY nomination for Best Boxed Or Special Limited Edition Package and gives fans plenty of music to enjoy from the GN'R archive while they eagerly await additional details on a new album.

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Chance The Rapper's Debut Album Is Coming Soon... Prepare For 'The Big Day'

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Chance took to television to announce the follow up to his 2016 GRAMMY-winning mixtape 'Coloring Book' will arrive July 26
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
Jul 17, 2019 - 6:35 pm

GRAMMY winner Chance the Rapper appeared on "The Tonight Show" with Jimmy Fallon recently, where he revealed plans for his debut album, The Big Day. The album, which will drop July 26, is the follow up to his third mixtape, 2016's Coloring Book. 

Chance also showed the world the album artwork for his new project and, after some negotiations with Fallon, revealed the album title. 

Coloring Book earned the Chicago rapper a whopping six GRAMMY nominations plus a nod for Best New Artist, a category he won, along with Best Rap Performance for "No Problem" and Best Rap Album. 

The Big Day is currently available for pre-order via Chance's website, where you can also pick up his three mixtapes newly released on vinyl and pre-sale for his upcoming world tour.

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Above & Beyond Announce New Album 'Flow State' Inspired By Yoga & Mindfulness

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The anthemic dance group follow up last year's 'Common Ground' with a "panoramic journey of ambient compositions and warm, neo-classical soundscapes"
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
Jun 21, 2019 - 5:00 pm

Above & Beyond have always gone, well, above and beyond any musical limitations associated with dance music. From recording an acoustic album to releasing a single in 2018 called "Red Rocks" inspired by the Colorado amplitheatre of the same name, they pull inspiration from anywhere and channel it any way they please, always with their signature upbeat spin. Today, the English trio announced a new album inspired by yoga and mindfulness, Flow State, due out band’s Anjunabeats imprint on July 19.

According to a statement from the group, "Flow State is the culmination of a journey which began at Burning Man in 2014. A chance encounter on the Playa led to a spontaneous sunset yoga set on the infamous Robot Heart stage, guided by renowned yogi Elena Brower. A magical and spiritual experience for those present, it inspired Above & Beyond to begin opening their biggest global gigs with yoga sets, creating transformative experiences for 25,000 strong crowds at The Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington and Huntington Beach, California. The original Burning Man yoga set has subsequently gone on to amass over 2 million streams on Soundcloud."

The new album follow's 2018's highly acclaimed Common Ground., which earned the group their second GRAMMY nomination for Best Dance Recording for "Northern Soul."  

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“Our music has always been about getting in touch with, and understanding and accepting our emotions. After those amazing yoga sets, we realized that there is a bigger place for this more reflective music within our little universe,”  said A&B's Paavo Siljamaki. “With the Flow State project, we want to help bring people’s attention and focus towards helping themselves find better mental fitness and overall happiness in life. Through raised awareness, being more present, one can reach a state of flow: a creative and free state of mind where time, fear and stress dissipate.”

Flow State is a 49-minute experience the statement calls a "panoramic journey of ambient compositions and warm, neo-classical soundscapes that offer moments of meditative calm in these busy and often overwhelming times." A three-song sampler EP of Flow State drops today and coincides with International Yoga Day, and the album will be accompanied by a 13-minute talk on self-acceptance from Brower. The album is available now for pre-order.

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Spoon Find A Spooky Groove On New Song, Announce Greatest Hits Album

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Over 25 years into their career, the Austin rockers are at their finest with a new single and a compilation album on the way
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
Jun 19, 2019 - 10:24 am

Spoon always seem to have something up their sleeve. Today, Austin's reputable rock outfit droped a new single and lyric video, "No Bullets Spent," and announced a greatest hits album celebrating their remarkable 25+ years as a band, Everything Hits At Once, due out June 26.

"No Bullets Spent" explores a new sonic space for the band, placing their distinct punchy and melodic swagger in a smoke-filled back room of a noir film. The song will also be available as a limited edition 7”, with the A Series of Sneaks era track “Shake It Off” on the B-side. According to a statement, the song was recorded in Austin, Texas, during sessions that could point to a forthcoming new album.

Everything Hits At Once, the Greatest Hits of Spoon will feature 12 career-spanning tracks plus the new single, and the album artwork will be unique to digital and physical formats.

The even-better news is Spoon are headed out on tour with Beck and Cage The Elephant this summer, criss-crossing North America starting July 11, The "No Bullets Spent" 7” will be sold exclusively on tour at the band's shows and via the Matador and Spoon webstores. A full list of tour dates and ticket info can be found on the band's website.

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Madonna Announces New Album 'Madame X' And Drops Its First Single Featuring Maluma

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The Queen of Pop is back with her first new release since 2015 and details on her forthcoming fourteenth album
Nate Hertweck
GRAMMYs
Apr 17, 2019 - 4:21 pm

Madonna has reinvented herself yet again.. The seven-time GRAMMY winner annouced Madame X, her fourteenth studio album, will arrive June 14, and released its first single, “Medellín,” a Latin-infused pop romp featuring Colombian reggaeton star Maluma.

Madge also reveled the album's 13-song tracklist, including two features by Maluma and guest spots from Rae Sremmurd’s Swae Lee and Migos' Quavo, who she appeared with on his recent solo album Quavo Huncho.

The new single marks her first new release since 2015's Rebel Heart. The new album evidently took shape during Madonna's recent time spent in Portugal. 

“Lisbon is where my record was born,” Madonna said in a statement. “I found my tribe there and a magical world of incredible musicians that reinforced my belief that music across the world is truly all connected and is the soul of the universe.”

The songs of Madame X, according to the statement, “celebrate Madonna’s career-long affair with Latin music and culture as well as other global influences.” Past Latin-influenced hits include her 1986 single "La Isla Bonita" and 1987's "Who's That Girl."

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