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Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
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PinkPantheress Announces New ‘Stateside' Single
PinkPantheress announced Friday (April 18) that she'll release her new single 'Stateside' next Friday, April 25. She partnered with [untitled], which describes itself as 'a sacred place for your work-in-progress music,' to tease a snippet of the track while depicting 'an accurate representation of how me and my friends listen to this song,' the English singer/songwriter/producer wrote on Instagram. More from Billboard Dance Moves: Skrillex, 2hollis, PinkPantheress & More Debut on Dance Charts With New Projects Kneecap End Coachella Set With Pro-Palestine Messages After Censorship Claims Snoop Dogg Drops 'Last Dance With Mary Jane' Video on 4/20 'Stateside' is set to arrive three weeks after her latest hit 'Tonight,' the lead single from her upcoming sophomore mixtape Fancy That, due May 9, 2025 via Parlophone and Warner Records. The saucy club bop debuted at No. 5 on Hot Dance/Pop Songs and No. 25 on Bubbling Under Hot 100 this week (chart dated April 19). She shared Fancy That's nine-song track list earlier this month and said in her Mixmag cover story, 'All the music sounds so big and grand and present, and I really wanted to make music where it sounds like a statement is being made with the songs. I feel like that was what appealed to me, and it's something that I wanted to take on board.' Fancy That will arrive two years after her debut studio album Heaven Knows, which included her Billboard Hot 100 No. 3 'Boy's a liar Pt. 2' collab with Ice Spice as a bonus track and reached No. 61 on the Billboard 200, and four years after her debut mixtape To Hell With It, which peaked at No. 73 on the Billboard 200. See PinkPantheress' new single announcement below. 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
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
PinkPantheress Goes ‘Stateside' With Her New Single: Stream It Now
PinkPantheress was born in Bath, England, and raised in Kent, but on Friday (April 25), she came 'Stateside' for her latest single. 'Stateside' arrives three weeks after 'Tonight,' the lead single from her upcoming mixtape, Fancy That, which is out May 9 via Parlophone and Warner Records. The club anthem, which samples Panic! At the Disco's 2008 track 'Do You Know What I'm Seeing?,' hit No. 5 on Hot Dance/Pop Songs and No. 25 on Bubbling Under Hot 100. She joked that Doechii 'chewed' her up when performing the 'Tonight' dance backstage at H&M's inaugural music festival in Los Angeles earlier this month. More from Billboard PinkPantheress Announces New 'Stateside' Single Flo Milli Gives Birth to Her First Child: 'Y'all Bett Not Play Bout Y'all Internet Nephew' Tina Knowles Recalls Putting Beyoncé & Solange in Therapy to Prevent a 'Wall' Forming Between Them Fancy That will include seven more songs, but in a Reddit thread last week, the English singer-songwriter-producer said 'Stateside' and 'Illegal' were the songs she enjoyed creating the most. 'I really wanted to make music where it sounds like a statement is being made with the songs. I feel like that was what appealed to me, and it's something that I wanted to take on board,' she said in her Mixmag cover story in March, adding that listening to Fatboy Slim and Groove Armada while making the project inspired 'the size of the music.' Fancy That is PinkPantheress' first project in two years since she dropped her debut studio album, Heaven Knows, which peaked at No. 61 on the Billboard 200. The 'Boy's a Liar' hitmaker dropped her debut mixtape To Hell With It back in 2021, and it reached No. 73 on the Billboard 200. Listen to 'Stateside' below. 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
Yahoo
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
PinkPantheress Drops ‘Fancy That': Stream It Now
PinkPantheress is officially back with her new nine-track mixtape Fancy That, out today (May 9) via Parlophone and Warner Records, marking her first full-length project since 2021's breakout To Hell With It. The release comes after a several-month break from the spotlight. In August 2024, the 24-year-old British artist, born Victoria Walker, canceled all remaining tour dates, including festival appearances and high-profile support slots with Olivia Rodrigo and Coldplay, to focus on her physical health. More from Billboard 'It's a Happy Time': Counting Crows Return With 'The Complete Sweets!' It's No Secret: Gracie Abrams Hits Three Non-Consecutive Weeks at ARIA No. 1 Motörhead to Mark 50th Anniversary With Release of 'Lost' 1976 Album 'It is with the heaviest heart that I will not be able to continue with the rest of my live shows this year,' she told fans at the time. 'It appears I have reached a wall which I am struggling to penetrate through.' Now, PinkPantheress says taking that time away was necessary for her well-being, despite pressure to push through. 'Really the least of my concerns was the money,' she told Apple Music's Zane Lowe. 'There was something that I needed to address and so I had to leave… But obviously, what goes around comes around, and I'll be back again.' That moment of pause, including what she called a turning point when she impulsively cut her hair, ultimately helped set the stage for Fancy That, which finds the singer leaning further into her experimental pop-meets-club sound. It comes following last month's release of the single 'Stateside', which arrived three weeks after 'Tonight,' the lead single from Fancy That. The club anthem, which samples Panic! At the Disco's 2008 track 'Do You Know What I'm Seeing?,' hit No. 5 on Hot Dance/Pop Songs and No. 25 on Bubbling Under Hot 100. She joked that Doechii 'chewed' her up when performing the 'Tonight' dance backstage at H&M's inaugural music festival in Los Angeles in April. Fancy That is now available to stream across all major platforms. 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
CBC
22-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CBC
Vancouver's Neptoon Records discovers rare Beatles audition recording
'It seemed like the Beatles were in the room,' says shop owner Rob Frith Last week, late at night, when Rob Frith was wrapping up a work session at a friend's studio, he decided to throw on one last tape for a listen. It was labelled "Beatles 60s demos" and had been sitting around Neptoon Records, one of Vancouver's most well-known record shops, unplayed. Frith, who owns the shop, had never listened to it, but had brought the recording to his friend's studio that night, knowing he had the right player for the tape. "I thought it was just a reel-to-reel tape that somebody had put bootleg things on," Frith said. But when the tape played, the quality of the sound was clear and bright. "It seemed like the Beatles were in the room," he said. Frith took a short video of the tape as it played and posted that clip on social media. Beatles fans were in awe, and messages started pouring in, Frith said. Based on his conversations and some research, Frith believes the tape is a rare, direct copy of a famous audition recording from the band's early days. Decca audition In the early 1960s, before the Beatles signed with Parlophone records and released Please Please Me, the band went searching for a label to sign with. Part of that search included recording an audition tape with Decca Studios in London, on Jan. 1, 1962. Image | beatles recording Caption: The owner of Neptoon Records, one of Vancouver's most well-known independent record shops, regularly acquires items from other peoples' music collections. (Rafferty Baker/CBC) Open Image in New Tab Decca ultimately passed on signing the fledgling group, but the audition tape survived, and was eventually made available as a bootleg album starting in the late 70s. Finding one of those would be fairly unremarkable, but when Frith and his friend Larry Hennessey played the tape that night they knew they had something special. Hennessey, who is experienced in music preservation, said he got a hint that the recording may be rare as soon as they took it out of the box and he saw white tape, known as leader tape, physically separating each song. "The way that's wound on the tape, you can see that it separates the tracks … it's not a fast copy or a bootleg," he said. Frith, who acquires new tapes from collections on a regular basis, said he isn't certain who he got the tape from. Left behind After Frith's post online with the clip made the rounds on social media, someone from the local recording scene reached out and connected Frith with a man who knew all about the tape's origin: Jack Herschorn. Herschorn, a former owner of Mushroom Records in Vancouver, brought the tape across the Atlantic in the early 70s. During a work trip to London, a producer Herschorn knew handed him the tape and suggested he could put out copies of it in North America. "I took it back and I thought about it quite a bit … I didn't want to put it out because I felt — I didn't think it was a totally moral thing to do," he said. "These guys, they're famous and they deserve to have the right royalties on it … it deserves to come out properly," Herschorn said, adding that he didn't personally know the Beatles at that time. He remembers listening to the tape, enjoying it, and wishing the world-famous musicians had been signed with his label instead. Herschorn held onto the tape, but only for a while. When he eventually left the business, he forgot the tape. "I should have took it, but it didn't work out that way. You know, I had other things going on. I wasn't thinking about it." Treasure preserved Thinking ahead to the future of the tape, Herschorn said his hope is that Frith approaches Paul McCartney and suggests they release the tape. Image | Larry Hennessey Vancouver Caption: Larry Hennessey has a music studio in Vancouver that has the equipment to play a wide variety of old tapes. Recently, his friend Rob Frith brought an old Beatles tape to play at the studio, only for them to discover it was a rare recording. (Rafferty Baker/CBC) Open Image in New Tab But Frith said he's not sure what's next. As a collector himself, he's not eager to sell it. He's also not about to release the recordings to the public on his own, but if Decca wanted a clean version of it, he'd give the label a copy, he said. Or if McCartney were to come to Neptoon Records in person, Frith said he would give it to him. Since there were bootlegs of the recording already out there, big Beatles fans have already heard the tracks, though not with this clarity, Frith said. "People say it could be really valuable. I don't know. I'm glad it's preserved," he said. Another option, Frith said, would be to host an event in Vancouver where people could come and listen to it, and then donate the proceeds to charity.
Chicago Tribune
22-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Chicago Tribune
Today in History: The Beatles release their first album
Today is Saturday, March 22, the 81st day of 2024. There are 284 days left in the year. Today in history: On March 22, 1963, The Beatles' debut album, 'Please Please Me,' was released in the United Kingdom on the Parlophone record label. Also on this date: In 1765, the British Parliament passed the Stamp Act to raise money from the American colonies, which fiercely resisted the tax. (The Stamp Act was repealed a year later.) In 1894, ice hockey's first Stanley Cup championship game was played, in which the Montreal Hockey Club defeated the Ottawa Hockey Club, 3-1. In 1933, during the Prohibition Era, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Cullen-Harrison Act, which allowed the sale of beer and wine with an alcohol content of 3.2%. (Prohibition would be fully repealed nine months later with the ratification of the 21st Amendment.) In 1941, the Grand Coulee hydroelectric dam in Washington state officially went into operation; it remains the largest capacity power station in the United States. In 1945, the Arab League was formed with the adoption of a charter in Cairo, Egypt. In 1972, in the Eisenstadt vs. Baird decision, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that unmarried people had the same right to possess and use contraception as did married people. In 1978, Karl Wallenda, the 73-year-old patriarch of 'The Flying Wallendas' high-wire act, fell to his death while attempting to walk a cable strung between two hotel towers in San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 1993, Intel Corp. unveiled the original Pentium computer chip. In 2019, former President Jimmy Carter became the longest-living chief executive in American history; at 94 years and 172 days, he exceeded the lifespan of the late former President George H.W. Bush. (Carter would die at age 100 in December 2024.) In 2021, 10 people were killed in a mass shooting at a King Soopers supermarket in Boulder, Colorado. (The shooter, Ahmad Alissa, was sentenced to life in prison without parole in September 2024.) Today's Birthdays: Artist Yayoi Kusama is 96. Actor William Shatner is 94. Former U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins is 84. Musician George Benson is 82. Writer James Patterson is 78. TV journalist Wolf Blitzer is 77. Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber is 77. Sportscaster Bob Costas is 73. Actor Lena Olin is 70. Singer-actor Stephanie Mills is 68. Actor Matthew Modine is 66. Football Hall of Famer Jim Covert is 65. Actor-comedian Keegan-Michael Key is 54. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-Calif., is 52. Actor Reese Witherspoon is 49. Actor Constance Wu is 43. Former NFL defensive end J.J. Watt is 36.
