A crowd stampede broke out at a GloRilla show in Rochester, New York on Sunday night (March 5), leaving one person dead and nine others injured, The Associated Press reports.
Rochester police lieutenant Nicholas Adams told CNN that officers arrived at around 11 pm following false reports of a shooting at Main Street Armory theater, where GloRilla was performing with Memphis rapper Finesse2tymes. Although they found no evidence to suggest a shooting had occurred, “the injuries appear to be as a result of a large crowd pushing towards the exits following accounts of individuals hearing what they believed to be gunshots,” Adams said.
A 33-year-old woman was killed in the incident and two other women remain in hospital in a critical condition. Seven others were also treated for non-life-threatening injuries.
“I’m just now hearing about what happened wtf,” GloRilla tweeted late Sunday night. “Praying everybody is ok.”
I’m just now hearing about what happened wtf 😢😢😢praying everybody is ok 🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
Barrie has released a new track from her upcoming 5K EP. It’s called ‘Empty’, and it follows the previously shared single ‘Races’. Give it a listen below.
“‘Empty’ is me reflecting on and getting angry about how so many of my thoughts aren’t my own; it’s a hazy mix of taste and ideas printed on my brain by my culture, my upbringing, people around me while in any impressionable age,” Barrie explained in a press release. “I’ve been trying to take back ownership of my thoughts, and access what I actually think and feel. I have to take responsibility for the things inside my head. The song started with the line “there is no act to private / that I don’t want you to like it,” which encapsulates the sentiment. It didn’t end up fitting in the song, but that kind of constant confusion of your own thoughts with other people’s thoughts is at the heart of it.”
The Tallest Man on Earth has released ‘Henry St.’, the title track from his forthcoming album. Following lead offering ‘Every Little Heart’, the song arrives with an accompanying visual filmed in Amsterdam, the second in a trilogy of videos directed by Jeroen Dankers for the record. Watch and listen below.
Commenting on the new single, Kristian Matsson said in a statement: “As individuals, we’re told that we should strive for success. But when we have it, it doesn’t solve anything. The song is about stepping away and thinking: why am I actually doing this?”
He added, “It’s the low point and the turnaround: the other songs are a reminder that I will always be a stubborn optimist, even at the darkest of times.” He was about to record the track as a solo piece, until Phil Cook came in on his first day in the studio. “I had Phil basically hanging over my shoulders at the piano while we were playing, and then he recorded it. He improvised that beautiful outro. When he did, our jaws dropped––I was in tears.”
Billie Marten has shared ‘I Can’t Get My Head Around You’, the final advance single from her upcoming album Drop Cherries. It follows the previously unveiled tracks ‘Nothing But Mine’ and ‘This Is How We Move’. Check it out below.
Speaking about ‘I Can’t Get My Head Around You’, Marten said in a statement: “This is very much a cruiser. One to turn up really loud on the long drive out of town or back home. I wrote the chorus way before the verse, had it for months and whenever I’d pick up a guitar it would reappear. The sentiment expresses a deep sense of homecoming, arrival at where you’d like to be, and also a slight implausibility of discovering a new era of gladness. I truly adore the band’s playing on this, so sweet, so natural, so alive.”
SBTRKT has announced his third album, The Rat Road, which is slated for release on May 5. It will include the previously shared single ‘FORWARD’ with LEILAH, as well as a new track, ‘Waiting’, which features Teezo Touchdown. Check it out below.
“This album has been my most sonically ambitious record to create – following my own musical path – which isn’t based on others’ perceptions of what SBTRKT should be,” SBTRKT said in a statement. “‘The Rat Road’ title is a play on the concept of ‘the rat race’. It’s partly based on my own challenging experiences within the music industry and life generally – though I realised the idea is not isolated from a much wider feeling of exhaustion – definitely true here in the UK with little sense of respite from ever increasing costs/ decreasing opportunity / and a bold divide and conquer mentality. There is the juxtaposition in the record between determination and hopelessness.”
Of the new song, he added: “I’m always listening to and looking out for new music – and came across a song of Teezo’s ‘I’m just a fan’ – in oct 21 – by serendipity he was heading to London the next week so we connected in person. In some ways – although personal to Teezo too – it perfectly vocalised everything I had been going through. It therefore felt like the most obvious song to then lead into my album with. Musically its an expansion on my previous records – with a purposefully wider and more layered sound. All instruments on this song and the album played, recorded, produced and mixed by me.”
Throughout the week, we update our Best New Songs playlist with the new releases that caught our attention the most, be it a single leading up to the release of an album or a newly unveiled deep cut. And each Monday, we round up the best new songs released over the past week (the eligibility period begins on Monday and ends Sunday night) in this best new music segment.
This week’s list includes ‘Barley’, the lead single off Water From Your Eyes’ upcoming album, which is at once dazzling and discordant; Lael Neale’s ‘In Verona’, which stretches her evocative, minimalist approach into a mesmerizing eight-minute epic filled with Shakespeare references; Drug Church’s fiery and infectious new track ‘Myopic’; ‘Idaho Alien’, the lead single from Youth Lagoon’s first album in seven years, a gentle meditation on drug use, memory, and violence; boygenius’ latest single, the breezily anthemic ‘Not Strong Enough’; Momma’s ‘Bang Bang’, a catchy, explosive song about great sex; ‘Tin Man’, the raucous, emotionally charged first single from feeble little horse’s next LP; and Dijon’s ‘coogie’, a small ember of emotion igniting into a flame.
Gary Rossington, the last surviving original member of Lynyrd Skynyrd, has died at the age of 71. No cause of death was provided, though the guitarist had been dealing with health issues over the past couple of decades, including a heart attack in 2015 and emergency heart surgery in 2021.
“It is with our deepest sympathy and sadness that we have to advise, that we lost our brother, friend, family member, songwriter and guitarist, Gary Rossington, today,” the band wrote on Facebook. “Gary is now with his Skynyrd brothers and family in heaven and playing it pretty, like he always does. Please keep Dale, Mary, Annie and the entire Rossington family in your prayers and respect the family’s privacy at this difficult time.”
In a 2016 interview with Billboard, Rossington talked about his decision to keep playing despite his health struggles. “It’s just in my blood, y’know?,” he said. “I’m just an old guitar player, and we’ve spent our whole loves and the 10,000 hours of working to understand how to play and do it. So I think once you’ve got something going for yourself you should keep it up and keep your craft going. When you retire, what’s next? I like to fish, but how much of that can you do, right? So I want to keep doing what I do now.”
Born in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1951, Rossington was a member of the band when it was a trio named Me, You, and Him, alongside bassist Larry Junstrom and drummer Bob Burns. After competing on rival baseball teams, they met singer Ronnie Van Zant and jammed together, forming a cover band called My Backyard. In 1969, the band became Lynyrd Skynyrd, whose debut album (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd) came out on MCA Records in 1973. It included the hits ‘Gimme Three Steps’, ‘Simple Man’, and ‘Tuesday’s Gone’, though Rossington’s most famous contribution was the slide guitar on the nearly-10 minute ‘Free Bird’. He also co-wrote classics such as ‘Sweet Home Alabama’, as well as ‘I Ain’t the One’, ‘Things Goin’ On’, ‘Don’t Ask Me No Questions’, and ‘Gimme Back My Bullets’.
Rossington is survived by his wife, singer Dale Krantz-Rossington, and his two daughters, Mary and Annie.
Glen ‘SPOT’ Lockett, the in-house producer and engineer for legendary punk label SST Records, has died. The news was confirmed by former SST co-owner Joe Carducci, who revealed in a Facebook post that SPOT died at a healthcare facility in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. He had been on oxygen in late 2021 after fibrosis had begun to impair his lung function “and was hoping for a lung transplant, but a stroke about three months ago put him in the hospital.” SPOT was 72.
Born Glen Lockett in Los Angeles in 1951, SPOT was raised by a Tuskegee Airman father who flew British Spitfires and a Native American mother. He grew up listening to a wide range of genres, from post-bepop jazz and surf rock to Motown and whatever was available on AM radio. He started playing guitar at 12, and at one point auditioned for Captain Beefheart, but it wasn’t until he helped build the Media Arts Studio in Hermosa Beach, California that he learned the ropes of recording and producing.
While waiting tables at a vegan restaurant, SPOT met Greg Ginn, who would later co-found SST Records and Black Flag. The two started jamming together in his band Panic, which eventually became Black Fag. After seeing a riot break out during an outdoor Black Flag performance, he decided he wanted to work behind the boards, producing their 1980 EP Jealous Again as well as 1981’s Damaged and 1984’s My War.
SPOT went on to work on classic records by the Minutemen (1981’s The Punch Line EP, 1983’s What Makes A Man Start Fires?, and 1983’s the Buzz or Howl Under The Influence Of Heat EP), Descendents’ (1982’s Milo Goes To College), Hüsker Dü (1983’s Everything Falls Apart and Metal Circus, 1984’s Zen Arcade), Misfits (1983’s Earth A.D. / Wolfs Blood) Saint Vitus, Meat Puppets, Big Boys, and more.
In addition to his work as a producer, SPOT was also a photographer and freelance writer. He wrote record reviews for the Los Angeles newspaper Easy Reader, and published a book of his photography titled Sounds of Two Eyes Opening in 2014.
In a 2018 interview with Easy Reader, SPOT said: “People have always asked, ‘When you’re recording a band, how do you make that moment happen?’ No, you don’t make that moment happen. You just set things in motion that will allow the thing to happen. It’s like theater I guess: Something is going to happen on that stage, but you’ve gotta make that stage invite the moment. And when it happens, you’ve got to recognize it.”
“SPOT was a musician and writer and photographer who spelled his name in all caps with a dot in the middle of the O,” Carducci wrote in his post. “His principal sideline was as a record producer-engineer and an architect of the natural approach to recording a band in the punk era. He started in Hermosa Beach playing and recording jazz and he took the primacy of live jazz playing into recording bands against prevailing attempts to soften or industrialize a back-to-basics arts movement in sound. When approaching the mixing board SPOT would assume an Elvis-like stance and then gesturing toward all the knobs he would say in a Louis Armstrong-like voice, ‘This is going to be gelatinous!’”
Mike Watt wrote on Twitter: “Good people, we just lost my old buddy Spotski, a terrible blow. He recorded the Minutemen’s first stuff, I go way back w/this man. Brother matt took this shot six years ago when Spotski came to visit our Pedro town… man, this is a terrible blow. I love you Spotski forever.”
The Beths appeared on CBS Saturday Morning today (March 4) to perform three songs from their 2022 LP Expert in a Dying Field: the title track, ‘When You Know You Know’, and ‘Your Side’. Watch it go down below.
The National appeared on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon last night (March 3) to perform their recent single ‘Tropic Morning News’. Watch it happen below.
‘Tropic Morning News’ is taken from the band’s upcoming album First Two Pages of Frankenstein, which features guest contributions from Taylor Swift, Sufjan Stevens, and Phoebe Bridgers. Following its announcement in January, the National shared another single called ‘New Order T-Shirt’. The LP is out April 28 via 4AD.
