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Jade Bird didn't aspire to prepare a nation album. The English-born, Austin-based singer-songwriter known for her big voice and strummy pop-Americana songs wanted to follow up her 2019 self-titled project with a collection that felt true to how trim evolved on tour. She also wanted to maintain her roots. "I'm a British girl," Bird tells MTV News. "I'm into nation, however I didn't thi..
Read MoreBy Mia Hughes Elliott Douglas isn’t sure why the phrase “Say Things That Matter” popped into his head. It came to him suddenly as soon as he was in an airport before the pandemic, flying house to Los Angeles immediately after visiting family member. The rising artist otherwise referred to as M.A.G.S. (which doesn’t really stand for anything, yet he jokes that it’s Pot and G..
Read MoreOn Sunday (August 8), the 2020 Tokyo Olympics came to a close. Luckily, the Jonas Brothers couldn’t have brought a more brilliant efficiency for the occasion with their upbeat hit single “Remember This.” because the musical group played, a montage of highlights from the Olympics simultaneously played over the brothers singing from a rooftop. It was broadcast on NBC as piece of ..
Read MoreBy Grant Sharples The image on Kississippi’s new album cover is striking: a chewed-up segment of pink bubblegum in an engagement-ring box. It’s the epitome of songwriter Zoe Renyolds’s music, which brims with neon overtones and dismal subtexts, and the bubblegum is a visual representation of the overt pop direction she took with this record. The Philadelphia-based artist says t..
Read More“I didn’t listen to punk music growing up at all.” That’s become one of the more interesting revelations about Jxdn, the 20-year-old ascendent pop-punk superstar bolstered by TikTok and boosted into the pop sphere by Blink-182’s Travis Barker. For the singer place on Earth Jaden Hossler, MTV’s Push artist for August 2021, the time since then has been a fast education. Wh..
Read MoreBy Nicole Briese It’s been 23 months since the chain-link gates of Lollapalooza last opened to concert-goers in Chicago’s Grant Park, and festival cofounder Perry Farrell is feeling just like the rest of us about the return of live music: carefully excited. “I wish to party, to put it simply,” Farrell tells MTV News on a July afternoon. “We’re getting through this with ea..
Read MoreMiley Cyrus rocked the stage on the 4th of July with a fitting cover of the Cocteau Twins’s “Heaven or Las Vegas” at the Resorts World casino in Las Vegas. At the grand initial of the new resort, Cyrus introduces the song with a joke referencing some of her younger fans being annoyed that she keeps covering old songs. “I’m gonna sing a song that no one fucking knows,” Cyr..
Read MoreBy Aliya Chaudhry A day soon following the release of Jxdn’s electrifying debut single “Comatose” in March 2020, Travis Barker got in touch. Jxdn, whose real name is Jaden Hossler and who styles his efficiency moniker in all lowercase, was at that point known primarily for his dancing and lip-syncing videos on TikTok. He was, case in point, attending the creator convention Play..
Read MoreTaylor Swift isn’t leaving her indie-folk phase anytime soon. Indie musical group Big Red Machine, made up of Swift’s Folklore and Evermore collaborators Aaron Dessner and Justin Vernon, reported today (June 29) that their upcoming second studio album, How Long Do you know It’s Gonna Last?, will be released on August 27, and Swift will visitor on two of the album’s tracks, ..
Read MoreBy Grant Sharples As soon as Mia Berrin moved to New York to study acting, she rapidly realized it was a mistake. It wasn’t compatible with who Berrin is as a person, and she didn’t like the way she was treated. So she started playing in a punk musical group, skipping classes, and “figuring shit out,” as she tells MTV News. She released a EP called Hate It Here in 2017, yet t..
Read MoreBy Harron Walker Teddy Geiger entered March of last year the same way she spends most of her time: squirreled away in the studio making music with other artists. She was playing around with some old, unfinished demos she recorded over a decade prior, back any time once she was living in Queens in the early years of her career. The musical group she was working with, the indie foursom..
Read MoreMiley Cyrus and Maren Morris are digging the “Dancing Queen” while in Pride Month. On Wednesday (June 23), Miley posted a sneak-peek clip of her and Morris performing a cover of the iconic ABBA hit for the Miley Cyrus Presents Stand By You concert. Both are donning matching a magenta wardrobe, and Cyrus refers to her singing partner as “Queen Maren” at one point. https://twi..
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