Silk Sonic is back with a new single from their upcoming debut album “An Evening with Silk Sonic.” The duo, which consists of Anderson. Paak and Bruno Mars dropped a fitting vintage visual to pair with their new song “Smokin’ Out The Window. “ Paak and Mars are both shown in the video performing with […]
Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak began 2021 with the news that they’d joined forces as Silk Sonic for a brand new album. For quite some time, An Evening With Silk Sonic lacked a release date, but towards the end of the summer, they revealed the project was set to arrive at the top of next year. Thankfully, they changed their minds and pushed it up to November 12, giving us just one week until An Evening With Silk Sonic. Before that album is available for the world to hear, Bruno and .Paak return with a third and seemingly final single for us to enjoy with “Smokin’ Out The Window.”
The track is filled with funk and plenty of grooves, just like their previous two singles, but this time around the singers are filled with spite towards a former lover that walked out of them. “Smokin’ Out The Window” finds Bruno and .Paak venting about their former lovers’ actions and their disbelief towards being played in the name of love.
“Smokin’ Out The Window” comes after Silk Sonic began the road towards their new album with “Leave The Door Open,” their chart-topping and award-winning single. They returned months later with “Skate,” a fun single that brought their funk to a warm and tropic climate.
You can listen to “Smokin’ Out The Window” in the video above.
An Evening With Silk Sonic is out 11/12 via Atlantic Records. You can pre-save it here.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Elmo and his Sesame Street cohorts have welcomed a bunch of guests onto the program over the years, and as the show gets ready to enter its 52nd season, more new friends have been announced. The music world is well-represented in the upcoming season, as a recently shared trailer shows a clip featuring Jon Batiste singing with Elmo and a character who appears to be a garbage collector. We also get a glimpse of Kacey Musgraves sharing smiles with Elmo, Big Bird, and a handful of other characters.
Furthermore, USA Today reports that the 35-episode season will also feature Billie Eilish and Anderson .Paak. Eilish will appear alongside The Count, while .Paak is set to perform a song for a Martin Luther King Jr. Day episode. The new season starts streaming on HBO Max on November 11 before coming to PBS Kids in the fall of 2022.
Musgraves has forged a strong connection with the world of Sesame Street over the past year or so. Back in May 2020, she guested on The Not-Too-Late Show With Elmo to sing “Rubbie Ducky” alongside the red-furred host. Then, earlier this year, she was the face of a new line of Sesame Street clothes from Moschino.
Watch the Sesame Street trailer above.
In a hilarious faux press conference posted earlier today on Instagram, Anderson .Paak announced that he’s launching a brand new label. Dubbed Apesh*t, he explained that the name is partly an acronym for “Anderson .Paak Empire” and a reference to the fact that “we on some other sh*t.”
A press release indicated that Apeshit is indeed a partnership with Universal Music Group and that Paak’s focus is on “no gimmicks, no button-pushing, just raw talent.” An unusual success story himself, this effort definitely feels like he’s trying to find other multi-talented artists that have gone undiscovered the way he was until he broke through on Dr. Dre’s Compton album in 2015, and then with his own album Malibu in early 2016. “I’m looking for artists that can captivate an audience,” he elaborated in the Instagram video. “I want musicians. I want people that can play instruments and perform at the same time.”
Apesh*t has a website up already proclaiming itself as “A disruptive platform for the most captivating talent in the world,” as well as a new Instagram account with upwards of 6,000 followers on its first day of existence. “Do you plan on signing artists from Korea?” one of the actors in the Instagram clip asked in Korean. Paak replied in Korean with “Yes lawd!”
It feels like strategic timing to introduce Apeshit to the world as An Evening With Silk Sonic, Paak’s album with Bruno Mars as Silk Sonic, is set to arrive on November 11th. As the video comes to a close, he looks at the camera and delivers a parting thought on the venture: “The game is crazy man. This industry can be like a jungle. Snakes, tigers, rainy days, hot days…What I’m trying to say is look: If the industry is like the jungle? Well, I guess we got no choice but to go APESH*T!”
It looks like we’re all getting to spend An Evening With Silk Sonic a lot sooner than previously thought. After the duo consisting of pop-funk megastars Bruno Mars and Anderson .Paak declared their album delayed so they could touch up the “parts that need a little more… grease,” they made an abrupt about-face this afternoon, announcing the album’s title and moved-up release date, November 11, with a photo post featuring funk godfather Bootsy Collins.
#SilkSonic ALBUM OUT NOVEMBER 12!!!!
Pre-Save/Pre-Order: https://t.co/mrMvL9n5w2@AndersonPaak @Bootsy_Collins
+ a big happy birthday to @BrunoMars
pic.twitter.com/V29Vm5mm7l
— Silk Sonic (@silksonic) October 8, 2021
The anticipation for their album has been sky-high ever since they released their groovy debut single as a group, “Leave The Door Open” in March of this year. Since then, they’ve performed the chart-topping throwback at the 2021 Grammys, the iHeartRadio Music Awards, and the BET Awards. Their second single, “Skate,” was released in July, advancing the retro-futuristic sound of “Leave The Door Open” and proving that the duo had even more funk in store for their fans.
Silk Sonic also joked about adding golden-voiced R&B singer H.E.R. to their roster and even created a jingle for SelvaRey Rum. Meanwhile, it looks like their full album will hit just in time for the holidays.
An Evening With Silk Sonic is due 11/12 via Atlantic Records. You can pre-save it here.
Bruno Mars is a Warner Music artist. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Last month, Red Hot Chili Peppers had some fun announcing a tour, doing so with an off-kilter parody news broadcast. They didn’t announce the dates for the shows at the time, but now, in a follow-up video, they have.
KHOT news: RHCP tour stops have been announced! pic.twitter.com/nbMSz0RASO
— Red Hot ChiliPeppers (@ChiliPeppers) October 7, 2021
The band will travel the world between June and September next year, and they’ll be joined by a particularly impressive roster of openers: The Strokes, St. Vincent, ASAP Rocky, King Princess, Haim, Beck, Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals, and Thundercat.
Red Hot Chili Peppers’ most recent album is 2016’s The Getaway. They haven’t yet announced a new LP, but it wouldn’t be surprising to see them drop one before or around when these tour dates kick off next summer.
Check out the full list of tour dates below.
06/04/2022 — Seville, Spain @ Estadio La Cartuja De Sevilla =
06/07/2022 — Barcelona, Spain @ Estadi Olimpic =
06/10/2022 — Nijmegen, Netherlands @ Goffertpark =
06/15/2022 — Budapest, Hungary – Puskas Stadium =
06/18/2022 — Firenze, Italy @ Firenze Rocks
06/22/2022 — Manchester, UK @ Emirates Old Trafford =
06/25/2022 — London, UK @ London Stadium ~
06/29/2022 — Dublin, Ireland @ Marlay Park ~
07/01/2022 — Glasgow, UK @ Bellahouston Park ~
07/03/2022 — Leuven, Belgium @ Rock Werchter
07/05/2022 — Cologne, Germany @ RheinEnergieStadium =
07/08/2022 — Paris, France @ Stade de France ~
07/12/2022 — Hamburg, Germany @ Volksparkstadion =
07/23/2022 — Denver, CO @ Empower Field at Mile High *
07/27/2022 — San Diego, CA @ Petco Park *
07/29/2022 — Santa Clara, CA @ Levi’s Stadium +
07/31/2022 — Los Angeles, CA @ SoFi Stadium +
08/03/2022 — Seattle, WA @ T-Mobile Park ^
08/06/2022 — Las Vegas, NV @ Allegiant Stadium ^^
08/10/2022 — Atlanta, GA @ Truist Park ^
08/12/2022 — Nashville, TN @ Nissan Stadium ^
08/14/2022 — Detroit, MI @ Comerica Park ^
08/17/2022 — E. Rutherford, NJ @ Metlife Stadium ^
08/19/2022 — Chicago, IL @ Soldier Field ^
08/21/2022 — Toronto, ON @ Rogers Centre ^
08/30/2022 — Miami, FL @ Hard Rock Stadium ^
09/01/2022 — Charlotte, NC @ Bank of America Stadium ^
09/03/2022 — Philadelphia, PA @ Citizens Bank Park ^
09/08/2022 — Washington, DC @ Nationals Park ^
09/10/2022 — Boston, MA @ Fenway Park #
09/15/2022 — Orlando, FL @ Camping World Stadium ^
09/18/2022 — Arlington, TX @ Globe Life Field ^
= with ASAP Rocky and Thundercat
~ with Anderson .Paak & The Free Nationals and Thundercat
* with Haim and Thundercat
+ with Beck and Thundercat
^ with The Strokes and Thundercat
^^ with The Strokes and King Princess
# with St. Vincent and Thundercat
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
Grammy-winning rap artist Anderson .Paak is living the dream right now. The hip-hop crooner has stepped up to celebrate securing his very own MTV Video Music Awards Moon Person for his and singer Bruno Mars‘ “Leave the Door Open” smash. Anderson .Paak Freaks Out Over MTV VMAs Win AP hit up his Instagram page to […]
The true release Anderson .Paak fans are waiting is his and Bruno Mars’ upcoming joint album as Silk Sonic. The duo recently revealed the project would be delayed until 2022 as they focus on “touching up parts that need a little more… grease,” as they revealed in a recent interview with Rolling Stone. Until then, listeners will just have to enjoy their two singles, “Leave The Door Open” and “Skate,” but now they can also indulge in .Paak’s latest track, “Fire In The Sky.”
The singer’s new track is a dreamy effort that captures him riding shotgun with his soon-to-be romantic partner. .Paak sings about the time he met her and promised that she’d be his next lover as well as the moment that prediction became true. All in all, “Fire In The Sky” is a passionate tale about falling in love what happens after one does just that.
The track is one of 18 songs on the newly-released soundtrack for the Marvel film, Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings. The project also includes features from Rick Ross, Earthgang, Swae Lee, Jhene Aiko, Guapdad 4000, Rich Brian, and more.
You can press play on the new song in the video above.
Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings: The Album is out now via Marvel/Hollywood Records. Get it here.
Some artists covered here are Warner Music artists. Uproxx is an independent subsidiary of Warner Music Group.
West Coast rapper Game agrees with Anderson .Paak. In response to the R&B star’s new tattoo about posthumous music, the former G-Unit member has come forward with nothing but support. Game Agrees With Anderson .Paak’s Tattoo About Posthumous Music Game went strong with the same attitude as .Paak. He gave nothing but love for the […]
