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Max Kerman from the Arkells and K.Flay call in for an interview with  iHeartRadio's Shannon Burns about their new song "You Can Get it" 

They take the reins in this interview, and ask Shannon a couple questions about herself. 

Akrells and K.Flay discuss the idea of not taking life for granted, and how that relates to the new song. 

Max and Kristine share stories of important moments in their careers where they learned to stop doubting themselves. 

Listen to their new song "You Can Get it" NOW on iHeartNewMusic FREE on the iHeartRadio App: https://www.iheart.com/live/iheart-ne...​

Takis calls in to talk to iHeartRadio's Shannon Burns about the premiere for his upcoming acoustic/live video for his track “All Time” ft. Jamie Fine and Brandyn Burnette!

Takis tells Shannon about how he got started in the industry by working at his local radio station. 

He tells Shannon about how he feels like this has been a full circle moment, and how grateful he is for how his life has played out over the last couple of years. 

Takis talks about working with Jaime Fine, and how big of a fan he is of her. He tells Shannon about what it was like collaborating with her on "All Time" 

Finally he tells Shannon about who his dream collaborators are.

Dan Reynolds from Imagine Dragons calls in to talk to iHeartRadio's Shannon Burns about new single Follow You, Living in the moment and being an ally for the LGBTQ+ community 

He talks to Shannon about the various events that occurred over the last 3 years, and how they have had a huge influence on how he views life and the music he makes. 

Dan Reynolds talks about incorporating more vulnerability in Imagine Dragons' music. 

He talks about the various way's people in his life have pushed him to go further with his music, and push him to be more vulnerable. 

Dan Reynolds of Imagine Dragons tells Shannon about the honestly in the song "Follow You" 

He talks to Shannon about his kids loving Imagine Dragons. 

Finally Shannon thanks Dan for being such a great ally for the LGTBQ+ community. 

Listen to "Follow You" on  iHeartNewMusic FREE on the iHeartRadio App: https://www.iheart.com/live/iheart-new-music-8852/

Jacoby Shaddix calls in to talk to iHeartRadio’s Jason Rockman about Papa Roach’s Greatest Hits Vol.2: The Better Noise Years. 

Jacoby Shaddix talks about what he thinks has kept Papa Roach so relevant over the years and believes it’s the changes that the band has gone through collectively and individually has kept them so relevant. 

Jacoby talks about Greatest Hits Vol. 2 and how the band ultimately wanted to give the fans something they haven’t heard before. 

He talks about a new album in the works, and what the process of writing the album was like. 

Jacoby talks about the importance of the experimental phase of the creative process. 

Finally He talks to Jason about how excited he is to play live shows again, and how important balance is in his life now more than ever. 

Listen to Papa Roach on the iHeartRadio App: https://www.iheart.com/artist/papa-roach-7772/

Robin Zander from Cheap Trick calls in to talk to iHeartRadio's Jason Rockman about the bands 20th studio album  'In Another World'  coming out April 9th. 

He talks to Jason about the bands love for what they do, and how to they always do their best to focus on the positive side of life especially in today's climate. 

Robin talks about having a year off, and how excited he is to get back to playing live shows. 

Robin talks about covering John Lennon's "Give Me Some Truth", and how it all came to be. 

Jason tells Robin about the impact he's had in his life from an early age through Cheap Trick. 

Finally Robin talks about Music Producer Julian Raymond, who is dubbed the 5th member of Cheap Trick. 

Listen to Cheap Trick on the iHeartRadio App: https://www.iheart.com/artist/cheap-trick-35148/ 

What to Expect From Cheap Trick's 20TH STUDIO ALBUM, 'In Another World' | Robin Zander Interview

Serj Tankian calls in to talk to iHeartRadio's Jason Rockman to talk about the release of EP "Elasticity".

Serj Tankian lets us inside his headspace to tell us about how the short film idea for Elasticity came to be, and the topics discussed on the EP of the same name.

Serj tells us about his punk rock ethos around the inspiration for Electric Yerevan, and how they were originally planned as System of a Down songs that he decided to take out as his own.

Serj Tankian tells us about his passion for scoring for pictures, including his own paintings!

Serj tells us about scoring for film, and how the limitations around scoring can actually inspire a musical palate.

Serj and Jason geek out about musical scores for a bit and Serj explains how the latest System of the Down songs including 'Protect The Land' came to be - and even though the band isn't recording often anymore - they still see each other.

Interview | Inside Serj's MIND for 'Elasticity' and Electric Yerevan, and Staying in Touch with System of a Down

Tomorrow is the big day that we are getting #JustinBieber’s brand new album called #Justice. 

 

The French dance duo named Justice have sent Justin Bieber a cease and desist notice over his album art, as they claim that Justin used their trademarked cross logo. 

The duo and their fans noticed the similarities as soon as Justin released the new album back on February 26th, some fans even getting confused enough to think that Justice was doing a collab with Justin. They then sent the cease and desist letter on March 10th, calling for Justin to change the logo. Since they do have the trademark for the image it would be illegal for Justin to continue using it especially since he would be making money off the album and any affiliated merch. The letter also included an email from someone on Justin’s team from last April where they actually reached out to Justice asking to be connected with the designer who created Justice’s logo. The meeting with the designer never ended up happening but this shows that Justin’s team knew about the Justice logo and had it in mind when creating the look for Justin’s new album. That might not look too good for Justin’s side of things.

Justin Bieber has also just been announced to perform at the Jake Paul v Ben Askren fight, alongside Diplo, Saweetie, Doja Cat and more.

Amidst the backlash over #CardiB and Megan Thee Stallion’s WAP performance at the Grammys conservative commentator Candace Owens has weighed in on it. 

Owens is the same woman who raised eyebrows before after saying that Harry Styles shouldn’t be wearing a dress on the cover of Vogue. She tweeted about the performance saying that millions of young girls follow Cardi and this is the worst she’s seen her. She called on Cardi to “do better”. This sparked a huge back and forth between Cardi and Candace on Twitter. 

Cardi responded thanking Candace for speaking about the performance because it would result in more publicity for Cardi and more money in her pocket. 

The exchange ended with Candace saying she was planning on suing Cardi. 

UPDATE: Cardi B has deleted many of her tweets to Candace Owens, calling the feud ‘boring’ https://twitter.com/iamcardib/status/1372603203544436738

Demi Lovato’s docu-series doesn’t come out until next week but we are finding out a lot about her before it does. 

Demi is now alleging that she was sexually assaulted by the drug dealer that gave her the drugs that lead to her overdose in 2018. She said "I didn’t just overdose. I was taken advantage of," she said. "When they found me, I was naked, blue. I was literally left for dead after he took advantage of me.” 

This wasn’t her only alleged sexual assault encounter either. She said that she was sexually assaulted when working on the Disney channel in the late 2000s by someone she had to see all the time. 

We are going to find out all the details on these encounters and more from Demi in the docu-series Dancing With The Devil coming out on March 23rd. 

#BTS has set yet another world record! This is one that they actually set last year but now it has officially been recognized by the Guinness world record. They had the 'most simultaneous viewers for a music video on YouTube Premieres' for the video for their song Dynamite, bringing in over 3 million views during the premiere. 

Sources for today’s Stories: https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/14376338/justin-bieber-snoop-dogg-jake-paul-ben-askren/ 

https://www.iheartradio.ca/news/demi-lovato-opens-up-about-sexual-assaults-1.14784442 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/mar/18/dance-duo-justice-begin-legal-action-against-justin-bieber-over-crucifix-design 

https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/543850-cardi-b-and-candace-owens-threaten-to-sue-each-other-after 

 

 

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#TheGrammys  performance of WAP by #CardiB and #MeganTheeStallion got everyone talking. - Now the The U.S.-based National Center on Sexual Exploitation has slammed CBS for broadcasting the performance that they are comparing to “hardcore pornography”. They claimed the whole thing was a “glamorization of stripping and prostitution to be broadcast in front of a national audience – a portion of which were children – for no other reason than for TV ratings,” according to them. 

The whole news about #JenniferLopez and #AlexRodriguez has been pretty confusing. First the news broke that the two of them have split after being together for four years and engaged for two. After that spread like wild fire a statement came out from them directly that went to TMZ and said “We are working through some things” so they have not in fact broken up like it was reported. 

JLo is currently in in the Dominican Republic shooting a movie and Alex Rodriquez headed down there yesterday to spend time with her. He posted on his Instagram story saying “Happy Monday. New week,. New day. Onward. Upward." JLo addressed the rumours of the split in a recent Tiktok where there were different headlines that appeared on screen like the fact that she’s gotten botox and that her and Alex Rodriquez broke up and then it cut to a clip of her saying “You’re Dumb” insinuating that they are all false.  (1:21) 

Could there be a Tiktok category at next year’s Grammy Awards? After the award show on Sunday TikTok tweeted at the Grammys saying “aye let’s duet on an award next year” which the Grammys retweeted which has us believing there could be a big collab coming. 

We have seen TikTok become a huge platform for new artists. It has proven that you don’t even need to be signed to a label or have a huge audience in order to have your music heard since the app has the ability to boost it out to millions of people. And the better a song is, the more it gets shared. We’ve seen the song “Roxanne” by Arizona Zervas, “Blueberry Faygo” by Lil Mosey, “I’m Not Pretty” recently by Jessie all see success because of the song blowing up on TikTok, just to name a few.  

#Drake has made history as the first artist to ever have three songs debut in the top three positions of the Billboard Hot 100. 

 

He released an EP called Scary Hours 2 which had three songs, all of which were on the chart. “What’s Next” the song he released as a single with a music video took the number one spot followed by “Wants and Needs “ and “Lemon Pepper Freestyle” featuring #RickRoss. 

 

#ArianaGrande and #TheBeatles are the only others that have had had the top three positions, Drake being the only one who has debuted with all three.

Articles by John R. Kennedy: 

https://www.iheartradio.ca/news/cbs-slammed-for-megan-thee-stallion-cardi-b-grammys-performance-1.14776421  

https://www.iheartradio.ca/news/drake-sets-another-u-s-chart-record-1.14777841 

https://www.iheartradio.ca/news/jennifer-lopez-alex-rodriguez-working-through-some-things-1.14757958

Demi Lovato has told Glamour Magazine that she didn’t realize exactly how queer she is until after her breakup to fiancé Max Ehrich. 

The two of them got together last March, were engaged by July and broke up last September. In an interview with Glamour she said that being engaged to a man and not having that work out was a huge sign for her. 

She felt like she could finally live her truth. She went on to say ““I know who I am and what I am, but I’m just waiting until a specific timeline to come out to the world as what I am.” 

We are about to learn even more about #DemiLovato with her docs-series coming out on March 23rd on YouTube. She also said we can expect a new album from her this year. (0:22)

After several years #Adele and her now ex-husband Simon Konecki have finalized their divorce. The two of them split up in 2019 and have been working through what is being alleged to be an over $200 million settlement. According to the documents, they have reached the terms of their split and Adele will not be paying spousal support to her ex. They will be sharing custody of their 8 year old son. Adele and Simon live currently live next door to one another in Los Angeles in order to best co-parent their child. (1:01)

#CardiB has some career advice for Selena Gomez. This comes after Selena Gomez explained in a Vogue interview that she is considering retiring from music. She explained that she would probably give it one more try before giving it up for good. 

Cardi B went to Twitter to say that Selena needs to go to through a “bad bitch era” before stepping away from music. She said  "She makes good music & her fans love her. I think she needs one more Era. An edgy one that no one ever seen her as. I would love to give her some ideas.”

I feel like I would love to see Selena go over to Cardi’s house to get a “bad bitch” makeover. Even if it’s just for the day. Can we make that happen? (1:37)

#JustinBieber has teamed up with Crocs once again, a second partnership between Crocs and his company Drew House. The crocs are lavender and come with Jibbitz that match the whole vibe of Drew. The shoes also come with a pair of Drew House branded socks, which Justin says is the best way to wear them. They are going to be available to buy on March 16h, three days before we are getting the new album Justice from Justin.

Justin has also been taking the time to show his love for his favourite hockey team the Toronto Maple Leafs. He released a video on his YouTube that shows a montage of footage of the hockey team, set to his song Hold On. He titled it a Maple Leafs Love Letter. (2:14)

Articles by John R. Kennedy: 

https://www.iheartradio.ca/news/selena-gomez-hints-at-stepping-away-from-music-1.14742617

https://www.iheartradio.ca/news/cardi-b-says-selena-gomez-needs-to-do-something-edgy-1.14749283

https://www.iheartradio.ca/news/demi-lovato-says-she-s-too-queer-to-be-with-a-man-1.14749844

https://www.iheartradio.ca/news/watch-justin-bieber-tells-toronto-maple-leafs-to-hold-on-1.14747344 

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-56358997 

Selena Gomez on Politics, Faith, and Making the Music of Her Career

BY JIA TOLENTINO https://www.vogue.com/article/selena-gomez-cover-april-2021 

Demi Lovato Is Finally Home By Christopher Rosa

https://www.glamour.com/story/demi-lovato-march-cover-shoot  

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David Usher from Moist, calls in to talk to Jason about the return of Moist, and new single "Tarantino" 

David talks about the Tarantino music video and the inspiration behind it. 

He talks about how the Moist reunion came about, what a second wave of success feels like. 

Finally, David talks about the "Saints and Sinners Tour" that has been postponed twice, and how excited he is to perform live again. 

Listen to Moist on the iHeartRadio App: https://www.iheart.com/artist/moist-87632/