Music News with Tones and I and Demi Lovato

TONES AND I RELEASES ALBUM, ANNOUNCES TOUR: Tones And I has released her debut album, Welcome To The Madhouse, Friday (July 16th). The Australian artist also announced a full-scale North American headline tour set for March 2022. The four-week run kicks off on March 2nd at Showbox SoDo in Seattle, WA, and visits major markets coast-to-coast, eventually wrapping up with a performance on March 30th at HISTORY in Toronto, ON. The official presale for tickets goes live on Monday July 19th.

CONAN GRAY DROPS VIDEO FOR ‘PEOPLE WATCHING’: Conan Gray dropped the official music video for new single “People Watching” Friday (July 16th). The video, directed by Joe Mischo, finds Gray working in a coffee house watching everyone fall in love around him. He said in a press release: “The best place on earth to people watch is the cafe. The perfect couples talking about their mornings, students studying, sweet couples who’ve sat at the same table for decades. It’s wonderful. My best friend Ashley and I used to joke about the idea of us working at a cafe together, how terrible we’d be at our job because we’d get so distracted staring at people. So for the people watching video I brought Ashley to LA and thought I’d play the situation out, really show how much of a beautiful disaster it would be if I were to work at a cafe as I always say I should’ve.”

DEMI LOVATO PARTNERS WITH TALKSPACE: Demi Lovato is partnering with Talkspace to create a fund that will offer 1,000 months of free therapy as a part of The Talkspace Access Project. This new initiative is aimed at increasing access to therapy and mental health resources for underserved communities. The first recipient of the fund will the The Loveland foundation, an organization created to bring opportunity and healing to communities of color, especially to Black women and girls Lovato writes on Instagram, “It’s never been more important to provide access to mental health services, especially to those who need it most.”