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British Festival Directors Want Government to Require COVID-19 Vaccination for Event Attendance
Tickets to live music events in Great Britain have sold like hotcakes since the British government’s recent rollout plan for recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Though the plan is liable to change based on the assessment of its efficiency over time, fans are hopeful that normalized live music events will resume in June 2021. British festival directors and organizers are skeptical, however, and worried about the potential consequences of a restriction-free post-pandemic landscape. According to The Guardian, many of those organizers are petitioning for the government to mandate vaccination status in order for the public to attend in-person mass gatherings. “A lot of us want to urge government to follow the example set up already in other areas, like travel, where peop...
Audius’ $AUDIO Token Reaches All-Time High, But Payouts are Still to Come
Music streaming service Audius has seen a recent surge of popularity since its beta phase in October 2019 and ensuing public launch a year later. The controversial blockchain-powered platform’s cryptocurrency token, $AUDIO, has hit a new all-time high after Audius surpassed 3 million active users, according to Cointelegraph. The report claims that the beginning of March 2021 saw the price of $AUDIO go from a low of $0.38 to a new all-time high of $0.79 on March 4th, and spike from $3 million to a record $55 million trading volume. While that’s certainly good news for the project and its decentralized approach to music streaming, Audius still hasn’t publicly shared information on how or when its users will obtain $AUDIO. According to an&...
CANNIBAL CORPSE Drummer Doesn’t Know If He Will Get COVID-19 Vaccine: ‘I’m Weird About Being Forced To Take Something’
In a new interview with Finland’s Kaaos TV, drummer Paul Mazurkiewicz of veteran Floridian death metallers CANNIBAL CORPSE was asked if he will get the COVID-19 vaccine to help stop the novel coronavirus from spreading. He responded (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I don’t know. I’m not one for that kind of stuff, so I don’t know. I think we may have no choice, maybe, being who we are, kind of a thing. Before all this, obviously, going to certain countries, [they would tell us], ‘Hey, you need that vaccine, you need that shot,’ because of the diseases that may be happening — like in South America, or something like that — or you’re not going to that country. So you had no choice. So that may be the reason for us to have to get the vaccine,...
IRON MAIDEN’s ADRIAN SMITH On His Guest Appearance On HEAR ‘N AID’s ‘Stars’: ‘I Wasn’t Looking Forward To It’
In a recent interview with RockSverige, IRON MAIDEN guitarist Adrian Smith looked back on his involvement with “Stars”, the 1985 charity single for famine relief released under the HEAR ‘N AID banner. On May 20 and May 21, 1985, 40 artists from the metal community gathered at A&M Records Studios in Hollywood, California to participate in the making of a record called “Stars” as a part of a very special fundraising project spearheaded by Ronnie James Dio known as HEAR ‘N AID. The “Stars” single and a video documentary on the making of the record was used to raise money for famine relief efforts in Africa and around the world. These 40 artists — including members of MÖTLEY CRÜE, JUDAS PRIEST, IRON MAIDEN, QUIET RIOT, TWISTED SISTER, BLUE ÖY...
KORN’s BRIAN ‘HEAD’ WELCH Admits He ‘Went Too Far’ With His Obsession With Christianity
During a new appearance on MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn‘s “No Fuckin’ Regrets With Robb Flynn” podcast, Brian “Head” Welch — who left KORN in early 2005, at the same time announcing that he kicked his addictions to drugs and alcohol by becoming a born-again Christian — spoke about the impact his new awareness has had on his life, his family and the influential rock act that he co-founded nearly 30 years ago. Asked if he thinks religion became his “new addiction” after his exit from KORN, Welch said (see video below): “The crazy thing is I had an experience with something from another dimension. And it wasn’t the religion — going to church and being a good boy — it was, like, I felt something come into my house, and I can’...
‘Cobra Kai’ Star TANNER BUCHANAN Was In A Progressive Death Metal Band: ‘We Played A Lot Of GOJIRA Covers’
Actor Tanner Buchanan, who portrays Johnny Lawrence‘s son Robby Keene on the acclaimed Netflix series “Cobra Kai”, has revealed that he was once a member of a progressive death metal band called ACIDOSIS. Speaking to At Large magazine, he said that it was a bandmate’s choice to name the group after a condition in which there is too much acid in the body fluids. “My friend in the band says, I have a good name: ACIDOSIS,” he recalled. “So the band was ACIDOSIS. We played a lot of GOJIRA covers, which I’m super excited about, because ‘Cobra Kai’ posted the show playlists on Instagram. Now my all-time favorite band is PANTERA. But my second all-time is GOJIRA, a French-prog metal band. They ended up following me on Instagram and I had...
Watch Foo Fighters Cover Andy Gibb’s ‘Shadow Dancing’ During Rock-N-Relief Livestream
Foo Fighters joined a large list of bands performing to raise money for vaccination efforts in Los Angeles over the weekend during Linda Perry’s two-day Rock-N-Relief benefit livestream. The band began their pre-recorded set with “Making a Fire” off their recently released album, Medicine at Midnight, and then turned the stage into a disco with a cover of Andy Gibb’s “Shadow Dancing,” led by drummer Taylor Hawkins. Watch the second day of the benefit below. The Foos’ set begins around the 5:40:00 mark. <!– // Brid Player Singles. var _bp = _bp||[]; _bp.push({ “div”: “Brid_10143537”, “obj”: {“id”:”25115″,”width”:”480″,”height”:”270″,”playlist”:”10315...
Chucky Trill Dead: Rapper Dies After Highway Shooting
Flynn said the suspect fled and a motive in the slaying was unknown. Police gave no immediate description of the suspect’s vehicle and have made no arrest. On Saturday, a man was grazed by a bullet on I-285 in DeKalb County when another driver pulled alongside him and opened fire, DeKalb police spokeswoman Officer Elise Wells said. Officers were called to a gas station about 4 a.m. after the man, who was in his 40s, pulled over and called 911, Wells said. “It appears that the victim was traveling down 285 when an unknown vehicle pulled up next to him and fired several rounds into the victim’s car,” Wells said in an emailed statement to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. It’s unclear what prompted the shooting. The man was taken to the hospital and is expected to recover, authoriti...
BTS & Taylor Swift Among 22 Artists Set to Perform on 2021 Grammy Awards
Hosted by Trevor Noah, the show will be held at the Los Angeles Convention Center and its surroundings. All performances will emanate from there, though the Grammys will make use of other venues for the reading of nominations and announcement of winners in various categories. This will be Swift’s seventh performance on the Grammy telecast and her first in five years. She is widely expected to win album of the year for the third time with her hit album Folklore. This will be the sixth performance for both Martin (counting Coldplay) and Mayer; the fifth for Lambert; the third for Cardi B and Morris; and the second for Carlile, Eilish, Howard, Lipa and Post Malone. Half of the acts on the show will be making their Grammy telecast performance debuts — a milestone event in an artist...
Eminem Shrugs Off Attempts to Cancel Him by Releasing ‘Tone Deaf’ Animated Video: Watch
In recent weeks, a campaign on TikTok has called for the cancellation of the Grammy- and Oscar-winning rapper over his 2010 hit “Love the Way You Lie” with Rihanna. Users argued that lyrics from the song glorify domestic abuse, with lines like “If she ever tries to f—ing leave again, I’m a tie her to the bed and set this house on fire.” In his “Tone Deaf” video, Slim Shady takes viewers on a wild Grand Theft Auto-style ride through his rocky past and refusal to water down his lyrics. “Does Bill Cosby sedate once he treats the cheesecake and a decent steak?” he raps. “You think gettin’ rid of me’s a piece of cake? I’m harder than findin’ Harvey Weinstein a date.” Earlier this year, Eminem apologi...
Mumford & Sons’ Winston Marshall Faces Backlash After Praising Controversial Right-Wing Personality Andy Ngo
“A dumbfounding endorsement of fascism,” one person tweeted in response. “Shame, I really liked that one song a while ago.” “I may be naive, but ‘Banjo player from Mumford & Sons Comes Out As Nazi’ was not a headline I foresaw…,” another shared. Added one: “This is so damn disappointing and really reinforces all the bad stereotypes about what it means when you hear ‘the sound of banjos.’ Supporting fascism ain’t a good look.” Since Marshall’s tweet, some have responded to older messages on the British folk rock band’s official social media accounts, calling for the group to remove him from their lineup and pointing out the potential consequences his tweet may have on Mumford & Sons. R...
Taylor Swift, Chris Martin, Haim and Billie Eilish Set to Perform at 2021 Grammy Awards
The 2021 Grammy Awards have announced this year’s performers, and the list is stacked. Taylor Swift, Chris Martin, Haim, and Billie Eilish are all set to take the stage “while still safely apart.” The broadcast will also include sets from Bad Bunny, Black Pumas, Cardi B, BTS, Brandi Carlile, DaBaby, Doja Cat, Mickey Guyton, Brittany Howard, Miranda Lambert, Lil Baby, Dua Lipa, John Mayer, Megan Thee Stallion, Maren Morris, Post Malone, Roddy Ricch, and Harry Styles. Trevor Noah-hosted event will take place a little later than usual this year, after the Recording Academy postponed the ceremony from its original Jan. 31 date due to COVID-19 concerns. Though she won’t be performing, Beyoncé leads the pack&nbs...
