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SHAVO ODADJIAN Says ‘Misunderstandings Between Bandmembers’ Are To Blame For Lack Of New Album From SYSTEM OF A DOWN
During an appearance on MACHINE HEAD frontman Robb Flynn‘s “No Fuckin’ Regrets With Robb Flynn” podcast, SYSTEM OF A DOWN bassist Shavo Odadjian spoke about his band’s inability to record a full-length follow-up to its “Mezmerize” and “Hypnotize” LPs, which came out in 2005. The Serj Tankian-fronted outfit has toured intermittently since ending its hiatus in 2011, but has only managed to record two songs in the last 15 years, “Protect The Land” and “Genocidal Humanoidz”. Released last November, the tracks were motivated by the recently erupted conflict between Artsakh and Azerbaijan, with all proceeds supporting humanitarian efforts in SYSTEM OF A DOWN‘s ancestral homeland of Armenia. Along with other donat...
MEGADETH’s DAVID ELLEFSON Says Lack Of ‘Direct’ Communication With DAVE MUSTAINE Led To 2004 Lawsuit
During a recent appearance on Mitch Joel‘s “Groove – The No Treble Podcast”, MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson reflected on the fact that he sued the band’s leader Dave Mustaine in 2004 for $18.5 million, alleging that Mustaine still owed him substantial merchandise and publishing royalties. In January 2005, the case was dismissed in court, and five years later, Ellefson rejoined MEGADETH. “I firmly believe Dave and I ended up in that situation because he and I were not directly communicating,” Ellefson said (hear audio below). “There was a new manager, a new lawyer, a new team of people, and they were all trying to impress the client, so they were just, ‘Well, we’re just doing whatever the boss tells us to do.’ And it’s...
LAST IN LINE’s ANDREW FREEMAN Recalls JIMMY BAIN’s Final Days
During a brand new interview with with SIN CITY REJECTS‘ Jason Green, Andrew Freeman spoke about the tragic January 2016 passing of his LAST IN LINE bandmate Jimmy Bain aboard the “Def Leppard Hysteria On The High Seas” cruise. The 68-year-old bassist, who had also played with DIO and RAINBOW, had been found dead in his cabin. The cause of death was later revealed to be lung cancer. “We got together with Jim two weeks before we were supposed to do the cruise,” Freeman recalled. “He came into rehearsal, and he looked really pale. And he said, ‘Hey, I have pneumonia. I’m on the mend. No worries.’ And right there, we said, ‘Hey, if we need to cancel this, we can cancel this. It’s not that big of a deal. We don’t need to d...
Iggy and the Stooges’ Raw Power Still Thrives on Chaos and Unyielding Fury
When rock and roll evolved from the harmonious sludge of ditties about loving a gal from down the street or how kids wanted to rebel against their parents, The Beatles and Stones pushed our consciousness. Those bands dared us to see the emotional and sonic boundaries via large, orchestrated movements with Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band or the smooth but malicious undertones of Let It Bleed. These two bands broke the mold. They accelerated what the culture and artform were, but even as the Stones dipped their toes in dark water, it was still palatable to the masses, selling millions. But soon, new bands pushed harder. They came at the culture like a brick to the teeth: Jimi Hendrix took us to a different plane of existence, Black Sabbath dared us to see the devil and dance with him, ...
Morgan Wallen Earns No. 1 Album in US After Racial Slur
It’s a sad state of affairs when a man can be caught on camera using a racial slur one week and achieve the No. 1 album in the country the very next. And yet that’s the case for Morgan Wallen, who has claimed the top spot on the Billboard 200 Albums Chart for the fourth consecutive week running. In fact, according to Billboard, sales of Wallen’s Dangerous: The Double Album have actually increased by 14% in the week since TMZ posted video of the country singer using the n-word. In total, he moved 149,000 equivalent album units over the last seven days. As a result, Dangerous is now the first country album to spend its first four weeks at No. 1 since January 2003. As we reported earlier this week, Wallen has also seen a massive surge in individual song sales — an increase of 339%, to be...
Bruce Springsteen Appears in First-Ever Commercial for Jeep’s Super Bowl Ad: Watch
Bruce Springsteen isn’t normally one for a corporate sponsorship deal, as he’s long resisted requests to appear in commercials throughout his career. But hey, it’s 2021, and anything freakin’ goes, so the Boss signed on to take part in Jeep’s new Super Bowl ad, which premiered online ahead of the Big Game. Apparently, Olivier François, the global chief marketing officer at Jeep parent company Stellantis, has been after the Boss for a decade. “Olivier François and I have been discussing ideas for the last 10 years,” said Springsteen’s manager Jon Landau in a statement (via Rolling Stone), “and when he showed us the outline for ‘The Middle,’ our immediate reaction was, ‘Let’s do it.’” Even so, Bruce himself didn’t agree to appear in the ad until just last month, meaning production had ...
Miley Cyrus Teams With Billy Idol, Covers Nine Inch Nails, Bikini Kill at Super Bowl Pregame Show
The big game may be a few hours away, but Miley Cyrus’ performance at the TikTok Tailgate Super Bowl Pregame Show kicked things off with a bang. Performing in front of 7,500 vaccinated health care workers, Cyrus brought out guests Billy Idol and Joan Jett and tore through a slew of covers in the set, which included versions of Nine Inch Nails’ “Head Like a Hole,” Toni Basil’s “Mickey,” Bikini Kill’s “Rebel Girl” and Dolly Parton’s “Jolene.” As for Idol, Cyrus enlisted him for the Plastic Hearts track “Night Crawling” and they performed a spirited duet on “White Wedding.” Jett joined Cyrus for “Bad Karma” and then “Bad Reputation” and “I Hate Myself For Loving You.” Check out her collab with Idol below: [embedded content] [embedded content] [embedded conte...
Wolf Alice’s Ellie Rowsell Claims Marilyn Manson Filmed Up Her Skirt Without Consent at Music Festival
“I met Marilyn backstage at a festival a few years ago. After his compliments towards my band became more and more hyperbolic I became suspicious of his behaviour. I was shocked to look down and see he was filming up my skirt with a gopro,” she wrote. “There were no repercussions for his behaviour,” she continued, adding that a member of his tour staff said, “‘he does this kind of thing all the time.'” “If he does this kind of thing all the time why on earth has he been headlining festivals for so many years?” she asked. “When will we stop enabling misogynists on the account of their success? Women must feel safe in the male dominated world that is the music industry.” “I wasn’t sure whether to bring any of this ...
Winona Ryder Is Back With Edward Scissorhands’ Son in New Super Bowl Ad: Watch
Like Edward, Edgar has trouble functioning in the normal world. When trying to yank on chain on a bus to get off at the next stop, he accidentally cuts the cord with his sharp fingers, getting himself banned from public transportation; while trying to catch a football, he punctures and deflates it; and rather than creating elaborately shaped bushes, he cuts up spectacular salads. To cheer him up, Kim buys the teen a Cadillac LYRIQ, which has a hands-free super cruise feature that allows him to drive without destroying the steering wheel. (No word about a seat belt that his hands won’t slice through, though.) “And Edgar drove off into the sunset,” Kim says as the ad ends. “But don’t worry: He still makes it home in time for dinner — occasionally.” A...
Toronto Declares ‘The Weeknd Day’ to Honor Singer’s Super Bowl Performance
Other Canadians who have performed at the Super Bowl include actor Dan Aykroyd, who reprised his famous Blues Brothers character in 1997, and country singer Shania Twain, who rocked the big game in 2003. Ahead of Sunday’s matchup between the Kansas City Chiefs and Tampa Bay Buccaneers, The Weeknd revealed that he plans to buck recent tradition and go it alone during his 2021 Pepsi Super Bowl LV halftime performance. “I’ve been reading a lot of rumors,” the singer told the NFL Network while discussing whether he’ll have any special guests on stage. “There wasn’t any room to fit it in the narrative and the story I was telling in the performance. So, there’s no special guests, no.” In a recent Billboard cover story, The Weekend’...
How to Watch Miley Cyrus’ ‘TikTok Tailgate’ Super Bowl Pre-Show Concert
The big day is finally here! If you’re planning to celebrate Super Bowl LV the entire day Sunday (Feb. 7) from pre-game tailgating to post-game cheers, don’t forget about TikTok’s first “tailgate” party — which Miley Cyrus is headlining — to your list of Game Day festivities. The two-hour livestream kicks off at 2:30 p.m. ET on the NFL’s TikTok account (@NFL), and is hosted by Steve Harvey and MJ Acosta. The show will also feature Kane Brown, Rebel Wilson, and others. Cyrus’ set is scheduled to begin at 3:30 p.m. ET on TikTok, and a portion of it will air on CBS. The 7,500 vaccinated health care workers from around the country that the NFL invited to the Super Bowl in Tampa, Fla., will get to see the former teen star perform live during...
Cardi B Responds To Claims Of Lifting “Up” Hook: “It’s Like Six Of Ya’ll Saying It”
Source: Prince Williams / Getty When it comes to keeping it real, Cardi B is the OG so when a few underground rappers tried to accuse the Bronx-bred rapper of biting, she took to social media to clear her name. On Friday (Feb. 5), the “WAP” rapper took to Instagram to dispel rumors that she lifted the hook from her latest single, “Up” from the six artists who claim that they all came up with the same hook she used in the song, including New Jersey rappers Mir Pesos and Mir Fontane. As previously reported, the underground rappers who accused the Bardi of ripping off their single “Stuck”— to which Cardi denied by showing her song files dated August 7 in her Instagram Stories. https://t.co/FqmdGmDn6G pic.twitter.com/8KEDCh7B8O — mir Pesos (@PocketRocketPes) February 5, 2021 “From August...
