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New QUEENSRŸCHE Drummer CASEY GRILLO Is Involved In Songwriting For Next Album
QUEENSRŸCHE singer Todd La Torre has confirmed to “The Signals Of Intuition” that he and his bandmates have commenced the songwriting process for the follow-up to 2019’s “The Verdict” album. The group’s next disc will apparently mark the QUEENSRŸCHE recording debut of Casey Grillo who replaced original drummer Scott Rockenfield in 2017. Todd said (hear audio below): “Right now, Michael Wilton [guitar] is at my house [in St. Petersburg, Florida]; he’s in the other room, actually, And Zeuss [producer Chris Harris] is here. And Casey lives about 35 minutes away, so he’ll be here this afternoon. So we’re doing just songwriting sessions and coming up with new ideas for the next QUEENSRŸCHE album. “Michael had a little gap,”...
Here Is How JON SCHAFFER’s Arrest Was Covered By TV Stations In His Home State Of Indiana
Indiana news stations WISH and WTHR have uploaded separate video reports on the arrest of ICED EARTH guitarist Jon Schaffer, who was taken into custody over the weekend in connection with the January 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. You can watch them below. The musician, who resides in Columbus, Indiana, turned himself in to authorities around 3 p.m. Sunday (January 17), Chris Bavender, public affairs specialist for the FBI Indianapolis Field Office, said. According to the FBI, Schaffer was among the rioters who sprayed United States Capitol police officers with “bear spray,” a form of capsaicin pepper spray sold by many outdoors retailers, as part of their efforts to push the officers back inside the Capitol and breach the Capitol building themselves. Schaffer was photogra...
MEGADETH’s DAVE MUSTAINE Earns Jiu-Jitsu Purple Belt At 59 Years Old
According to Jiu-Jitsu Times, MEGADETH leader Dave Mustaine now a purple belt in jiu-jitsu. The 59-year-old musician was promoted to the new rank almost two years after earning the first stripe on his blue belt. He was promoted by Reggie Almeida, who leads Gracie Barra Spring Hill in Tennessee, near Mustaine‘s hometown of Franklin. Almeida shared the good news on the gym’s social media, writing last Thursday (January 14): “After 2 years as a blue belt and hard training and lots of ups and downs today I had the honor to promote Mr @davemustaine to his well deserved purple belt ! Congratulations kid !!!” As the middle belt, purple is when a jiu jitsu player begins to form his or her identity within the grand scheme of the sport. In a 2007 interview, Mustaine said he s...
OZZY OSBOURNE Bassist ROB ‘BLASKO’ NICHOLSON Joins RIPPLE MUSIC As Executive VP And A&R Of Special Projects
Ripple Music, one of the world’s leading purveyors of doom and stoner rock, has names OZZY OSBOURNE bassist Rob “Blasko” Nicholson as its new executive vice president of A&R and special projects. A longtime connoisseur of the psych, stoner, doom, and heavy rock genres championed by the acclaimed Ripple Music roster and catalog, Blasko brings his extensive experience as a musician, manager, and curator to the California based label. Blasko will work directly alongside Ripple Music cofounder and CEO Todd Severin to sign new artists and executive produce special projects with established acts in the newly created position. Concurrently, he continues his roles as bassist for the OZZY OSBOURNE band and manager for his roster of artists. “I am thrilled to welcome Blas...
Early Radiohead Demo With Unheard Songs From Late ’80s Up for Auction
A cassette demo containing three previously unheard and undocumented songs by On A Friday, the band become Radiohead in 1991, is up for auction. The six-song tape is expected to bring about $2,700. The current bid at Omega Auctions is about $2,000. The unheard tunes are titled “Promise Me,” “Boy In A Box” and “These Chains.” The other three songs on the demo are “Happy Song,” “To Be A Brilliant Light” and “Sinking Ship.” The auction ends on Jan. 26. The Thom Yorke-designed inlay card features Yorke’s writing “Gripe + 3 trax at beginning.” On the cassette’s inlay, Yorke wrote “Before the ones overleaf are the following (most recent recordings 1989) Promise Me (Thom), Body(?) in a box (Colin/Thom), These are the Chains (Thom).” The band members — brothers Jonny and Colin ...
Remembering Dr. King The Alpha Man
Source: The Washington Post / Getty The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had two siblings but thousands of brothers. The preacher, scholar and civil rights leader became a member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc., the first and oldest collegiate fraternity for African American men, on June 22nd 1952. King, who studied at Morehouse College in Atlanta as a teenager, was pursuing his Doctorate in Philosophy at Boston University when he was initiated at the Sigma Chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha seated in Boston. He was 23 years old. In a BET documentary on Dr. King and his membership in Alpha, one of his fellow initiates, or line brothers, recalled King standing out amongst the pledges because he was older, almost as old as some of the big brothers. “The pledge group met at my grandfather’s h...
Joe Biden and Kamala Harris Share Inauguration Playlist: Kendrick Lamar, MF DOOM, Tame Impala
Tame Impala (photo by Philip Cosores), MF DOOM (photo via Getty), and Kendrick Lamar (photo by Philip Cosores) Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have shared the official playlist for their upcoming inauguration. The collection spans a whopping 46 songs in total and includes artists like Kendrick Lamar, MF DOOM, Tame Impala, and Beyoncé. Curated by D-Nice and Raedio, the label founded by Issa Rae and Benoni Tagoe, the playlist kicks off with “Lupitas Interlude” by Brooklyn rapper Kota the Friend. From there, it transitions into selected tracks by The Internet, Bruce Springsteen, SAULT, Mac Miller, Bob Marley, and A Tribe Called Quest. There’s also plenty of vibrant artists meant to inspire joy on the inauguration playlist as well, including Vampire Weekend, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, SZA, Steely...
Juan Ingaramo Wants to Bring His ‘Pop Nacional’ to the World
In the landscape of music coming from Latin America, Juan Ingaramo made his mark in Argentina with his pop nacional (his pop spin on genres like R&B, Latin trap, and reggaetón) sound and is now taking it global. Last month, Ingaramo returned with the tropical love song “No Necesito.” It’s perfect for the Southern Hemisphere and Argentina recently entering summertime while keeping the rest of his listeners on this side of the world warm during winter. Before the pandemic hit, the 34-year-old singer-songwriter was emerging thanks to his Latin Grammy nomination for Best New Artist. His video for “No Necesito” reflects the surreal new normal of wearing masks and social distancing in a scene where he rocks an astronaut-like helmet. “It’s like a trip going through the feelings of this ...
MACHINE HEAD’s ROBB FLYNN And JARED MACEACHERN Cover IRON MAIDEN, METALLICA And SYSTEM OF A DOWN (Video)
MACHINE HEAD‘s Robb Flynn and Jared MacEachern held the first “Electric Happy Hour” of 2021 on Friday, January 15 during which they performed around a dozen and a half songs, including MH tunes “Ghosts Will Haunt My Bones”, “Struck A Nerve” and “Blood For Blood”, plus covers of IRON MAIDEN‘s “Hallowed Be Thy Name”, METALLICA‘s “Master Of Puppets” and SYSTEM OF A DOWN‘s “Aerials”. You can now watch the session below. Featured songs: 3:00 Master Of Puppets 12:00 Blood For Blood 17:13 Beyond The Pale 22:40 Now We Die 29:55 Ghosts Will Haunt My Bones 36:02 Struck A Nerve 41:36 The Blood, The Sweat, The Tears (BEERS UP!) 46:01 This Is The End 52:50 Summer Of ’69 (snippet) 55:32 Hall...
GUS G. Pays Tribute To ALEXI LAIHO: ‘Thank You For The Music That You’ve Given To The World’
Greek guitar virtuoso Gus G., well known in rock and metal circles for his work as Ozzy Osbourne‘s guitarist and as leader of his own band FIREWIND, has paid tribute to former CHILDREN OF BODOM frontman Alexi Laiho, who died last month at the age of only 41. In an eight-minute video posted to his YouTube channel, Gus said in part (see below): “It was a shock for me to read the news [of Alexi‘s passing]. I knew Alexi. I wouldn’t say that we were close friends or anything, but we were definitely acquaintances through the years. We did a photo shoot together. We hung out a bunch of times at the NAMM shows or the Frankfurt [Musik]messe. “It’s really sad that he passed,” Gus continued. “He was a very important figure in the metal world — a very in...
PRODUCT OF HATE Releases Epic Cinematic Video For ‘Redemption’
PRODUCT OF HATE has unleashed “Redemption”, the next single from the band’s forthcoming second full-length album, “You Brought This War”. A music video for the track was filmed at the historic Kenosha Theatre in Kenosha, Wisconsin just weeks after the civil unrest that rocked the band’s hometown last fall. “Making this video was absolutely surreal,” says lead guitarist Geno Rathbone. “To be filming and playing our music in a place with so much amazing history was mind-blowing. We shot this only a week or so after the Kenosha riots and everything was still boarded up and smoldering just a block or two away from this historic theater. Thankfully the venue was spared along with its history — and hopefully, its future. This video is our tip...
Olivia Rodrigo’s ‘Drivers License’ Fast-Tracks to No. 1 In Australia
Rodrigo is all that stands in the way of The Kid Laroi bagging his first No. 1. The Sydney-raised rapper’s “Without You” holds at No. 2 on the singles survey. Also soaring on the national singles survey this week is Tones And I’s “Fly Away,” up 8-7 for a new chart peak. It’s the multiple ARIA Award-winner’s joint second-highest chart entry, equaling the best for 2019’s “Never Seen The Rain.” Tones’ breakout hit “Dance Monkey” is by far the longest No. 1 in the history of the ARIA Singles Chart, at 24 non-consecutive weeks, and it finished 2020 as the best-selling homegrown tune, ARIA reports. Meanwhile, Barry Gibb leads the ARIA Albums Chart as a solo artist for the first time with Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers’ Songbook, a collection of Bee Gees classics performed as country ...
