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Paul McCartney’s Daughter Mary McCartney to Direct Abbey Road Documentary
In 1931, the Gramophone Company opened a studio in a Georgian townhouse on London’s Abbey Road. Nine decades later and Abbey Road Studios has become perhaps the most famous recording studio. Now, Mary McCartney, daughter of Paul McCartney and Linda McCartney, is planning to tell the studio’s story with a new documentary titled, If These Walls Could Sing. For many people, the significance of Abbey Road has everything to do with Abbey Road, the 11th studio album by The Beatles. But the former EMI Recording Studios has a rich place in much more of Britain’s musical history, from 1930s sessions with the London Symphony Orchestra through the first digital recording ever made in the UK to its place today as a historical landmark. If These Walls Could Sing will be the first time a documentar...
Disneyland Is Now a COVID-19 Vaccination Site
The House of Mouse is now the Pad of Jabs. According to a new statement from Orange County, CA, Disneyland will become the region’s first large Point-of-Dispensing (POD) site for the COVID-19 vaccine. Unlike its partner park in Florida, which reopened in July, Disneyland has been closed to guests since March. But later this week, the enchanted gates will open once more to inoculate Phase 1a citizens of Orange County. These include everyone 65 and older, as well as “law enforcement first responders in high-risk communities.” As a so-called “Super POD,” Disneyland should have the capacity to vaccinate thousands of people a day. Dr. Pamela Hymel, the Chief Medical Officer for Disney Parks, Experiences and Products, told ABC7 that, “Disneyland Resort is proud to help support Orange C...
Sophia Bel, Montreal’s Princess Of The Dead, Is In Control
By Yara El-Soueidi The first notes of Sophia Bel’s songs evoke old memories of Razr phones, iPod Nanos, ultra-shiny bubblegum lip glosses, and heavily underlined eyes — a time when scene kids and preppy jocks shared high school hallways. The Montreal indie-pop singer explores unique sounds crafted from the music that influenced her when she was a teenager, the post-punk and pop offerings of the early 2000s. Her latest two EPs, both titled Princess of the Dead, refer back to the nickname her bullies gave her when she was a teen, an emo kid in suburbia. Her music and the EPs — including her more recent release, which dropped late last year — became a way for her to exorcise that experience. “It’s always nice to take from our bad experiences and appreciate what it has tau...
ROB ZOMBIE Bassist PIGGY D Blasts COVID-19 Rulebreakers, Calls TRUMP A ‘Terrorist’
ROB ZOMBIE bassist Matt “Piggy D” Montgomery has lamented the fact that his home state of California has struggled to cope with the increase in coronavirus cases, and has urged his fellow Los Angeles residents to take every precaution as more than a thousand COVID-19 deaths were recently reported in less than one week. Earlier today, Piggy D took to his Twitter to write: “There’s too much double talk in LA for us to get ahead of this. Everyone’s lying and placating their friends that they believe this virus is real and that they are being careful, but they aren’t. U don’t give a fuck about anyone but yourselves. STAY THE FUCK HOME. #LosAngeles”. Piggy D also slammed President Donald Trump for assuming no responsibility for what happened last ...
NOFX Announces ‘Single Album’, Drops ‘Linewleum’ Video Featuring AVENGED SEVENFOLD
Longstanding California punk band NOFX will release its 14th full-length album, titled “Single Album”, on Friday, February 26 via Fat Mike’s label Fat Wreck Chords. Boasting 12 new tracks and recorded at Motor Studios in San Francisco with Bill Stevenson and Jason Livermore (RISE AGAINST, ALKALINE TRIO, TEENAGE BOTTLEROCKET), the follow-up to 2016’s “First Ditch Effort” is NOFX‘s most personal effort to date. Originally intended to be a double record, “Single Album” was scaled down after the coronavirus pandemic changed NOFX‘s plans. The official music video for the disc’s first single, “Linewleum”, featuring AVENGED SEVENFOLD, can be seen below. “I have no idea why ‘Linoleum’ [released in 1994]...
DEF LEPPARD’s PHIL COLLEN Says He Is ‘Really Confident’ ‘Stadium Tour’ Will Happen In 2021 ‘If They Get The Vaccine Rolled Out’
DEF LEPPARD guitarist Phil Collen spoke to the “Jeremy White Podcast” about the postponement of the band’s “The Stadium Tour” with MÖTLEY CRÜE, POISON and JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS to the summer of 2021. “The Stadium Tour” was scheduled to kick off June 18, 2020 at TIAA Bank Field in Jacksonville, Florida and run through September 5, 2020 in Los Angeles. The bands reportedly also booked time at VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena in Jacksonville to rehearse for the tour. Asked if he is confident that “The Stadium Tour” will finally happen in 2021, Collen said: “I’m really confident, if they get the vaccine rolled out. It’s the same way anywhere around the world. You go, ‘Hey, are you coming to so and so?’ ...
URIAH HEEP’s MICK BOX: ‘As Long As I’ve Got My Health, I’ll Continue To Play And Record’
During a recent appearance on the “My Planet Rocks” show on Planet Rock, URIAH HEEP guitarist Mick Box was asked if he plans to keep playing music until he physically can’t play anymore. He responded (hear audio below): “I’ve still got the same passion for what I do — for playing guitar, for writing songs, for being with the band — the same passion I’ve always had. And I think that’s my driving force. “When you get on a little bit in life [laughs], I think your mantra changes, and my mantra is now ‘health is wealth,'” the 73-year-old explained. “And as long as I’ve got my health, I’ll continue to play and record and write songs as long as I can.” URIAH HEEP‘s latest album, “Living The Dream̶...
Five Burning Questions: Early Thoughts About the 2021 Hot 100
1. For the second year in a row, Justin Bieber is leading off early with a new single — “Anyone” debuts at No. 6 on the Hot 100 this week. Based on the song and its initial chart bow, what kind of things are you expecting from Bieber in 2021? Rania Aniftos: Wholesome Married Bieber will surely continue writing love songs about Hailey in 2021. On a deeper level, as we’ve seen from “Holy,” “Lonely” and his uplifting Instagram posts, JB is in a period of growth lately, which I think will translate into a more reflective, faith-driven album than we’ve seen from him in the past. Katie Atkinson: It seems like Bieber can’t miss lately, with “Holy” (featuring Chance the Rapper) also holding strong at No. 4, and his Shawn Mendes duet R...
Chrissy Teigen Channels Cher’s ’90s Workout Videos For ‘The Best 38 Minutes of Fat-Burning Fun’
Chrissy Teigen has been feeling the burn and feeling like Cher during her workouts lately by turning back time with her own ’90s-style videos. The cookbook author whipped up three hilarious videos in which she wears a curly black wig in a messy high ponytail and a sheer sequined black bodysuit à la the 74-year-old pop sensation — who used to host her own series of workout videos called CherFitness — in the music video for her 1989 No. 3 hit “If I Could Turn Back Time.” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and...
Bette Midler Says Trump Will ‘Burn the White House Down’ Before Leaving Office
Ahead of the riot, Trump told a crowd of his supporters, who believe his claims that the election was stolen — since debunked by elections officials as well as the Justice Department — that he was going to walk down to the Capitol with them. He added, “You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong.” He defended his speech as “totally appropriate” Jan. 12. Midler — an outspoken critic of the president — also wants others whom she believes helped fuel the riots held accountable, namely Rudy Giuliani, Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama, and Donald Trump Jr. “Let’s discuss bringing charges against the incendiary traitors who spoke BEFORE #Trump on January 6,” she wrote. Karl R...
Why Lil Nas X Is Ready to Be ‘More Involved’ in Politics
“I now have a platform and I can really have influence over what people see and hear and think about everything that’s going on,” Nas says on “The View.” While Lil Nas X hasn’t always jumped in to political conversations, he told The View co-hosts on Tuesday (Jan. 12) that he’s ready to change that. “I definitely want to be more involved for the simple fact that I now have a platform and I can really have influence over what people see and hear and think about everything that’s going on,” he said in the new interview. “So even though it’s definitely depressing sometimes, they are conversations that have to be had, you know?” One of the earliest examples of the artist speaking up came in June 2019, when he decided...
Members of Limp Bizkit, 311, The Used and More Cover Jane’s Addiction to Support Roadies
The Kings of Quarantine — the appropriately named collaboration between members of Mastodon and Slaves on Dope that covered Faith No More in October — are back with a collection of their friends for a brand new take on an old tune. Whereas last time saw them collaborate with members of Korn, Anthrax, Refused and more, this month’s rendition of Jane’s Addiction’s “Mountain Song” comes with the help of Wes Borland (Limp Bizkit), P-Nut (311), Bert McCracken (The Used), Tanner Wayne (In Flames), Louise Post (Veruca Salt) and Richard Patrick (Filter). Is watching a variety of musicians record their parts in their homes or personal studios and then mix them all together into one semi-cohesive track as strange as it seems? Yes. Is it a fitting representation of where we’re at with ...
