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Lil Nas X’s ‘Old Town Road’ Becomes Most-Certified Song In History
Since its official release in 2019, Lil Nas X‘s breakout hit “Old Town Road” has shattered chart records and industry conventions alike, earning the viral rapper his first Grammy wins for a track that sparked a wider cultural conversation about the hallmarks of country music itself. Galloping to even greater heights in 2021, the collaboration with Billy Ray Cyrus has become the most-certified song in RIAA history. On Friday (January 9), Nas X shared the news that “Old Town Road” had gone 14x Platinum, supplanting John Legend’s “All of Me” and “Despacito” by Daddy Yankee, Luis Fonsi, and Justin Bieber, both certified 13x Platinum. “LETS GOOO!” Nas X wrote on Twitter, sharing a meme to celebrate ...
Lana Del Rey Explains Chemtrails Over The Country Club Artwork: ‘These Are My Friends, This Is My Life’
Lana Del Rey‘s highly celebrated Norman Fucking Rockwell album dropped in August 2019, and for just about as long, the artist has been teasing its follow-up, Chemtrails Over the Country Club. On January 10, LDR finally gave her most substantive update on the LP yet, sharing its tracklist and cover art in a series of posts on Instagram. The album, her seventh, will feature 11 songs, including a title track and one called “Tulsa Jesus Freak.” According to her posts, it has no listed features. “There’s always turmoil and upheaval and in the midst of it- there’s always beautiful music too,” LDR wrote in the caption accompanying the cover. “Introducing my new album chemtrails over the country club.” In addition to the photo, which finds the ...
RUSH’s GEDDY LEE To Appear At VANCOUVER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA’s Virtual Gala Concert
RUSH‘s Geddy Lee will take part in a virtual gala concert organized by the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra (VSO). The event, which will support the VSO and the VSO School Of Music, will be streamed via TheConcertHall.ca on February 18 at 6:30 p.m. “The Resilient Symphony: The Show Must Go On” will be hosted by Steve Maddock and will feature additional special guests maestro Otto Tausk, James Ehnes, Itzhak Perlman, Measha Brueggergosman, K.D. Lang, Steven Page, Jens Lindemann, Stewart Goodyear, Bria Skonberg, Red Robinson, and the musicians of the VSO for an evening of music and stories. Stories you never get to hear — the missed flight; the story behind the story of the delayed start; the imposter maestro; what the VSO did when Queen Latifah became ill two days before she wa...
Limited Series Based On SEX PISTOLS Guitarist STEVE JONES’s Memoir Lands At FX
FX has ordered “Pistol”, a six-episode limited series about the legendary SEX PISTOLS guitarist Steve Jones, it was announced today by Nick Grad, president, original programming, FX Entertainment. Based on Jones‘s 2018 memoir “Lonely Boy: Tales From A Sex Pistol”, the series from Academy Award winner Danny Boyle, who will also serve as executive producer and director, was created by Craig Pearce and written by Pearce and Frank Cottrell Boyce. Jones, Boyle and Pearce serve as executive producers alongside Gail Lyon, Anita Camarata, Tracey Seaward, Paul Lee, Hope Hartman and Wiip. The series is produced by FX Productions and is set to begin production on March 7. “It’s great to be back in business with Danny Boyle, an exceptional artist responsible f...
Concert Venues, Theaters Could Reopen By Fall 2021, Says DR. ANTHONY FAUCI
Dr. Anthony Fauci says that theaters and other live entertainment venues could reopen “some time in the fall of 2021.” The director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases gave an update on when he thinks the performing arts will be able to reopen during a virtual conference held by the Association of Performing Arts Professionals. According to The New York Times, Fauci said that the country will have to reach an effective level of herd immunity, which requires vaccinating from 70 percent to 85 percent of the population, before theaters and other venues will be able to reopen. “If everything goes right, this is will occur some time in the fall of 2021,” Fauci said, “so that by the time we get to the early to mid-fall, you can have people f...
DAVE MUSTAINE Reveals Tentative Title Of New MEGADETH Album
Dave Mustaine has revealed the working title for the next MEGADETH album. As part of an appearance at this past Saturday’s (January 9) Rock ‘N’ Roll Fantasy Camp masterclass, the guitarist/vocalist said about the follow-up to 2016’s “Dystopia” (hear audio below): “The tentative album title we have right now is called ‘The Sick, The Dying And The Dead’. We may change that, because there’s some other titles, and I usually change the titles four or five times before I settle on anything.” Last month, MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson told SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” that Mustaine was still laying down his vocal and guitar tracks for the band’s new album. “Dirk [Verbeuren, drums] and I ...
History Personified: Lenny Kaye’s Life in Music
The Greenwich Village of the 1960s was a carnival of music, literature, poetry, coffee houses, free love, fashion and great ethnic food. The neighborhood’s heartbeat was Bleecker Street, where one could hear the soon-to-be-discovered Bob Dylan at The Village Gate, or Joni Mitchell at The Bitter End. 1967 saw the arrival of Village Oldies on Bleecker Street, a record store offering doo-wop, disco, rock and roll, blues, garage, and rare overseas finds. This open-all-night mecca of music soon became the late-night hang for the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa, and was where an aspiring poet/singer named Patti Smith met store clerk and musician Lenny Kaye. CREDIT: Jonathan Broady Flash forward 50-plus years and Kaye, who spent 46 years with Smith as a founding member and guitarist of the ...
Justin Bieber Went on ‘Shark Tank’ to Give an Office Chair His Stamp of Approval
Justin Bieber, future Shark? On Friday (Jan. 8), the superstar made a surprise appearance on ABC’s Shark Tank to co-sign an entrepreneur’s ergonomic office chair. In the episode, CEO Bing Howenstein walked into the Shark Tank in an effort to gain funding for his company ALL33, and used a video message from Bieber to help make his pitch to Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran, and co. “Hey Sharks, I’m Justin Bieber and this is the ALL33; it’s the chair that moves like I do,” the pop star says in a pre-recorded clip midway through the presentation, while repping a baby blue t-shirt from his own “Drew” line. “I mean, guys, look at this perfect posture! I’ve got my chest up, my shoulders back, I’m ready for anything. If you’ve got...
Iced Earth Condemn Capitol Assault by Trump Supporters: ‘We Hope That All Those Involved That Day Are Brought to Justice’
A widely-distributed photo was posted on the D.C. Metropolitan Police site under “Persons of Interest in Unrest-Related Offenses.” In the image, a person resembling Schaffer can be seen pointing angrily at a camera with his index finger extended as he and dozens of others invade the Capitol building. The outspoken co-founder of the Tampa, Florida metal band has been identified by numerous outlets by his signature grey beard, left wrist tattoos that include “1776” and an American flag, as well as an Oath Keepers baseball hat from the group the Southern Poverty Law Center has described as a far-right anti-government militia organization. “We absolutely DO NOT condone nor do we support riots or the acts of violence that the rioters were involved in on J...
Lou Reed Keyboardist Michael Fonfara Dies at 74
In a lengthy, eclectic career that spanned more than 50 years, Fonfara performed with the 1960s rock bands The Electric Flag and Rhinoceros, Blackstone and Rough Trade, as well as adding “keyboard textures” on Foreigner’s multi-platinum 1981 4 album on the No. 4 hit “Urgent” and the track “Girl on the Moon.” Fonfara also recorded with the Everly Brothers, Grievous Angels, Cameo Blues Band and many others in a lauded career that included a 2000 Maple Blues Award honor for piano/keyboard player of the year. Fonfara’s final recording was Downchild’s Live at the Toronto Jazz Festival 50th anniversary performance in 2019, which featured guest appearances from Dan Akroyd, Paul Shaffer, Kenny Neal, Gene Taylor, Erja Lyytinen and David Wil...
Sex Pistols Limited Series From Danny Boyle a Go at FX
“It’s great to be back in business with Danny Boyle, an exceptional artist responsible for so many great feature films and TV series,” said Nick Grad, president original programming at FX. “Steve Jones was at the center of the storm that shook the rock establishment and we’re thrilled to have Danny and the rest of the creative team tell his story as a member of one of music’s most notorious bands — the Sex Pistols.” Pistol will center on Jones, who co-founded the Sex Pistols in the mid-1970s. It will follow his life from West London’s council estates to Vivienne Westwood and Malcolm McLaren’s boutique, Sex — one of the early centers of punk culture in London — and the band’s meteoric rise and fall. “Imagine breaking into the ...
Sex Pistols Series Directed by Danny Boyle Coming to FX
Iconic punks the Sex Pistols get the small-screen treatment in a six-episode series based on guitarist Steve Jones’ 2018 memoir Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol. Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later, Slumdog Millionaire) will direct and executive produce the series, which starts production in March and is titled Pistol. The series stars Toby Wallace as Steve Jones, Anson Boon as singer John “Johnny Rotten” Lydon, Louis Partridge as Sid Vicious, Jacob Slater as Paul Cook, Fabien Frankel as Glen Matlock, Sydney Chandler as Chrissie Hynde, Emma Appleton as Nancy Spungen, and Maisie Williams as punk icon Jordan. “Imagine breaking into the world of ‘The Crown’ and ‘Downton Abbey’ with your mates and screaming your songs and your fury at all they represent,” said Boyle in a sta...
