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TESLA’s BRIAN WHEAT Doesn’t Think He Will Be Friends With TOMMY SKEOCH Ever Again
TESLA bassist Brian Wheat, who is promoting his recently released autobiography, “Son Of A Milkman: My Crazy Life With Tesla”, spoke to Metal Express Radio about his relationship with the band’s former guitarist Tommy Skeoch. “With all fairness, there were times where he could be a lot of fun,” Brian said (hear audio below). “There were also a lot of times where he was a complete asshole. It just got too much, man. And not just me — with everyone. I mean, I didn’t throw him out of the band — he was voted out unanimously. He likes to say afterwards that I did this and I did that, and he takes these shots at me when he takes his interviews. He called me an elephant and said I couldn’t play the bass, and shit like that. And it’s just, like...
ANTHRAX’s SCOTT IAN: ‘I Don’t Think Guitar-Based Bands Are Ever Gonna Go Out Of Business’
During a new appearance on “The Fred Minnick Show”, ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian was asked if he thinks heavy metal “got a really bad rap in the mainstream culture” in the 1990s. He responded (see video below): “Yeah. But even more so in the ’80s, when you had the PMRC — you know, Tipper Gore and housewives who decided that we were dangerous for the youth of America. That’s when Dee Snider and Frank Zappa went to Capitol Hill and testified in front of Congress and all that, because they wanted to put warning stickers on albums — that whole thing. And the best part about it is that at the end of the day, there was some compromise made and the labels decided they would put content warning stickers on records, and that enabled us to sell more albums be...
ACCEPT’s WOLF HOFFMANN Rules Out Autobiography: ‘I Have No Fun In Poking Around In The Past’
In a recent interview with Matt Coe of Dead Rhetoric, ACCEPT guitarist Wolf Hoffmann discussed the departure of longtime bassist and co-songwriter Peter Baltes in November 2018. He has since been replaced by Martin Motnik. ACCEPT‘s lineup has also been expanded with the addition of a third guitarist, Philip Shouse, who originally filled in for Uwe Lulis during the 2019 “Symphonic Terror” tour, before being asked to join the band permanently. “I was sad more than anything,” Wolf said. “I was a bit heartbroken, to be honest. I wasn’t really surprised when it happened; I was more surprised how it happened. I thought we would have this big sitdown and talk things over, convince him to stay. We could tell he really wasn’t in it anymore, his heart ...
ALEXI LAIHO’s Wife Thanks His Fans For Their Support: ‘We’re Completely Broken’
Alexi Laiho‘s wife has thanked his fans for their support, two days after the former CHILDREN OF BODOM frontman’s death was made public. On Tuesday (January 5), Australian-born Kelli Wright-Laiho, who has previously worked as a publicist for various extreme metal bands, took to her Instagram to post a black square, and she wrote in an accompanying message: “Thank you all so much for your beautiful energy and support. I’m taking time out to grieve our enormous loss with our immediate Finnish and Australian family. Understandably, as you are, we’re completely broken but wanted you to know, We love and appreciate you all so much.” When Alexi‘s death was first announced on Monday (January 4), Kelli called him “the most loving and magnificent husb...
Lil Durk “Coming Clean,” Uncle Murda “Russian Roulette” & More | Daily Visuals 1.4.21
Source: Prince Williams / Getty We know that women tend to gravitate to men who can belt out a smooth sounding song out their vocals, but how many women are cool with sharing such a man? We’re not sure but apparently Lil Durk found a few and moved them into his luxury home. In his visuals to “Coming Clean,” the Chicago crooner shows us why it’s good to be him these days as he strolls through his house where a number of women walk around in bras and panties because, well, why not? Showering with chocolate syrup was the only thing that didn’t make sense to us to be honest. Back in Brooklyn Uncle Murda heads to the projects to get lit with his peoples and roll dice and shows everyone how real it is in the field for his clip to “Russian Roulette.” Check out the rest of today’s drops and some j...
Snoop Dogg Taunts Eminem On Instagram For “Soft Ass Sh*t” Lyrics On “Zeus”
Source: Tim Mosenfelder / Getty Snoop Dogg and Eminem are kicking off the new year with new beef and it’s not staying respectful. Over the weekend an Eminem fan account captioned a post on Instagram asking if Snoop was being “disrespectful” when he said during an interview in July that he could live without Slim Shady’s music, amongst other flagrant comments. Catching wind of the post, Snoop jumped in the post to slam Em and the song “Zeus” from his deluxe album Music To Be Murdered By – Side B released last month. “Pray I don’t answer that soft ass Sh*t,” he taunted in the comments. The song in question calls out the Long Beach legend directly. “And, as far as squashin’ beef, I’m used to people knockin’ me/But, just not in my camp/I’m ...
David Hasselhoff: If New Knight Rider Movie Doesn’t Honor the TV Series, “They’ve Hassled The Hoff”
With ’80s nostalgia in full swing, thanks to TV shows such as Cobra Kai and movies like Wonder Woman 1984, a new Knight Rider movie is of course in the works. While David Hasselhoff is not directly attached to the movie, he is hoping that the filmmakers stay true to the spirit of the original TV series. Hasselhoff starred as Michael Knight alongside a talking car named KITT in the original Knight Rider TV series, which aired from 1982 through 1986 on NBC. While the show has been revived in the form of various TV movies and a 2008 reboot series, it hasn’t gotten the full big-budget film treatment — until now. As Deadline reported over the summer, a big-screen Knight Rider movie is currently being developed by Spyglass Films. Producers James Wan (Furious 7, Saw) and Michael Clear (MacGy...
The Magic of David Bowie in 10 Collaborations
Editor’s Note: We continue our celebration of the life and art of David Bowie with a look at 10 magical collaborations. Keep checking back all week for more new and reshared content reflecting on our favorite Starman. And, if you’ve missed anything, you can experience it all again here. David Bowie was a singular force, blurring gender and genre lines in a career that spanned over half a century. Along the way, he gifted listeners with a slew of memorable, solitary personas: Ziggy Stardust, the Thin White Duke, the Man Who Fell to Earth, the Goblin King, and, in his stunning final act, the Blind Prophet. While Bowie will rightly be remembered as a brilliant solo artist who consistently pursued new inspiration, he would be the first to tell you that his musical odyssey was never conducted a...
Westside Gunn Reveals New Song “The Hurt Business” featuring Smoke DZA and Wale: Stream
The Griselda Records universe continues to grow, and with this expansion comes the collective’s first-ever feature film, Conflicted. Directed by AK Reed with a script from Deuce King, the upcoming “urban tale” depicts longtime label artist Benny the Butcher as a Buffalo gangster trying to get his life back on track after spending time behind bars. As to be expected, the movie comes with a soundtrack by a bunch of gold-tiered Griselda talent, including Westside Gunn, who appears on a new cut titled “The Hurt Business”. Today’s offering features additional contributions from Smoke DZA and Wale, but the spotlight shines firmly on Westside and the gritty story he weaves. Painting a graphic scene of the vicious streets of Buffalo, he raps over an old-school production, “Blow his brains out...
Celebrities React to Georgia Runoff Election Results
Georgia’s Senate races advanced to runoff elections on Tuesday (Jan. 5), after no candidate garnered more than 50% of the general election vote. The runoff is a crucial one, as the races between Republican Sen. David Perdue and Democrat Jon Ossoff and Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler and the Rev. Raphael Warnock will determine which party controls the Senate. If the Democrats win both races, each party will have 50 seats in Congress’ upper chamber. Vice President-elect Kamala Harris, however, will be the tie-breaking vote for the Democratic Party. 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 rewar...
Neil Young Sells 50% of Song Catalog to Hipgnosis
“I built Hipgnosis to be a company Neil would want to be a part of,” Mercuriadis said in a statement. “We have a common integrity, ethos and passion born out of a belief in music and these important songs… This is a deal that changes Hipgnosis forever and it’s a dream to welcome Neil, Frank, Bonnie and the team to the Hipgnosis family.” Young had been managed for decades by Elliot Roberts, who passed away last year. His affairs are now handled by Frank Gironda, an associate of Roberts who was mentioned in the announcement, as was Bonnie Levitan, another member of Young’s management team. Young, 75, has been releasing projects from his archives for the past few years, and in 2020 he put out two such sets, plus a 10-CD box set, Archives Volume II: 1972-1976. The terms of this deal were...
Alibaba Group To Shutter China’s Xiami Music Service
Xiami is one of the smaller digital music services in China. While user numbers are not publicly available, Xiami’s music penetration was less than 2% in 2019, with about five million Monthly Active Users in mainland China, according to local Chinese reports. The country’s biggest streaming platforms are QQ Music, Kugou Music, Kuwo Music and WeSing, all owned by tech giant Tencent Music Entertainment Group. Collectively those four services have more than 800 million users, says Tencent. Tencent’s biggest competitor is NetEase Cloud Music, operated by Chinese internet company NetEase, which claims to have more than 600 million registered users. Xiami and NetEase Cloud Music cut a deal in 2018 for the streaming services to share libraries and grow their respective repertoires — a move seen a...
