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VOIVOD’s DAN MONGRAIN: ‘We Still Have The Fire Inside’
Guitarist Daniel “Chewy” Mongrain of Canadian metal innovators VOIVOD spoke to Antichrist Magazine about how he and his bandmates have been dealing with the coronavirus crisis. He said (see video below): “We’ve been home for a while, so we had time to all get on with our own lives separately, individually. And I think we can feel the positiveness, so to speak, out of it, because it’s good at the same time to be back home and to take care of each other’s life individually. But now it’s been a year almost since we’ve been on the road — we were on tour last year in December; it was the last tour we did — and we started to work pretty early on during the lockdown on new material. And we’re just back at it since a couple of weeks [ago], trad...
THE PRETTY RECKLESS: Making Of ’25’ Music Video
Behind-the-scenes footage from the making of THE PRETTY RECKLESS‘s music video for the band’s latest single, “25”, can be seen below. The track is taken from the group’s upcoming album, “Death By Rock And Roll”, which will be released on February 12, 2021 via Fearless Records in the U.S. and Century Media Records in the rest of the world. THE PRETTY RECKLESS singer Taylor Momsen told Paper about the track: “’25’ is one of the first songs we recorded, I think it was the first song we recorded for the album. I wrote that song when I was 25, [and] we recorded it right after I turned 25. It’s very autobiographical, in a lot of ways. I thought it would be an interesting idea to figure out a way to go through all the years of my l...
METALLICA’s KIRK HAMMETT On ‘The Black Album’: ‘The First Time I Heard It On The Radio, I Was Blown Away By How Good It Sounded’
In the latest episode of “Icons”, Gibson TV sits down with one of the most influential metal guitarists of all time, Kirk Hammett. Since 1983, Hammett has been the lead guitarist and a contributing songwriter for heavy metal trailblazers METALLICA. Prior to joining the band, he formed the group EXODUS during the birth of the San Francisco thrash metal movement. Through archival and never-before-seen photos and video, Kirk takes viewers on a ride through his 37 years as lead guitarist of METALLICA while sharing personal stories about his childhood, getting his first Gibson Flying V, the tragic death of bassist Cliff Burton and the recording of the group’s pivotal albums, including “Kill ‘Em All”, “Ride The Lightning”, “Master Of Puppets&...
SCORPIONS Release Third And Final Fan-Created Music Video For ‘Sign Of Hope’
Legendary German hard rockers SCORPIONS have released the third and final fan-created music video for their latest single, “Sign Of Hope”. When the band first announced the project in June, it wrote in a social media post: “Show us your ‘signs’ of hope! We want to use our new music video as a platform to spread a little hope in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. Whether a photo or image of a blooming flower, your favorite summertime activity or you spending time with loved ones, we want to include your sign in our new ‘Sign Of Hope’ music video.” SCORPIONS penned the song as a positive message amid all that is going on in the world at the moment and during the recording sessions for their upcoming 19th album. Tentatively due in 2021, the disc wi...
Amazon Shares Trailer For Eddie Murphy’s Coming 2 America: Watch
Amazon Studios has shared the first trailer for Eddie Murphy’s Coming 2 America. The Coming to America sequel 32-years-in-the-making Is scheduled to premiere digitally on Amazon Prime on March 5th, 2021. The follow-up to its 1988 predecessor sees Zamunda’s newly-crowned King Akeem (Murphy) returning to America to meet his long-lost son. Along with Arsenio Hall, playing Akeem’s trusy sidekick Semmi, the film’s cast includes Wesley Snipes, James Earl Jones, Jermaine Fowler, Leslie Jones, Tracy Morgan, and Teyana Taylor. It was directed by Craig Brewer (Hustle & Flow) and written by original screenwriters Barry Blaustein and David Sheffield with Kenya Barris. Like many of 2021’s upcoming blockbusters, Coming 2 Amer...
Denzel Washington Is on Jared Leto’s Tail in The Little Things Trailer: Watch
One of the first movies Warner Bros. is using to smash release windows in 2021 is the Denzel Washington-starring The Little Things. Arriving in select theaters and HBO Max day-and-date on January 29th, the psychological thriller has today received its first trailer. Written and directed by John Lee Hancock (The Founder, The Blind Side), The Little Things finds Washington playing Joe “Deke” Deacon, a Kern County Deputy Sheriff with an impeccable track record yet no forward career momentum. While on an evidence-gathering assignment in Los Angeles, Sergeant Jim Baxter (Rami Malek) ropes him into a serial killer investigation. They both have their sights set on one particular man (Jared Leto), but their hunt for a murderer threatens to unearth some dark secrets from Deke’s past. The trailer ce...
Showrunner of the Year Eric Kripke on The Boys: “We Should Always Be Punching Up”
Eric Kripke is anxious. It’s two days before Thanksgiving and the veteran showrunner is already hard at work on the third season of The Boys. He’s three episodes into scripting, things are moving, but something is gnawing at him from deep inside. “It’s become really fun and breezy to write again,” Kripke admits over Zoom. “That worries me. It’s feeling enjoyable. I should be in intense, deep introspection for this.” Kripke has every reason to be precarious. In less than a year, he’s given Amazon a critical and commercial smash, and they’re running with it. They gave the early green light for Season 3, and they’ve even commissioned a spinoff series. Opportunity is expanding right before Kripke’s eyes — and fast. Fortunately for him, Kripke thrives amidst this kind of aggressive expansion, s...
Travis Scott (and Stormi!) Give Back With Houston Holiday Toy & Food Drive
Travis Scott spread the holiday cheer in his hometown on Tuesday (Dec. 22). The rapper’s Cactus Jack Foundation teamed up with the City of Houston and Mayor Sylvestor Turner to launch their first-ever Holiday Toy Drive event at Sunnyside Park. The group presented 2000 toys from Mattel and other brands to students and faculty across three local elementary schools, plus Houston residents. The contactless, drive-up event also offered produce, Christmas trees, comforters, blankets, clothing and PPE gear. 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 help gi...
St. Vincent Flawlessly Covers The Beatles’ ‘Martha My Dear’
St. Vincent made a guest appearance at the virtual Ally Coalition Annual Talent Show on Monday night (Dec. 21), where she performed The Beatles‘ uplifting song, “Martha My Dear.” She performed the song while playing the guitar, with a rainbow filter on the video. The event, streamed on Jack Antonoff‘s Twitch channel, featured other performances from Hayley Williams, The Chicks, Lana Del Rey, Sleater-Kinney and more. The Ally Coalition Annual Talent Show raised money for the United States’ homeless LGBTQ+ youth. 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, s...
The Village Voice Is Returning With Updated Website, Print Edition
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. At the time of its closure, Barbey said the venerable title had bore the brunt of “the increasingly harsh economic realities” facing those creating journalism. In the years since, its website and social channels have been refreshed with articles posted from the vault. From next year, the site will get a revamp with fresh content. Also, the New York Times quotes Street Media CEO Brian Calle as saying the Village Voice will include a print periodical, expected to be published each quarter. “I think a lot of people will be hungry for this and I’m superoptimistic,” Calle told The Times. The Village Voice was the country’s first alternative newsweekly, founded in 1955 by a group that included legendary writer Norman Mailer. The title “r...
Sam Smith and Celine Dion Have the Sweetest Things to Say About Each Other
Soon after the clip went up, Dion reached out. “Aww, thank you so much Sam Smith. It was great to see you last year in London, and forget about me – I think you’re so amazing!! Take care … hope to see you again soon,” she wrote, from one great singer to another. Smith and Dion have been members of the mutual appreciation society for several years. In July 2019, the multiple Grammy Award winners professed their admiration for one another on social media. “Celine Dion changed my life,” Smith tweeted at the time. Both artists are wrapping big years in music, which would’ve been bigger still if COVID-19 didn’t mess with everyone’s travel and touring plans. Dion bagged the year’s No. 2 Top Tour, according to figures reported to Billboard Boxscore. The Courage World...
Radio Days
I had a conventional small town, Arkansas upbringing. My dad was a full-time poultry technician and part-time rancher who herded cattle on a motorcycle. It wasn’t even a dirt bike; he thought a bigger bike had a smoother ride. He felt the same way about cars – the bigger the better – and when I turned sixteen, he wrapped me in five thousand pounds of shiny, black metal, a 1959 Cadillac Eldorado, with a bullet-hole in the driver’s side door. He says he bought it that way, but I suspect he put it there as a warning for any reckless boys who thought about trying to hitch a ride. Summer afternoons, careening down the red dirt road to the lake, music blasting, bikini air-drying from the rearview mirror, in the Batmobile, I was invincible. For an old car, it sure had a great radio. It was ...
