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Brian May Launches Wildlife Fundraising Fragrance ‘Save Me’
For superfans, May and Xerjoff are stocking an autographed 50ml bottle priced at €410 ($500), and the standard bottle is priced at €197 ($240). “This amazing man is doing something wonderful for animal welfare,” May wrote of Momo, captioning photos of the pair signing bottles with gold pens. Aside from wielding the axe on some of rock music’s indelible songs, May is a long-time advocate for wild animals and co-founder of the Save Me Trust, which has battled the U.K. government on badger culls, among other issues. May — or rather, Dr May — also received a PhD in astrophysics from Imperial College in 2017. The rocker endured a rollercoaster 2020, which at its peak saw May, his Queen bandmates and singer Adam Lambert fill stadiums on their Rhapsody tour, and enjoy the rollou...
KING DIAMOND Shares Rare Photo With Four-Year-Old Son
King Diamond has posted a rare photo of him with his young son. Earlier today, the legendary Danish heavy metal vocalist — who fronts both KING DIAMOND and MERCYFUL FATE — took to his Twitter to share a picture of him walking with four-year-old Byron. King captioned the photo: “A nice stroll with the young prince.” Byron‘s mother is King‘s wife, Hungarian-born singer Livia Zita. She has been performing with KING DIAMOND as a backing vocalist since 2003. The boy was named after King‘s favorite singer of all time, late URIAH HEEP frontman David Byron. King Diamond, whose real name is Kim Bendix Petersen, told the Danish web site BT.dk in a 2009 interview that he spoke to Livia for the first time around 19 years ago when she interviewed him over the phone for the...
PAUL STANLEY Defends His Right To Share His Political Views: ‘I Voice My Opinions As A Proud Citizen Of This Country’
Paul Stanley has defended his right to speak out on political issues, saying that he voices his opinions as a “proud citizen” of a country he loves deeply. Earlier today, the KISS frontman took to his Twitter to write: “If You Are A Fan Who Now Feels My Opinions Are Alienating You, that is sadly your choice & not my intention. Do the entertainers you enjoy have to share your beliefs? Would you like it more if you didn’t know? In many cases you’d be fooling yourself. I won’t do that to you or me.” Two days earlier, he wrote: “To All Those Who Don’t Share My Views… You are not my enemy. A democracy needs those differences to make it better & ultimately stronger. Friendship doesn’t need agreement. OUR enemy should be an...
HBO Max Announces Sex and the City Sequel Series And Just Like That…
HBO Max has officially announced And Just Like That…, a Sex and the City sequel series starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon, and Kristin Davis. The 10-episode, half-hour series will follow Carrie (Parker), Miranda (Nixon), and Charlotte (Davis) as they “navigate the journey from the complicated reality of life and friendship in their 30s to the even more complicated reality of life and friendship in their 50s,” according to a press release. Sex and the City co-star Kim Cattrall, who’s been feuding with Parker for the last several years, will not be returning for the sequel series. Based on Candace Bushnell’s book of the same name, Sex and the City ran for six seasons between 1998 and 2004. Two feature-length films followed in 2008 and 2010. There were plans for a third movie in 201...
Madlib and Four Tet Detail New Collaborative Album Sound Ancestors
Madlib and Four Tet have shared details of their new collaborative album Sound Ancestors. It arrives Friday, January 29th via Madlib Invazion. The tracklist and artwork are out now. Sound Ancestors is credited to Madlib, with Four Tet handling the editing, arranging, and mastering of the 16-song effort. In a social media statement, Four Tet explained the unusual work arrangement, writing, “He is always making loads of music in all sorts of styles and I was listening to some of his new beats and studio sessions when I had the idea that it would be great to hear some of these ideas made into a Madlib album. Not made into beats for vocalists to use but instead arranged into tracks that could all flow together in an album designed to be listened to start to finish. I put this co...
David Guetta, Kid Cudi Release New Remix of 2011 Smash Single, “Memories”
2011: the year of Beyoncé‘s first baby announcement, “honey badger don’t care,” the launch of Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead and, of course, the release of David Guetta and Kid Cudi s “Memories.” While these iconic events have come and gone, “Memories” is back to see another day via a new remix from Guetta himself. Released January 8th via Warner Music, this 2021 reimagination reinvigorates the decade-old original with classic dance energy, updating its driving piano melody with a pulsing four-on-the-floor beat and buoyant club drop. Living in infamy in its premiere form, the track’s new remix perfectly matches its party atmosphere as Cudi’s husky tone paints a timely picture of the n...
Taylor Swift’s ‘Evermore’ Back at No. 1 for Third Week on Billboard 200 Chart
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Jan. 16, 2021-dated chart (where Evermore returns to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Jan. 12. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. Of Evermore’s 56,000 equivalent album units earned in the tracking week ending Jan. 7, SEA units comprise 38,000 (equ...
Taylor Swift Ties Michael Jackson for Fourth-Most Weeks at No. 1 on Billboard 200 Albums Chart
The Billboard 200 chart ranks the most popular albums of the week in the U.S. based on multi-metric consumption as measured in equivalent album units. Units comprise album sales, track equivalent albums (TEA) and streaming equivalent albums (SEA). Each unit equals one album sale, or 10 individual tracks sold from an album, or 3,750 ad-supported or 1,250 paid/subscription on-demand official audio and video streams generated by songs from an album. The new Jan. 16, 2021-dated chart (where Evermore returns to No. 1) will be posted in full on Billboard‘s website on Jan. 12. For all chart news, follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both Twitter and Instagram. Here’s a look at the acts with at least 40 weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, since March 25, 1956, whe...
Taylor Swift Is So Proud of Her ‘Baby’ Olivia Rodrigo for ‘Drivers License’
And then Swift herself commented on Rodrigo’s post: “I say that’s my baby and I’m really proud.” (The choice of words is an oft-used phrase on memes made by Swifties quoting Swift’s own mom, Andrea, from an old interview clip.) “what is breathing,” Rodrigo added in another post, an adorable reaction to Swift’s comment. Swift’s words of encouragement show that she’s had Rodrigo on her radar for at least a few weeks. Her comment seems to be a wink to another post from the “Drivers License” singer’s account: on Swift’s Dec. 13 birthday, Rodrigo celebrated with a photo of the pop star holding many Grammys and the note “happy birthday mom.” See Rodrigo’s reaction to Swift’s praise o...
Lana Del Rey Unveils ‘Chemtrails Over the Country Club’ Track List & Cover Art
The upcoming Chemtrails Over the Country Club album was previously described by Del Rey as “folky, it’s beautiful, it’s super different from Norman [F—ing Rockwell].” See the Chemtrails Over the Country Club track list and cover below. Lana Del Rey’s Chemtrails Over the Country Club Track List: 1. “White Dress”2. “Chemtrails Over the Country Club”3. “Tulsa Jesus Freak”4. “Let Me Love You Like a Woman”5. “Wild at Heart”6. “Dark But Just a Game”7. “Not All Who Wander Are Lost”8. “Yosemite”9. “Breaking Up Slowly”10. “Dance Till We Die”11. “For Free” You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates On...
BURTON C. BELL Has No Interest In Playing With His Former FEAR FACTORY Bandmates Again: ‘When I Move On, I Move On’
In a recent interview with The Razor’s Edge, ex-FEAR FACTORY singer Burton C. Bell was asked if he would be open to working with any of his former bandmates again, including Christian Olde Wolbers, drummer Gene Hoglan, Byron Stroud and Raymond Herrera. He responded: “No, no, no. It’s like going back to an ex-girlfriend. The thought of it for a second might be good, but once you get there, you regret it. People move on for a reason, and when I move on, I move on. “I have a lot of great achievements, I have a lot of great times and great moments, but for me, if I wanna continue working, I wanna move forward,” he continued. “And there’s just things that you cannot change. And instead of changing it, I’m gonna move forward.” This past Septe...
EPICA’s SIMONE SIMONS Is ‘Itching To Go Back On Tour’
Vocalist Simone Simons of Dutch symphonic metallers EPICA spoke to the “Scars And Guitars” podcast about what the concert industry might look like post-pandemic. She said: “You have to be realistic. Of course, we’re all eager to go back on stage, but we all know by now that the art industry, the music business, entertainment business, is the last to start working again. And a lot of musicians are going crazy, especially the ones that live for touring.” She continued: “You have two kind of musicians: one that love to be in the studio — like my husband [KAMELOT keyboard player Oliver Palotai]; he loves it — but I also love to travel and be on stage. If I’m in the studio for too long, it’s too much of the same for me. So I am itching to go back ...
