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Supergroup Featuring COREY TAYLOR, DAVE NAVARRO And TAYLOR HAWKINS To Perform At ‘A Bowie Celebration’
GROUND CONTROL, the supergroup featuring SLIPKNOT and STONE SOUR‘s Corey Taylor, FOO FIGHTERS‘ Taylor Hawkins, and JANE’S ADDICTION‘s Dave Navarro and Chris Chaney, will perform at “A Bowie Celebration: Just For One Day!” live streaming concert this weekend. Produced by David Bowie‘s longest-standing band member Mike Garson, in partnership with Stacey Sher and Kerry Brown together with Rolling Live Studios, “A Bowie Celebration” begins at 6:00 p.m. PT / 9:00 p.m. ET on Friday, January 8. Hosted by Garson, the stream will bring together a dazzling array of artists who worked with Bowie, or were deeply influenced by him and his work, for a celebration on what would have been his 74th birthday and weekend of the fifth anniversary of his pa...
Former SEPULTURA Drummer IGOR CAVALERA Breaks Down ‘Territory’ In New Video Series
Former SEPULTURA drummer Igor Cavalera has launched a new video series, “Beneath The Drums”, on his YouTube channel, where he dissects some of the best-known songs from his recording history. In the first episode, which can be seen below, he gives the backstory of the SEPULTURA song “Territory” and also performs a playthrough video of the track, originally taken from the band’s 1993 album “Chaos A.D.” Igor left SEPULTURA in June 2006 due to “artistic differences.” His departure from the band came five months after he announced that he was taking a break from SEPULTURA‘s touring activities to spend time with his second wife and their son (who was born in January 2006). In 1996, Igor‘s brother, frontman Max Cavalera, exited SE...
Kenneth Petty’s Alleged Victim Airs Out Him & Nicki Minaj Over Alleged Harassment
Source: Robert Kamau / Getty Nicki Minaj may be enjoying motherhood, but that’s not stopping her name from appearing in some messy drama. As previously reported, the Queens rapper graciously shared photos of her son with her legion of fans, and the Barbz are over the moon; but the adorable photos didn’t stop more drama from hitting the Petty household after the alleged victim of Kenneth Petty’s crime made a tearful and public plea asking the couple to “stop harassing” her and her family. According to public reports, Kenneth Petty’s alleged rape victim is speaking out after claiming that she has been harassed by the Pettys during Minaj’s break from music. In an emotional Instagram post, the alleged victim tearfully requests that the Pettys “leave her alone.” “This message is for Nicki Minaj...
Rev. Raphael Warnock Becomes Georgia’s 1st Black U.S. Senator, Ossoff Appears To Have Won As Well
Source: Michael M. Santiago / Getty Georgia became the epicenter of U.S. politics on Tuesday (Jan. 5) as a pair of runoff elections would help determine which political party would control the U.S. Senate and Congress for at least the next two years. Rev. Raphael Warnock defeated Sen. David Perdue to become the state’s first Black senator and all signs point to Jon Ossoff becoming the state’s first Jewish senator. On the heels of President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris defeating President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, the balance of control of the U.S. Congress hinged on the critical Georgia races, which would give the Democratic Party full control of both chambers. Warnock, who is the senior pastor at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, is also the f...
Dr. Dre’s Home Almost Burglarized While He Was In The ICU
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Last night (Jan. 6), the Hip-Hop world got their first scare of 2021 when it was reported that Dr. Dre had suffered a brain aneurysm and was laid up in the ICU of Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in LA. While most of us were praying he’d pull through and be ok (he is!), would-be burglars saw an opportunity and made a beeline to Dr. Dre’s home in hopes of making off with whatever they could carry. Unfortunately what they found were some iron bracelets as TMZ is reporting that law enforcement arrested the group of men who set off to house things from Dr. Dre’s home. Our sources say 4 men were on Dre’s Pacific Palisades property Wednesday around 2 AM. Security spotted them as they were casing the house. Before they could get to the main structure, secu...
Kenosha Cop Who Shot Jacob Blake 7 Times In The Back Won’t Face Charges
Source: Scott Olson / Getty The August 2020 shooting of Jacob Blake at the hands of police in the city of Kenosha, Wisc. left the 29-year-old man unable to walk and sparked a number of nationwide protests. The officer who shot Blake in the back seven times will not face charges, but the family is now in talks to launch a civil lawsuit against the Kenosha Police Department. Local NPR outlet WUWM reports that after the news went wide that officer Rustin Sheskey would not face charges on Tuesday (Jan. 5), it was then reported that the Blake family and their legal representatives will examine a pathway of launching the lawsuit. The shooting incident took place when officers, responding to a domestic incident, approached Blake with Sheckey unloading his service weapon in front of the man’s chil...
Beatsource Launches “VIP Crates” Playlist Series
Beatsource, the music platform for open-format DJs from DJcity and Beatport, has called upon some of the most prominent DJs in the industry to kick off its “VIP Crates” playlist series. The series is designed to give DJs insight into what’s being played by the industry’s top tastemakers worldwide, and has been launched with an impressive roster of artists. Lil Jon, ZHU, Major Lazer‘s Walshy Fire, DJ Amen, Craig David, and many more have curated playlists showcasing what’s being played in their DJ sets at the moment. “The groundswell of support we’ve received from these enormously successful artists and DJs wanting to be a part of our initial rollout of VIP Crates has been amazing,” said Edwin “DJ Phenom” Paredes, Chief C...
Oliver Heldens Previews Official Remix of Iconic Above & Beyond Song “Thing Called Love”
Taking on remix duties for a song as big as Above & Beyond‘s “Thing Called Love” is a daunting task, but Oliver Heldens has pulled it off. The Dutch superstar recently announced an official remix of the iconic trance track featuring Richard Bedford, which will arrive this Friday, January 8th by way of Anjunabeats. The remix is a bit different from what Heldens’ fans are used to. The future house sage opted for more of a trance feel, producing soaring synths and a chugging bassline in what sounds like a riveting rework of the 2011 Group Therapy classic. “It’s a bit different than what you’d expect from me I guess, but I wanted to keep the Trancy vibe of the original alive in this new remix,” Heldens wrote in an announcement sh...
Club Space and Bar Lab Launch Space Park, a New Open-Air Venue in Miami
Though it may have been difficult to predict just how long COVID-19 would last after nearly a year of global shutdowns and quarantine measures, some concert and nightlife venues have already begun making necessary adjustments to continue operations during the pandemic. Club Space in Miami is one such venue. With the help of Bar Lab—and with social distancing and safety measures in mind—the fabled club has announced the launch of its new open-air venue endeavor, Space Park. In the Magic City Innovation District, Space Park’s events debuted on New Year’s Eve with Artbat and Rony Seikaly. As with all the events planned for the outdoor venue, Club Space sorted out the booking, with Bar Lab spearheading the beverage offerings. “The opportunity of doing an open-air venue ...
Get Lost in the Melodic Bass of Subsidia Records’ Euphoric 18-Track “Dawn: Vol. 2” Compilation
New year, new compilation from Excision‘s Subsidia Records. After the label debuted in late 2020 with a gargantuan 118-track release, it has since released two thematic follow-up compilations—the second volumes of the wonky Dusk and the relentless, heavy-hitting Night. Subsidia has now dropped the curtain on the sophomore edition of Dawn, which focuses on future bass and melodic dubstep. An unquestioned highlight of the compilation is a hotly anticipated collaboration between Excision, Whales, and RIELL called “The Last Time,” which kicks off the record with a soaring punch. What follows is an 18-track cycle of riveting, vocal-driven bass music that lends to a euphoric journey through the uplifting avenues of EDM. Standouts from Dawn: Vol. 2 are a...
Trent Reznor on David Bowie: “He Helped Me in Those Dark Times Before I Chose to Get My S**t Together”
Editor’s Note: We continue our celebration of the life and art of David Bowie with an exclusive new tribute from Trent Reznor. Keep checking back all week for more content reflecting on our favorite Starman. And, if you’ve missed anything, you can experience it all again here. David Bowie’s impact on fans and musicians transcended definitions of genre, illustrated by the iconic rock chameleon’s influence on industrial heavyweight Trent Reznor. As the Nine Inch Nails mastermind tells Consequence of Sound, having Bowie as both role model and friend helped him through some very dark times. Nine Inch Nails had the honor of opening for Bowie on “The Outside Tour” in 1995, which saw Reznor and company remaining onstage to perform a handful of songs with Bowie at the beginning of the latter’s hea...
Sacha Baron Cohen Says He’s Done Playing Borat
The saga of Borat Margaret Sagdiyev has come to a very nice end. In a new profile in Variety, Sacha Baron Cohen said he’s finished with his most famous creation, and that the fictional Kazakh journalist is now “locked away in the cupboard.” The character had been retired once before, after the release of the 2006 film Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. The satire of Borat is based in surprise. People thought they were talking to a second-rate journalist from a sparsely populated country, and so they didn’t mind sharing their racism, misogyny, and anti-Semitism. After the movie became a box office sensation, Cohen thought he’d lost the element of surprise. He began to change his mind in 2018. First, the rise of white nationali...
