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Sons Of SLASH, SCOTT WEILAND And ROBERT TRUJILLO Return With Second SUSPECT208 Single ‘All Black’
SUSPECT208, the new band featuring the sons of Slash, Scott Weiland and Robert Trujillo, has released the official music video for its second single, “All Black”. The clip was filmed at the iconic Sunset Strip club The Viper Room with director Sage Flores of Sunburst Films. SUSPECT208 frontman, 20-year-old Noah Weiland, is the son of late STONE TEMPLE PILOTS singer Scott Weiland. The drummer is London Hudson, 18-year-old son of GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist Slash. 16-year-old bassist Tye Trujillo is son of METALLICA bass player Robert Trujillo. They are joined by 18-year-old guitarist Niko Tsangaris. “All Black”‘s release comes less than a month after the arrival of SUSPECT208‘s debut single, “Long Awaited”, which has racked up more than 800,...
DEATH ANGEL’s WILL CARROLL Looks Back On His Battle With COVID-19: It Was ‘A Thousand Times Worse’ Than The Flu
DEATH ANGEL drummer Will Carroll has once again spoken out about his battle with COVID-19, the disease caused by the new coronavirus. The musician, who spent almost two weeks on a ventilator in an intensive care unit at a Northern California hospital, first got sick when he and the rest of DEATH ANGEL spent more than a month on the road in Europe with TESTAMENT and EXODUS as part of “The Bay Strikes Back 2020” tour. Carroll discussed his experience of testing positive for the life-threatening illness during an interview with Germany’s “Rockpalast”. Asked what he thinks about people who claim that the coronavirus is “just a flu” and that the impact of the virus has been vastly exaggerated, Carroll said (see video below): “I’ve had the fl...
GENE SIMMONS On EDDIE VAN HALEN: No Guitarist Since JIMI HENDRIX Had That Kind Of Impact
Gene Simmons — who first spotted Eddie Van Halen and the VAN HALEN band in 1976 during a performance at Starwood Club in Los Angeles — told the “Jeremy White Podcast” that he was blown away by his introduction to the David Lee Roth-fronted outfit. “When Eddie came along, nobody played like that,” the KISS bassist/vocalist said (see video below). “And I’m not even talking about the quality of the songs, or Dave‘s completely taking the frontman to the nth level. I mean, at that time, Dave was the king. There was nobody. If Mick Jagger stood next to him, it would be like a sixth-grader. And he really took it all the way. The whole band — the musicianship, the songwriting. But when Edward would get in front of that stage and start tapping and stuff — w...
Imaginations From The Other Side – 25th Anniversary Edition – BLIND GUARDIAN
RATING: 9/10 There may be people out there who don’t regard BLIND GUARDIAN‘s “Imaginations From The Other Side” as a classic heavy metal record, but those people are wrong and deserve to be publicly scorned for their foolishness. “Imaginations…” remains a lot of fans’ favorite album by the Germans, not least because it seemed to confidently define the band’s sound at a point when melodic bombast and theatricality were, with mainstream rock and metal folk, about as popular as genital warts. Hansi Kürsch knew differently then, and 25 years later, this triple-disc celebration of a seminal masterpiece feels like vindication on a huge scale. BLIND GUARDIAN raced to the front of the pack when this was originally released in 1995, and they remain th...
Hip-Hop Legend Kurtis Blow Has Successful Heart Transplant Surgery
Source: Derrick Salters/WENN.com / WENN The legendary Kurtis Blow is still ticking. The Hip-Hop pioneer is recovering after a successful heart transplant surgery. According to the Washington Informer, Blow, born Kurtis Walker, underwent heart transplant surgery on Sunday (Dec. 6) in Los Angeles per his wife Shirley Walker. Fortunately, the procedure was a success. “We give all glory to God for the perfect heart and transplant,” said the “Christmas Rappin’” rapper’s wife. “He is out of surgery. Keep the prayers and praises up. God does all things well.” Kurtis Blow has been having issues with his heart for years. In 2016, he suffered a heart attack in Los Angeles and credited police officers who administered CPR with saving his life. In 2019, he had heart surgery that w...
Fat Joe & Maino Discuss Rappers Being “In Danger” In Today’s Hip-Hop Landscape
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty 2020’s been a struggle year for basically everyone across the globe, but seemingly out of nowhere the Hip-Hop game have seen a sudden jump in their artists getting shot, robbed, and arrested like it was the 90’s all over again. From the murder of King Von to the shootings of Boosie Badazz and Benny The Butcher to Casanova facing fed charges, rappers are finding themselves targeted one way or another. Fat Joe addressed the issue on his latest IG live interview with Maino and bluntly stated that “rappers are in danger.” Breaking down how rappers tend to get caught up out on these streets, Joey Crills and Maino explained that artists tend to keep their business in the streets when they should be looking to mature into legal money businessmen. “It’s always so easy ...
Cozy AF: Charlamagne Tha God Re-Signs With iHeartRadio For Another 5 Years
Source: WENN.com / WENN It seems Charlamagne tha God is staying put at the company that helped make him a household name. He has signed a new contract to keep him at iHeartRadio for another five more calendars. Page Six is exclusively reporting that Lenard is not done pulling boss moves in 2020. The on air personality has re-signed with the media conglomerate to keep him as the face of The Breakfast Club for another half decade. Additionally the new deal will afford him some added responsibilities as an executive in a Senior Creative Officer role. The Moncks Corner, South Carolina native will continue to define the strategy and content for his “Black Effect Podcast” platform which is a 50/50 venture. He detailed his enthusiasm regarding the new situation. “iHeart has shown me that the...
COVID Crazy: Ohio Nightclub Fined For Hosting Trey Songz Show With No Social Distancing
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Die hard Trey Songz fans looked contamination in the face and didn’t blink once. He recently performed a live set in the Midwest and faced a mask less crowd. As spotted on NBC News the Petersburg, Virginia native took the stage at Club Aftermath on Saturday, December 5. While Covid-19 continues to spike throughout the country this performance threw care to the wind as the staff clearly did not enforce any social distancing policies. Photos from the event show hundreds of patrons standing very closely together. To add yet another jarring layer to the scene PPE was not enforced even with close to 500 people in the house. This high profile event landed on the Ohio Investigative Unit’s radar and naturally they spot checked the show. The agents state...
Bad Bunny Lands Fifth No. 1 on Top Latin Albums With ‘El Último Tour del Mundo’
El Último Tour del Mundo, which dropped Thursday, Nov. 26 at 11 p.m. ET via Rimas, opened at No. 20 (Dec. 5-dated survey) after just one hour of activity (the sales and streaming tracking week for the Top Latin Albums chart runs Friday through Thursday each week). As previously reported, El Último Tour del Mundo earned Bad Bunny his first No. 1 on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart and made history as the first all-Spanish album to claim a spot atop the tally since its inception in August 1963. On Top Latin Albums, with 116,000 equivalent album units earned in the week ending Dec. 3, according to Nielsen Music/ MRC Data, El Último Tour del Mundo nabs the second biggest week in terms of overall units for a Latin release since Billboard began ...
Here Are the Lyrics to Lil Nas X’s ‘Holiday’
It’s the “Holiday” season, and Lil Nas X is coming to town with his very own Christmas single. “[On] ‘Holiday,’ I’m talking about the past year or whatever, couple of s–ts that’s been happening and just establishing where I’m going, where I’m moving, how I’m good no matter what,” the rapper told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about his freshly minted top 40 hit. 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 give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Sony Music Names Jean-Sebastien Permal Director of A&R in Continental Europe & Africa
Permal, who was born in Mauritius, moved to Vienna in 2014 to pursue a career in music management and publishing. He joined Sony Music Germany’s label Four Music in 2017 before expanding his A&R role to encompass all of Sony Music’s labels across Europe and Africa the following year. “With his deep roots in African and European music, Seb is well positioned to connect the dots among our A&Rs across the world to help artists succeed on a global scale,” said Sony Music president of Continental Europe and Africa Daniel Lieberberg, whom Permal will directly report to. “He is one of the most creative and well connected executives in both regions and a most valuable source of expertise for our artists and creatives.” Since 2018, Permal has worked with Sony Music’s labels on a number of a...
Mickey Guyton, Charley Pride & More Black Artists to Receive Grammy Nods in Country Categories
Charley Pride: Ten nods in the country field between 1966 and 1979. One win: Charley Pride Sings Heart Songs won best country vocal performance, male for 1972. The album logged 16 consecutive weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Country Albums chart in 1972. It contained Pride’s signature song, the charming “Kiss an Angel Good Mornin’,” a No. 1 hit on Hot Country Songs for five weeks in 1971-72. The Pointer Sisters: Two nods in the country field in 1974-75, plus another for Anita Pointer and Bonnie Pointer for writing “Fairytale,” a best country song nominee. “Fairytale” won for best country vocal performance by a duo or group, 1974. “Live Your Life Before You Die” was nominated in the same category the following year. The former track was from the Pointers’ album That’s a Plenty; the latter ...
