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LEPROUS Unveils New Single ‘Castaway Angels’
Norwegian rockers LEPROUS have released a new single titled “Castaway Angels” via InsideOut Music. The song was recently tracked at Ocean Sound Recordings in Norway and then mixed by Adam Noble (PLACEBO, BIFFY CLYRO, NOTHING BUT THIEVES). The official video for “Castaway Angels”, directed by Tobias Hole Aasgaarden of South Coast Creative, can be seen below. LEPROUS singer Einar Solberg comments: “This year, we’ve all had to readjust our lives, do new things. Missed out on things we were supposed to do, and find new things to do. “One day in the beginning of the corona outbreak in Norway, I came to TorO‘s [guitarist Tor Oddmund Suhrke] house with a song we were supposed to work on together. The problem was that I was already finished with the ...
AEROSMITH’s STEVEN TYLER And JOE PERRY To Take Part In ‘Wayne’s World’ Virtual Reunion
AEROSMITH‘s Steven Tyler and Joe Perry will make an appearance during Josh Gad‘s “Wayne’s World” reunion, which will premiere this coming Monday, December 7 at at 9 a.m. PT /12 p.m. ET as part of the actor’s YouTube series. Gad, best-known as the voice of Olaf the snowman in “Frozen”, has been hosting virtual reunions for classic films across lockdown on his “Reunited Apart” series, previously bringing together the cast of “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” back in June. “Wayne’s World” turned 28 this year. The Penelope Spheeris comedy based on a Mike Myers/Dana Carvey “Saturday Night Live” skit came out in February 1992, following thirty-four days of shooting with a relatively modest $20 mi...
Sophie Turner Shares Never-Before-Seen Throwback Pregnancy Photo With Joe Jonas
Sophie Turner is revisiting her days as a soon-to-be mother. The Game of Thrones actress took to Instagram on Friday (Dec. 4) to share some past photographs, including a never-before-seen pic of her baby bump. In one of the images, the 24-year-old actress is seen standing in front of a mirror showing off her bare pregnant belly alongside admiring husband, Joe Jonas. 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.
Pete Davidson Spoofs Eminem’s “Stan” Video on SNL: Watch
After an extended hiatus, Saturday Night Live returned this weekend with a new episode hosted by Jason Bateman. Among the standout sketches was a Christmas-themed parody of Eminem’s classic “Stan” video, starring Pete Davidson as “Stu”. In the sketch, Davidson repeatedly writes to Santa Claus asking for a PlayStation 5. The spoofing also includes cameos from Dido Stu’s mom (played by Kate McKinnon), Sir Elton John (Bowen Yang), and ***spoiler*** one Marshall Bruce Mathers himself. Yes, the real Slim Shady makes a surprise appearance at the end of the sketch. Watch it below. At the top of this year, Eminem dropped his latest album, Music to Be Murdered By. Over the summer, he joined Big Sean on a new song called “The Adventures of Moon Man and Slim Shady”. Out...
JOHN PETRUCCI To Be Joined By KIKO LOUREIRO, JASON RICHARDSON, TOSIN ABASI At Rescheduled ‘Guitar Universe 3.0’ Camp
John Petrucci has announced details of his rescheduled “Guitar Universe 3.0” camp. The event, which was originally scheduled to take place August 1-5, 2020 at Hotel Irvine in Orange County, California, will now take place July 27-31, 2021. The first West Coast iteration of the camp will see the DREAM THEATER guitarist joined by an impressive lineup of electric and acoustic guitar players, including Kiko Loureiro (MEGADETH), Jason Richardson (ALL THAT REMAINS), Tosin Abasi (ANIMALS AS LEADERS), Plini, Andy Wood and others. The camp, which is billed as a four day and night summer shred intensive, is presented by Dreamcatcher Events and boasts master classes, workshops, jams, concerts, lectures, signing sessions and much more. Said Petrucci in a statement: “I’d like to...
WOLFGANG VAN HALEN: Why EDDIE VAN HALEN Was A ‘Terrible’ Guitar Teacher
Eddie Van Halen‘s son Wolfgang, who recently released the first single from his MAMMOTH WVH solo project, says that his father was actually a pretty lame guitar teacher. “He didn’t teach me” how to play guitar,” Wolfgang told “The Afternoon Program” on the 102.9 The Hog radio station (hear audio below). “He was a terrible teacher. He only taught me how to do power chords on a guitar, and then I taught myself. [Laughs] I would ask him how to play something, and then he would just be himself, which is be a legendary guitar player. He couldn’t really help me connect point A to point B; he would just do it and go, ‘Do this,’ because it’s so easy for him. And I would just laugh and be, like, ‘Okay.’ [Laughs] ...
METALLICA’s ‘Enter Sandman’ Reimagined By ELISE TROUW And BLINK-182’s TRAVIS BARKER
Singer and songwriter Elise Trouw has teamed up with BLINK-182 drummer Travis Barker, Australian musician Carey Watkins and Paul Raci, co-star of the new Amazon Studios movie “Sound Of Metal”, to reimagine METALLICA‘s classic song “Enter Sandman” in celebration of the film’s release. The official music video for their version of the song can be seen below. Darius Marder‘s “Sound Of Metal” stars British-Pakistani actor Riz Ahmed as a heavy-metal drummer whose life goes into freefall when he faces the first signs of hearing loss. “Sound Of Metal” premiered at the 2019 Toronto International Film Festival, with IndieWire‘s Eric Kohn praising Ahmed‘s performance as Ruben and writing that Marder‘s narrative direc...
PUDDLE OF MUDD’s WES SCANTLIN Names His Favorite Grunge Band
In a new interview with RadioactiveMike Z, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM radio program “Wired In The Empire”, PUDDLE OF MUDD frontman Wes Scantlin was asked to name his favorite band of the so-called “Flannel Five”: NIRVANA, STONE TEMPLE PILOTS, ALICE IN CHAINS, SOUNDGARDEN and PEARL JAM. He responded: “I’m gonna go SOUNDGARDEN on that, dude. They just shred, man; those guys are just amazing. I seriously walk in circles before I go into the studio trying to kind of get a vibe and sing a little bit like Chris Cornell. But he’s got a really insane voice. “All of [those bands] are all wonderful artists and just simplified music, in my opinion,” he added. “And God bless Eddie Van Halen. I appreciate and I celebrate his life, but I could no...
The 35 Best Lesser-Known Artists of the Last 35 Years, Picked by 35 Well Known Artists
For a band to “make it,” it takes a lot of luck, timing and in some cases, a village to get them into your psyche and even then, success isn’t guaranteed. On the side of that equation, which is about 99.999999% of everyone else who have been littered on the shoulder of history. That doesn’t mean they weren’t good or worthy, but it just didn’t happen. That’s why we’re here. Since there are so many bands, singer-songwriters and everyone in between you may not have heard of, we tapped a select group of famous musicians who have made it to highlight their favorite lesser-known musicians who they think never got their due. You didn’t ask, but my favorite lesser-known bands are the Rhythm Warehouse and Novaflow, sorry but those are the rules. -Daniel Kohn Slash (Guns N’ Roses) on Rocco DeLuca CR...
Birthday Boy
When Micheal Somersel was 8 years old, his Brooklyn, NY birthplace led the city in murders; 125 killed within the 75th police precinct. Gangs, drugs and an intersection once known as “the four corners of death” was his home turf, off the Van Siclen stop on the C and 3 subway trains. Over the decades, notable nearby neighbors ranged from mob boss John Gotti to rapper Uncle Murda – who, in 2008, was shot in the head in the neighborhood. Success statistics don’t favor young black men in East New York. But Somersel bucked the stats in a big way, the product of a poignant immigrant success story. Born March 19, 1985, a Tuesday, the same day SPIN went on sale for the first time, Somersel was the youngest of seven children, six boys and one girl. There are 18 years between Somersel an...
Krist Novoselic on the Lasting Impact of Nirvana
For many, Nirvana were the voice of Generation X. And with good reason. Kurt Cobain’s lyrics reflected elements of alienation and angst of the post-Boomer generation, while their incredibly melodic music powered by Krist Novoselic’s booming bass and Dave Grohl’s tenacious drumming took what was going on underground and brought grunge and alternative to the mainstream and blew the then-ruling hair metal away. “We had a pretty good time [as they shot to fame],” Novoselic tells SPIN over the phone. “But we really didn’t even know what was going on. We were doing these tours at this point in relatively small places. We heard we were on heavy rotation on MTV and these label guys would show up and it would be like ‘Oh okay.’ Just working hard and trying to play good every night.” That shar...
The Most Influential Artists: #1 Nirvana
As part of our 35th anniversary, we’re naming the most influential artists of the past 35 years. Today, we’ve finally reached the top spot. From Seattle, Washington, here is Nirvana. CREDIT: Gie Knaeps/Getty Images The hero’s journey has been told time and time again. Hero leaves small town, battles along the yellow brick road and ultimately finds success. In this case, the hero was a blonde kid from the small riverfront town of Aberdeen, Washington, who defied the odds and changed the course of music. Kurt Cobain was everything: Feminist. Outspoken. Sly. Snarky. Hilarious. Intelligent. Intuitive. Forward-thinking. Genius. Teaming up with bassist Krist Novoselic and (four drummers later) Dave Grohl, Cobain kick-started a sonic revolution, bursting eardrums and revolutionizing a sound...
