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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to Play Saturday Night Live
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will return to Saturday Night Live on December 12th to serve as the evening’s musical guest. Dune actor Timothée Chalamet will host the episode. The Boss and his band will take their third turn on SNL, having previously played the show in 2002 and 2015. (Springsteen appeared in a solo capacity in 1992). This time around, they’ll be supporting their new album, Letter to You. SNL has also announced that country star Morgan Wallen will serve as musical guest on its December 5th episode, appearing alongside host Jason Bateman. If you recall, Wallen was scheduled to play SNL earlier in the season, but his appearance was canceled after he broke COVID-19 safety protocols. In his place, SNL tapped Jack White and he delivered one of the more memorable pe...
Christine and the Queens Partners with Indochine on New Song “3SEX”: Stream
Christine and the Queens has teamed up with Indochine band leader Nicola Sirkis for a collaborative song called “3SEX”. The track reworks Indochine’s iconic French new wave cut “3e sexe”, originally released in 1986, into a synthpop dance tune about queer liberation. When sharing the song online, Chris posted a statement in French explaining what it means to her. “Thank you @nicolasirkis @indochinetwitt for the honor and for giving me the confidence to sing ‘3SEX’ with you, at a time when the very word freedom takes on all its meaning and urgency,” she tweeted. “Real revolutions never die. Love you!” In the “3SEX” music video, Chris and Sirkis strut across a blank white space while dressed in black garments. When the chorus hits, the lights start to flash and reveal that they’re both stand...
BTS Perform “Dynamite”, Talk Grammy Nomination on Corden: Watch
Fresh off their first musical Grammy nod, the superstar K-pop group BTS dialed in to The Late Late Show with James Corden to discuss the Grammy Awards and perform their newly-nominated song “Dynamite”. Despite Corden’s introduction touting their “first ever Grammy nomination,” the Bangtan Boys had previously been up for Best Recording Package in 2019 for their album Love Yourself: Tear. But this is the first time that J-Hope, Jimin, Jin, Jungkook, V, RM, and Suga were recognized for their musical contributions, and they certainly seemed excited. Corden showed a video of the members watching as their name was called, complete with hooting, clapping, and jumping off the couch. But one member, V, merely sat there in shock. As he explained, “The reactions were different for each...
Mining Metal: Depravity, Dark Quarterer, Eternal Champion, Liturgy, Fuck the Facts, Megaton Sword, Stormkeep, Undergang
“Mining Metal” is a monthly column from Heavy Consequence writers Joseph Schafer and Langdon Hickman. The focus is on noteworthy new music emerging from the non-mainstream metal scene, highlighting releases from small and independent labels — or even releases from unsigned acts. Now is the winter of our discontent made glorious summer by … hold on let me look outside. Nope, still the winter of our discontent, my mistake. This is the eighth Mining Metal introduction essay that I’ve had to write during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to be honest with you, dear readers, I’m running out of even vaguely optimistic spins to ladle onto our monthly roundup of underground metal’s finest riffs. I guess I could say – at least we know who will lead our nation next year, right? How’s this: when we began th...
THE ROLLING STONES Launch Their Latest Fashion Collection To The World Online
Following the opening of their world-first flagship store in London’s Soho, RS No. 9 Carnaby, THE ROLLING STONES have launched a brand-new, global e-commerce shop equipped with a 360-degree virtual experience so customers can step in and shop inside the store from anywhere in the world. If you can’t get to the store in Carnaby Street London, then the virtual store is the next best thing. Once the shopper enters the virtual store, they can select from the incredible product offering. The site has a seamless user journey over the store’s two floors, including the sound booth room which hosts collaboration pieces such as the exclusive Stutterheim rain mac. Shop the new fashion forward autumn/winter collection for men and women which is influenced by workwear and also showcas...
Canadian Progresive Rockers SAGA To Release New Album, ‘Symmetry’, In March
Canadian progressive rockers SAGA will release a new studio album, “Symmetry”, on March 12, 2021 via earMUSIC. After going on tour in spring 2020, SAGA went straight into its home studios. The result: an album full of acoustic originals. “Symmetry” offers a unique listening experience by bundling complex and delicate arrangements with familiar melodies and sounds. It gives the listener the possibility to explore and discover SAGA classics like “Wind Him Up”, “Say Goodbye To Hollywood” and “Tired World” once more and in a completely new way. SAGA managed to create more than just new versions of their songs; they created a sonic world full of little details that invites the listeners to dive deeper into the complex musical phenomeno...
JUDAS PRIEST’s ROB HALFORD Speaks Out Against Body Shaming
In a new interview with “A Gay And A Nongay Podcast”, JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford, who came out more than 20 years ago, was asked what advice he had for for gay men and women who feel like they don’t fit common gay stereotypes. He said (see video below): “I think that the whole body shaming and imaging is just as prevalent in the straight world as it is in the gay world. You always have to have somebody with a six-pack on [on the cover of] a gay mag, and that’s wrong. You always have to have some beautiful, slim, gorgeous woman on [the cover of] a straight magazine or whatever. It’s just mad that we’re still at that place. Just push by that, ’cause it’s fluff — it really is fluff. It has no relevance whatsoever. “If you’...
WHITESNAKE’s DAVID COVERDALE Unboxes ‘Love Songs’ Collection (Video)
A six-minute video in which WHITESNAKE frontman David Coverdale unboxes a copy of “Love Songs”, a new collection that contains remixed and remastered versions of the group’s best love songs, can be seen below. “Love Songs” is the second release in the band’s “Red, White and Blues Trilogy”, a series of compilations organized by musical themes that began this summer with “The Rock Album” (white) and will conclude next year with “The Blues Album” (blue). The new collection includes a mix of hits and deep tracks that were originally released between 1987 and 2011 on five WHITESNAKE studio albums and David Coverdale‘s third solo album, “Into The Light”. “Love Songs” was released on November 6 a...
Snoop Dogg Narrates Ty Dolla $ign & Post Malone’s ‘Spicy’ Wild West Video
Ty Dolla $ign is a man on a mission in the Wild West video for his Post Malone collab “Spicy.” With Snoop Dogg along for the (horse) ride to narrate a tale of redemption and revenge after the Stick-Up Kids snag Ty’s money, clothes and girlfriend, the visual splits the difference between dusty trails and future tales. And as Uncle Snoop warns, the Kids may have taken it all, but the one thing they left behind was Ty’s guitar — “boy, did they f–k up.” The clip directed by James Larese from the three-time Grammy nominee’s Featuring Ty Dolla $ign album finds Ty riding his mechanized horse to a saloon, where he meets up with his partner in crime Posty. After smashing heads and breaking bottles, the duo gallop up on the Kids and Ty dispatches...
11 Things We Learned From Taylor Swift’s ‘Folklore: The Long Pond Studio Sessions’
Here’s everything we learned from the film. William Bowery Is Joe Alwyn When Folklore was released, an unknown writer named William Bowery was credited on both “Exile” and “Betty.” Fans speculated over the identity, but Taylor confirmed in the doc that it is, in fact, her longtime boyfriend Joe Alwyn. The First Song She Wrote Is “My Tears Ricochet” and She Always Knew It Would Be Track No. 5 In Taylor Swift lore, track five on each album always deals in heartbreak and sadness. “My Tears Ricochet” fit that theme. “Chronologically, that’s the first thing. I wrote that one alone,” Swift said to Antonoff. “It’s definitely I think one of the saddest songs on the album.” “I think it’s one of the...
Winans Family Extends Chart Legacy, As Juan & Lisa Winans Lead Gospel Airplay for First Time
While the twosome reigns in its first Gospel Airplay appearance, Marvin Winans, who is Juan’s uncle, adds his second No. 1. He first led as featured on Andrae Crouch’s “Let the Church Say Amen,” for four weeks starting in April 2012. Marvin Winans is a member of landmark gospel group The Winans, which also includes Carvin (Juan’s father) and Michael Winans. The act most recently ruled Top Gospel Albums in 1990 with its LP Return. Juan Winans began his career as a teenaged member of the group Winans Phase 2, with younger members of the family. The act scored a No. 1 on Top Gospel Albums in its lone appearance, as We Get Next led in September 1999. Lisa Winans (formerly Lisa Kimmey) broke through as a member of Christian music trio Out of Eden with her sisters A...
Phoebe Bridgers Reacts to 4 Grammy Nominations, Reveals Plans to ‘Level Up’ Her Skeleton Outfit
Bridgers, who released her acclaimed second album, Punisher, on Dead Oceans in June, earned four nominations: best new artist, best alternative album, and best rock song and best rock performance for the melodic and impassioned single “Kyoto.” While she asserts “there’s not enough nominations for the amount of very incredible music in the world,” she’s excited to see artists she loves, like Chika and Megan Thee Stallion, also in this year’s best new artist class. “I feel like [Megan] turned positivity into being punk rock, you know?” she says of the latter. “If the intersection of nihilism and optimism is ‘f— everything,’ she’s the optimism side.” Bridgers also recalls how Conor Oberst’s former tour manager used to say: “Bright Eyes, best new artist 15 years running” (the band was, i...
