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Heavy Culture: Living Colour on Their Upbringings, Pandemic Life, and Getting Out the Vote
Heavy Culture is a monthly column from journalist Liz Ramanand, focusing on artists of different cultural backgrounds in heavy music as they offer their perspectives on race, society, and more as it intersects with and affects their music. The latest installment of this column features an interview with the Living Colour drummer Will Calhoun, guitarist Vernon Reid and bassist Doug Wimbish. Since 1985, Living Colour have blended rock, metal, and blues to form a sound all their own, inspiring many artists along the way. This year, the rock pioneers are celebrating 30 years of their sophomore album, Time’s Up, which yielded such hits as “Type”, “Love Rears Its Ugly Head”, and “Elvis Is Dead”. This edition of “Heavy Culture” spans several months, as we first caught up with the members of Livin...
10 Timeless Political Songs for Election Day
This feature originally ran November 2008 and has since been edited for Election Day 2020. Everyone hates politics. Election Day is among us, though. So, it doesn’t matter if you get nauseous any time you flip by C-SPAN or that you once had an asthma attack during your eighth-grade field trip to Washington, D.C. Truth be told, the country’s future is on the line, and it’s your civil duty to get out there and cast a ballot. As a source of inspiration, we scrambled together a cliché collection of the best political anthems out there. Because, really, sometimes you just need to hear the hits again to feel good about something — it’s sort of like how every sports team relies on the same three or four songs to get everyone in the mood. Editors’ Picks So, slap on those headphones, pump up ...
DaBaby’s Older Brother Dies By Suicide: Report #RIP
Source: Kevin Rawls / Radio One Digital Fame, celebrity and money do not buy happiness and DaBaby got this harsh reminder in tragic fashion. It has been confirmed that his brother has killed himself. As spotted on The Grio the “Find My Way” rapper’s older sibling is no longer with us and all signs are pointing to it being a self inflicted. On Tuesday, November 4 Glenn Johnson was found dead from a gunshot wound. According to TMZ it took place in their hometown of Charlotte, North Carolina. The celebrity gossip site is reporting that he posted a video of himself looking visibly upset while crying and holding a firearm. He is quoted as claiming he had been wronged a lot in the past. In the past the “Suge” MC had alluded to his brother’s mental issues and even spoke on it on hi...
Alicia Keys & Brandi Carlile “A Beautiful Day,” Lil Freaky ft. Future & Herion Young “27 Birdz” & More | Daily Visuals 11.4.20
Source: John Parra / Getty It’s been a minute since Alicia Keys has graced us with her presence and though she’s not as visible these days as she was in the early 00’s, we’ll take whatever she gives us. In her latest visuals to “A Beautiful Noise,” Alicia Keys and Brandi Carlile team up for a dope duet which features the two talented women at the helm of their own pianos as they belt out a soul moving song. From R&B to rap, Lil Freaky looks to bring back the visor look and in his Future and Herion Young assisted clip to “27 Birdz” kicks it with his homies in front of the trap house where they move that work. Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from YelloPain, Sa Money featuring Styles P, and more. ALICIA KEYS & BRANDI CARLILE – “A BEAUTIFUL NOISE” [embedded content] ...
Cardi B Puffs 3 Cigarettes At Once To Cope With Election Stress
Source: Bernard Smalls / @PhotosByBeanz Got a lighter? Well, hand one to Cardi B because watching the election has her super stressed out. The “WAP” rapper was spotted on Instagram sharing her Election Day journey with fans on Tuesday (Nov. 3) as the nation braced for the hot mess that comes with the 2020 Presidential race. Standing outside in a black fur coat, fresh cornrows, and laid baby hairs, the Bronx native stood close to the camera with a frustrated expression on her face. After shaking her head, the rapper raises not one, but three lit cigarettes to her mouth and deeply inhales without coughing. A few seconds later, she looks away and exhales the smoke from her lungs without uttering a word. “How these elections got me watching these states turn red &...
Mississippi Voters Approve A New State Flag Over Old Confederate Banner
Source: Tasos Katopodis / Getty While there’s still a good possibility that the Racist-In-Chief will remain in office for another four years (or longer), Mississippi is still looking to distance itself from it’s prejudice past and has decided to ditch it’s most blatantly racist piece of history. According to Raw Story, the people of the Hospitality State voted in a new measure which would change the state flag from that confederate battle emblem to a new banner which would feature the magnolia flower. Donald Trump and his cult of a political party isn’t gonna like that one bit. The old flag was retired over the summer, as the US exploded with the biggest protests in decades against racism and police brutality. The ongoing movement for racial justice in the US also prompted the removal of s...
Big Wins Beyond The Presidency: Meet The Trailblazing Women Elected To Congress
There is still a long way to go until the 2020 presidential election is decided. Both candidates are up against tight margins as of this writing, trading victories in key battleground states. President Donald Trump took Florida on election night, but former Vice President Joe Biden flipped Arizona, a formerly Republican-leaning state, and took Wisconsin the following morning. It’s tense, to be sure, and in moments of stress, it might be helpful to remember the silver linings. This Election Day proved the importance of down-ballot races, with many forward-thinking and diverse candidates making history with victories at the state level. For example, more than 570 LGBTQ+ candidates appeared on the ballot this year, according to the Victory Fund, and many secured their seats on Tuesday in the ...
Thurston Moore on New LP, 2020 Election, Meeting Our Publication’s Founder
Calling from England a few days before the release of his new LP, By the Fire, Thurston Moore admits the dire situation of the U.S. homeland occupies his mind over anything else. And this is before Trump caught COVID-19. “For me, it’s not so much Biden versus Trump — it’s us versus Trump,” the guitarist tells SPIN. “Right now, this is the main conversation on the table because it’s a serious, serious time. You have leaders putting their heads in the sand while the Earth is fucking being burned up. The health of the planet is the primary situation on hand, and they’re in denial of it. That to me is the most major issue.” If you’ve been listening to Moore and his old band Sonic Youth these last 40 years, politics has always been at the forefront for the New York noise-rock greats. It’s...
The Most Influential Artists: #32 Drake
As part of our 35th-anniversary, we’re naming the most influential artists of the past 35 years. Today, we’re at #32. From Toronto, Ontario, Canada, here’s Drake. CREDIT: Paras Griffin/Getty Images You can easily compare Aubrey Graham to one of those automatic baseball-pitching machines. Every throw somehow lands exactly where he wants it. Drawing from Kanye West’s 808s and Heartbreak playbook, Drake’s first move was his 2009 breakout So Far Gone, a mixtape that truly “sounded like an album,” as opposed to, well, a mixtape. And while his signature sing-rapping smashes haven’t since found their way onto equally great albums — with Take Care a major exception — Drizzy could be modern music’s most consistent hit-maker. Attempting to even list his top five is impossible — there really is...
DREAM THEATER’s JOHN PETRUCCI Unboxes His Signature Range Of Specialty Beard And Mustache Products (Video)
DREAM THEATER guitarist John Petrucci has uploaded an unboxing video for Nebula, his first-ever signature range of specialty beard and mustache products created in collaboration with the grooming company Captain Fawcett. Check it out below. Nebula is now available to order at this location. Each 50ml Nebula beard oil will include a limited-edition Nebula guitar flow pick, designed and created by Petrucci in collaboration with Jim Dunlop. In a recent interview with Japan’s Young Guitar, Petrucci was asked about his beard styling and grooming techniques. He responded: “I, for most of my career, have had some sort of beard. I started out just clean-shaven in the beginning, but even, I guess, from the ‘Awake’ days, which was pretty early on, I had a beard, I had a goate...
TOOL’s ADAM JONES: Video Overview Of Signature Guitar From GIBSON
Gibson and Adam Jones have announced the kick-off of their partnership and collaboration with the Gibson Custom Shop Adam Jones 1979 Les Paul Custom guitar. A five-minute video overview of the guitar can be seen below. “I’m proud to finally show the world the first release in our multi-year partnership with Adam Jones,” says Cesar Gueikian, Gibson Brands. “Adam is one of the most talented and sonically innovative guitarists; I call him modern riff lord and sonic architect. His creativity and technical ability in music, visual effects, production, videography and beyond is second to none and our collaboration is a true reflection of Adam. The Gibson Les Paul Custom Adam Jones 1979 Silverburst Aged replica version is the first-ever artist collaboration done at the new...
STEEL PANTHER Shares Performance Clip From ‘The Halloweenie Ride Livescream’
California glam metal jokesters STEEL PANTHER took part in another livestream concert event on October 31, “The Halloweenie Ride Livescream”. The concert event was broadcast live from the iconic Viper Room in West Hollywood, California, a new location for STEEL PANTHER‘s livestreams but an old home in the band’s history. A clip from the performance can be seen below. This past August, STEEL PANTHER played its second virtual concert event, “Rockdown In The Lockdown”, from the ultra-sanitized, production-filled, multi-camera Drum Channel Studio at Drum Workshop, located in Oxnard, California. The performance was streamed live globally. STEEL PANTHER‘s latest album, “Heavy Metal Rules”, was released in September 2019. The disc, which is de...
