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Cardi B Teams Up With Atlantic Records To Encourage Voter Registration
Source: Atlantic Records / Atlantic Cardi B is back with a new public service announcement and it’s all about the upcoming 2020 presidential election. With the help of Atlantic Records, the superstar is getting the word out about the importance of voter registration. “Let me tell you something: state deadlines are coming very quick,” Cardi says on Atlantic’s Instagram post. “So make sure y’all click the link in the bio so y’all can register to vote.” Earlier this year, a group of employees at Atlantic Records launched a company-wide task force called ATL Votes, which plans out efforts to raise awareness about voting with the help of their roster’s platforms and star-power. They also teamed up with HeadCount to integrate their voter registration platform into the websites, email lists...
Billionaire Business: Tyler Perry’s Fortune Estimated At $1B
Source: WENN/Avalon / WENN Tyler Perry and his rise to fame is a modern-day rags to riches story for the ages, and he’s given back countless times over to other Black creators such as himself. It was announced this week that Perry’s fortune was estimated at $1 billion, making him one of the most powerful men in show business. In a profile from Forbes, Perry, who turns 51 later this month, invited the publication on the set of his sprawling Tyler Perry Studios set as he directed an episode of the BET series, Sistas this past July in Atlanta. The publication mentions that Perry has earned around $1.4 billion in pretax income since 2005 and has leveraged his savvy to secure a high-profile deal with ViacomCBS that earns him $150 million annually for content development and a stake in the new B...
Pro-Police Facebook Group Calls For Montauk Brewing Company Boycott Over Its Black Lives Matter Support
Source: @MontaukBrewCo / Instagram As America becomes more divided, more tribal and more racist under the watch of the Divider-In-Chief, Donald “Treasonous” Trump, companies supporting either Black Lives Matter or Make America Great Again find themselves subjected to threats, boycotts, and violence depending on your social-political views or simply racist ideology. Earlier this year the murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and other innocent Black men and women sparked Black Lives Matter protests all across the country and at the time Montauk Brewing Company stood in solidarity with the protestors by taking to their IG page and letting everyone know that they supported the movement with “all our hearts.” Seems innocent and righteous enough, but now Gothamist is reporting that a new...
RIK EMMETT On Possibility Of New TRIUMPH Music: ‘I Would Never Say Never, But I Would Say It’s Unlikely’
In a brand new interview with Anne Erickson of Audio Ink Radio, guitarist/vocalist Rik Emmett of Canadian rock legends TRIUMPH was asked about the possibility of the band reuniting to play a special one-off show in the future. He said (see video below): “I doubt it. And there’s several reasons. I’m not getting any younger, and I’m not sure I could sustain singing a rock show for 75 minutes, 90 minutes, whatever it would have to be. But the bigger thing is the drummer Gil [Moore]. I mean, he sang a lot of the material too, and drummers, once they get to the other side of 65, they start having back problems and elbow problems, and it’s really difficult for drummers to keep it going. “It’s not like it hasn’t been done,” he continued. ̶...
BRING ME THE HORIZON Teams Up With YUNGBLUD For ‘Obey’ Single
Two-time-Grammy-nominated band BRING ME THE HORIZON has enlisted fellow Brit Yungblud for its new single “Obey”, out now via Columbia Records. The track premiered as Annie Mac‘s “Hottest Record” on her BBC Radio 1 show earlier today. The official video for the single also premiered today. Directed by BRING ME THE HORIZON frontman Oliver Sykes, the visual was shot in London and stars both Oli and Yungblud who battle each other as robots before an unexpected turn of events occurs. “Obey” is a soaring ode about how, as a society, oppression has been so normalized in our DNA that we can’t even see it anymore. Oli says: “We consider ourselves free, but only because the chains are invisible, and we are controlled in ways we don’t even w...
How METALLICA’s Quarantine Version Of ‘Blackened’ Came Together
On August 27, the four members of METALLICA joined SiriusXM‘s Jose Mangin for a virtual roundtable chat on Zoom to talk about everything from the “Metallica And San Francisco Symphony: S&M²” release and the drive-in event to welding tables and making jam. Speaking about how he and his bandmates overcame social distancing in May to record a new version of their song “Blackened”, with each member separated in his own home, frontman James Hetfield said (see video below): “It was one of those things where we were having our weekly ‘TALLICA Zoom sessions and were just talking about, ‘What can we do? Let’s do something. Let’s explore trying to layer something. I’ll send you guys something. I’m not gonna tell you what it ...
VIO-LENCE, VOIVOD, EXCITER And ARTILLERY To Join Forces For Fall 2021 European Tour
According to the Facebook page of the Masters Of Rock Café in Zlín, Czech Republic, VIO-LENCE, VOIVOD, EXCITER and ARTILLERY will join forces for the next installment of the “MTV Headbanger’s Ball” European tour in the fall of 2021. The trek is set to hit the Masters Of Rock Café on November 26, 2021. Last month, VIO-LENCE released a new digital single, “California Über Alles”, a cover version of the DEAD KENNEDYS classic. The band also filmed a music video for the song with director Scott Kirkeeng. This past January, VIO-LENCE parted ways with guitarist Ray Vegas and replaced him with Gustafson (ex-OVERKILL). VIO-LENCE is currently working on material for a new EP, tentatively due in early 2021 via Metal Blade Records. VIO-LENCE released three studio albums b...
The Decemberists’ Colin Meloy Shares New Song “Slint, Spiderland”: Stream
Colin Meloy of The Decemberists has shared the new solo song “Slint, Spiderland”. The Decemberists have been in hibernation since 2018, when the band released I’ll Be Your Girl and the Traveling On EP. Currently, Meloy is writing his fifth book, having published four children’s titles since 2011. But in April, as the reality of quarantine settled in, he had a bizarre experience that caused him to set the prose aside. As Meloy told NPR, he watched a documentary about the making of the Slint album Spiderland, when the normalcy of what he was doing suddenly struck him as bizarre. He said, “I don’t know that it particularly spoke to the current moment in any way other than it felt completely disconnected from it. Thing is about the lockdown and the quarantin...
BABYMETAL Announce Legend Metal Galaxy Live Albums
BABYMETAL are celebrating their landmark January 2020 shows at the Makuhari Messe convention center in Chiba, Japan, with a pair of live albums chronicling the two concerts. Across the two nights, the pop-metal sensations performed in front of 50,000 people. The shows, dubbed “Legend – Metal Galaxy [Day 1]” and “Legend – Metal Galaxy [Day 2]” saw BABYMETAL play two completely different sets, with one show dedicated to their “Light Force” and the other to their “Dark Force”. The albums will be available via digital music services beginning September 9th. Blu-ray/DVD versions are being sold in Japan, while CDs are available as imports at Amazon here (Day 1) and here (Day 2). The pair of concerts were billed as “extra shows” on the band’s tour in support of their 2019 album Metal Ga...
Touché Amoré Share New Song “I’ll Be Your Host” Ahead of Upcoming Album: Stream
Touché Amoré have shared the latest single, “I’ll Be Your Host”, from their upcoming new album Lament (out October 9th). “I’ll Be Your Host” is another emotional tour de force from the screamo veterans. It follows the pattern of excellence laid out by previous singles, “Deflector” and “Limelight” — tracks that placed Lament firmly among our most anticipated fall metal albums. The track is multidimensionally meta, concerning singer Jeremy Bolm’s meditations on how his lyrics and songs affect listeners. The title, “I’ll Be Your Host”, becomes quite literal, with Bolm grasping how fans might “find catharsis in their own loss while he is still processing and dealing with his grief,” according to the press release. Likewise, he explores how that dynamic affects himself in turn. “‘I’ll Be Y...
The Struts Announce New Album Strange Days, Drop Single with Robbie Williams: Stream
British glam rockers The Struts have announced their third studio album. It’s called Strange Days and it’s due out October 16th via Interscope. While there’s only a few weeks to go until that release date, The Struts have decided to share the record’s title track featuring Robbie Williams now so that fans can bask in the unique timeliness of the tender anthem. Remarkably, Strange Days was created during the coronavirus quarantine. As such, several of the full-length’s 10 songs touch upon what it’s like riding the emotional rollercoaster that is this year. And while “Strange Days” is a bittersweet epic about finding solace in gratitude, the other tracks tread on different themes with different collaborators, including Albert Hammond Jr., Tom Morello, and Joe Elliott and Phil Collen of Def L...
SoundStage.fm Launches Virtual Experience Platform with Upcoming Performance from Firebeatz
Founded in 2019, SoundStage.fm was born with a goal to connect fans with their favorite artists. The on-demand platform brings artists to fans’ virtual doorsteps for intimate, exclusive performances with its tech. SoundStage’s directory offers a diverse artist roster that ranges anywhere from world bass with Bastion to psychedelic bass with Deerskin. After booking a private set, fans have the ability to interact with artists in real time via two-way video. “Every artist has fans for whom their music reaches deep and has lasting effects at an existential level. We’re excited to provide a means for fans to experience intimate, authentic connections with the artists that have influenced them the most,” said Ara Kevonian, CEO of SoundStage.fm. “Our platform also opens up an ancillar...
