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TWISTED SISTER singer Dee Snider spoke to Inlander about the devastating impact the coronavirus pandemic has had on the music industry. “The destruction that this is doing to the independent art scene, whether it’s music, film, painting, whatever it is, we’ll eventually recover, but I don’t know when because it can’t afford what’s happening to it,” Snider said. “What we’re going to be left with is the corporate world that has the resources to survive, but without independent art on every level — and that’s what creates the next fad, the next movement, the next style. “It comes from independents. The independent labels, independent bands, independent venues, and they’re all suffering death blows right now,” he con...

RATING: 9/10 Metal’s endless malleability has never been more widely exploited than it is in these genre-hopping, rule-defying times, but IMPERIAL TRIUMPHANT will still make your synapses throb in confusion. Building on and casually surpassing the jazz-infused madness of 2018’s “Vile Luxury”, New York City’s masked masters of malevolent madness have upped the ante again with their fourth and most flagrantly unhinged work to date. Opener “Rotted Futures” has been festering and coagulating online for a while now, but it remains startling on every spin: this is wildly progressive extreme metal, but not in a form that anyone has previously attempted. Intermittently grotesque and majestic, it steals its freewheeling intensity from jazz, but its ugly hea...

During an appearance on last night’s (Wednesday, July 29) episode of “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon”, hip-hop legend, actor and director Ice-T spoke about the decision to re-release BODY COUNT‘s 2017 single “No Lives Matter” to radio. He told host Jimmy Fallon (see video below): “If people have followed me, my whole career, it’s always been anti-racism, trying to explain you the complications of living in and growing up in the hood, in the community — just me kind of walking you through someone else’s life, so you can see it from their perspective. ‘Cause I believe most of this stuff is perspective — it’s easy to hate something that you don’t truly understand how they see it. “I did the song ‘No Li...

Toni Cornell, daughter of SOUNDGARDEN singer Chris Cornell, performed a cover version of PEARL JAM‘s “Black” during Lollapalooza‘s Lolla2020 livestream, a free four-night broadcast event taking place on the original dates of the Chicago-based festival. Check out video of the performance below. Toni previously performed an acoustic cover version of TEMPLE OF THE DOG‘s “Hunger Strike” from her father’s home studio during LiveXLive‘s “Music Lives” global digital music festival this past April. In August 2017, Toni Cornell joined the band ONEREPUBLIC onstage on ABC‘s “Good Morning America” to perform the Leonard Cohen song “Hallelujah”. The performance was a celebration the lives of Chris Cornell an...