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Burger Records Fully Shuts Down Following Sexual Misconduct Claims
Earlier this week, facing numerous, largely anonymous allegations of sexual misconduct against employees and bands, Burger Records announced plans for “major structural changes” involving a gradual restructuring of top staff and a rebranding. However, after those plans were met with backlash, interim president Jessa Zapor-Gray has turned down the position and the label has announced it will completely shut down. Initially, co-founder and president Lee Rickard had resigned and co-founder Sean Bohrman took a “transitional role” as Zapor-Gray assumed control. Burger Records changed its name to BRGR RECS and announced “an all-woman imprint” called BRGRRRL. The label also planned to provide “dedicated safe spaces” for women and those under the age of 18 at all Burger Records shows. Objections o...
Alan Menken Become 16th Person to Achieve EGOT Status
Alan Menken has become the 16th person to achieve EGOT status after claiming a Daytime Emmy Award this past weekend. The veteran composer had already won 11 Grammys and eight Academy Awards thanks to his songwriting contributions for Disney classics like Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and Tangled. In 2012, he received his first Tony Award for the score to Newsies. His latest accolade, and the final piece of his EGOT crown, came this past weekend when he received a Daytime Emmy Award. Specifically, Menken’s song “Waiting in the Wings”, from Tangled: The Series: Rapunzel and the Great Tree, was awarded outstanding original song in a children’s, young adult or animated program. Menken is the 16th EGOT winner to date and first since 2018, when John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webb...
Eli Roth’s Cabin Fever Is Gross on Multiple Levels
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Stitcher | RSS “We’re all gonna get it. We’re all gonna get sick. Jeff’s off in the woods getting drunk.” Yeah, we’re a professor … OF BEING A POD! School’s out and The Horror Virgin Crew is headed to a cabin in the woods for a little rest and relaxation. We’ve stocked up on stolen Snickers bars and fox urine, so pour yourself a glass of water and meet us in the woods for Cabin Fever. Just don’t sit next to Dennis. We’ll discuss Eli Roth, the fallacy of the Friend Zone, and effective body horror. Jenn plays the spoons and we all agree that chilli is the last thing you want to eat when there’s a flesh eating virus on the loose. OOOH, FACED! Subscribe to The Horror Virgin to access the ...
MÖTLEY CRÜE: Limited-Edition Las Vegas-Inspired 1983 Poster To Go On Sale This Week
On July 29, Iconic by Collectionzz will begin selling a limited-edition MÖTLEY CRÜE screenprint. MÖTLEY CRÜE‘s short-lived tour opening for KISS in early 1983 was the band’s first real opportunity to play on big stages on the West Coast. KISS was undoubtedly a tough act to open for, as they had already reached the heights as one of the world’s biggest bands and arguably the most spectacular concert attraction to date in rock history. But MÖTLEY CRÜE didn’t see it that way, as bassist Nikki Sixx explained. “I guess you could kind of look at it as a young band that was so hungry and so in its zone and we had yet to break, being like a young boxer,” he said. “We just wanted to get in the ring with anybody. The ring was getting on that stage, playing i...
Former ROCKSTAR SUPERNOVA Singer LUKAS ROSSI Releases ‘Summertime’ Music Video
Former ROCKSTAR SUPERNOVA singer Lukas Rossi has released a music video for the title track of his ninth studio album, “Summertime”. The clip features a litany of superstar cameos, including MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee, members of P.O.D. and THREE DAYS GRACE. A Toronto, Canada, native and the winner of CBS television show “Rock Star: Supernova”, Rossi has been singing, writing, and producing for the last two decades of his storied past. Rossi has performed on major television shows such as “The Ellen Degeneres Show”, “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, “Regis & Kelly”, MTV Canada and ABC‘s “New Year’s Eve With Carson Daly”. With “Summertime”, Rossi continues the development of his rock roots, combining ...
DEATH ANGEL: ‘The Enigma Years 1987-1990’ Four-CD Box Set Due In October
Nuclear Blast has set an October 2 release date for “The Enigma Years 1987-1990” CD box set from San Francisco Bay Area metallers DEATH ANGEL, featuring the albums “The Ultra-Violence” (including the Kirk Hammett-produced “Kill As One” demo) , “Frolic Through The Park”, “Fall From Grace” and “Rarities” in a four-CD wallet. Hailing from the same Bay Area thrash metal scene that gave us METALLICA, EXODUS and TESTAMENT, DEATH ANGEL was originally formed in 1982 by lead guitarist Rob Cavestany with cousins Dennis Pepa (bass), Gus Pepa (guitar) and Andy Galeon (drums). Joined by singer Mark Osegueda, their self-explanatory 1983 tape “Heavy Metal Insanity” demonstrated the influence of the NWOBHM movement in the ...
ARMORED SAINT To Release New Album In October
ARMORED SAINT will release its new album in October via Metal Blade Records. The follow-up to 2015’s “Win Hands Down” was tracked with veteran producer/engineer Bill Metoyer and bassist/producer Joey Vera and was once again being mixed by Jay Ruston (STONE SOUR, STEEL PANTHER, AMON AMARTH). This past February, ARMORED SAINT singer John Bush told “The Blairing Out With Eric Blair Show” about the upcoming disc: “We don’t have an official title yet, so I don’t wanna say anything that’s gonna be premature. But I think it’s gonna be an incredible record. I’m really proud of all the tunes that we’ve written, because it sounds like an ARMORED SAINT record for 2020. “We always take the foundation of the origins of what t...
DJ Tunez – Cool Me Down ft. Wizkid MP3 Download
Straight from the Starboy Entertainment is this brand new tune from DJ Tunez – ‘Cool Me Down’ ft. Wizkid out now. Starboy Entertainment in-house disc jockey, DJ Tunez, teams up with Wizkid for his latest song ‘Cool Me Down’. This follows the release of his Love Language EP Vol 1 with D3an, before then there was ‘Gbese 2.0‘. ‘Cool Me Down’ like Wizkid suggested would make you dance, ‘let’s fucking dance!! 😇😇🔥🔥 ijoya!!!’ he wrote on Instagram. The Starboy also recently dropped a banging tune ‘Smile’ featuring American singer H.E.R. Listen and enjoy DJ Tunez – ‘Cool Me Down’ ft. Wizkid below. Download Share this: 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. ...
Meek Mill & Girlfriend Milan Harris Split
Meek Mill has announced that he and his girlfriend, Milan Harris, are separating. The couple welcomed a child together in May. “Me and Milano decided to remain friends and build our child as separate parents … we still have mad love for eachother but we both came to a understanding,” the rapper wrote on Instagram Sunday afternoon (July 26). In a caption for the note, he added: “no fall out either just moving forward! Still love! This for protection so social media wont think we moving wrong.” Harris has not publicly commented on the situation. Instead, on Sunday night, she posted an Instagram update that said, “I’d never address my private life, publicly,” along with a message to demand justice for Breonna Taylor. See Meek’s p...
Juice WRLD’s ‘Legends Never Die’ Rises to No. 1 In Australia
Juice WRLD’s posthumous album Legends Never Die (Interscope/Universal) climbs to the chart summit in Australia, as Jawsh 685 and Jason Derulo “Savage Love (Laxed – Siren Beat)” (Columbia/Sony) enters a fourth consecutive week atop the national singles survey. Legends Never Die, which has ruled the albums chart on both sides of the Atlantic, now completes the job in Australia where it rises 3-1 in its second week. It’s the second posthumous hip-hop LP to top the survey in three weeks, following the No. 1 entry of Pop Smoke’s Universal set Shoot For The Stars, Aim For The Moon (it improves 4-3 on the current frame). Lighting up the Australian tally is Gaslighter (Columbia/Sony), The Chicks’ first album release in 14 years. The American country trio (formerly The Dix...
Taylor Swift Set to Land Three ‘Folklore’ Tracks In U.K. Top 10
Taylor Swift’s isolation album Folklore is ready for a chart party in the U.K. No less than three songs from it are on track for Top 10 debuts on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, based on early sales and streaming activity. The single “Cardigan” (EMI), which was accompanied with an official music video, is on target to snare the week’s highest new entry. It’s at No. 4 on the Official Chart First Look, based on 48 hours of data. Also, Swift’s “The 1” is at No. 5 and “Exile,” her duet with Bon Iver, is at No. 7. If all three hold inside the Top 10, it would lift the pop star’s tally of U.K. Top 10s to 16. Taylor’s eighth studio album arrived with just 24 hours’ notice, and judging by the reaction from fans and critics, it couldn’t have come soon enough. Folklore has sold over 1.3...
Bryan Adams, Slash, Jared Leto and More Pay Tribute to Hollywood Great Olivia de Havilland
Tributes are flowing following the passing of Olivia de Havilland, one of the last surviving stars of Hollywood’s Golden Age who, away from the screen, took on the studio system and won a landmark legal case. The two-time Oscar winner, who lit up the silver screen in Gone With the Wind, The Adventures of Robin Hood, The Snake Pit, The Heiress, and more, died Sunday (July 26) at her home in Paris. She was 104. Aside from her considerable acting talents, De Havilland is also remembered for helping to change Hollywood’s studio system when she successfully sued Warner Bros. to gain freedom from the studio after her contract had expired. The 1940s case is now known in legal circles as The De Havilland Decision, and many actors have since enjoyed higher compensation and greater creative&nb...
