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MEGADETH’s DAVID ELLEFSON: ‘Since I Got Clean, It’s Been A Wonderful And Blessed Life’
MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson, who runs several other businesses outside the band, including heading up a record label, creating a line of coffee blends, producing a horror film and writing books, was asked in a new interview with The Front Row Report how he manages to shuffle through his crazy and always-changing schedule. He responded (hear audio below): “Every day, honestly, if you wanna know the truth, I just wake up, I get on my knees, I say a little prayer and [say], ‘God, lead me where you need me,’ and then the calendar just fills up. [Laughs] It’s that simple. I just check in with the boss and follow the marching orders. And honestly, that just kind of keeps it real simple. When the phone rings and e-mails show up, I fugure I know who sent them my way. An...
Ihsahn Announces Pharos EP, Shares New Song “Spectre at the Feast”: Stream
Black metal legend Ihsahn has set a September release for Pharos, the second of two companion EPs. In advance of the EP, he has shared the music video for lead single “Spectre at the Feast”. Pharos, due September 11th, concludes the two-part EP concept dedicated to Ihsahn’s home country of Norway. Following the February’s five-song Telemark EP, Pharos is billed as a “reverse image” of its counterpart. The EPs see Ihsahn drawing inspiration from the black metal he helped proliferate in his influential band Emperor, as well as other styles and genres. According to Ihsahn, this second EP is the “aesthetic and musical counterpart, wherein I can distill all those more progressive, experimental and mellow elements of my music.” The press release refers to it as “the light to Telemark‘s dark.” Th...
Alex Trebek Once Unknowingly Ate Five Hash Brownies and Woke Up at a Friend’s House Three Days Later
Next Tuesday brings the release of Alex Trebek’s new memoir, The Answer Is… Reflections on My Life. As the New York Times reveals in a new profile on the Jeopardy! host, the book provides a few humorous personal andecdotes about the notoriously private television personality. Chief among them: Trebek unknowingly ate four or five hash brownies at a party in Malibu and woke up at the host’s house three days later. Trebek has actually shared the story in the before, such as in a 2015 interview with Howard Stern. “I went to this party in Malibu [in the 1970s], and they had hash brownies,” Trebek recounted at the time. “I love chocolate, and I ate four or five hash brownies. The party was on a Friday night, I didn’t leave their home until Monday morning. No exaggeration!” Trebek also acknowledg...
Sylvan Esso Return with Mysterious New Song “What If”: Stream
This past spring brought us WITH, a thrilling live album and concert film from Sylvan Esso. Now, the indie pop duo is back with proper new music in the form of “What If”. The group’s first all-new offering in over two years is soft-spoken and sparse, with singer Amelia Meath’s slightly synthesized vocals floating lightly over glitchy piano. Though only a little over 90 seconds long, its message is clear: What if the things we thought we knew weren’t true at all? “What if darkness was light?” Meath asks early on. Hear it for yourself below via a video that shows Meath bobbing around in a body of water Editors’ Picks “What If” doesn’t appear on any streaming services, only on YouTube and over on the group’s social media, some of which has been scrubbed clean. Sylvan Esso haven’t provid...
Illuminati Hotties Unveil New Mixtape Free I.H.: This Is Not The One You’ve Been Waiting For: Stream
Illuminati Hotties have unveiled the new mixtape Free I.H.: This Is Not The One You’ve Been Waiting For. Stream it below with Apple Music and Spotify. With humor, compassion, and thrashing guitars, Illuminati Hotties have become synonymous with Los Angeles’ “tenderpunk” movement. Free I.H. is the follow-up to 2018’s Kiss Yr Frenemies, and was written during a messy breakup with indie label Tiny Engines. The label engaged in some, uh, questionable accounting practices, and like so much kick-ass punk music, Free I.H. comes from a place of getting royally (or royalty) fucked. Bandleader Sarah Tudzin wrote the mixtape in February, before COVID-19 had become a global nightmare. In an interview with Stereogum, she spoke of composing songs about a messed-up world, and th...
Perry Farrell to Release Career-Spanning Box Set
Perry Farrell will release a career-spanning box set that will look outside of his work in Jane’s Addiction and Porno for Pyros. The set will encompass his entire 35-year career. Titled Perry Farrell- The Glitz; The Glamour, the collection features 68 tracks and a release bills it, cements Farrell’s status as the “Godfather of Alternative Rock.” Included in it is a Blu-ray featuring 12 uncompressed Dolby Atmos mixes from Kind Heaven and three brand new previously unreleased Atmos mixes, a photographic memoirs hardcover book, a bandana, plus two exclusive Zoltar prints. There is also an unearthed recording of Jim Morrison that Farrell has composed, and to complete the circle written and recorded with Starcrawler. It also features never-before-heard remixes from...
Nandi Bushell Thanks Tom Morello and Brad Wilk with Audioslave Cover
If you’re wondering what the future of rock music looks like, Nandi Bushell can show you. She dropped a video covering Audioslave’s “Cochise.” While cover videos aren’t a new thing, the 10-year-old British-Zulu musician shows all her musical skills and played the bass, the drums and a special guitar that was gifted to her by Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello. Giving each note all her energy, Bushell looked like she played each instrument with so much ease. “Dear @tommorello and @bradwilk,” she captioned the YouTube video, “thank you for always for supporting me. I made this cover of #Cochise for you both. @tommorello I LOVE my new #soulpower @fender #guitar! It’s AMAZING!!! #audioslave wow! So Good! Thank you: @fender @ludwigdrumshq @zildjiancompany @vicfirth @roland.artists @roland_u...
Black Veil Brides Unveil New Track from Re-Stitch These Wounds & SPIN’s Untitled Twitch Stream Appearance
While most bands are just remastering or re-releasing their seminal albums for big anniversaries, Black Veil Brides are taking it a step further by fully rerecording 2010’s We Stitch These Wounds as the updated Re-Stitch These Wounds. The album (out July 31 on Sumerian) comes alongside their August 1 performance streamed live from the famous Whisky a Go Go in West Hollywood — a show where they’ll play the full album for the first time ever. “We are so excited to share the 10th anniversary, reimagined and rerecorded version of our debut record, and to play it in its entirety for our first live stream concert experience,” said Andy Biersack, the band’s vocalist. “This is a celebration of a decade of BVB and the greatest fans in music. We are so appreciative of the opportu...
Soundgarden Drop Benefit Show Counterclaim Suit Against Vicky Cornell
The surviving members of Soundgarden have dropped part of their counterclaim against Vicky Cornell, which they filed in May regarding the 2019 I Am the Highway benefit show, after being threatened with sanctions by her legal team. In the original filing, the band accused Cornell of using the funds from the show for “personal purposes for herself and her family.” Despite dropping this part of the lawsuit, the Cornell and the surviving Soundgarden members will still be dueling over who owns unreleased audio recordings, Rolling Stone reported. In a statement given to the Hollywood Reporter, Cornell’s lawyer Martin Singer called the band’s actions “shameful conduct.” “When we threatened Soundgarden with the undisputed facts that their claims concerning Vicky Cornell and the Corn...
Listen to Eddie Vedder and Supersuckers Cover the Ramones’ ‘I Believe in Miracles’
On June 19, 2014, the Supersuckers played the tour closer for their American tour. But it became more significant because it was the final show after singer and bassist Eddie Spaghetti was diagnosed with throat cancer was set to get surgery. Despite the cloud over the Supersuckers at that moment, they had a great show that turned into an epic moment. During the encore, Eddie Vedder joined the band for a rendition of the Ramones’ “I Believe in Miracles.” “Somehow Eddie had found out about my cancer diagnosis and put the word out that he’d like to come to the show and maybe do something with the band,” Spaghetti said in a statement, “especially with the impending struggle I was about to undertake with the whole cancer fright. The song was extra poignant.” But Vedder’s support didn’t stop the...
Killer Mike Is ‘Optimistic’ About the Future Following Protests
As the protests for Black Lives Matter continue, Killer Mike says that he is optimistic about the future due to people’s actions. “Instead of the audience just looking like me, because it’s a Black issue, it’s a combination of all people, races and ethnicities coming out,” he told NME. “I’m optimistic about the opportunity to organize, even though I’m not optimistic about government or world leaders. I’m not optimistic about times led by oligarchs, but I am totally optimistic because of what I’ve seen from people in the American streets and globally over the last 60 days,” he continued. This isn’t the first time that the Run the Jewels rapper has spoken out. When the protests started in May, he delivered a moving speech directed at protestors in Atlanta and popped up to...
Pose‘s Dyllón Burnside Breaks The ‘Silence’ With His Debut Single
Though Dyllón Burnside is perhaps best known for his performance in Ryan Murphy’s groundbreaking series Pose as Ricky, a young newcomer to the House of Evangelista — then Wintour — in the dramatized reimagining of Harlem’s ‘80s ballroom scene, his artistic merits are by no means limited to the screen. His earliest passion, rather, was music: By the time he was 12, Burnside was already touring cross-country, even playing Madison Square Garden in New York, as the central singer in a three-piece hip-hop boy band called 3D. Now, at 31, the multi-hyphenate performer is returning to those roots. He makes his solo musical debut with the new single, “Silence,” a slow-grooving track, premiering on MTV News, that boasts clear R&B influences. A metronomic beat clicks over soulful electronic produ...
