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Taylor Hawkins Expressed Discomfort About Foo Fighters’ Tour Schedule Before He Died, Friends Claim
The late Taylor Hawkins’ friends were interviewed for a new Rolling Stone article that outlines the Foo Fighters drummer’s final days. It includes interviews with Hawkins’ friends and colleagues, who claim he expressed discomfort about the physically demanding nature of the band’s months-long tour schedule. Among those interviewed were Pearl Jam’s Matt Cameron and Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, who both claimed that Hawkins said he’d spoken with Dave Grohl about his discomfort with the tour schedule in the months before he died in March. “He had a heart-to-heart with Dave and, yeah, he told me that he ‘couldn’t fucking do it anymore’—those were his words,” Cameron said. “So I guess they did come to some understanding, but it just seems like the touring schedule got even crazier after t...
‘Grand Theft Auto’ Publisher Take-Two Interactive Is Planning 8 More Remasters
Grand Theft Auto and Red Dead Redemption publisher Take-Two Interactive is now planning on releasing eight more remasters. Revealed during a recent financial report, the video game company said that it intends to remaster another eight more of its classic games and release them by 2025, calling them “new iterations of previously released titles.” While it didn’t mention any franchise specifically, Take-Two will have plenty of options from Rockstar Games, including more GTA titles, a possible remake of the original Red Dead Redemption, or even Bully, a game that has garnered a cult following over the years with many fans asking for a sequel. Despite the good news, fans might also be skeptical about Take-Two’s plans. Earlier last year, the company released a remaster of t...
Phoebe Bridgers Delivers Visual for ‘Conversations with Friends’ Song “Sidelines”
Phoebe Bridgers has officially released an accompanying music video for “Sidelines,” her featured track on the Hulu original series Conversations with Friends. The short visual interweaves clips of the singer-songwriter recording the song and scenes from the show featuring actors Joe Alwyn, Alison Oliver, Jemima Kirke and Sasha Lane. Conversations with Friends is an adaptation of Sally Rooney’s best-selling 2017 novel, and a press release states that Bridgers is a big fan of the author. The show’s soundtrack also includes appearances from PinkPantheress, Wyvern Lingo, The Weeknd, James Blake, Charli XCX and Haim. Bridgers’ last full-length album dates back to the GRAMMY-nominated project Punisher, which earned her nods for Best Alternative Music Album, Best Rock Performance and Best Rock S...
Second Suspect in Mac Miller’s Death Sentenced to 17 Years in Prison
A second suspect in the death of Mac Miller has been convicted. According to reports, 49-year-old Stephen Andrew Walter received a 17-and-a-half-year prison sentence for his role in the fentanyl overdose that ended the rapper’s life. A former dog groomer, Walter pleaded guilty to one charge of fentanyl distribution and claimed that he sent Ryan Michael Reavis — one of the other men charged and recently sentenced to 11 years in prison for Miller’s death — to Cameron Pettit, the third suspect, because he was supposedly unaware that the purchase was meant for Miller, real name Malcolm McCormick, and not for Pettit. “I dealt with Cameron Pettit, and he led me to believe that he was going to ingest the pills that I sold him. He never told me anything about McCormick. He didn’t tell me he w...
How to Get Tickets to Kendrick Lamar’s 2022 Tour
Kendrick Lamar is taking his latest masterpiece, Mr. Morale & the Big Steppers, the road as he embarks on a 2022 world tour that stretches to the end of the year. Get tickets here, and read on for more details including pre-sale dates. What Is Kendrick Lamar’s Next Tour? The 65-date “Big Steppers Tour” is comprised of three legs hitting North America, the UK and Europe, and Australia and New Zealand. The tour kicks off in Oklahoma City on July 19th and is immediately followed by three nights in Texas and two nights in Florida. The circuit moves north to Atlanta on July 30th and Nashville on the 31st, then heads up the East Coast in early August for back-to-back shows in Brooklyn, stops in Washington, DC, Philadelphia, and Boston, and two nights in Toronto. He covers the Midwest startin...
Kehlani Announces 2022 World Tour
Kehlani has announced the “Blue Water Road Trip,” an expansive 2022 tour in support of her new album blue water road. The 43-date trek includes 28 concerts in North America followed by another 15 shows in Europe. Rico Nasty will accompany Kehlani on the first leg, while Destin Conrad will join her from beginning to end. The “Blue Water Road Trip” begins July 30th in Raleigh, North Carolina, and from then through October Kehlani will take in cities including Atlanta, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Honolulu, Hawaii. Beginning in November the tour picks back up on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, with stops in Copenhagen, Stockholm, several German cities, and a prolonged run through the UK. Advertisement Related Video Check out the full schedule b...
How to Get Tickets to Gorillaz’s 2022 Tour
It’s time to “Feel Good”, because Damon Albarn-led virtual act Gorillaz are touring North America for the first time since 2018. This go-around, the Blur frontman will be joined by a 14-piece live band as well as “a varying cast of guest performers.” Get tickets here, and read on for more details including pre-sale dates. What Is Gorillaz’s Next Tour? The installment of 21 new arena shows in North America is just the latest entry in Gorillaz’s ongoing world tour. The group is currently making the rounds in South America and will next trek across Europe, including appearances at Spain’s Primavera Sound, and London’s All Points East Festival, throughout the summer. They also are set to make brief landfall in Australia for three performances between July 22nd-26th. Advertisement Related Video...
311 Announce Fall 2022 Tour Dates, Full Album Performances
311 are currently in the midst of a North American tour, but now they’ve announced a new run of dates for the fall. In addition to regular, career-spanning sets, the band has planned special album-themed shows in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles, where, with two nights in each city, the band will dedicate one show to each of their first six albums. For example, 311 will perform Music and Grassroots in New York City on October 1st and 2nd, Blue and Transistor in Chicago on October 22nd and 23rd, and Soundsystem and From Chaos in Los Angeles on November 11th and 12th. In addition, each retrospective show will include support from artists who opened for 311 during each album’s respective era: Bronx Slang will perform in New York, The Urge will play in...
‘Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness’ Suffers Historic MCU Box Office Drop In Second Opening Weekend
Since the release of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, audiences flooded to the theaters to watch the most recent Marvel film. The film later earned $187.4 million USD at the domestic bo office and $265 million USD globally. While the second Doctor Strange installment garnered the 11th highest-grossing opening weekend of all-time, the second weekend saw the film suffer a historic box office decline as an MCU film. In it second weekend, Doctor Strange 2 grossed only $16.7 million USD, a 67.5% drop from the over $180 million USD opening weekend. The number stats show an 81% decline from the $90.7 million USD earned on opening day. Projections for the second weekend see the film dropping between 65-69%, with a gross of $60-$65 million USD. To put into perspective, while Spider-Man:...
The ‘Chainsaw Man’ Anime is Coming to Crunchyroll
Surrounded by heavy anticipation, Crunchyroll has now announced that the anime adaptation of Chainsaw Man will be joining one of its upcoming seasons. Acquiring the streaming rights, the series will be simulcast from Japan, subtitled and dubbed, for more than 200 countries and territories around the world. Dubs will include English, Latin American Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, French and German. Adapting the popular manga serialized in Shueisha’s Weekly Shōnen Jump by Tatsuki Fujimoto, the MAPPA-produced anime will be directed by Ryū Nakayama. Chainsaw Man centers around a supernatural world overrun by Devils manifested from the collective fears of humans. A teenage devil hunter named Denji enters a contract with his pet Devil, Pochita, and becomes resurrected to become “Chainsaw Man.” Ca...
Tracee Ellis Ross’ ‘Daria’ Spinoff Series ‘Jodie’ Is Now an Animated Film
Jodie, the animated Daria spinoff starring Tracee Ellis Ross, is being produced as a film rather than a series. According to reports, Ross will remain as the voice of the titular character and will be joined by William Jackson Harper of The Good Place, Kal Penn, Pamela Adlon, Cole Escola, Jojo T. Gibbs, Zosia Mamet, Alex Moffat, Dermot Mulroney, Arden Myrin, Kofi Siriboe, Dulcé Sloan and Heléne Yorke. Jodie will follow the life of Daria’s high school friend post-college, as she starts her career as an intern for the prestigious tech firm, Firstfinity. The initial series was first revealed in 2018 as an MTV Entertainment Studios show featuring both Daria and Jodie, but the former was removed in 2019 upon the announcement of Ross’ role. Grace Edwards is writing the film and will co-exe...
Original Pearl Jam Drummer Dave Krusen Joins Band in Fresno for First Show in 31 Years
Original Pearl Jam drummer Dave Krusen rejoined his former bandmates on stage Monday night (May 16) in Fresno, Calif., his first multi-song concert performance with the group since May 25, 1991. With Matt Cameron still sidelined with COVID-19, Krusen became the latest drummer to fill in by playing all but two songs from Pearl Jam’s debut album, Ten. The drummer, whose seven-month stint in Pearl Jam encompassed the just-formed band’s first recording sessions and tours shortly before grunge exploded into the mainstream, performed on the Ten tracks “Once,” “Why Go,” “Even Flow,” “Garden” and “Black” in the middle of the set and returned later for “Porch” before the encore. From there, he was back for a four-song run of “Jeremy,” “Deep,” the Singles soundtrack favorite “State of Love and Trust...
