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Willie Nelson Announces 10th Annual Luck Reunion
Now you know everything is back. Willie Nelson‘s Luck Reunion is returning to the rolling hill country just outside of Austin on St. Patrick’s Day (March 17 if you don’t know)for its 10th edition. The Luck Presents event will gather more than 40 musical acts and will take place on Thursday, Mar. 17. The star-studded eclectic lineup includes Willie Nelson and Family, Japanese Breakfast, Allison Russell, Weyes Blood, 49 Winchester, Ida Mae, Charley Crockett, Neal Francis, and many more. Presented by Southwest Airlines, it also will include various culinary experiences, and “unique” experiences throughout Luck, TX, or Nelson’s backyard. The lineup for this year’s Luck Potluck was recently announced, which is a culinary event on the eve of the Reunion, on March 16. Also stomping down the Luck ...
Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Poison, and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Announce Rescheduled Stadium Tour
The monsters of ’80s rock are back. After two years of cancelations, Def Leppard, Mötley Crüe, Poison, and Joan Jett and the Blackhearts are finally ready to rock down stadiums across the U.S. and Canada. The iconic co-headliners are kicking off the massive run in June, and emerging rock band Classless Act is scheduled to support. “I remember when we went out with Ozzy in 1984 and how it was an insane game changer!!” Mötley Crüe’s drummer (and subject of Pam and Tommy Hulu series), Tommy Lee, who was an early follower of Classless Act said. “We literally blew up after having that opportunity to play live in front of 20,000 people every f***ing night! Since then, we’ve always felt it was important to help new bands; whether it was Guns N Roses, Skid Row or so many others. This summer we’re ...
Twin Cities Heroes Hippo Campus Learn to Zen Out
In the months leading up to the pandemic, the typically carefree dudes in Twin Cities-based indie-rock outfit Hippo Campus hit their breaking point. They’d been touring for more than six years straight, with no more than two-month breaks between shows at any given time. “We were straight-up burnt out,” guitarist Nathan Stocker admits, noting how in addition to the stress of the road, the band was also undergoing managerial changes and “navigating individual and personal relationships issues just trying to maintain just our health and get back to the essence of the band.” As it turned out, “someone was clearly watching out for us,” lead singer Jake Luppen says, and while the pandemic was hardly anyone’s idea of an ideal situation, both Luppen and Stocker believe it was something of a blessi...
Fontaines D.C. Unveil New Song “I Love You”: Stream
Fontaines D.C. are back with a brooding new single. Listen to “I Love You” below. Like the curt “Life ain’t always empty” refrain of 2020’s “A Hero’s Death,” “I Love You” pounds its positive message into your skull with music so menacing, you question its intent. “I love you, I love you, I told you I do,” Grian Chatten insists, as swirling, Cure-style guitar fades in over slow-thumping bass. “It’s all I’ve ever felt, I’ve never felt so well,” he speak-sings. Once more with feeling, perhaps? “Ostensibly a love song,” as a press release puts it, Dublin’s favorite post punks fit some local commentary into the song of devotion as well, prompting Chatten to name the single “the first overtly political song we’ve written.” “It’s standing in the center of our beloved home country as a multitude o...
Amon Amarth Return with New Song “Put Your Back into the Oar”: Stream
Amon Amarth are here to teach us how to properly row a viking ship. The Swedish metal band has offered up the cinematic music video for the new stand-alone single “Put Your Back into the Oar.” It’s a galvanizing slice of Viking-inspired heavy metal, one that will surely be a crowd favorite at Amon Amarth’s vibrant live shows. The accompanying clip, shot over three days in England, brings the song’s mythology to life. The track is the first new Amon Amarth composition we’ve heard since 2019’s Berserker. The single was recorded and mixed in January 2021 at Fascination Street Studios in Sweden with producer Jens Bogren. Related Video “We’ve been quiet over the last two years, but we’ve been at home in Sweden hard at work behind the scenes,” the band said in a press statement. “Much has been s...
Rupert Grint and Nikki Amuka-Bird to Star in M. Night Shyamalan’s Knock at the Cabin
Rupert Grint and Nikki Amuka-Bird are set to star alongside Dave Bautista in Knock at the Cabin, the upcoming project written, directed, and produced by M. Night Shyamalan, Deadline reports. Grint and Amuka-Bird are no strangers to the world of Shyamalan. Grint stars in the director’s Apple TV+ series Servant, which premiered its third season last month, while Amuka-Bird appeared in Shyamalan’s last film, Old.As per usual with the director, the plot of Knock at the Cabin remains tightly under wraps for now, but Universal Pictures has announced that the film will hit theaters on February 3rd, 2023. In addition to Servant, which was recently renewed for a fourth and final season, Grint can next be seen in Guillermo del Toro’s Netflix anthology series, Cabinet Of Curi...
Dave Grohl Planning to Release Thrash Metal Album Next Week
Dave Grohl is planning to release a full-length thrash metal album, and it’ll likely arrive sometime in the next week. To coincide with the release of Foo Fighters’ new horror film, Studio 666, the band recorded music under the moniker Dream Widow. Grohl quietly released one of Dream Widow’s tracks, “March of the Insane,” earlier this week, but he says there’s an entire album’s worth of material on the way. Studio 666 follows Foo Fighters as they record their album, Medicine at Midnight, in a haunted mansion. As Grohl explained during an interview on The Howard Stern Show this week, Dream Widow’s music is a central plot point in the film. “I wind up finding this creepy basement. And I go into the basement, I find this tape by a band [Dream Widow] from 25 years ago that recorded there. And ...
Hideaki Anno Launches “Shin Japan Heroes Universe” Project
Coming together film studio TOHO, film studio Toei, anime studio Khara and production studio Tsuburaya Production have come together to unite the worlds of Hideaki Anno. Announcing the “Shin Japan Heroes Universe,” the collaborative unites project Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time, Shin Godzilla, Shin Ultraman and Shin Kamen Rider. Collecting the universes from the films directed and written by Hideaki Anno, the Shin Japan Heroes Universe will feature merchandise, special events and tie-ins between the films. Aside from visual art efforts, an Evangelion: 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon A Time symphony concert and a Shin Godzilla Universal Studios Japan 4D attraction are already available. Stay tuned and look for Shin Ultraman to release May 13 and Shin Kamen Rider to arrive March 2023. For...
Taika Waititi’s Pirate Comedy ‘Our Flag Means Death’ Hits HBO Max In March
Taika Waititi‘s latest pirate comedy series Our Flag Means Death has finally received a release date over on HBO Max. Scheduled to arrive this March, the new show will make its debut over the month on four different occasions. The first two drops will release three episodes each on March 3 and 10, with the final four episodes of the 10-episode season split between two on March 17 and two on March 24. As for the show itself, comedic actor Rhys Darby will be portraying the infamous Stede Bonnet, an aristocrat-turned-pirate who leads a group of “gentlemen pirates” across the Caribbean and subsequently partners with Waititi’s Blackbeard before the two leaders fall apart and seek revenge on each other. Joining the two will be a cast list including Leslie Jones, Fred Armisen, Kristian Nairn, Nat...
Live-Action ‘The Last of Us’ Series Won’t Arrive In 2022
Unfortunately for fans of The Last of Us, the epic game’s live-action series adaptation on HBO will not be arriving this year. In a recent interview with The Hollywood Reporter, HBO programming president Casey Bloys revealed that the video game-based series will not be airing any time soon. “We haven’t announced an air date yet,” he said, “but it’s not 2022,” noting that the series is still filming in Calgary, Canada right now. Most likely to arrive in 2023 then, the series will feature Mandalorian star Pedro Pascal as Joel alongside his Game of Thrones co-star Bella Ramsey as Ellie. Joining the two will be Gabriel Luna as Joel’s brother Tommy, Merle Dandridge as resistance leader Marlene, Anna Torv as Tess, and Nick Offerman as Bill. The plot of the series will mirror ...
‘Transformers: Rise of the Beasts’ Launches New Live-Action Trilogy
Paramount Pictures has announced that Transformers: Rise of the Beasts will be the first of a new trilogy series. The upcoming film is based on the Beast Wars animated series and will be the seventh film in the Transformers live-action film saga. Set in 1994, Rise of the Beasts is a sequel to Bumblebee and will revolve around the leader of the Autobots, Optimus Prime, who’ll be pictured in NYC and parts of Peru. The Beast Wars inspiration hints at the live-action premiere of new factions of Transformers including Predacons, Terrorcons, and Maximals, who are sub-factions and descendants of Decepticons and Autobots. Steven Caple Jr. is the director of the film, and the main cast will star Anthony Ramos and Dominique Fishback. “We wanted to give the audience a lot of new,” producer ...
Artist x Artist: Ben Gibbard and Japanese Breakfast Discuss Their Appreciation of Yoko Ono
For the past year and change, Ben Gibbard has been busy working on his passion project: a Yoko Ono tribute album. Paying respect to one of the most misunderstood artists of the past half-century, Gibbard enlisted high-profile artists like David Byrne, Yo La Tengo, his bandmates in Death Cab for Cutie and Japanese Breakfast to record Ono covers. Japanese Breakfast’s tender piano-driven take on Ono’s “Nobody Sees Me Like You Do” showcases a depth of knowledge for her catalog. Ahead of that album’s release, Gibbard and Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast sat down to chat about all things Yoko Ono. The duo discussed the project’s formation, their mutual respect for Ono and digging in to her vast catalog. They spoke about their takeaways of Ono as an artist and what they appreciate about her ...
