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TIM ‘RIPPER’ OWENS Says JON SCHAFFER ‘Messed Up’ And Will Be ‘Paying For It For A Long Time’
Former ICED EARTH singer Tim “Ripper” Owens says that Jon Schaffer will “pay for a long time” for his role in the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Owens, who joined ICED EARTH in 2003 and stayed in the group for four years before being fired in December 2007, addressed his time with the band in a new interview with “The Loaded Radio Podcast”. Asked if he was surprised to see Schaffer involved in the Capitol riot, Owens said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I really lost contact [with him]. I didn’t leave on good terms. We weren’t friends when I left. I never burn bridges, but the way he fired me, the way he let me go, we never were on good terms. “We never talked politics when I was in the band,” he continued. ̶...
Congressional Committee Launching Astroworld Festival Investigation
The House Oversight and Reform Committee is launching an investigation into Live Nation over the 2021 Astroworld Festival, The Washington Post and The Associated Press report. In a letter to Michael Rapino (president and CEO of Live Nation Entertainment, Inc.), the Congressional committee members wrote: Live Nation Entertainment (Live Nation) was the concert promoter reportedly responsible for “planning, staffing, putting up money, securing permits, finding vendors, communicating with local agencies,” for Astroworld Festival. Recent reports raise serious concerns about whether your company took adequate steps to ensure the safety of the 50,000 concertgoers who attended Astroworld Festival. The committee is asking Rapino and Live Nation for details on the company’s role in security, crowd c...
Atlanta Season 3 Gets 2022 Premiere Date
Donald Glover’s TV series Atlanta finally has a premiere date for its third season, nearly four years after it was renewed. The first two episodes of Season 3 will air on March 24, 2022 via FX and will stream the next day on Hulu. The rest of the 10-episode season will come out weekly. Earlier this fall, a teaser trailer for Atlanta’s third season surfaced online. Season 3 takes place almost entirely in Europe as Earn (Donald Glover), Alfred/Paper Boi (Brian Tyree Henry), Darius (LaKeith Stanfield), and Van (Zazie Beetz) go on a European tour. While navigating their new surroundings as outsiders in the country, they struggle to adjust to their success. Back in 2019, before production on Season 3 even began, Atlanta was renewed for a fourth season as well. The second season of Atlanta, dubb...
Watch the LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special on Amazon Prime Video
LCD Soundsystem’s new special, the LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special, just premiered on Amazon Music’s Twitch channel and Prime Video. It’s directed by Eric Wareheim (who also stars in the role of James Murphy) and features Macaulay Culkin, Aparna Nancherla, Jon Daly, Christine Ko, a puppet, and others. The special opens with All My Friends, a 1990s-style sitcom starring comedians and actors portraying members of the band. Find a clip below and check out the full thing at Amazon. (Pitchfork earns a commission from purchases made through affiliate links on our site.) Over this past weekend, LCD Soundsystem decided to cancel the final three shows of their 2021 Brooklyn Steel residency after initially planning to carry on despite a rapid increase in COVID-19 cases in New York. “You good people ...
The Best Music Projects of 2021
Getting through the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic is a cause for celebration itself. As music experienced a brief resurgence with festivals and smaller tours, artists like Isaiah Rashad, J. Cole, Lorde, Tyler, the Creator and Vince Staples also made their triumphant return with their well-received albums The House Is Burning, The Off-Season, Solar Power, CALL ME IF YOU GET LOST, and Vince Staples. It would be a tragedy if we failed to highlight the hot debate of Kanye West‘s DONDA versus Drake‘s Certified Lover Boy, which were released within five days of each other and became the world’s talking point for months afterward. 2021 also greeted us with diverse releases from both growing and all-time favorites, including pgLang star Baby Keem with The Melodic Blue, Little...
JAY-Z Claims No One Can Take Him a ‘VERZUZ’ Battle
JAY-Z is very confident in his discography, so much so that he claimed during a Twitter Spaces event with Alicia Keys on Tuesday that no one can compete with him in a musical showdown. our entire convo with alicia keys & jay z in case you missed it (or just want to hear those voices again).❤️ @aliciakeys @sc @robmarkman @kozza @twittermusic #KEYS #KEYsAlbum https://t.co/06llTJXBjw — Genius (@Genius) December 22, 2021 During the discussion, hosted by Genius, the 52-year-old icon was asked if he would ever participate in a VERZUZ livestream — a series produced by Timbaland and Swizz Beatz that brings two legendary artists together to perform their respective hits. “No disrespect. Everyone is amazing and [has] done what they’ve done,” he said. “There’s not a chance in hell t...
Astroworld: House Committee to Investigate Live Nation
In the latest twist in the Astroworld saga, the House Oversight and Reform Committee is launching an investigation into the embattled festival. Astroworld promoter Live Nation is also the subject of the investigation. As reported by the AP, the committee sent Live Nation a formal letter. The committee is seeking information about the company’s role in providing security, security planning, crowd control and when the promoter first was made aware of the tragic circumstances that were unfolding at Astroworld. The concert promoter has until January 7, 2022 to respond. “We are writing to request information regarding the tragic events on November 5, 2021, when a stampede crushed concertgoers, killing ten people and injuring hundreds more during Astroworld Music Festival,” the letter addr...
Eric Clapton’s Management Puts Out Statement About Winning CD Lawsuit, Losing Court of Public Opinion
Eric Clapton (also known as the Kanye West of boomers) and his management seem to have realized that winning a lawsuit against a 55-year-old German widow over selling a bootleg CD might not be the best look for ol’ Slowhand. On Wednesday, Clapton’s management released a statement that’s basically a long legalese version of the classic “Sorry not sorry” and somehow seems to imply that they didn’t realize who they were suing until it’s too late. The management also absorbs the blame from Clapton, because it’s not their names in the headlines, after all. Of course, this would all be way more believable if Clapton hadn’t spent the last 20+ months ruining any goodwill he’d built up from the 20th century with his feverishly hot COVID takes and poor taste in musical partners. “Given the widesprea...
Congress Launches Investigation into Astroworld Tragedy
Congress is launching a bipartisan investigation into the tragic circumstances that led to the deaths of ten people at this year’s Astroworld Festival. According to The Washington Post, the probe will examine Live Nation’s role in the Houston-based event, including the company’s pre-show planning and logistics, and how it responded once it became apparent that a large crowd surge had killed or injured scores of concert-goers. On Wednesday, the House Oversight and Reform Committee sent a letter to Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino seeking documents detailing Astroworld’s security and crowd control planning, and requested that Live Nation brief members of the committee by January 12th. “Recent reports raise serious concerns about whether your company took adequate steps to ensure the...
Season 3 of Atlanta to Premiere on March 24th
At long last, FX has set a premiere date for Season 3 of Atlanta. After a three-year hiatus, Donald Glover’s acclaimed series will return with a two-episode season premiere on Thursday, March 24th at 10:00 p.m. ET/PT. According to a logline provided by FX, Season 3 finds Earn (Glover), “Paper Boi” (Brian Tyree Henry), Darius (LaKeith Stanfield) and Van (Zazie Beetz) in the midst of a successful European tour, “as the group navigates their new surroundings as outsiders, and struggle to adjust to the newfound success they had aspired to.” The full season runs 10 episodes, and each episode will be available to stream on Hulu the day after its initial broadcast premiere on FX. Advertisement Related Video A new teaser trailer for Atlanta Season 3 will premiere on Christmas Day during ESPN and A...
Chris Martin: Coldplay Will Stop Making Music After 2025
Chris Martin has announced that Coldplay will stop making music after 2025, prompting thousands of Facebook and Twitter users to post in unison, “They weren’t making music before.” Via i News, Martin made the announcement in a conversation with BBC Radio 2 presenter Jo Whiley. The interview will air Thursday, but Whiley teased a clip when she appeared on Wednesday’s The Zoe Ball Breakfast Show. “He’s always very funny and I’m never quite sure if he’s joking or being deadly serious,” Whiley said. “Towards the end of the time we spent together he shared something pretty honest and pretty intimate which was a huge revelation.” In the clip, Martin said, “Well I know I can tell you: Our last proper record will come out in 2025 and after that I think we will only tour.” He ad...
John Wick: Chapter 4 Pushed Back Until 2023
Movie fans planning to catch Keanu Reeves back in action as assassin John Wick next Memorial Day will have to wait another year. Lionsgate announced on Wednesday (December 22nd) that John Wick: Chapter 4 has been delayed once again and shared the new release date of March 24th, 2023. Already pushed back from its announced May 2021 release due to director Chad Stahelski and Reeves’ commitments to The Matrix: Resurrections, Chapter 4 was originally slated to be filmed back-to-back with a fifth installment of the John Wick franchise, but those plans were scrapped due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. It’s unclear what caused this delay, as production began this summer in France and Germany, with additional filming taking place in Japan and New York City. Principal photography wrappe...
