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Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats Announce Spring 2022 North American Tour
Uncle Acid & the Deadbeats have announced a Spring 2022 North American tour with support from King Buffalo. It marks Uncle Acid’s first run across North America since 2019, when Heavy Consequence caught the band twice — once co-headlining Brooklyn Steel and a second time supporting King Diamond. The UK heavy psych ensemble were supposed to tour US in May/June of last year, dates that were postponed due to the pandemic. Some of those cities and venues have been carried over to the 2022 itinerary. Related Video The spring 2022 trek kicks off March 2nd with the band returning to the aforementioned Brooklyn Steel in New York. The tour then winds its way across the East Coast, Midwest, West Coast, and back, concluding on April 3rd in Boston. Get tickets via Ticketmaster starting December 10...
Dr. Dre and Anderson .Paak to Star in New GTA Online Expansion: Watch the Trailer
Dr. Dre and Anderson .Paak are speeding their way into the Grand Theft Auto universe. Rockstar Games has confirmed a new expansion for GTA Online today, which features the rapper and R&B star as characters. Naturally, they’ve also contributed to the soundtrack, which you can preview now in the expansion’s new trailer. GTA Online: The Contract is out on December 15th, and sees the return of GTA V character Franklin Clinton. Set years after his last appearance, Franklin is now tending to his “celebrity solutions agency,” which promises to provide Vinewood’s elite with “solutions to high-society problems.” This sounds fitting for a game featuring Dre, whose character has lost his cell phone — as well as all the unreleased music stored on it. “This could be the big break your agency n...
Björk Announce Orchestral Shows in Miami
Björk will play a pair of special orchestral shows at Miami’s Arsht Center next February. Taking place on February 13th and 16th, the concerts will feature Björk performing acoustic orchestral arrangements of her work, with the accompaniment of conductor Bjarni Frímann Bjarnason. Tickets go on sale Friday, December 10th via the Arsht Center’s website. Björk previously teamed up with the Icelandic Symphony Orchestra for a series of orchestral shows held at the Harpa Reykjavík Concert Hall in the fall. She’ll also play orchestral shows in Europe next summer. Related Video Additionally, Björk recently announced early 2022 stagings of her “Cornucopia” show in Los Angeles and San Francisco. “Cornucopia,” which made its debut in New York City in 2019, is described by Björk as her “most ela...
Three Musicians Took 100 Years of Climate Change Data and Turned Them Into Songs
Climate change is causing the planet to evolve at an alarming rate. Thanks to musicians and instructors at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida, climate change can also be heard. Musicians from Full Sail have teamed up with USA Today to construct music based on more than 100 years of data on climate change in various U.S. states, including Arkansas, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Iowa. The data found that east of the Rocky Mountains more rain was falling than ever before, but in the west rain is becoming more scarce. Each composer approached the project differently with various musicalities. They all used real rain sounds throughout their pieces. Pennsylvania by Dr. Timothy Stulman In Dr. Stulman’s composition, he used a melodic line that represented p...
J. Prince Details How He Helped Kanye West and Drake Squash Their Beef
Drake and Kanye West, two of the biggest hip-hop powerhouses in the music industry, have recently decided to squash their beef to come together for the Free Larry Hoover Benefit Concert hosted in Los Angeles later this week. While it has taken many months before Drizzy and Ye set their differences aside, J. Prince has detailed that it was largely due to Larry Hoover, the co-founder of Chicago’s Gangster Disciples for helping the pair forgive one another. In a recent interview, J. Prince detailed how the two made up and discussed his involvement in bringing Drake and Ye together. J. Prince said, “We have to start with the name Larry Hoover. He planted the seed. He wanted to see Kanye and Drake come together in the name of peace. His son Larry Jr. was hanging out with Kanye a lot, and of cou...
‘Halo’ Weapons Take Over ‘Destiny 2’ In Celebration of Bungie’s 30th Anniversary
In celebration of Bungie‘s 30th anniversary — which just happens to coincide with the release of Halo Infinite — the long-awaited Destiny 2 and Halo crossover event is finally here. While Bungie doesn’t overtly mention Halo, it’s pretty clear from the trailer that the weapons have been inspired by their previous work on the franchise. Included in the special update will be the Forerunner sidearm which mirrors the ultra-iconic Magnum pistol from Halo: Combat Evolved, the Half-Truths sword which is basically half of an Energy Sword, the BXR-55 Battler which, with its three-round burst mode, is unmistakeably the Battle Rifle in Halo 2, and the Retraced Path, a trace rifle mirroring Halo: Reach‘s Focus Rifle. Of course, aside from its Halo tributes, you can also e...
Snoop Dogg Reveals He Was “Hurt” After Not Being Able to Purchase Death Row Records
Snoop Dogg revealed in an extensive new interview that “the man in me was hurt” when he was not given the chance to purchase Death Row Records. Speaking to TIDAL‘s Elliot Wilson via GQ, the hip-hop veteran explained that he was led to his current executive position at Def Jam Recordings after failing to acquire Suge Knight’s Death Row. “I went looking for this job because I wanted to be the CEO of Death Row Records and basically take over the merchandise and rerelease their music, do documentaries, and possibly do my life story,” Snoop shared. “But then eOne Music [which owned Death Row Music until April 2021] didn’t want to give me action at it. So then I asked could I buy it? And they acted like they didn’t want to sell it. Then they sold it [to the Blackstone Group], and the man in me w...
Discord Testing Subscription Feature Allowing Creators to Monetize Their Servers
Discord is introducing monthly subscriptions to its service, initially with a pilot program for select creators. The subscriptions, which have been dubbed Premium Memberships, are designed to support Discord servers – digital conversation hubs that connect Discord users via audio, video or text – and the creators who lead them. Creators have the option of dividing memberships into tiers, with each tier boasting unique pricing (subscriptions can range from $2.99 to $99.99 a month) and perks. Creators will also have access to analytics to see how their memberships are performing. Long before this announcement, which was made Tuesday, Discord creators had been figuring out ways around the lack of a subscription feature on the platform, including by tokenizing communities as well as selling ac...
Banana Split Duo Talk Making It to ‘Masked Singer’ Finals & The Song You Didn’t Hear
Consider Banana Split officially melted. After making an impressively delicious run on this season of The Masked Singer that included showstopping performances of everything from Michael Bublé‘s take on the Julie London classic “Cry Me a River” to Lady Gaga‘s “Poker Face,” the dynamic duo with the powerhouse voice and smooth piano stylings were eliminated during the Group B Finals on Wednesday night (Oct. 8). Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news Following their shocking elimination after covering “Singin’ in the Rain,” the season’s front-runners were unmasked and revealed to be [SPOILER ALERT] American Idol alum Katharine McPhee and her husband, 16-time Grammy winner David Foster. In fact, in a season that boasted a combined 85 Grammy nominations, 2...
Black Friday & Holiday Shopping Send Vinyl Album Sales Soaring, Led by Adele’s ’30’
2021 Black Friday sales and general holiday shopping promotions helped yield an eye-popping week for vinyl album sales in the U.S. In the week ending Dec. 2, vinyl album sales totaled 1.46 million (up 39%) – marking the second-biggest week for the format since MRC Data began tracking sales in 1991. The only larger week in the MRC Data era for vinyl album sales was registered in the week ending Dec. 24, 2020, when 1.84 million albums were sold. Overall, in the week ending Dec. 2, vinyl LP sales accounted for 46% of all albums sold in the U.S. (1.46 million of 3.17 million). Further, of just physical album sales (vinyl LP, CDs, cassettes, etc.), vinyl LP sales represented 54% of all albums sold for the week (1.46 million of 2.7 million). Explore Explore Adele See latest videos, charts and ne...
Robbie Shakespeare, Legendary Bass Player Who Formed Sly & Robbie, Dies at 68
Robbie Shakespeare, the two-time Grammy Award-winning bass player, record producer, and one half of the iconic rhythm section Sly & Robbie, died Wednesday (Dec. 8) at the age of 68. The late musician is remembered as one of the all-time greats on the bass guitar, and for shaping the sounds of reggae and dancehall music, across a career that earned him 13 Grammy nominations, snagging wins in 1984 and 1985. Jamaica’s Culture Minister Olivia Grange remarked that Shakespeare was among the country’s “greatest musicians.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news I am in shock and sorrow after just receiving the news that my friend and brother, the legendary basist Robbie Shakespeare has died. Robbie and Sly Dunbar, the drummer, as Sly and Robbie, have bee...
DOKKEN Has ‘Finally’ Finished Recording New Album
Don Dokken spoke to Tigman of the Poughkeepsie, New York classic rock radio station 101.5 WPDH about the progress of the songwriting sessions for DOKKEN‘s new LP — the group’s first since 2012’s “Broken Bones”. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We just finished our new album. We finally got it done, which was hard with COVID and all the guys living in different states, and I couldn’t play guitar. But luckily, when we did ‘Broken Bones’, our last album, Jon [Levin, guitar] and I had written, like, 12 or 14 songs left over, so we picked through ’em and picked the best and wrote some new ones. And I got my pen and paper out, and we’d write on the road and we’d write over Skype. I’d never recorded an alb...
