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Thundercat Unveils 10th Anniversary Deluxe Vinyl Reissue of Debut Album ‘The Golden Age of Apocalypse’
Thundercat is celebrating the 10th anniversary of this debut album, The Golden Age of Apocalypse, with a deluxe vinyl release. Set to drop on Record Store Day Black Friday on November 26, the special release will arrive as a translucent red LP inside a shiny gold mirri board sleeve, which features a large Thundercat logo hologram sticker and gold rainbow holofoil detail. Fans can look forward to the original tracklist and two bonus tracks entitled “$200 TB” and “Daylight (Reprise).” The Golden Age of Apocalypse was executive produced by Flying Lotus and featured contributions from the likes of Kamasi Washington, Cameron Graves and Ronald Bruner Jr., the late Austin Peralta, Brandon Coleman, Taylor Graves, Hadrien Féraud, Oliver Johnson, Shafiq Husayn, Om’Mas Keith, Chris “Daddy” Dave, Broo...
“A Drug From God”: Listen to Chris Lake and Grimes’ Hedonistic House Anthem
House music virtuoso Chris Lake has unveiled “A Drug From God,” a hotly anticipated collaboration with Grimes. “A Drug From God” is hedonistic in nature, blending Lake’s signature down-and-dirty basslines with the sumptuous art pop sound of Grimes. Thanks to her madcap refrain, the song is subversive enough to infuriate EDM’s narrow-minded detractors and anthemic enough to become a festival favorite. In other words, “A Drug From God” is an instant classic for fans of dance music. Out today via a joint release between Astralwerks and Lake’s Black Book Records, it’s one of the biggest house records of 2021 and a dark horse for the Grammy Award for Best Dance/Electronic Recording. Check out the track below. The massive...
VAVO Unveil Bubbly Slap House Anthem, “Highs & Lows”
Tying a bow on a monster year, Canadian-English DJ duo VAVO have dropped “Highs & Lows,” a sensational slap house single and their last of 2021. Time-tested in 2021, the track’s formula helps concoct a dance anthem with the potential to dominate radio like its slap house predecessors. We saw it with Imanbek’s breakthrough remix of SAINt JHN’s “Roses” and again with Tiësto’s and Karol G’s “Don’t Be Shy“—and this time around, VAVO are poised to make their mark. “Highs & Lows” takes a page out of Joel Corry and MNEK’s playbook, using earworm-like adlibs akin to the ones heard in their global smash “Head & Heart.” It was a shrewd move, offering a catchy melody in the song’s i...
Henry Cavill Is Interested in Playing James Bond and Marvel’s Captain Britain
Superman and The Witcher actor Henry Cavill has now expressed interest in both playing Captain Britain for Marvel and becoming the next James Bond after Daniel Craig‘s departure following No Time to Die. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter in a new interview, the pop culture lover was asked who he’d want to play if he was given a role within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. “I’m never going to say a Marvel character that is already being played by someone else because everyone’s doing such an amazing job,” Cavill explained. “However, I have the internet and I have seen the various rumors about Captain Britain and that would be loads of fun to do a cool, modernized version of that — like the way they modernized Captain America. There’s something fun about that, and I d...
Disney’s Q4 2021 Performance Misses Expectations as Streaming Subscription Growth Slows
Amid slowing growth for its Disney+ streaming platform, media giant Disney has failed to meet expectations for Q4 of 2021. According to the company, revenue came in at $18.53 billion USD over the past quarter, falling just shy of the $15.78 billion USD expectation. Earnings per share dropped 20 cents year on year to 37 cents per share, as opposed to the predicted 49 cents per share. Most importantly, Disney+ subscriptions only reached 118.1 million, coming 1.5 million short of the 119.6 expected. Disney attributes much of this quarter’s struggles to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, which has caused many productions across the globe to shutter, delaying the company’s release schedule and slowing the flow of new content on Disney+. “Although film and television production generally resumed beg...
Disney+ Sets Release Window for ‘Ms. Marvel’ Series
Disney+ has finally announced a release window for the premiere of Ms. Marvel. Little is known for now about the upcoming series, but fans can expect some form of origin story for the Pakistani-American shapeshifter Kamala Khan, who’ll be portrayed by Canadian actress Iman Vellani. Following her MCU debut on Disney+, she’ll also make her way onto Captain Marvel’s second film The Marvel, which will feature Khan, Carol Danvers, and Monica Rambeau, who made her own introduction back in WandaVision. “It’s interesting, and something we thought about and worked through a lot, which was how do we get each of these really big, exciting heroes space in a two-hour film,” The Marvels director Nia DaCosta previously said. “Captain Marvel has a history from the first film, Kamala will have he...
‘Squid Game’s’ Lee Jung-jae Appointed as Gucci Global Brand Ambassador
South Korean actor Lee Jung-jae, best known for his role as Seong Gi-Hun in Squid Game, has been announced as Gucci‘s newest global brand ambassador. Seong Gi-Hun’s announcement follows Jung Ho-yeon‘s appointment as brand ambassador for Louis Vuitton earlier this year and the confirmation of Squid Game Season 2. In a recent interview, Squid Game creator and director Hwang Dong-hyuk promised viewers, “Gi-Hun will come back, and he will do something for the world.” In the meantime, Lee Jung-jae is currently working on his directing debut for the action-drama Hunt, in which he also stars. The upcoming film is set to release later this year and follows an NSA agent chasing after a North Korean spy. Also joining Gucci as a brand ambassador is South Korean actress Mina Shin from My Girlfriend is...
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS Pull Out Of WELCOME TO ROCKVILLE Festival After Positive COVID-19 Test
STONE TEMPLE PILOTS have scrapped the remaining shows on their current tour after a “member” of the band’s “organization” tested positive for COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus. STONE TEMPLE PILOTS announced the cancelation in a social media post on Wednesday (November 10). The band wrote: “During routine Covid-19 testing of our band and crew, we have discovered that a member of our organization has tested positive for the virus. Out of an abundance of caution, we must regretfully cancel our remaining shows on this current tour; our appearances in Daytona, FL at the Welcome to Rockville Festival and Tulsa, OK at the Skyline Event Center. Refunds for the Tulsa show can be made at your point of purchase. “Thank you to everyone that...
DEATH ANGEL Members Discuss Making Of ‘The Bastard Tracks’ Live Album (Video)
San Francisco Bay Area thrash metal veterans DEATH ANGEL will release a new live album titled “The Bastard Tracks” on Black Friday, November 26 via Nuclear Blast. Recorded live at The Great American Music Hall in their hometown of San Francisco on May 22, 2021, and streamed live soon after, “The Bastard Tracks” is a deep-cuts collection of rarely and never performed songs from the band’s celebrated catalog that will be released digitally and on CD, vinyl and Blu-ray. A new trailer for “The Bastard Tracks” in which the members of DEATH ANGEL talk about how the album came to be can be seen below. Vocalist Mark Osegueda stated: “When we performed and filmed the songs for ‘The Bastard Tracks’, it was such a crazy time, and having miss...
And Yet It Moves – TIMECHILD
RATING: 8/10 As every student of hard rock and heavy metal knows, few things are more inherently exhilarating than the sound of vintage DEEP PURPLE or URIAH HEEP at full pelt. Massive riffs, mutli-octave vocal athletics and, most importantly, the otherworldly rush of an overdriven Hammond organ — this, my friends, is the rock ‘n’ roll motherlode. Listen to “Highway Star” or “Easy Livin'” at full whack (again, presumably) and you will know the meaning of joy. TIMECHILD are undoubtedly disciples of Jon Lord and Ken Hensley, not to mention Ritchie Blackmore and Mick Box, and their debut album makes no apologies for its proud and purposeful debt to the glory days of both the aforementioned bands. But while there are plenty of bands out there with the intent ...
LZZY HALE On Covering LINKIN PARK’s Heavy’ With AMY LEE: It’s Almost Like A ‘Church Moment’
At every stop on HALESTORM‘s recently launched U.S. tour with EVANESCENCE, HALESTORM singer Lzzy Hale has been joining EVANESCENCE on stage to perform a cover version of LINKIN PARK‘s “Heavy”. Lzzy spoke about the decision to cover the track in a new interview with the 105.7 The Point radio station. She said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “[EVANESCENCE singer Amy Lee and I] were lobbing a couple of ideas back and forth and then, all of a sudden, we landed on LINKIN PARK. And [we thought], you know what? That would be really cool because inadvertently it would be a tribute to [late LINKIN PARK singer] Chester [Bennington], but also, everything that this song has been about, we’ve all been through that — everybody. And so it’s almost this like...
Silk Sonic Shares Smooth Debut Album ‘An Evening With Silk Sonic’
Silk Sonic, the power duo comprised of Anderson .Paak and Bruno Mars, have finally dropped off their highly-anticipated debut album An Evening With Silk Sonic. Clocking in at just over half an hour, the nine-track record is hosted by Parliament Funkadelic member Bootsy Collins and features only one guest appearance from Thundercat on “After Last Night.” Heavily inspired by soul and funk music from the 1970s, .Paak and Mars mainly explore the themes of relationships and women with catchy tunes and simple yet cheeky lyricism. Earlier this year, the pair spoke to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe and shared that the Silk Sonic project began from a studio session in 2017. “It snowballed. And it was like, well, want to come back tomorrow? And we kept coming up with music. It felt like why you fall in lov...
