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Mark Lanegan Details His Terrifying COVID Battle in New Book
A year after releasing the best selling Sing Backwards and Weep, Mark Lanegan picked up his pen will be releasing Devil in a Coma, a book about his brutal battle with COVID earlier this year. The former Screaming Trees frontman said he was left “completely deaf” for a bit and “slipping in and out of a coma” when he picked up COVID in his new home of Ireland this March. A press release explaining Lanegan’s COVID experience said the following: “One blindingly bright morning in Ireland in March 2021, Mark Lanegan woke up and walked into the kitchen to pour himself a cup of coffee. Having gone completely deaf during the illness that had been slowly devouring his sick body, he found himself floored with cracked ribs unable to breathe. His body — burdened with a gigantic dose of COVID-19 — was q...
Spiritualized Announce Ninth Studio Record Everything Was Beautiful
Spiritualized are back. The group announced plans to release, Everything Was Beautiful, their ninth studio album on February 25, 2022. Following the 2018 And Nothing Hurt, which was thought to be the final Spiritualized album, Everything Was Beautiful is available for pre-order in various box set formats, and on light pink vinyl. Today, the band dropped the record’s first track “Always Together With You.” [embedded content][embedded content] Like a flower blooming in time-lapse, “Always Together With You” is the epitome of a Spiritualized track and something that longtime fans of the band will enjoy. The song is a reworking of a track that was originally released as a demo in 2014. “There was so much information on it that the slightest move would unbalance it, but...
How Biffy Clyro Learned to Embrace the Brightside With The Myth of the Happy Ever After
Is mankind hurtling to its ignominious end, like so many lemmings over a cliff? Simon Neil is sure he’s seen the telltale signs. And the gallows-humored Biffy Clyro anchor isn’t afraid of covering the extinction topic on his trio’s surprise, lockdown-sculpted new album, The Myth of the Happy Ever After. With no apology, it opens on the anti-Boris Johnson salvo “Dum Dum” (which lambastes the British prime minister for allegedly saying he’d rather have bodies piled up at his Downing Street door than impose another lockdown), then segues into a speed-bag-punchy “Witch’s Cup” (“I just hope when we go/That there’s something deeper”), the dissonant “Errors In the History of God” (“We’re trolls in this universe/happy just to torch shit”), and a funeral-parlor ethereal “Existed,” which finds the S...
Watch DAVID ELLEFSON Perform Live For First Time Since Being Fired From MEGADETH
This past weekend, David Ellefson performed live for the first time since being fired from MEGADETH, taking the stage at the Chiller Theatre convention at the Hilton Parsippany in Parsippany, New Jersey. The 56-year-old bassist, who was promoting his found-footage horror film “Dwellers” at the event, joined THE DEAD ELVI, the Chiller Theatre house band which performs original music and serves as the backup group for musical guests on Saturday nights, to play a cover version of the Alice Cooper classic “I’m Eighteen”. Fan-filmed video footage of Ellefson‘s appearance with THE DEAD ELVI can be seen below. Ellefson was fired from MEGADETH six months ago, just days after sexually tinged messages and explicit video footage involving the bassist were posted on...
IRON MAIDEN’s BRUCE DICKINSON Announces Two-Month North American 2022 Spoken-Word Tour
IRON MAIDEN singer Bruce Dickinson will embark on a two-month North American spoken-word tour in January. Dickinson is considered one of the world’s most storied musicians. Aside from decades spent delivering high-octane performances with his larger-than-life persona in IRON MAIDEN, Bruce has lived an extraordinary off-stage existence too. A true polymath, his accomplishments include: pilot and airline captain, aviation entrepreneur, beer brewer, motivational speaker, film scriptwriter, twice-published novelist and Sunday Times best-selling author, radio presenter, TV actor, sports commentator and international fencer… to name but a few. So there’s plenty to be entertained by, throughout the evening’s cornucopia of fascinating tales and derring-do exploits, all delivered ...
LAMB OF GOD’s RANDY BLYTHE Performs ‘Adoration For None’ Live With GOJIRA For First Time (Video)
LAMB OF GOD‘s Randy Blythe joined French progressive metallers GOJIRA on stage last night (Monday, November 1) at Knotfest Iowa at at The National in Richmond, Virginia to perform the song “Adoration For None” live for the first time. Fan-filmed video footage of his appearance can be seen below (courtesy of David Fritzson). Blythe, who had previously played the track “Backbone” with GOJIRA in late September at Knotfest Iowa, co-wrote and appeared on “Adoration For None” on GOJIRA‘s 2008 album “The Way Of All Flesh”. Earlier this year, Blythe praised GOJIRA‘s seventh studio LP, “Fortitude”, to Metal Hammer magazine, saying that is “succeeds in achieving what very few metal albums do: without sacrificing a si...
SAXON Announces ‘Carpe Diem’ Album, Releases First Single
British heavy metal legends SAXON will release their 23rd studio album, “Carpe Diem”, on February 4, 2022 via Silver Lining Music. Comprised of 10 titanic tracks bristling with seel-clad riffery and pround intent, the Barnsely, U.K.-born band draw on a variety of integredients from the career to forget what is their most dynamic release in many a year. “It all starts with the riff,” says frontman and co-founder Biff Byford. “If the riff speaks to me, then we’re on our way. It’s a very intense album, and that’s all down to the fact that the essence of a great metal song is the riff that starts it, and this album has loads of them.” Unleashing today the title track’s roll-back attack, this is SAXON at their purest and most definitiv...
Ticketek Unveils ‘World First’ Integrated Mobile Ticket and Vaccination Check-In
The check-in upgrade gets its first proper consumer trial from this Thursday, beginning with the Kennedy Oaks Day at Flemington Racecourse, through a partnership with the Victorian government. With that particular experience, guests at Ticketek venues can verify their check-in and vaccination status at bag check, by way of a deep-link into the Service Victoria app. The one-stop will be rolled out across Ticketek venues in other Australian states in the coming weeks, a spokesman confirms, and concerts will come on line in due course. Ticketek’s upgrade is a timely one. Restrictions are currently being eased across New South Wales and Victoria, Australia’s two biggest states, after their respective populations nudged past the 80 per cent double-dose vaccination milestone. By hitting those bi...
BTS’ ‘Dynamite’ Explodes With RIAA Triple-Platinum Status
Following its release in August 2020, “Dynamite” became BTS’ first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and logged three weeks at the summit. With that feat, BTS, which comprises members J-Hope, Jimin, Jin, Jungkook, RM, Suga and V, became the first all-South Korean group to lead the all-genre Hot 100. The honors don’t end there. RIAA certifies BTS’ “BE” for platinum (1 million U.S. units) and “Life Goes On” for gold (for 500,000 U.S. units). RIAA’s gold and platinum awards have “come to stand as a benchmark of success for any artist,” the trade body explains in a statement. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money...
U2 Join TikTok With Soaring Ballad ‘Your Song Saved My Life’
The sequel to the 2016 animated musical comedy reunites much of the original cast of anthropomorphic singing animals taking on classic rock and pop tracks as optimistic koala Buster (Matthew McConaughey) and his all-star pals prepare to launch a new stage show in the world’s entertainment capital. “There’s just one hitch: They first have to persuade the world’s most reclusive rock star—played by global music icon Bono, in his animated film debut,” reads the description. As part of Buster’s attempt to move the show to the Crystal Tower Theater in dazzling Redshore City, he ropes in pals Rosita (Reese Witherspoon), rocker porcupine Ash (Scarlett Johansson), earnest gorilla Johnny (Taron Egerton), shy elephant Meena (Tori Kelly) and porcine provocateur Gunter (Nic...
Janet Jackson Super Bowl ‘Wardrobe Malfunction’ to Be Probed in New Documentary
After the Spears doc debuted in February, Timberlake issued a public apology to both his ex Spears and Jackson for the way he treated them. After Timberlake came off as callous and calculating in the years after his 2002 split from Britney in Framing, a number of outlets called for Justin to be called to task for the apparent pass he got from the music industry and pundits in the wake of what became known as “Nipple-gate.” Following the incident, Jackson was uninvited from the following week’s Grammy Awards and her videos were yanked from Viacom properties including MTV, CBS and Infinity Broadcasting. Timberlake, though, not only appeared at the Grammys, but was allowed to issue an apology at the event, and then went on to headline the SB halftime show in 2018, while...
EVENT: The Experience 2021 – Global Edition
The Experience has been described as “the world’s largest gospel concert” and is arguably the largest gathering of worshippers on the African continent. The colossal concert, which averaged an attendance in the hundreds of thousands in preceding years, attracts music enthusiasts from all over the globe, gathering to worship God from dusk till dawn. Previous editions were held at the Tafawa Balewa Square in Lagos, Nigeria, with many more watching online, creating a digital footprint on all 7 continents of the world. This year, on Friday, December 3, 2021 beginning at 21:00 hours West African Time (GMT+1), The Experience will hold exclusively online. It will also be debuting as a global edition and will be live-streamed simultaneously around the world on YouTube, Facebook, and other maj...
