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A Day in the Life of…Jacob Bullard of Major Murphy
“We all had played in various bands together in and around Grand Rapids,” guitarist and vocalist Jacob Bullard tells us, of how he and Jacki Warren (bass/vocals), Brian Voortman (drums) and Chad Houseman (guitar/keys/percussion) became a band. They named themselves Major Murphy from a book about the paranormal. “It comes from a book written by a French astrophysicist that examines UFO phenomena and cults. Major Murphy was an alias of someone in the book,” Bullard explains. From Grand Rapids, Michigan himself, Bullard believes the city was just the right size to explore their talents as musicians. “Being a mid-sized city there is a pretty good happy medium between having opportunities but not being super competitive. It was really reasonably priced to live here for a while too and that made...
Bonobo Announces New Album With Single ‘Rosewood’
Bonobo announced his newest record Fragments, slated for release in January 2022 via Ninja Tune. Today, he released the album’s first single “Rosewood.” [embedded content] This is the British DJ’s follow up to his Grammy-nominated, 2017 Migration. On Tuesday, 12 mysterious billboards teasing Bonobo’s upcoming project appeared across the world. A new website for the electronic performer (a.k.a. Simon Green) was also launched, where fans can find all things relating to Bonobo. Fragments will feature a string of collaborators, including Jamila Woods, Joji, Kadhja Bonet, Jordan Rakei, and O’Flynn. It will mark the return of the 45-year-old producer as his seventh album. The video for Bonobo’s track “Cirrus” notably amassed over 16 million views on his YouTube, released back in 2013. He perform...
Nas and Hit-Boy Tease Potential Collaboration in Video for Upcoming Workshop Class
Collaborators Nas and Hit-Boy may have new music in the works. The two first linked in August 2020 for the making of King’s Disease and reunited a year later for the album’s sequel. In a video posted to Instagram on October 5, Nas gives fans a preview of his upcoming MasterClass. The visual shows Nas rapping in the studio and Hit-Boy tapping on a keyboard. “I ran the gamut,” Nas raps in the brief clip. “Got my hands in everything like kids with bad manners.” It appears that the teaser is chronicling the making of a fresh Nas and Hit-Boy song in real-time. In the caption of the post, Nas makes mention of “new music,” as well as content and programming. The educational platform MasterClass has hosted workshop series by artists in the past, including Usher and Timbaland. Few details have...
Read Me: Rickie Lee Jones’s Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour
Read Me is a new SPIN interview feature devoted to books by and about our favorites artists. She can’t help it: Rickie Lee Jones creates poetry wherever she goes. Her memoir, Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour, released in April, was written in the same rich, entrancing, dusty language as her songs. From all of her beginnings to endings, there’s a Rickie Lee Jones romance to it all. As she tells me: “This is a story generations have written, one that has been the living human experience of my family and, told through my experience, you get to see how mythological it has become for me. These are my…Hades, my Penelope, my Homer. This guy over here is my one-eyed monster.” Rickie Lee took a break from the end of a several-month-long music and book tour to tell us all abo...
RUSH’s ALEX LIFESON Is Done With Touring: ‘I Don’t Think I Have It In Me To Go On The Road’
RUSH guitarist Alex Lifeson, who recently completed an album’s worth of material with former CONEY HATCH singer/bassist Andy Curran, was asked in the new issue of Guitar Player magazine if he has any plans to play live in the near future. He responded: “I’m not really thinking about that. It’s challenging enough to try to get this album out first. “To be honest with you, I don’t think I have it in me to go on the road,” he continued. “I mean, if it was a handful of shows, that might be kind of fun, but anything beyond that… After 40 years of sitting in hotel rooms, I’m not interested. I’ve had quite enough of that. I do love my home life. “I thought I would miss being onstage a lot more, but I don’t really. IR...
Hear MÖTLEY CRÜE’s ‘Live Wire’ From Upcoming Digital Remaster Of ‘Too Fast For Love’
MÖTLEY CRÜE has shared “Live Wire” from the upcoming digital remaster of the band’s debut album, “Too Fast For Love”. CRÜE‘s 40th-anniversary celebrations will culminate with the digital remaster “Too Fast For Love”, set to arrive exactly 40 years to the original release date of November 10, 1981. The remaster is now available for pre-order. The LP was recorded at Hit City West Studios and made available via the band’s own label Leathür Records. Eventually reaching platinum status in the U.S. and charting on the Billboard 200, the album was ranked No. 22 on Rolling Stone magazine’s “The 100 Greatest Metal Albums Of All Time.” The “Too Fast For Love” and “Shout At The Devil” remasters join the re...
EDDIE VAN HALEN’s Son And Widow Pay Tribute To Legendary Guitarist On First Anniversary Of His Death
Eddie Van Halen‘s son and widow have both posted touching tributes on social media to the legendary VAN HALEN guitarist on the first anniversary of his death. Wolfgang Van Halen, who played with his father as a member of VAN HALEN, wrote: “One year. “You fought so hard for so long, but you were still taken away. It’s just so unfair. “I’m not ok. I don’t think I’ll ever be ok. There’s so much I wish I could show you. So many things I wish I could share with you. I wish I could laugh with you again. I wish I could hug you again. I miss you so much it hurts. “I’m trying to do my best here without you, but it’s really fucking hard. I hope you’re still proud. “I love you with all of my heart, Pop. Watch over me....
Watch Pro-Shot Video Of METALLICA’s ‘The Struggle Within’ Performance From LOUDER THAN LIFE Festival
METALLICA played its classic self-titled album, commonly known as “The Black Album,” in its entirety during its headline set on September 26 at Louder Than Life festival in Louisville, Kentucky. METALLICA performed the LP as part of its second headline set of the weekend at Louder Than Life, which hosted tens of thousands of people at the Kentucky Exposition Center. After opening with three non-“Black Album” songs — “Hardwired”, “The Four Horsemen” and “Welcome Home (Sanitarium)” — METALLICA performed the album’s closing track, “The Struggle Within”, and went through the entire LP in reverse order, finishing the main set with album opener “Enter Sandman”. The band then returned for a two-song encore c...
Listen to Big Thief’s Intimate New Song ‘Change’
Big Thief unveiled their latest single, “Change.” The band previewed the warm, intimate song at the recent Pitchfork Music Festival during their set. “Change” follows three recently released Big Thief singles, “Little Things, “Sparrow,” and “Certainty.” [embedded content] If a band could define wholesome, Big Thief takes the crown. Even the cover art for the new singles, currently on Spotify, is a pencil-sketched dinosaur, owl, bear, and bird singing around a campfire. The group announced a 2022 tour that kicks off in Europe and hits North America in the spring. Big Thief is set to headline two nights at Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles and an evening at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn, New York. Tickets are available at 10 a.m. local time on Friday, Oct. 8. Spotify will hold a presale for the tou...
I Can’t Stream Baby: YouTube Removes R. Kelly’s Channels, Let’s His Music Rock, Though
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Chicago Tribune / Getty The hits just keep on coming for R. Kelly but not in the way he’s accustomed to. After being found guilty by a jury of his peers of sex trafficking last week in New York City, Bloomberg is now reporting that R. Kelly’s YouTube channels have been taken down now that he’s a convicted sex offender. A week after Kelly was finally held accountable for his crimes against countless young women, YouTube banned both R. Kelly TV and R. Kelly Vevo from its video platform. “We can confirm that we have terminated two channels linked to R. Kelly in accordance with our creator responsibility guidelines,” a spokesperson for YouTube stated. YouTube’s Head of Legal, Nicole Alston added “Egregious actions committed by R. Kelly warrant penalties beyon...
Dave Chappelle Jabs LGBTQ Community & DaBaby In New Comedy Special
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Stacy Revere / Getty Dave Chappelle has never seen a controversy he doesn’t want to tackle head-on. And in his latest comedy special on Netflix, he proves that to be right once again by addressing the homophobic comments made by DaBaby as well as the response to them. In the early moments of The Closer, Chappelle lets the audience know that he approached this taping with “an objective” that ties into his previous specials on the streaming giant. “I came here tonight because this body of work that I’ve done on Netflix, I’m going to complete,” he began. “All the questions you might have had about all these jokes I’ve said in the last few years, I hope to answer tonight. And I’d like to start by addressing the [LGBTQ] community directly. I want every member ...
War Ready: Big Daddy Kane & KRS-ONE To Face Off On Next ‘Verzuz’ Battle
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty Jadakiss’ reign as the Verzuz G.O.A.T. might come to an end soon. Big Daddy Kane and KRS-ONE have signed on to go at it at the next battle and we are here for it. The two Rap legends have confirmed that they will face off in what seems to a be an epic match on the next installment of Verzuz. For months fans have urged founders Swizz Beatz and Timbaland to set up a Kane and Rakim battle but to hear the “Set It Off” MC tell it he didn’t see that as a good match up. “If it’s going to be me and Rakim, then we might as well just do it with the music. You know what I mean? I don’t really see him as a battle rapper” he told HipHopDX. He then continued to say that The Blastmaster would be better suited for his skillset. “I think it ...
