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Lars Ulrich’s Sons Play Their First Gig as the Duo Taipei Houston: Watch
After announcing their new band Taipei Houston a couple weeks back, Myles and Layne Ulrich played their first gig a few days ago. The two musicians are the sons of legendary Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich. In the vein of bass-drum duos like Royal Blood and Death From Above 1979, Taipei Houston feature 23-year-old Myles behind the drum kit and 20-year-old Layne on bass and vocals. In a new post on Instagram, the brothers shared clips from their first show, which took place at Alex’s Bar in Anaheim, California. The footage shows Layne and Myles playing a high-energy brand of rock, with bits of Led Zeppelin, The White Stripes, and The MC5 sprinkled throughout. Advertisement Related Video Lars’ wife, model Jessica Miller, had high praise for her stepsons’ first show, writing, “Long Beach was on...
R.I.P. George Wein, Legendary Newport Folk and Jazz Festival Producer, Dies at 95
George Wein, the legendary music festival producer behind the Newport Folk and Jazz festivals as well as the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, has died. He was 95 years old. Invited by socialites Louis and Elaine Lorillard to help bring a jazz festival to Newport, Rhode Island in 1954, Wein ended up setting the stage for the modern music festival revolution. “George Wein defined what a music festival could be with the Newport Jazz Festival, Newport Folk Festival and the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival,” said LL Cool J while awarding Wein the Grammy Honorary Trustee Award in 2015. “This is a great guy. More than anyone, George set the stage for what great festivals today look like; festivals like Cocahella, Bonnaro… he made this possible…” When Wein launched the Newport Jazz Fe...
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Nicki Minaj Sits Out of Met Gala Due to Vaccine Requirement: “If I Get Vaccinated It Won’t [Be] For the Met”
Following its cancelation last year due to COVID-19, the Met Gala officially returns this evening. Many big names are expected to be in attendance, but Nicki Minaj is not among them. As the rapper revealed in a tweet posted shortly before the Met Gala got underway on Monday, she’s declined her invitation due to the vaccination requirement. “They want you to get vaccinated for the Met. if I get vaccinated it won’t [be] for the Met,” Minaj tweeted. “It’ll be once I feel I’ve done enough research. I’m working on that now. In the meantime my loves, be safe. Wear the mask with 2 strings that grips your head & face. Not that loose one.” In a subsequent tweet, Minaj claimed her “cousin in Trinidad won’t get the vaccine cuz his friend got it & became impotent. His testicles became swollen....
Freddie Gibbs’ Debut Film Performance in Down with the King Earns Festival Award, Distribution Deal
Big Boss Rabbit is hopping to the silver screen. Down with the King, which stars Freddie Gibbs in his debut film performance, has been picked up by Sony Picture’s Stage 6 Films, Deadline reports. The distribution deal comes after Down with the King bowed in the ACID (Association for Independent Cinema and its Distribution) lineup at Cannes, which it followed by winning the Grand Prize at the Deauville American Film Festival. Directed by Diego Ongaro (Bob and the Trees) and co-written by Ongaro and Xabi Molia, it stars Gibbs as superstar rapper named Mercury “Money Merc” Maxwell. After Money Merc becomes disenchanted with the music industry and life as a celebrity, he escapes the city to start a new life in a small rural farming community. Jamie Neumann (Lovecr...
Christopher Nolan’s Next Film Focuses on the Father of the Atomic Bomb, J. Robert Oppenheimer
Renowned Hollywood director Christopher Nolan says his next film will revolve around the father of the atomic bomb. According to Deadline, the Dunkirk director will be returning once again to the World War II period with his next project, this time focusing on the role American theoretical physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer played in the invention and development of the most destructive weapon known to man: the atomic bomb. Other details relating to the film remain scarce at this point, but the outlet also suggests that Peaky Blinders veteran Cillian Murphy could be involved, which probably comes as no surprise following his previous collaborations with the director across Dunkirk, Inception, and Batman Begins. While Nolan has had a longstanding relationship...
‘The Wire’ Creator David Simon Pays Tribute to Michael K. Williams
David Simon, the creator of HBO‘s The Wire, penned a tribute to the late Michael K. Williams in a new New York Times op-ed. The author, writer and producer admitted that he “misread the man from the start,” adding that it was Ed Burns, his writing partner, “who had first spotted Mike’s read for Omar on a tape of two dozen New York auditions a year earlier.” He continued to share a story about how it became tradition for Williams to ask the writers room what they plan on saying with the new eason of The Wire: “He gave us an astounding gift — an act of faith from a magnificent actor who could have played his hand very differently. Television usually chases its audience — if they love them some Omar, you feed them more Omar. If they can’t stop looking at Stringer, you write more Stringer. Nev...
Conor McGregor and Machine Gun Kelly Get Into Altercation at MTV Video Music Awards
Conor McGregor‘s leg hasn’t yet healed and he’s already involved in a new altercation. Taking place at this year’s MTV Video Music Awards, it was reported that McGregor got into a confrontation where both he and Machine Gun Kelly had to be separated, and a drink and punch were thrown. The commotion apparently started after The Notorious approached MGK for an introduction, it was then that McGregor was either given the cold shoulder or pushed by MGK or his security which rubbed the Irishman the wrong way. The altercation may have also resulted in his walking cane getting knocked over and his drink spilling. Conor McGregor was present at the MTV Video Music Awards to present Justin Bieber with the “BEST Artist of the Year” award. Reporters caught up with the MMA fighter later on where he dis...
Marvel Studios Releases the Official Trailer for Upcoming Series ‘Hawkeye’
Marvel Studios has unveiled the first official trailer for its new original series ‘Hawkeye that will be debuted on Disney+ this coming November. Jeremy Renner plays the protagonist and returns as Hawkeye and he’s joined in by a new battle partner in Kate Bishop (played by Hailee Steinfeld) who claims that she’s the “world’s greatest archer.” The new show takes place in New York City and is set during the Christmas season. The under two-minute clip opens up with Hawkeye attempting to rekindle his relationship with his family by making plans with them for the holidays. However, in the following scenes, a masked vigilante from Hawkeye‘s past seems to have returned and he’s forced step away from his family festivities and face this evil force toe to toe. The rest of the preview displays ...
Ty Segall’s New ‘Harmonizer’ Video Features a Singing Potato and Sex Doll
Psychedelic rocker Ty Segall went full-kook with the music video for the title track from his new album, Harmonizer. It follows the similarly trippy video for his last single, “Feel Good.” [embedded content] In the video, a potato sings in a microphone next to an egg, an apple, a hammer, and a cactus appear on top of a white, wooden cube. A mustached man gives himself a haircut and a sex doll is fed mashed potatoes with gravy. It all forms a strange harmony — all these objects piled around the white cube — that collides with masked people smashing the objects in a way that mirrors the unnerving, thrashing rush of electronic sounds. Segall surprise-released Harmonizer digitally in August. The physical release is set for October. The album features musician, Denée — who co-wrote two tracks —...
Baby Keem Drops the Music Video for “first order of business”
Baby Keem‘s The Melodic Blue album was finally delivered to the public on September 10, 2021, and it has since garnered a substantial amount of praise for its striking features and wide-ranging sound. Despite the new record being out for a few days now, it appears that the artist isn’t done with its rollout yet as he has now dropped another visual for the song “first order of business.” The song is dedicated to the very moment that Keem bought his grandmother a home and the over three and a half minute video is directed by Dave Free — a co-founder of the creative service entity pgLang. The first scenes of the music video are shot in an interview type setting, and when Keem is asked about how he spent his first million, he replies with “Buy my grandmother a home…that’s the first order of bu...
1996: The Year the Alternative Bubble Burst
If the first half of the ‘90s were alt-rock’s boom years — when formerly unknown bands were turning into multi-platinum sensations every few months — then 1996 marked the beginning of its flop era. Weezer’s Pinkerton, though now remembered as a career-defining classic, sold so poorly compared to the band’s triple-platinum 1994 debut that Rivers Cuomo wouldn’t regain the confidence to release another album for nearly five years. Other acts like Bush, Counting Crows, Gin Blossoms, Sheryl Crow, the Presidents of the United States, Better Than Ezra and Sponge all released their second albums in 1996. And while some still sold respectably, each registered less than half of what their debut sold, according to SoundScan. But it wasn’t just younger bands hitting the dreaded “sophomore slump.” Esta...
The Beach Boys Amplify Their Legacy With Feel Flows
By late 1969 the Beach Boys were in deep trouble. The sunshine surf rock sound that skyrocketed the band to international fame was now firmly out of fashion, replaced by harder rock. Their long-running distribution deal with Capitol for their Brother Records imprint was over. It had been three years since their last big hit, 1966’s “Good Vibrations,” a transcendent piece of psychedelic pop, co-written by primary songwriter Brian Wilson and frontman Mike Love. That song should have set them on a new course from Pet Sounds towards Wilson’s long-gestating masterpiece SMiLE. Instead, the band famously lost steam, in part due to Wilson’s well-documented struggles with mental health. Their 15th studio album, 20/20, released in early 1969, was mostly a patchwork of castoff material. In a grim foo...
