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Take-Two Has Shut Down a ‘GTA: San Andreas’ Mod That Took Six Years to Build
Amid increasing legal pressure from Rockstar Games‘ holding company Take-Two Interactive, a team of modders have now been forced to shut down a Grand Theft Auto mod they’ve spent six years working on. Named GTA Underground, the ambitious mod was built for San Andreas and attempted to merge all previous GTA maps into one massive open-world experience. It even set its eyes on bringing in environments from other non-GTA games developed by Rockstar, such as Bully and Manhunt. Unfortunately, Take-Two Interactive has gone on a spree of placing legal pressure on modders as well as copyright infringement claims against different individuals, teams and companies over recent months. In light of these events, GTA Underground lead developer dkluin said that the mod will now be...
‘Drag Race’ Winner Kylie Sonique Love Thought ‘All Stars 6′ Might Be Her ‘Last Time’ Doing Drag
Love says she’s proud to be the first trans winner on All Stars, and that she’s even more proud that she’ll get to continue doing drag — she says that during the pandemic, she found herself questioning whether or not she would ever be able to perform at queer clubs again thanks to the after-effects of COVID-19. “I didn’t think I was ever going to get to do drag again,” she says. “When I got called to do [All Stars 6], even then I didn’t know what was going to happen. Like, ‘I might just be sitting at home, watching myself on TV doing drag for the last time in my career.'” Below, Kylie Sonique Love chats with Billboard about her historic win, her hopes for the future of drag performance, Dolly Parton, her now-ic...
Andre 3000 Says Kanye West Collab ‘Life of the Party’ ‘Didn’t Have’ Drake Diss When He Wrote His Verse
“A few weeks ago Kanye reached out about me being a part of the Donda album,” said the Outkast rapper, who was in Cleveland filming a Noah Baumbach film when they made contact. “I was inspired by his idea to make a musical tribute to his mom. It felt appropriate to me to support the Donda concept by referencing my own mother, who passed away in 2013. We both share that loss. I thought it was a beautiful choice to make a clean album but, unfortunately, I didn’t know that was the plan before I wrote and recorded my verse. It was clear to me that an edited ‘clean’ format of the verse would not work without having the raw, original also available. So, sadly, I had to be omitted from the original album release.” He continued, “The track I received and wrote to didn’t hav...
David Crosby: Neil Young Is the “Most Selfish Person” I Know
It’s no secret that the members of Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young aren’t exactly on the best of terms anymore, but any additional confirmation that the folk supergroup won’t be reuniting still feels like pouring salt in a wound. In a new interview with The Guardian this week, the often outspoken David Crosby didn’t hesitate to divulge his feelings about his former bandmates. According to Crosby, some “petty-assed bullshit” has kept him from speaking CSNY peers Neil Young and Graham Nash. “Neil has got a genuine beef,” Crosby admitted in the interview. “I did say something bad about his girlfriend [Daryl Hannah]. I said I thought she was a predator. OK, he can be mad at me. That’s all right.” Even still, Crosby went on to describe Young as “probably the most self-centered, self-obsessed, ...
Rico Nasty Brings the Heat to Her Tiny Desk (Home) Concert: Watch
Considering Rico Nasty is easily one of the most versatile voices in hip-hop today, it makes sense that her Tiny Desk (Home) Concert would fit a wide array of sonics into just 13 minutes. During her guest appearance on NPR’s coveted performance series, the DMV rapper posted up with her all-female backing band in a yard adorned with plenty of flood lights to suit her colorful persona. Rico’s set opened with her recent soulful single “Magic” before diving into the boisterous fan-favorite, “Rage.” She wrapped up the show with tracks from her debut studio album, Nightmare Vacation: “OHFR?,” “Trust Issues,” and her breakout single “Smack a Bitch.” Seamlessly weaving between R&B, hyperpop, and her unique breed of punk-rap, Rico’s Tiny Desk (Home) Concert is a sight to behold — black lipstick...
KORN’s JONATHAN DAVIS: COVID-19 ‘Kicked My Motherf**king Ass’
KORN singer Jonathan Davis is still struggling with COVID-19 after-effects, nearly three weeks after it was announced that he tested positive for the novel coronavirus. As a result of his infection, the band postponed six dates and canceled two on its current U.S. tour. Davis, who was reportedly fully vaccinated, addressed his COVID-19 battle during KORN‘s concert last night (Friday, September 3) in Burgettstown, Pennsylvania. Prior to launching into the song “Falling Away From Me”, Jonathan told the crowd: “It feels so good to be back, y’all. Some of you might know, some of you don’t, but I’m recovering. I got COVID, and that shit kicked my motherfucking ass. But I decided I’m not gonna fucking cancel. … So I might be standing up, I might be...
METALLICA’s LARS ULRICH On Black Album: ‘It Was A Convergence Of Different Energies Coming Together Just At The Right Time’
The third episode of “The Metallica Podcast: Volume 1 – The Black Album” has just been released in conjunction with the 30th anniversary of the band’s self-titled fifth LP, better known as The Black Album. The podcast’s weekly episodes explore the stories behind and the legacy of the best-selling album in the history of Nielsen Soundscan. Official description of episode three: “The Black Album was a totally different beast from the quartet – lyrically, musically, and instrumentally. This episode explores the band recording together in the same room for the first time and how it changed the way they played — and in perfect alignment with the ’80s turning into the ’90s, no less. Guests include: Bob Rock, Ross Halfin, Lzzy Hale, and Bob RockR...
Here Is The First Look At Official LED ZEPPELIN Documentary ‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’
The official LED ZEPPELIN documentary “Becoming Led Zeppelin” is debuting today (Saturday, September 4) at the Venice International Film Festival in Italy. Directed by Bernard MacMahon, the film documents the legendary rockers’ “meteoric rise to stardom.” The first clip from “Becoming Led Zeppelin”, as well as a short interview with LED ZEPPELIN guitarist Jimmy Page about the documentary (conducted by FRED [Film Radio Entertainment & Dialogue]), can be seen below. Speaking about his original goal for LED ZEPPELIN, Page said: “I was looking for a band with four… I didn’t want to have a band with just the guitarist and the other guys are bit players. There was a lot of bands like that. I wanted each and every musician in it to be equa...
MADBALL Frontman Defends His Band’s Refusal To Play Shows Where Proof Of Vaccine Is Required
During an appearance on the “Riffs Or Die” podcast hosted by HAVOK‘s David Sanchez, vocalist Freddy Cricien New York hardcore veterans MADBALL discussed his band’s recent announcement that they will not perform in any venue that requires audience members to be vaccinated against COVID-19. At the time, MADBALL said that it will likely not make any live appearances in its hometown “for a very long time” because it “cannot in good conscience play shows that require personal/private medical information (like vaccination status) for entry.” In early August, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced that New York will be the first U.S. city to to require COVID-19 vaccinations for concert attendees, although the city will not enforce the mandate until mid-Sept...
Maluma Serenades L.A. Fans During Papi Juancho Tour Stop: ‘I Give You My Heart’
Working the in-the-round or 360-style stage, which allowed for more interaction with fans from every corner, Maluma went on to perform other chart-topping tracks such as “Corazón,” “Borró Cassette,” “Felices Los 4” and “Chantaje.” Here are five takeaways from Maluma’s sold-out show at The Forum from his Papi Juancho Tour. Heart to Heart Before Maluma took center stage, a pounding heart was projected onto a white rectangular canvas that was erected in the middle of the stage as a narrator told the story of Juan Luis (Maluma’s real name) and his journey that’s been filled with emotion, passion, joy and music: “He’s always been Juan Luis and has given you his heart. Now, it’s time to give him yours.” The...
Jimmy Page Attends Venice Film Fest for Led Zeppelin Doc Premiere
The interview, concert footage and other archive material are spliced into contemporary interviews with the three surviving band members — Page, Robert Plant and John Paul Jones — to create a montage that maps the frenetic first two years of the band’s existence and its early musical influences. MacMahon, who along with McGourty launched the PBS American Epic documentary series, said it took a year to locate the Bonham recording, after hearing a bootleg version of the interview on a vinyl record. From the sound, he knew that it had been converted into a quarter-inch tape. He then “went to every Australian journalist that we knew from that era saying do you recognize this voice? Because the journalist doesn’t identify himself.” “Eventually I tracked down someone who said, ‘We know who it wa...
Tom DeLonge Confirms Mark Hoppus Is Post-Chemo, Offers ‘Some Modest Advice’ to Former Bandmate
The musician then made a suggestion. “u need to f— as many things as possible. Shoes, gopher holes, golfers. Anything u can catch.” In the caption, DeLonge described the reasoning behind his message. “I wanted to be a good friend to @markhoppus and just give some modest advice on what he should do next, now that his Chemo treatments have subsided and it looks like they may have worked wonderfully,” he wrote. Hoppus, 49, announced his cancer diagnosis last June, revealing that he had been undergoing chemotherapy for three months at that stage. “It sucks and I’m scared, but at the same time I’m blessed with incredible doctors and family and friends to get me through this,” he said at the time. He revealed during a Twitch stream later on that the type of cancer he was battling was stage...
