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Silento has been indicted for the murder of his cousin Frederick Rooks by a Georgia grand jury. The shooting took place last January where Richard Lamar “Ricky” Hawk, aka Silento, was arrested in DeKalb County, Georgia. The 23-year-old, known for his 2015 Billboard No. 1 track “Watch Me” was charged with four counts for malice murder, felony murder, aggravated assault, and possession of a firearm. Silento is currently being held in DeKalb County Jail without bond. In other music news, SqueakPIVOT of Saba‘s Pivot Gang has died at 26 years old. Read Full Article

Erykah Badu is set to perform at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles this October. The revered artist shared the details of the show on social media and named Dos Negros and The Internet‘s Steve Lacy as special guests. “LIVE FROM BADUBOTRON US TOUR PT 1,” she wrote on Instagram. Badu’s announcement arrives just shortly after she revealed that she will be hitting the road this year, kicking off the tour at the 2021 Riverfront Jazz Festival in Dallas, Texas on September 3. She will then stop by areas like Atlantic City, New York City, Sugar Land, Indianapolis, Phoenix and San Diego before the final October 30 show in Atlanta. She will also be making a few festival appearances, including Lights On Festival in Concord and both Austin City Limits weekends. The Queen of neo-soul previously re...

SqueakPIVOT of Saba‘s Pivot Gang has died at 26 years old. The artist, real name Javunte Wheeler, served as the producer for Pivot Gang alongside Daedae and Daoud. According to reports, Squeak and his 27-year-old uncle, Derion S. Hood, were both shot and killed in the Austin neighborhood of Chicago. The Chicago Police Department revealed that Squeak and Hood suffered gunshot wounds to the head from “an unknown offender” and died from their injuries at a local hospital. The sad news follows Squeak and MFnMelo‘s collaborative EP En Route, which was released earlier this June. Pivot Gang also shared a statement in regards to Squeak’s death: We are heartbroken to share the news of the passing of one of our own, Squeak Pivot. We appreciate the support from the community at this time and ask tha...

Dean Guitars CEO Evan Rubinson has responded to the lawsuit filed against the company by the estate of late PANTERA guitarist “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott. On Monday (August 16), Rita Haney, Dimebag‘s longtime girlfriend and trustee of his estate, announced that she was cutting ties with Dean Guitars after 17 years with the company. She also revealed that she had filed a lawsuit against Dean, alleging fraud, breach of written agreement and false endorsement, among other claims. In a statement posted on Dimebag‘s web site and social media, Haney wrote: “It became clear to me that Dimebag‘s relationship with Dean Guiars had come to an end when the CEO of Dean Guitars told me that Dime has been dead for 16 years, and then could not make the money they once did&...

Fan-filmed video footage of SKID ROW‘s August 15 performance at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa can be seen below (courtesy of YouTube user “Shabby Trick”). Earlier this month, SKID ROW celebrated the 30th anniversary of its classic second album, “Slave To The Grind”, by performing it in its entirety at The Amphitheater at Rolling Hills Casino And Resort in Corning, California. Last summer, SKID ROW bassist Rachel Bolan told SiriusXM‘s “Trunk Nation With Eddie Trunk” that he and his bandmates would embark on a “Slave To The Grind” 30th-anniversary tour in 2021. “We’ll do the album in its entirety, and then we’re gonna do a bunch of stuff to coincide with it,” he said. “We’re pretty psych...

RATING: 6/10 Great news for fans of high(ish) concept heavy metal: The Tribune, The Viking, The Spartan and The Crusader have reconvened as WARKINGS and delivered another slab of avowedly straightforward but knowingly preposterous old- (with a dash of new) school power metal bluster. Ignoring the fact that the Internet rarely allows anyone to maintain anonymity and the band’s secret identities are not particularly secret at this point, WARKINGS‘ shtick makes perfect sense in the age of zero mystique and has already pushed the band to a fairly prominent position in the European power metal firmament. Their previous two albums, “Reborn” (2018) and “Revenge” (2020), went down a storm with fans of this stuff, not least due to the immaculate crunch of WARKING...

In a brand new chat with Rockin’ Interviews, former GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal was asked if he has heard the “new” GN’R song “Absurd”. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I have. I remember the song from when I was laying guitar parts for the [‘Chinese Democracy’] album. I laid some parts for it back then. And, of course, they’ve all been replaced — I’m not in the band. Slash should be on there, of course, doing all the leads and stuff. So, yeah, I heard it. And it was pretty cool hearing him on there doing his thing. It definitely made it feel more like what it is — like a band.” The studio version of “Absurd” — which is a reworked version of a previousl...