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ZHU Announces 2021 Headlining Gigs in New York and Los Angeles
In celebration of his third album DREAMLAND 2021, ZHU has announced a new run of headlining gigs. Fresh off an icy six-night run at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheatre, he’s now set to take his album coast-to-coast for four massive performances at some of the most renowned concert venues in the nation. With French house producer Shiba San in tow, ZHU will touch down in Los Angeles for twin concerts at the fabled Greek Theatre on October 10th and 11th before heading East for two shows at Brooklyn’s Avant Gardner on November 24th and 26th, respectively. Flyer for ZHU’s 2021 headlining gigs at Brooklyn Mirage in New York and the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Recommended Articles In late April ZHU stunned with his DREAMLAND 2021 album, a scintillating 12-tr...
Jeff Ament Discusses New Solo LP and Pearl Jam’s Next Tour
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament catches up with Kyle Meredith to dig into his new solo album, I Should Be Outside, a pandemic record that finds him mirroring the world’s news and the loss in his own life. The bassist/guitarist tells us about the art series that coincides with the record, as well as his art for some of Pearl Jam’s most iconic LPs, including No Code, which is celebrating twenty five years. Ament takes us back to the writing and recording of that pivotal album and how his side project Three Fish brought influence into the recording sessions. Advertisement Related Video The clocks are then turned back to 1991 for the 30th anniversary of...
Faces’ Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, and Kenney Jones Working on New Music
One of the great what-ifs in rock history may get a belated answer, as Faces, the British outfit that launched the careers of Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, and Kenney Jones, are reuniting to make new music. Faces formed out of the wreckage of Small Faces in 1969, when frontman Steve Marriot departed to form Humble Pie. The remaining members recruited Stewart and Wood from the Jeff Beck Group, dropping the ‘Small’ in the process without realizing how big they’d become. One of the most reliable touring draws of the early 1970s, Faces eventually buckled under the weight of their own success, especially Stewart’s skyrocketing solo career. In the aftermath of their breakup, guitarist Wood joined The Rolling Stones, drummer Jones linked up with The Who, and the more they all achieved separately, the...
Longtime Cro-Mags Singer John Joseph Slams Dave Grohl and “Flu Pfizers” for “Vaccinated-Only Shows”
John Joseph, the longtime singer of hardcore legends Cro-Mags, has blasted Dave Grohl and Foo Fighters for playing “vaccinated-only shows” as the concert industry starts to open back up again. Joseph, who now fronts the offshoot band Cro-Mags JM, has even gone so far as dub Grohl’s band “Flu Pfizers.” The hardcore veteran was asked about the viability of vaccine passports on the interview series The Void with Christina, and it is abundantly clear that he’s not in favor of them. “I forget what the dude’s name is — he’s in some big f**king band — he’s, like, ‘I’m not playing any vaccinated-only shows.’ He was in a big English band; I forget what the name of ’em is,” began Joseph, likely referring to Stone Roses singer Ian Brown, who recently refused to play a UK festival because of its vacci...
Pearl Jam’s Jeff Ament Isn’t Comfortable Playing Indoor Shows and “Checking Vaccination Cards”
In a new interview with Consequence and Kyle Meredith With…, Pearl Jam bassist Jeff Ament spoke about his desire to tour again as well as the obstacles that remain. He expressed discomfort with performing indoors, saying, “I just don’t know if I wanna go out and do 30 shows where you’re checking vaccination cards.” Ament was promoting his new album, I Should Be Outside, which is his second solo release of the pandemic. He also went into Pearl Jam’s plans for a big tour. “We actually had a little bit of a play, like three weeks, four weeks ago in Seattle. We just got in a room. We weren’t playing any songs. We just jammed, and it was so beautiful. I just missed that so much. And we talked a little bit just about how everybody was feeling.” He continue...
Nick Cannon Shares Touching Family Photos With All Seven of His Children
Nick Cannon is a proud dad in new photos of his blended family, featuring him with all seven of his children. Abby De La Rosa posted a series of professional shots of her and Cannon’s 1-month-old twin boys, Zion and Zillon, who look like they already know their way around a DJ board as they posed in matching black and white headphones. The next set of family photos show Cannon and De La Rosa cuddling their boys from either side and giving them sweet kisses on their cheeks. Meanwhile, Cannon took to his Instagram Story to share a special behind-the-scenes video of him placing the headphones on his sons’ ears, which he soundtracked with “Hey DJ” by The World’s Famous Supreme Team (a key sample in ex-wife’s Mariah Carey‘s 1997 No. ...
Matt Bomer Says ‘Everything Is Pretty Tame’ Compared to His Bloody ‘AHS’ Orgy Scene With Lady Gaga
“Honestly, I feel that ever since the blood orgy I did with Lady Gaga, everything is pretty tame after that,” Bomer said in the interview. “I was head to toe Carrie prom scene-esque levels of blood. They basically wrapped us up like sardines in a tarp in between takes of that [scene]. It was Gaga and I, and these two wonderful actors who we’d just met 10 minutes before, lying on a tarp next to each other sandwiched in. And they’d peel the tarp off and we’d do the next take. It was very strange. So after that, any amount of corn syrup [for fake blood] is pretty tame. That was a wild experience. It was certainly memorable.” Bomer told The Hollywood Reporter when the 2016 episode first aired that he felt uneasy filming the racy scene, but that Gaga (real name ...
Bill Ackman on Pivoting UMG Bid: ‘There’s No Business I Have More Confidence In’
In an interview with Billboard, Ackman emphasized that Pershing Square — the hedge fund with $13.7 billion under management, not the SPAC it founded — will step in and acquire a stake in UMG. “Our largest investment is going to be Universal Music Group, so that should tell you something,” he says. “There’s no business I have more confidence in the long-term trajectory of than this company — or the music industry in general. Piracy almost killed this business and streaming has made it better than it was with CDs and records in the ’90s.” Ackman likes that companies such as Apple, Google and Amazon shoulder the load of building the streaming services and acquiring customers, leaving record labels to develop, promote and license their music. “You have the most well capitaliz...
Songs From Isao Tomita’s Last Five Years Set for Release on Streaming Platforms
During the last five years of his life, Tomita devoted himself to the DENON: Isao Tomita Project, in an effort to completely remake his masterpieces from the 1970s in a form that he’d envisioned at the time but couldn’t realize, as well as add new creations to them. Rising Planet – Tomita’s Greatest Works of Space Music is a collection of 11 selected tracks from the seven albums he released as part of this major undertaking. The main melody of “Rising of the Planet 9,” which was the last melody Tomita left behind, was first heard on the track “Itokawa and Hayabusa” in Planet Ultimate Edition, the first release of the DENON: Isao Tomita Project. This melody also appeared in important parts on subsequent albums, so it could be said to be the trademark phrase of the innovati...
CIRCLE JERKS Announce 2021-2022 North American Tour Dates
Punk legends CIRCLE JERKS have announced a late 2021/early 2022 North American tour, featuring support from MUNICIPAL WASTE, ADOLESCENTS and NEGATIVE APPROACH on select dates. The CIRCLE JERKS lineup for the upcoming shows will include singer Keith Morris, guitarist Greg Hetson and bassist Zander Schloss, along with the group’s latest addition, drummer Joey Castillo (THE BRONX, QUEENS OF THE STONE AGE, DANZIG, BL’AST!, WASTED YOUTH). From the beginning, the CIRCLE JERKS were rooted in controversy. Formed by ex-members of BLACK FLAG and REDD KROSS in late 1979, the band came to encapsulate the image, sound and energy of California hardcore punk. CIRCLE JERKS have released six studio albums, one compilation, a live album and a live DVD. The band has broken up and reformed several...
SEPULTURA’s ANDREAS KISSER: ‘The First Song I Learned On Guitar’
In the latest Jackson “First Song I Learned on Guitar” clip for #metalmonday, SEPULTURA guitarist Andreas Kisser shares his recollections of getting hooked on guitar, his first guitar and how he learned to play the instrument. “Listening to albums is where I really trained my ear,” Kisser said. “I studied acoustic guitar and Brazilian music, the theory and other stuff, but with heavy music and rock and roll, listening to the albums — vinyl and cassette tapes, and really trying to learn the songs. “The first song that I really managed to listen to an album and transpose to a guitar was ‘Grinder’ from JUDAS PRIEST,” Andreas revealed. “That album, ‘British Steel’, it’s a very simple album, let’s say, guitar-wi...
VIO-LENCE Frontman On Upcoming EP: ‘Everything Felt Really Natural From Start To Finish’
Reunited San Francisco Bay Area thrashers VIO-LENCE will release a new EP, “Let The World Burn”, in early 2022 via Metal Blade Records. The effort was recorded at Trident Studios in Pacheco, California with producer Juan Urteaga, who has previously worked with TESTAMENT, MACHINE HEAD and EXODUS, among many others. Mixing duties were handled by Tue Madsen. Singer Sean Killian told Ireland’s Overdrive about the decision to make the EP: “It was after [a] show [we played with SACRED REICH] in Arizona when Phil [Demmel, guitar] and I really started to talk about it because we’re the guys that wrote ‘Eternal Nightmare’. We talked about who would be involved and made the decision that if we do this, we’ve gotta be sharp, you know? We have to be tigh...
