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Tennessee Bill Calls for Dolly Parton Statue at State Capitol That Faces Grand Ole Opry
Americans are more divided than at any time since the Civil War, but one thing we can seemingly all agree on is Dolly Parton. Now, as Associated Press reports, a Tennessee lawmaker has introduced a bill that would erect a statue of the Nashville legend standing on the grounds of the Capital building and facing the Ryman Auditorium — more popularly known as the Grand Ole Opry House. Representative John Mark Windle, a Democrat, introduced the bill last Tuesday. It seeks to celebrate Parton “for all that she has contributed to this state.” Philanthropy is one of the most dominant chords in Parton’s legend. Just recently, her Imagination Library gave away its 150 millionth book, she saved a nine-year-old’s life after pulling her out of a car’s path, showed support for the Black Lives Matter mo...
Bandcamp Expands Its Vinyl Pressing Service to Accommodate 10,000 Indie Artists
Bandcamp made a lot of indie artists happy last year by raising $40 million for musicians during their monthly Bandcamp Fridays campaign. The music platform is keeping that momentum going in 2021 with the announcement of a new initiative that’s possibly even more appealing: they’re going to press vinyl runs for 10,000 different artists on their platform. Back in 2019, the company quietly rolled out the pilot program for an in-house vinyl pressing service. According to an announcement on their website, Bandcamp pressed and shipped 13,000 vinyl units for 50 different artists. In 2021, the Oakland-based music marketplace is ambitiously inviting 200x the amount of musicians to participate in the program. Given that only a small handful of vinyl pressing plants are tasked with manufac...
SEBASTIAN BACH Once Again Accuses CHRIS JERICHO Of ‘Miming To A Tape’, Says ‘Professional Wrestling Sucks’
Sebastian Bach has once again slammed Chris Jericho over allegations that the FOZZY frontman uses pre-recorded vocal tracks during live performances. The former SKID ROW vocalist initially accused Jericho of “miming to a tape” at FOZZY concerts in a social media post last July. In response, the wrestler-turned-rocker insisted that he had “never mimed anything ever” and challenged Bach to a “singoff” with “no effects, no tuning, no bullshit”, saying “Bas is a great singer…but I’m better”. Asked about his Internet feud with Jericho, Bach told The Aquarian Weekly in a new interview: “I have an open mind about everyone. If I read on Blabbermouth.com [sic] that some band says, ‘We’re the future of rock ...
FLEETWOOD MAC Co-Founder MICK FLEETWOOD’s Recorded Catalog Interests Acquired By BMG
BMG has announced it has acquired outright FLEETWOOD MAC co-founder Mick Fleetwood‘s interests in the band’s recordings. The deal gives BMG Fleetwood‘s royalty interest in over 300 recordings including all of FLEETWOOD MAC‘s biggest hits, among them “Dreams”, “The Chain”, “Go Your Own Way” and “Landslide” from albums including “Fleetwood Mac” (1975), “Rumours” (1977) and “Tango In The Night” (1987). It includes Fleetwood‘s interest in all of their recorded work apart from their first two albums. It means BMG will participate in the proceeds of the global viral success of “Dreams” on TikTok which became a worldwide sensation generating over 3.2 billion streams global...
SAMMY HAGAR And MICHAEL ANTHONY On EDDIE VAN HALEN Tribute Concert: ‘It’s Gonna Happen’
In a new interview with New York’s Q104.3 radio station, former VAN HALEN members Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony were asked if there any plans to organize a tribute show in honor of their longtime bandmate, VAN HALEN guitarist Eddie Van Halen, who died last October. Sammy responded (see video below): “It’s gotta happen. Of course it’s gonna happen. No one’s really connected all the dots with everyone involved, but I have been told, and I have read interviews with various people involved — with Wolfie [Eddie‘s son Wolfgang Van Halen] and Valerie [Bertinelli, Eddie‘s ex-wife] and Eddie‘s wife [Janie] that he was married to at the time — they all said as soon as this is over, we’re gonna get everybody together and do a tribute or whatever...
NEW YORK DOLLS Guitarist SYLVAIN SYLVAIN Dead At 69
Sylvain Mizrahi, better known as Sylvain Sylvain, songwriter and founding member of the NEW YORK DOLLS, has died at the age of 69. The news of his passing was confirmed by former PATTI SMITH GROUP guitarist Lenny Kaye, who wrote: “Sylvain Sylvain, the heart and soul of the NEW YORK DOLLS, bearer of the Teenage News, passed into his next astral incarnation on Wednesday, January 13, 2021. “Syl loved rock and roll. His onstage joy, his radiant smile as he chopped at his guitar, revealed the sense of wonder he must have felt at the age of 10, emigrating from his native Cairo with his family in 1961, the ship pulling into New York Harbor and seeing the Statue of Liberty for the first time. “It was he who looked across Lexington Ave. and saw the sign for the New York Doll hospi...
Rep. Cori Bush Called Out White Supremacy On House Floor, Was Unjustly Booed
Source: Caroline Brehman / Getty During the hours-long debate in the U.S. House of Representatives regarding a successful second impeachment of President Donald Trump, both sides of the aisle made their stated points. However, freshman Congresswoman Cori Bush received boos after she called signaled Trump as a white supremacist and called out white supremacy overall. In a debate that was at times tense and most certainly filled with partisan talking points on either side of the aisle, Bush, who represents the 1st District in Missouri, used her time at the podium to call out the so-called insurrectionists and placed the blame at their de facto leader in Trump. “If we fail to remove a white supremacist president who incited a white supremacist insurrection, it’s communities like Missouri’s 1s...
Azealia Banks Denies Cooking Her Dead Cat In Typical Azealia Banks Fashion
Source: Burak Cingi / Getty Azealia Banks is back to doing way too much. The struggle rapper is saying she did not cook her dead cat for brunch. As spotted on Hot New Hip Hop the Harlem native is now backtracking from a video she shared last week. In the cringe worthy clip she is seen digging up her dead cat. She is then seen starting a boil and all signs pointed to her former pussy being on the menu. Naturally the visual went viral quickly and accusations of being a cannibal came soon after. But to hear Slay-Z tell it she is prepping her former pet for a proper send off. On an Instagram story she rebuked everyone who thought she had fried feline on the mind. “Why do you think i would eat a dead cat, when I can barely eat a dead cow. It’s called taxidermy…. Plenty of hunters with...
Sheek Louch ft. Lil Fame “ONYX,” Heem ft. Benny The Butcher & Rick Hyde “It Could Happen” & More | Daily Visuals 1.14.21
Source: Johnny Nunez / Getty For whatever reason the latest trend in Hip-Hop is to name records after other rappers without actually featuring them or sometimes even talking about them. The latest such cut comes courtesy of The Lox’s Sheek Louch who links up with M.O.P.’s Lil Fame for the visuals to “ONYX” where the two hold court at a Laundromat where money is both dropped off and washed. Benny The Butcher meanwhile continues to drop hot verses all over the place and blesses Heem with a guest appearance in the black-and-white clip to “It Could Happen” where they kick it humbly while asking “what if?” Check out the rest of today’s drops including work from Peso Peso, Sia featuring Burna Boy, and more. SHEEK LOUCH FT. LIL FAME – “ONYX” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LdVDeOxCTZA HEEM FT. BE...
Life Is Good: Drake Shows Off Muscles While Recovering From Knee Surgery
Source: Jaime Espinoza/WENN.com / WENN It’s been a long road to recovery since Drake’s surgery in October after sustaining a serious knee injury sometime last year. However, recent updates from his social media show the Toronto rapper putting in hard work in the gym as he prepares for his sixth studio album release. According to PageSix, Drizzy blessed fans with a video of him tackling a couple of reps on a lower-body weightlifting exercise on his Instagram Story. “10 weeks post-op I’m grinding for recovery EVERYDAY,” he captioned on the video. Drake putting work in rehabbing like he is coming back to the NBA pic.twitter.com/lz7gJV5yKf — Daily Loud (@DailyLoud) January 13, 2021 The 34-year-old also posted a photo showing off his smile and super-toned abs while wearing a formfitting ...
Half An Orange to Perform Live on Pro Esports Organization Team Liquid’s Twitch Stream
Pro esports’ Team Liquid are not only one of the world’s foremost multigame teams, but they also consistently bridge the gap between the worlds of gaming and electronic dance music. On January 14th, Team Liquid will host a fully music-centric livestream on Twitch for the first time ever with a performance from electronic duo Half An Orange. During their takeover of Team Liquid’s channel, Half An Orange will perform some of their biggest hits, including their newest single “Simple Moneymaker,” which was released on their Mostly We Grow Pt. 3 EP and features rapper and Team Liquid member ChillinDude. The producers are no strangers to the world of gaming, previously featuring streamers such as Ninja and Mew2King in their i...
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ASADI Teams Up With Break Science’s Adam Deitch for Sensational Single, “Divinity” [Premiere]
Globally renowned electronic star ASADI has unveiled his latest creation, forging fire through sound with none other than Colorado’s Adam Deitch. Running four-plus minutes in length, “Divinity” exudes the unmatched musicality of each artist and reinvigorates the excitement behind ASADI’s genre-bending sound. Known for his live drum pad performances and inimitable twist on modern trap music, ASADI creates unique melodies and rhythms from a diverse assemblage of Persian styles, producing them with his personal approach to the electronic, hip-hop, and trap genres. “Divinity” came to be via a collaboration with Deitch, a Denver musician well-known as the percussionist of Lettuce and electro-jam act Break Science. Deitch has also performed with Pretty Lights and Manic ...
