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Smashing Pumpkins Return With Double Album ‘CYR’: Stream It Now
Cut in Chicago and produced by Corgan, CYR features fellow founding members James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin alongside longtime guitarist Jeff Schroeder. CYR represents, at least “symbolically,” the “makings of a dissociative life, which best as we can tell is modern life: as presented through a variety of sources; past, present, and future,” explains Corgan. With the new LP, “you get 20 pieces of fractured ideology, neither here nor there but that’s sort of the point,” he continues. “To ape that which in the post-technology age is not so easily defined and pinned down, but can be shown in a lithe, restless melody”. The two-time Grammy winners have more on the way. To commemorate the 25th anniversary of Mellon Collie, the Chicago alternative rock legends recently anno...
‘The Oldest Trick In The Book’: Will RSVP’s Plan To Reunite The Jersey Shore Girls Work?
It’s true what they say: Desperate times call for desperate measures. There doesn’t seem to be an end in sight to the Jersey Shore speechgate drama, so Mike “The Mediation” Sorrentino called in his RSVP reinforcements for one “last shot” at reconciliation between Angelina and the girls. Enter… the double booking. “What did they expect us to do? The only option is to double book them,” Mike explained. “This is the oldest trick in the book.” The plan? Enjoy a boys’ weekend for a couple of days at a nearly deserted Las Vegas resort (cue Jersey Shore: COVID Edition) and then invite Angelina and the girls for a good ol’-fashioned family vaca — unbeknownst to each other. It wasn’t long before Mission: R...
MICHEL ‘AWAY’ LANGEVIN: Why Now Is Right Time For VOIVOD To Release Live Album
Canadian progressive sci-fi metal innovators VOIVOD will release a new live album, “Lost Machine – Live”, on November 27 via Century Media Records. The disc was recorded in Québec City during the worldwide touring cycle for the band’s latest studio LP, “The Wake”. Asked in a new interview with Bandbond why now is the right time to release a VOIVOD live album, drummer Michel “Away” Langevin said (see video below): “For the album ‘The Wake’, we toured a lot, and we had many plans put aside. Now that we are sort of confined at home, this year was a good year to catch up with these plans. We had shows recorded from last year, when we played festivals here in the province of Quebec, so we released in July an EP with a performance...
Watch Pro-Shot Video Of GUNS N’ ROSES’ 2019 Performance In Wichita, Kansas
GUNS N’ ROSES has released video footage of the band’s October 7, 2019 performance from at InTrust Bank Arena in Wichita, Kansas. The 27-minute clip is part of the GN’R web series dubbed “Not In This Lifetime Selects” featuring highlights from the four-year “Not In This Lifetime” tour. Featured songs: 00:00 “Estranged” 09:20 “Civil War” 16:58 “Wichita Lineman” (Glen Campbell cover) 21:00 “Nightrain” In July, GUNS N’ ROSES announced the rescheduled dates for its North American stadium tour. GUNS N’ ROSES‘ “Not In This Lifetime” tour, which began four years ago, recently became the No. 3 highest-grossing tour in the history of Billboard Boxscore. Launched in April 2016, ...
JUDAS PRIEST’s ROB HALFORD: ‘A Lot Of The Music Has Gotten Safer But The World Has Gotten So Much Scarier’
In a new interview with Greg Gutfeld of Fox News Radio‘s “The One” podcast, JUDAS PRIEST singer Rob Halford was asked if he thinks rock artists today are more reticent about taking risks than they used to be several decades ago. He responded (hear audio below): “For me, it does seem as though a lot of the music has gotten safer but the world has gotten so much scarier, whereas back a few decades — back even maybe less than a decade — it was the flipside. There was a lot of controversial artists, there was a lot of controversy in the music. But that seems to have dissipated now. It’s almost as though we’ve been shocked and stunned into kind of an emotionless state to some extent, which is a real shame, because music plays on your hearts, it plays on your ...
Did ANVIL ‘Invent’ Speed/Thrash Metal?
In a new interview with the “That Metal Interview”, Steve “Lips” Kudlow of Canadian metal legends ANVIL spoke about how he and his bandmates came up with the speed/thrash blueprint which paved the way for groups like METALLICA, ANTHRAX and SLAYER. Asked how ANVIL managed to create that sound first, Lips said: “We’re older. What else am I gonna say? I’m two or three years older than those guys. End of story. I was in line first. [Laughs] Somebody had to do it. And let’s face it, it’s a different kind of situation. “Our drummer, Robb Reiner, is a very, very spectacular, special drummer and inventive and innovative,” he continued. “So when I came up with speed riffs that I thought were like DEEP PURPLE and he’s play...
The Green Mile Has One Of Stephen King’s Best Endings
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Play | Radio Public | Stitcher | RSS “Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.” The Losers are still roaming around the halls of Georgia Pines. They’ve had their eggs, they’ve eaten their toast, and they’re still listening to Paul Edgecombe as he tells his story over a warm glass of orange juice. The end is near, though. Join Dan Caffrey, Jenn Adams, Dan Pfleegor, and Michael Roffman as they reach the last pages of Stephen King’s 1996 serialized novel, The Green Mile. In the second of two episodes dedicated to the book, they discuss its blemishes, its beauties, and its bones. They also discuss the loose connections to King’s other works (there is one intriguing tie to The Dark Tower...
Miley Cyrus Releases New Album Plastic Hearts: Stream
Miley Cyrus has released Plastic Hearts, her new album and the seventh studio full-length of her career. Stream it below via Apple Music or Spotify. This ia Cyrus’ first release since the 2019 EP She Is Coming, and her first full-length since 2017’s Younger Now. Plastic Hearts spans 15 tracks in total, including her rock-infused pop single “Midnight Sky” and her phenomenal covers of Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” and The Cranberries’ “Zombie”. She also tacked on “Edge of Midnight”, her remix of “Midnight Sky” featuring the one and only Stevie Nicks. Across Plastic Hearts, there’s plenty of room for Cyrus to spread her wings and soar to new pop heights. There’s also a handful of collaborations where she showcases other skills: “Bad Karma” features perennial rock icon Joan Jett, “Night Crawling”...
The Smashing Pumpkins Unveil New Double Album CYR: Stream
The Smashing Pumpkins have released their new double album CYR. Stream it below via Apple Music and Spotify. CYR marks the second double album in the Pumpkins’ catalog, following their iconic 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness (which they recently announced a sequel to). However, the 20-song CYR is also a sequel in its own right, as it’s the second installment of the Shiny and Oh So Bright series, which began with their 2018 album Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1 / LP: No Past. No Future. That release was notably the first Smashing Pumpkins album since 2000 to feature Billy Corgan’s fellow founding members, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin. CYR consists of the same trio alongside guitarist Jeff Schroeder. In a conversation with Apple...
The Killers’ Christmas Album Don’t Waste Your Wishes Finally Available on Streaming Services
The Killers have finally made their limited-edition Christmas album Don’t Waste Your Wishes available to stream online. Take a listen below through Apple Music or Spotify. From 2006 to 2016, the Las Vegas rockers released a new Christmas single every year, with proceeds benefiting Bono’s (RED) charity. Then in 2016, the band collected those loosies into Don’t Waste Your Wishes, which had a brief run as an iTunes exclusive followed by a limited printing of CDs. This is the first time it’s been widely available. The compilation includes nine original songs, a track based on an 1890 poem by William Lawrence Chittenden called “The Cowboy’s Christmas Ball”, and a cover of the yuletide standard “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” featuring Brandon Flowers’ fourth grade teacher Mr. Hansen. The...
The SPIN Interview: The Dalai Lama
This interview originally appeared in the April 1994 issue of SPIN. The Dalai Lama, since 1950, has inspired worldwide devotion as the spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism and as a political ruler of uncompromising integrity. Dan Reed and Bob Guccione, Jr., journey to India to talk to the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize winner. When Tibet’s 13th Dalai Lama died in 1933, the Buddhist High Priests, the lamas, went into seclusion to meditate for guidance to find his reincarnated successor. Alongside a great lake outside of Lhasa, Tibet’s capital, a vision came to them of a farmhouse with a blue awning. The lamas scoured the countryside for 18 months and finally, in the eastern village of Amdo, found the place they were looking for. A woman holding a two-year-old child greeted the monk who came to...
The Most Influential Artists: #10 Rage Against the Machine
As part of our 35th anniversary, we’re naming the most influential artists of the past 35 years. Today, we’re at #10. From Los Angeles, California, here are Rage Against the Machine. CREDIT: Lindsay Brice / Contributor Tom Morello once described Rage Against the Machine’s debut album as a “raw wound,” but it was much more than that: It was revolutionary. Four guys from distinctly different backgrounds, the band navigated the Southern California music scene carefully and skeptically. And with good reason. There was no one quite like them. Mixing unapologetically far-left politics with the fire and fury of Morello’s guitar Tim Commerford’s bass and Brad Wilk’s emphatic drumming, Rage Against the Machine attacked audiences sonically and demanded their voices be heard. For better or wors...
