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Elon Musk Finalizing Deal to Purchase Twitter
Elon Musk is on course to finalize his purchase of Twitter after the two sides spent the weekend negotiating the terms of the sale. According to the New York Times, an agreement could be announced as soon as Monday. Musk launched a hostile takeover of Twitter earlier this month, offering to purchase the social media company for $43 billion. While Twitter’s board initially sought to stave off Musk’s efforts by deploying a poison pill shareholder rights plan, the board began to take his offer seriously after he sured up financing for the deal, the Times reports. The two sides are now reportedly discussing details including a timeline to close a potential deal and fees that would be paid if a deal fell through at the 11th hour. “I invested in Twitter as I believe in its potential to be the pl...
Metallica’s Kirk Hammett Releases Debut Solo EP Portals: Stream
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has released the Portals EP — his debut solo release. He also unveiled the video for the song “High Plains Drifter.” The instrumental four-song offering marks the first time a core member of Metallica has pursued a solo project while remaining in the band. Hammett recently told Rolling Stone that he was “shocked” he got the band’s blessing to release the EP, alluding to the conflict that partially led to the exit of former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted. Hammett even worked with personnel close to the Metallica camp, including Edwin Outwater — the conductor of the S&M2 concerts — and veteran producer Bob Rock. That said, the music on Portals is a far cry from the thrash metal of Hammett’s full-time gig. Advertisement Related Video As we remar...
Lorde Calls Viral Video of Her Shushing Crowd at Shows a “Dramatic Ass Move”
Hush now, Lorde has something say about that viral video of her shushing her fans during a recent concert on her “Melodrama Tour.” The “Solar Power” singer and famously social media-averse star’s response came courtesy of a fan account on Saturday with the caption “Lorde just wanted me to share this video with y’all.” “OK, I just woke up. I just wanted to talk about this thing of me shushing people at my shows,” she says in the clip from bed while wearing a sleep mask above her eyes. “That was something I did in that one song, a couple of times, when I wanted to sing it a capella and/or off the microphone so people could hear me, and because I wanted to try something different. If you come to my shows, you know it’s like an hour and a half of all of us singing and screaming together.” Adve...
Mick Jagger Touts Yungblud and Machine Gun Kelly as the Future of Rock Music
Mick Jagger has seen the future of rock ‘n’ roll, and their names are Yungblud and Machine Gun Kelly. “In rock music you need energy, and there have not been a lot of new rock singers around. Now there are a few,” The Rolling Stones frontman said in a new interview with Swedish radio station P4 as reported by The Independent. “You have Yungblud and Machine Gun Kelly. That kind of post-punk vibe makes me think there is still a bit of life in rock and roll.” Yungblud, who most recently released single “The Funeral” as a follow-up to 2020’s Weird!, has cited Jagger in the past as an inspiration for the type of career longevity he hopes to have, telling NME back in 2019, “I’m not arsed about being about for 10 minutes, have a hit song, get a fucking mansion, do too many drugs and kill myself. ...
Barry’s Anthony Carrigan on Showing a Whole New Side to NoHo Hank in Season 3
[Editor’s note: The following contains spoilers for Barry, Season 3, Episode 1, “forgiving jeff.”] It wasn’t perhaps the love story you were expecting to bloom when the dark HBO comedy Barry first premiered, but that just makes it a well-earned and also unexpected delight: Following the events of the Season 2 finale, as seen in the Season 3 premiere, the overwhelmingly cheerful NoHo Hank (Anthony Carrigan) and rival mob leader Cristobal (Michael Irby) are now romantically involved. Of course, Barry is not exactly a show built for happy endings, especially for the confirmed mobsters at its core, but for right now, Carrigan is just happy to play a new dimension to NoHo Hank, one which builds upon the character’s established desire to care for others, but with a whole new edge. “I’m excited t...
Watch: Former METALLICA Bassist JASON NEWSTED And THE CHOPHOUSE BAND Perform At Charity Event In Jupiter
THE CHOPHOUSE BAND, the band led by former METALLICA bassist Jason Newsted, performed last night (Saturday, April 23) at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre in Jupiter, Florida. It was a benefit event for the Goldner Conservatory, a professional conservatory that offers the highest caliber of artistic education to students of all ages. Professional violinist Carl Schmid, who is part of Jason‘s backing band, shared photos and video of yesterday’s concert and included the following message: “METALLICA was the second band I ever saw when I was a kid-I went to Giants Stadium in New Jersey, where I saw them with GUNS N ROSES and FAITH NO MORE opening the show. My ears are still ringing from that show-it had to be the loudest event I’ve ever been at. And it was my first taste of Ro...
Coachella 2022: aespa Make Their US Live Debut
Rising K-pop group aespa played their first US live show on Saturday night, and the setting, of all places, was the main stage at Coachella. The group’s five-song set began with the live debut of “ænergy,” followed by “Black Mamba,” “Savage”, and an English language version of a new, unreleased song called “Life’s Too Short.” Then then closed their set by performing “Next Level.” Replay the full performance below. Despite forming in the midst of a pandemic, aespa, one of our 2022 Rising Artists to Watch, have enjoyed some pretty mind-blowing success. The four-piece released their first EP, Savage, in September, and its title track entered at No. 20 on the Billboard 200 — the highest K-pop girl group debut on the U.S. charts. Now, the quartet has become the third K-pop act in history to per...
Billie Eilish Surprises girl in red with a Norwegian Grammy at Coachella
Norwegian indie pop star girl in red was nominated for seven awards at Norway’s prestigious Spelleman Awards, but a North American tour kept her from the ceremony. Instead, fellow pop wunderkind Billie Eilish met up with the artist while at Coachella to present her with the Spelleman Album of the Year award. In a video that aired during the ceremony, Eilish sits in girl in red’s tour bus at weekend two of Coachella, waiting patiently for her friend to come aboard. “I am about to surprise girl in red with the Spellemann Album Of The Year award,” she explains, before the artist, born Marie Ulven, enters the bus. “What the actual fuck?” Ulven exclaims. “That’s a Norwegian Grammy, you know?” Ulven asks incredulously. “I am aware,” Eilish says. The American singer then directs her Norwegian fri...
How to Get Tickets to Wu-Tang Clan and Nas’ “NY State of Mind” Tour
This article was published in partnership with Live Nation. New York City hip-hop royalty comes together in a cross-borough coronation as Staten Island collective Wu-Tang Clan links up with Queensbridge native Nas for the “NY State of Mind” this Fall. Get tickets here, and read on for more info including pre-sale dates and an exclusive code. What Is Wu-Tang Clan and Nas’ Next Tour? The 25-city North American tour begins in St. Louis, Missouri on August 30th and runs through October with stops in cities like Toronto on September 4th, Mansfield, Massachusetts on September 10th, Bristow, Virginia on September 16th, Atlanta on September 22nd, three nights in Texas from September 24th-26th, and Oakland on October 1st. The tour wraps at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on October 4th. Advertise...
TRIVIUM Will Focus On Touring Before Beginning Work On Another Album
In a new interview with Decker of Wisconsin’s WZOR (Razor 94.7/104.7) radio station, TRIVIUM guitarist Corey Beaulieu was asked if he and his bandmates have begun working on material for the follow-up to 2021’s “In The Court Of The Dragon” album. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “No. There’s always material. During our downtime, I wrote some stuff, just ’cause I needed something to do and I had a couple of riffs, and I was, like, ‘Screw it. I’ll just kind of start working on it.’ And then there’s fragments of songs or demos of songs that maybe someone… I know I have a couple of things I wrote and demoed for the last record, but when you have three people in the band writing song ideas and riffs and stuff, b...
New ALTER BRIDGE Album ‘Should Come Out In September’
ALTER BRIDGE guitarist Mark Tremonti spoke to Niclas Müller-Hansen of RockSverige about the progress of the recording sessions for the band’s new album. He said: “Drums are done and bass is starting today [April 19]. I go in next week. We all went in to do pre-production. Myles [Kennedy, vocals] and I write demos and then one by one we’ll go through the demos until we’re satisfied with the record. We arranged 14 songs and then the producer’s, like, ‘Hey, here’s the moment of truth: we have to cut two of them.’ That’s the worst thing, so me and Myles were, like, ‘We’ll both cut one of the songs that we brought.'” Tremonti went on to say that the follow-up to 2019’s “Walk The Sky” “should come out...
SHINEDOWN’s ZACH MYERS ‘Couldn’t Care Less’ About Not Being Nominated For A GRAMMY
In a new interview with Dave Doran from Rock 105 and 95.5 radio stations, SHINEDOWN guitarist Zach Myers was asked how he feels about the fact that his band will be eligible for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame in a few years. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Ah, I don’t care. It’s the same thing as the Grammys to me. To me, when [SHINEDOWN‘s third studio album, 2008’s] ‘The Sound Of Madness’ had six Number One songs on one record in the year that it came out, when that hasn’t been done since… I think Adele did it, and it really hasn’t been done since. It hadn’t been done in probably 15 years before that. And it didn’t get nominated for a Grammy. [So] I was like there’s not a physical way I could care ...
