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Jim Carrey “Probably” Retiring: “I Have Enough. I’ve Done Enough.”
Jim Carrey says he’s “probably” retiring. In an interview with Access Hollywood, the 60-year-old actor and comedian said he expects Sonic the Hedgehog 2 to be his last film. “Well, I’m retiring. Yeah, probably. I’m being fairly serious,” Carrey said. “It depends, if the angels bring some sort of script that’s written in gold ink that says to me that it’s going to be really important for people to see, I might continue down the road, but I’m taking a break.” He added, “I really like my quiet life and I really love putting paint on canvas and I really love my spiritual life and I feel like — and this is something you might never hear another celebrity say as long as time exists – I have enough. I’ve done enough. I am enough.” Related Video Carrey has stepped awa...
Tours On Sale Today: Florence + The Machine, Interpol w/ Spoon, Kraftwerk & More
We’ve got the latest news on the live concert landscape. Here’s the most recent updates on tours going on sale this week, and how to secure tickets. Florence + The Machine is spreading “Dance Fever.” Interpol and Spoon are co-headlining eighteen dates together. Meanwhile, Dirty Heads have mapped out a summer tour running from June through August. Get the details on these shows and more below. Florence + The Machine: Get Tickets via Ticketmaster Florence + The Machine have greatly expanded their 2022 North American tour, featuring a rotating cast of all-star openers: Japanese Breakfast, Wet Leg, Arlo Parks, King Princess, and more. Advertisement Related Video Tickets are available to purchase starting Friday, April 1st at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Courtney Barnett’s “Here...
Christian Lee Hutson Shares Origins of New Album Quitters: Exclusive
Origins is a recurring new music feature giving artists the chance to break down the inspirations for their latest release. Today, Christian Lee Hutson opens up about his new album, Quitters. Over the past several years, Los Angeles singer-songwriter Christian Lee Hutson has found himself in some pretty heady company, collaborating with his best friend Phoebe Bridgers on several projects including the indie darling’s collaborative album with Conor Oberst. Hutson’s sophomore album Quitters, out today, reunites him with both artists, who served as producers on the project. With the encouragement of Bridgers and Oberst, Quitters was made directly to tape, rather than the digital recording method used for Hutson’s debut studio album, Beginners, also produced by Bridgers. Another...
Watch: SKID ROW Plays Second Show With New Singer ERIK GRÖNWALL
SKID ROW played its second show with ex-H.E.A.T. vocalist Erik Grönwall Wednesday night (March 30) at Zappos Theater at Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada as the support act on the rescheduled dates for SCORPIONS‘ “Sin City Nights” residency. SKID ROW‘s nine-song set included its new single, “The Gang’s All Here”, which was made available last Friday (March 25). The song is the title track of the band’s upcoming album, which will arrive on October 14 via earMUSIC. SKID ROW‘s setlist was as follows: 01. Slave To The Grind 02. Big Guns 03. 18 And Life 04. Piece Of Me 05. Livin’ On A Chain Gang 06. Monkey Business 07. I Remember You 08. The Gang’s All Here 09. Youth Gone Wild Fan-filmed video of the conce...
(HED) P.E. To Team Up With CRAZY TOWN, ADEMA And FLAW For ‘Nu Metal Madness’ U.S. Tour In July
(HED) P.E., CRAZY TOWN, ADEMA and FLAW will join forces for the “Nu Metal Madness” U.S. tour, set to take place in July. The 20-date trek will kick off on July 6 in Denver, Colorado and end on July 30 in Reedley, California. Tour dates: July 06 – Denver, CO @ The Venue July 08 – Hobart, IN @ Hobart Art Center July 09 – Columbus, OH @ King of Clubs July 10 – Fort Wayne, IN @ Piere’s July 12 – Mechanicsburg, PA @ Lovedraft’s July 13 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Crafthouse July 14 – Towson, MD @ The Recher July 16 – Laconia, NH @ Granite Music Hall July 17 – New Bedford, MA @ Vault Music Hall July 19 – Flint, MI @ Machine Shop July 20 – Kansasville, WI @ 1175 Sports Park July 21 – Lombard, IL @ Brauer House July 22 R...
LAMB OF GOD Teams Up With DAVE MUSTAINE For Cover Of MEGADETH’s ‘Wake Up Dead’
Ahead of the 2022 installment of “The Metal Tour Of The Year” kicking off next weekend, LAMB OF GOD has joined forces with MEGADETH to record a cover of the MEGADETH classic “Wake Up Dead”, featuring MEGADETH leader/founder Dave Mustaine along with appearances from all three other members of the current lineup of MEGADETH. The song will be released everywhere digitally tomorrow (Friday, April 1), but you can hear it all day long today on SiriusXM Liquid Metal with Jose Mangin. Says LAMB OF GOD in a statement: “We hope everybody enjoys this one and we can’t wait to see everyone on the road soon!” The 2022 leg of LAMB OF GOD‘s “The Metal Tour Of The Year” with MEGADETH will kick off on Saturday, April 9 in Las Vegas, Nevada and hit ...
Ex-MANOWAR Guitarist ROSS THE BOSS On ‘Battle Hymns’ Re-Recording: ‘It’s Never Gonna Be As Good As The Original’
Former MANOWAR guitarist Ross “The Boss” Friedman has once again blasted re-recorded versions of the band’s classic albums, saying they were “never gonna be as good as the original.” A founding member of MANOWAR, Ross recorded six albums with the band before leaving after 1988’s “Kings Of Metal”. His work with MANOWAR included such classic LPs as 1982’s “Battle Hymns”, 1983’s “Into Glory Ride” and 1984’s “Hail To England”. Friedman discussed MANOWAR‘s decision to re-record its classic albums during a recent interview with Rat Salad Review. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I think the first thing that they should have done and he [MANOWAR leader/bassist Joey DeMaio...
Dead and Company Announce 2022 Summer Tour
Dead & Company have announced a 2022 Summer tour. The Grateful Dead offshoot, which features Mickey Hart, Bill Kreutzmann, and Bob Weir alongside John Mayer, Oteil Burbridge, and Jeff Chimenti, will kick off the 20-date outing at Los Angeles’ Dodger Stadium on June 11th. The itinerary also includes multiple dates at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, CA; Folsom Field in Boulder, CO; Chicago’s Wrigley Field; and Citi Field in New York City. A Ticketmaster Verified Fan pre-sale will begin Tuesday, April 5th at 10:00 a.m. local time. Fans can register for access now through Sunday, April 3rd. A general public on-sale will follow on Friday, April 8th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster. Related Video Dead & Company 2022 Tour Dates:06/11 – Los Angeles, CA @ Dodger Stadiu...
Harry Styles Premieres New Single “As It Was”: Stream
A new Harry Styles era is officially upon us. The pop singer has shared “As It Was,” the first single from his forthcoming album, Harry’s House. Styles goes new wave for “As It Was,” where he grieves a broken relationship over a gentle, reverberating synth line. “Nothing to say/ And everything gets in the way/ Seems you cannot be replaced,” he sings in an understated croon, before repeating, “You know it’s not the same as it was.” In keeping with the song’s shimmering aesthetic, in the song’s accompanying music video, Styles does a moody interpretative dance in a red sequin jumpsuit, while his heartsick love interest dances in a blue costume of her own. Check out the clip, helmed by Ukrainian GRAMMY Award-nominated director Tanu Muino, below. Advertisement Related Video “Directing a Harry ...
DJ Drama and Dreamville Unleash D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape: Stream
J. Cole’s Dreamville Records gets the latest DJ Drama look on the surprise release D-Day: A Gangsta Grillz Mixtape. Stream it below via Apple Music and Spotify. The project was first announced on Wednesday night via Cole’s Instagram with a grainy trailer that featured the Dreamville founder and his labelmates J.I.D, EARTHGANG, Bas, Ari Lennox, Cozz, Lute, and Omen. It marks the first collaborative effort from the label since 2020’s deluxe release of Revenge of the Dreamers III. D-Day drops just days before the return of J. Cole’s Raleigh, North Carolina-based Dreamville Festival after a three-year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. The two-day event begins Saturday, April 2nd with a lineup touting the label’s entire roster, as well as a special Gangsta Grillz set by the Atlanta-based ...
The Bubble Tests Positive for Tone-Deaf Tedium: Review
The Pitch: It’s 2022, which means that we’re now getting the kind of movies that weren’t just filmed during COVID, but conceived during it (see also: Soderbergh’s Kimi, Doug Liman’s Locked Down). For Judd Apatow, that meant a long, hard look at the ways that mainstream studio filmmaking has adjusted to the times: masks aplenty, social distancing, and the much-vaunted “bubble” of fully quarantined people who are trapped together until, well, all this stuff is over. And that’s the environment under which the latest entry in the hit blockbuster franchise Cliff Beasts, Cliff Beasts 6: The Battle for Everest: Memories of the Requiem, is to be made, says the film’s producers (including Peter Serafinowicz and Kate McKinnon). But of course, throwing a group of temperamenta...
Alabaster dePlume: Gold – Go Forward in the Courage of Your Love
Alabaster DePlume is a lot of things—a saxophonist, a poet, an arranger, a social node in London’s jazz scene—but above all, he’s a person who wants you to treat yourself with more kindness, gentleness, and self-respect. On GOLD, his second album for International Anthem, he applies self-love like an exfoliant, scraping off the old skin of cynicism and exposing the clean and vulnerable surface below. He is, as he says multiple times on this record, “brazen, like a baby,” and while that means the Mancunian musician born Gus Fairbairn is often agog at the fresh beauty of the world, it also means he’s uniquely attuned to its difficulties. Even when it’s comforting, GOLD is not comfortable. GOLD follows 2020’s To Cy and Lee: Instrumentals Vol. 1, an astounding collection of songs DePlume devel...
