Alternative Music

Ted Nugent has condemned Will Smith for walking onto the stage at the Oscars Sunday evening and slapped Chris Rock during the live broadcast. Smith, 53, interrupted the 57-year-old comedian’s introduction of “Best Documentary” with a slap across the face. The altercation came after Rock made a joke about Smith‘s wife Jada Pinkett Smith, saying, “Jada, I love ya. G.I. Jane 2, can’t wait to see ya,” an apparent reference to the actress’s bald hairstyle as she lives with the autoimmune disorder alopecia, which attacks follicles resulting in bald spots and hair loss. Pinkett Smith could be seen rolling her eyes, before the camera cut back to Rock, while Will Smith initially laughed from his seat. Shortly after, however, Smith‘s mood changed...

Grammy-nominated Lancaster, Pennsylvania five-piece AUGUST BURNS RED will head back out on the road this summer. Having just wrapped a successful winter 2022 run supporting KILLSWITCH ENGAGE, the band will embark on a headline “Through The Thorns” trek starting on July 15 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The six-week tour will end on August 27 in Long Island, New York. Support on the trek will come from WE CAME AS ROMANS, HOLLOW FRONT and VOID OF VISION. “We are so excited to hit the road with this awesome package filled with our friends in WE CAME AS ROMANS, and two great new bands: HOLLOW FRONT and VOID OF VISION,” says AUGUST BURNS RED. “We will be hitting up some places we haven’t played in a VERY long time, as well as some familiar favorites. We hope to...

In a new “Fan First” interview with Revolver magazine, former SEPULTURA drummer Igor “Iggor” Cavalera was asked what the first musician was that he put on a pedestal. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I think the first one, and still one of my favorites to this day, is Bill Ward from BLACK SABBATH.” Regarding how he first discovered SABBATH, he said: “It’s a funny story, because my father had a bunch of records, and later, me and Max [Igor’s brother and former SEPULTURA frontman], we were going through his collection and we found the first SABBATH record in the middle of it. But that was after we were already into rock music — not so much metal, but more rock. And then, of course, SABBATH became one of those bands that...

RATING: 7.5/10 DESTRUCTION have been a thrashing machine for a whopping 40 years, and have been on a militant rampage, regularly releasing albums since their inception. That’s not including the extended period of limited recordings during the nineties, essentially the time frame that DESTRUCTION‘s only remaining original member, vocalist and bassist Schmier, was not a part of the band. But the hands of time have not weighed Schmier down nor held him back. He’s been marching forward with a talented group of musicians who have been with him for a handful of years, and the quartet has lived up to DESTRUCTION‘s great name with “Diabolical” an utterly relentless album. Not unlike their fellow, revered thrash metal countrymen SODOM and KREATOR, DESTRUCTION had...

HEART‘s Ann Wilson has praised Dolly Parton for offering to take herself out of the running for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame‘s 2022 class of inductees. Earlier in the month, the 76-year-old country music legend asked the Hall to withdraw her name from the 2022 ballot, saying “I don’t feel that I have earned the right. I really do not want votes to be split because of me, so I must respectfully bow out.” Parton is one of 17 artists nominated for the Rock Hall class of 2022, along with Eminem, Lionel Richie, RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, JUDAS PRIEST and Beck, among others. Ballots are cast by an international voting body of more than 1,000 artists — including previous inductees — historians, music industry members and critics. Factors considered by voters conside...