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Rapper $NOT Says ‘Racist Metalheads’ Won’t Leave Him Alone Over LIMP BIZKIT Tour
Rapper $NOT claims that he has been subjected to online abuse from “racist metalheads” after Mikey Doling of metal band SNOT lashed out at LIMP BIZKIT for agreeing to take $NOT out as one of the support acts on its spring 2022 tour. On Saturday (March 19), Doling shared a since-deleted video message on his social media in which he called out LIMP BIZKIT frontman Fred Durst — whom he referred to as a “friend” — for seemingly having approved the addition of $NOT to LIMP BIZKIT‘s upcoming tour. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Mikey Doling here from the real SNOT. I’m making this video because there is a young rapper kid out there calling himself $NOT. I heard about him about a year and a half ago. [I] didn’t think nothing of it be...
Ex-JUDAS PRIEST Guitarist K.K. DOWNING Responds to GLENN TIPTON, Says He Asked ‘Two Or Three’ Times To Be Reinstated
K.K. Downing has disputed Glenn Tipton‘s claim that K.K. “never approached” any of the members of JUDAS PRIEST about returning to the band prior to Glenn announcing his retirement from touring. In a recent interview with Guitar World magazine, Tipton said that he and the rest of PRIEST‘s current lineup weren’t aware of Downing‘s desire to come back to the band when they made their decision to hire producer Andy Sneap to play guitar on the “Firepower” tour. “[K.K.] never approached any of the band and asked to rejoin, so for all we knew, he didn’t want to rejoin,” Glenn said. “He said he wanted to leave the band and then leave the music industry. He told us he was desperate for a new kind of life.” When Guitar Wor...
FOO FIGHTERS Drummer TAYLOR HAWKINS Dead At 50
FOO FIGHTERS drummer Taylor Hawkins has died at the age of 50. The band confirmed his passing in a statement earlier tonight (Friday, March 25). “The FOO FIGHTERS family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins,” read the message. “His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever. “Our hearts go out to his wife, children, and family, and we ask that their privacy be treated with the utmost respect in this unimaginably difficult time.” FOO FIGHTERS were on tour in South America at the time of Hawkins‘s death and were preparing to perform in Bogota, Colombia on Friday. That show has since been canceled. Taylor‘s cause of death has not been revealed. Born in Fort Worth, Texas, Hawkins jo...
The Rome and Duddy Show: Studio Life
Listen via: Spotify | Apple Podcasts | Google Podcasts | Amazon Music | iHeartRadio | Pocket Casts | RadioPublic | Stitcher | RSS For the last two weeks, Sublime with Rome’s Rome Ramirez and Dirty Heads’ Duddy B have been in the studio working on their collaborative album. On this latest episode of The Rome and Duddy Show, the boys bring fans inside the booth to give an update on how things are coming together. Related Video What’s more, they reveal the latest winners of The Great American Talent Show — and the latest loser. This episode will shed some light on what not to do when your song is chosen in the final four, so you’ll definitely want to listen in. Advertisement Listen to the episode ab...
Hulu Reveals Only Murders in the Building Season 2 Premiere Date
If you’re a true crime podcast enthusiast, there’s a good chance you’ve fantasized about finding yourself at the center of an abominable scandal, confidently armed by the knowledge you’ve absorbed through hours and hours of Serial and My Favorite Murder. That’s exactly what happens to the protagonists of Only Murders in the Building Season 2, which Hulu has announced will premiere on June 28th. Season 2 of Only Murders picks up right where we left off: Charles (Steve Martin), Oliver (Martin Short), and Mabel (Selena Gomez) have successfully gotten their own crime podcast off the ground. But now, not only are the trio publicly implicated in the murder of an executive at their luxe Upper West Side apartment complex — they’re also the subjects of a competing podcast. ...
Donald Glover on Writing with Malia Obama: “Her Writing Style Is Great”
Donald Glover is enjoying working with Malia Obama in the writer’s room of his in-the-works Amazon series. “Her writing style is great,” he said in an interview with Vanity Fair. Glover hired Obama last year for his Beyoncé-inspired television series, which used the working title Hive. “She’s just like, an amazingly talented person. She’s really focused, and she’s working really hard.” He added, “I feel like she’s just somebody who’s gonna have really good things coming soon.” His brother and frequent collaborator Stephen Glover is in the same writer’s room, and he also raved about the 23-year-old eldest child of former President Barack Obama. “Donald always says perspective is important, and people with different perspectives are important for a writers room,...
Foo Fighters Drummer Taylor Hawkins Dead
Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins has died at the age of 50. A statement released by the band reads as follows: “The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely loss of our beloved Taylor Hawkins. His musical spirit and infectious laughter will live on with all of us forever. Our hearts go out to his wife, children and family, and we ask that their privacy be treated with the utmost respect in this unimaginably difficult time.” This is a developing story… Related Video Share this: [flexi-common-toolbar] [flexi-form class=”flexi_form_style” title=”Submit to Flexi” name=”my_form” ajax=”true”][flexi-form-tag type=”post_title” class=”fl-input” title=”Title” value=”” required=̶...
FOREIGNER Partners With American Red Cross To Donate And Raise Funds For Ukrainian Relief Efforts
Legendary rockers FOREIGNER have announced that they will partner with the American Red Cross to donate and raise funds for Ukrainian relief efforts during their exclusive headlining residency show at The Venetian Theatre inside The Venetian Resort Las Vegas beginning Friday, March 25. FOREIGNER will donate $5,000 from each residency show at The Venetian Theatre to the American Red Cross Ukrainian relief efforts, and also invite concertgoers to join in donating in any denomination large or small to the American Red Cross representatives on site. The show, “The Best Of Foreigner 4 Live”, is a celebration of the 40th anniversary of FOREIGNER‘s biggest-selling album. The LP was released on July 2, 1981 and spent more weeks at No. 1 than any other album in the history of Atla...
IN FLAMES’ BJÖRN GELOTTE: Why We Used Same Production Team For Upcoming Album
IN FLAMES guitarist Björn Gelotte has confirmed that the band’s upcoming album was once again recorded with Grammy-nominated producer Howard Benson and Howard‘s longtime engineer Mike Plotnikoff. Gelotte discussed the progress of the recording sessions for IN FLAMES‘ fourteenth studio album while taking part in an online video chat on “The Metal Tour Of The Year” Instagram on March 14. “We just recorded [our new album], actually,” Björn said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “We came home three days before we came [to Germany to start rehearsing for the currently ongoing U.K. tour]. We worked [in Los Angeles] with Howard Benson and his team. It’s really, really good, and it suits us perfectly. The weather — January in Sweden is not ...
Police Investigating KORN Tour Bus Shooting Outside Iowa Hotel
According to TMZ, one of KORN‘s tour buses was hit by gunfire while parked outside a hotel in Davenport, Iowa on Thursday (March 24). A spokesperson for the Davenport Police Department told the tabloid site that they got a call Friday morning around 7:41 a.m. for a vehicle that had been hit overnight. A single bullet pierced the exterior wall of the bus — which was parked on the street outside a hotel — and was found inside the cabin. No one was on board at the time of the shooting and no other damage was reported. The incident is currently under investigation. KORN — with support acts CHEVELLE and CODE ORANGE — is scheduled to play Friday at TaxSlayer Center in Moline. The three bands performed in Saginaw, Michigan on Wednesday. KORN is touring in support of its latest album, “...
SLIPKNOT Is ‘Turning Up The Dials On Experimentation’ On Upcoming Album, Says Drummer JAY WEINBERG
SLIPKNOT drummer Jay Weinberg spoke to Decker of Wisconsin’s WZOR (Razor 94.7/104.7) radio station about the musical direction of the band’s upcoming follow-up to 2019’s “We Are Not Your Kind” album. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I would say we kind of turned up the dials on experimentation. And there’s some new things happening that are really exciting, really interesting, stuff that maybe I wouldn’t have even expected us to pull out of our hat. We’ve got a song that’s like the heaviest blues song on earth, and stuff like that that’s super exciting to hear what the guys are doing. Then, once we’re working on the instrumental for a while, then we get to hear what Corey [Taylor, vocals] brings to the ta...
Camp Cope Share New Album Running with the Hurricane: Stream
Camp Cope return today with their first new album in four years. Running with the Hurricane, the Melbourne indie rock trio’s third LP, is out now via Run for Cover. Running with the Hurricane was recorded at Sing Sing Recording Studios with engineer Anna Laverty, who co-produced the album with frontperson Georgia Maq. Courtney Barnett contributed additional instrumentation to the songs “Caroline” and “Sing Your Heart Out,” while Cable Ties drummer Shauna Boyle played on “One Wink at a Time.” The album’s 10 songs also include the singles “Blue” and the title track. Of Running with the Hurricane, Maq explains in a statement: “The first record was us diving into whatever Camp Cope created, the second album was us when we were in the thick of it, and then this album is about how we’ve come out...
