Alternative Music
Arcade Fire to Perform at March Madness Music Festival, JUNO Awards
Arcade Fire have confirmed two major public performances in support of their upcoming album, WE. Next week, the band will headline the AT&T Block Party as part of the 2022 NCAA March Madness Music Festival in New Orleans. Taking place on Friday night (April 1st), the concert will also feature fellow New Orleans greats Preservation Hall Jazz Band. Best yet? In-person tickets are free with registration, and the performance will also be streamed live online via AT&T’s 5G FanZone. Arcade Fire are also confirmed to perform at Canada’s Juno Awards on Sunday, May 15th. The in-person awards show takes place at the Budweiser Stage in Toronto, and will be broadcast in Canada on CBC, as well as globally on CBCMusic.ca. Tickets are also available to purchase via Ticketmaster. Related Video Las...
Everything Everywhere All At Once Is A Lot, and That’s a Good Thing: Review
The Pitch: Evelyn Wang (Michelle Yeoh) has lived a life of quiet, overwhelmed lament. There are so many things she could have done, so many hers she could have been. Instead, she’s a middle-aged owner of a failing laundromat, with a miserable husband gunning for divorce (Ke Huy Quan’s Weymond), a withdrawn daughter (Stephanie Hsu’s Joy), and an increasingly frail father (James Hong’s Gong Gong) who doesn’t yet know that his granddaughter is gay. It gets worse: It’s tax season, and their unsympathetic IRS auditor (Jamie Lee Curtis‘ Deirdre) is breathing down their necks. As if that weren’t complicated enough, the IRS office becomes a battleground for the fate of the multiverse as Evelyn learns that she’s the only one who can stop a multi-dimensional agent of chaos named Jobu Tupaki fro...
Craig Robinson Is a Security Guard Turned Snake Hunter in Trailer for Peacock’s Killing It: Watch
In the teaser for his upcoming Peacock series Killing It, Craig Robinson is living in the lap of luxury, but the newly-released trailer shows the long road it took him to get there. Taking a look back at his days as a security guard with big dreams, the clip offers a peek into his journey to becoming an all-American success story. The trailer opens with Robinson’s character getting turned down for a loan in thinly veiled racist language before giving a look at his crumbling home life. Learning his daughter could be moving to Ohio due to his ex’s beau getting a new job seems to be the last straw, so when there’s an opportunity to win $20,000 in a snake hunting contest, it’s a no-brainer. Watch the trailer below. Killing It comes from Brooklyn Nine-Nine co-creator Dan Goor and writer/pr...
Red Hot Chili Peppers Share New Song “Not the One”: Stream
Red Hot Chili Peppers have shared the sentimental new song, “Not the One,” as the latest preview of their upcoming album Unlimited Love. “Not the One” is RHCP at their most earnest, with lyrics that describe trying to live up to someone else’s expectations. “I’m not the person that you thought I was,” Anthony Kiedis sings over melancholy piano and waves of electronically-bending notes. “I’m not the one you thought you knew/ I do most anything to make you think that I’m the one/ I do it all to get to you.” Check out “Not the One” below. Unlimited Love arrives April 1st with production from Rick Rubin and John Frusciante on guitar for the first time since 2006. Previously, Red Hot Chili Peppers shared the singles “Poster Child” and “Black Summer,”&nbs...
SACRED REICH Cancels Three More Shows, Hopes To Rejoin SEPULTURA Tour In New Orleans
Arizona thrashers SACRED REICH have canceled three more shows on their North American tour with SEPULTURA due to frontman Phil Rind‘s “ongoing respiratory illness.” Rind was hospitalized last Saturday (March 19) with a non-COVID-19-related illness. The trek, which kicked off on March 4 in Sacramento, California, also features support from CROWBAR and ART OF SHOCK. Earlier today (Wednesday, March 23), SACRED REICH released the following statement: “Unfortunately we will not be playing tonight [March 24] in Atlanta and will be unable to play the shows in Ft. Lauderdale [March 25] and Tampa [March 26] this weekend. “We apologize to our fans looking forward to these shows. We are very disappointed. We are hoping we can rejoin the tour in New Orleans [on March 28]....
DJ ASHBA On BUCKETHEAD’s Time With GUNS N’ ROSES: ‘That Wasn’t The Reckless Rock And Roll Band That We All Grew Up On’
DJ Ashba has clarified his recent comments about Buckethead, saying that he wasn’t trying to “discredit” the fellow ex-GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist “at all.” This past January, Ashba, who joined GUNS N’ ROSES in March 2009 following the departure of Robin Finck, spoke about his time with the Axl Rose-fronted outfit in an interview with Antihero Magazine. The guitarist said: “I didn’t know what to expect. I was hoping that one day Slash would come back, and the reason I took the gig is that, honestly, I was — no disrespect to Buckethead [former GUNS N’ ROSES guitarist Brian Carroll, who was in the band between 2000 and 2004] or anybody — but seeing a guy run around with a chicken bucket on his head, it’s, like, to me, that took th...
HALESTORM Teams Up With Z2 COMICS For Graphic Novel ‘Hyde Manor’
This Halloween, Z2 Comics and Grammy-winning rock band HALESTORM will transform the group’s barbed riffs and evocative narratives into sequential art for “Hyde Manor”, a harrowing descent into one woman’s fight with the darkest parts of herself. Twins Brittany and Brianna Winner (the “Twin Soul” series), artist Sara Scalia, and colorist DJ Alonso weave a tale of the celebrated group as they seek refuge in the titular Hyde Manor — a sprawling gothic estate perched on the remote end of the Oregon Coast. Celebrating the 10th anniversary of the 2012 EP “Hello, It’s Mz Hyde” and its ensuing LP, “The Strange Case Of…”, the “Hyde Manor” graphic novel depicts the members of HALESTORM encountering sinister doppelgangers o...
JUDAS PRIEST’s GLENN TIPTON On K.K. DOWNING: ‘He Never Approached Any Of The Band And Asked To Rejoin’
Glenn Tipton says that Kenneth “K.K.” Downing never approached any the members of JUDAS PRIEST about rejoining the band before the launch of the “Firepower” world tour. K.K. left PRIEST in 2011 amid claims of band conflict, shoddy management and declining quality of performance. In 2018, Downing revealed that he sent two resignation letters to his bandmates when he decided to quit JUDAS PRIEST. The first was described as “a graceful exit note, implying a smooth retirement from music,” while the second was “angrier, laying out all of his frustrations with specific parties.” Downing later said that he believed the second letter was “a key reason” he wasn’t invited to rejoin PRIEST after Tipton‘s decision to retire from t...
Miles Teller Clashes with Mobsters About The Godfather in Trailer for The Offer: Watch
The upcoming Paramount+ limited series The Offer will take viewers behind the scenes of the turbulent road to the making of The Godfather. Thanks to the new official trailer, we now have a longer look at legendary producer Albert S. Ruddy (Miles Teller) and his struggle to make the classic gangster film. The clip opens with Ruddy’s meeting with studio execs Robert Evans (Matthew Goode) and Barry Lapidus (Colin Hanks), after which he is tasked with producing the film “no one wants to make.” Though Ruddy finds “someone who understands Italians” in Francis Ford Coppola (Dan Fogler), casting Al Pacino and Marlon Brando proves to be a hard sell to his bosses. As if Ruddy wasn’t facing enough obstacles, Five Families boss Joe Colombo (Giovanni Ribisi) vociferously expresses his opposition t...
Heavy Culture: Oxymorrons on Queens Upbringing, Haitian Heritage, and Fighting Stereotypes
Heavy Culture is a monthly column from journalist Liz Ramanand, focusing on artists of different cultural backgrounds in heavy music, as they offer their perspectives on race, society, and more as it intersects with and affects their craft. The latest installment of this column features Deee and KI of the band Oxymorrons. Oxymorrons are keeping busy in 2022. After kicking off the year on the ShipRocked cruise, the band is currently wrapping up a tour with Grandson and Royal & The Serpent. Heavy Consequence recently caught up with brothers Deee and KI of Oxymorrons to discuss all things music and culture. The vocalists spoke candidly about their upbringing in Queens, New York, their Haitian roots, and how that shaped who they are and their music. They also discussed their 2021 release, ...
Bauhaus Release First New Song in 14 Years, “Drink the New Wine”: Stream
Bauhaus are back and more gothically engrossing than ever. With “Drink the New Wine,” their first new song since 2008’s Go Away White, the quartet of Peter Murphy, Daniel Ash, Kevin Haskins, and David J play a musical game of Exquisite Corpse. For those who need to brush up on their surrealist pastimes, Exquisite Corpse was a diversion invented by André Breton, Marcel Duchamp, Jacques Prévert, and Yves Tangu. Each participant creates one part of a sentence or image, either in total ignorance of what the others are doing, or with only the very end of the previous composition to guide them. The name of the game, as well as Bauhaus’ new single, come from the first sentence produced under these constraints: “Le cadavre exquis boira le vin nouveau,” which translates to, “The exqu...
DECAPITATED Releases ‘Cancer Culture’ Music Video
Polish tech death metal virtuosos DECAPITATED will release their eighth studio album, “Cancer Culture”, on May 27 via Nuclear Blast Records. The official music video for the LP’s first single, the title track, can be seen below. DECAPITATED guitarist Wacław “Vogg” Kiełtyka commented: “The video was filmed last December in Płock, Poland. This time we have teamed up with Mateusz Winkiel, the director of Mania Studio, with who we have worked closely on the complete scenario. It was a good experience, and I hope our fans will appreciate the final effect of the work and an important message we tried to conclude in this picture.” Vogg previously stated about the new track: “It wasn’t easy to pick the first single from ‘Cancer Culture...
