Alternative Music
Maury Ending After 30 Seasons
Maury, you are… not coming back next season. NBCUniversal announced earlier this week that the long-running talk show will end at the conclusion of its current, 30th season. Hosted by Maury Povitch, now 83, the show first began airing in 1991 as The Maury Povitch Show before shortening its name to the now-classic Maury seven years later. Joining the packed talk show landscape of the ’90s, the series stood out from — and outlasted — competitors like Jerry Springer, The Jenny Jones Show, and The Ricki Lake Show by becoming famous for its on-air paternity reveals. “[Episodes] touch so many classic themes, whether it’s love, distrust, conflict, drama,” the host once explained in a 2012 interview with The Chicago Tribune. “And the paternity shows in particular, you’ve got he-said, she-said, is-...
LIMP BIZKIT’s FRED DURST Debuts New Look At Mexico’s VIVE LATINO Festival
LIMP BIZKIT frontman Fred Durst debuted his new look during the band’s first concert of 2022, which took place last night (Saturday, March 19) at the Vive Latino festival in Mexico City. Professionally filmed video of the entire concert is available below. LIMP BIZKIT‘s setlist was as follows: 01. Out Of Style – 00:38 02. Dirty Rotten Bizkit – 04:16 03. Turn It Up – 07:24 04. Dad Vibes – 08:42 05. Break Stuff – 13:49 06. My Generation – 19:08 07. Livin’ It Up – 23:41 08. Nookie – 32:44 09. Hot Dog – 37:00 10. My Way – 42:20 11. Rollin’ – 48:50 12. Take A Look Around – 53:51 As previously reported, LIMP BIZKIT will return to the road this April for the month-long “Still Sucks Tour”. T...
Ex-THE HAUNTED Singer PETER DOLVING Has ‘Persistently Tried’ To Make Peace With His Former Bandmates
Ex-THE HAUNTED frontman Peter Dolving, who left the band more than a decade ago, says that he has “persistently tried” to make peace with his former bandmates without much success. The 52-year-old singer, who is currently the CEO of Svenska Verde AB, a Swedish med-tech company specializing in cannabinoid API, reflected on his exit from the group in a brand new interview with Pierre Gutiérrez of Rock Talks. Asked if he is still in contact with any of the members of THE HAUNTED, Peter said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I will give you a sad and honest straight answer: I have persistently tried, and I even met some of them on the street. I have had a sympathetic few meetings with Per [Möller Jensen, drums] — everything all good, all love. With the other guys, they&#...
GEEZER BUTLER: ‘I Was Really Glad That Me And RONNIE JAMES DIO Had Made Up And All The Past Was In The Past’
Damian Muziani of BLACK SABBATH fan site Black-Sabbath.com has shared a four-minute report on the world premiere of “Dio: Dreamers Never Die”, the career-spanning documentary on the life and times of the legendary rock icon Ronnie James Dio, which took place this past Thursday (March 17) at this year’s SXSW Film Festival in Austin, Texas. You can watch the video below. On Friday, several music personalities who were involved in the making of the film — Dio‘s wife and longtime manager Wendy Dio, BLACK SABBATH bassist Geezer Butler and former SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach — took part in a panel, “Dreamers Never Die: The Enduring Power Of Metal” panel, hosted by SiriusXM‘s Eddie Trunk at Austin Convention Center. Damian, who was the last person to co...
Watch: MACHINE HEAD Rejoined By Guitarist LOGAN MADER For ‘The More Things Change…’ 25th-Anniversary Play-Through
MACHINE HEAD celebrated the 25th anniversary of the band’s second studio LP, “The More Things Change…”, with a special full-album play-through this past Friday, March 18 at 3:00 p.m. PDT. Joining MACHINE HEAD‘s Robb Flynn and Jared MacEachern for the event was original “The More Things Change…” guitarist Logan Mader. You can watch the full performance below. Released in 1997, “The More Things Change…” was MACHINE HEAD‘s last LP to feature Mader, and the first to feature drummer Dave McClain. The album reached No. 138 on the Billboard 200 chart in 1997, and as of 2002 had sold over 115,000 copies in the United States. In 2020, it was named one of the 20 best metal albums of 1997 by Metal Hammer magazine. Amid the coronavirus pandem...
Weezer Go Vivaldi-Rock (?) on SZNZ: Spring EP
For a band still very much defined by the crunchy alt-pop of their very first album (and by the departures from that sound on their classic follow-up), Weezer has used its unlikely second and third decades as a band to practice a surprising amount of eclecticism. For Decade Two (roughly 2003 through 2013), this translated to never knowing whether a Weezer song would be pop-rock bliss or appalling disaster, leaving only the certainty that any given album would have at least several tracks’ worth of each. But since 2014 or so, the band has seemed less defiantly scattershot in their experiments. Their albums still come out at a steady clip, but they feel more sonically and thematically cohesive — without sacrificing their playfulness. Appropriate for its debut in a season of blooming, the ban...
SLAYER’s PAUL BOSTAPH: ‘Hell Awaits’ Drum-Cam Footage Featuring PHIL DEMMEL
Drum-cam footage of SLAYER drummer Paul Bostaph performing the song “Hell Awaits” with his bandmates can be seen below. The video was apparently filmed when former MACHINE HEAD guitarist Phil Demmel filled in for SLAYER guitarist Gary Holt for four European shows in the fall of 2018 after Gary returned home to be with his dying father. In August 2020, Bostaph confirmed that he is involved in a brand new project headed up by his SLAYER bandmate Kerry King. The duo has spent the last couple of years working on music with the hopes of recording it properly once the coronavirus pandemic has subsided. The drummer opened up about his latest collaboration with King in an interview with Australia’s Riff Crew. Asked to describe the musical direction of the music he has been workin...
UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER On Russia’s Invasion Of Ukraine: ‘I Don’t Know What Kind Of Drugs’ PUTIN Is Taking
Former ACCEPT singer Udo Dirkschneider, who has enjoyed great popularity in Russia for most of his career, weighed in on the country’s invasion of Ukraine in a new interview with Belgian Jasper. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “This is a really bad feeling, I tell you. Normally it was planned that we do another really long tour in Russia and Ukraine in October. Okay, Ukraine is definitely not possible, and Russia will be possible, but I don’t wanna do that. We canceled… All the bands are canceling all the Russian dates. This is impossible. “I feel sorry for the fans, of course. I think at the moment, definitely it takes a while before you can do something like a tour again in Russia,” he continued. “I don’t know. I don’t see thi...
Original AC/DC Singer DAVE EVANS Records Cover Of ELVIS PRESLEY’s ‘Heartbreak Hotel’
It was back in 1974 when AC/DC, then fronted by Dave Evans, performed its own interpretation of “Heartbreak Hotel”, a classic hit song by Elvis Presley, which got a special mention in the newspaper review of AC/DC‘s performance at the Sydney Opera House and became such a success at every concert. And despite the talked-about intention, AC/DC has never recorded this cover. Paying tribute to AC/DC‘s upcoming 50th anniversary, Evans chose to record the song in almost the exact way the band used to perform it live. The music was recorded as a collaboration with musicians from Denmark and produced by Danish sound engineer, record producer and Grammy Award winner Flemming Rasmussen, recording engineer of the album “Difficult To Cure” by RAINBOW and producer of...
Will Butler Announces Departure from Arcade Fire
Will Butler has announced his departure from Arcade Fire. Butler, a core member of the veteran indie rock band, shared the news ahead of the band’s show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom on Saturday. “I left at the end of last year, after the new record was complete,” Butler wrote on Twitter. “There was no acute reason beyond that I’ve changed—and the band has changed—over the last almost 20 years. Time for new things.” Related Video Butler added that he was working on a new solo record and composing music for a play by David Adjmi. He also assured fans that Arcade Fire was “still my friends and family,” and thanked “anyone who’s come out to AF shows, or bought a record, or loves our music. It’s meaningful to be part of your lives. Thank you to the crew, staff, management, label people, bands,...
Bridgerton Tries to Add Some Substance to Its Decadent Style in Season 2: Review
The Pitch: When it premiered in December 2020, Netflix’s Bridgerton provided plenty of steamy romance and escapism, both of which were in short supply as the world prepared to enter the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Season 1 of the lush period drama, adapted from Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton book series, followed Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) and Simon Basset (Regé-Jean Page), the reluctant Duke of Hastings, as they went from co-conspirators to marrieds, setting Regency-era London ablaze. Their exploits, and those of the rest of the ton, were chronicled by the acerbic (and anonymous) Lady Whistledown, whose influence at times rivaled that of the Queen (Golda Rosheuvel). The second season follows the tradition of Quinn’s books and shifts the focus to a different Bridgerton: this ti...
SACRED REICH Frontman PHIL RIND Hospitalized; Philadelphia And Baltimore Shows Canceled
Arizona thrashers SACRED REICH have canceled two shows on their North American tour with SEPULTURA after frontman Phil Rind was hospitalized 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 (Saturday, March 19), Phil released the following statement via social media: “Hi everyone, I have been battling a non-Covid illness since last Sunday in Pittsburgh. I have been doing my best every night because as they say ‘the show must go on’ even though my asthma has been getting progressively worse. “I went to the hospital this morning in Philadelphia and have been admitted. As a result SACRED REICH will not be performing tonight in Philadelphia or tomorrow...
