Alternative Music
GHOST’s Appearance On ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ Rescheduled For Next Wednesday
GHOST‘s appearance on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!”, which was originally set to take place two months ago, will finally happen this coming Wednesday, March 16. The Swedish occult rockers were scheduled to perform on the January 20 episode of the ABC show, but pulled out just hours before, explaining that they “had a bit too much going on in Reno, getting all our shit together” for the band’s U.S. co-headlining tour with VOLBEAT. GHOST‘s 26-date arena tour with VOLBEAT and special guests TWIN TEMPLE kicked off on January 25 in Reno, Nevada and concluded on March 3 in Anaheim, California. GHOST released its fifth album, “Impera”, on March 11 via Loma Vista/Concord. The band’s mastermind Tobias Forge worked on the follow-up to 2018’s &...
IRON ALLIES Feat. Former ACCEPT Members HERMAN FRANK And DAVID REECE: Debut Album To Be Released Via AFM RECORDS
IRON ALLIES, the new band featuring former ACCEPT members Herman Frank and David Reece, has entered Horus Sound Studio in Hannover, Germany to begin recording its debut album. The LP, which is being co-produced by Arne Neurand, will be released later in the year via AFM Records. Joining Frank and Reece in IRON ALLIES are bassist Donnie Van Stavern (RIOT) and drummer Francesco Jovino (U.D.O., PRIMAL FEAR, VOODOO CIRCLE, JORN). Last October, Reece discussed his collaboration with Frank in an interview with the “Heavy Metal Mayhem” radio show. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “The ironic thing about Herman and I, we played festivals many times and not even met each other. And here we are, part of the same band and their history. And we would miss each other by, ...
TED NUGENT Says KID ROCK Is An ‘Unbelievably Creative’ Critical Thinker With A ‘Great Work Ethic’
In a new interview with retired boxer David “Niño” Rodriguez, Ted Nugent was asked why he hasn’t yet collaborated on music with fellow outspoken conservative rocker Kid Rock. Ted responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Kid Rock and I communicate. In fact, he plays [the Nugent song] ‘Cat Scratch Fever’ [in concert] every night. “Here’s a great statement. Panama City, Florida, I think, is making a very profound statement because they hired me to headline the beach bash in Panama City on Friday, April 29th, and the next night they hired Kid Rock to headline the beach bash in Panama City on Saturday, April 30th,” he continued. “If they’re hiring Ted Nugent and Kid Rock, what do you think they might try to convey with th...
DARYL HALL Confirms He Was Asked To Join VAN HALEN As Replacement For DAVID LEE ROTH
Daryl Hall has confirmed that he was asked to join VAN HALEN following the departure of David Lee Roth more than three and a half decades ago. The singer-songwriter — best known as one half of HALL & OATES — broached the topic of his hypothetical link-up with VAN HALEN in a new interview with “Out Of The Box With Jonathan Clarke”, which airs on the New York radio station Q104.3. Asked if it’s true that Eddie approached him about stepping into the role of the band’s frontman after Roth‘s exit, Daryl laughed and said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Well, yeah. Actually, yes. I knew those guys [VAN HALEN] really well; we actually shared some people — crew and things like that. And Eddie came to a show with [his then-wife] Valerie [Bertinelli] — t...
SXSW Review: WeCrashed Is Too Long, But Nails the Daffy Rhythms of the WeWork Scandal
The Pitch: How far can a startup run on vibes alone? Turns out, it’s however far $47 billion gets you, at least in the smoke-and-mirrors valuations of VC culture. After all, that’s the magic number WeWork CEO Adam Neumann (Jared Leto) and his kooky wife/chief branding officer Rebekah Neumann (nee Paltrow; yes, she’s Gwyneth’s cousin, played by Anne Hathaway) used to fool Wall Street for nearly a decade into thinking they were the next great world-changing startup. But within a year’s time, WeWork’s value plummeted, the Neumanns left in disgrace — though not without a $2 billion golden parachute — and the buzziest company in America became a punchline. What led to such a precipitous fall? That’s the question WeCrashed, Apple TV+’s latest push for the startup-grifter boom (after Netflix...
Sex and Explosions Ignite The Boys Season 3 Teaser Trailer: Watch
Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys adds some edgy flair to the good versus evil core of superhero stories, and Season 3 of the satire is set to lean into this craziness. Check out the first teaser trailer for the upcoming season below. Set to a new song by Imagine Dragons called “Bones,” the first look at The Boys Season 3 puts action over words. Without a hint of dialogue, we see The Boys and The Seven engage in a lot of sex, a lot of explosions, and a lot of … barfing? Despite all the chaos between the vigilantes and Vought International, however, it all comes down to Karl Urban’s Billy Butcher and his enemy, Antony Starr’s Homelander, who flashes that unnerving grin. For those who need a refresher, Season 2 of The Boys ended with the defeat of neo-Nazi superhero Stormfron...
SOIL Has Recorded Two Albums’ Worth Of Material
SOIL bassist Tim King, who is promoting the debut album from his brutal old-school death metal outfit EMBRYONIC AUTOPSY, touched upon the status of his main band in a new interview with That Metal Interview. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “SOIL‘s still going. We just hit 25 years this January with SOIL. We’ve got two records’ worth of material recorded which we’ll put out later on this year. So that’s still a major part of my life and we still do a lot with that. That’s my main band and everything like that.” Back in December 2020, SOIL vocalist Ryan McCombs confirmed that he and his bandmates were working on the long-awaited follow-up to 2013’s “Whole” album. He said during a Headbangers Con live virtual pane...
DEF LEPPARD’s RICK ALLEN: ‘Without CHARLIE WATTS, THE ROLLING STONES Wouldn’t Have Sounded The Way That They Did’
In a new interview with the “Murray Adventures” podcast and “The MGM Morning Show With Matt Murray” on 103.7 WMGM Rocks in Atlantic City, DEF LEPPARD drummer Rick Allen spoke about his “Legends” art series, which consists of lifelike-yet-impressionistic portraits of musicians who have influenced him, from Jimi Hendrix to Freddie Mercury to John Lennon to Charlie Watts and Eddie Van Halen. Regarding how he decides which artists to paint, Rick said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “These are all musicians, singers, songwriters that have inspired me over the years. The last one that I did, I mean, to me, it was pretty obvious — Charlie Watts. If it wasn’t for Charlie Watts, I wouldn’t be on the phone with you now. I think it’s t...
DEE SNIDER: ‘Russian People Do Not Know What Their Dictator Leader Is Doing To Ukraine’
Dee Snider has urged all other artists and music fans to use everything at their disposal to combat misinformation with regard to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The TWISTED SISTER frontman said that everyone should do whatever they can to attempt to circumvent state-run Russian media and communicate directly with Russian civilians who might be unaware or unable to access independent or credible news reports. On Friday, Snider shared a four-and-a-half-minute video message on his Instagram in which he said in part: “Citizens of the free world, it is time to stand up and be counted. There’s a phrase I never thought I’d be saying in my lifetime, but here I am today saying those exact words. “A week ago when I made my post about letting the Ukrainian people use [the TW...
Watch JUDAS PRIEST Perform In Portland During Rescheduled ’50 Heavy Metal Years’ North American Tour
Fan-filmed video of JUDAS PRIEST‘s March 10 concert at Moda Center in Portland, Oregon can be seen below. The band’s setlist was as follows: 01. One Shot At Glory 02. Lightning Strike 03. You’ve Got Another Thing Comin’ 04. Freewheel Burning 05. Turbo Lover 06. Hell Patrol 07. The Sentinel 08. A Touch Of Evil 09. Rocka Rolla 10. Victim Of Changes 11. Desert Plains 12. Blood Red Skies 13. Invader 14. Painkiller Encore: 15. The Hellion / Electric Eye 16. Hell Bent For Leather 17. Breaking The Law 18. Living After Midnight The tour will conclude on April 13 at FirstOntario Centre in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Support on the trek is coming from QUEENSRŸCHE. JUDAS PRIEST was forced to postpone around two dozen North American shows on its rescheduled 50th-anniversary tour...
SXSW Review: Hulu’s The Girl From Plainville Is an Introspective Drama Uninterested in Excuses
The Pitch: Series co-creators Liz Hannah and Patrick Macmanus keep the true-crime story wave going with The Girl From Plainville, an eight-part limited series based on the “texting suicide case.” In 2014, Conrad Roy III died by suicide in Mattapoisett, Massachussets — this tragedy eventually garnered national attention as investigators learned of the role that the teen’s girlfriend, Michelle Carter, played in his death. Roy’s and Carter’s motivations were previously explored in Erin Lee Carr’s 2019 documentary, I Love You, Now Die: The Commonwealth v. Michelle Carter – and, of course, in all the preceding media coverage of the groundbreaking case. But The Girl From Plainville uses artistic license to venture deeper into the minds of these adolescents, and track how a chance meeting in Flor...
COREY TAYLOR: ‘I’m Never Doing Another Politics Book Ever Again’
During an appearance on the March 3 episode of Doug Bradley‘s “Down To Hell” show, SLIPKNOT frontman Corey Taylor was asked if he has plans to write another book. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I kind of put a pause on the books about five years ago because [my last book, 2017’s ‘America 51’] almost killed me. It was such a gnarly, gnarly experience. But I’m actually getting the itch to do another one again. And not just another one but, like, another fun [book].” Taylor went on to elaborate on why writing “America 51” was so unenjoyable for him. “That was very political,” he said. “And I won’t bore anybody with my partisan crap, but it was just the lamentations of somebody who co...
