Alternative Music
Pink Floyd and David Gilmour Pull Music from Streaming Services in Russia and Belarus
Pink Floyd are removing all of their music from 1987 onwards from streaming services in Russia and Belarus to take a stand against Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Former lead singer David Gilmour is pulling all of his solo recordings as well. The Pink Floyd albums being removed include A Momentary Lapse of Reason, the band’s first without founding member Roger Waters, its 1994 follow-up The Division Bell, and 2014’s The Endless River, as well as a handful of live albums and box sets. The group’s timeless classics, Dark Side of the Moon and The Wall, will remain available, as well as the trove of 1970s-era live albums that were quietly uploaded to streaming services in late December. Both Gilmour and Waters have spoken out against Russia on social media. Earlier this month, Gil...
DAVE MUSTAINE Says JAMES LOMENZO Was ‘Obvious Choice’ To Rejoin MEGADETH Following DAVID ELLEFSON’s Dismissal
In a new interview with Loudwire, MEGADETH‘s Dave Mustaine said that the plan is still for the band’s sixteenth studio album, “The Sick, The Dying And The Dead”, to be released this summer. “I sure hope so,” he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “I think it’s July 8th. I think that was the latest we heard for a release date. I think it could possibly be scooted forward a little bit, but I think that would actually be worse than if it stayed where it was at. You need every little bit of time to let people get everything all set up with all this COVID shit. It’s been really difficult to ship anything, let alone records.” Regarding the musical direction of the new MEGADETH material and how the recent return of bassist James L...
STABBING WESTWARD Drops Music Video For New Single ‘Ghost’
The much-anticipated STABBING WESTWARD album “Chasing Ghosts” will be released on March 18, marking the influential industrial rock band’s first new LP in more than 20 years. And today, the group tides over fans with the release of a new music video for its latest single, “Ghost”. Created by frontman Christopher Hall, the video is a gripping art piece featuring all four band members — also including co-founder Walter Flakus (keyboards/programming) as well as Carlton Bost (guitars and programming) and Bobby Amaro (drums) — in their home studios. Fans who buy the physical or digital edition of the single will be gifted with several additional tracks including remixes of “Ghost” led by Hall and Assemblage 23 along with a reworking of early hit “...
RUSH Releases Official Music Video For ‘YYZ’ From ‘Moving Pictures – 40th Anniversary’
RUSH has just released the official music video for “YYZ” from the upcoming “Moving Pictures – 40th Anniversary” set. Check it out below. On April 15, UMe/Mercury and Anthem Records label groups continue the extensive RUSH 40th-anniversary album series with new, expanded editions of the band’s groundbreaking 1981 release “Moving Pictures”, embodying its well-deserved classic album status. “Moving Pictures – 40th Anniversary” will be available to fans in six distinct configurations, including the (1) Super Deluxe Edition, (2) three-CD Deluxe Edition, (3) five-LP Deluxe Edition, (4) one-LP Edition, (5), Digital Deluxe Edition, and (6) Dolby Atmos Digital Edition and can be pre-ordered here. “Moving Pictures”, RUSH&...
KORN’s RAY LUZIER Says It’s ‘Very Weird’ Not Having FIELDY Out On The Road With The Band
KORN drummer Ray Luzier spoke to Sakis Fragos of Greece’s Rock Hard magazine about the current status of the band’s bassist, Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu. Fieldy announced last June that he would sit out KORN‘s recent tour in order to “heal” after “falling back” on some of his “bad habits.” Ray said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Bands are like marriages, especially a band of brothers that’s been together as long as KORN has been. There’s a lot of things you deal with. You’re dealing with your personal family things you have at home, with loved ones getting sick and elderly people. Everybody has the same problems in that effect. But when you get people together as long as KORN has, you’re go...
Karate: The Bed Is in the Ocean
From the opening lines, Karate set the scene. “So quiet,” Geoff Farina sings in a determined voice, “I can hear that the refrigerator is on.” Just like that, less than 10 seconds into The Bed Is in the Ocean, you’re right there with him. The room hushes; your attention heightens; things you normally overlook rush into screaming focus. Over the span of the Boston trio’s six studio albums, they transformed from a typical 1990s post-hardcore outfit into something harder to pin down, a rock band guided entirely by emotion and atmosphere. To cap off their brief career, their final recording before disbanding in 2005 was a cover of “A New Jerusalem” by Talk Talk frontman Mark Hollis: a patron saint for this type of career-long journey toward silence. The latest entry in a vital reissue series fr...
Song of the Week: The Black Keys Bring the Electrified Funk With “Wild Child”
Song of the Week breaks down and talks about the song we just can’t get out of our head each week. Find these songs and more on our Spotify Top Songs playlist. For our favorite new songs from emerging artists, check out our Spotify New Sounds playlist. This week, The Black Keys remind us why they’re one of the most reliable rock bands in the world. After last year’s love letter to Mississippi Hill Country Blues Delta Kream, The Black Keys have returned with full force. This week, the Akron, Ohio duo of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney have announced their eleventh studio album, Dropout Boogie, and shared the lead single, the thumping “Wild Child.” Dropout Boogie will be released on May 13th, a day before the 20th anniversary of their debut album The Big Come Up, and...
Peaky Blinders OST on Blood-Red Vinyl Has Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Jack White, Radiohead
After six seasons, Peaky Blinders’ original soundtrack is finally getting the vinyl treatment via UMe. To celebrate the Cillian Murphy-starring drama’s final season, which is currently airing on the BBC, the album is set to be pressed on blood-red vinyl in a 3-LP package that drops May 27th. Across 49 tracks, the OST will feature two versions of the show’s sinister theme song “Red Right Hand” — one by original artists Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and another by PJ Harvey — as well as tracks by Jack White (“Love Is Blindness”), Dan Auerbach (“The Prowl”), Arctic Monkeys (“Do I Wanna Know?), Radiohead (“You and Whose Army?”), David Bowie (“Lazarus”) and more, along with lines of dialogue from the first five seasons of the series. “The Peaky Blinders story and the music we use a...
Greg Daniels on How Jim and Pam’s Romance on The Office Inspired Season 2 of Upload
“You’re familiar with my last two years of life, then,” is how Greg Daniels responded when Consequence told him, at the beginning of a Zoom interview, that I’d seen both new seasons of his current TV shows: The Netflix original comedy Space Force, which he co-created with Steve Carell, and the latest installment of Upload, the futuristic rom-com now making its debut on Prime Video. Both seasons are second seasons consisting of seven episodes each, and both were shot with, as Daniels explains below, a lot of the same crew up in Vancouver, Canada. But while Space Force is a workplace comedy set within a satirical version of America’s newest branch of the armed services, Upload is first and foremost a love story. That’s the element which made Daniels excited about telling the story of a not-t...
The White House Briefs TikTok Stars on Ukraine Crisis
National Security Council staffers and White House press secretary Jen Psaki gathered 30 TikTok stars via Zoom Thursday, March 10th for a briefing on the war between Russia and Ukraine. Since Russia invaded Ukraine late last month, TikTok became an unlikely source of real-time information for millions around the world. While the app has proven to be a useful tool for reporters, its algorithm has also harbored dangerous misinformation and Russian propaganda. Psaki led the briefing alongside Matt Miller, a special adviser for communications at the White House National Security Council. In a recording obtained by The Washington Post, Biden officials emphasized the influence these creators have in online discussions surrounding the crisis. “We recognize this is a critically important aven...
Former W.A.S.P. Guitarist CHRIS HOLMES Begins Chemo And Radiation Treatment For Throat And Neck Cancer
Former W.A.S.P. guitarist Chris Holmes has begun undergoing chemotherapy and radiation treatments in his battle with cancer in throat and neck. Earlier today (Friday, March 11), the 63-year-old musician’s wife and manager, Cathy-Sarah Holmes, who first shared the news of his diagnosis in a social media post last month, issued the following update on his condition: “Chris started the first chemo (he will have 3 rounds) last Monday. They don’t let me sleep at the hospital then at 8pm I had to leave it was difficult. Chris said to the doctor ‘Do you know in 10 years it is the first time my wife and I are separated’ but when I arrived the next morning with a big smile he said ‘I missed you’. He started also his radiation every day from Monday to Friday...
HENRY ROLLINS Has ‘Never Regretted’ His Decision To Stop Making Music
In a new interview with Andy Hall of the Des Moines, Iowa radio station Lazer 103.3, punk rock icon Henry Rollins once again discussed his decision to stop making music 15 years ago after spending well over a decade recording and touring with ROLLINS BAND, his alt-rock powerhouse. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I had no more lyrics. I no longer thought in lyrical form. If you made me sit down and write a song, I’d have to write it like someone who just likes listening to the radio or make something rhyme. ‘Love — dove…’ Hmmm. A chorus? Oh. No. Call Paul McCartney, ’cause I’m not him. And so one day, it was just over. “I’m not a musician. I can’t play an instrument,” he continued. “I can pick them up and carry...
