Alternative Music
SOULFLY Once Again Enlists FEAR FACTORY’s DINO CAZARES For February/March 2022 U.S. Tour
FEAR FACTORY‘s Dino Cazares will once again play guitar for SOULFLY on the Max Cavalera-fronted outfit’s upcoming U.S. tour. He previously performed with SOULFLY on the group’s last U.S. run of dates, which took place in August and September of 2021. SOULFLY will kick off its 35-date U.S. tour on February 7 in Las Vegas, Nevada. The trek will make stops in Seattle, Minneapolis, Nashville, and Baton Rouge before concluding in Gallup, New Mexico on March 19. Joining the band for select dates are SHORT FUSE and 200 STAB WOUNDS. Cavalera comments: “SOULFLY would like to welcome back our brother/legend Dino Cazares to share the stage once again with us! Round One was amazing! The Tribe in other cities will now get the chance to see this epic lineup, playing classic trax ...
SAMMY HAGAR & THE CIRCLE Announce ‘Crazy Times’ Summer 2022 Amphitheater Tour
Rock And Roll Hall Of Famer Sammy Hagar has announced the first dates of his “Crazy Times” North American summer amphitheater tour. Hagar will be joined by his best-selling rock supergroup THE CIRCLE, featuring fellow VAN HALEN alum and Rock Hall inductee Michael Anthony; Grammy Award-winning drummer Jason Bonham; and Vic Johnson, Hagar‘s longtime guitar virtuoso. Special guests GEORGE THOROGOOD & THE DESTROYERS will also join the entire tour, which is produced by Live Nation and presented by Hagar‘s portfolio of spirits — Sammy’s Beach Bar Cocktail Co., Santo Tequila and Beach Bar Rum. The “Crazy Times” tour kicks off in Bridgeport, Connecticut on Friday, June 10 at Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater and continues through Saturday, September 10 ...
Sundance Review: jeen-yuhs Paints a Humanizing Portrait of Kanye West’s Beginnings
This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The Pitch: Before his marriage to (and subsequent divorce from) Kim Kardashian, before his abortive 2020 presidential campaign, before the wild tweets and outrageous behavior that would define his public persona in the 2020s, there was just Kanye West and the music. From the beginning, the Atlanta-born, Chicago-raised producer turned rapper knew he was going to be one of the greatest musicians of all time; his first album, 2004’s The College Dropout, is studded with lines to that effect (“I was born to be different”). But it took the world a while to catch up with his ambition, and the problems didn’t stop there even after he finally broke through. By his side for the last twenty years was Clarence “Coodie” S...
Tucker Carlson is “Totally Turned Off” by “Less Sexy” Female M&M’s
The M&M’s “more inclusive” rebrand stirred up a lot of reaction this week, but no one is angrier about it that Tucker Carlson. The Fox News host dedicated an entire segment on his eponymous show, Tucker Carlson Tonight, to rant and rave about the M&M’s gang’s new look — specifically directing his ire at the changes in the female M&M’s. (Ms. Green traded her go-go boots for a pair of sneakers, while Ms. Brown’s heels were lowered to a sensible, more professional height.) “M&M’s will not be satisfied until every last cartoon character is deeply unappealing and totally androgynous. Until the moment you wouldn’t want to have a drink with any one of them. That’s the goal,” Carlson opined. “When you’re totally turned off, we’ve achieved equity; they’ve won.” Advertisement Related...
JETHRO TULL’s IAN ANDERSON: Coronavirus Is ‘Not Going Away’
Progressive rock and roll legend Ian Anderson, founding member of JETHRO TULL, spoke to “The Five Count” radio show about the prospect of returning to the road while the pandemic is still raging in most parts of the world. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I don’t think you’re looking at what I’m looking at in terms of the infection rates throughout many countries I’m [supposed to be] performing in, including [the U.S.], where you’ve actually had record infection rates of all time since the beginning of the pandemic, and the same thing applies, as of today, in Italy [and] in Germany. In the U.K., we’re down to, actually, 50 percent of the daily infection rates compared to a couple of weeks ago. And that’s kind of good...
KING’S X’s Gay Frontman DOUG PINNICK ‘Begged God’ To Make Him Straight
In a new interview with “The Chuck Shute Podcast”, KING’S X frontman Doug “Dug” Pinnick talked about his years in the metal Christian closet and the relief he felt after making a clean break with religion. “Being told that if you’re gay, it’s an abomination, and God hates that more than anything else other than blasphemy of the Holy Spirit,” he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “According to the Bible, a man shall not lay down with another man; it is an abomination. So I’m told that all my life and I’m gay. So I wouldn’t tell anybody. One time I decided, ‘Well, I’m gonna do like Jesus did: I’m gonna go fast for three days and ask God to change me.’ And I went and sat in a trailer ...
ANTHRAX’s SCOTT IAN Pays Tribute To His Father-In-Law MEAT LOAF: ‘There Are So Many Stories To Tell’
ANTHRAX guitarist Scott Ian has paid tribute to his father-in-law, iconic rock singer Meat Loaf, who died on Thursday (January 20) at the age of 74. Earlier today, Ian took to his social media to write: “There are so many stories to tell, and I know they will all be told over time. For now, what I know is that Meat‘s legacy will live on through his family – Pearl, Amanda and Revel. Their forever love for their father/grandfather (Papa Meat) outweighs the heaviness of their hearts. “Thank you to everyone for the outpouring of love, we feel it. “I love you Meat.” Ian and his wife, Meat‘s daughter Pearl Aday, celebrated their eleventh wedding anniversary on January 15. Scott and Pearl met in 1999 when ANTHRAX was out on the “Maximum Rock” ...
MÖTLEY CRÜE’s NIKKI SIXX: ‘I Love Being Sober For Many Reasons’
MÖTLEY CRÜE bassist Nikki Sixx, who celebrated the 20th anniversary of his getting sober last July, spoke about his journey in a new interview with Fox News. He said: “I love being sober for many reasons. Somebody told me recently, ‘Man, you look pretty good with everything you’ve been through.’ [Laughs] It was a journey. I was six years sober. I didn’t quite get it. I mean, I got it, but I slipped and went out one day and then I was four years sober. And then I slipped. I didn’t want to go back and forth. I checked myself into rehab 20 years ago because I wanted to get it. And then I wanted to pass that message on. I want them to see what recovery can look like.” Sixx struggled with substance abuse for years and was even supposedly declared clinic...
Sundance Review: Director Amy Poehler Gets to the Heart of Two Entertainment Pioneers with Lucy and Desi
This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The Pitch: I Love Lucy is so inextricably tied to pop culture that many of its trademarks are still recognizable today, over seventy years since the show first aired. The central duo, brought to life by Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, has been an object of fascination for almost as long — look at Aaron Sorkin‘s current project, Being the Ricardos, which has the edge in flashiness thanks to the star power of Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem. Director Amy Poehler‘s thoughtful documentary on the subject has one extremely important thing Sorkin’s series lacks, though — access to the real thing. Thanks to a treasure trove of audio tapes and home movies shared by the daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, Lucie Arnaz, Luc...
Sundance Review: Ramin Bahrani Tests the Conscience of the American Id in 2nd Chance
This review is part of our coverage of the 2022 Sundance Film Festival. The Pitch: America is a land of mythmaking: if you’re savvy and lucky (and often, unscrupulous) enough, you can carve out a legend of your own design. That’s what happened to Richard Davis, the oddball inventor of the bulletproof vest, who spun a tall tale about self-defense in a Michigan alleyway into a million-dollar company selling protective body armor to America’s police and military forces. A blustering showman with no small sense of spectacle, Davis hawked his wares with, as one flyer declares in bold letters, “SEX & VIOLENCE”: amateur films that featured everything from comedy skits to bikini-clad women to schlocky fictional shootouts that make Samurai Cop look like Dirty Harry. Oh, and he shot hi...
Watch ADRIAN SMITH + RICHIE KOTZEN Perform In Las Vegas
Adrian Smith and Richie Kotzen‘s project SMITH/KOTZEN played the second show of its U.S. West Coast tour last night (Saturday, January 22) at Count’s Vamp’d in Las Vegas, Nevada. Joining Smith and Kotzen as part of their touring band is Richie‘s wife, internationally acclaimed bass player Julia Lage, formerly of the Latin Grammy-nominated Brazilian rock band BARRA DE SAIA. With a strong pedigree in rock, Lage has played alongside the likes of Pat Travers, Elliot Easton (THE CARS), Nuno Bettencourt (EXTREME) and Mark McGrath (SUGAR RAY). In addition, SMITH/KOTZEN has enlisted drummer Bruno Valverde of ANGRA for the U.S. West Coast dates. Fan-filmed video footage of the Las Vegas concert, including SMITH/KOTZEN‘s rendition of the IRON MAIDEN classic “Waste...
K.K. DOWNING: How I Came Up With Idea For JUDAS PRIEST’s Twin-Guitar Sound
Former JUDAS PRIEST guitarist K.K. Downing spoke to “The Rock Show With Lee Graham” about how he came up with the idea of adding a second guitarist to the band’s early lineup, thereby creating the legendary twin-guitar sound that is synonymous with the Rob Halford-fronted outfit. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “We were just a four-piece for quite a long time, really. And that particular period kind of set a precedent, I think, for everything that I thought was in my mind as best as I could do it, really. The goal was to be heavy, whatever that meant. And what it really meant was to be emotional with attitude and to be different to what other people were doing, because what other people were doing had a different target audience. So kind of that’...
