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HBO Teases New Lana Del Rey Song From the Euphoria Soundtrack
Considering HBO’s smash drama Euphoria follows the lives of troubled, indulgent teens, it’s honestly surprising it’s taken the show this long to include a song by the patron saint of troubled indulgence herself: Lana Del Rey. The official Euphoria Twitter account has shared a clip previewing the next episode, soundtracked to a new song by Del Rey. While the video is just shy of a minute, that’s still long enough to indicate that this new song is tried-and-true Del Rey: Sweeping contralto vocals, an arpeggiated guitar riff, and an overall sense of heartache. This episode — Season 2, episode 3 — is set to air next Sunday. It seems to offer some important backstory on Nate Jacobs’ strict father, Cal, whose salacious habits have threatened to disrupt his family. Watch the Euphor...
Brian Cox Reveals He Turned Down Roles in Game of Thrones and Pirates of the Caribbean
These days, Brian Cox may be most well-known for playing tyrannical patriarch Logan Roy, but he’s revealed in a new excerpt from his upcoming memoir that he turned down parts in famous fare like Game of Thrones and Pirates of the Caribbean. In the pages of Putting the Rabbit in the Hat, which hits bookstores on Tuesday, the Succession actor dishes that he was originally offered the part of Robert Baratheon in the first season of the HBO fantasy hit. “I know very little about ‘Game of Thrones’ so I can’t tell you whether or not he was an important character, and I’m not going to Google it just in case he was, because I turned it down,” he writes in a preview shared by Esquire. “Why? Well, Game of Thrones went on to be a huge success and everybody involved earned an absolute fortune, of cour...
THE RASMUS Releases New Single ‘Jezebel’
Finnish rock band THE RASMUS recently entered Finland’s annual Eurovision selection contest, “Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu” (UMK; The New Music Competition). The band has just released its Eurovision entry bid and new single, “Jezebel”, via Playground Music. “Jezebel” was co-written and produced by Desmond Child, who collaborated with THE RASMUS on their seventh studio album “Black Roses”. Child is responsible for formulating some of rock’s biggest hits, with co-writer and production credits on iconic songs by KISS, BON JOVI, AEROSMITH and ALICE COOPER, to name a few. Singer Lauri Ylönen comments: “It was awesome to work with Desmond again. He really knows how to put a hit song together. “‘Jezebel’ is about a gi...
SOILWORK Announces New Bassist RASMUS EHRNBORN
Swedish metallers SOILWORK have announced the addition of bassist Rasmus Ehrnborn to their ranks. The band states: “We are pleased to finally welcome Rasmus Ehrnborn to the SOILWORK family and announce him as our official bass player and full-time member of the band. “Rasmus has been onstage with us ever since the 2019 ‘Verkligheten’ campaign and recorded our EP ‘A Whisp Of The Atlantic’ as well as our upcoming album that is due this year. Rasmus is a world-class musician and has truly become an important member of the band, and we look forward to seeing what the future holds for this new constellation”. Ehrnborn adds: “For me, joining SOILWORK as a full-time member is a bit of a dream come true as I’ve been a big fan of the band for ma...
Watch DEE SNIDER Perform TWISTED SISTER Classics At Florida’s ROKISLAND FEST
Fan-filmed video of TWISTED SISTER singer Dee Snider‘s solo performance on Sunday, January 16 at RokIsland Fest in Key West, Florida can be seen below. According to Setlist.fm, the setlist was as follows: 01. I Gotta Rock (Again) 02. The Kids Are Back (TWISTED SISTER song) 03. You Can’t Stop Rock ‘N’ Roll (TWISTED SISTER song) 04. Stay Hungry (TWISTED SISTER song) 05. Burn In Hell (TWISTED SISTER song) 06. The Beast (TWISTED SISTER song) 07. We’re Not Gonna Take It (TWISTED SISTER song) 08. Become The Storm 09. The Price (TWISTED SISTER song) 10. I Wanna Rock (TWISTED SISTER song) 11. Stand 12. Real Wild Child (Wild One) / Rock and Roll 13. White Christmas (Irving Berlin cover) 14. Highway To Hell (AC/DC cover) Dee‘s fifth solo album, “Leave A Scar...
THE OFFSPRING Drops New Episode Of ‘Cockpit Karaoke’ Featuring ‘Let The Bad Times Roll’
THE OFFSPRING has dropped another episode of “Cockpit Karaoke”, a video series featuring frontman Bryan “Dexter” Holland and guitarist Kevin “Noodles” Wasserman singing along to some of the band’s biggest hits from inside a private jet that’s being flown by Holland, who is a licensed pilot. This time, Dexter and Noodles have opted to tackle “Let The Bad Times Roll”, the title track of THE OFFSPRING‘s latest album. When “Cockpit Karaoke” was first launched last July — featuring the duo singing “Come Out And Play”, with the “Keep ‘Em Separated Guy” along for the ride — Holland told SPIN: “We know everyone’s heard of ‘Carpool Karaoke’, but ‘Cockpit Karaoke&...
PETA Blasts Kanye and The Game’s Cover Art Depicting Skinned Monkey for New Single “Eazy”
Kanye West and The Game’s new single “Eazy” isn’t just making waves for its Pete Davidson diss. The song’s artwork, which features a skinned monkey, has been condemned by the animal rights organization PETA. “MY LIFE WAS NEVER EAZY,” both artists captioned the artwork, which features the flayed primate against a blood-red background, ahead of the song’s release. Inexplicably, The Game’s original post was flagged by Instagram as “graphic or violent content” while West’s has not been given the same warning as of press time. “The photo is reminiscent of the monkeys PETA has found, sometimes heads, sometimes hands, sometimes the whole body, in meat markets around the world and it makes it clear that when you remove the fur you can’t miss that there’s a person in there, that they are fellow pri...
Geese Perform “Low Era” on Colbert: Watch
Geese landed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert on Friday night, where they performed “Low Era.” The track comes from the buzzy Brooklyn-based quintet’s debut album, Projector. Watch the replay below. Later this month, Geese will head out on their first official headlining tour, starting with a show at Pittsburgh’s Club Cafe on January 21. The multi-country trek — which also includes stops in the U.K. and Canada — carries on through the middle of spring, when it closes with a hometown show at New York’s Bowery Ballroom on April 14th. Afterward, they’ll serve as support for Spoon on their own upcoming headlining tour. You can get tickets here. Check out our Artist of the Month feature on Geese, and watch the band play a game of “Band or Sham.” Advertisement [embedded content] Share this:...
Watch NITA STRAUSS Perform In Harrisburg During ‘Winter Wasteland’ Tour
Fan-filmed video footage of Nita Strauss‘s January 15 performance at the Harrisburg Midtown Arts Center in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania can be seen below. The fall 2021 leg of Nita‘s “Winter Wasteland” tour kicked off on November 10 in New Orleans, Louisiana and concluded on December 18 in Angola, Indiana. Earlier this month, Nita spoke to Terrie Carr of the Morristown, New Jersey radio station 105.5 WDHA about the progress of the writing and recording sessions for her follow-up to 2018’s “Controlled Chaos” solo debut. She said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “The album is almost finished being recorded. We are just waiting on a couple of singers. Guitars are done, drums, bass — everything is finished. “This is my first time collabora...
TED NUGENT Says He Doesn’t Take His Exclusion From ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME Personally: ‘I Don’t Need It’
Ted Nugent says that he doesn’t take his exclusion from the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame personally. The conservative rocker, who been eligible for the honor as a solo artist since 2000, has enjoyed a remarkably successful and eventful musical career over the past five decades, but his music is increasingly overshadowed by his political outbursts. Asked in a recent interview with The Real Music Observer about the validity of the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame considering that a number of rappers and non-rock artists have been inducted while other deserving acts have been overlooked, Nugent said in part (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “When I criticize the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame… Let’s take me out of the equation. Let’s say I don’t qualify — which is ridicu...
UDO DIRKSCHNEIDER Defends His Decision To Continue Performing ACCEPT Material With U.D.O.: People ‘Still Wanna Hear These Songs’
Nearly seven years after announcing that he would embark on a special tour during which he would perform ACCEPT songs one last time under the DIRKSCHNEIDER banner before closing that chapter for good, former ACCEPT frontman Udo Dirkschneider is continuing to play ACCEPT material at select shows, including at the September 18, 2020 U.D.O. concert in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, which was released on DVD and Blu-ray in March 2021. Speaking to El Lado Oscuro about why the ACCEPT tracks are still finding their way into the U.D.O. setlist, Udo said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I was doing DIRKSCHNEIDER for nearly three years and played only ACCEPT songs for three years — I think nearly three hundred shows or whatever. And that was also not planned. It was normally planned to do maybe 10, ...
HEART’s ANN WILSON Releases Music Video For Her Cover Version Of ALICE IN CHAINS’ ‘Rooster’
HEART‘s Ann Wilson has released a music video for her cover version of the ALICE IN CHAINS classic “Rooster”. You can now watch it below. Wilson performed her version of “Rooster” when ALICE IN CHAINS was presented with the Museum Of Pop Culture (MoPOP) Founders Award in December 2020. “Rooster” is also the B-side on Ann‘s limited-edition 45rpm single, available for purchase at AnnWilson.com. In a December 2020 interview with the Seattle Times, Ann stated about her version of “Rooster”: “I wanted to remain true to the song as much as possible, but I wanted to make it my own. But really, honoring the original spirit of the song, which is cockroaches and flies and all this kind of stuff. [Laughs]. Before I knew what form the M...
