Alternative Music
Go Behind The Scenes Of METALLICA’s ‘San Francisco Takeover’ (Video)
Last week, Metal Pilgrim traveled from Kyiv, Ukraine to San Francisco, California for METALLICA‘s 40th-anniversary concerts and to experience the METALLICA “San Francisco Takeover.” His 19-minute video report can be seen below. Says Metal Pilgrim: “The best part? Meeting so many like-minded people at the many events @Metallica organised during the Takeover, including the volunteer opportunities with All Within My Hands Foundation @AllWithinMyHandsFoundation and many parties and activities planned. “This video does not cover the METALLICA concerts as much as the events around it, yet a special episode on the concerts will be released in the future.” Featured in the video: 00:00 – Let’s go! 00:32 – MTF merch and GIVEAWAY 02:45 – Pre...
The MCU’s Marvelous Year of Representation: How 2021 Amplified New Voices and Told New Stories
With each passing year, the Marvel Cinematic Universe expands its domination over pop culture, and in 2021, the franchise made some huge new strides. Not only did Marvel start taking full advantage of both theaters and Disney+ as platforms for storytelling, delivering five new TV series in addition to four films, but there was a whole new sense of inclusion both on screen and behind the camera. With nearly every release, the MCU amplified representation of different genders, races, sexualities, and abilities like never before. To be clear, there is still a lot of progress to be made across all these categories. But the dominant force in pop culture (at least, if box office receipts are any measurement) put serious focus on ensuring that a larger contingent of the global audience feels seen...
25 Concert Tours That Make Great Last-Minute Holiday Gift Ideas
If you’re in the need of last-minute holiday presents, why not treat someone to the gift of live music? Below, we’ve highlighted 25 major tours taking place in the new year for which tickets are still available. What’s more, a majority of these tours take place at outdoor venues, so you’ll be able to enjoy a show with limited risk of exposure. If you do attend an indoor concert, however, please make sure to mask up. Also make sure to check out Consequence Shop, where all of our merch and CBD products are on sale for up to 50% off. That includes our popular Protect Live Music shirt capsule and premium face coverings, as well as GWAR’s Bud of Gods and Flower Lab CBD/Delta-8 products. Editor’s Note: By purchasing tickets via the affiliate links below, Consequence receives a portion of the tra...
Phish Postpone New Year’s Run at Madison Square Garden Due to Omicron Surge
Due to the surge of the omicron variant in New York City, Phish have postponed their New Year’s run at Madison Square Garden. The jam band legends had been scheduled to play a four-night residency at the Garden from December 29th to January 1st. Those shows have now been rescheduled for April 20th-23rd, 2022, including a three-set show (as originally planned for New Year’s Eve) on April 22nd. “The health and safety of Phish fans, our crew, and venue staff is paramount in our minds,” the band said in a statement announcing the postponement. “While Phish has played shows this year as the pandemic has continued, this variant’s ability for rapid transmission is unprecedented.” Advertisement Related Video “We are also mindful that a significant number of people travel for these shows and then r...
New Uncharted Trailer Adds a Pirates of the Caribbean Touch to the Video Game Adaptation: Watch
In the lull before Christmas really gets into gear, Sony has delivered a new trailer for what it hopes will be a new action-adventure franchise, starring its very own Spider-Man. Uncharted features Tom Holland as a young Nathan Drake, who gets swept up in a treasure hunt by his new partner Victor “Sully” Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg). The new trailer expands upon the first one by showcasing Nathan and Sully’s meet-cute, followed by them getting into some puzzle-solving adventures with a young woman named Chloe (Sophia Ali), who will presumably have more than one line of dialogue in the actual film (unlike this trailer). The hard sell here is the chemistry between Holland and Wahlberg, and to the trailer’s credit it does look like a lot of fun is in store there. Plus, for those who have missed t...
NIRVANA Files Motion To Dismiss ‘Nevermind’ Baby Lawsuit
NIRVANA has filed a motion to dismiss the recent lawsuit filed over the cover of the band’s iconic album “Nevermind”. This past August, Spencer Elden, the man who claims he was the baby featured in the image, sued the surviving members of NIRVANA as well as the estate of Kurt Cobain. Elden alleges the photo of the baby reaching for a dollar in a swimming pool violated federal child pornography statutes and argues child sexual exploitation. But NIRVANA, as well as Kurt Cobain‘s widow, Courtney Love, are asking the court to throw out the lawsuit, saying Elden‘s claim that the photograph on the “Nevermind” cover is child pornography is “not serious” and insisting that his claim is “barred by the applicable statute of limitations.R...
METALLICA’s ROBERT TRUJILLO Says ‘There Was A Certain Feeling Of Confidence’ Before First 40th-Anniversary Concert
METALLICA bassist Robert Trujillo discussed the band’s two 40th-anniversary concerts, which were held in at San Francisco’s Chase Center on December 17 and December 19, during a recent SiriusXM Mandatory Metallica and Liquid Metal live call-in roundtable, hosted by Jose Mangin, Steffan Chirazi and Spider Dan. Speaking about what it was like to go up on stage for the first of the two shows, Robert said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Here’s something that’s very helpful, and a lot of people may not know this. But James [Hetfield, METALLICA frontman] and I actually, before the show, a couple of hours before, we went up in the nosebleed seats and we watched all of the film content that was transitional into the songs for the evening. So we saw all the film...
SABATON Teases Music Video For Next Single, ‘Soldier Of Heaven’
Swedish metallers SABATON have released a teaser for the official music video for their next single, “Soldier Of Heaven”. The track is taken from the band’s tenth studio album, “The War To End All Wars”, that will be released on March 4, 2022 via Nuclear Blast Records. Written and recorded during the COVID-19 global pandemic, the concept album of 11 brand-new songs once again dives deep into the atrocities, miracles, and events tied to the early 20th century’s World War I. The tenth album of the Falun-based five-piece will be available in an impressive variety of exclusive formats, including CD, vinyl, and cassette, with most available in limited editions. “The War To End All Wars” track listing: 01. Sarajevo 02. Stormtroopers 03. Dreadnought 04. T...
METALLICA’s LARS ULRICH: 40th-Anniversary Concerts Were An ‘Otherworldly Experience’
METALLICA drummer Lars Ulrich has described the band’s 40th-anniversary concerts as an “otherworldly experience.” METALLICA‘s two 40th-anniversary shows, which were held in at San Francisco’s Chase Center on December 17 and December 19, featured different setlists. They were part of METALLICA‘s “San Francisco Takeover”, a four-day citywide celebration of the band’s 40th anniversary that also included a film festival, photo exhibit and curated lineup of smaller venue shows featuring other acts. On Wednesday (December 22), Ulrich took to his Instagram to share a few photos from the weekend, and he included the following message: “Overfuckinwhelmed!! “It’s taking me two days just to start coming down from this otherworldl...
SAXON’s BIFF BYFORD Hasn’t Made A Lot Of Lifestyle Changes Since Suffering Heart Attack
SAXON frontman Biff Byford has told Full In Blood in a new interview that he has made modest dietary changes in the two years after he suffered a heart attack and underwent an emergency triple bypass surgery. “A little bit,” he said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “I don’t eat dairy anymore. I suppose I’ll eat an occasional piece of cheese, but I don’t eat dairy anymore because of the cholesterol level thing. But pretty much [everything] else, I haven’t really changed. We’ll have a veggie week some weeks where my wife will just put vegetarian food all week, which is a bit of a change, really, and it gets rid of toxic things in your body. But I haven’t really changed that much, to tell you the truth.” The 70-year-old singer w...
COVID-19 Is Playing at My House: How LCD Soundsystem and Their Fans Gambled and Lost
LCD Soundsystem have made a career out of iconic lines, from, “Daft Punk is playing at my house,” to “I’m losing my edge,” but nothing they’ve written has been quite as prescient as, “[U]s playing the show is no way an indicator that it’s safe to attend.” The band posted those words in a December 17th statement explaining why they wouldn’t be cancelling their residency at Brooklyn Steel, despite private misgivings and a COVID-19 surge in New York City. Two days later, they finally pulled the plug, bowing to outside pressure as well as a growing unease within the band. Before that happened, scores of concert-goers may have been infected with the novel coronavirus. Consequence has spoken to over a dozen people who attended the residency, all of whom say they have had at least the first ...
James Franco Addresses Sexual Misconduct Allegations, Says He Has a Sex Addiction
James Franco recently agreed to his first interview in nearly four years, during which he addressed the sexual misconduct allegations leveled against him back in January 2018. In a sitdown with SiriusXM’s Jess Cagle, the actor claimed he is a changed man, and while he didn’t explicitly apologize, he said he’s been “doing a lot of work,” which involves being in recovery from sex addiction since 2016. Franco also continued to dismiss the accusations of sexually exploitive behavior put forth in a 2019 lawsuit from two former students of his now-defunct acting school. “There were people that were upset with me and I needed to listen,” Franco said, when asked why he has mostly remained silent about the accusations. “When something like this happens, like the natural human instinct is to just ma...
