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He’s Back: Hardwell Confirmed to Close Out Ultra Music Festival 2022 After 4-Year Hiatus
Hardwell is officially back. The Dutch dance music icon, whose abrupt 2018 retirement shook the EDM community to its core, has been confirmed as the secretive closing artist of Ultra Music Festival 2022. Prior to the announcement, organizers had been heavily teasing a Sunday performance from “one of the most iconic artists in electronic music history.” Billboard reports that Hardwell will debut new music at Ultra’s 2022 edition, describing his revamped sound as “a departure—or evolution—from his previous, commercially focused work.” The story also alludes to an album in the works, which Laidback Luke—a chart-topping dance music veteran and one of Hardwell’s many collaborators—reportedly said “is going to be incredible.” Hardwell performed at ...
SACRED REICH Frontman PHIL RIND Hospitalized; Philadelphia And Baltimore Shows Canceled
Arizona thrashers SACRED REICH have canceled two shows on their North American tour with SEPULTURA after frontman Phil Rind was hospitalized with a non-COVID-19-related illness. The trek, which kicked off on March 4 in Sacramento, California, also features support from CROWBAR and ART OF SHOCK. Earlier today (Saturday, March 19), Phil released the following statement via social media: “Hi everyone, I have been battling a non-Covid illness since last Sunday in Pittsburgh. I have been doing my best every night because as they say ‘the show must go on’ even though my asthma has been getting progressively worse. “I went to the hospital this morning in Philadelphia and have been admitted. As a result SACRED REICH will not be performing tonight in Philadelphia or tomorrow...
Ex-IRON MAIDEN Singer PAUL DI’ANNO To Be Fitted For Custom Leg Brace In Preparation For Surgery
Former IRON MAIDEN frontman Paul Di’Anno, who has been receiving lymphatic drainage treatments in Zagreb, Croatia in preparation for his upcoming knee surgery, will be fitted for a custom leg brace this coming week. Stjepan Juras, a MAIDEN fan and author of many MAIDEN-related books, who is taking care of Paul during his stay in Croatia, has provided the following update to BLABBERMOUTH.NET regarding Paul‘s condition: “Paul was originally supposed to wear a carbon orthosis that would be thin and firm and over which he could wear his sneakers. However, his condition did not allow that type of orthosis and doctors suggested an orthosis with an already fitted shoe (which would mean he would have to walk for several months with two different shoes and that didn’t seem like th...
SNOT’s MIKEY DOLING Calls Out LIMP BIZKIT’s FRED DURST Over Upcoming Tour: ‘How Dare You, Man?’
SNOT guitarist Mikey Doling has blasted LIMP BIZKIT for agreeing to take the rap artist $NOT out as one of the support acts on its spring 2022 tour. On Wednesday (March 16), LIMP BIZKIT announced that it will return to the road this April for the month-long “Still Sucks Tour”. The AEG Presents trek will kick off in the band’s former home state of Florida and will include a stop in New York City at Madison Square Garden (May 13) as well as cross-country shows in Baltimore (May 15) and Las Vegas (May 28) before concluding with a Los Angeles-area date (Ontario on May 31). LIMP BIZKIT will be supported by SCOWL, WARGASM UK, $NOT, DYING WISH and YUNG GRAVY for various shows. Earlier today, Doling shared a video message on his social media in which he called out LIMP BIZKIT fro...
Atlanta Season 3 Is the Best Sort of Television — Something Truly Unique: Review
One downside of the modern age of television is that it’s now not uncommon for some shows to take more than a year to return with new episodes. In the case of Atlanta, which debuted its second season in 2018, that wait was longer than most, but those four years were truly worth it. The Donald Glover-created series, returning for Season 3, remains as ethereal and shocking and fascinating as ever; having screened the first two installments, it’s a thrill to know that eight more are coming to engage and confound us. This will be a short review, because revealing too much about the first two episodes of the season feels like it would do a disservice to everyone involved, including the audience. But if the first two seasons of Atlanta did anything — hell, if the first few minutes of the Atlanta...
Praiz – Selfish
Check out this brand new single from Praiz titled “Selfish”, out now. Here is another amazing song titled “Selfish” from Praiz for his fans. The new record “Selfish” is taken off from his just-released album titled “Reckless“. The singer puts in a creative effort to serve something different and the result is quite impressive. You may as well listen to “Taste” a track on the album. Listen, enjoy Praiz – “Selfish” below & share. https://www.naijamusic.com.ng/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Praiz_-_Selfish_NaijaMusic.com.ng.mp3 Download
Listen to Phife Dawg’s New Posthumous Song “Forever”
The Estate of Phife Dawg, the late MC from A Tribe Called Quest, has shared a new song called “Forever.” The title track from his forthcoming posthumous solo LP is produced by DJ Rasta Root, V. Rich, and Nottz. “Forever” samples popular uses of the word “forever” in hip-hop by artists like OutKast and Wu-Tang Clan. Check out the song below. This is the third single released from Forever, following “French Kiss Deux” and “Nutshell Part 2.” The album spans 13 songs in total and features cameos from Q-Tip, members of De La Soul, Busta Rhymes, Rapsody, and Redman, among others. Forever comes out March 22 via AWAL to honor the sixth anniversary of Phife Dawg’s death. A Tribe Called Quest dropped their sixth and final album, We got it from Here… Thank You 4 Your service, back in 2016...
Will Butler Says He’s Left Arcade Fire
Will Butler has announced that he’s left Arcade Fire. The band’s longtime multi-instrumentalist and the younger brother of bandleader Win Butler broke the news on Twitter today. “I left at the end of last year, after the new record was complete,” he tweeted. “There was no acute reason beyond that I’ve changed—and the band has changed—over the last almost 20 years. Time for new things.” “I’m working on a new record; booking some shows this summer. I’m working on music for a David Adjmi play (which is so good). A few other projects percolating,” Butler continued. “Thank you to anyone who’s come out to AF shows, or bought a record, or loves our music. It’s meaningful to be part of your lives. Thank you to the crew, staff, management, label people, bands, artists, and friends who have helped b...
BEARTOOTH’s CALEB SHOMO Says METALLICA’s ‘Enter Sandman’ Still Has ‘One Of The Heaviest Riffs Of All Time’
In a recent interview with RadioactiveMike Z, host of the 96.7 KCAL-FM radio program “Wired In The Empire”, BEARTOOTH singer Caleb Shomo was asked to name the first METALLICA song he learned to play on guitar. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “Probably ‘Enter Sandman’. I’m just guessing. I know a lot of METALLICA, but if I had to bet, I would probably say ‘Sandman’. I mean, that song has just changed by life, it changed the world. That is still one of the heaviest riffs of all time. Pretty amazing.” Regarding how he first got introduced to METALLICA‘s music, Caleb said: “It was a little bit later in life, actually, surprisingly enough. I’d always had an affinity for classic rock and been a big fan of ...
TOMMY LEE’s Son DYLAN JAGGER LEE’s Band MOTEL 7 Drops ‘Headphones’ EP
Los Angeles-based duo MOTEL 7, which features in its ranks Dylan Jagger Lee, the 24-year-old son of MÖTLEY CRÜE drummer Tommy Lee and Pamela Anderson, has just released a new EP, “Headphones”. For Dylan Jagger Lee and Anton Khabbaz, their larger body of work features a diverse array of sonic references and emotions primed for the car stereo on the Interstate. The “Headphones” EP spans genre and sound — encompassing modern alt-pop and tinges of hip-hop accents to the breezy sounds of 2000s indie/alt rock — taking listeners on an endless daydream. Khabbaz states about the EP: “Our EP ‘Headphones’ is a listening experience. Not a single second thought on any lyric or production choice — everything was first instinct. We literally wrote whatever we fel...
AARON LEWIS Questions America’s Support For Ukraine: ‘Maybe We Should Listen To What VLADIMIR PUTIN Is Saying’
STAIND frontman Aaron Lewis has seemingly embraced the popular belief among conspiracy theorists that Russian president Vladimir Putin is attacking Ukraine to destroy the Deep State, a secret part of government they believe is on a mission undermine former U.S. president Donald Trump. The 49-year-old Lewis, an outspoken conservative rocker who reinvented himself as a solo country artist in the last decade, voiced his views on the war in Ukraine before performing his single called “Am I The Only One” during his March 17 concert at at Vern Riffe Center in Portsmouth, Ohio. He told the crowd (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “So, I’m not gonna go into some big get-myself-in-trouble dissertation. All I’m gonna say is this: question everything. Everything that ...
RICH WARD Has No Problem Being ‘The Number Two Guy’ In FOZZY
In a new interview with Darren Paltrowitz, host of the “Paltrocast With Darren Paltrowitz”, FOZZY guitarist Rich Ward spoke about his love of legendary VAN HALEN singer David Lee Roth. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I think David Lee Roth is the best frontman that rock and roll has ever seen, and I think you could easily make that argument. And I think Bruce Dickinson [IRON MAIDEN] is in the argument in the Top Five. ‘Cause there’s people who they’re just… There’s five incredible or four incredible musicians but you can’t stop looking at the one person. That’s when you know… “I did a band called ADRENALINE MOB for, like, a year. And I consider myself an A-lister entertainer on guitar; I grew up with my heroes… And ...
