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Rare Live Photographs of Nirvana From 1991 To Be Sold as NFTs
A series of rare live photos from Nirvana‘s early days will be sold as NFTs via Pop Legendz. The 27 never-before-seen images were shot by photographer Faith West during the band’s intimate performance at J.C. Dobbs in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 1, 1991 — just six days after Nirvana released Nevermind. A few weeks after the show, the band was catapulted into the spotlight to become one of music’s most influential groups in history. “At the club that night, the air was thick with anticipation,” West recalled. “There was a buzz of excitement that said something awesome was about to transpire. Also, there was a sense of joy emanating from Cobain in his raucous guitar licks and the transcendent longing of his vocals…I can still hear the echo of the fuzzy guitar, and feel the energy i...
Acts Of God – IMMOLATION
RATING: 9.5/10 Five years have passed since IMMOLATION‘s last album, “Atonement”. In its 30-plus years of existence, the unit hasn’t released a single subpar offering, although naturally some stand out above others. Their earliest releases, veritable classics like “Dawn of Possession” (1991) and “Here in After” (1996), are revered higher than most of what’s followed, but they’ve always been consistent and more than just a little good with their bleak, dark, anti-religious metal. The legendary, New York-based death metal machine finally returns with its 11th full-length album, “Acts of God”, their best effort since 2002’s “Unholy Cult”. Robert Vigna and Ross Dolan have been hacking away with their stri...
JERRY CANTRELL Partners With GIBSON For Two Acoustic Guitars
For the past 128 years, Gibson — the iconic American instrument brand — has been synonymous with creating and shaping sound across genres of music and generations of players. Today, Gibson has announced the release of the Jerry Cantrell “Atone” and “Fire Devil” Songwriter acoustic guitars with the legendary singer, songwriter, guitarist and ALICE IN CHAINS co-founder Jerry Cantrell. The Jerry Cantrell “Atone” and “Fire Devil” Songwriter acoustic guitars are available worldwide through authorized Gibson dealers and via www.gibson.com. Jerry Cantrell‘s guitar collection will continue across Gibson Brands including an Epiphone release coming in May of this year. Whether you’re writing a song at home, laying it down in the studio, or ...
EXHORDER On Departure Of Guitarist MARZI MONTAZERI: We ‘Were Moving In Different Directions’
The remaining members of EXHORDER have issued a statement regarding the departure of guitarist Marzi Montazeri. The Houston-based musician, who joined EXHORDER in 2017, announced his exit from the band on Monday (February 14), explaining he “decided to no longer be a part of it.” Earlier today, EXHORDER vocalist Kyle Thomas, bassist Jason VieBrooks and drummer Sasha Horn shared the following collective message via the group’s social media: “Some of you may have seen Marzi Montazeri‘s announcement yesterday that he no longer wants to be a part of EXHORDER. “First and foremost, we want to thank Marzi for his time and wish him well moving forward. Secondly, we want to clarify that somewhere between the process of writing the new album began and the touring ...
K.K. DOWNING ‘Would Fight’ To Have TIM ‘RIPPER’ OWENS-Era JUDAS PRIEST Albums Available
K.K. Downing says that he feels very strongly about making sure the Tim “Ripper” Owens-era JUDAS PRIEST albums are available to the public. The Ohio-based singer created two studio albums with the British heavy metal legends — 1997’s “Jugulator” and 2001’s “Demolition” — before the band reunited with Rob Halford. Asked by Jamey Jasta of “The Jasta Show” who owns the rights to LPs Owens made with PRIEST, Downing said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “It’s a good question. CMC [International Records, which released ‘Jugulator’ in the USA] and the guys that were the labels are defunct now, so the rights to the albums reverted back to us, JUDAS PRIEST.” When Jasta pressed Downing about the fact that ...
Snoop Dogg Is Making Death Row Records an NFT Label
Snoop Dogg continues to make waves in both the music industry and tech industry. With his recent acquisition of Death Row Records, the rapper is showing no signs of stopping when it comes to growing the label and combining it with the NFT world. He recently hopped on a Clubhouse room to announce that he is making his newly acquired Death Row Records an NFT label. In the Clubhouse chatroom he confirmed, “Death Row will be an NFT label. We will be putting our artists through the metaverse and through a whole other chain of music. Just like how we broke the industry when we was the first independent to be major…I want to be the first major in the metaverse so Death Row will be an NFT.” Snoop also announced that he is jumping on the cryptocurrency train and making his new album B.O.D.R (Bacc o...
Netflix Is Making a BioShock Live-Action Movie
Add BioShock to the list of video games being adapted into a movie. Netflix has announced it has partnered with BioShock publisher 2K and parent company Take-Two Interactive to create a film based on the retrofuturistic franchise. No director or actors have been attached to the project, which is being produced by Vertigo Entertainment and Take-Two. The BioShock series began in 2007 and is comprised of three main games: BioShock, 2010’s BioShock 2, and 2013’s BioShock Infinite. The first two take place during the 1960s in the fictional underwater city of Rapture, with the latter title shifting to 1912 on the floating city of Columbia. Advertisement Related Video A first-person shooter with role-playing elements, the franchise has taken inspiration from the works of Ayn Rand as well as ideal...
Coachella Drops All COVID-19 Precautions
Coachella Music Festival has quietly updated its health and safety rules and will not require proof of vaccination, a negative COVID-19 test, mask wearing, or any other pandemic precautions for the 2022 event. “In accordance with local guidelines, there will be no vaccination, testing or masking requirements at Coachella 2022,” organizers wrote. The change comes as the state of California loosens its COVID-19 rules, mandating masks only for certain indoor environments, and ordering vaccination or a negative test only for indoor events of 1,000 or more attendees. And while nearby Los Angeles County is keeping several precautions in place, Coachella is held in Riverside County, where officials are falling back on state guidelines. The CDC has repeatedly held that outdoor events are...
How to Buy Tickets to Kevin Hart’s 2022 Standup Tour
Kevin Hart has just announced his first standup tour in over four years, and it’s safe to say these comedy shows will be unforgettable. The “Reality Check Tour” spans over 30 dates and will see the comedian trekking across America from July to October, 2022. Get tickets here, and read on for more info about pre-sale codes, tour dates, and more. What is Kevin Hart’s 2022 Tour? The “Reality Check Tour” will begin in July, 2022 with standup shows in Las Vegas, Nevada. Hart will then tour throughout the country, ending the run in San Francisco, California in October, 2022. Advertisement Related Video About the tour, Hart says “I am hype as shit to go back out on tour. There is nothing better than making people laugh, I can feel the energy in the venues like caffeine pumping through my veins. I...
Fox to Develop Berkeley Breathed’s Bloom County Comic Strip into Animated Series
Animated political satire never goes out of style, which is why Fox is resurrecting Berkeley Breathed’s 1980s comic strip Bloom County for a new series. In development at FOX Entertainment, Bento Box Entertainment, Miramax, Spyglass Media Group, and Project X Entertainment, Bloom County will be co-written and executive-produced by Breathed himself. According to a press release, the series “centers on a collapsed lawyer, a lobotomized cat, and a penguin in briefs and fruit headwear living in the world’s last boarding house in the world’s most forgotten place deep in the dandelion wilds of FlyWayWayOver country. To wit, today’s America at a glance.” Breathed got his start in cartoons at The University of Texas at Austin, where his comic strip The Academia Waltz appeared in student newsp...
Coachella 2022 Will No Longer Require Masks, Vaccinations and Negative COVID-19 Tests
Organizers of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and Stagecoach Festival have announced that it will be dropping COVID-19 restrictions for its 2022 dates. Coachella’s updated Health and Safety website page stated that no vaccination, testing or masks will be required “in accordance with local guidelines.” It continued, however, that this rule could be reverted depending on “federal, state or local government agencies or instrumentalities, artists or the promoter,” and that the organizers have the right to change aspects of the festival including but not limited to “capacity, attendance procedures and entry requirements, such as proof of vaccination and/or negative COVID-19 test, and other protective measures such as requiring attendees to wear face coverings.” A COVID-19 warning ...
Nick Cannon Seemingly Wants Mariah Carey Back In New Single “Alone”
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: picture alliance / Getty It’s been six whole years since Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey finalized their divorce and they’ve both since moved on to lead fulfilling lives. Yet it seems like Nick might still have a soft spot for his former wife of seven years. The day before Valentine’s Day, the actor/rapper released a new single dubbed “Alone” in which he samples Mariah Carey’s “Love Takes Time” and he talks about wanting to rekindle a flame long extinguished rapping, “If I could have you back / If I could go back to where we started at / I know you got a new man, so I stay away and not get in the way / I stay alone, try to play it safe, but these memories I cannot erase…” While Nick could be talking about any of his five baby mamas (or even a woman he surpri...
