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Whoopi Goldberg Suspended at ‘The View’ Following Holocaust Comments
Whoopi Goldberg has been suspended by ABC’s The View. The daytime panel show co-host will be off the program for two weeks after making controversial comments Monday about the Jewish people and the Holocaust in response to a local school board banning the graphic novel Maus. ABC News president Kim Godwin announced the decision in a note to staff Tuesday night. “Effective immediately, I am suspending Whoopi Goldberg for two weeks for her wrong and hurtful comments,” Godwin said. “While Whoopi has apologized, I’ve asked her to take time to reflect and learn about the impact of her comments. The entire ABC News organization stands in solidarity with our Jewish colleagues, friends, family and communities.” Explore See latest videos, charts and news “These decisions are never easy, but necessar...
Glenn Wheatley, Australian Music Icon, Dies at 74
Glenn Wheatley, the former musician who earned a place in the ARIA Hall of Fame with The Masters Apprentices before pivoting into artist management, whereupon he guided some of Australia’s most successful recording artists, including John Farnham, Little River Band and Delta Goodrem, has died at the age of 74. The music man was reportedly hospitalized with COVID-19 prior to his death Tuesday (Feb. 1) in Melbourne. Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news It was Wheatley who put all his chips on Farnham in the mid-‘80s, when the singer’s own chips were down. Wheatley engineered one of music’s great comebacks by connecting Farnham with “You’re The Voice,” a protest song written by Chris Thompson, Andy Qunta, Maggie Ryder and Keith Reid. He presented it to...
Metallica Remembers Jon Zazula: ‘Heavy Music Lost One of Its Great Champions’
Metallica has paid tribute to the late Megaforce Records co-founder Jon Zazula as the band’s father figure, and the captain of the heavy music ship. Zazula died Tuesday (Feb. 1) at the age of 69, passing a year after his wife and label co-founder Marsha Zazula. “Heavy music lost one of its great champions today when Jonny Z left this world far too soon,” reads a social post signed by the four band members. Explore Explore Metallica See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In 1982, the message continues, “when no one wanted to take a chance on four kids from California playing a crazy brand of metal, Jonny and Marsha did, and the rest, as they say, is history.” Today, Metallica is arguably the most successful metal band of all time. They’re creators of the “most...
Calexico Announce New Album El Mirador, Share Video for New Song: Watch
Calexico have announced their new album El Mirador with a video for its title track. The record is due out April 8 via Anti-. Check out the video for “El Mirador” below. In a statement, Calexico’s Joey Burns said of the new album: El Mirador is dedicated to family, friends and community. The pandemic highlighted all the ways we need each other, and music happens to be my way of building bridges and encouraging inclusiveness and positivity. That comes along with sadness and melancholy, but music sparks change and movement. In 2019, Calexico shared Years to Burn, the follow-up to their 2005 Iron & Wine collaboration In the Reins. The two groups scheduled a tour with Andrew Bird for summer 2020 before the pandemic forced its postponement. All products featured on Pitchfork are independent...
Mickey Guyton to Sing National Anthem at Super Bowl 2022
Mickey Guyton will sing “The Star Spangled Banner” at this year’s Super Bowl LVI, ahead of a halftime show that features Kendrick Lamar, Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige, and Eminem. She confirmed the news with a tweet on Tuesday (February 1), writing, “I am shook, I am grateful, I am praise dancing.” The event airs at 6:30 p.m. Eastern on February 13 on NBC, with the Los Angeles Rams facing off against the Cincinnati Bengals. Watch a 2021 Guyton performance of the national anthem below. As Rolling Stone notes, Guyton has said that watching LeAnn Rimes perform “The Star-Spangled Banner” before a baseball game was a significant inspiration behind her own decision to pursue country music. The singer-songwriter released her debut full-length, Remember Her Name, last year. The record is up f...
My Idea (Lily Konigsberg and Nate Amos) Announce Debut LP, Share New Video: Watch
Palberta’s Lily Konigsberg and Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos have announced Cry Mfer—their debut album as My Idea—with a video for the title track. It’s due out April 22 via Hardly Art. Check out the video for “Cry Mfer” below. Konigsberg and Amos have said the album represents their “collective breaking point,” and that they each decided to quit drinking after recording it. “In the moment I thought I was needing a big life change and shift, like I had been stuck in something, and I was right, I just went about it in a very wrong way,” Konigsberg said in a statement. “And now the thing that I’m needing, I’m getting, actually, which is through being sober and getting my life together. I was telling myself a lot of stuff through those lyrics that was subconscious. I thought I was talking t...
Khruangbin Announce Spring 2022 U.S. Tour
Khruangbin have announced a new stretch of springtime tour dates. Toro y Moi and Men I Trust will join them on different legs the U.S. tour, which begins in late April and wraps in mid-July. See the full list of dates below. Khruangbin’s next release is another EP with Leon Bridges, who joined them for 2020’s Texas Sun EP. It’s titled B-Sid, and it’s out February 18. After Texas Sun, the band released its third full-length album Mordechai. Khruangbin issued the mixtape project Late Night Tales at the end of 2020. All products featured on Pitchfork are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Khruangbin: Space Walk Tour 2022 Khruangbin: 04-29 Cincinnati, OH – Andrew J Brady Music Center ^04-30...
Portal Tombs – MASS WORSHIP
RATING: 9/10 Sweden’s MASS WORSHIP released one of the finest metal debuts of the last decade. The opening track on that self-titled record began with a riff so monumentally heavy that some of us are still picking bits of skull out of the furniture. The rest of the album was just as good. As a result, “Portal Tombs” has a lot to live up to. There was something instantly magical about this band’s sound: a brutal, white-knuckle midpoint between the blistered left-field hardcore of BREACH, and the buzz-saw bellicosity of Stockholm’s seminal death metal scene — it nimbly defies categorization. Second time out, MASS WORSHIP have no real reason to veer off track, and “Portal Tombs” does exactly what it needs to: reinforce how exciting this band are, via ...
TONY MARTIN Believes There’s Still An ‘Opportunity’ For BLACK SABBATH To Do Something With BILL WARD
Former BLACK SABBATH singer Tony Martin, who sang on six of the band’s albums in the late 1980s and early 1990s, was asked in a new interview with Sakis Fragos of Rock Hard Greece if he had an inkling he would be fired after the release of 1995’s “Forbidden” in order to allow guitarist Tony Iommi to reunite with SABBATH‘s fellow original members. He responded (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “I asked Tony directly. I said, ‘Are you guys planning to do something with Ozzy [Osbourne] again?’ I said, ‘Just tell me so then I can plan what I’m gonna do.’ He said, ‘No, no, no, no. It’s all just rumors.’ Yeah, right. Everybody’s talking in the business about it. My manager had told me. So I kind of knew...
Late PANTERA Drummer VINNIE PAUL’s Arlington, Texas House Can Be Yours For $750,000
Late PANTERA drummer Vinnie Paul Abbott‘s home in Arlington, Texas has just been listed for $750,000. The secluded hilltop 3,784-square-foot house, which was completed in 1995, sits on 1.5 acres and features 40-plus-foot ceilings, four bedrooms, four and a half baths, two game rooms and a secret/safe room. The home has four newer, over-sized Lennox Elite AC units and a gas-operated Generac generator. The backyard features a large pool with waterfall and a spa that spills into the pool. Two fire pits are on each end of the waterfall. Vinnie passed away on June 22, 2018 at his other home in Las Vegas at the age of 54. He died of dilated cardiomyopathy, an enlarged heart, as well as severe coronary artery disease. His death was the result of chronic weakening of the heart muscle — basic...
Hear KORN’s New Single ‘Lost In The Grandeur’
KORN‘s new single, “Lost In The Grandeur”, can be streamed below via a video animated and edited by EFFIXX. The track is taken from the band’s upcoming album, album, “Requiem”, which will arrive on February 4 via Loma Vista Recordings. Due to the effects of COVID-19 and the inability to play live shows for the first time in KORN‘s illustrious career, “Requiem” was conceived out of very different circumstances than the majority of the band’s catalogue. It is an album born of time and the ability to create without pressure. Energized by a new creative process free of time constraints, KORN was able to do things with “Requiem” that the past two decades haven’t always afforded them, such as taking additional time to ...
Michel Stern, What we know about Lisa Kudrow’s husband
Like every other normal person out there, most celebrities wish to keep their lives as private as possible and far from the hunting eyes of the media. This is usually just a mere wish because being a celebrity makes them a subject of media attention. However, some of them get close to achieving as much private life as possible. So it is safe to say that keeping up with some celebrities is no easy task. Michel Stern is one of such celebrities who leaves little or no information for the media to feed on. He has a lot going on in his life, yet not much is known about him. This article will explore the interesting life of this celebrity and French advertising businessman who is married to the popular actress Lisa Kudrow. Here, we will talk about Michel Stern’s professional career, life, and ma...
