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Mötley Crüe Officially Name John 5 as Mick Mars’ Replacement in Touring Lineup
Mötley Crüe have officially named Rob Zombie guitarist John 5 as a new member of their touring lineup. He replaces founding member Mick Mars, who retired from touring on Wednesday (October 26th) due to his ongoing battle with the degenerative disease Ankylosing Spondylitis. John 5 had been rumored to take Mars’ place, even before the latter officially announced his retirement. In recent days, John 5 posted pictures of himself hanging out with Mötley Crüe members Tommy Lee, Nikki Sixx, and Vince Neil during a celebration of Lee’s 60th birthday. In the statement that Mars’ representative issued on Wednesday night, it was made clear that Mars would still “continue as a member of the band,” but would no longer play shows with them. However, the Crüe’s statement on Thursday (October 27th) reads...
Twitter User Dupes Everyone Into Thinking Andre The Giant Is Biblical Figure Joseph
Written By D.L. Chandler , Senior Editor Posted 1 hour ago @dlchandler123 D.L. Chandler is a veteran of the Washington D.C. metro writing scene, working as a journalist, reporter, and culture critic. Initially freelancing at iOne Digital in 2010, he officially joined the iOne team in 2017 where he currently works as a Senior Editor for Cassius Life and Hip-Hop Wired. D.L. covers a variety of topics including breaking news, politics, Hip-Hop music and culture, fashion, and Black history. He currently heads the SPIRIT.ED column for Cassius Life, which focuses on adult beverages and their history. D.L. has worked in the past for MTV News, Billboard, and several other publications. His first big break in journalism came with the now-defunct Politically Black in 1999, the nation’s first B...
Mining Metal: Abduction, Daeva, Faceless Burial, Forlesen, God Alone, MAL, The Otolith, and SUMAC/Keiji Haino
Every month, I could write to you all about how the selection process for this column is hard. When you first sit down to do something like this, there’s a hunger to write about all the bands that really get your engines going, to finally get to make people outside of your circle hear the things you’ve rehearsed in your head to pitch all this music you love to others. But as the months (and now years) creep on, you start finding that, well, those bands keep putting out music and a lot of it has stayed pretty good, but now new bands have joined the pack, and oh that’s a new label, and I’ve never even heard of this scene before, and wow these classic bands came back and put out a really special release, and… So sometimes the choices are less based on pure quality as other paradigms. One of t...
UPSAHL Announces New EP Sagittarius, Shares “Into My Body”: Stream
UPSAHL is set to celebrate her sign with a new EP called Sagittarius, out on December 9th via Arista Records. As a preview, she’s shared the new single, “Into My Body,” and its accompanying music video. Each track on the project represents a different quality found in Sagittarians, whether it’s the inward reflection of her previous single, “Antsy,” or the reclamation of self-confidence found in “Into My Body.” Over uptempo pop production, UPSAHL lets loose with lyrics like, “I don’t need anyone on me/ Just serotonin rushing to my head.” Watch the music video for “Into My Body” below. “I wrote ‘Into My Body’ at the beginning of the summer after getting back from almost 6 months of touring,” UPSAHL explained in a statement. “For the first time in a while, I wasn’t surrounded by chaos an...
Rihanna – Lift Me Up (Wakanda Forever)
It’s official, Rihanna drops the first single of the year titled – Lift Me Up. The first new single from Rihanna since her last appearance in 2016 is unveiled as “Lift Me Up.” It’s one of the soundtracks for the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever Marvel film. The song also serves as a tribute to the incredible life and legacy of Chadwick Boseman, the actor of the first Black Panther movie who died in 2020 at the age of 43. Tems as a co-writer of the song said in a press release: “After chatting with Ryan and hearing his idea for the song and the movie, I wanted to write something that depicted a warm embrace from all the people I’ve lost in my life, she added. With an impressive performance from Rihanna on the song, Tems was glad as she sees her as a role model. Listen and share Rihanna ...
Machine Gun Kelly Plays an Anguished Rock Star in Meta ‘Taurus’ Trailer
“Do you think rock stars are special people?” That’s the question that kicks off the trailer for Taurus, the upcoming music industry drama starring Machine Gun Kelly. In the video, released Thursday (Oct. 27), the musician otherwise known as Colson Baker plays Cole, a depressed musician on the verge of self-destructing amid his seemingly glamorous L.A. lifestyle. As the events of the trailer get increasingly bleak, Kelly’s character begins writing new music. “I want it to sound far from everything,” he says while seated at the piano with a female collaborator. “Like everything’s upside down.” The untitled song that then plays over the second half of the trailer finds the Mainstream Sellout singer intoning, “Life imitates art/ Bury me alive/ Disappear underground where they found me/ Before...
Valerie Bertinelli Seemingly Responds to Matthew Perry Makeout Story With Taylor Swift Lyrics
Valerie Bertinelli took part in a popular TikTok trend this week, seemingly in response to a story about her in Matthew Perry’s new memoir, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news The actress shared a video lip syncing along to Taylor Swift’s Midnights track, “Anti-Hero,” featuring the lyrics, “It’s me, hi. I’m the problem, it’s me.” “Anyone misbehave in their 20s and early 30s?” Bertinelli captioned the clip. “Are you mortified?” In Perry’s memoir, he detailed having an unrequited crush on Bertinelli while the the two co-starred in the 1990 sitcom Sydney, in which Bertinelli played a single woman trying to make it as a private detective in Los Angeles and Perry played her younger brother. “I fe...
Lainey Wilson Says She’s ‘Here to Take Care of Business & Share My Story’ on ‘Bell Bottom Country’ Album
Lainey Wilson’s career has been developing at breakneck speed. In three short years, she’s gone from releasing her debut major label EP to being the top nominee at Nov. 9’s CMA Awards. Explore Explore See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news In 2019, she released Redneck Hollywood on Broken Bow Records/BBR Music Group, followed by 2021’s full-length, Sayin’ What I’m Thinkin.’ On Friday, Bell Bottom Country — a nod not only to her freewheeling form of music, but also to what has become her signature ‘70s hippie style – comes out. “This record is still me sayin’ what I’m thinking, but in a different way,” the Baskin, Louisiana, native says in her distinct Southern drawl, while seated at Red Light Management’s Nashville office. “I feel like I’ve grown leaps a...
See Chloe & Halle Bailey Reunite With Mentor Beyonce at Wearable Art Gala
Chloe and Halle Bailey had a chance to reunite with their mentor Beyoncé over the weekend at the Wearable Art Gala. On Saturday, Bey’s mom, Tina Knowles-Lawson, invited an A-list guest list to Barker Hangar in Santa Monica, California, to celebrate the fifth anniversary of WACO Theater Center. In addition to Beyoncé, husband Jay-Z and their daughter Blue Ivy, other guests included Lupita Nyong’o, Angela Bassett, Kelly Rowland, Lori Harvey and sister duo Chloe x Halle, who are signed to Queen B’s Parkwood label. Chloe took to Instagram on Wednesday to share an adorable photo of her and her sister standing alongside Bey in one photo and hugging her in the next. In the photo, the trio all shared a color theme, with Halle sporting a black dress with silver embellishments and cutouts around her...
Rihanna Continues To Tease “Lift Me Up,” Revealing Single Cover Art
Yesterday, Marvel confirmed rumors that Rihanna would be contributing a song to the Black Panther: Wakanda Forever soundtrack. The company posted a teaser showing the Wakanda Forever title transforming into an “R” alongside the date October 28, 2022. The film will premiere two weeks later on November 11. Along with reposting Marvel’s announcement video, Rihanna has now followed up by sharing the cover art for her forthcoming single, “Lift Me Up.” The cover art simply pictures a close-up of the singer in black-and-white, her name and the song’s title. “Lift Me Up” was co-written by Rihanna, returning Black Panther director Ryan Coogler and Ludwig Göransson, who composed the score for both the original and sequel films, as well as Nigerian artist Tems. The track will mark the end of Rihanna’...
Conjure Up a Halloween Playlist With These Horror-Themed Hip-Hop Tracks
While Christmas music seems to dominate the entire month of December, Halloween has yet to be given the same attention. For years, come Halloween, supermarkets and radio stations have played the same old stuff ad nauseum — cue “Monster Mash.” Hip-hop, however, has been engrossed with horror, going so far as to dedicate a subgenre to music that sounds like it was designed to be streamed during the spooky season. Branching out from gangsta rap, the oft-forgotten horrorcore uses the supernatural as a metaphor for real-life themes of violence, drug abuse and death. Though not all horrorcore songs are that bleak, they’re usually darkly transgressive, and their influence has permeated throughout rappers old and new. The 1980s old-school wave, for instance, often pulled from horrorcore when sampl...
Harry Styles Morphs Into a Bearded Merman in “Music for a Sushi Restaurant” Video
Harry Styles on Thursday released the official music video for his popular Harry’s House track, “Music for a Sushi Restaurant,” directed by Aube Perrie. In the video, Styles morphs into a bearded, tentacle-endowed merman, who washes ashore and ends up in the hands of a squad of sushi chefs. At the restaurant, fittingly called Gill’s, Styles is terrified by the sight of fellow sea creatures being prepped for dinner. Panicked, he fights for his survival and ultimately wins over the kitchen. Styles then receives something of an oceanic spa treatment while listening to his own song and relaxing with under-eye patches and a black sleep mask. “Can I touch your tail?” one patron asks before they are sharply scolded with a slap from Styles’ tentacle. Later, the singer finds himself performing...
