Rock
Whitesnake’s David Coverdale Sends Condolences to Tawny Kitaen’s Family Following Her Death
Julie E. “Tawny” Kitaen, the actress who appeared in several Whitesnake music videos and starred as Tom Hanks’ fiancée in Bachelor Party, was remembered by musicians, fellow actors and entertainment figures following her death on Friday morning (May 7). Kitaen appeared on several RATT albums and in their “Back for More” video before co-starring in Whitesnake’s “Here I Go Again,” video, as well as “Still of the Night,” “Is This Love” and “The Deeper the Love.” “Just woke up to some very sad, unexpected news…Waiting on confirmation…but, if it is true, my sincere condolences to her children, her family, friends & fans,” Whitesnake’s David Coverdale, whom Kitaen was briefly married to from 1989-1991, wrote on Twitter a...
UEFA ‘seriously considering’ switching Champions League final to Wembley
Europe’s governing body, UEFA, are reported to be ‘seriously considering’ switching the upcoming Champions League final to Wembley, the clash set to be an all-English affair. At present, the final is set to be played in Turkey’s capital Istanbul, at Ataturk Olympic Stadium, the arena having already missed out on hosting the showpiece last season due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the last phase of the knockout stage having been moved to Portugal. However, despite missing out on hosting last year’s final, they could well be set to suffer the same fate this term, amid calls to move the final to England, after both Manchester City and Chelsea progressed from their semi-final encounters with Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid, respectively. With an all-English final on the way, it seemingly makes ...
Song of the Week: HEALTH and Nine Inch Nails Bring ’90s Apocalypse Vibes with “ISN’T EVERYONE”
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-08T15:11:59+00:00“>May 8, 2021 | 11:11am ET Song of the Week breaks down and talks about the song we just can’t get out of our head ever week. Find these songs and more on our Spotify Top Songs playlist. For our favorite new songs from emerging artists, check out our Spotify New Sounds playlist. This week, noise rockers HEALTH and industrial icons Nine Inch Nails are a match made in end-of-days heaven. Catharsis can take many curious forms: a good cry after a film, the euphoria among strangers dancing to an electric piece of pop, a long run (allegedly). Then, there’s HEALTH and Nine Inch Nails, two groups that have long harnessed the power of noise as their tool of choice, active...
The Misfits Join Sold-Out Aftershock Festival 2021 Lineup As Headliners
Producers also announced a handful of newly booked acts for the festival that will take place from Oct. 7 to 10 at Discovery Park. Dropkick Murphys, In This Moment, Anti-Flag, August Burns Red, Black Map, Blame My Youth, All Good Things, Tempt, and OXYMORRONS will all join the lineup. They will be in addition to previously announced acts such as Limp Bizkit, Rancid, The Offspring, Machine Gun Kelly, Social Distortion, Rise Against, Pennywise and more. The news of the Misfits comes after the festival sold out its 2021 edition (passes are still available on resale site, Vivid Seats here). Fans who purchased singe day tickets for Saturday should expect an email for their pass options. Check out the full lineup below. You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. S...
Nancy Wilson on Paying Tribute to Eddie Van Halen on Her First Solo Album
Wilson, who was honored at the She Rocks Awards during January, does credit the pandemic with prodding her toward a solo effort, though she’s worked outside of Heart in Roadcase Royale, the Lovemongers and film projects. “It’s really an interesting result of the situation, the shutdown,” Wilson explains. “I probably would’ve been vortexed into the Heart touring life…. That’s a full-time travel job which is punctuated with the beautiful reward system of being able to play a rock show on a nice, big stage. But now, having this open-ended window of time was really in so many ways just a great thing. It was wonderful to be able to have the time to do this (solo album), something people have always been asking me about doing.” Wilson acknowl...
Chris Cornell’s Family Settles Malpractice Lawsuit With Beverly Hills Doctor
Filed by the Cornells’ lawyer, Melissa Lerner, the motion requested that all documents pertaining to the settlement remain sealed or redacted, citing privacy concerns. Lerner writes that “troubled individuals” have “harassed” the Cornell family in the wake of Chris Cornell’s death, including by threatening the lives of Toni and Christopher. A lawyer for the Cornells tells Billboard the settlement agreement is still subject to court approval. An attorney for Koblin did not immediately return a request for comment. Filed in Nov. 2018, the Cornells’ lawsuit claimed that Koblin and his Beverly Hills practice “negligently and repeatedly” prescribed medication to Cornell that clouded his judgment and cognition, leading him to engage in reckless behaviors that ultimately resulted in his suic...
Willow Smith Reunites Mom Jada’s Old Metal Band for Sick Mother’s Day Surprise
Willow Smith pulled off a top-secret Mother’s Day surprise for Jada Pinkett Smith by getting her mom’s metal band back together to perform on the latest Red Table Talk episode. On Wednesday’s (May 5) episode, which arrived around the third anniversary of the Facebook Watch series. Willow recalled accompanying her mother on tour with her metal band Wicked Wisdom with old home videos, including one where she and her brother Jaden Smith cleaned the outside of the tour bus. “This is the music that I grew up around. My mother was Superwoman, she was a rock star, she was a warrior and a nurturer, all in one. So unapologetically badass. … I was my mom’s biggest fan,” said Willow, who recently took a pop-punk turn on her new single “Tr...
Modest Mouse Announces New Album ‘The Golden Casket,’ Drops ‘We Are Between’ Single
Modest Mouse announced on Wednesday (May 5) that the rock band will release its first album in six years, The Golden Casket, on June 25 via Epic Records. The Grammy-nominated troupe released the first single “We Are Between” the same day, with a visualizer that illustrates the title of the album in its most vibrant form. Dave Sardy and Jacknife Lee produced the album in Los Angeles and in Modest Mouse’s Portland, Ore.-based studio. Throughout The Golden Casket, frontman Isaac Brock explores themes ranging from fatherhood to invisible tech through punk and experimental techniques. Modest Mouse’s highly anticipated seventh studio album serves as the follow-up to 2015’s Strangers to Ourselves, which shot to No. 1 on both of Billboard‘...
Rapper, Olamide Set To Drop New Single Off His Forthcoming Album
Sensational rapper, Olamide has revealed that he will dropping his first single for the year very soon. The singer and rapper who is currently gearing up for the release of a new album which has been slated for 14th June, has hinted of sneak peek into the album with a new single. According to the rapper who took to his Instagram page today to make the disclosure, the single will be dropping on the 14th of May and that’s exactly one month to the release of the new album which is dubbed “UY Scuti”. He also revealed the art cover and title of the song which he simply named “Rock”. This will mark the 11th studio album of the legendary rapper and he’s done all of them as a solo artist with no collaborative body of work in the mix. This is also coming barley 8 months after he dropped off hi...
Billie Eilish, A$AP Rocky, & Post Malone to Headline Governors Ball 2021
DaBaby, Megan Thee Stallion, 21 Savage and more slated for Sept. 24-26 event at Citi Field in New York. The 2021 Governors Ball festival will take place at New York’s Citi Field from Sept. 24-26, and will feature headlining sets from Billie Eilish, A$AP Rocky and Post Malone. The 10th anniversary edition of the festival — which took a break in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic — will follow all mandated state and federal guidelines at the time of the event, according to a release. More than 60 acts will take the stage over the weekend, including J Balvin, DaBaby, Megan Thee Stallion, RÜFÜS DU SOL, Ellie Goulding, Leon Bridges, 21 Savage, Young Thug, Portugal. The Man, Burna Boy, Future Islands, Phoebe Bridgers, Jamie XX, Carly Rae Jepsen, Big Thief, Bleachers and many mor...
Red Hot Chili Peppers Selling Song Catalog
The band members — Anthony Kiedis, Flea, John Frusciante and Chad Smith — collectively write many of their songs, so it appears that a majority of them would have needed to agree to sell their shares of the rights to make this deal happen. According to BMI, the Red Hot Chili Peppers song catalog is administered by Moebetoblame Music, under the guidance of lawyer Eric Greenspan, managing partner of the law firm Myman, Greenspan, Fox, Rosenberg Mobasser, Younger & Light LLP. Sources say Greenspan shopped the deal for the band. The Red Hot Chili Peppers song catalog generates $5 million to $6 million in net publishers’ share (usually known as gross profit — although in this case its likely to include all revenue from the catalog), sources say, and it traded at a ab...
Marilyn Manson Denies Abuse Allegations From Esme Bianco
The lawsuit alleges that in 2009, Manson, whose legal name is Brian Warner, flew Bianco to Los Angeles to shoot a video for the song “I Want to Kill You Like They Do in the Movies.” The suit says that Bianco was expected to stay at Manson’s home instead of the hotel where she had been booked, and there was no crew, only Manson himself shooting with a phone. Manson deprived Bianco of food and sleep though gave her alcohol and drugs, locked her in a bedroom, whipped her, gave her electric shocks, tried to force her to have sex with another woman and threatened to enter her room and rape her during the night, the suit alleges. No video was ever released. Manson’s attorney Howard E. King responded: “These claims are provably false. To be clear, this suit was only filed after my client re...
