Band Breakup
Will Dead & Company Cease Touring After 2022?: Report
Update: The members of Dead & Company are pushing back on the report. “News to me…”, tweeted Bob Weir, to which Bill Kreutzmann replied, “Whew. I thought you knew something that I didn’t!” Meanwhile, Rolling Stone has amended its original story to say “discussions continue about whether the Dead & Co will tour after 2022.” — Original Story — Dead and Company’s upcoming summer tour will reportedly be their final outing together. According to Rolling Stone, the Grateful Dead offshoot will cease touring following the conclusion of their 2022 trek. Related Video Consequence has reached out to the band’s representatives for additional information. The supergroup, which features former Grateful Dead members Bob Weir, Mickey Hart, and Bill Kreutzmann, along with John Mayer, Ote...
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Announce Breakup
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones announced their breakup on Thursday (January 27th) in a statement posted to the ska band’s official Facebook. “After decades of brotherhood, touring the world and making great records together, we have decided to no longer continue on as a band,” they wrote. “Above all, we want to express our sincere gratitude to every single one of you who have supported us. We could not have done any of it without you. Love Always, The Mighty Mighty BossToneS.” Formed in 1983 in Boston, the ska innovators released a total of 11 studio albums over the course of their career — from their 1989 debut Devil’s Night Out to 2021’s When God Was Great. In 2003, the group went on hiatus after more than a decade of nonstop touring. The break ultimately lasted until 2007, when the Bosston...
Ought Break Up, Tim Darcy and Ben Stidworthy Form New Band Cola
Ought, the Montreal post-punk quartet that formed nine years ago, have announced their breakup. They leave behind a nine-year legacy that includes three Eps and three studio albums, the most recent of which was 2018’s Room Inside the World. The band — Tim Darcy, Matt May, Ben Stidworthy, and Tim Keen — issued a joint statement confirming the split: “We are no longer active as a band. When we started Ought in 2012 we had no greater aspirations than to play and write music together, and the fact that we were able to tour the world to such an extent and share so many rooms with so many of you has meant the world to us. We send lots of gratitude and love to all those we met and worked with along the way.” Fans ought not be totally devastated, however, as two of the band’s members have simultan...
Suspect208 (Band Featuring Sons of Slash, Robert Trujillo) Break Up
<span class="localtime" data-ltformat="F j, Y | g:ia" data-lttime="2021-05-25T03:41:33+00:00“>May 24, 2021 | 11:41pm ET Suspect208 — the young rock band featuring the sons of Guns N’ Roses’ Slash and Metallica’s Robert Trujillo, and for a brief time, the son of late Stone Temple Pilots singer Scott Weiland — have called it quits. The group’s short-lived ride was a tumultuous one that rivaled some of the trials and tribulations of their famous dads’ bands. With a lineup of Noah Weiland on vocals, London Hudson (Slash’s son) on drums, Tye Trujillo on bass, and Niko Tsangaris on guitar, Suspect208 got off to a promising start. They released their debut single, the hard-rocking “Long Awaited”, in November, and it was met with a positive response, earning mo...
Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker: Daft Punk’s Split Was Like Hearing “About Someone That’s Died”
On Monday, Daft Punk shook the music world by announcing their breakup. One famous fan who was particularly heartbroken is Tame Impala mastermind Kevin Parker, who recently compared his reaction to hearing about the duo’s split as akin to “someone’s that’s died.” “I guess I wasn’t expecting to be as emotional as I was, especially because I watched the video they released, that kind of eight-minute thing, which I think has already been on a movie of theirs, obviously re-contextualized for them announcing their split-up, but it really moved me,” he said, in an interview with Apple Music’s Matt Wilkinson. “Yeah, it shook me. It was almost like when you hear about someone that’s died. I know it’s obviously not nearly as tragic as when someone dies, but that kind of shock.” Even so, Parker went...
George Lynch Is Ending Lynch Mob Due to Band Name’s Racial Insensitivity
Legendary metal guitarist George Lynch is ending his longtime project Lynch Mob due to the racial insensitivity of the band name, revealing he will no longer record or perform under that moniker. The guitar virtuoso, who was also a classic member of Dokken in the ’80s and ’90s, formed Lynch… Please click the link below to read the full article. George Lynch Is Ending Lynch Mob Due to Band Name’s Racial Insensitivity Spencer Kaufman You Deserve to Make Money Even When you are looking for Dates Online. So we reimagined what a dating should be. It begins with giving you back power. Get to meet Beautiful people, chat and make money in the process. Earn rewards by chatting, sharing photos, blogging and help give users back their fair share of Internet revenue.
Hoops Break Up Following Sexual Abuse Allegations Against Former Member
Bloomington, Indiana dream pop band Hoops have broken up in response to sexual abuse allegations against former member James Harris. Harris is accused of sexually assaulting a girl, identified as Megan, when she was 17 years old and he was 21. According to the accuser, Harris was also sleeping with a 15-year-old girl around the same time. The victim shared a Twitter direct message from the band’s Kevin Krauter to a friend in which he said “James himself says he doesn’t remember having sex with her on the night of the incident in question, but like understands that some action of his could have been seen as non consensual.” He also stated that “there was nothing in our awareness that we ever tried to intentionally hide or cover up.” In regards to “the second rumor,” he said the band members...
Culture Abuse Break Up After Singer David Kelling Admits to Sexual Misconduct
San Francisco punk band Culture Abuse have broken up in light of singer David Kelling admitting to sexual misconduct with an underaged girl. In a statement on Instagram, the other members of Culture Abuse emphasized that “the victim is our first priority.” Before sharing the anonymous individual’s full account of Kelling’s actions, with her consent, the band noted, “However we do not want [our breakup] to be the focus of this story, as survivors come forward, we commend their bravery and absolutely need to respect and listen to them. We are well aware that this does not fix the pain caused but we are hoping it’s a first step. There are no excuses for this behavior and it cannot be allowed.” They went on to say they would disassociate from Kelling, but urged him to “seek therapy to unlearn ...
Unlocking the Truth Break Up as Frontman Malxolm Brixkhouse Launches Solo Career
Unlocking the Truth, the young metal sensations who first created a buzz playing the streets of New York City, have broken up. In turn, frontman Malcolm Brickhouse has started a solo career as Malxolm Brixkhouse, and is supported by his bandmates one final time on his new single “Phantom”. The young band first made a name for itself when a video of one of its street performances went viral on YouTube. The trio, made up of young teenage and pre-teen musicians, went on to play Coachella and Warped Tour, and opened for such acts as Guns N’ Roses, Queens of the Stone Age, and more. In 2014, Unlocking the Truth inked a $1.8 million record contract with Sony, but negotiated their release from the contract a year later. They eventually released the album Chaos independently in 2016, but never qui...
50 Reasons We Still Love The Beatles’ Let It Be
Gimme a Reason takes classic albums celebrating major anniversaries and breaks down song by song the reasons we still love them so many years later. This week, we celebrate 50 years of The Beatles’ Let It Be. It’s become an iconic scene: The Beatles carrying out their last-ever live performance on the roof of Apple Corps, joined by keyboardist and general legend Billy Preston, their long hair flipping around in the London wind while they recorded live takes of songs like “Dig a Pony” and “Don’t Let Me Down” before eventually being shut down by the Metropolitan Police. The event was unannounced. Onlookers gathered on their lunch breaks, looking up at the midday sensation. This was the concert from which the final version of the Let It Be album would in part manifest, preserving takes of thr...
