Machine Gun Kelly
Pop-Punk and Hip-Hop: 2020’s Dynamic Duo
In October, Bad Boy Records’ Machine Gun Kelly topped the Billboard 200 for the first time with his fifth album, Tickets To My Downfall – charting higher with guitar-driven pop-punk songs than he ever had as an emcee. Two weeks later, the top spot on the Hot 100 was secured by “Mood,” a guitar-driven emo-rap song by 24kGoldn and Iann Dior, who have since ruled the chart for most of the last two months. But those feel like only the most prominent tipping points of an unlikely alliance between pop-punk and hip-hop — one that has been everywhere in 2020, bubbling up in recent years to finally reach the forefront of popular music. Once upon a time, hip-hop and punk bubbled out of New York City as parallel movements that intersected often, from Debbie Harry rhyming about Fab Five Fre...
Machine Gun Kelly Picked Up a Guitar to Save Rock — and Himself
The guitar always meant a lot to Machine Gun Kelly. Even as a solidly successful hip-hop star, he passed his time on the tour bus tripping on acid and watching classic Nirvana shows, noodling around on guitar. Turning to guitar-based music may not seem like the best career move for a 30-year-old rapper, eking out a successful-enough hip-hop career to earn him a few solid acting roles. Safer to make the movies, cash the Hollywood checks, and release enough hip-hop singles to keep some street cred. But then there’s his dad. His dad who left him with an aunt, when he was just a teen. After his mom left, too, when he was only nine. His dad who got him his first guitar. Credit: Noah Schutz An only child, Colson Baker’s parents were Christian missionaries who took him all over the world before h...
Metallica, My Chemical Romance Headline Aftershock 2021 Lineup
Aftershock’s just-announced 2021 fest is one year away — Oct 7-10, 2020 — giving antsy rock fans something to look forward to with sets from Metallica, My Chemical Romance, Body Count, Social Distortion, The Offspring, Machine Gun Kelly, Rise Against, Gojira, Volbeat, the Offspring and many more. There will be two chances to see Metallica; they headline on Oct. 8 and Oct. 10. On Oct. 7 Limp Bizkit will top the bill and Oct. 9 sees My Chemical Romance, along with special guests to be announced. More than 60 bands will appear over three days at Sacramento’s Discovery Park. “We can’t wait to play at Aftershock 2021 with our Bay Area brothers Metallica. We first played with them on the Lollapalooza tour in 1996 along with the Ramones and later down the road we toured across Sout...
Machine Gun Kelly Wins Best Alternative Video at MTV Video Music Awards
When this year’s VMAs were first announced, one of the biggest surprises was the inclusion of the Best Alternative category for the first time in 22 years. However, the biggest surprise was that the winner was…yep, you read correctly above — Machine Gun Kelly. The Cleveland-bred rapper’s video for “Bloody Valentine,” which starred his girlfriend Megan Fox, beat out Lana Del Rey (“Doin’ Time”), The 1975 (“If You’re Too Shy (Let Me Know)”), FINNEAS (“Let’s Fall in Love for the Night”), twenty one pilots (“Level of Concern”), and All Time Low (“Some Kind of Disaster”) to win the Moonman. The last winner of the Best Alternative category was Green Day in 1998 for “Good Riddance (Time of Your Life).” Things have certainly changed a lot since then...
Rapper Machine Gun Kelly Is Blowing Megan Fox’s Back Out, Allegedly
Source: Jason Koerner / Getty Machine Gun Kelly is likely blowing Megan Fox’s back out, allegedly. The happy couple was seen goofing around about town. Fox appears in MGK’s “Bloody Valentine” video and everyone pretty much assumed they’ve been a thing ever since, if not before. Reports TMZ: The couple hung out at The Beer Hunter bar in La Quinta, near Palm Springs, with some friends at a table inside the bar. Folks in the bar say there was no doubt … Megan and MGK are together. They split after just shy of an hour, and MGK helped Megan take a load off, and she loved it! Megan and MGK have gotten super close … he even declared his love for her on social media. Hey, if he professed his devotion on the ‘Gram, it must be real. [embedded content] Fox must have a thing for white guys into Hip-Ho...
Travis Barker and Machine Gun Kelly Cover Rage Against the Machine’s ‘Killing in the Name’
Travis Barker and Machine Gun Kelly have shared a video where they cover Rage Against the Machine’s “Killing in the Name.” In the clip, the duo is seen performing the song in a studio with scenes from the recent protests in Los Angeles that are spliced in. Barker and Kelly attended the protests in Hollywood this week. A number of musicians have attended the protests or have spoken strongly in support of them and Black Lives Matter. “they wrote this song in 1992. Its been 28 years since and every word still applies,” the video on YouTube is captioned. According to Kelly’s tweets, the duo recorded the cover last night (June 3). fuck it im cutting a Rage Against the Machine cover tonight.ay @travisbarker ima need you for this 🙏🏼😤✊🏿✊🏾ɰ...
