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THE IRON MAIDENS And BURNING WITCHES Announce ‘Hell Hath No Fury’ 2022 U.S. Tour
THE IRON MAIDENS, the world’s only all-female tribute to IRON MAIDEN, will team up with Swiss all-female metal act BURNING WITCHES for a limited number of dates in the U.S. in May. Formed in Los Angeles in 2001, THE IRON MAIDENS electrify audiences with their true-to-MAIDEN renditions, tight musicianship, and high-energy stage antics. These women channel their inner Eddies (or Edwinas, more appropriately) to deliver their homage to the mighty MAIDEN, impressing even the most diehard MAIDEN fans across the globe. THE IRON MAIDENS said: “We are pleased to join forces with BURNING WITCHES as we know first-hand what talented, fiery players they are, so be forewarned: this tour is going to melt faces! After all, hell hath no fury like a woman…” BURNING WITCHES was founde...
HIGH ON FIRE’s MATT PIKE To Release Debut Solo Album, ‘Pike Vs. The Automaton’, In February
From rewriting the hard rock rulebook with his Grammy Award-winning trio HIGH ON FIRE to reverse-engineering doom metal with his genre-defining trio SLEEP, Matt Pike has channeled his natural talents and chiseled a steely path straight to the heart of modern-day metal’s molten core. On February 18, Pike will release his debut solo LP, “Pike Vs. The Automaton”, via MNRK Heavy. Born out of the challenges brought on by a worldwide pandemic, birthed under hellish red-orange skies bred from rampaging west coast wildfires, and built amidst the yearlong political riots and rallies in Portland, Oregon, Pike‘s solo debut, “Pike Vs. The Automaton”, is both a musical and emotional release. The record was written by Pike with drummer Jon Reid, features contributions...
MEGADETH Leader DAVE MUSTAINE’s Flying V EXP Available Now In Limited Quantities
Starting today, the Dave Mustaine Flying V EXP in Antique Natural and Silver Metallic finishes is available on Gibson.com and at select global dealers in very limited quantities. A wider release of units is planned for February 2022. Gibson is truly honored to be working with Mustaine, a guitarist, songwriter, and bandleader who formed MEGADETH at the dawn of the American thrash metal movement. Mustaine has sold 38 million records worldwide, earned six platinum albums, and is a Grammy Award winner, cancer survivor, and a certified first degree black belt in Ukidokan Karate, and Songahm Taekwondo, an honorary fourth degree black belt and Goodwill Ambassador in the World Taekwondo Federation, and is currently on the way to a first degree black belt in Gracie Barra Jiu-Jitsu. The Dave Mustain...
SEBASTIAN BACH Denies He Was Difficult To Work With During His Time With SKID ROW
During an appearance earlier today (Tuesday, December 14) on the “Holmberg’s Morning Sickness” show on Arizona’s 98KUPD radio station, ex-SKID ROW singer Sebastian Bach addressed criticism from his former bandmates that he was difficult to work with during his time with the group. He said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “They would say to me, if I didn’t like one of their songs, they’d say, ‘You’re hard to work with.'” Pressed about whether he was in fact hard to work with, Sebastian said: “You wanna go listen to the records without me, and then listen to the records with me. Why don’t you, the consumer, go and put the headphones on… Are you hard to work with? Do you like ’18 And Life’. ‘I love ...
LCD Soundsystem Announce Holiday Special Starring Eric Wareheim and Macaulay Culkin
LCD Soundsystem are ringing in the holidays in style. Today, the beloved dance-rock band has announced an Amazon Music special which will arrive on the heels of their 20-date residency at Brooklyn Steel. The LCD Soundsystem Holiday Special is part sitcom, part concert film and lands on Amazon Prime Video on December 22nd. Directed by Tim & Eric’s Eric Wareheim, the special begins with a ’90s-inspired sitcom entitled All My Friends that sees a fictionalized LCD Soundsystem share a house. Wareheim stars as band leader James Murphy, while Christine Ko portrays singer-keyboardist Nancy Whang and Macaulay Culkin plays drummer Pat Mahoney. The show-inside-a-show also stars Tony Cavalero as Nick Millhiser (synth), Cory Loykasek as Al Doyle (guitar and synth), Aparna Nancherla as Abb...
Baroness Add New 2022 North American Leg to Tour Featuring Fan-Voted Setlists
Baroness have added a new five-week leg to their intimate “Your Baroness” tour, with the new dates kicking off in January The tour is unique in that Baroness are letting fans decide the setlist for each show. Any and all material from the band’s catalog is on the table, making the outing particularly enticing for the hardcore Baroness fan. The new itinerary kicks off January 14th in Harrisonburg, Virginia, and runs through February 19th in Boston. Tickets are on-sale Friday (December 17th) at 10 a.m. local time and can be purchased via Ticketmaster, with pre-sales beginning as early as Wednesday (December 15th) in select cities. Advertisement Related Video Previously, the band was forced to postpone some dates on the initial fall 2021 leg of the trek: Salt Lake City, Denver, Lawrence and S...
Billie Eilish Began Watching Porn at 11, Says It “Destroyed My Brain”
Billie Eilish’s song “Male Fantasy” opens with the pop star trying to “Distract myself with pornography,” though the footage is so disturbing that the verse ends with her declaring, “I’m going back to therapy.” Those lyrics are based in her real experiences, she recently revealed on The Howard Stern Show, noting that she “started watching porn when I was like 11,” which she said, “Destroyed my brain.” “As a woman, I think porn is a disgrace,” she told Stern. “I used to watch a lot of porn, to be honest.” She said she was drawn to X-rated material in order to feel like “one of the guys.” Eilish remembered looking at a lot of “abusive” videos, which she believes contributed to her recurring issues with sleep paralysis and night terrors. “I think it really destroyed my brain and I f...
Watch Above & Beyond Play From the Top of a Granite Monolith in Colombia
Attendees of the most recent Above & Beyond show had to put in work to get there, with the trance trio performing Monday from the top of a looming granite monolith in the Colombian Andes. The show, hosted by electronic livestream series producer Cercle in partnership with ProColumbia and Medellin Travel, required audience members to take 740 stairs to the top of Piedra del Peñol, a 787-foot granite dome located in Guatapé, Colombia, about two hours from Medellín. Explore See latest videos, charts and news At the summit of this National Monument, the beloved UK act played an hourlong set that oscillated between the shimmering highs and darker outer edges of trance. Watch the complete performance below. Above & Beyond’s Tony McGuinness and Paavo Siljamäki then sat down for a brief in...
How Spotify Helped Nearly 300 Afghan Music Students and Teachers Reach Portugal
On Dec. 1, Elizabeth Nieto‘s boss at Spotify — chief human resources officer Katarina Berg — learned that nearly 300 Afghanistan National Institute of Music (ANIM) students and teachers and their families were in limbo in Doha, Qatar. Promised asylum in Lisbon, Portugal, they were attempting to charter a plane to the European city and needed money. “See what we can do,” Berg told Nieto, the streaming giant’s global head of equity and impact. Nieto had to wrangle with Spotify’s in-house lawyers to cut a sizable check for the plane by Dec. 6; on Monday (Dec. 13), the SAS flight carrying 273 Afghans landed in Lisbon, where the musicians and faculty members will be able to recreate their school. “The renaissance of Afghanistan music will start in Lisbon,” Nieto says. “We have an opportunity to...
U.K. Introduces Vaccine Passports for Clubs and Venues
LONDON – New restrictions for nightclubs and music venues in England have been introduced to tackle a sharp rise in cases of the coronavirus omicron variant. Members of Parliament backed Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s controversial ‘Plan B’ measures on Tuesday (Dec. 14), with 369 MPs voting in favor of making COVID-19 vaccine passports a legal requirement to enter clubs and some concert halls, versus 126 against. The rules come into force on Wednesday, meaning that people aged over 18 in England will need to show they’ve either had two doses of the COVID-19 vaccine or proof of a negative test taken in the past 48 hours to enter a number of music venues, including nightclubs and indoor unseated venues with more than 500 people. Proof of vaccine status via an NHS Covid Pass is also needed fo...
Watch Kelly Clarkson Send a Holiday Kiss-Off With ‘Merry Christmas Baby’
Kelly Clarkson delved into her own Christmas songbook on The Kelly Clarkson Show on Tuesday (Dec. 14) with a performance of “Merry Christmas Baby.” Dressed in a sparkling gray gown, the pop singer powered through the opening track of her new holiday album, When Christmas Comes Around…, which she co-wrote with Aben Eubanks. “You’ll wake up all alone and/ Wonder why I’m not home/ And I’ll let my phone ring/ A dose of your kind of love and/ I’ll let my absence show you/ What I got you for Christmas/ Is losing me/ Merry Christmas, baby,” she belted on the chorus while flanked by a trio of back-up singers and her talk show’s house band, Y’all. The track is just one of five original Christmas tracks penned by the American Idol champ on the new LP, including lead single “Christmas Isn’t Canceled ...
Diamond Platnumz – Unachezaje
Wasafi Records boss Diamond Platnumz is back again with a new record titled “Unachezaje” out now. As promised, Tanzanian music heavyweight Diamond Platnumz unleashes a new song “Unachezaje” for his fans. It is a follow up to “Gimme” released about two months ago which featured Rema. It is the season of festivities and Diamond does well to give his fans across the globe a new anthem for the season. As usual, the tune is upbeat and made to elicit a dance from you. Listen, enjoy Diamond Platnumz – “Unachezaje” below & share. [embedded content]
