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DAVID ELLEFSON Is Selling Tour-Used And Studio-Played MEGADETH Gear
Former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson is parting ways with several signed pieces of the band’s gear. Ellefson‘s official merchandise site has listed five signed MEGADETH-related items, including an album-used Hamer 12-string bass guitar (price: $1,500), a tour-played black Jackson CBXM IV David Ellefson X Series signature bass ($1,500), a tour-used Jackson X Series David Ellefson signature series concert bass CBX five-string bass guitar ($2,500), MEGADETH tour-used Hartke Hydrive 8×10″ cabinets in flight cases ($4,000) and a MEGADETH tour-used flight case with five Hartke LH1000 Heads ($6,500). Ellefson was fired from MEGADETH earlier this year after sexually tinged messages and explicit video footage involving the bassist were posted on Twitter. At the time, Ellefs...
SKILLET Drops Lyric Video For New Single ‘Refuge’
Christian rockers SKILLET will release their new studio album, “Dominion”, on January 14, 2022 via Atlantic. The official lyric video for the LP’s third single, “Refuge”, can be seen below. “Dominion”, produced by Kevin Churko (PAPA ROACH, DISTURBED, FIVE FINGER DEATH PUNCH) with songs written by John Cooper, Korey Cooper, Kevin Churko and Kane Churko, was created 100% remotely between the band’s tour dates, home studio in Wisconsin, and the Churkos‘ studio in Las Vegas. “‘Dominion’ is about the celebration of freedom, a liberation from fear — to be who we want to be, say what we want to say, believe what we want to believe,” SKILLET frontma nJohn Cooper says. “In some ways, it’s a reminder of the God...
Ye & Drake Rocked “Free Larry Hoover” Concert, Twitter Wanted More Classics From Drizzy #KanyeDrakeLive
HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Screenshot / Amazon Prime The world was astonished that former foes Ye (FKA Kanye West) and Drake squashed their beef and agreed to rock on the same stage in support of freeing Chicago street legend, Larry Hoover. The live stream event took place in the wee hours of Friday morning (Dec. 10), and Twitter has chimed in with its thoughts on the whole affair. The “Free Larry Hoover” benefit concert was constructed by Houston OG J Prince and originally it was thought that only Ye would appear on the bill. With both rappers taking slight shots at each other over the years via music and social media, Ye made an appeal under Prince’s guidance that the gentlemen settle their differences and work together on the benefit concert. Drake accepted and it lo...
Erykah Badu Shuts Down Age Critics After Revealing 27-Year-Old Fiancé
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: @erykahbadu / Instagram Erykah Badu is officially off the market! Earlier this week, the Soulquarian took to Instagram to introduce fans to her fiancé, 27-year-old musician JaRon Adkison, with an affectionate post confirming their relationship. Calling him “My guy,” Erykah Badu shared a few candid photos of the pair which included a photo of them wearing matching green rings on the finger traditionally reserved for engagements, sparking rumors that the two are headed down the aisle. “Solar Eclipse Dump. Making room for many many many more memories,” she wrote. “Right now , Moon covers the suns eyes forcing it to use other forms of vision. (Closes Eyes) I see you with my heart. I see you with my gut. Here’s to my GUY ✨& Setting intentions, Breat...
Taylor Swift Ordered to Face Trial in “Shake It Off” Copyright Lawsuit
Here’s one lawsuit Taylor Swift just can’t shake off. On Thursday (December 9th), a federal judge ruled the pop singer must face a jury trial after being accused of taking lyrics from 3LW’s “Playas Gon’ Play” for her 2014 hit “Shake It Off.” Per Billboard, US District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald turned down Swift’s request to dismiss the case, ruling that there were “enough objective similarities” between the two songs that a jury could come to the conclusion that “Shake It Off” had infringed on the copyright to 2001’s “Playas Gon’ Play.” “Even though there are some noticeable differences between the works, there are also significant similarities in word usage and sequence/structure,” the judge wrote. “It is clear that there are enough objective similarities amongst the works to imply that...
R.I.P. Michael Nesmith, Co-Founder of The Monkees Dead at 78
Michael Nesmith, co-founding member, vocalist, and guitarist of The Monkees, has died at the age of 78. “With Infinite Love we announce that Michael Nesmith has passed away this morning in his home, surrounded by family, peacefully and of natural causes,” his family said in a statement. “We ask that you respect our privacy at this time and we thank you for the love and light that all of you have shown him and us.” According to a representative for the band, Nesmith passed away from heart failure. The Monkees formed in 1965 when television producers Bob Rafelson and Bert Schneider recruited Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Peter Tork, and Davy Jones to be in a sitcom of the same name. As Dolenz recalled, “The Monkees was a TV show about an imaginary band, a band that wanted ...
Fleet Foxes Share New Live Album A Very Lonely Solstice: Stream
The official troubadours of winter, Fleet Foxes, have shared a new live album today. Appropriately titled A Very Lonely Solstice, Robin Pecknold and company recorded the 13-track project in December 2020 at the St. Ann & the Holy Trinity Church in Brooklyn, New York. Originally broadcast as a livestream, the songs on A Very Lonely Solstice spans Fleet Foxes’ entire career across all four of their studio albums, from their early highlights like 2008’s “Tiger Mountain Peasant Song” to modern favorites like “Can I Believe You.” The album also includes Pecknold’s renditions of Nina Simone’s “In the Morning” and a rearrangement of the traditional American folk ballad “Silver Dagger.” Now with its proper release, Pecknold says A Very Lonely Solstice “[honors] the loneliness of...
Duke Concept Launches Live Nation Joint Venture
While Burna Boy will make history this spring when he becomes the first Nigerian artist to headline New York’s Madison Square Garden, the April 28 concert also marks a major milestone for promoter Osita “Duke” Ugeh, CEO of concert promoter Duke Concept, who has spent the past 10 years bringing African artists to the U.S. With Burna Boy’s Madison Square Garden show, Ugeh — who’s Nigerian-born and based in New York — launches a new joint venture with Live Nation to co-promote African artists touring in the U.S. Through Duke Concept, Ugeh and Live Nation have been co-producing concerts together for years, and under the new arrangement, Ugeh will retain the autonomy to continue to independently promote his own events. “Over the past few years working with Duke, our relationship has grown immen...
Mike Nesmith’s 12 Best Songwriting Credits: The Monkees, Stone Poneys & Beyond
If you want someone to extol the late Mike Nesmith’s virtues as a songwriter, you don’t have to look much further than the man who’s been standing beside him onstage for many of the past five and a half decades. “Nes is a great songwriter, always has been,” says Monkees mate Micky Dolenz, who most recently toured with Nesmith as The Monkees Present the Mike & Micky Show and who earlier this year released the album Dolenz Sings Nesmith. “You’ve got to credit him; He was writing incredible stuff from the get-go. He was way before some of the other country electric rock entities. He was way ahead of them in that kind of sound. He was doing that stuff in the ’60s, and I don’t think he’s ever gotten as much credit as he should as a singer-songwriter.” Explore See latest videos, charts and n...
Doja Cat Pulls Out of 2 Jingle Ball Dates After Crew Members Test Positive for COVID-19
Doja Cat will no longer perform at the iHeartRadio Jingle Ball stops in New York City and Boston this weekend after members from her production team tested positive for COVID-19. She shared the update on her socials Friday (Dec. 10), just hours before NYC’s Jingle Ball was set to start at Madison Square Garden. Explore Explore Doja Cat See latest videos, charts and news See latest videos, charts and news “We recently learned that a few members on my production team have tested positive for Covid 19 and are now on quarantine,” reads the message. “For the health and wellbeing of the rest of our crew, we are following all the appropriate safety measurements and necessary precautions, which means I won’t be able to perform at iHeartRadio’s New York Z100 and Boston KISS FM Jingle Ball. I’m extr...
Travis Scott’s Cacti Hard Seltzer Discontinued by Anheuser-Busch
Anheuser-Busch InBev revealed Friday (Dec. 10) that it is discontinuing its Travis Scott-backed hard seltzer brand, Cacti, less than nine months after the product first went on sale. “After careful evaluation, we have decided to stop all production and brand development of CACTI Agave Spiked Seltzer,” said an Anheuser-Busch InBev spokesperson in a statement. “We believe brand fans will understand and respect this decision.” The discontinuation comes a little over a month after 10 people died and hundreds more were injured in a crowd crush that occurred during Scott’s performance at the Astroworld festival in Houston, Texas, on Nov. 5. An Anheuser-Busch representative would not confirm whether the discontinuation was related to what happened at the festival, but a spokesperson for Scott tel...
Former MEGADETH Bassist DAVID ELLEFSON To Appear At ‘Halfway To Halloween’ Convention In Illinois
Former MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson will appear at next year’s “Halfway To Halloween” convention, set to take place Friday, May 13 and Saturday, May 14 at the Rock Island County Fairgrounds in East Moline, Illinois. David will take part in a panel and we will also screen the film he produced, “Dwellers”, at the event, which is presented by the folks behind Midwest Monster Fest. For more information, click here. “Dwellers” is a found-footage horror film written, directed and starring Drew Fortier. The movie has been described as “‘C.H.U.D.’ if it were shot like ‘The Blair Witch Project’.” The film stars Fortier, James L. Edwards (“Her Name Was Christa”), Douglas Esper (“The Nutshell”) an...
