Category: Music
Travis Scott‘s Astroworld festival ended in devastation last night when the crowd began to surge forward at an alarming rate, leaving eight people dead and 300 injured. In light of the tragedy, the Saturday portion of the Houston-based festival has been canceled. “Our hearts are with the Astroworld Festival family …
Rocky Kramer will be hosting “Women That Rock” on this week’s episode of Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays on Twitch. Tune into Twitch on Tuesday, November 16th, at 7 PM PT for this amazing show. Rocky Kramer is a guitar virtuoso, often being compared to the greatest guitar players …
“I will tell you, one of the narratives was that some individual was injecting other people with drugs,” Houston Police Chief Troy Finner said during a press conference Saturday, where he announced that a security officer at the festival was pricked in the neck with a needle by an unknown person. …
When Rob Zombie returned to the studio to work on the full-length follow-up to his 1998 solo debut Hellbilly Deluxe, he took an “if-it-ain’t-broke” approach to songwriting. Not only did he craft a new batch of anthemic industrial-tinged metal songs filled with b-movie samples and campy rhythmic flourishes, he hired …
Slipknot‘s vocalist Corey Taylor recently addressed the Astroworld tragedy during a concert. You can watch the fan-recorded video below. Last weekend (Nov. 5) eight people were killed and hundreds were injured at Travis Scott’s Astroworld music festival in Houston, Texas, according to Vulture. A ninth victim died on Nov. 10. …
Attorneys Ben Crump and Alex Hilliard held a press conference today in Houston where they announced they are filing 90 additional lawsuits on behalf of over 200 Astroworld Festival attendees, as KHOU notes. “Nobody should ever die from going to a concert,” Crump said, according to Reuters. “So this lawsuit …
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Chris Daughtry of the band Daughtry has postponed the band’s Dearly Beloved tour after the recent, sudden death of his daughter, Hannah. She was 25. Hannah Daughtry was found dead at her home yesterday (Nov. 12), according to USA Today. No more details have been provided at this time and there …
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The partnership is a breakthrough for Apple Music, which first entered the Chinese market back in 2015, but has made little impact in the country so far. Tencent controls 77% of the Chinese streaming market through its QQ Music, Kuguo and Kuwo platforms. While Apple has a large roster of …
M.I.A. has shared the music video for new track called “Babylon.” It’s available in full at ohmni.com; find a preview below. The arrival of “Babylon” coincides with the auction of M.I.A.’s 2010 Vicki Leekx mixtape as a non-fungible token (NFT). “Babylon,” written by M.I.A. and produced by M.I.A., Troy Baker, …
Oli Aleron of Canadian tech-death legion Archspire possesses an absurd “shotgun” vocal technique that has legitimately redefined the boundaries of extreme metal. It all starts somewhere and this is how he learned to scream. What you hear from Aleron now is a world away from his earliest influences, when he …
Britney Spears is officially free of the conservatorship that has controlled her life since 2008. Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Brenda Penny terminated the conservatorship today (November 12). Spears has been working since at least 2014 to end the conservatorship overseen by her father James “Jamie” Spears. In the wake …
Andy Shauf has announced a new album that’s out this Friday, September 24. It’s titled Wilds and it’s out via Anti-. It arrives just shy of two years after Shauf’s earlier LP The Neon Skyline, and its nine songs were recorded during that album’s sessions. Today he’s shared the first …
Parquet Courts have shared a music video for their new song “Black Widow Spider.” It’s the latest single from their forthcoming album Sympathy for Life. They’ve also extended their tour into 2022 with additional dates in North America and Europe. Check out the video for “Black Widow Spider” and the …
Laura Jane Grace has surprise released a new stripped-back EP called At War With the Silverfish. The seven-song release is currently available on streaming platforms via Polyvinyl. Give it a listen below. “I’ve learned that if you share your experience with good intentions that the universe will always surprise you …
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Saturday Night Live welcomed a very special guest to The Dionne Warwick Talk Show last night: Dionne Warwick herself! The recurring sketch started out with Ego Nwodim’s version of the icon and recently crowned queen of Twitter interviewing a rotating panel of celebrity guests, including Miley Cyrus (Chloe Fineman), Jason …
Three workers from KISS’ End of the Road U.S. tour have anonymously spoken to Rolling Stone to detail allegedly “unsafe” COVID practices following the death of Paul Stanley’s guitar tech Francis Stueber. KISS have refuted the claims made against them, detailing their supposed procedures throughout the tour in a statement. …
“Some of my favorite memories with my kids are our family trips to McDonald’s, and of course, each of us has our go-to order. Mine is the Cheeseburger, and I get it with extra pickles,” Carey said in a press release for the announcement. “Bringing together some of our favorite …
“Shout-out to the fans. If we could, we’d put all of up in one month,” he adds. “It’s a tedious process. It’s not like a one-day thing. But we’re going to hopefully get all those mixtapes .” The first Wayne mixtape to make it onto streaming was No Ceilings in August 2020, …
Foals’ keyboardist Edwin Congreave has left the group after 15 years. “We’re sad to say that we played our final show with Edwin Congreave as a member of Foals at All Points East festival in London,” the band wrote on Instagram today (September 22). Foals wrote that after Congreave’s long …
Breaking Benjamin will finish out the year hitting the stage, but giving audiences a little different show than they typically play. The band will take part in a short acoustic tour to wrap up the year. The band is also keeping the run in the family as guitarist Keith Wallen …
The Weeknd, Nicolás Jaar, and Frank Dukes have been sued by producers Suniel Fox and Henry Strange for copyright infringement, Pitchfork can confirm. The complaint was filed September 17 in a California federal court, and alleges that the Weeknd’s 2018 My Dear Melancholy, track “Call Out My Name” is “strikingly …
This article originally appeared in the August 1993 issue of SPIN. Polly Harvey is standing in the rain, in the middle of a generic English small-town shopping street. The 23-year-old singer is wearing a plush fake leopard-skin coat, her usual Olive Oyl bun let loose into barely restrained curly waves. She …
Chicago-born composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Ben LaMar Gay has announced the new album Open Arms to Open Us, which is out November 19 (via International Anthem/Nonesuch). The first song the album, “Sometimes I Forget How Summer Looks on You,” features vocals from Ohmme’s Sima Cunningham and Macie Stewart. Watch the …
The debut album from Nashville alt-rockers X-Ennials drops today (Oct. 29) with a two-part, pandemic-themed album, called Senseless American Tragedy. And though leader Anthony Davis once held a political office, he’s proving that “message-music” doesn’t have to be preachy or suck. Davis served a Nashville City Councilman for eight years and he’s poured …
Netflix has announced a new documentary chronicling Britney Spears’ saga with the conservatorship run by her father Jamie. Britney vs Spears will be released on the streaming platform September 28. The film is directed by Erin Lee Carr (How to Fix a Drug Scandal, Dirty Money). Check out the trailer …
The first two lawsuits have been filed against Travis Scott, Live Nation, and other entities affiliated with Astroworld Festival in light of Friday night’s tragic events that left eight people dead and hundreds injured. In a lawsuit filed Saturday in Harris County District Court, an attendee named Manuel Souza, who …
The Pitch: Out in the foggy hills of Iceland, Maria (Noomi Rapace) and Ingvar (Hilmir Snær Gudnason), a couple spending a dignified, quiet existence on their sheep farm, reside far from the rest of civilization. It’s relatively unspoken, but one intuits early that they’re reeling from the recent loss of a …