Happy Thursday!
- The new QOTSA record is far and away the best record of 2017 thus far, and it comes out tomorrow. Here’s a track-by-track review. While you’re at it, may as well pick the thing up. Also, Josh did some talkin’ with Rolling Stone about the record, fatherhood and all that jazz. Hop on.
- Tom Morello has some fond memories of Chris Cornell, and likely won’t ever get over his passing. Just like all other reports, Tom recounts how happy and well-adjusted Chris seemed at this stage in his life.
- Every time Chelsea Wolfe drops a new track, I give it a solid few listens – because many people whose tastes I respect love her. But the black-on-black Anne Rice depresso wheezing into a tin can has zero value, breaks absolutely no ground, and recounts the same spooooooky vision goth vibe high school girls were into when they saw Interview With The Vampire 23 goddamned years ago. So basically, I give some of my friends far too much credit for their wack-ass taste.
- Dumbass halfwith rapper Joey Bada$$ stares defiantly into the sun during the eclipse, then cancels his next three shows. You do the blindness math.
- Funny, how hate tries to co-opt pop culture – and always fails.
- The Village Voice is eliminating its print edition. The end of a truly beautiful era has come.
- Rings that correspond colors with music notes are seriously goddamned fantastic. Let’s make a lot more of this stuff and annoy the almighty hell out of each other.
- Prince‘s rare Sign O’ The Times movie is coming to Showtime.
- Here are 10 Unforgettable Reading and Leeds performances, but chances are they’re going to need to expand this list after tomorrow. Wink wink.
- Here’s more casting news for the upcoming Freddie Mercury biopic. How the hell they’re turning Mr. Robot into one of the most flamboyantly awesome singers of all time is beyond me, but if it’s good enough for Brian May…
- Open Mike Eagle delivers the riveting Brick Body Complex.
- Watch Liam Gallagher‘s live video for For What It’s Worth. Shit is underwhelming, and his solo career is going nowhere. Let’s make this Oasis shit happen before it just gets too sad to deal with.
- Alice In Chains and friends remember Layne Staley during his 50th birthday week.
- Dave Grohl is making a movie, and someday he’s going to finish it. But the Foo Fighters keep getting in the way.
- Janet Rains, tour manager for Adrenaline Mob, has succumbed to her injuries from a tragic bus crash last month.
- Corey Taylor speaks more truth. This guy as a hot contender for the kind of role model and burn-the-fat dissent that hard rock has needed for a long-ass time.
- Don’t want to part with your old festival wristband? Here are a bunch of retarded Pinterest-level things you can do to preserve them, each a bit more silly than the last.
- There’s a new Joan Didion documentary on the way, so we can learn more about the legendary author.
- Arya and Sansa do some carpool karaoke jamming.
- Game of Thrones writer George R. R. Martin throws casual shade on Season 7, saying he hasn’t seen any of it, and the books will be completely different.
- A new Joker & Harley Quinn movie is on the way, and it’s not the same as the Joker movie coming up. Either way, let’s continue our Leto-distraction campaign and keep him the hell away from these films.
- You dig South Park. Who doesn’t? And in anticipation of the new season, you’ll soon be able to marathon your way through all 254 episodes.
- Chris Cornell‘s widow, who looks every bit the dark soul she’s been so heavily rumored to be for years, is turning fans’ tributes into a website. Perhaps that’s mean. But perhaps you could take all the self-serving “I” statements she made from Chris’ passing and funeral and wrap them around the planet twenty times.
- Here’s a running tally of 579 Constitution-violating acts of fuckery our president has committed since taking office, proving himself time and again to be an authoritarian kleptocrat.
- No seriously, set this motherfucker ablaze. In the sense of impeachment. He is a cancer upon this country.
