No politics today. We’ve all seen and heard enough from that retarded orange buffoon to last ten lifetimes, and I’m still in the waterfalls and caves from my Oregon trip over the weekend.
Let’s talk music.
- Metallica, Alice In Chains, Disturbed and others have joined the “I’m Listening” suicide prevention campaign.
- Justin Timberlake is on the new Foo Fighters record. Whaaa
- Lil Wayne keeps having seizures. This in no way suggests that a steady diet of codeine and soda is bad for you.
- Peter Dinklage used to be in a punk/funk/rap band, and based on the photos (especially of the other singer) I’d say it’s a safe bet that they were the greatest musical act of all time.
- These Game of Thrones album covers are pretty awesome.
- Oh nice, Prophets of Rage covered Bulls on Parade with clucking chickens instead of guitars. Oh wait, that’s the new single? Are you fucking kidding me?
- Your favorite YouTube mp3 ripping site is all done.
- Mr. Robot sings for Queen now, in the movie sense anyway, and everything is weird.
- Dave Matthews Band is recruiting Coldplay, Ariana Grande, Chris Stapleton and more for a Charlottesville benefit. Better get those benefit bucks ready, cause we’ve got a couple hurricane cleanups on the way too..
- Gregg Allman‘s final album – a look inside.
- David Crosby calls out Jack White for having not written a really good song yet.
- The Radiohead stage collapse trial has stalled.
- U2 isn’t forcing you to listen to their new single. But You’re The Best Thing About Me is a catchy little jam.
- Matt Cameron, drummer for Pearl Jam/Soundgarden, has a new solo album on the way. Here’s a teaser for Cavedweller.
- Father John Misty responds to Ryan Adams’ attacks in the most perfectly Father John Misty way.
- No, there’s not actually a new Michael Jackson album on the way. It’s a Halloween record, but at least it has the namesake Janet duet.
- Of course this piece of Shkreli shit is selling his Wu-Tang album.
- Michelle Obama pulled a Beyonce.
- New Godspeed for your face.
- A bunch of Rock School kids re-recorded Van Halen’s first album, and that’s a pretty badass thing to do. Check out a couple clips of the little shredders.
- Listen to a new Beck song if you can get the retarded player to work. What is this, 2008?
- Bjork has a new album on the way, and who knows what she’ll wrap her face in this time.
- I had such high hopes for the new Revolver Mag relaunch. But one week in and we’re already talking about “high fashion in heavy music”. The fuck outta here with your branches and lace.
- Holy shit, you think you’ve got airline horror stories…
- Whitest headline of the week. It’s lit.
- OH MY GOD THERE’S PROOF THAT YOU’RE SPECIAL BECAUSE YOU LOVE MUSIC
- Mars, the people who make Snickers & Milky Way just committed a billion dollars to climate change. Alternate headline: Mars Terraforms Earth.
- The retarded pig who arrested the Utah nurse for doing her job has been fired.
Birthdays
- 1942 – Dave Bargeron (Blood, Sweat & Tears) (75)
- 1943 – Roger Waters (Pink Floyd) (74)
- 1949 – Jimmy Litherland (Colosseum) (68)
- 1952 – Buddy Miller (65)
- 1954 – Stella Barker (Belle Stars) (63)
- 1954 – Banner Thomas (Molly Hatchet) (63)
- 1954 – Patrick O’Hearn (Missing Persons) (63)
- 1957 – Joe Smyth (Sawyer Brown) (60)
- 1958 – Buster Bloodvessel (born Douglas Trendle) (Bad Manners) (59)
- 1960 – Perry Bamonte (Cure) (57)
- 1961 – Paul Waaktaar-Savoy (a-ha) (56)
- 1961 – Scott Travis (Judas Priest) (56)
- 1962 – Kevin Miller (Fuel) (55)
- 1963 – Mark Chestnutt (54)
- 1967 – Macy Gray (50)
- 1967 – William DuVall (Alice in Chains) (50)
- 1968 – Paddy Boom (born Patrick Seacor) (Scissor Sisters) (49)
- 1969 – CeCe Peniston (48)
- 1971 – Delores O’Riordan (Cranberries) (46)
- 1974 – Nina Persson (Cardigans) (43)
- 1976 – N.O.R.E. (born Victor Santiago, Jr.) (41)
Deaths
- 1978 – Tom Wilson (producer) – Heart attack (47)
- 1984 – Ernest Tubb – Emphysema (70)
- 1990 – Tom Fogerty (Creedence Clearwater Revival) – Tuberculosis/AIDS (48)
- 1994 – Nicky Hopkins (Rolling Stones) – Complications from intestinal surgery (50)
- 1997 – Roy Husky Jr. (country bassist) – Lung cancer (40)
- 2001 – Carl Crack (born Carl Bohm) (Atari Teenage Riot) – Drug overdose (30)
On This Day
- 1943 – Hank Williams offered to go onstage to get Hardrock Gunter’s guitar at a show in Montgomery, AL. While on stage, he decided to play a couple of songs for the audience.
- 1957 – The Flexi-Disc is used for the first time by Nestles Chocolate.
- 1961 – Bob Dylan made his New York debut at the Gaslight Cafe.
- 1963 – Cilla Black signed a management contract with Brian Epstein.
- 1963 – Jerry Lee Lewis left Sun Records for Smash Records.
- 1967 – The Bob Dylan documentary Don’t Look Back premiered in New York.
- 1969 – James Brown announced he would retire from live performing in July 1970.
- 1970 – Jimi Hendrix made his final live appearance at the Isle of Fehmarn in Germany.
- 1974 – T. Rex began a U.S. tour.
- 1980 – U2 kicked off their U.K. Boy Tour in Coventry.
- 1980 – Ginger Baker quit the reformed Atomic Rooster.
- 1988 – Elton John auctioned off over 2,000 pieces of memorabilia from his career.
- 1993 – A benefit for Walden Woods was held in Boston with Don Henley, Elton John, Jimmy Buffett, Sting and Aerosmith.
- 1996 – Tupac Shakur and Marion “Suge” Knight are shot in a drive-by shooting.
- 1997 – David Bowie starts a tour of North America in Vancouver, BC.
- 1999 – Scott Weiland of the Stone Temple Pilots is sentenced to a year in prison for a parole violation.
- 2003 – The Dixie Chicks opened their European tour in Stockholm, Sweden.
- 2004 – Rapper Twista is injured in a car accident that kills his friend and bodyguard Arthur Dixon.
- 2006 – Victor Willis of the Village People was sentenced to three years probation for drug possession.
- 2008 – Members of the band Great White agreed to pay the survivors and the families of victims of the The Station night club fire $1 million.
- 2010 – Jane’s Addiction announced that Duff McKagan was no longer a member of the band. He had only been with them for five months.
- 2011 – A judge ruled that Madonna had no claim to the name “Material Girl”.
- 2012 – Vince Gill received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
