The drum kit Rush’s Neil Peart played between 1974 and 1977 — both onstage and on albums like Fly by Night and 2112 — will soon hit the auction block. The chrome Slingerland drum kit, which Peart purchased just weeks before his first Rush concert in August 1974, will be …
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Since the start of the pandemic, awards shows have attempted to strike a balance between necessary Covid-19 precautions and the awkwardness of virtual formats. On Thursday night, the Latin Recording Academy tried to forge its own path with its “reimagined telecast,” which bounced between a live show with limited guests …
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UPDATE (11/19):Paul McCartney has pushed back the release of his new album, McCartney III, to December 18th, citing “unforeseeable production delays” on Twitter. ** Days after teasing a new album on social media, Paul McCartney has announced McCartney III, out December 11th via Capitol Records. A follow-up to his 1970 …
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During the past five decades, Rob Halford has been instrumental in defining the sound and look of heavy metal as the frontman for Judas Priest and with his own groups, Fight, 2wo, and Halford. In that time, the artist — who recently released his memoir, Confess — earned himself the …
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When Measure 110, also known as the Drug Addiction and Recovery Act, goes into effect on February 21st, 2021, cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, (non-prescribed) oxycodone, and several other currently illegal drugs will be decriminalized in Oregon. Going forward, a person caught with a non-commercial amount will receive a fine of up …
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Queens of the Stone Age will be broadcasting previously unseen footage from their August 2018 acoustic set at MONA (Museum of Old and New Art) in Tasmania as part of a fundraising event for the Nick Alexander Memorial Trust and Life for Paris charities. The footage will premiere on the …
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The latest release from Damon Albarn’s ever-evolving project Gorillaz is one of the most diverse, wide-open, and free-flowing LPs the cartoon band has released in its 20-year history. That’s saying something; Albarn has always proposed Gorillaz as a space beyond and between pop music’s borders, and over the decades everyone …
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Lizzo sat down for a heartfelt interview with David Letterman at her Los Angeles home for the second season of his Netflix series, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction. Filmed during Covid-19 quarantine, the episode had a noticeably different tone from past My Next Guest episodes that have taken place …
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Donald Trump has made no secret of his disgust with voting by mail. He’s blasted the practice as creating “tremendous potential for voter fraud,” claimed it would spark “a free for all on cheating, forgery and the theft of ballots” and insisted it would create “the most CORRUPT ELECTION in …
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A conservative Christian preacher promised to bring “salvations, signs and wonders, and miracles” to Nashville on Sunday night when he hosted a mass religious gathering in the city’s Public Square Park downtown. The real miracle, however, will be if no one catches the coronavirus. Sean Feucht, a Christian musician, online …
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