Metallica has shared new lyric videos for the song “72 Seasons” in eight different languages.
In addition to English, the clips are available in Spanish, Portuguese, French, Japanese, German, Italian and Korean. You can watch them all streaming now via Metallica’s YouTube.
“72 Seasons” is the title track off Metallica’s upcoming album. Other released 72 Seasons songs “Lux Æterna,” “Screaming Suicide” and “If Darkness Had a Son” also got similarly multilingual lyric videos.
Bob Dylan and Iggy Pop are among the many headliners booked for the 57th edition of the Montreux Jazz Festival, which runs from June 30 to July 15 on the shores of Lake Geneva, Switzerland.
Dylan is set to headline July 1, with his Rough and Rowdy Ways show, named after his 2020 album, while Iggy will headline July 6, with openers Generation Sex featuring Billy Idol, Steve Jones, Tony James, and Paul Cook.
Other performers confirmed for the two-week festival include Lionel Richie,Nile Rodgers & Chic, Buddy Guy and Joe Bonamassa, Mavis Staples and Norah Jones, Seal and more.
A public sale is set to kick off Thursday, April 6 at noon local time. A complete schedule of artists can be found at montreuxjazzfestival.com.
The Beatles have influenced a lot over the years, including hairstyles, clothes and other musicians. And apparently that also includes comics.
A new exhibit at the Liverpool Beatles Museum, curated by former Spider-Man editor Tim Quinn, examines that influence on comics, including a variety of artwork featuring the legendary band from several world-famous cartoonists.
“The exhibition all started after I came across a comic which referenced the Beatles. Back in 1963, I was cutting these comics out and sticking them in a scrapbook as each Beatles reference came out,” Quinn tells the Liverpool Echo. “I then realized that the Beatles, as their fame grew, were just about everywhere in newspapers and magazines, and that somebody needed to compile this. I’ve been preparing for this exhibition for 60 years!”
The exhibit, which is now open to the public, plans to continuously add new artwork. In addition to Quinn, it will be curated by Roag Best, who is the brother of former Beatles drummer Pete Best.
Best shares, “We know about the movies, we know about the records, we know about all these different aspects, but we felt that the Beatles in comics had been overlooked.”
He adds, “After sitting with Tim and discussing the exhibition, it seemed like a no brainer that we should do something to represent the Beatles in comics.”
Another day, another Gibson signature Kirk Hammett guitar.
After launching the 1959 Les Paul Standard — based on his beloved “Greeny” guitar — last week, the Metallica shredder is now putting out a recreation of his 1979 Gibson Flying V.
Only 200 of the Flying Vs were made, each of which will set you back $14,999 — a relative bargain compared to the $19,999 Les Paul.
If you have thoughts on Hammett’s Flying V, or anything Metallica-related, there’s a chance at least one band member knows about them. In an interview with Metal Hammer, Lars Ulrich shares that he does indeed read online comments.
“If you decide to go down into the comment sections, at least for me, you have to prepare yourself for not taking any of it overly personally,” Ulrich says. “You have to kind of remove yourself from it. But I’d like to challenge anybody in a band to say they don’t look at comments.”
If you’re upset at having to pay 50 bucks for a Taylor Swift tour t-shirt, this’ll make you feel better: Some of Elton John‘s tour merchandise is going for more than $2,000 a pop.
For the current U.K. leg of his Farewell Yellow Brick Road tour, Elton has teamed up with the upscale department store chain Selfridges for a special collection of merchandise. The items include regular stuff like t-shirts, mugs and socks, but those fans with deeper pockets can purchase a $300 candle shaped like a platform boot, a $400 Elton teddy bear, a $2300 suitcase, a $2500 polka-dot jacket, a $2200 clutch purse and a $2100 silk bathrobe.
Other Elton-branded items include boxer shorts, rugs, ceramic vases and plates, eyewear, and a yellow Snoopy figurine wearing Elton-style glasses that’ll set you back $425.
You can order all these items online from Selfridges if you’re not in the U.K. for the tour. Elton’s currently in the middle of a string of shows at London’s O2 Arena which runs through April 17.
Patti Smith does not want your hair. That’s the message she’s shared with fans after someone claiming to be her rep reached out to fans asking for them to send her a piece of their hair.
“This is the stupidest thing ever,” she shares in a video posted to Instagram. “If somebody calls you, emails you, or any of the other ways people communicate supposedly on my behalf asking for something, like perhaps your hair so that they can make me … say, [a] wig, it’s obviously [not me].”
She also assures fans “if I want something, I’ll ask for it myself,” insisting she doesn’t wear wigs.
“I don’t have anything against [wigs], I just don’t wear them,” she adds.
In the caption to her post she wishes her fans a happy spring, writing, “take care of yourselves and find ways to be happy and productive. As for me, my hair is ancient but fine.”
Melissa Etheridge’s daughter Bailey and Sammy Hagar’s son Andrew are among the celebrity offspring featured in the upcoming Paramount+ docuseries Family Legacy.
The show, originally announced last December as an MTV project, features the children of famous musicians “reliving some of entertainment’s most iconic moments and giving viewers an intimate look at their favorite artists.”
A new trailer for the series is out now, in which Bailey is heard describing herself as “the OG lesbian baby.” Bailey’s mom is Etheridge’s ex Julie Cypher, and her biological father is the late Rock & Roll Hall of Famer David Crosby, who was the former couple’s sperm donor.
Family Legacy premieres April 25 and also features the children of the late Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington, Brandy, Boyz II Men and more.
Bruce Springsteen and Patti Scialfa are set to appear on Lucinda Williams‘ new album, Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart, which drops June 30.
The pair are featured on the just-released single “New York Comeback,” along with a second song, “Rock n Roll Heart.” The album also features tributes to Tom Petty with the song “Stolen Moments,” and the Replacements’ co-founder Bob Stinson on the song “Hum’s Liquor.”
Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart is Lucinda’s first new album since having a stroke in November. In addition to Springsteen and Scialfa, it features guest appearances by Jesse Malin, the Replacements’ Tommy Stinson, Angel Olsen, Margo Price and more.
Bon Jovi fans are used to seeing David Bryan behind the keyboards, but usually it’s in front of thousands of screaming fans. Well, some lucky folks in New York got to experience him tickling the ivories in a very different setting.
The New York Post reports that Bryan gave a spontaneous performance Friday at the Manhattan hot spot Silver Lining inside the Moxy Lower East Side hotel, treating the crowd to his take on the classic “Great Balls of Fire.”
A source described the performance as an “unforgettable evening,” noting the 61-year-old keyboardist “left the crowd cheering.”
As for when we’ll see Bryan back onstage with Bon Jovi, that’s anybody’s guess. So far the band has no tour dates planned for this year.
Talking Heads are the latest artists to pay tribute to Sire Records founder Seymour Stein, who passed away Sunday at the age of 80.
“Talking Heads are deeply saddened to learn that Seymour Stein has died. He was our champion. He fought bravely for us and he remained loyal to us until the end,” read a post on the band’s official Instagram page. “Some people can spot a diamond in the rough and Seymour was one of them.”
“Seymour’s life was one of great success and also great tragedy, but through it all he remained crazy about music,” they add. “He was a mensch that we and the music business will never forget.”
Talking Heads’ Chris Frantz also wrote a tribute to Stein for Variety, in which he recalled the story of the first time Stein heard their band, and how he waited a year and a half for them to be ready to record their first record.
“Seymour was a good match for us,” he shares. “He understood us and accepted our eccentricities. He liked that we were smart and knew about art. Not very many record company guys understood or even cared about Talking Heads at that time, but Seymour believed in us from the beginning and his support never wavered.”
He adds, “He was our champion from the beginning to the end and for that, Seymour, we thank you.”
