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Days after American actor Nicolas Cage shared an anecdote about being mistaken for Australian musician Nick Cave, the latter has now chimed in to say that theirs is a shared experience.
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Cage’s comments were made in an interview with The Guardian last week, responding to a reader’s question about a 2022 tall tale from Cave which recounts the pair apparently meeting due to their similar names.
“I don’t think there’s a day that goes by where I’m not mistaken for Nick Cave,” Cage explained.
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“I do remember that Cave was very nice,” he added. “We were at an animal sanctuary, I believe – I think Sealy Animal Hospital in Texas – and he was terrific. I said hello and wanted to shake his hand. I said: ‘Only one letter separates us – G. Nick Cave, Nick Cage.’”
Cage’s original story was shrouded in mystery, given that it heavily referenced Cave’s own tale from 2022 in which he responded to readers of his Red Hand Files website who respectively asked if Cave has ever met Cage, or added an “untrue component to a story to make it more interesting than it actually is.”
Cave’s ensuing story saw him recounting a case of mistaken identity at the Healesville Sanctuary in his home state of Victoria, before apparently meeting Cage in the back of a local pub where the actor claimed that “Only one letter separates us!”
Though Cave’s 2022 post is a clear shaggy dog story, a new post on his Red Hand Files site has seen him respond to fans asking about the actor’s recent interview. “I read Nic Cage’s piece in The Guardian, and I relate to his experience,” Cave explained. “There has always been a persistent and somewhat perplexing confusion surrounding our names.”
As he continued, Cave recounted a lengthy story in which he visited a bar while living in São Paulo and met a Brazilian man named Diego who mistook him for Cage, with the musician adopting the guise of the actor due to the pity he felt for the young man.
“After a while, I began to warm to my theme,” Cave explained. “I told him that making Raising Arizona was the most extraordinary experience and a highpoint in my career, that John Goodman was a fascinating and complex character, and how it was a real privilege to work with the Coen brothers and that they were ‘masters of their craft’ and all this bullsh–t.”
“Anyway, these confusions between me and Mr. Cage happen fairly often. But I don’t mind. I’m a fan,” Cave wrote at the end of his story. “Have you guys seen Mandy? My God. What a film.”
Though the likes of Hall & Oates might be heavily associated with the contentious ‘yacht rock‘ genre, Daryl Hall himself has expressed disdain towards the classification.
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Used as a way to refer to the soft pop-rock and blue-eyed soul of the ’70s and ’80s, the term ‘yacht rock’ was initially coined by makers of a 2005 mockumentary series of the same name. The series itself was a popular one, lasting from 2005 until 2010 and even resulting in a 2024 HBO ‘Dockumentary‘ that explored the genre in deeper detail.
However, while the likes of Michael McDonald and even John Oates have been receptive to the original show, Hall is singing a far different tune. In the latest episode of the Broken Record podcast, Hall told interviewer Justin Richmond that he’s far from a fan of the concept.
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“This is something I don’t understand. First of all, yacht rock was a f–king joke by two jerk-offs in California, and suddenly it became a genre,” he explained. “I don’t even understand it. I never understood it. It’s just R&B with maybe some jazz in there. It’s mellow R&B, smooth R&B. I don’t see what the yacht part is.
“People misjudged us because they couldn’t label us,” he continued. “They always came up with all this kind of crap, soft rock and yacht rock and all this other nonsense. And none of it, none of it really describes anything that I do, really.”
In 2007, Oates reflected on the success of the Yacht Rock series, explaining that it was the “beginning of this whole Hall & Oates resurrection,” and even noting that “a lot of things have happened because of Yacht Rock.”
It’s little surprise that both Hall and Oates have differing views on the matter, given that the pair’s 2024 dissolution was given an air of finality when Hall claimed in March that they would never again perform together. “That ship has gone to the bottom of the ocean,” he explained. “I’ve had a lot of surprises in my life, disappointments, betrayals, so I’m kind of used to it.”
The Hall & Oates dissolution first began back in November 2023 when the pair became embroiled in a legal dispute. Described by Oates as “a very boring business issue,” the crux of the issue began when Hall filed suit against his former partner over Oates’ attempt to sell his half of the duo’s joint venture Whole Oates Enterprises to Primary Wave Music without Hall’s consent.
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Pearl Jam have released a new four-track collection of songs connected to The Last of Us franchise, tying together their long-running relationship with the acclaimed video game series and its HBO adaptation.
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The EP includes studio cuts, a live performance, and a reworked fan favorite, and arrives with an exclusive vinyl edition available only to Ten Club members.
The tracklist features the original studio version of “Future Days” from 2013’s Lightning Bolt, as well as “All or None” from Riot Act (2002). On the flip side of the vinyl pressing, fans will find a new live version of “Future Days,” recorded at the 2024 Ohana Festival, and a reimagined take on No Code’s “Present Tense,” titled “Present Tense (Redux).”
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“Future Days” has become deeply embedded in the lore of The Last of Us. In The Last of Us Part II, Joel plays the song for Ellie in one of the game’s most emotional scenes, and it reappears throughout the storyline as a symbol of connection and loss.
That moment was first brought to life outside the game in 2020, when Eddie Vedder performed “Future Days” live at The Game Awards as a tribute to the game’s impact.
In season two of HBO’s The Last of Us, the song makes a quiet return. In episode five, Ellie picks up a guitar inside a Seattle theater and softly sings the first line of “Future Days,” the moment mirroring a pivotal scene from the video game The Last of Us Part II, where Joel plays the full song for Ellie in a flashback.
The compilation is available now on all major streaming platforms. A limited edition 12-inch vinyl version has also been released through Pearl Jam’s official site, but is exclusive to registered members of The Ten Club.
This release lands in the middle of Pearl Jam’s 2025 global tour in support of their twelfth studio album Dark Matter, which debuted at No. 5 on the Billboard 200. The band’s current run includes appearances across North America and Europe, and has already featured standout moments, including a performance of “Black” in Nashville with Peter Frampton.
When Metallica hit the stage at Lane Stadium on May 7, it wasn’t just another stadium show, it became a scientifically confirmed minor seismic event.
As the opening chords of “Enter Sandman” rang out at the show, more than 60,000 fans jumped together, creating enough force to register ground movement. The Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory, located a mile away, detected tremors during the set and later confirmed that the crowd had, quite literally, shaken the earth.
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“Metallica saved ‘Enter Sandman’ for the final song of the night. It did not disappoint, shaking Lane Stadium so hard it registered on the Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory’s helicorder. Nothing compares to experiencing it live, but this multi-camera video shared by the band comes pretty close,” Virginia Tech’s website reported.
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While the tremors posed no danger to the public, the moment quickly earned the nickname “Metallica Quake” across social media. According to the FOX Forecast Center, the seismic activity was too minor to be rated on the Richter scale.
“The magnitude would have been less than 1.0,” said Virginia Tech Seismological Observatory research associate Martin Chapman. “Too small to be felt even a mile away.”
For locals, the track holds deeper meaning. “Enter Sandman” has soundtracked Virginia Tech Hokies football team entrances for years, blasting through the stadium speakers to fire up the crowd.
Virginia Tech Athletics shared the moment online, saying, “Thanks for jumping with us, Metallica! Come back anytime.”
The concert was part of Metallica’s M72 World Tour, which supports their eleventh studio album 72 Seasons. The tour features two-night stops in each city, with no repeated songs across either set. Support acts on this leg include Pantera, Limp Bizkit, Suicidal Tendencies, and Ice Nine Kills.
72 Seasons debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 following its release in April 2023. The set debuted with 146,000 units earned, achieving the largest week by units for any rock or hard rock album in over three-and-a-half years. It also marked the band’s 12th top 10 charting album, of which nine have reached the top two. 72 Seasons also marked the band’s first original album in seven years.
Last month, Metallica also dropped the first trailer for their upcoming fan-focused documentary, Metallica Saved My Life, directed by the band’s longtime collaborator, Grammy-winner Jonas Åkerlund, which will be screened in select cities on the band’s ongoing M72 world tour.
In a statement on April 8, the group wrote, “As a few of you may know, we’ve been working behind the scenes the last couple of years on a new film that will be released later this year starring you guys! Metallica Saved My Life explores our world through the lives of fans who have supported each other through highs, lows, trials and triumphs for over four decades. And yeah, we’re in it a little bit too.”
As Northern Irish hip-hop trio Kneecap face controversy for their overt support of Palestine, so too has Irish post-punk group The Murder Capital, who have seen two German shows cancelled due to their display of the Palestinian flag onstage.
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The group were scheduled to perform at Berlin venue Gretchen on Saturday (May 10), though the event was reportedly cancelled after discussions with the band about their habit of flying the Palestinian flag onstage during their live performances.
In response to the cancellation, The Murder Capital offered a spoken statement from outside the venue while holding the Palestinian flag. “We pulled into Berlin this morning. We had no idea that we weren’t allowed to fly this flag here today,” they explained.
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“We discussed it for an hour at length, what we should do. We came to the decision that we were not going to take the flag off the stage,” they continued. “That was a decision pretty easily made, but we discussed possible outcomes; ‘What if they decide to cancel the show?’”
According to the band, after deciding to go ahead with displaying the flag onstage, they were told they could not do so, nor could they replace the flag with a banner that read “Free Palestine.”
“It’s not just about national flags. It’s about political statements,” they continued. “And to us this isn’t just a political statement, it’s a humanitarian statement. We’ve been saying that in interviews for the whole time that we’ve been speaking about it as people. It’s not all about politics, it’s about people who are dying and being slaughtered every day, and that’s happening right now.
“So, for us as a band, Who’s had this flag on their stage for countless shows now. It would be the wrong thing for us to do to take it off the stage just so that the venue is kept happy. We don’t agree with that. We don’t agree. We spoke earlier today about this, about how we wish live music and art and theater could be free of political discussion and things like that, but as the world as it is, unfortunately it just cannot be.
“That’s the way it is, so we’ll be back to you as soon as we can,” they concluded. “We appreciate all your support deeply. But most importantly, free Palestine.”
Germany upholds strict laws in regard to antisemitism, with The Hollywood Reporter having noted that last year’s edition of the Berlin Film Festival urged attendees to wear clothes or symbols showing solidarity with Palestine, but urged caution in regard to the usage of certain language for fear that it may fall into the category of language considered prohibited hate speech.
In response to the cancellation of their show, The Murder Capital instead performed an acoustic set outside of Berlin venue Obentrautstraße 19.
The band had intended to again fly the Palestinian flag at their subsequent show in Cologne on Sunday (May 11), though they later confirmed the gig at Gebäude 9 was similarly cancelled, with an acoustic performance at Rheinpark taking place instead.
“We arrived into Cologne this morning hoping that what happened in Berlin yesterday would be an isolated incident, but tonight’s venue Gebäude 9 has also told us that we cannot have the Palestinian flag on our stage,” the band explained in a video shared to social media.
“The Palestinian flag itself needs to be on our stage and needs to be as visible everywhere in the world as possible,” they added. “These people are being eradicated, being starved, being bombed, and these war crimes and this genocide is being committed by the Israeli state and funded and supported by governments around the world.
“Us having a flag on our stage at a rock show is not a political statement. It is a human reaction to a horrific and unimaginable situation. But this is not history, it is happening right now today.”
The Murder Capital’s cancelled German performances aren’t an isolated incident. In April, fresh from the controversy surrounding the pro-Palestine and anti-Israel sentiments projected during their Coachella set, Kneecap were removed from the lineup of the Hurricane and Southside festivals in June, with their headline dates in Berlin, Cologne and Hamburg for September soon being axed as well.
Fans are being given the chance to buy up the contents of ‘Steve Albini’s Closet’ as part of a newly-launched series of weekly sales.
Albini – the prolific musician and recording engineer – passed away unexpectedly in May 2024, leaving behind a lifetime of items collected in the course of his various interests. Now, fans of the influential figure are able to rehome his treasured items into their own respective collections.
The opportunity takes place as part of Steve Albini’s Closet, a newly-launched website which describes itself as an “entity created to distribute the treasures amassed by the late polymath.”
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“Steve pursued many fields of interest, and most of them are represented somewhere in his collections,” the website’s description adds.
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Administered by former Forced Exposure editor Byron Coley, each item comes accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity signed by Coley himself, who notes that new items will be uploaded to the site each Friday, with proceeds going to benefit Albini’s estate.
The collection includes books, cassettes, singles, CDs, and LPs formerly owned by Albini, alongside zines, shirts, posters and flyers, original art, and both “enthusiasms” and “mysterious bargains.”
“Every Friday, expect 100-200 more, a steady stream of the unusual, the rare, the weird and the overlooked,” Coley notes. “Somewhere in the stacks, about 4,000 pieces wait their turn, plus a corner for the smaller curiosities.
“No grand plan apart from the slow unveiling of oddities and treasures, week after week, for the next year,” he adds. “Keep your eyes peeled.”
Albini died of a heart attack at the age of 61 on May 7, 2024. He left behind a legacy of lacerating noise punk as the leader of his bands Shellac, Rapeman and Big Black, as well as a long list of credits engineering (he preferred that title rather than “producer”) such landmark albums as PJ Harvey’s Rid of Me, Nirvana’s In Utero, the Pixies’ Surfer Rosa, as well as thousands of others.
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