Rock
Page: 114
German prosecutors are reportedly investigating Till Lindemann, frontman of German industrial-metal outfit Rammstein, after multiple women came forward with allegations of sexual assault.
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
“Preliminary proceedings have been initiated against Till Lindemann on allegations relating to sexual offences and the distribution of narcotics,” reads a statement from the Berlin public prosecution’s office, Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports.
The probe follows a wave of sexual misconduct accusations posted online, and includes one woman’s claim that she had been drugged and propositioned by Lindemann at a backstage party in Vilnius, Lithuania.
Waving the right to anonymity, Shelby Lynn, from Northern Ireland, told the BBC she she was recruited and “groomed” for sex with the singer after the concert in May. Lynn claimed her drink was spiked at the show, but says she wasn’t sexually assaulted.Lindemann has denied the allegations, with lawyers for the 60-year-old rocker calling the accusations “without exception untrue”.When the allegations emerged earlier this month, the band members issued a statement to say they took them “extremely seriously” and condemn all forms of abuse, adding that the band’s fans should feel safe “in front and behind the stage” at shows. Also, the band asked that they “not be pre-judged.”
Prosecutors in the capital are said to have launched the investigation “on the basis of several criminal complaints filed by third parties,” or people not directly involved with the case.
As a result, authorities said that the band’s planned aftershow parties for upcoming concerts in Berlin next month would be canceled, the AFP reports.
As news broke of the allegations and subsequent investigation, German Families Minister Lisa Paus weighed in, calling for an “alliance against sexism” and safety from abusive behavior. Paus told the news agency, “young people in particular need to be better protected from attacks here.”
Forming in 1994, Rammstein has consistently been one of Germany’s most popular — and controversial — rock music exports.
The band’s explosive concerts and pyrotechnics have landed them on festival headline slots around the globe, and, at times, put them at odds with health and safety officials. A planned 2001 concert at former central London venue Astoria was scrapped “due to significant restrictions to their stageshow and pyrotechnics”– in other words, authorities were concerned the venue would catch fire.
The group has also courted controversy with its lyrical content and music videos, which have included a hardcore pornographic promo for the 2009 single “Pussy”, and the clip for 2019’s “Deutschland” which was blasted as tasteless and unacceptable by Jewish organizations for its depiction of band members as concentration camp inmates.
In 2019, Rammstein’s untitled seventh studio LP debuted at No. 1 on the album charts in 14 countries, according to Universal Music.
Rammstein’s current tour rolls into the Swiss capital, Bern, this weekend.
Jesse Malin revealed in a new interview that he is currently paralyzed from the waist down after a rare spinal stroke last month. In an interview with Rolling Stone, the 54-year-old shared that he was out to dinner with a friend in New York City’s East Village when he suffered a spinal cord infarction (a […]
Johnny Rowan, who drummed for ’90s alt rockers Urge Overkill under the name Blackie Onassis, has died at age 57, the band announced Wednesday (June 14). “Urge Overkill is saddened to report that Blackie has passed away,” read a post on the band’s social media accounts. “Please respect our privacy at this time. We are […]
After being heard in the final season of Amazon Prime Video’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, Norman Greenbaum’s “Spirit in the Sky” rules Billboard’s Top TV Songs chart, powered by Tunefind, for May 2023.
Explore
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
Rankings for the Top TV Songs chart are based on song and show data provided by Tunefind and ranked using a formula blending that data with sales and streaming information tracked by Luminate during the corresponding period of May 2023.
“Spirit in the Sky” appeared in the sixth episode of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel’s fifth and final season; the episode aired May 5.
In May 2023, the song earned 9.5 million on-demand official U.S. streams and 9,000 downloads, according to Luminate.
Originally released in 1969, “Spirit in the Sky” is Greenbaum’s sole top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100, reaching No. 3 in April 1970.
It’s one of two songs from The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel to appear on the May 2023 Top TV Songs survey. Carly Simon’s “You’re So Vain” joins at No. 9 after its synch in the season’s seventh episode (May 12), accumulating 7.1 million streams and 1,000 downloads that month.
The top non-The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel entry, meanwhile, belongs to the newly debuted Netflix series XO, Kitty, thanks to Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” which enters at No. 2.
“Everybody Wants to Rule the World” was heard in the new show’s (a spinoff to the To All the Boys film series) third episode, premiered alongside the rest of the freshman season on May 18. It earned 24.8 million streams and 3,000 downloads in May 2023.
Music heard in The Company You Keep, Yellowjackets, The Power, Selling Sunset and Will Trent also make the latest survey. See the full top 10 below.
Rank, Song, Artist, Show (Network)
“Spirit in the Sky,” Norman Greenbaum, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime Video)
“Everybody Wants to Rule the World,” Tears for Fears, XO, Kitty (Netflix)
“Can’t You See,” The Marshall Tucker Band, The Company You Keep (ABC)
“Zombie,” The Cranberries, Yellowjackets (Showtime)
“Lightning Crashes,” Live, Yellowjackets (Showtime)
“Just a Girl,” No Doubt, The Power (Amazon Prime Video)
“Something in the Way,” Yellowjackets (Showtime)
“Far Beyond,” Dexter French, Darius Behdad & Huxley Ware, Selling Sunset (Netflix)
“You’re So Vain,” Carly Simon, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon Prime Video)
“Show Me Love,” Robin S, Will Trent (ABC)
A little over four decades after her official solo debut, Stevie Nicks is prepping a staggering retrospective by way of a career-spanning box set and a new collection of rare and unreleased tracks. Complete Studio Albums & Rarities is slated for a July 28 release as a 10-CD set combining each of Nicks’ solo studio […]
Papa Roach’s music hasn’t softened in its nearly three-decade career, but the four-piece metal band from Northern California has become wiser with age and experience. “We’re growing as people,” guitarist Jerry Horton tells Billboard’s Behind the Setlist podcast, “and our music has matured as well.” The trick, he says, is “about “finding a way to grow up but not lose our edge.”
Explore
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
The band rose to prominence with a rap-metal hybrid that rubbed elbows with Limp Bizkit, Slipknot and Korn at the turn of the century. Papa Roach gained popularity in 2000 with “Last Resort,” a song about suicidal ideation built around an instantly memorable guitar riff. That song sent the band’s Dreamworks Records debut, Infest, to No. 5 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
“I use to bash the microphone into my head and just bleed,” says singer Jacoby Shaddix of the performing in the band’s early days. “I was burning myself with cigarettes just to get a reaction.”
“For the time period, for how old we were and that period of our lives, and also the type of music we were doing, all of that went hand in hand,” says Horton. “And I feel like for that time period, it wasn’t necessarily wrong. That’s just where we were. And pretty much all of our peers were mentally and stylistically — that’s just where everybody was at.”
The band’s latest album, Ego Trip, finds Papa Roach growing as businesspeople, too. After releasing albums for both major and independent labels, Papa Roach decided to release Ego Trip through its own New Noize imprint. “We always go back to something Davie Bowie said: ‘I had to become a better businessman to become a better artist.’,” says Horton. “It just kind of hit us in the face. We’re just like, this is what we need to do. Here it is, time to seize it.”
Launching a record label was a risk, but it felt right, says Horton. “It just feels like something we needed to do — whether we fell on our faces or not.” That means the buck stops with the band. “You can’t just say a bunch of shit,” says Shaddix. “It’s like, alright, let’s talk about how we’re going to create this and then let’s go find the people to do it, and then execute it.”
Listen to the entire interview with Shaddix and Horton at Spotify, Apple Podcasts, iHeart, Stitcher, Amazon Music and Audible.
Jet is getting back in the air and out on the road for a string of concerts this September.
For the first time in half a decade, the Melbourne rock band will reunite for a run of concerts to mark the 20th anniversary of their debut album, Get Born.
The classic lineup of Nic Cester (vocals/guitar), Chris Cester (vocals/drums), Cam Muncey (vocals/guitar) and Mark Wilson (bass) will kick off the trek Sept. 22 at Melbourne’s Forum Theatre, followed by stops at Adelaide’s Hindley Street Music Hall, Brisbane’s Fortitude Music Hall and wrapping up Sept. 30 at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre.
Explore
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
Live Nation Australia is producing the dates.
Get Born was “a rare and unique moment of total planetary alignment where we somehow managed to capture lighting in a bottle,” comments Nic Cester on the album that made Jet fly.
Yielding the hits “Are You Gonna Be My Girl,” which appeared in an international iTunes campaign and cracked the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart (peaking at No. 29); “Look What You’ve Done,” “Rollover DJ “and “Get Me Outta Here,” Get Born went on to land six ARIA Awards and is certified nine-times platinum in Australia. Global sales top 5 million, reps say, and Get Born remains one of the top 5 highest-selling Australian rock albums of all time.
Jet was finally grounded in 2012, before briefly reforming in 2017 to play with Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band on their sold-out Australian tour of that year. A handful of dates followed, including a slot at Fuji Rock festival in Japan.
“I don’t remember much about the actual day Get Born was released,” comments Wilson. “I think we were in Pittsburgh. I’m sure we celebrated, but to be honest we celebrated every night back in those days. 2003 was one big blurry haze for me.”
The general public ticket on sale starts Friday, June 16, with pre-sales opening from Thursday.
The Silversun Pickups are returning to Southern California for their second visit in less than a year, performing at the new Bellwether music venue in Los Angeles on Sept. 27.
Explore
Explore
See latest videos, charts and news
See latest videos, charts and news
The critically acclaimed LA-based indie rock group, led by vocalist and guitarist Brian Aubert, along with bassist Nikki Monninger, drummer Christopher Guanlao and keyboardist Joe Lester, are touring in support of their sixth studio album Physical Thrills. Released in August, Physical Thrills is Silversun Pickups second album produced by legendary American musician, songwriter, and record producer Butch Vig and is the third album to be released on their own label, New Machine Recordings.
Much of the music on Physical Thrills was written by Aubert during the pandemic and, earlier this month, the band announced the release their new EP Acoustic Thrills, featuring acoustic tracks from Physical Thrills: “Scared Together,” “Empty Nest” and “Alone on a Hill.”
“After building so many layers on the album it felt great to strip these songs down to their rawest form,” Monninger said in a press release announcing the album.
Yesterday, the Silversun Pickups announced a Sept. 29 concert at The Show inside of Agua Caliente in Rancho Mirage, Calif., near Palm Springs. Best known for their 2006 songs “Lazy Eye” and “Well Thought Out Twinkles” both of which made the top 10 of the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart in 2007, and their 2009 track “Panic Switch,” Silversun Pickups last played Los Angeles on Oct. 3 at the Orpheum Theater.
The Bellwether, a 1,600-capacity GA venue and joint venture between leading U.S. indie concert promoter Another Planet Entertainment and Teragram Ballroom owner Michael Swier, opens July 11 with a show from Phantogram. Located at 333 S. Boylston Street, the Bellwether’s opening run of shows includes two performances from HAIM (July 17-18), three nights of Porter Robinson (July 28-30), three nights with Carly Rae Jepson (Aug 12-14) and two nights with Isiah Rashad, August 17-18.
For a complete list of shows at the Bellwether, click here. For Silversun Pickup tickets at the Bellwether on Sept. 27, which go on sale June 16, click here. For Silversun Pickup tickets on Sept. 29 at The Show, click here.
Jelly Roll’s Whitsitt Chapel blasts onto Billboard’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart (dated June 17) at No. 1 and the Top Country Albums tally at No. 2. Released June 2, the set earned 90,000 equivalent album units in the United States, with 63,000 in album sales, in the week ending June 8, according to Luminate.
Whitsitt Chapel also arrives at No. 3 on the all-genre Billboard 200, giving the Nashville-born artist, named Jason Bradley DeFord, his first top 10 on the ranking.
Thanks to his first country album, Jelly Roll earns the largest week for an initial entry on Top Country Albums since the chart transitioned to a consumption-based methodology (from one based on pure sales) in February 2017. It surpasses The Highwomen, whose lone Top Country Albums entry (a self-titled set) started at No. 1 in September 2019 with 34,000 units. (The group comprises Brandi Carlile, Natalie Hemby, Maren Morris and Amanda Shires.) The previous best first week on the chart for a solo male belonged to Bailey Zimmerman’s Leave the Light On (32,000 units, October 2022).
Whitsitt Chapel becomes Jelly Roll’s first No. 1 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums in his second appearance on the tally. Previously, Ballads of the Broken peaked at No. 35 in September 2022.
Notably, the new set follows multiple albums in reaching the top two of both Top Rock & Alternative Albums and Top Country Albums. Those have included, this decade: HARDY’s The Mockingbird & the Crow (No. 1 on both charts, this February), Zach Bryan’s American Heartbreak (No. 1 on both, June 2022), and Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit’s Reunions (No. 1 on both, May 2020).
Whitsitt Chapel’s album sales were helped by three vinyl LPs (including a color-variant exclusive for Walmart), a standard CD, a signed CD sold through Jelly Roll’s webstore, a deeply discounted digital album (only $4.20 for a limited time during the tracking week in his webstore), nine deluxe CD boxed sets that included branded merch and a copy of the CD, and a “hymnal” zine/CD package.
The album sports 13 tracks, including collaborations with Brantley Gilbert, Struggle Jennings, Lainey Wilson and Yelawolf.
Meanwhile, the LP’s lead single, “Need a Favor,” holds at its No. 2 high on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs and pushes 7-4 on Hot Country Songs, with 20.2 million in airplay audience, 11.2 million official streams and 3,000 sold. The track keeps at its No. 3 high on Mainstream Rock Airplay and ascends 14-12 on Country Airplay. On the former, Jelly Roll reigned for a week in May 2022 with “Dead Man Walking.” On the latter list, he led for a week in January with “Son of a Sinner.”
Foo Fighters earn multiple No. 1 placements on the Billboard charts dated June 17 as their new set But Here We Are crowns Top Alternative Albums and Top Hard Rock Albums, while the LP’s lead single “Rescued” commands Hot Hard Rock Songs.
But Here We Are bows with 62,000 equivalent album units earned in the United States in the June 2-8 tracking week, according to Luminate. Of that sum, 55,000 units are via album sales.
The release is Foo Fighters’ seventh No. 1 on Top Hard Rock Albums since the chart began in 2007. The band first ruled with Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace in October 2007 and had most recently led with Medicine at Midnight in February 2021.
The Dave Grohl-fronted band slots into a four-way tie for the most leaders in the tally’s history, alongside Five Finger Death Punch, Linkin Park and Pearl Jam.
Most No. 1s, Top Hard Rock Albums:7, Five Finger Death Punch7, Foo Fighters7, Linkin Park7, Pearl Jam6, Disturbed6, Korn
Foo Fighters also boast six Top Alternative Albums rulers with the addition of But Here We Are, their first and most recent also having been Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace and Medicine at Midnight, respectively. The band’s only set to lead Top Hard Rock Albums but not Top Alternative Albums is 2009’s Greatest Hits, which peaked at No. 2 on the latter.
Foo Fighters take sole possession of the second-most Top Alternative Albums No. 1s. Lana Del Rey leads all acts with seven.
Most No. 1s, Top Alternative Albums:7, Lana Del Rey6, Foo Fighters5, Coldplay5, Disturbed5, Imagine Dragons5, Pearl Jam5, Jack White
But Here We Are also begins at No. 2 on Top Rock & Alternative Albums and Top Rock Albums.
On the all-genre Billboard 200, the album starts at No. 8, marking Foo Fighters’ 10th top 10. The band first reached the region with the No. 10-peaking The Colour and the Shape in June 1997. Of those top 10s, two – 2011’s Wasting Light and 2017’s Concrete and Gold – hit No. 1.
Concurrently, “Rescued,” the first single from But Here We Are, rises 3-1 on the multi-metric Hot Hard Rock Songs list in its eighth week on the tally. It’s the band’s third No. 1 dating to the chart’s 2020 inception, following the eighth-week rule of “Waiting on a War” beginning in February 2021 and the three-week reign of 1997’s “Everlong” in April 2022, the latter following the death of drummer Taylor Hawkins.
“Rescued” totaled 10.5 million radio audience impressions, 1.6 million official streams and 1,000 downloads sold June 2-8.
Concurrently, “Rescued” rules Rock & Alternative Airplay and Mainstream Rock Airplay for a fifth week each and Alternative Airplay for a fourth frame.
Seven songs from But Here We Are appear on Hot Hard Rock Songs, with “Rescued” followed closest by “The Glass” at No. 5 (1.6 million streams).
“Rescued” also jumps 17-12 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, followed by “The Glass” at No. 33.