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Following the news of rock legend Denny Laine’s death, his former bandmate Paul McCartney took to Instagram to mourn the loss. “I have many fond memories of my time with Denny: from the early days when The Beatles toured with the Moody Blues,” he wrote alongside a throwback picture of Laine. “Our two bands had […]
Limp Bizkit is hitting the road!
The band announced their 2024 Loserville tour on Tuesday (Dec. 5), and the 24-date run will feature a slew of special guests including Bones with Eddy Baker & Zavier Wulf, N8NOFACE and Corey Feldman. Additionally, Riff Raff will host and MC each night of the tour. “Come lose with us,” the nu metal band captioned an Instagram post announcing the tour.
The tour will kick off on July 16 in Somerset, Wis., before making stops in cities including Toronto, Tampa, Houston, Phoenix and Salt Lake City before wrapping up in San Bernardino, Calif., on Aug. 24.
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Tickets for the presale will be available to purchase here at 10 a.m. local time on Thursday (Dec. 7), before general sale begins on Friday (Dec. 8) at 10 a.m. local time.
See the full list of Limp Bizkit’s 2024 Loserville tour dates below.
Tue Jul 16 – Somerset, WI – Somerset AmphitheaterThu Jul 18 – St. Louis, MO – Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre STLSat Jul 20 – Tinley Park, IL – Credit Union 1 AmphitheatreSun Jul 21 – Noblesville, IN – Ruoff Music CenterTue Jul 23 – Clarkston, MI – Pine Knob Music TheatreWed Jul 24 – Toronto, ON – Budweiser StageFri Jul 26 – Bethel, NY – Bethel Woods Center for the ArtsSun Jul 28 – Bristow, VA – Jiffy Lube LiveTue Jul 30 – Holmdel, NJ – PNC Bank Arts CenterWed Jul 31 – Mansfield, MA – Xfinity CenterFri Aug 02 – Charlotte, NC – PNC Music PavilionSun Aug 04 – Alpharetta, GA – Ameris Bank AmphitheatreTue Aug 06 – West Palm Beach, FL – iTHINK Financial AmphitheatreWed Aug 07 – Tampa, FL – MIDFLORIDA Credit Union AmphitheatreFri Aug 09 – Pelham, AL – Oak Mountain AmphitheatreSun Aug 11 – Houston, TX – The Cynthia Woods Mitchell Pavilion presented by HuntsmanTue Aug 13 – Dallas, TX – Dos Equis PavilionThu Aug 15 – Albuquerque, NM – Isleta AmphitheaterFri Aug 16 – Phoenix, AZ – Talking Stick Resort AmphitheatreSun Aug 18 – Salt Lake City, UT – USANA AmphitheatreTue Aug 20 – Auburn, WA – White River AmphitheatreWed Aug 21 – Ridgefield, WA – RV Inn Style Resorts AmphitheaterFri Aug 23 – Concord, CA – Toyota Pavilion at ConcordThu Aug 24 – San Bernardino, CA – Glen Helen Amphitheater
Less than three months after Denny Laine’s wife, Elizabeth Hines, started a GoFundMe to help with his “critical” health issues following a serious bout of COVID-19 followed by a bacterial infection, Hines has shared that the rock legend – who co-founded The Moody Blues and Wings alongside Paul and Linda McCartney — died on Tuesday, Dec. 5.
“My darling husband passed away peacefully early this morning,” Hines wrote on Laine’s Facebook page on Dec. 5. “I was at his bedside, holding his hand as I played his favorite Christmas songs for him. He’s been singing Christmas songs the past few weeks and I continued to play Christmas songs while he’s been in ICU on a ventilator this past week. He and I both believed he would overcome his health setbacks and return to the rehabilitation center and eventually home. Unfortunately, his lung disease, Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD), is unpredictable and aggressive; each infection weakened and damaged his lungs. He fought everyday. He was so strong and brave, never complained. All he wanted was to be home with me and his pet kitty, Charley, playing his gypsy guitar. Denny was so very thankful to all of you who sent him so much love, support and the many kind words during these past few months of his health crisis-it brought him to tears. I thank you all for sending both of us love and support.”
The English musician, born Oct. 29, 1944, took up guitar in his youth, inspired by jazz guitar great Django Reinhardt. After a stint in a band called The Diplomats, he became a co-founder of the legendary British rock outfit The Moody Blues in 1964 alongside singer Mike Pinder. Laine lent a lilting lead vocal performance to the group’s first hit, a smash cover of “Go Now,” which topped the U.K. singles chart and reached No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100. Laine’s tenure with the group was brief – following 1965’s The Magnificent Moodies, he left the band, which would go on to help pioneer prog-rock with its second album, Days of Future Passed. (His membership in the Moody Blues ensured his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2018.)
Following the Moody Blues, Laine formed the Electric String Band, released a couple solo singles and played alongside Cream skinsman Ginger Baker in Ginger Baker’s Air Force. But an unexpected phone call from an old friend returned Laine to the top in 1971. Paul McCartney, whom Laine had known since the early ‘60s, rang him up and invited Laine to join a new band the former Beatle was forming alongside his wife, Linda McCartney. For the next decade, Laine and the McCartneys were the sole constants of the band’s ever-shifting lineup – in fact, it was solely the core trio that crafted what became the band’s most celebrated album, 1973’s Band on the Run.
“In order to move forward, you have to try new things,” Laine told Billboard earlier this year about the tumultuous sessions in Lagos, Nigeria, that birthed the classic LP. “It’s like being a gambler. You gamble with things because it’s more exciting. It’s more appealing. It’s not the normal, everyday 9-to-5 job, it’s more of a ‘Let’s try something new.’”
The title track became one of Wings’ six Hot 100-topping singles, while the album became one of the band’s five Billboard 200-topping albums. The LP also featured his first McCartney co-write on a Wings album with “No Words.” On follow-up album Venus and Mars, and every Wings album thereafter, Laine would contribute lead vocals and writing credits to at least one song.
Wings officially wrapped by the 1980s, but Laine and McCartney stayed in touch, with Laine playing on Macca’s Tug of War (1982) and Pipes of Peace (1983), in addition to co-writing the “Ebony and Ivory” b-side, “Rainclouds.”
McCartney contributed to Laine’s solo efforts released during the tenure of Wings, including the delightfully lo-fi Buddy Holly covers album Holly Days in 1977 and Japanese Tears in 1980. Laine’s final solo effort, The Blue Musician, came out in 2008, though he continued to perform live. Laine had announced tour dates for 2023, but his health issues forced him to cancel them.
Laine is survived by five children, two of whom he shared with late ex-wife Jo Jo Laine, and his widow, Elizabeth Hines.
“It was my absolute honor and privilege to not only be his wife, but to care for him during his illness and vulnerability,” Hines wrote in the Facebook post announcing his death. “Thank you to Dennys surgeons, doctors, specialists, physical therapists and nurses at Naples Hospital for working so hard to help him. Thank you for your compassion and support for me during these past several emotional months. My world will never be the same. Denny was an amazingly wonderful person, so loving and sweet to me. He made my days colorful, fun and full of life-just like him. Thank you sweetie for loving me, for all the laughter, friendship, fun and for asking me to be your wife. I will love you forever Please give Denny’s friends and family the time and privacy needed as we grieve our loss. Much love, Elizabeth Hines.”
It’s hard, if not impossible, to out-goth Robert Smith. But on Monday night (Dec. 4), Team Niall’s Nini Iris did her level best to bring all the spooky vibes to her cover of The Cure’s 1989 mope rock ballad “Lovesong” on The Voice.
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The 27-year-old Tbilsi, Georgia native who made it to the live shows on the Georgian version of The Voice in 2012 and then moved to New York in 2016 — where she went from being a cabaret singer to a professional wedding singer — has been on a serious roll since the beginning of the playoff rounds last month.
But on Monday night she kicked it to a new high with her moving, emotive Cure cover. Accompanied by a string quartet and pianist, Iris stood atop a square platform midstage wearing a midnight black dress, long lace gloves and a matching choker and belted out the song’s keening lyrics over the moody arrangement.
Adding a bit of Adele-like soul to the darkly bouncy song from the Cure’s Disintegration album — which became the band’s highest-charting U.S. single when it hit No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in Oct. 1989 — Iris climbed into her sky-high register to sing the track’s’s haunting refrain: “Whenever I’m alone with you/ You make me feel like I am home again.”
As the music swelled and Iris’ voice took on a gritty growl, she became more animated and held the final “I will always love you” for an extra beat as mentor Horan closed his eyes and watched with pride. “And the Grammy goes to” he joked, dubbing the performance “absolutely spectacular.”
The stunning performance came on the same night that season-long frontrunner Ruby Leigh, 16, posted yet another impressive performance for Team Reba when she sang McEntire’s 1980 single, “You Lie.” With the season 24 grand finale just two weeks away, the competition got real on Monday night when the top 12 semifinalists finally competed for America’s votes.
Other impressive performances from the episode included Team Reba’s Jacquie Roar’s roaring version of Lainey Wilson’s “Wildflowers and Wild Horses,” Team Gwen Stefani’s Kara Tenae doing an elegant cover of Keyshia Cole’s “Love” and Team John Legend singer Lila Forde’s mellow ramble through the Barbie soundtrack Indigo Girls folk rock classic “Closer to Fine.” The show also featured spots from Team Gwen’s Tanner Massey and BIAS, Team Niall’s Huntley and Mara Justine, Team Legend’s Azán and Mac Royals and Team Reba’s Jordan Ranier.
Watch Nini Irish sing “Lovesong” on The Voice below.
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The Red Hot Hili Peppers are hitting the road again in spring 2024 for another round of dates on their Unlimited Love tour. The extension of the veteran punk funk band’s 2022-2023 outing will including a slate of North American dates scheduled to kick off on May 28 with a show in Ridgefield, WA at the RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater.
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And they are, of course, bringing along some very special friends to help celebrate, including opening acts Kid Cudi, Ice Cube, Ken Carson, Otoboke Beaver, Seun Kuti & Egypt80, Wand and IRONTOM.
The 16 new Live Nation-promoted dates will also include stops in Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, Tampa, Virginia Beach, Cincinnati, Toronto and St Louis, where the trek is scheduled to wind down at the Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre on July 30. The band previously announced a run of 2024 shows, including a Feb. 17 gig at the Venue at Thunder Valley Casino in Lincoln, CA, a Feb. 20 show at the Yaamava’ Theater in Highland, CA and a Feb. 23 show at the Innings Festival in Tempe, AZ.
Tickets for the new dates will be available starting with a Citi presale beginning Tuesday (Dec. 5) at 10 a.m. local time through 10 p.m. local time on Dec. 7 here. An artist presale will start at 10 a.m. local time on Wednesday (Dec. 6) with additional presales through Thursday (Dec. 7) in advance of the general on-sale kick off on Friday (Dec. 8) at 10 a.m. local time here.
The Chili Peppers released Return of the Dream Canteen — which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Top Album sales chart upon release — in Oct. 2022, six months after dropping the Unlimited Love album, which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 albums chart.
Check out the 2024 North American Unlimited Love dates below.
May 28 – Ridgefield, WA @ RV Inn Style Resorts Amphitheater +
May 31 – Quincy, WA @ The Gorge +
June 2 – Wheatland, CA @ Toyota Amphitheater +
June 5 – Salt Lake City, UT @ USANA Amphitheatre =
June 7 – Albuquerque, NM @ Isleta Amphitheater ^
June 18 – West Palm Beach, FL @ iTHINK Financial Amphitheatre *
June 21 – Tampa, FL @ MIDFLORIDA Credit Union Amphitheatre ~
June 26 – Raleigh, NC @ Coastal Credit Union Music Park ~
June 28 – Virginia Beach, VA @ Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach ~
July 2 – Burgettstown, PA @ The Pavilion at Star Lake =
July 5 – Cincinnati, OH @ Riverbend Music Center *
July 12 – Buffalo, NY @ Darien Lake Amphitheater ^
July 15 – Toronto, ON @ Budweiser Stage ^
July 22 – Cuyahoga Falls, OH @ Blossom Music Center #
July 25 – Noblesville, IN @ Ruoff Music Center @
July 30 – St. Louis, MO @ Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre @
+ With Ken Carson and IRONTOM
= With Kid Cudi and IRONTOM
^ With Wand and IRONTOM
* With IRONTOM
~ With Ice Cube and IRONTOM
# With Seun Kuti & Egypt80 and IRONTOM
@ With Otoboke Beaver and IRONTOM
% Not a Live Nation Date
Grammy-winner Olivia Rodrigo was praised as one of the most important songwriters of her generation by St. Vincent at Friday night’s Variety Hitmakers ceremony, where she was presented with the Storyteller of the Year award.
“In order to be a good storyteller, one must—to quote Olivia herself — pay attention to things most people ignore. Olivia sees the cracks and contradictions in herself and others and makes the ineffable understandable and transformational for her listeners,” St. Vincent said. “Her honest songs about the impossible task of growing up have liberated so many young people fighting and fumbling their ways through the same experiences. But it’s not merely paying attention that matters to the craft of songwriting. It’s also how you observe and how you listen.”
Vincent said one of the things that makes Rodrigo’s songs so alluring to fans is that they consider them to be their personal rallying cries thanks to the “Vampire” singer’s openness and compassion. “Her authenticity — not an affect, not a brand — allows her listeners to step inside her songs as their complete selves: struggling, searching, celebrating, just living. Just being,” Vincent continued. “Olivia’s songs pull off the magic trick of sounding like all of us at once, but also uniquely just like her. I call that a sly generosity, which is a beautiful thing to witness and to hear, and it’s one of the reasons I’ve so enjoyed getting to know Olivia over the past few years.”
Searching for words to describe Rodrigo, 20, St. Vincent landed on calling her a “precious baby angel muffin… but if a precious baby angel muffin was tough as nails and cool as hell and f–in’ loved the Breeders. She is shockingly talented, whip smart, and to me, the most important combination, curious and kind. These attributes make her great and will make her a great storyteller for years to come. Olivia’s listening, she’s asking, she’s interrogating the cracks in herself and in humanity. But because of her empathy, what she brings to the surface in her songs are the small frailties and the slivers of joy — those threads that make up our every single day. She pays attention to the things most people ignore, and makes them not just seen, but makes them shine. So I’m happy to call her a friend.”
Clearly moved, Rodrigo thanked Vincent and said her tribute made her want to cry. “I think she’s the most talented, kindest, most wonderful person I’ve ever met and I’m so inspired by her constantly and I’m very lucky to call her a friend,” Rodrigo said of her inductor. The singer also talked about writing “Can’t Catch Me Now,” from The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, saying that “telling stores through songwriting has been my favorite thing to do for as long as I can remember. I write to figure out how I feel, to move through my emotions, and to commemorate and honor seasons of my life.”
She added that even though songwriting is one of her favorite things to do in the world, “I wouldn’t say it’s always been effortless for me by any means. Especially making my most recent album, I had so many voices in my head and I felt so much pressure to please everyone with the music I was making.”
Late Pogues singer Shane MacGowan will be laid to rest on Friday (Dec. 8) in Nenagh, County Tipperary in Ireland, not far from the family farm he grew up on. According to RTE, the funeral will be open to the public, allowing friends, fans and family to say farewell to the beloved vocalist/songwriter who died on Thursday at 65.
The “Fairytale of New York” starwho had battled a series of major health issues in recent years, died of pneumonia in a hospital, his wife, Victoria Mary Clarke, told the New York Times. MacGowan, who would have turned 66 on Christmas Day, had been battling viral encephalitis before his death.
Clarke told RTE that after months in the hospital, MacGowan was discharged on Nov. 22 and sent home to spend time with friends and family. “He was trying very hard to breathe,” Clarke said. “He wasn’t ready to give up. He wasn’t ready to stop fighting — but his body did it for him.” She said that a “constant stream of visitors” came to visit MacGowan over his final months, including U2’s Bono and The Edge, singer Imelda May, Irish playwright/filmmaker Jim Sheridan and Primal Scream singer Bobby Gillespie, among others.
Clarke also confirmed that MacGowan completed an album before his death and that it “sounded good… he took great delight in the music he made.”
According to RTE, the funeral will begin on Friday morning when the cortege will leave Nenagh and travel to Dublin, where the procession will move across the city to St. Mary of the Rosary church. The singer’s remains will then be returned to Tipperary and cremated, according to the Irish Independent, with this ashes to be scattered across the river Shannon, the longest river in Ireland, which MacGowan sang about on the song “The Broad Majestic Shannon” from the Pogues landmark 1987 album, If I Should Fall From Grace With God.
MacGowan will be returned to the river he wrote about so eloquently in the song featuring his patented sad-eyed naturalistic imagery. “So I walked as day was dawning/ Where small birds sang and leaves were falling/ Where we once watched the rowboats landing/ On the broad majestic Shannon,” he sang on the track.
Irish President Michael Higgins is scheduled to represent the nation at the funeral, which is expected to also be attended by Bono, the remaining members of the Pogues and other Irish luminaries; U2 are slated to play a residency show at Sphere in Las Vegas on Friday, so it’s unclear if Bono will appear in person at the funeral.
MacGowan’s passing was honored by a broad cross section of musicians, including Bruce Springsteen, Garbage, the Dropkick Murphys, Flogging Molly, Nick Cave, Jason Isbell, and U2, who performed “A Rainy Day in Soho” at their Vegas residency over the weekend. In a rare public statement, fellow chronicler of whiskey-soaked, diamond-in-the-dirt characters Tom Waits penned a moving tribute along with his wife/co-songwriter Kathleen Brennan.
“Ah, the blessings of the cursed. Shane McGowan’s torrid and mighty voice is mud and roses punched out with swaggering stagger, ancient longing that is blasted all to hell. A Bard’s bard, may he cast his spell upon us all forevermore,” they wrote.
See some of the tributes below.
Ah, the blessings of the cursed. Shane McGowan’s torrid and mighty voice is mud and roses punched out with swaggering stagger, ancient longing that is blasted all to hell. A Bard’s bard, may he cast his spell upon us all forevermore. pic.twitter.com/Xpc1wYnkhv— Tom Waits (ANTI-) (@tomwaits) December 1, 2023
Kiss will live on as digital avatars following its final concert at Madison Square Garden in New York.
During the encore of their last show on Saturday (Dec. 2), the legendary rockers — co-founders founders Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons as well as guitarist Tommy Thayer and drummer Eric Singer — made a surprise announcement that they will continue on as digitized versions of themselves going forward.
“Kiss Army, your love, your power, has made us immortal!” vocalist/guitarist Stanley said in a video revealing the digital characters as the virtual band launched into a performance of “God Gave Rock and Roll to You.” “The new Kiss era stars now!”
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After the concert, part of the Kiss’ End of the Road farewell tour, the quartet shared a two-minute video on YouTube teasing their next chapter.
“The future is so exciting,” Simmons says amid behind-the-scenes snippets of the band wearing motion capture suits to develop their high-tech avatars. Stanley adds, “We can live on eternally.”
Kiss’ avatars were created by George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic, in partnership with Sweden’s Pophouse Entertainment Group, according to the Associated Press. The companies recently collaborated on the ABBA Voyage show in London, a virtual concert performed by the Swedish pop group.
“Kiss could have a concert in three cities in the same night across three different continents. That’s what you could do with this,” Pophouse CEO told the AP.
In a roundtable interview, Stanley noted that Kiss “deserves to live on because the band is bigger than we are,” adding, “It’s exciting for us to go the next step and see Kiss immortalized.”
Simmons pointed out that the forthcoming digital band will be able accomplish things the original members couldn’t dream of doing.
“We can be forever young and forever iconic by taking us to places we’ve never dreamed of before,” the bassist said. “The technology is going to make Paul jump higher than he’s ever done before.”
Watch Kiss’ “New Era” promo video below.
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Noah Kahan made his Saturday Night Live debut on Dec. 2, performing songs from his latest album, Stick Season (We’ll All Be Here Forever). The Vermont-born singer-songwriter, who snagged a best new artist nominee at next year’s Grammys, opened with his Post Malone collaboration “Dial Drunk” and closed with his breakthrough song “Stick Season,” which […]
U2 is remembering fellow Irish musician Shane MacGowan. The veteran U.K. Rock and Roll Hall of Famers paid tribute to the late Pogues singer with a moving rendition of the Celtic band’s “A Rainy Day in Soho” during their Las Vegas residency on Friday (Dec. 1) at the Venetian’s Sphere venue. “Sing with us, for […]