Just in time for #GivingTuesday, Linkin Park and fashion designer/artist Blaine Halvorson of MadeWorn, have come together to collaborate on a special project to benefit Music for Relief, which is the non-profit charity organization Linkin Park founded in 2005 to aid survivors of natural disasters and environmental conservation around the world. You can watch the video announcement below: Continue reading
Max Cavalera has done it all when it comes to the metal scene, but he says that this new venture with his wife, Gloria, brings him the most satisfaction in his life. Continue reading
The mighty Metallica has teamed up with Music For Relief to give two lucky fans the chance to win a once in a lifetime trip to hang with the band in Copenhagen, but more importantly, provide aid to those affected by Hurricane Matthew in Haiti. Continue reading
Lamb Of God will be releasing The Duke EP on November 18th via Epic, and as we learned a few weeks ago, the EP was inspired by the plight of a fan who recently lost his battle against leukemia. The band is now doing everything they can to raise awareness and support for those battling this cancer, and they’ve just launched their highly anticipated Propeller campaign. Continue reading
The Metallica fan club in Colombia, titled “Lords of Hardwire,” launched a special initiative for all of the fans attending Metallica‘s show back on November 1st. The attendees were asked to donate non-perishable food items to help the indigenous Wayuú community in La Guajira, where starvation and malnourishment have become increasing issues. They also approached the band about the idea, and with Metallica‘s approval confirmed, the response from the fan base was amazing. Continue reading
As we learned earlier this week, Lamb Of God will be releasing a brand new EP on December 2nd. The Duke EP was inspired by the plight of a fan who recently lost his battle against leukemia, and now the band is doing everything they can to raise awareness for those suffering from cancer. Randy Blythe has decided to go one step further in the fight against cancer by auctioning off his Ashes Of The Wake gold record for cancer research. Continue reading
Underground 90s metal leaders Kilgore reunited last weekend for their first show in several years in their hometown of Providence, RI at The Met. They were joined other prominent bands from the scene reuniting: Times Expired, the much respected Shed, and State of Corruption. Coming together for a tribute show for late Providence area studio owner and producer Joe Moody, Kilgore played a set of favorites from their two albums Blue Collar Solitude and A Search For Reason. You can watch fan-filmed footage of two songs, ‘Steamroller’ and ‘A Lullaby For Your Casket’ below:
Three of the bands’ original members Jay Berndt, Brian McKenzie, and Bill Southerland were joined by late era bassist Marty O’Brien (Tommy Lee, Lita Ford) for the show. The band sold new merch including a remastered and expanded version of their demo Die Cast, that was originally produced by Joe Moody. Kilgore, also known as Kilgore Smudge, rose to prominence from the norther east on a fusion of classic metal sounds like Black Sabbath and Clutch, and hardcore. They played Ozzfest in 1998 toured heavily for years touring with Slayer, Marilyn Manson, Clutch, Fear Factory, Biohazard, Sublime, and Spineshank. Vocalist Jay Berndt has a new band called Bloodriders and also has released outlaw country and folk/Blues/Americana, and rock solo albums.
Aaron Aites, the musician and filmmaker best known to music fans as the creator of the stellar historical black metal documentary Until The Light Takes Us has been stricken with an aggressive form of cancer. A GoFundMe campaign has been launched by Aaron’s partner Audrey Ewell to try and save Aaron’s life. Please read and share the post below and give if you can.
https://www.gofundme.com/e3pbfwrj
Amanda Palmer, continuing to return from her hiatus after the birth of her son last year, has produced a tribute album to David Bowie with the help of multi-instrumentalist Jherek Biscoff and other noted collaborators. Dubbed Strung Out In Heaven, the EP was released with the help of Palmer’s Patreon supporters . You stream the lead track ‘Blackstar’ featuring (Anna Calvi), and buy it from her Bandcamp page as well. The minimum price is $1 – $.54 of which will go to Bowie’s publisher for the use of the songs. The remaining proceeds from the first month of sales (until March 5th) will go to the cancer research wing of Tufts Medical Center, in memory of Bowie.
There is special artwork for each track created by noted artists from around the world, which you can see below. Palmer continues to create projects and engage her audience via Patreon. You can support her there:
Strung Out In Heaven EP track listing
1. Blackstar (Featuring Anna Calvi) 08:32
2. Space Oddity (Featuring Neil Gaiman) 05:07
3. Ashes To Ashes 03:59
4. Heroes (Featuring John Cameron Mitchell) 03:37
5. Helden (Single Version) (Featuring John Cameron Mitchell) 03:38
6. Jherek Bischoff – Life On Mars? (Instrumental) 03:58
Personnel:
Amanda Palmer – Vocals
Jherek Bischoff – Double Bass/Arrangements/Conducting
Serena McKinney– Violin 1
Alyssa Park– Violin 2
Ben Ullery– Viola
Jacob Braun – Cello
Anna Calvi – Vocals/Guitar (Blackstar)
Jono Manson – Amanda’s Engineer (The Kitchen Sink)
Alex Thomas – Anna Calvi’s Engineer (Bruce Grove Studio)
Chris Fogel – Jherek/Strings Engineer (Hyperion Sound / ELBO Studios)
Bryan Carrigan – Jherek/Strings Asst. Engineer (Hyperion Sound / ELBO Studios)
John Cameron Mitchell – Vocals (Heroes and Helden)
David Mack (United States) – Ashes to Ashes
Sarah Beetson (United Kingdom) – EP cover and Space Oddity
Félix Marqués (Spain) – Life on Mars
HA-HA (Australia) – Helden (German Version)
Bill Sienkiewicz (United States) – Heroes (English Version)
The Eagles of Death Metal, who previously vowed to aid those killed or injured in the November 13th Paris Terrorist Attacks that took place in part at their show at Le Bataclan have launched said campaign. The band have called upon musicians of all walks from all genres to cover the track ‘I Love You All The Time’ from their recent album Zipper Down (Downtown Recordings). My Morning Jacket covered the song live recently, with a new version by The Dean Ween Group released tonight. You can hear the track at this link or below: EODM co-leader Josh Homme posted the track with a personal message to fans, also posted below:
Hello talented friend, The senseless and violent terrorist attacks of Nov. 13, 2015 in Paris have left us all unsettled and we dare not give another second of precious time to those who have tried to steal our freedoms and take away our power.
Instead, we are writing to ask for your help to Play It Forward. We are calling upon our friends to donate their time, talent and good will in a show of solidarity to help the victims of these atrocious acts in Paris and those affected by terrorism worldwide.
We are asking for you to cover our song “I Love You All The Time.” For every cover sold, we pledge to donate 100% of the publishing income to The Sweet Stuff Foundation. We ask that you also donate the money generated from sales of the song to the charity.
In the same spirit, we would encourage you to offer one of your songs up to be covered by another artist, and follow suit – donate the publishing monies to charity – The Play it Forward Initiative.
Whether you’re Soul or R&B; Hip Hop or Hippy; Garage, Goth, Country, Punk or Pop; Death Metal or DJ; It matters not. Whether your version is faithful to ours, instrumental, uses only lyrics or fragments thereof or is completely reimagined in every way, it matters not. Your individual musical differences become our collective strength. Simultaneously, we will call upon iTunes, Tidal, Amazon, Spotify & all others who will sell these covers, to join us and donate their portions to a charity as a symbol of unity. So many wonderfully talented artists have offered their love & support or have reached out asking, “How can we help?” Our answer is simple; Unite with us. All of us. The musicians, the bands, the music companies & the fans… because we are music. We are the anthems of great nations. We are the songs of our forefathers. We are the hymns of God. The songs of the broken hearted. The unchained melodies. The songs of puppy love & of love that cannot be broken. We are the music of hope & possibility. We are the call to arms. We are the chorus of victory. We are songs in the key of life.
We are the Champions… of the World.
In the event our song doesn’t float your boat, we encourage you to help unite our business by any means possible. If you’re drawing a blank, donate something of yours or the proceeds from one of your songs, as Duran Duran has so graciously done. But do join us help & heal through music. They attacked us all, please hear the call.
Thank you for your time & love to you all,
Eagles of Death Metal
