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Alice In Chains, Corey Taylor, Chris Cornell, Post Malone, Anthrax, Puscifer, Baroness, and Ice-T All Have Releases for Record Store Black Friday 2020
Today is the final Record Store Day event of 2020, Record Store Black Friday 2020. While this has been a devastating year for the entire world financially, the music industry has suffered the most. None more so than DIY bands and Record shops, the lifeblood of purchasing music and supporting the ecosystem. As many in the media have pointed out, of the countless great Record Store Day special releases out this year, today’s seem to be among the very best including Alice In Chains, Corey Taylor, Chris Cornell, David Gilmour, Anthrax, Puscifer, Post Malone, Masters of Reality, Baroness, Ice-T, Best Coast, Motorhead, Sonny Rollins and many more. If you have the cash and can support record stores and your favorite bands, today is one of the last days in 2020 to do it. Continue reading
Domkraft Shares “The Rift (Live)” from “Day Of Doom Live” Album
Swedish Doom Metal legends Domkraft has shared a new single, “The Rift (Live)” from their forthcoming “Day Of Doom Live’ album, due on December 11th via Magnetic Eye Records. The “Day of Doom” label showcase was held at Brooklyn’s Saint Vitus Bar. This once-in-a-lifetime gathering was held in November 2019 to celebrate MER’s first decade. It featured nine roster acts performing back-to-back, with the headline shows captured by Chris Johnson (Deafheaven, Summoner) to commemorate the event as a set of four exclusive live albums.
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Boston Area Music Venues ONCE Somerville and Cuisine En Locale have Closed Due to The Pandemic
According to a published report by the website Vanyaland.com, two indispensable places in the Boston music scene for underground music, culture, and food have closed permanently and will not re-open following the COVID-19 pandemic. ONCE Somerville announced today on Facebook that their venue and lounge, as well as Cuisine En Locale, will not re-open following the COVID-19 pandemic. “Cuisine en Locale is going out of business, and the space we call the ONCE Lounge and Ballroom will not reopen,” reads the announcement made by ONCE founder JJ Gonson. Both venues were unique and essential spaces in the area, with ONCE hosting many underground and extreme bands we covered many times. Although tiny, Cuisine En Locale also had some live music and hosted unique shows like Andrew WK and the Body. ONCE has held online shows via its Virtual Venue, which launched in late April. The Virtual Venue will continue to broadcast livestreams of live music in the meantime while a future plan is developed. There had been a successful crowdfunding campaign, and some government assistance that kept the clubs from immediate shutdown and layoffs, but now that the money has run out, the clock has run out too. Gonson has said that hope is alive to reopen the ONCE Ballroom venue in some other location someday when things get back to normal. We will miss these Boston Music Awards nominated wonderful venues where we attended and covered many shows, and even held our charity event, Metal For Nepal there.
Dumb and Dumbest Episode #532: Jessie May, Author of Metalhead Money
Matt and Curtis bring back in Jessie May (Turkey Vulture, OwlMaker, Alternative Control blog) to discuss her new book, “Money Hacks For Metalheads and Old Millenials”. Dumb and Dumbest Episode #532 is an interview with Jessie May, Author of Metalhead Money! The podcast is hosted by Matt Bacon (Dropout Media, Ripple Music, Prophecy Productions), and Music Publicist Curtis Dewar (Dewar PR).
Aaron Meltzer, Formerly of Secrets, Has Died
Aaron Meltzer, the one-time frontman, and vocalist of San Diego post-Hardcore band Secrets has died. No cause of death has been revealed. The news was broken on Secrets Facebook page via a post. While Aaron had been out of the band several years, he was on their most successful releases on Rise Records, including 2013’s Fragile Figures. On the strength of that album, the band toured the US with major bands, including Warped Tour 2014. We will keep track of this story as it develops. Rest in Power, Aaron.
Enslaved Announces “Winter Solstice” Streaming Event
Building off of their wildly successful livestreams to promote their new album Utgard (Nuclear Blast), Enslaved will host a live-streaming concert and Q & A event with the band on December 20th. The Winter Solstice streaming event for Saturday 19th December via the Revolver Magazine Facebook page, which will be followed by a live Q&A with some band members. The digital event will feature all three parts of Enslaved’s recent Cinematic Summer Tour, the revered filmed performances titled; ‘Chronicles of the Northbound’, ‘Below the Lights’ and ‘Utgard the Journey Within’.
Greg Puciato Announces Streaming Event Next Month
Greg Puciato, (The Dillinger Escape Plan, Killer Be Killed, The Black Queen), has announced the Dec. 11 premiere of “Fuck Content,” a diverse and unique online streaming event. You can buy tickets, exclusive merch, and watch a trailer below. Greg’s recent solo debut album Child Soldier: Creator of God was released on his own label/art collective Federal Prisoner brand.
William DuVall to Host Livestream Acoustic Performance This Week
Alice In Chains singer/guitarist William DuVall will host another solo acoustic livestream this Friday, November 27 @ 8PM EST. DuVall has been doing live streams during the pandemic since his world tour to support his solo album One Alone (DVL Records) was postponed. William will appear next week with Alice In Chains as they will receive the Founders Award at the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPop) in Seattle, virtually, with a celebration for the band from peers and luminaries. The band will also perform their first show of 2020. Buy a ticket for Williams’s solo show via StageIt.com at the link below. Continue reading
ALBUM REVIEW: White Magician – Dealers In Divinity
Consisting entirely of musicians from the eccentric Demon Bitch with equally esoteric pseudonyms, Detroit’s White Magician settles firmly into the world of heavy Occult Rock on their first full-length album. “The Agents Of Fortune”-esque cover art is enough to indicate that any comparisons to Blue Öyster Cult are likely intentional; the band exercises a similarly freerolling attitude with an ominous undercurrent. But while Dealers Of Divinity (Cruz Del Sur Music) gambles on a well-trod formula, the group seems to have a couple of aces up their sleeves.