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Korn bassist Reginald “Fieldy” Arvizu has provided fans with an update regarding his touring hiatus from the nu metal band. READ MORE: Korn: “On this record, we have grown emotionally. Music is healing to all of us” In mid-2021, Fieldy told fans he would not be appearing on Korn’s upcoming tour , explaining that for the past six years, he had been “dealing with some personal issues that at times have caused me to fall back on some of my bad habits and has caused some tension with the people around me”. He went on to say it had “been suggested” that he “take some time off to heal”, and that he was going to respect that request. “Unfortunately you will not see me on stage with my band,” he added. “I will be working towards getting the bad habits out of my system. In the meantime I will be staying creative to keep my mind & soul in a good place.” On Friday (October 21), Fieldy shared a video to his Instagram providing some clarity on the “bad habits” that he referred to in his...

Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox have returned for yet another Sunday Lunch , this time stripping back to their roots for a casual cover of Korn ’s ‘Blind’. READ MORE: Toyah Willcox and Robert Fripp’s 10 best lockdown covers – ranked! Released in August of 1994, ‘Blind’ was the first song Korn ever issued as a single. As usual, Fripp plays lead guitar on the kitchen-set cover, starring daggers into the camera while his wife puts on her best Jonathan Davis impression. It’s the pair’s first-ever tribute to Korn, but adds to a growing list of their nu-metal covers – earlier this year, they delivered Sunday Lunch instalments tackling hits by Slipknot ( ‘Psychosocial’ ) and Limp Bizkit ( ‘Nookie’ ). Have a look at the video below: Fripp and Willcox’s cover of ‘Blind’ marks a return to their usual Sunday Lunch format, following a quartet of videos featuring Chesney Hawkes . For the past month, Hawkes has joined the pair every week for covers of ‘Summer Of 69’ , ‘Mr Brightside’ ...

Companies and organisations are reportedly continuing to cut ties with Kanye West in light of his string of antisemitic remarks in recent weeks, including his lawyer and booking agency. READ MORE: With his “White Lives Matter” stunt, has Kanye West finally hit the point of no return? As Deadline reports, talent agency Creative Arts Agency (CAA) has cut ties with the rapper. West signed with CAA for touring representation in 2016, but he has not embarked on a tour since that time. Meanwhile, Hollywood production company and financiers MRC has revealed it will shelve a “recently completed” documentary about West. In a statement, the company’s co-leaders Modi Wiczyk, Asif Satchu and Scott Tenley said they “cannot support any content that amplifies his platform” due to his antisemitic comments. Hollywood financier/producer MRC says it won't proceed with a Kanye West documentary. pic.twitter.com/cR0FiLDOmT — Lucas Shaw (@Lucas_Shaw) October 24, 2022 Additionally, a repres...

Happy Mondays will return to North America for the first time since 2009 next year, where they will perform their 1990 album ‘Pills ‘N’ Thrills and Bellyaches’ in full. The shows, announced today (October 24), will see the band perform at Terminal 5 in New York City on March 25 and the Belasco Theatre in Los Angeles on March 28. At the latter date, the band will be joined by DJ Paul Oakenfold as a special guest. Tickets will go on sale this Friday (October 28) at 10am local time – find New York tickets here , and LA tickets here . These shows will mark the band’s first shows on the continent in nearly 14 years. In 2009, the band toured through the US and Canada on a co-headliner with the Psychedelic Furs . The shows will also mark Happy Mondays’ first shows outside of the UK since the passing of founding bassist Paul Ryder, who passed away in July. Since his passing, Happy Mondays have played several UK festivals with a stand-in session bassist. They have also released an EP, ‘T...

Lewis Capaldi has spoken about his upcoming album ‘ Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent ’, describing it as “the same” as what’s come before. READ MORE: Lewis Capaldi: “I make jokes because I’m comfortable with who I am” Due for release May 19, 2023, ‘Broken By Desire To Be Heavenly Sent’ is the follow-up to Capaldi’s 2019 debut album ‘Divinely Uninspired To A Hellish Extent’ and has been teased by new single ‘Forget Me’ . Speaking about the new record in an interview with The Guardian , Capaldi said: “All in all, the album’s the same. I like making this music; it’s done all right in the past.” He continued: “I don’t have this sort of artistic desire to go off and reinvent myself. Not at all. I feel like the same person, so why would I be searching for something new?” Capaldi went on to say how he was “very conscious about not writing an album about being famous, being successful” because no one wants to hear “‘Oh, I’m famous and my life’s shit and I’m crying in my big house...

A 23-year-old hacker has been sentenced to 18 months in prison, after stealing unreleased material from Kanye West , Frank Ocean , Post Malone , Ed Sheeran and more. As reported by the  Associated Press , Adrian Kwiatkowski – from Ipswich in eastern England – illegally accessed cloud-based accounts owned by a number of artists, and subsequently made electronic copies of their unfinished songs. He then sold the material for cryptocurrency, raking in an estimated USD$147,000 (£131,000). Kwiatkowski was caught after Frank Ocean’s representatives launched a complaint with the New York District Attorney’s office in 2019. They claimed that someone online, who went as “Spirdark”, had accessed the Dropbox account of Ocean’s producer and downloaded unreleased music from it. The email address for Spirdark’s cryptocurrency account was traced back to Kwiatkowski, and after further investigations, he was arrested by London Police Department’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit. Several items...

Johnny Depp  and  Jeff Beck are suing a professor and folklorist, Bruce Jackson, over his allegations the pair’s song ‘Sad Motherfuckin’ Parade’ plagiarises an old poem titled Hobo Ben . Per Rolling Stone , Jackson accused Depp and Beck of pulling lines from the poem back in August, which he references in his 1974 book about toasts,  Get Your Ass In The Water And Swim Like Me . The lyrics to ‘Sad Motherfucking’ Parade’ and ‘Hobo Ben’ overlap a number of times, with the lines “ I’m raggedy, I know, but I have no stink / God bless the lady that’ll buy me a drink ,” and “ What that funky motherfucker really needs, child, is a bath ” appearing in both. The poem doesn’t have an explicit author, but was told to Jackson by an inmate at Missouri State Penitentiary, named Slim Wilson. Neither Jackson nor Wilson were credited by Beck and Depp for the lyrics. Following the accusations, a spokesperson for the pair said : “We are reviewing the inquiry relating to the song Sad ...

Paramore opened their headline set at When We Were Young Festival by giving ‘All I Wanted’ its live debut – check out footage and the complete setlist below. READ MORE: Paramore’s ‘This Is Why’ is a snarling, defiant middle finger to the haters The emotional track featured on Paramore’s third album, 2009’s ‘ Brand New Eyes ’ but has never been performed live before. Elsewhere during Paramore’s closing set at When We Were Young, the band played ‘Here We Go Again’ from their 2005 debut ‘All I Know Is Falling’ and ‘Paramore’ track ‘Last Hope’, both for the first time in four years. Check out footage below: PARAMORE JUST OPENED THEIR WWWY SET WITH ALL I WANTED pic.twitter.com/x8hJG5RqBd — jen (@YELYAHG00N) October 24, 2022 I GOT THIS MUCH OF THE ALL I WANTED PERFORMANCE WTF @paramore GIVE US A WARNING NEXT TIME pic.twitter.com/xTiQuXjKQZ — vale⁷ ᥫ᭡ (@idle_vale) October 24, 2022 WE FINALLY GOT PARAMORE PERFOMING ALL I WANTED AFTER 13 YEARS pic.twitter.com/m3jOViX...

Promoters have announced the first batch of artists set to perform at next year’s South By Southwest ( SXSW ), with a stonking 191 names featured on the bill. READ MORE: SXSW 2022: the most exciting artists we caught at the returning Austin festival Among them are the likes of Algiers , Flowerkid , Kalush Orchestra and Jaguar Jonze , as well as a slew of acts – 41 altogether – hailing from the UK. Local exports will include Coach Party , Crawlers , Demob Happy , Exit Kid , Folly Group , The Golden Dregs , Jane Weaver , The Lounge Society , The Orielles , Poster Paints and Steam Down . SXSW 2023 will take place in its usual home of Austin, Texas, running over six days from Monday March 13 to Saturday 18. It’ll be the main festival’s 27th edition, and the second to be held in-person since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic; it returned to its usual format this year, after being cancelled in 2020 and held virtually in 2021 . Registration for delegate badges are open now. Music-o...

In partnership with Secret Sounds The 1975 have added a second Melbourne date, and upgraded their Adelaide venue, following high demand for the Australian and New Zealand leg of the ‘At Their Very Best’ tour. READ MORE: New song ‘Part Of The Band’ finds The 1975 ripping up their own rule book The run, announced last week, will mark The 1975’s first tour of two countries in three years. They were initially slated to play one show each in Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney, but have now added a second Melbourne show to their schedule after the first sold out. They’ve also upgraded their Adelaide venue, moving from the Adelaide Entertainment Centre’s Theatre (which has a capacity of 3,000 punters) to its 11,300-capacity Arena. Following their run of Australian dates – which kick off in Perth on April 8 and wrap up in Sydney on April 14 – the band will then head to New Zealand, where they’ll perform in Wellington and Auckland. See the updated dates and venues below, and find t...

Los Angeles trio MUNA appeared on the latest episode of  CBS Saturday Morning , performing three songs from their recent self-titled album. READ MORE: MUNA – ‘MUNA’ album review: a field of sunflowers from poisoned ground The outfit – who are signed to Phoebe Bridgers ‘ Saddest Factory Records – picked ‘Solid’, ‘Kind Of Girl’ and the popular ‘Silk Chiffon’ for their set, for which they were flanked by their touring drummer and backup guitarist. Watch the performances below. Released in June, MUNA’s self-titled LP was their first under Bridgers’ new label, having left RCA after 2019’s ‘Saves The World’. It was previewed by singles ‘Anything But Me’ and ‘Home By Now’ . In a four-star review of the album , NME ‘s El Hunt wrote: “It should be clear that this lot know how to pen a whopper of a pop anthem – that remains apparent here – but more crucially ‘MUNA’ also serves as solid evidence of a band with many more chapters of evolution up their sleeves yet.” Earlier t...

Madonna has reflected on the reaction to her coffee table book Sex,  which courted controversy at the time for its explicit content. READ MORE: The ages of Madonna – the evolution of an icon The pop icon, who released the book with her fifth album ‘Erotica’ 30 years ago in October 1992, has this week contemplated its impact on modern pop culture as well reflected on how it was viewed as scandalous by many at the time of its publication. Madonna wrote on her Instagram Stories yesterday (October 22): “30 years ago I published a book called S.E.X. In addition to photos of me naked there were photos of Men kissing Men, Woman kissing Woman and Me kissing everyone. I also wrote about my sexual fantasies and shared my point of view about sexuality in an ironic way. “I spent the next few years being interviewed by narrow minded people who tried to shame me for empowering myself as a Woman,” Madonna continued in her note. “I was called a whore, a witch, a heretic and the devil.” ...

Nick Grimshaw has written about the time he threw up in front of Drake and other musicians after smoking weed at an MTV VMAs post-show party in 2010. READ MORE: Nick Grimshaw on Jack Antonoff’s “magic” and his NME Awards memories The TV presenter and former BBC Radio 1 host recalled in his new autobiography Soft Boy , which is released this Thursday (October 27), the unfortunate incident. In an extract published by The Sun  Grimshaw detailed being invited to a party at Drake’s studio in the US by his friend Florence Welch ( Florence + The Machine ). “Drake played some tunes and Flo wailed along while someone passed around a comedy-sized cartoon-like spliff. I chuffed down on it and smiled at Drake,” Grimshaw wrote. Radio 1 presenter, Nick Grimshaw, poses for the camera to promote the sport relief challenge ‘The Heat is On’. CREDIT: Sam Riley/Comic Relief via Getty Images But he soon began to feel unwell. “I stepped a foot outside and proceeded to projectile vomit for ...

Bring Me The Horizon played a last-minute, intimate show in Las Vegas after the first day of the inaugural When We Were Young Festival was cancelled due to bad weather . READ MORE: The beginner’s guide to the evolution of emo Singer Oli Sykes shared a handwritten poster via his Instagram yesterday (October 22) announcing the show at Pearl Theater, with support from Knocked Loose and Landon Barker (son of Blink-182 drummer, Travis Barker ). You can see images from the band’s Instagram Stories here , their setlist (according to Setlist.FM, here ) and footage and extra images from the gig further below. The festival, described as “an epic line-up of emo and rock bands from the past two decades”, was announced to much fanfare earlier this year with My Chemical Romance and Paramore topping the bill. However, its opening day yesterday was pulled after high winds resulted in safety fears. The pop-punk and emo heavy event in Nevada was also set to feature Bring Me The Horizon...