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Korn bassist Fieldy clarifies “bad habits” that led to hiatus from band, says he’s the “happiest I’ve ever been”

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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 cover Korn’s ‘Blind’ for ‘Sunday Lunch’

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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’ ...

Kanye West reportedly dropped by lawyer, talent agency following antisemitic remarks

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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 announce first North American tour dates in 14 years

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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 no “artistic desire” to reinvent himself or his music

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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...

Hacker who stole from Kanye West, Frank Ocean and more to serve 18 months in jail

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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 sue professor over plagiarism allegations

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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 ...