HUMP DAAAAAYYYY!!!!! Sorry I am alittle later than usual. Electricians who didn’t show yesterday, came today and shut everything down. Then, of course, I bought the wrong dimmers and light bulbs. SO….yet another Home Depot stop. Or was it Lowe’s? I can’t keep track anymore!
Don’t watch this if you have just eaten! According to The Pulse Of Radio and Spin, Papa Roach appeared in a video interview for the website First We Feast in which the band members were invited to eat actual insects on camera. Among the delicacies served were crickets, june bugs, scorpions and more, although despite the band’s name cockroaches were not part of the menu offered by host Sean Evans. Frontman Jacoby Shaddix and the boys dug in nonetheless.
The video refers to eating bugs as “the latest revolutionary food trend,” while Bugible‘s Aly Moore explained that insects have all the essential proteins, but less fat and calories, and may become an important food source as resources become more scarce in the future.
Papa Roach is out doing the promotional rounds for its new single, “Help,” currently Number Four on the rock radio chart. The song is taken from the band’s upcoming album, Crooked Teeth, which bassist Tobin Esperance called a fusion of two of its best earlier albums: “It’s like old school and new school. It’s like if Infest and Getting Away With Murder had a baby, it would be Crooked Teeth. We’re just really genuinely excited and proud of this record, and it’s been hard to like just wait, you know, for it to be heard.”
Crooked Teeth is Papa Roach’s ninth studio album and will be out on May 19th. Papa Roach is set to play at several major rock festivals in late Apr and May, including Fort Rock and Welcome To Rockville in Florida, Carolina Rebellion in North Carolina and Northern Invasion in Wisconsin. I will get to check them out at Fort Rock!
Old lady with Ben Phillips, Taylor Momsen and Mark Damon of The Pretty Reckless They never smile in their pics
The Pretty Reckless singer Taylor Momsen said in a new radio interview she has no plans to act again, saying her previous career as an actress is “so a part of my past.” Momsen began acting as a toddler and was best known for her role on the TV series Gossip Girl, but has not pursued any further acting jobs while recording three albums with the band and touring behind them.
Asked if there were any acting roles she wouldn’t turn down, Momsen replied, “I don’t think so, no. Acting is so a part of my past at this point, it really legitimately was my childhood . . . When I got to an age that I realized I could make my own decisions, that’s when I quit acting and solely committed to the band.”
Momsen told us not long ago that her family always knew this was what she really wanted to do: “They knew that music was always where I was headed, and what my — that was my passion and my goal. I mean, acting was a day job, essentially, while I worked on writing a record’s worth of material that I wanted people to hear, and finding the right people to work with and the right band and all that. So they weren’t surprised when I jumped ship.”
The singer told Music Radar a few years ago that acting was “something that paid bills,” adding, “I never considered myself an actor — I was a musician who just happened to be on a TV show.”
The Pretty Reckless’ third album, Who You Selling For, arrived last Oct. The current single, “Oh My God,” is Number Five on the rock radio chart. The Pretty Reckless will launch a new North American tour on April 26th in Washington D.C., including a number of dates opening for Soundgarden. They’re another band I will get to hang with at Fort Rock!
Mastodon crack me up! And I have got to hand it to them, they always come up with some cool way to promote their new album art. I remember when I think it was either The Hunter or maybe Blood Mountain was released, they had a draw-by-the-numbers cover for fans, and now this one has coloring page you can pull out the crayolas on. The new album, Emperor Of Sand, drops on Friday! Check it out!
Green Day and Abramorama announced today the collaboration to distribute the upcoming film TURN IT AROUND: THE STORY OF EAST BAY PUNK to be released across the USA in tandem with Green Day’s Revolution Radio World Tour during the Summer of 2017. Abramorama will release the film, Executive Produced by Green Day, in theaters across North America and will work with the filmmakers on the global release across all platforms. Coming off their recent success with Ron Howard‘s The Beatles: Eight Days A Week-The Touring Years, Abramorama has proven time and again that they are specialists at handling marketing and distribution for music driven long-form documentaries. This is the second time they will partner with Grammy® Award-winning Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Green Day, the first being on the 135 city release of John Roecker’s Heart Like A Hand Grenade.
“Turn it Around gave us the opportunity to tell the story of the East Bay punk rock scene, a scene that’s a sacred thing to me, Mike and Tré and to a lot of others who were there at the founding and who helped to shape the genre,” said Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong. “We’re proud to bring the history of this movement to the world and hope the film inspires people to create their own music and to build an artistic community.”
Abramorama’s West Coast Head of Acquisitions & Business Development Evan Saxon and EVP & CCO Karol Martesko-Fenster added, “It’s an honor to again be entrusted by Green Day to engineer the release of their films. Turn It Around, directed by Corbett Redford, is a documentary very dear to the band and gives fans of all kinds of music an inside look at the fertile East Bay Punk scene from which Green Day rose to be one of the biggest bands on the planet. “
Narrated by Iggy Pop and directed and produced by Corbett Redford,TURN IT AROUND: THE STORY OF EAST BAY PUNK features Grammy® Award-winning Green Day front man Billie Joe Armstrong, Grammy® Award-winning Metallica lead guitarist Kirk Hammett, Grammy Award®-winning producer and Rancid front man Tim Armstrong, Kathleen Hanna, Miranda July, Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy and Spearhead front man Michael Franti, Minor Threat and Fugazi‘s Ian Mackaye and over 100 more interviews with artists and musicians from California’s East Bay punk music scene. Executive produced by Green Day and written by Corbett Redford and Anthony Marchitiello,TURN IT AROUND: THE STORY OF EAST BAY PUNK spans over 30 years of the California Bay Area’s punk music history with a central focus on the emergence of Berkeley’s inspiring 924 Gilman Street music collective. More information available at www.eastbaypunk.com.
Celebrating life today, our friend Perry Farrell of Jane’s Addiction and Porno For Pyros is 58.