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According to Nellie Andreeva of Deadline.com, Limp Bizkit frontman Fred Durst is looking to front his own comedy series next. Durst has signed his first ever TV deal with CBS and CBS TV Studios. Under the pact, he has partnered with CBS TV Studios-based producers Eric and Kim Tannenbaum on a half-hour comedy project, which he will star in and produce. The untitled comedy, sometimes referred to as Douchebag, has received a script commitment. It centers around a rock legend looking for balance between his high profile lifestyle and trying to raise a family. It will be written by Matthew Carlson (Mr. Sunshine) who will executive produce with the Tannenbaums. Continue Reading
Liz Ramanand of Loudwire recently conducted an interview with guitarist Fredrik Åkesson of Swedish progressive metallers OPETH. Check out the interview below.
Tell me a little about the new album ‘Heritage’ and how it differs from past albums.
Fredrik: [Frontman] Mikael [Akerfeldt] started writing the album and it started off with a couple of songs, it was more or less a continuation of the last album ‘Watershed’ and we deleted those two tracks and we just wanted to do something different. We don’t want to repeat ourselves. It’s like in movies, the second one is usually crap, so we wanted to take a different sound approach, we wanted to do a really honest and free sound. There’s no sound replacements on the albums, it’s the real deal, no cheating. Continue Reading
Chris Epting of AOL‘s NOISECREEP recently had posted his interview with Bullet For My Valentine frontman Matt Tuck, in his tour bus. Check out his posting below.
Ensconced in the lounge section of his tour bus, Bullet for My Valentine lead singer-guitarist Matt Tuck reflected not just on the band’s mega-success as part of the soon-to-concluded Uproar Tour, but on something more important – his little boy.
“I know it sounds like a bit of a cliche but being a father truly has been been life-changing – the essence of being an adult. It’s heart-melting and heartbreaking at the same time because I miss him a lot, touring America as long as we have this summer while he’s home in England.” Continue Reading
DISTURBED guitarist Dan Donegan spoke to Billboard.com about the open-ended hiatus that the band announced while it was headlining this summer’s Rockstar Energy Drink Mayhem Festival. “We just decided not to have a game plan — that’s the first time in our career we’ve done that,” Donegan explained. “We’ve always said, ‘After this tour, let’s do this…,’ always something planning ahead. This is just the first time we’re not having those discussions. We said, ‘Let’s finish this tour and go home.’ We’ll see where that takes us.”
DISTURBED frontman David Draiman recently said that all four members of the group have other creative endeavors they’d like to pursue, with both he and Donegan interested in producing other acts. The guitarist, however, told Billboard.com, “We’re not stopping to pursue other things — at least I’m not. We’re kind of looking to just go away for a bit, give the fans a little bit of a break, give ourselves a bit of a break. There’s not some great game plan or design to all of this.” Continue Reading
Kristen Dunleavy of myYearbook recently conducted an interview with vocalist/bassist Troy Sanders of Atlanta progressive metallers MASTODON to answer questions of the band’s fans on myYearbook. Check out the interview below.
Mastodon evolves with each new album. How do you feel the band has evolved on The Hunter, and was it a sound the band was consciously trying to capture?
Troy: Probably a 50/50 on that. With this record, we did want this to be a bit more immediate than our previous record, Crack the Skye. Half of the songs on that record were seven plus minutes, the longest one was 14 minutes. On The Hunter, we wanted to bark up a riff, get in and get out – a little more to the point this time around. One thing that we never want to do is record the same album twice. We didn’t want to make a Crack the Skye Part II, for example. We always want a fresh direction with each album. It keeps things exciting within our band and with the listener as well. We like to surprise ourselves just as much as we like to throw a curveball at the rest of the world. Continue Reading
Vision has set a November 8 release date for “From The Bars To The Stars“, a five-disc DVD box set from TWISTED SISTER featuring three decades of live performances. The set comes with instant fan collectibles for the crazed SMF TWISTED SISTER fan. Includes the exclusive “Twisted Xmas: Live in Las Vegas” DVD, along with four other TWISTED SISTER DVDs (“Live At Wacken“, “Live At Reading“, and “Double Live“, which includes “North Stage ’82“, as well as “NY Steel ’01“), this box set also includes souvenirs including a TWISTED SISTER Christmas ornament, official NY Steel backstage pass, classic 2 ½-inch TWISTED SISTER pin, and a reproduction of the first ever SMF fan club letter. Continue Reading
Rockabye Baby! — which transforms timeless rock songs into beautiful instrumental lullabies — will release “Rockabye Baby! Lullaby Renditions Of Van Halen” on November 8.
Rockabye Baby! was created by Lisa Roth, sister of VAN HALEN lead singer David Lee Roth, in conjunction with CMH Records. The label turns popular rock songs into lullabyes — songs from artists like PEARL JAM, BLACK SABBATH, GUNS N’ ROSES, METALLICA and JOURNEY, just to name a few.
“It’s more for the parent than the child but it calms the child at the same time,” Lisa Roth told Forbes magazine.
She added, “When I knew I’d really hit something right was when I saw an interview of Kirk Hammett of METALLICA talking about playing it for his child, and he said that it works.” Continue Reading