There's a New Supergroup Made of Members of R.E.M., the Black Crowes, and Screaming Trees
Artists collaborate all the time now, but it seems like it's been a while since we've had a bona fide SUPERGROUP. Well, that ends now!
There's a new group called Silverlites, and it's made up of:
R.E.M.'s Peter Buck and the Black Crowes' Rich Robinson on guitars . . . Barrett Martin from Screaming Trees and Mad Season on drums and upright bass . . .
And some guy named Joseph Arthur on vocals. He and Buck released an album together in 2018, under the name Arthur Buck.
Silverlites' self-titled debut album drops November 15th, and their first single is out now. It's called "Don't Go, Don't Stay".
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Live Nation has been hit with a class-action lawsuit over the Ticketmaster data breach.
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Vinyl sales are down 33% from last year.
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Robert Smith Says The Clock Is Ticking On His Music Career
Robert Smith of The Cure has the finish line in sight. Talking to “The Times,” Smith said he’s planning to retire in five years “if I last that long.” The 65-year-old frontman went on to tell the paper, “I don’t feel my age at all, but I’m aware of it, and when you get older, that fear becomes more real.” Smith went on to say, “I’m 70 in 2029, and that’s it, that really is it.” The Cure’s first new album in 16 years, “Songs of the Lost World,” will be released on November 1st.
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Slayer's Kerry King Wants Dwayne Johnson To Play Him In A Movie
If you get the chance to cast who you’d like to play you in a movie, always shoot for one of the biggest stars on the planet. Slayer guitarist Kerry King was asked who would play him if a biopic was made about his life, and there were only two names that came to mind for him. “The only one that loosely fits the description is Vin Diesel. If you go down that road, you might also say The Rock, but I’m not nearly that giant.” He thought about it for a second and decided to go big. “I’ll say The Rock, because I like a lot of the stuff he’s in.” King is hitting the road with his solo band for a 28-date North American headline tour next year; no word on any special solos by Dwayne Johnson during the tour, but the safe money’s on “probably not.”
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The Most Disappointing Albums Ever
An album doesn't have to be bad to be disappointing. Maybe it doesn't live up to a band's body of work . . . or even just their last album. There are plenty of reasons an album can disappoint.
"Rolling Stone" made a list of the 50 most disappointing albums of all time. Here's the Top 10:
1. "Some Time in New York City", John Lennon (1972)
2. "Their Satanic Majesties Request", The Rolling Stones (1967)
3. "Self Portrait", Bob Dylan (1970)
4. "Tonight", David Bowie (1984)
5. "Chinese Democracy", Guns N' Roses (2008)
6. "Human Touch", Bruce Springsteen (1992)
7. "Smiley Smile", The Beach Boys (1967)
8. "Stevie Wonder's Journey Through 'The Secret Life of Plants'", Stevie Wonder (1973)
9. "Tales From Topographic Oceans", Yes (1973)
10. "Invincible", Michael Jackson (2001)
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