Vinnie Vincent was not one of the KISS members recently honored at the newly-renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, but that isn’t keeping the band’s former guitarist from trying to cash in. This holiday season, for example, he decided to sell a limited run of autographed CD singles for a whopping $225.
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Brigitte Bardot, the French former actress, singer, and model who became a pop culture icon during the sexual revolution, died today, December 28, at her home in Saint-Tropez. She was 91, leaving behind an immediately-recognizable but troubled legacy. “A tireless advocate for animal rights, she is a legend who helped shape our imaginations, without ever allowing herself to be confined by them,” France’s Minister Of Culture Rachida Dati said in a statement. “Wildly free and, ultimately, so very French.”
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Earlier this month, it was unexpectedly announced that the Kennedy Center was getting renamed the Trump-Kennedy Center. Musician Chuck Redd protested by canceling his Christmas Eve performance at the venue, and now he’s getting threatened with legal action.
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Diplo — the mega-famous DJ with several allegations of distributing revenge porn — is hanging out with Robert F. Kennedy Jr. now. The Health And Human Services Secretary reportedly attended Diplo’s concert at the Snow Lodge at the St. Regis in Aspen, CO on Dec. 20. Then he and his family also hit the slopes with his “friends” Diplo and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
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It seems the Jane’s Addiction drama is wrapping up. The band has been a mess since frontman Perry Farrell started an onstage fistfight with his bandmates during their reunion tour last year, causing Dave Navarro, Eric Avery, and Stephen Perkins to quit the band and work on music without him. They sued Farrell for assault and battery, and he sued back. But last week Farrell apologized for the brawl, and now a settlement has been reached and the lawsuits have been dismissed.
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Last night the second volume of Stranger Things‘ final season premiered on Netflix with its most unlikely needle drop yet. [Consider the following a light spoiler coming from someone who stopped watching the series during season three…] The show’s penultimate episode “The Bridge” (S05E07) featured a minute of “Human Cannonball” from Butthole Surfers’ 1987 album Locust Abortion Technician, and it was discussed by the show’s characters. The LP was chosen by Mike (Finn Wolfhard) for a record player bomb he built to blow up the Upside Down.
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Singer, songwriter, and R&B musician Don Bryant has died, according to a statement on his official Instagram account.
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Marty Supreme, Josh Safdie’s much-hyped new film about a 1950s table tennis champion, is out today. Last week saw star Timothée Chalamet rapping about it on EsDeeKid’s viral hit “4 Raws,” and now longtime Safdie brothers collaborator Daniel Lopatin (aka Oneohtrix Point Never) has shared the movie score.
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Che’s Rest In Bass was one of the biggest rage-rap releases of the year. The 19-year-old Atlanta rapper isn’t done, though — today he’s sharing the surprise deluxe edition, called Rest In Bass: Encore. It features 14 (!) extra tracks, one of which is another collab with his equally beloved peer OsamaSon, who put out…
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If you asked for new hardcore music for Christmas, then it’s your lucky day. Detroit’s Bad Beat released their sophomore effort earlier this year, and now they’re getting us into the holiday spirit with a surprise EP of some straight-up rippers. The five tracks are uncomplicated, energetic old-school hardcore, breakdowns galore. What more do you…
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