Pantera bassist Rex Brown missed the band’s performance at Knotfest Chile over the weekend.
In a statement obtained by Metal Hammer, festival organizers announced that Brown was unable to play the show due to “health problems.”
That seems to be backed up by an Instagram post from drummer Charlie Benante, which reads, “We missed Rex tonight, get better buddy!”
According to Setlist.fm, Derek Engemann and Bobby Landgraf played bass in Brown’s place. Engemann plays in vocalist’s Phil Anselmo‘s Illegals band, while Landgraf previously played guitar in Down.
The Knotfest Chile show was part of Pantera’s first tour with the reformed lineup of longtime members Anselmo and Brown alongside Anthrax‘s Benante and Black Label Society‘s Zakk Wylde in place of the late Abbott brothers, Vinnie Paul and “Dimebag” Darrell, respectively. The tour is scheduled to continue Monday with a headlining show in Chile.
Adele revealed she struggled with her mental health after she and ex-husband Simon Konecki divorced in 2019.
During her Weekends with Adele residency in Las Vegas, the singer said she required daily trips to the therapist.
According to a fan-captured videos, the singer told the audience during a recent show, “I started having therapy again, right? Because I went a few years without. I needed to start.”
“When I was going through my divorce, I was basically, like, doing five therapy sessions a day,” she continued with a laugh. As for why she restarted therapy, the singer revealed, “I stopped holding myself accountable for my own behavior and the things that I would say. And that’s because I would always fall back on my therapist.”
She said her therapist would help her understand her reactions or responses to certain things, which helped her understand where she needed to improve. “Now I’m doing it because I wanna make sure that I’m now topping myself up every week to make sure I can give you everything,” Adele explained.
Apparently, she dreads performing for large shows and is now relying on her therapist to help her work through her fears. “There is something about performing live that actually terrifies me and fills me with dread,” she confessed, but assured fans she loves what she does.
She also hinted she prefers residencies over touring and told the audience she just might continue doing shows like Weekends with Adele “for the rest of my life.”
Adele and Konecki were first romantically linked in 2011 and wed in 2018, but separated the following year. They share a 10-year-old son named Angelo.
Rage Against the Machine bassist Tim Commerford has shared that he was diagnosed with prostate cancer shortly before the band launched their reunion tour earlier this year.
“Right before I was about to go on tour with Rage, I had my prostate removed, and I have prostate cancer,” Commerford reveals in an interview with Spin.
The 54-year-old says his cancer battle has been emotionally and physically difficult.
“Prostate cancer is a very, very, very tough one because it’s connected to your sexuality,” Commerford says. “It’s hard to disconnect from that and when you’re forced into that situation, it’s a brutal psychological journey. I’ve been trying to find support groups, and it’s hard to find people and hard to talk about it.”
He adds, “The suffering part of it, the physical suffering after the surgery, I’ve never felt pain quite like that.”
Commerford describes his current condition as having to “hold your breath for six months” in between check-ins.
“I just got my six-month test, and it came back at zero,” Commerford shares. “I was like, ‘F*** yeah!’ That’s the best I can feel for the rest of my life.”
“Every day I get closer to that test is like, ‘F*** man, is this going to be the time when the number is going to go up and I’m going to the next thing, whatever that is?'” he continues. “I already went through some pain and s***.”
Despite the diagnosis, Commerford played throughout Rage’s U.S. tour over the summer. The subsequent trip to the United Kingdom and Europe and a planned 2023 North American leg were canceled due to an Achilles tendon injury frontman Zack de la Rocha suffered onstage during the first leg.
Meanwhile, Commerford just launched a new band called 7D7D.
Missy Elliott got some hometown recognition this weekend when Norfolk State University awarded her an honorary doctorate degree.
The musician received the honor Saturday during the college’s fall commencement ceremony. “I am proud of y’all, and y’all should be proud of your self,” she told the class of 400 students, per The Virginian Pilot. “I want you to look at each other and say, ‘You already won.’ ‘Cause y’all coulda been doing anything else the last few years, y’all coulda been wildin’ out, but y’all decided to finish the course. And that’s major.”
“I’m looking around and I see innovators, visionaries, leaders created in here,” Missy continued. “I want to see these same faces years from now saying … ’I became famous, I became president, I became a lawyer.’ All of those things.”
Elliott’s honorary degree recognized her “outstanding professional achievements and extraordinary contributions to public service.” She also received the Presidential Commencement Medallion, the institution’s most prestigious award, at the ceremony, during which she donated a $20,000 check toward their “area of greatest needs.”
“Two time Doctorate ‘Dr. Elliott’ I am so Humbly Grateful. Thank you@norfolkstateuniversity for having me today & showing so much love 🙌🏾 To the Class Of 2022,” Elliott wrote on Instagram along with shots of her on her special day. “May your Journey be Successful/ Fearless/ Determined to be the BEST! Behold The Green & Gold!!!!”
Elliott received her first honorary doctorate in 2019 from Berklee College of Music.
(NEW YORK) — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said at a Republican event in New York over the weekend that if she had organized the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol “we would have won” and “it would’ve been armed,” according to video from her appearance that was posted on social media.
Greene, R-Ga., made the comments at the New York Young Republican Club in New York City on Saturday night.
Video shows her making jokes on stage at the event, to laughter from the assembled guests.
Before scoffing at the idea that she played a role in the Jan. 6 attack, she made a crack about how unfamiliar she had been with the layout of the Capitol complex: “I couldn’t even find a bathroom.”
“Then Jan. 6 happens and next thing you know, I organized the whole thing along with Steve Bannon here,” Greene said with apparent sarcasm, to laughter from attendees. “And I will tell you something: If Steve Bannon and I had organized that, we would have won.”
As cheers and clapping broke out in the audience, Greene added: “Not to mention, it would’ve been armed” — drawing a seemingly surprised reaction from the room.
A spokesperson for Greene did not immediately respond to ABC News’ request for comment on her remarks.
The attack on Jan. 6 was armed, with many rioters bringing weapons — including hammers, batons and bear and wasp spray — as they sought to overrun the Capitol to interrupt the certification of then-President Donald Trump’s loss to Joe Biden.
Officers at the insurrection later described the violence as “carnage” and “chaos,” and more than 100 police were injured.
U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell testified at a House Jan. 6 hearing last summer about being attacked during the riot.
“I could feel myself losing oxygen and recall thinking to myself, ‘This is how I’m going to die, trampled defending this entrance,'” he said.
Ahead of the attack, members of the Oath Keepers militia had also gathered weapons at a hotel in Virginia, according to the Justice Department, and the founder of the group was recently found guilty of seditious conspiracy for plotting to stop the electoral certification.
Greene’s comments about Jan. 6 come as her influence is set to rise in the upcoming Republican-led House — with Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who hopes to be speaker, promising her a spot back on committees.
Greene has made it known that she would like to play a large role on the House Oversight Committee.
She was stripped last year of her assignments by Democrats and some Republicans because of her history of incendiary, violent and conspiratorial comments.
She said then that she was regretful over some of what she had said and believed.
Things got a little scary at Patti LaBelle’s Christmas concert in Milwaukee Saturday night. According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, two songs into the show at the Riverside Theater, security rushed the singer off the stage and evacuated the 2,500-seat venue due to a bomb threat.
“Regarding the bomb threat in the 100 block of W. Wisconsin, all patrons have been safely evacuated,” Milwaukee Police Capt. Warren E. Allen Jr. shared in an email Saturday evening. “Police are clearing the facility at this time. The investigation is fluid and ongoing.” A later statement added, “The building was searched by K9 units. No explosive devices were discovered. There is no threat to the public at this time.”
Video posted to social media shows two security guards interrupting LaBelle as she was chatting with a member of the audience who was celebrating a birthday. She can be heard saying “Wait,” before quickly being escorted off the stage.
So far there has been no comment from LaBelle about the incident.
Ike and Tina Turner with family circa 1972; Ronnie seated to the right of Tina; Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images
Tina Turner has broken her silence following the death of her son Ronnie, who recently passed away at age 62.
The singer shared a picture on Facebook of herself with her eyes closed, simply writing, “Ronnie, you left the world far too early. In sorrow I close my eyes and think of you, my beloved son.”
Ronnie was born to Tina and ex-husband and musical partner Ike Turner in October 1960. Her older son Craig, who she had with saxophonist Raymond Hill and was adopted by Ike, died by suicide in 2018.
According toPeople, Ronnie was a musician and played in a band called Manufactured Funk. He had a small role in the 1993 Tina Turner biopic What’s Love Got to Do With It.
(NEW YORK) — Prince Harry and Meghan opened up about their decision to leave their senior royal roles in a new trailer for their Netflix docuseries Harry & Meghan.
The trailer, released Monday, opens with footage of the duke and duchess of Sussex in their royal roles with Harry saying, “I wonder what would’ve happened to us if we had not got out when we did.”
Meghan then says the couple’s security was “pulled” and “everyone in the world knew where we were.”
The trailer includes a selfie video Harry took on what he described as the “freedom flight” that presumably took him out of the United Kingdom following his last engagement as a senior working royal.
Later in the trailer, Harry, the fifth in line to Britain’s throne, alleges that “lies” were told to protect his older brother Prince William, the heir to the throne.
As Harry is speaking, a shot of Buckingham Palace is shown followed by a clip of Harry walking next to William in the funeral procession for their grandfather Prince Philip in 2021.
“They were happy to lie to protect my brother,” Harry says, as a photo of him and Meghan flashes across the screen. “They were never willing to tell the truth to protect us.”
Harry also alleges “institutional gaslighting,” while Meghan says of her experience as a senior royal, “I wasn’t being thrown to the wolves. I was being fed to the wolves.”
Harry and Meghan stepped down from their senior royal roles in early 2020, just before they celebrated their second wedding anniversary.
The Netflix docuseries marks the Sussexes’ most extensive comments about their decision to leave the U.K. and start a new life in California, where they now live with their two children Archie and Lilibet.
The first three episodes of the docuseries, made in association with Harry and Meghan’s Archewell production company, aired on Dec. 8.
The final three episodes, which the new trailer previewed, will air on Netflix on Dec. 15.
In addition to detailing the controversy over their royal departure, the docuseries also shows glimpses of the life Harry and Meghan have created for themselves in California.
The trailer includes footage of Harry and Archie kicking a ball with Meghan’s mom Doria Ragland, in what appears to be the backyard of the couple’s Montecito home.
Meghan says, “It gave us a chance to create that home that we had always wanted.”
Amid clips of Harry walking on the beach and riding bikes with Meghan among the palm trees, the prince says, “I’ve always felt as though this was a fight worth fighting for.”
The trailer also includes quotes from Tyler Perry, who allowed the couple to stay in his California mansion when they first moved there from the U.K.
“They wanted to be free to love and be happy,” Perry says. “I applauded that.”
Members of the royal family have not commented on Harry and Meghan’s docuseries.
In the opening seconds of the first episode of Harry & Meghan, Netflix states that members of Britain’s royal family “declined to comment on the content within this series.”
Royal sources however told ABC News last week “that neither Buckingham Palace nor Kensington Palace nor any members of the royal family were approached for comment on the content of the series.”
According to royal sources, Kensington Palace, the household of Harry’s brother Prince William and his wife Kate, the princess of Wales, received an email purporting to be from a third-party production company, via a different, unknown organization’s email address.
The palace contacted Harry and Meghan’s production company, Archewell Productions, and Netflix to attempt to verify the authenticity of the email, but received no response, sources claimed.
According to the sources, without being able to verify the email’s authenticity, the palace was “unable” to provide any response.
A source at Netflix, meanwhile, told ABC News that communications offices for Harry’s father King Charles III and William were contacted in advance and given the right to reply to claims within the series.
According to Netflix, interviews for the series were completed by August, one month before the death of Harry’s grandmother, Queen Elizabeth II.
Yeah Yeah Yeahs will no longer be playing Saturday Night Live this weekend.
In a statement posted to their Twitter over the weekend, the “Maps” outfit shares that guitarist Nick Zinner has been battling pneumonia over the past month, adding that his recovery has been “up and down.”
“The band’s top priority is supporting Nick through a full recovery,” the statement reads. “As a result we had to pull out from…Saturday Night Live.”
Karen O and company share that it was a “huge honor” to be chosen as the musical guest for SNL‘s final episode of 2022, which is set to air December 17, for which they are “deeply thankful” and now “heartbroken” that they can no longer play.
“It’s been a tough week, and its been a tough year on the health front for us alongside so many artists who are committed to connecting with audiences amidst a pandemic,” YYYs write. “We send our love to our fans and supporters, thank you for your understanding and well wishes, it means the world to us.”
The group concludes, “Wishing you a healthy and happy rest of 2022, we’re looking forward to a strong return in 2023.”
Lizzo, who will be replacing YYYs for the episode, tweeted, “It’s an honor to fill in for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs who unfortunately could not perform next week.”
This year, Yeah Yeah Yeahs released their new album, Cool It Down, the long-awaited follow-up to 2013’s Mosquito. Cool It Down is nominated for Best Alternative Music Album at the 2023 Grammys, while the single “Spitting Off the Edge of the World,” which features Perfume Genius, is up for Best Alternative Music Performance.
(NEW YORK) — Hate crimes in the United States remained at the same level in 2021 as they were in 2020, the FBI said Monday, even as hate crimes based on a person’s sexual orientation increased.
However, the FBI also said there was a nearly 30% drop in police agencies that reported data in 2021, because of the new way the data was reported to the FBI, making it difficult to meaningfully compare 2021 statistics to years past, an FBI official said on a conference call with reporters.
Some of the agencies that didn’t report data were from bigger city agencies, but the FBI did not say which ones.
The FBI said 64.8% of victims were targeted because of their offenders’ bias against race and ethnicity, 15.6% were targeted because of the offenders’ bias toward their sexual orientation and 13.3% were targeted because of their religion.
“The bias groups of sexual orientation and disability showed increases in reported hate-crime incidents and bias-related incidents of anti-Asian and anti-Native Hawaiian [and] other Pacific Islander also increased in 2021, as well as a number of non-juvenile offenders connected to reported hate crimes,” a senior FBI official told reporters on a conference call Monday.
In total there were more than 8,000 victims of a hate crime, the FBI said, adding 44.2% were for intimidation, 35.9% were simple assault and 18.3% were aggravated assault.
The Justice Department has charged 60 people with hate crimes and secured convictions against 55 people since 2021, a senior DOJ official said.
