In the comments of an Instagram post, frontman Michael “Fat Mike” Burkett reveals that 2023 will be the long-running punk band’s “last year.”
“We will be announcing our final shows soon,” Mike writes. “It’s been an amazing run.”
NOFX was founded in 1983 by bassist/vocalist Fat Mike, guitarist Eric Melvin and drummer Erik “Smelly”Sandin, all of whom still remain in the band. The group has released 14 studio albums — all on independent record labels — including 1994’s RIAA Gold-certified Punk in Drublic, which featured the beloved song “Linoleum.”
Garth Brooks may be the GOAT in country music, but at least around Jon Pardi’s farm, he’s a literal goat, too.
Jon’s 15-acre Nashville-area farm is home to a whole menagerie of animals, including five goats — two of whom are named Garth and Trisha, after the legendary singer and his equally legendary country star wife, Trisha Yearwood.
“I named ’em Garth and Trisha out here when we first got ’em. I thought it’d be funny,” Jon says in a new interview with ET Online.
Along with the other goats, the Pardi farm is also home to five cows, four dogs and four cats. The goats aren’t the only ones with punny names, either: Jon’s cats are the Kat-dashians.
As for the dogs? Well, Jon has even cast one of them as the co-star in a music video. The singer’s Australian cattle dog, Cowboy, makes a show-stealing cameo in the video for his song “Tequila Little Time.”
This Labor Day weekend, instead of the fan cruise she’s been doing for years, Melissa Etheridge is hosting her first fan destination festival, Etheridge Island, at a Mexican resort. Melissa tells ABC Audio that the festival, which started Tuesday and runs through Monday, is a better solution than a cruise ship for her fans — and not just because of COVID.
“COVID…ecologically…[and] there’s some fans that are just like, ‘I’m not getting on a boat, I’m just not going to do it!'” Melissa laughs. “And many asked for this: a destination, a place we can go. And I can also get more artists to come. There’s less artists that are willing to get on a boat for a few days. So it just made sense.”
The artists are a key ingredient in both the cruises and Etheridge Island: This year, in addition to three shows by Melissa, fans will also see Elle King, KT Tunstall, Ani DiFranco and lesser-known acts. Melissa loves that her fans tell her how she’s helped them discover new music that way.
“That’s my favorite thing: when they say, ‘Oh, I didn’t know this artist until Melissa introduced us [to them],'” she says. “And that means so much to me, because I spend the year finding these artists.”
She adds, “Since the late nineties I’ve been doing that: [I] really, really enjoy finding artists — especially females — that are so good, and [I] can really get them in front of people, knowing that my crowd will like them.”
To prove that she’s got a talent for, well, spotting talent, Melissa recalls doing a VH1 Duets show in the ’90s when she insisted on singing “with some artists that no one’s ever heard of.” Their names werePaula Cole, Joan Osborne and Jewel.
The first of two tribute concerts honoring late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins takes place Saturday at London’s Wembley Stadium.
The star-studded event, which will feature a towering roster of guests performing alongside Foo members Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear and Rami Jaffee, is set to stream live via Paramount+ and MTV’s YouTube channel beginning at 11:30 a.m. ET.
An hour-long version of the concert will also air as a special on CBS on Saturday at 10 p.m. ET. MTV will also air a two-hour special later in September.
The many artists joining the Foos in London for the tribute include AC/DC‘s Brian Johnson, Led Zeppelin‘s John Paul Jones, Rush‘s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, Queen‘s Brian May and Roger Taylor, the Joe Walsh-fronted James Gang, The Pretenders‘ Chrissie Hynde and Martin Chambers, Metallica‘s Lars Ulrich, The Police‘s Stewart Copeland, Nirvana‘s Krist Novoselic, ex-Oasis singer Liam Gallagher and Wolfgang Van Halen.
Grohl’s daughter Violet and Hawkins’ son Shane are also on the bill, as is Taylor’s cover band Chevy Metal.
You can view a full list of participants at TaylorHawkinsTributeConcert.com, which also features personal messages from a number of the guest artists sharing their memories of Hawkins and what it means for them to be performing in his honor.
Hawkins died on March 25 at age 50. The second tribute concert will be held at Kia Forum near Los Angeles on September 27.
The xx bassist and vocalist Oliver Sim has canceled his upcoming tour dates in support of his debut solo album, Hideous Bastard.
In an Instagram post, Sim writes, “Part of the reason Hideous Bastard came to be was imagining playing the songs live. But timing is everything and sometimes things don’t quite come together the way we’d hoped.”
“The shows booked for September and October are sadly not able to happen so we’ll have to wait a little longer to hear these songs in a room together,” Sim continues. “I’m sorry for any inconvenience cause but I look forward to putting on a truly hideous show for you very soon.”
If you’re disappointed by the news, your heart may be warmed by a comment left by Sim’s The xx bandmate Romy Madley Croft, who writes, “When the time is right I’ll be in the front row.”
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The Osbourne family’s return to the U.K. has inspired a new BBC reality series.
The 10-part show, titled Home to Roost, will follow Ozzy and Sharon‘s life as they move back to their home country after decades of living in Los Angeles.
“Home to Roost will document Ozzy and Sharon’s journey back to Britain, alongside [children] Kelly and Jack‘s efforts to support them, as they attempt to re-start their lives in rural Buckinghamshire,” a press release reads. “The series will follow the Osbournes as they celebrate one of their most important years yet — with everything from Sharon’s 70th birthday to Kelly’s soon-to-be-born baby, Ozzy’s tour, and of course the big move itself.”
The Osbournes, of course, are no strangers to reality TV. The family famously starred in the MTV show The Osbournes, which aired from 2002 to 2005.
Meanwhile, Ozzy is slated to release a new solo album, Patient Number 9, on September 9. He’s also set to launch a European tour in 2023, which has long been delayed due to Ozzy’s variety of health issues and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The visual for Kendrick Lamar‘s “We Cry Together” has arrived, in the form of a short film starring Lamar and actress Taylour Paige.
The short film dropped on Thursday and is an all-out reenactment of the track, which is from Lamar’s recently released Mr. Morale & the High Steppers album. It begins with Paige getting ready for work as Lamar sits at a kitchen table, smoking. As the fight escalates, the pair get in each other’s faces on occasion, exchanging the chorus’ explicit lyrics.
At one point, Lamar takes the car keys and locks himself in the bathroom. However, Paige enters through another door and gets the keys back. The two continue to argue around the apartment before reconciling in a graphic sexual act on the living sofa as the camera zooms out, exposing the set.
Lamar released two versions of the short film, one censored and one not.
“We Cry Together,” which was recorded live on March 15, 2020, is eligible for Best Live Action Short category at the 2023 Academy Awards. Eligibility does not equal nomination.
Reba McEntire and Rex Linn play back country outfitters with a dark secret in the newest trailer for season 3 of ABC drama Big Sky, which premieres next month.
Reba and Rex play Sunny and Buck Barnes, co-owners of glamping company Sunny Day Excursions, which runs hunting trips in a small Montana town. But this luxury outdoors company is more than meets the eye and just might find Reba in her most sinister role to date.
A new trailer for the show features Patsy Cline’s “Walking After Midnight” and follows two detectives as they head out to the woods to check out the Sunny Day experience.
Big Sky is based on the C.J. Box book series The Highway and chronicles a detective team’s attempts to solve a series of kidnappings.
The new season kicks off September 21 at 9:30 p.m. ET on ABC.
In June, Ringo Starr and his All Starr Bandpostponed the last 12 concerts of the first leg of their 2022 North American tour after two members — Edgar Winter and Toto‘s Steve Lukather — tested positive for COVID-19. Now, the group is ready to return to the road.
The ex-Beatles drummer and his star-studded group kick off their trek’s second leg on Monday, September 5 in Lenox, Massachusetts. The outing begins with the rescheduled dates and then runs into the All Starr Band’s 20 originally announced fall shows.
The tour leg begins with a series of shows in the Eastern U.S. then makes a bunch of stops at venues in Canada and the Northern U.S. as it works its way west across the continent. The trek winds down with concerts in Washington, Oregon and California, with the final stateside performance scheduled for October 16 at the famed Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. Ringo and the All Starrs also will play an October 19-20 engagement in Mexico City.
In addition to Winter and Lukather, the current All Starr Band features Men at Work frontman Colin Hay, Average White Band bassist Hamish Stuart, Toto multi-instrumentalist Warren Ham and acclaimed session drummer Gregg Bissonette.
During the tour, Ringo will release the latest in a series of EPs that he’s been putting together since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, a four-track collection titled EP3. The new recording, which can be pre-ordered now, will be released digitally and on CD September 16. A limited-edition blue cassette and 10-inch vinyl-disc version will follow on November 18.
EP3 includes contributions from Lukather, Toto lead singer Joseph Williams, hit-making producer and songwriter Linda Perry, sax player Dave Koz and more.
It’s no secret that Tyler Hubbard loves being his own boss. For years, he enjoyed a successful career as part of Florida Georgia Line before striking out on his own to become a solo singer-songwriter.
But did you know that Tyler’s favorite gig before that was when he ran his own car detailing business, which he started when he was still a teenager?
“So I would wash cars, working for myself, and had a lot of fun doing that and working for myself,” the singer explains, adding with a laugh: “I think anything outside of that was not the best job.”
He’s had plenty of not-so-fun gigs, too, including a “tough” summer he spent pouring concrete. “I don’t know if that was my worst, because I enjoyed being outside and I do enjoy manual labor and all that stuff,” he concedes.
Tyler’s least favorite job, he continues, was his stint working at Italian-American chain Maggiano’s. “I would probably say that was my worst, only because I was in the back polishing silverware and bussing tables,” the singer explains.
“I never could work my way up to being a server. And that’s what I thought I eventually was going to get to do,” he adds. “So I polished silverware and cleaned dishes for, I don’t know, six or eight months at Maggiano’s.”
Fortunately, country music eventually worked out. Tyler now has his dream job as a solo singer-songwriter, and he recently dropped his latest EP, Dancin’ in the Country. He heads out on tour with Keith Urban this fall.
