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When Slipknot‘s Corey Taylor sings “I challenge you to all out life,” this probably isn’t what he meant.

During the Knot’s show in Phoenix Tuesday, a large bonfire erupted in the crowd during their performance of the song “All Out Life.” Footage taken by an attendee and posted to YouTube shows fans cheering around the blaze and throwing chairs towards it, all while Slipknot performs in the background.

It’s unclear what exactly started the fire — maybe someone in the audience had just watched the Woodstock ’99 documentary — but according to Setlist.fm, the show was put on hold for 30 minutes to deal with it before Slipknot eventually returned to the stage to finish the shortened set.

The Phoenix show was the closing date on Slipknot’s U.S. Knotfest Roadshow tour. The band will return to the stage this Friday to headline their Knotfest Los Angeles festival

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Last year, Dan + Shay treated fans to original Christmas songs “Take Me Home for Christmas” and “Christmas Isn’t Christmas.” After releasing those tunes, the duo hinted that they weren’t quite done spreading Christmas cheer, and sure enough, they’re back for more festive original Christmas music in 2021.

The band released a new tune, “Pick Out a Christmas Tree,” as an Amazon Music Original song this week. In a behind-the-scenes clip shared with People, Dan + Shay admit that it’s especially daunting to write a new Christmas song since there are already so many classics in the canon.

“One day we sat down to write it and it sort of poured out of us,” they explain about their newly released song. “It’s just the soundtrack for folks going out [with] families, friends, going to a Christmas tree farm or going to a store down the street and picking out Christmas trees — so that’s how this song came about.”

“Pick Out a Christmas Tree” is available on Amazon now.

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Lady Gaga‘s upcoming CBS special One Last Time: An Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga isn’t airing until November 28, but we’ve got our first peek at it now — plus all the details of the set list.

The special was filmed at two sold-out shows at New York’s Radio City Music Hall this past August, which served as both Bennett’s birthday celebration and his last hurrah: The 95-year old legend has now retired from performing.  The one-hour special features Gaga and Bennett singing songs from their two duet albums: 2014’s Cheek to Cheek and their new one, Love for Sale.

In the sneak peek, which you can watch on Instagram, Gaga, in a glamorous gold gown, and Bennett, in a dapper suit, perform their first-ever joint recording, “The Lady Is a Tramp,” which appeared on Bennett’s 2011 album, Duets II. 

In the clip, Bennett, who was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2016 but began showing symptoms two years ago, has no problems handling the lyrics; his family has said his long-term memory is intact.

CBS has also released the set list for the special, which features each singer performing solo before teaming up to close the show with a few duets.

Gaga solo
“Luck Be A Lady”
“Orange Colored Sky”
“Let’s Do It”
“New York, New York”

Bennett solo
“Watch What Happens”
“Steppin’ Out”
“Fly Me to the Moon”
“I Left My Heart in San Francisco”

Gaga & Bennett together
“Lady is a Tramp”
“Love For Sale”
“Anything Goes”

One Last Time: An Evening with Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga airs November 28 on CBS at 8 p.m. ET/PT and will also be available to stream on Paramount+.

 

 

 

 

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Demi Lovato is teaming up with a video-sharing platform called Gaia, which describes itself as “the largest online resource of consciousness-expanding videos.”

The subscription-based platform features “content for the mind, body, and soul,” including documentaries, original shows and yoga and meditation classes.

“I am excited to be one of Gaia’s first celebrity ambassadors and honored to join a platform I have been a fan of for some time,” Demi says in a statement. “Understanding the world around us, both known and unknown, and diving deeper into areas that expand our consciousness is exciting to me and I am honored to be able to be a part of a community of people who want to do the same.”

Demi first became interested in Gaia thanks to their fascination with extraterrestrials. The singer was introduced to one of the platform’s show hosts, Dr. Steven Greer, founder of the Center for the Study of Extraterrestrial Intelligence, and has used his meditation techniques for “making contact.” Demi is also a fan of Gaia original series Ancient Civilizations and Deep Space.

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Pixies have announced Live in Brixton, a new box set capturing the band’s 2004 concerts at London’s Brixton Academy.

The eight-disc collection will be released January 28. The vinyl version, which will be limited to 2,000 pieces, features different colored LPs for each of the four shows.

Pixies played the Brixton run as part of their 2004 reunion tour, which marked the first time the “Where Is My Mind?” rockers took the stage together since breaking up in 1993.

“It was an amazing reception, I guess they had missed us over all those years,” recalls guitarist Joey Santiago. “I particularly remember getting word that the balcony was swaying, and seeing that the crowd didn’t want to leave long after we had finished the show.”

Pixies would continue to play shows together following the reunion tour, but didn’t release any new music until after bassist Kim Deal left the group in 2013. Deal was replaced by Kim Shattuck of the punk band The Muffs, and then by ex-A Perfect Circle bassist Paz Lenchantin, who remains in Pixies to this day.

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Tool‘s Adam Jones has announced a new signature guitar with Gibson.

The 1979V2 Les Paul Custom is an update on the previously launched Adam Jones 1979 Les Paul Custom, which is based on Jones’ own beloved Silverburst 1979 Gibson Les Paul. Only 79, hand-signed models were made, all of which are currently sold out.

On the off chance more become available, stay tuned to Gibson.com.

Jones previously announced a partnership with Gibson last fall. To mark the collaboration, Jones released a new instrumental piece called “The Witness,” which he recorded with his Tool band mates Danny Carey and Justin Chancellor.

If you can’t get your hands on a 1979V2 Les Paul Custom, you can still see Jones play one on Tool’s upcoming 2022 tour, which kicks off in January.

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Talk about girl power! Halle Berry just shared that the soundtrack for her upcoming Netflix film, Bruised, will be the first “all female” project.

Taking to Instagram on Tuesday evening, Berry shared a screenshot of an interview she did with Variety regarding the effort, and wrote, “SURPRISE! Can’t wait for the world to finally experience my dream come true – the first all female Hip-hop project, the music of Bruised, featuring [Cardi B] [Saweetie] [H.E.R.] [City Girls] [Young M.A] [Flo Milli] [Latto] and more! [fire emoji] these ladies killed it! Project drops Nov. 19.”

“I can’t wait to show it,” the 55-year-old actress raved to Variety. “I have to tell you, one of the things I’m most excited about is the title song that H.E.R. sang… and she killed it,” Berry added. “So I can’t wait to share with everyone and am super excited.”

In addition to the A-list artists already mentioned in Berry’s social media post, the soundtrack, which was executive-produced by the actress and Cardi, also features appearances from Baby Tate, Dream Doll, Erica Banks, Rapsody, and Big Bottle Wyanna. 

The first single off the record will be from Yung Miami and JT, who make up the rap duo City Girls. It’s set to be released on Friday, November 5 and is featured during a “key sequence” of the film.  

The full Bruised soundtrack will be available November 19, with the film hitting Netflix November 24. 

 

 

 

 

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Adele has already recorded her upcoming CBS TV special, and now she’s doing one for the folks back home.

An Audience with Adele will be recorded at London’s legendary Palladium and will air on Britain’s ITV and stream on its on on-demand ITV Hub on November 21. The show will feature Adele performing new songs from her upcoming album, 30 — due out November 19 — plus her “classic hits.”

What’s interesting about this particular concert is that the audience, according to ITV, will include Adele’s “own personal heroes and heroines, fellow musicians, artists, actors, sportsmen, sportswomen and more.”

Does that mean that Drake, Beyoncé, Nicole Richie, Jennifer Lawrence, Aaron Paul, James Corden and other celebrities with whom Adele is known to hang out might be in attendance?  Adele has also, in the past, spoken about her admiration for I Will Destroy You creator Michaela Cole, actor Jonathan Majors, and author Glennon Doyle.

Perhaps members of We Are Grenfell United, a charity devoted to demanding justice for the victims of the deadly 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London, will attend as well.  Adele is devoted to the cause, because the fire happened just around the corner from where she used to live in London.

We’ll just have to wait for media reports of the show to leak.  Stay tuned.

 

 

 

 

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