In the very likely event you missed Metallica‘s last-minute concerts in San Francisco and Chicago this past week, you can still pretend you were there from the comfort of your own home.
The streaming site Nugs.net is offering full audio from both shows to its members. You can sign up at Nugs.net/metallica.
The San Francisco show, which took place on September 16, featured an audience of just 400 people, and marked Metallica’s first full live, in-person concert in 738 days. On September 20, the metal legends headlined the 1,100-capacity Metro in Chicago, which they hadn’t played since 1983.
Metallica’s next scheduled shows are headlining sets this Friday and Sunday at the Louder than Life festival in Louisville, Kentucky.
Released on October 1, 1971, Teaser and the Firecat reached #2 on the Billboard 200. It featured three of the singer/songwriter’s most enduring tunes: “Morning Has Broken,” “Peace Train,” and “Moonshadow,” which peaked at #6, #7 and #30, respectively, on the Billboard Hot 100.
A super-deluxe box set version of the reissue features four CDs, a Blu-ray, two LPs and a seven-inch vinyl single. The CDs feature a newly remastered version of the original album, a variety of unreleased studio recordings, a disc collecting audio of various TV and radio performances, and a CD boasting a full-length 1971 concert in Montreux, Switzerland.
The Blu-ray features an HD-audio version of the album, a 1977 animated video for “Moonshadow” and a 2020 concert clip of “The Wind,” and video of various live TV performances. The LPs feature an alternate version of Teaser and the Firecat on one disc and a selection of live performances from Montreux and the BBC on the other.
The vinyl single features a remastered version of “Moonshadow,” backed with a previously unreleased recording of the late U.K. comedian Spike Milligan reading the narration for the aforementioned animated video.
One of the bonus tracks is a newly recorded version of “Bitterblue,” retitled “Bitterblue².”
The box set also comes packaged with a softcover replica of the original 1972 Teaser and the Firecat book, and a 108-page hardcover essay book.
In advance of the reissue, a previously unheard 1970 demo of “Moonshadow” was released Thursday as a digital track.
Visit Cat Stevens’ official store for more details about the Teaser and the Firecat reissues.
The woman who accused Nicki Minaj‘s husband, Kenneth Petty, of rape in 1994 detailed the alleged incident on Wednesday in her first television interview.
Speaking on The Real, Jennifer Hough declared, “I’m tired of being afraid.”
She said that on September 16, 1994, when Hough and Petty were both 16 years old living in New York City, he grabbed her on the way to school, led her into a house and raped her.
In August, Hough filed a lawsuit against Minaj and Petty, accusing the couple of “witness intimidation, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligent infliction of emotional distress, harassment, assault, battery, sexual assault, and sexual harassment.”
During her interview, Hough revealed that because of the incident, “I had to leave my family, I had to leave my home and I had to move away.”
She added that when Minaj announced she married Petty in October 2019, “I was so afraid of being known as the person he violated. And I didn’t want that. You know, it’s Nicki Minaj. I didn’t want that to reflect on my children.”
Hough says she was distressed by Nicki’s 2018 Instagram comment in which she said Hough was in a relationship with Petty at the time of the incident.
“It wasn’t true,” Hough said. “We were never in a relationship. It just felt woman-to-woman, that was wrong of her because I don’t know you and you don’t know me to know that that statement you put out to the world to be true. You have 150-something million followers on [Instagram]. They all believed it. It hurt coming from another woman.”
As reported previously, earlier this month, Petty pleaded guilty for failure to register as a sex offender in the state of California. He is scheduled for sentencing on January 24, 2022. The 43-year-old, who has homes in New York City and Los Angeles, was registered as sex offender in New York, but not in California. He is required to register as a sex offender in both states after being convicted for the first-degree attempted rape of a 16-year-old girl in 1995, for which he served a four-year prison sentence.
A variety of celebrities, including music stars such as Cyndi Lauper and Barbra Streisand, are calling on entertainment industry leaders to demand action on climate change from Congress.
In a letter addressed to the heads of companies including Facebook, Netflix, Sony, Walt Disney, Apple, Google and Amazon, the artists, working with the Natural Resources Defense Council Action Fund, state that the bosses are “needed to lead our community’s call for action and embrace this vision for a better world.”
“Now is the time to use your influence to shape our future,” the letter continues. “Congress needs to hear you demand, unequivocally, that it put forward and pass the most ambitious climate change agenda in U.S. history.”
The letter asks that the business leaders “demand publicly and loudly that our senators and representatives” pass legislation that is currently before them. The legislation, the letter claims, will “create healthier communities, put millions to work in clean energy jobs, and free us from the fossil fuels that are driving climate change.”
The artists go in to say that they’ll be using their own platforms to remind all Americans to tell their senators and representatives in Congress that they “demand climate action now,” by taking up the president’s agenda.
“Tweet. Post. E-mail. Call. Whatever it takes,” the letter concludes. “This is our moment, and there is no time to waste.”
Others music stars who signed the letter include Coldplay, Adam Levine, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, John Legend, Selena Gomez, Shakira, Lorde, Billie Eilish, Camila Cabello, Dua Lipa,and Demi Lovato, as well as celebs including Leonardo DiCaprio, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Hugh Jackman, Jimmy Fallon, Jimmy Kimmel, Kerry Washington, Lin-Manuel Miranda, J.J. Abrams, Chris Evans, Ryan Reynolds and Ellen DeGeneres, among many others.
Kings of Leon have canceled a few upcoming tour dates so that brothers Caleb, Jared and Nathan Followill can be with their sick mother.
“Our mother, who many of our fans know and love, has been dealing with a medical crisis for the last several weeks,” the band writes in a statement posted Thursday. “While it has been hard to take the stage each night, it has been the love and energy from you, our fans, that has gotten us through.”
At the beginning of a show at the Los Angeles Forum earlier this week, the brothers learned their mother “took a turn for the worse.”
“It was a hard show to get through, but you held us up that night in a way we will never forget,” KoL says. “Immediately following the show, we all flew home, where will remain by her side until the time comes to say goodbye.”
Canceled dates include KoL’s headlining concert at California’s Shoreline Amphitheatre Thursday and their set at this weekend’s Eddie Vedder-founded Ohana Festival.
“We wanted to say thank you to all of our fans, to Eddie, and to the entire Pearl Jam family for supporting us during this time,” the band says.
Along with the Followill brothers, their cousin Matthew Followill is also a Kings of Leon member.
Just four months after welcoming their first child together, Jason Derulo and his girlfriend Jena Frumes have broken up.
The couple started dating in March of 2020, and Jena has been a constant presence in Jason’s TikTok videos. The two welcomed sonJason King on May 8.
On Twitter today, Jason wrote, “Jena and I have decided to part ways. She is an amazing mother but we feel being apart at this time will allow us to be the best versions of ourselves and the best parents we could be. Pls respect our privacy in this time.“
Jason and Jena have the same birthday — September 21 — and People captured an Instagram post Jenna put up Wednesday showing the two marking the occasion in Aspen, Colorado — a post she later deleted.
“Blessed to share the same day of birth with my lover. You are the most handsome, hardworking, talented, silly, loving human ever,” Jena wrote about Jason in the post. “You truly make me whole and I’m so grateful for the love we share. You and our mini make me the happiest girl in the world and I can’t wait to make more memories with you guys.”
She continued, “I know I’m a tough cookie but you make me soft and accept me for who I am and I’m forever grateful for that. Cheers to another year! I love you so much, forever.”
Although she deleted that post, her Insta is still filled with pics of Jason. And Jena is still on Jason’s Instagram as well.
Britney Spears‘ fiancé, Sam Asghari, isn’t exactly thrilled about the fact that Netflix is streaming a documentary about his future wife, if a comment he made on Netflix’s Instagram page can be believed.
Britney vs. Spears promises a deep dive into Britney’s conservatorship, and Netflix says it’s based on years of research, documents, voicemails and texts. It was not made with Britney’s involvement, however. When Netflix posted the trailer for the doc, called Britney vs. Spears, on Instagram Wednesday, Sam jumped into the comments section and wrote, “I hope the profit from these docs go towards fighting against injustice #freebritney.”
Then Bobby Campbell, who is Lady Gaga‘s manager, chimed in: “How much money is being made by third parties from this documentary leveraging Britney’s personal story and its value in the media?”
“There needs to be transparency about how or whether the filmmakers are profiting from this doc, or if they are donating their fees to Britney’s legal defense, or to legal defense funds to aide those who do not have the financial resources to fight against undue conservatorships,” Campbell continued. “Even if it is in support of freeing Britney, this appears that it could be exploitative.”
Sam replied “100%” to Campbell’s comments.
However, fans weren’t pleased with either man’s comments. As one pointed out, “We know these docs make money using Britney’s name. But we can’t deny that the free Britney movement gained momentum after they were aired.”
Fans also tore Campbell apart, accusing him of doing nothing to help Britney, and urging him to insist that Lady Gaga support Britney publicly. They also accused him of being friends with Lou M.Taylor, Britney’s former business manager, who some fans believe is the “secret mastermind” behind the conservatorship.
Ringo Starr took part in a Zoom press event this week to promote his forthcoming EP, Change the World. During the virtual Q&A, the former Beatles drummer shared a humorous memory involving The Rolling Stones‘ Charlie Watts and another famous late drummer, Led Zeppelin‘s John Bonham.
Ringo said he’d hang out with Watts from time to time, particularly when they used to live near each other in London, and he recalled an incident at a party he threw at his place during the 1970s that Charlie and Bonzo attended.
“I had a drum kit up in the attic…And Charlie came and so did John Bonham. And so, we’ve got three drummers just hanging out,” Starr remembered. “And Bonham got on the kit, but because it [wasn’t nailed down],…as he was playing and the bass drum was hopping away from him, you had Charlie Watts and Ringo holding the bass drum for him as he played.”
Reflecting on the comical scene, Ringo added, “[T]hat would have been a great little video or TikTok, or a photo would’ve gone worldwide, you know what I mean? But in the ’70s, I had parties and you’ll never find any photos, because I wouldn’t let you take photos…you know, in my house.”
Starr said of Watts, who died last month at age 80, “Charlie was a great guy. He was a lot of fun, and he had a harder band than I did to keep together…[W]e will miss Charlie. He was a beautiful human being.”
Dan Reynolds finally revealed how he decides which songs make it onto Imagine Dragons‘ albums, and credits his family for being the masterminds behind the process.
“I play music for them every day. I write [music] every day and, between them and my wife…they’re the ones who pick what goes in an Imagine Dragons record,” Reynolds told Kelly Clarksonon her daytime talk show. “I play them the songs and if they wanna hear it again, I’m like ‘Okay, there’s something here.’ If they don’t, then it doesn’t make the record.”
Adds the “Follow You” singer, “You can thank my four-year-olds for putting together the record.”
Imagine Dragons released their fifth studio album, Mercury — Act 1, earlier this month. It debuted at number nine on the Billboard 200.
Reynolds is the father of four children with wife Aja Volkman: Arrow, nine, Coco, four, Gia, four, and Valentine, who is one. He and Volkman have been married since 2011 and celebrated their 10th wedding anniversary in March.
Jennifer Nettles is returning to Broadway! The singer-songwriter, who previously played Roxie in the musical Chicago, will show off her acting skills in the lead role of Jenna in Waitress. The role is currently being played by pop star and Waitress creator Sara Bareilles, with Jennifer set to begin her run on October 19, and starring in the musical through November 24.
“It is an absolute dream,” Jennifer tells People of performing in the musical. “There are so many layers to Waitress that make it so meaningful to me. It is heart-warming, heart-breaking at times, and absolutely heart-inspiring. I’m thrilled to be able to finally get to wear the apron.”
Waitress is scheduled to run through January 9, 2022 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
Jennifer’s latest solo album, Always Like New, was released in June. The record includes covers of Broadway classics, from musicals like My Fair Lady,Hamilton,Oklahoma!,Annie and more. “She Used to Be Mine,” from Waitress, appears on the deluxe version of the record.
