Final Gasp was set to play Washington, D.C. and I was going to attend, but the gig was cancelled when one of the members went to the hospital. The band posted that they set up a Gofundme to help cover his medical expenses.
Roger Waters was making a point about distracting the public from important matters in an interview recently (pictured above), and for some reason decided to take the opportunity to ridicule Black Sabbath and Ozzy Osbourne. This was after the band’s charity concert and Ozzy’s later death in July of this year. Ozzy’s son Jack Osbourne hit back hard on Instagram; he later wrote on the platform that his original post was taken down by Instagram for hate speech and so he posted his response to Waters again, this time with the expletives removed.
“Hey Roger Waters – fuck you,” Osbourne wrote in his original post, adding, “My father always thought you were a cunt.”
Country music defined the military experience for a long time, but no longer, Clay Beyersdorfer writes for Military Times.com. Troop playlists are just as likely to be filled with hip hop, EDM, or K-pop as country, which reflects a generational change, he notes.
Arlington Independent Media in my hometown has been dying a slow death for years, and now all of its equipment is up for auction. If you’re looking for audio/visual gear, supplies, equipment, and furniture, have a look. ARLnow.com has the details.
Shane Embury posted a video to Instagram (pictured above) to address a backlash over his Dark Sky Burial album cover that looks suspiciously AI generated, I’d say due to its similarity to a Deicide album cover that is confirmed was AI generated. Embury said in the video (that has comments turned off) that he didn’t know whether or not the cover was created using AI, but that he paid an artist to do the artwork.
Relapse Records is having a CD sale. There’s some good stuff posted at the sale, starting at the low, low price of $0.99. This is unkind, but I can’t help thinking of the (needlessly homophobic) Anal Cunt song, “Your Band’s in the Cut-Out Bin.” Let me quickly add that records I’ve played on have suffered a similar fate, so I’m not in the position to point fingers.
Rest In Peace
Allen Blickle was a drummer and founding member of Baroness. He passed away in September at the age of 42 after a long illness. An obituary is at The News-Gazette out of Lexington, VA.
Michael Herrell passed away in September. He was an early bass player for Today Is The Day and played on two of the band’s big albums. The group posted a remembrance online.
Bruce “Loose” Calderwood, the singer of Flipper, died in September of a heart attack. He was 66. “There was nothing as punk as Flipper,” reads a quote from Aidin Vaziri’s piece in the San Francisco Chronicle.
Brent Hinds was a co-founder of Mastodon. The guitarist died in a motorcycle crash in August in Atlanta, GA. Atlanta News First has a few details. Like the other guys in the band, besides being a talented player he was a friendly guy and a lot of fun to be around.
Bobby Whitlock co-founded Derek And The Dominoes, which released the noted Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs album in 1970. The writer, singer, and keyboardist died at 77 in August after an illness. Chris Willman has the story at Variety.
David Roach was the vocalist of the Hollywood band Junkyard and died at 59 after battling cancer. He and the group started playing together in the ‘80s and continued playing together sporadically after they officially broke up in the early ‘90s. Tyler Jenke has more details at Billboard.
Jill Lisson of the band Funerus passed away in August. She was a bassist and vocalist for the band and tributes have poured in on social media. Ghost Cult Mag has a few more details.
Erik Wunder played in the bands Cobat and Man’s Gin. He died in April at the age of 42. Walden Green has the story at Pitchfork.
Revik Dillon was the vocalist of Jack Killed Jill. She died in August, as Six Weeks Records posted online.
Photo: screen cap from The Independent Ink
