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Was just reading a press release about a deluxe reissue of Quiet Riot's 1999 reunion album cause I'm me.

It just made me kind of depressed that it kind of represents what a lot of what the limited future is left for physical music scales...extremely niche upscale rereleases. There's probably like 400 nerds that are interested in late era Quiet Riot (and even that might be a generous assessment) but they're gonna ring every last cent out of them.

Amusingly enough though, the people releasing these deluxe reissues realize people don't have *that* much interest in late era Quiet Riot cause the bonus disc is a live concert from 1984 LOL.
 
Tillan Pearson has left Dance Gavin Dance for the time being over a rape accusation. This band goes through singers like toilet paper. Sounds pretty damning.
 
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Can Ryan Adams Be a Rock Star Again? With a New Team and Return to Concerts, Singer Looks to Move Past Sexual Misconduct Allegations

Click here to read the full article. When Ryan Adams took to the stage of Carnegie Hall in May for a sold-out show, his first public one in nearly four years, he received a standing ovation when he walked onto the stage that, by some accounts, lasted several minutes. The actual length of the...
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posting in case @Incandenza is looking for some summer concerts to go to.
 
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Danny Brown Says Die Antwoord’s Ninja Sexually Assaulted Him

Danny Brown says that Ninja, one-half of the South African hip-hop group Die Antwoord, sexually assaulted him in Paris. In a recent interview with the podcast 2 Bears, 1 Cave, Brown said that Ninja approached him at an afterparty for one of his shows and sat on his lap attempting to kiss him.
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Since we don't have a sexual assault in music thread (even though it's probably as bad or worse of a problem than TV/film industry!)
 
Were Mumford and Sons trash at the time or did they age into it? I didn't listen to them during their peak but the work radio won't stop.
 
They were very refreshing when the major pop stations just played the same stuff over and over, but they were quickly so overplayed that whatever freshness they started with spoiled rotten in record time. At least they knew it wasn't our fault, but their own.
 
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Michael Jackson Posthumous Songs Removed From Streaming Services Because Fans Think He Didn't Sing On Them

In 2010, the year after Michael Jackson’s death, Sony Music released Michael, the first posthumous collection of Jackson’s unreleased songs. That album eventually went platinum, but three songs on that album have long been a sore spot for Jackson fans. The story is that people don’t believe that...
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(inauthentic) Hooo!

(I couldn't find the damn non diddling Michael Jackson thread and if he didn't have one before, he doesn't deserve one before. Tony Award winning jukebox musical be damned!)
 
TIL that A.J. McLean from the Backstreet Boys was once on Nickelodeon GUTS

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37th anniversary of best Queen performance and worst Led Zeppelin reunion.

I reread Phil Collins' autobiography this past weekend and if he is to be believed (and he's so blunt, I have a hard time doubting him), my man got jobbed that night. He kept telling Page & Plant that "I don't have time to rehearse and you have another drummer so I can step aside and just let you guys have your moment." but they kept insisting that they wanted him there.

My theory is Page & Plant wanted a fall guy to point an accusatory finger to when their reunion was a letdown. I'm puzzled (and so is my man Phil in his book somewhat implicitly) why they even bothered to show up in the first place if they were going to take such a defeatist attitude. But I guess it was the biggest concert of the '80s and it's still the 2nd most talked about performance even if it sucked!
 
Last Punk Goes... compilation came out in 2019, which is musical equivalent of shows that lasted way longer than you expected.

Of course, '00s nostalgia is in so we might see more compilations sooner than later.
 
Gorillaz dropping their latest song. Loving that bass line but the song feels a tad too fast for me (which is a rarity when I prefer something to actually be slowed down).

 
It’s nice metal and hard rock has their own Meltzer.


(That might be unfair to Eddie though since he has a lot more firsthand experience in music industry than Meltz has in rasslin biz)
 
That video only goes into three but way more have expressed disdain for Trunk. Rob Halford has been very vocal about how much he hates his guts.
 
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