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The Paramount+ streaming services announced Wednesday that it will live stream the Wembley Stadium segment of the Taylor Hawkins Tribute Concert on September 3. The show will kick off at 11:30 Eastern time.
The announcement included some new names in the show's lineup, including Travis Barker, Martin Chambers, Stewart Copeland, Josh Freese, Violet Grohl, Justin Hawkins, James Gang, Brian Johnson, Kesha, Luke Spiller, Lars Ulrich, and Taylor Hawkins’ son, Shane.
Bruce Gillmer, president of music programming and event for Paramount+ called Hawkins "not only an incredible drummer and musician but truly one of the most passionate super fans of music the world has seen. His infectious energy and unique talent will continue to live on through his vast body of work... we look forward to leveraging Paramount’s global scale to mirror Taylor’s worldwide impact through this special tribute concert for audiences everywhere."
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Rappers Swizz Beatz and Timbaland have filed suit against the music video app Triller, alleging the company behind the app owes them $28 million after it acquired their livestream rap show, Verzuz.
The two began the virtual battle series in March 2020 on Instagram Live, and announced less than a year later they'd agreed to sell it to Triller for undisclosed terms. They claim that the company failed to make an agreed payment to them in January- and has since failed to make a promised $18 million payment by March, as well as subsequent $1 million a month payments since.
A spokesperson for the company claims it has paid "over $50 million" in cash and stock, and says the duo has failed to meet their prescribed threshold that would trigger the additional payments, calling the suit "nothing more than a performance dispute. Only one payment of $10 million was in question. We don’t believe they have met the thresholds for that payment yet, but have been trying to resolve it amicably."
The company has been accused separately by multiple creators of failing to make promised payments under an announced $14 million program with 300 Black influencers to create content, according a to report in the Washington Post earlier this month and, in early 2021, Universal Music Group pulled its music catalog from the app, alleging the company wasn’t paying artists for the use of their music. That dispute was resolved in may of the same year.
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Don't forget to join us tomorrow night for another rip-roaring edition of Saturday Night Karaoke at The Iron Horse Tavern in historic downtown Norcross.
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers will be awarded the "Global Icon Award" at the 2022 MTV VMAs coming up Sunday, August 28. The group will also perform live, their first live performance on the show in 20 years.
Did you know RHCP were from California? Why not? Every fucking song they write mentions it.
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AMC Theatres is honoring the late Olivia Newton-John by bringing Grease back to the big screen beginning this weekend, with $1 of the $5 ticket price going towards breast cancer research.
I tried to track down the closest theater showing the movie, but AMC's web page wasn't cooperating.
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Diane Luckey, better known by her stage name Q Lazzarus, has died, according to an obituary posted to the website for the Jackson Funeral Home in New Jersey. She was 61.
Lazzarus, who fronted Q Lazzarus And The Resurrection, is best known for the track Goodbye Horses, written by bandmate William Garvey and featured in the films Married To The Mob and during the seriously-fucking-creeping Buffalo Bill dance sequence in The Silence of the Lambs. She also appeared in Philadelphia, performing the Talking Heads’ Heaven. She retired from music in the mid-90s and was working as a Staten Island bus driver as of 2019.
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Birthdays today include: Songwriter Roger Cook (82); Billy J. Kramer of Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas (79); Eddy Raven (78); Ian Gillen of Deep Purple (77); John Deacon of Queen (71); Joey Tempest of Europe (59); Lee Ann Womack (56); Clay Walker (53); Régine Chassagne of Arcade Fire (46); Mic Todd of Coheed and Cambria (42); and Christina Perri (36). #MusicalBirthdays
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