Sum 41 frontman Deryck Whibley has sold his publishing catalog.
According to Billboard, the sale was made to the company HarbourView Equity Partners, which has recently acquired the catalogs of Hollywood Undead, and country artists Lady A and Brad Paisley.
As for how much Whibley took home from the transaction, Billboard reports that the “terms of the deal weren’t disclosed.”
Sum 41 is currently touring the U.S. with fellow Canadians Simple Plan. The “Fat Lip” outfit has also been working on a new record, a double album called Heaven and Hell.
Happy birthday, Frances Bean Cobain! The daughter of the late Kurt Cobain and Courtney Love celebrates turning 30 Thursday.
In an Instagram post reflecting on the milestone occasion, Cobain shares, “20-year-old Frances wasn’t sure that was going to happen.”
“At the time, an intrinsic sense of deep self loathing dictated by insecurity, destructive coping mechanisms & more trauma than my body or brain knew how to handle, informed how I saw myself and the world,” Cobain writes. “Through a lens of resentment for being brought into a life that seemingly attracted so much chaos and the kind of pain tied to grief that felt inescapable.”
Cobain then mentions an unspecified “event on a plane” that she experienced, which she says, “brought me closer in proximity to death.” However, Cobain feels that what happened “catapulted me towards running at this lived experience with radical gratitude.”
“I’m glad to have proven myself wrong & to have found ways to transform pain into knowledge,” Cobain shares.
“Entering this new decade I hope to stay soft no matter how hardening the world can feel at times, bask in the present moment with reverence, shower the people I am lucky enough to love with more appreciation than words could ever do justice & hold space to keep learning, so the growth never stops,” she continues. “I’m happy to be here & I’m happy you’re here too.”
New Found Glory guitarist Chad Gilbert has shared an update after undergoing surgery earlier this week to remove a tumor on his spine.
“Things went really well,” Gilbert writes in an Instagram post that went up Wednesday. “They were able to remove almost all of it besides a microscopic amount of tumor that was in the bone. Once we get test results back from the tissue, we’ll be able to blast it with whatever treatment it needs so we can keep it at bay or even kill it completely.”
“All news has been good so far for what the situation is and things have been going great!” he adds. “First two nurses I saw post-op were big NFG fans which was really special. Their compassion and love me feel not alone.”
Gilbert shared earlier this that he would be having surgery to remove the rare tumor, called a pheochromocytoma. The musician was hospitalized with the same type of tumor late last year.
The Ronnie James Dio documentary Dio: Dreamers Never Die is coming to theaters this fall.
The film will screen in cinemas worldwide for two days only: September 28 and October 2. Tickets go on sale next Wednesday, August 24.
Dio: Dreamers Never Die is described as the “first-ever, career-spanning documentary” on the metal legend, who passed away from stomach cancer in 2010. The film will follow Ronnie’s life from his days with the bands Elf and Rainbow, to joining Black Sabbath in place of the fired Ozzy Osbourne, and forming his own namesake band, Dio.
Wendy Dio, Ronnie’s longtime manager and widow, is an executive producer on the doc.
In addition to never-before-scene footage and photos of Ronnie, Dreamers Never Die will feature appearances by Sabbath’s Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler, ex-Deep Purple bassist/vocalist Glenn Hughes, Dio drummer Vinny Appice, Lita Ford, Rob Halford, Sebastian Bach and Jack Black.
Iggy Pop is set to headline the inaugural Destination Chaos, a punk-themed destination festival taking place in the Dominican Republic from January 28 to February 4, 2023.
The bill also includes Descendents, Gogol Bordello, Amyl and the Sniffers, The Chats and ex-Joy Division bassist Peter Hook, who will be performing the band’s iconic 1979 debut album Unknown Pleasures in full.
You can also catch Iggy perform at the 2022 Desert Daze festival, taking place in October in Lake Perris, California. That lineup also features Tame Impala performing their 2012 album Lonerism in its entirety.
If you’re feeling bad about that text message you sent that got left on read, it might be comforting to know that even Ozzy Osbourne doesn’t always get an answer back.
In an interview with Metal Hammer, the Prince of Darkness shares that he reached out to Jimmy Page to appear on his upcoming new solo album, Patient Number 9, only to get crickets from the Led Zeppelin legend.
“I don’t even know if he plays anymore, but I thought getting Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page meant having the greatest guitarists on the planet,” Ozzy shares. “But I never heard from him. Maybe he’d lost his phone or something!”
Osbourne’s comments follow an interview Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, who plays on Patient Number 9, gave to the Talk Is Jericho podcast earlier this year, during which he said that there was an attempt to recruit Page for the album.
While the potential Page collaboration didn’t come to be, Patient Number 9 features a ton of other guests, including Clapton, Beck, Black Sabbath‘s Tony Iommi, Pearl Jam‘s Mike McCready, Black Label Society‘s Zakk Wylde, Duff McKagan of Guns N’ Roses, Metallica‘s Robert Trujillo and late Foo Fighters drummer Taylor Hawkins.
Motionless in White is active on the charts with the band’s latest single, “Masterpiece.”
The track, which appears on the new MiW album Scoring the End of the World, jumps to #6 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Airplay chart this week. Despite being a regular at rock radio since their first appearance on Mainstream Rock Airplay in 2013, the Pennsylvania metallers have never before had a top-10 hit.
Speaking with ABC Audio as “Masterpiece” was climbing the chart, frontman Chris “Motionless” Cerulli reflected on what a top-10 single would mean for him and the band.
“To have a top-10 just feels like, at this point, just something that we’ve been chasing a little bit that we would love to have, essentially, on our wall, you know?” Cerulli shared. “Like, a plaque on the wall that feels like a really cool accomplishment that is shared with the fans, because they’re the ones that ultimately put you there.”
Getting radio airplay in general, Cerulli feels, has helped Motionless “expand the group of fans” and “show our art to a wider spectrum of people.”
Cerulli also hopes that having a top-10 single will prove to be a benchmark in the career trajectory of Motionless in White, one on which the band will continue to build.
“It’s a cool moment to just look at the progression of the band and say, ‘We’re still growing,'” he said. “It’s more a memento and a statement of where we’re at in time, to look back on later.”
In addition to celebrating a career first, Motionless in White is also preparing for the second leg of the Trinity of Terror tour with Black Veil Brides and Ice Nine Kills, kicking off September 3 in Omaha, Nebraska.
Queens of the Stone Age and The Dead Weather member Dean Fertita has announced his debut solo album.
The record, titled Tropical Gothclub, will be released November 4.
“Tropical Gothclub as a concept is futuristic nostalgia,” Fertita explains. “Going through the seven stages of escapism, understanding the subliminal messages I’ve been sending and receiving to myself, and letting fantasy take a machete to the darkest corners of my mind. I want subculture shock and volcanic rock.”
You can listen to the album’s first single, “Wheels Within Wheels,” now via digital outlets.
Queens of the Stone Age dropped their latest album, Villains, in 2017, while The Dead Weather’s most recent effort is 2015’s Dodge and Burn.
Here’s the Tropical Gothclub track list:
“Needles” “Wheels Within Wheels” “Captivated” “Where There Is Water” “Infernal Inside” “No Wonder” “Death Rattle” “Double Blind” “Future to Follow” “Thunder Towards You” “Uniform Looks”
Is Jane’s Addiction hinting at a reunion with Eric Avery?
In a tweet Wednesday, the “Been Caught Stealing” rockers posted a video featuring Avery jamming on a bass alongside frontman Perry Farrell. Sadly, the video doesn’t feature the audio from the session, just the hiss of static feedback.
Avery is an original member of Jane’s Addiction and played with the group through their 1991 breakup. He eventually rejoined Jane’s from 2008 to 2010, but he didn’t play on either of the band’s reunion records, 2003’s Strays and 2011’s The Great Escape Artist.
If Avery is indeed back in Jane’s, that raises the question of what becomes of Chris Chaney, who’s played bass in the band since 2011. There’s also uncertainly surrounding guitarist Dave Navarro, whose “long bout” with COVID-19 forced Jane’s to scrap their set at this year’s Welcome to Rockville festival. Jane’s was also set to play Lollapalooza last month, but was quietly removed from the lineup. In both cases, Jane’s was replaced by the reunited Porno for Pyros, which is also fronted by Farrell.
Meanwhile, Farrell recently toldSpin that new Jane’s material is in the works, and the band is set to embark on a U.S. tour with The Smashing Pumpkins in October.
As Mark Hoppus continues to get back on his feet following his battle with cancer last year, he’s “hopeful for the future” of Blink-182.
“I keep writing music, and I’m open to whatever the next phase of Blink is,” Hoppus tells People, adding, “I’m just damn glad to be here.”
Fans have been theorizing lately that the next phase of Blink would feature Tom DeLonge rejoining the band following his departure in 2015. However, Hoppus threw cold water on those rumors, posting on his Discord page that Blink currently has “nothing to announce.”
Still, Hoppus notes that he’s built a stronger relationship with DeLonge in recent years, and recalls when DeLonge and Blink drummer Travis Barker visited him just before he started chemotherapy.
“It was the first time that all three of us were in the same room in, like, five years,” Hoppus shares. “It’s actually better than it used to be. There was no agenda. There were no lingering grudges. It felt very back to what it should be: three friends sitting in a room.”
Elsewhere in the People interview, Hoppus reveals that he fell into depression after initially being diagnosed with cancer.
“I was in our living room crying and telling my wife, ‘I don’t know if I can do this,'” Hoppus says. “She was like, ‘Well, what are you going to do, kill yourself?’ And that’s exactly what I was thinking. It was pretty dark.”
“It was a total snap-out-of-it moment,” he continues. “I was like, ‘What a s***ty thing to say.’ But also, what a kind thing to say, like, ‘Snap out of it, you f***ing baby. You have a beatable form of cancer. It’s going to suck to get there, but get there.’ I had to do the work.”
If you are in crisis or know someone in crisis, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255) or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting HOME to 741741.
