Eddie Vedder has released a cover of “Long Shadow,” a song by late The Clash icon Joe Strummer and his backing band, The Mescaleros.
The Pearl Jam frontman recorded the track in honor of what would have been Strummer’s 70th birthday this Sunday, August 21.
The original “Long Shadow” was included on the 2003 Mescaleros album Streetcore, which was released a year after Strummer’s death in 2002.
“I just think that what Joe did with the Mescaleros and those records, and those songs, and those words, it was a very communal sound,” Vedder says. “I think when you have a communal sound, the listener feels like they can be part of that community.”
You can watch Vedder’s “Long Shadow” performance streaming now on YouTube.
Mark Hoppus is returning to performing live following his battle with cancer.
The Blink-182 bassist/vocalist joined the up-and-coming rock outfit Beauty School Dropout for a performance of their song “Almost Famous.” Hoppus also guests on the studio version of the track, which is out now.
You can watch footage of the onstage collaboration posted to BSD’s Instagram Story.
Hoppus shared that he’d been diagnosed with cancer in June 2021. After a few months of chemotherapy treatment, he was declared “cancer free” in September 2021.
Hoppus technically played his first post-cancer performance during his Blink bandmate Travis Barker‘s Halloween streaming concert last October. However, the Beauty School Dropout show marked his first live and in-person performance since his diagnosis.
Beauty School Dropout, by the way, is signed to Hoppus’ new Verswire project, a “venture capital music startup” that also features Fall Out Boy‘s Pete Wentz as strategic adviser. In addition to collaborating with them on “Almost Famous,” Hoppus also appears in the video for the BSD song “Assassin,” as does Wentz.
Red Hot Chili Peppers will receive the Global Icon Award at the 2022 MTV Video Music Awards.
The honor, which was given to Foo Fighters in 2021, “celebrates an artist or band whose unparalleled career and continued impact and influence has maintained a unique level of global success in music and beyond, leaving an indelible mark on the music landscape.”
In addition to being named Global Icons, RHCP will perform at the VMA ceremony, joining a lineup that already includes Måneskin and Panic! at the Disco. The last time the “Californication” outfit performed on the VMAs was all the way back in 2000, when they won the Video Vanguard Award.
The Chili Peppers are also VMA nominees this year. They’re up for the Best Rock prize with their video for “Black Summer.”
The 2022 MTV VMAs take place next Sunday, August 28.
In other Peps news, the band has released a new song called “Tippa My Tongue.” The track is the first single off RHCP’s upcoming album Return of the Dream Canteen, due out October 14.
You can listen to “Tippa My Tongue” now via digital outlets and watch its accompanying video streaming now on YouTube.
Return of the Dream Canteen is the second Red Hot Chili Peppers album of 2022, following April’s Unlimited Love.
RHCP’s current U.S. tour continues Friday in Chicago. The headlining outing is scheduled into mid-September.
Here’s the Return of the Dream Canteen track list:
“Tippa My Tongue” “Peace and Love” “Reach Out” “Eddie” “Fake as Fu@k” “Bella” “Roulette” “My Cigarette” “Afterlife” “Shoot Me a Smile” “Handful” “The Drummer” “Bag of Grins” “La La La La La La La La” “Copperbelly” “Carry Me Home” “In the Snow”
Taking to Instagram Thursday, August 18, the drummer revealed that he’s tested positive for COVID-19.
“Covid sucks I’d rather be playing drums,” he wrote next to a photo of him playing with drumsticks.
The news comes just two months after Barker, 46, suffered from a “severe life-threatening” case of pancreatitis. Days after the musician was spotted in a stretcher with wife, Kourtney Kardashian, by his side, he took to Twitter then to explain what happened.
“I went in for an endoscopy Monday feeling great. But After dinner, I developed excruciating pain and have been hospitalized ever since,” Barker said in a July 2 tweet.
“During the endoscopy, I had a very small polyp removed right in a very sensitive area, usually handled by specialists, which unfortunately damaged a critical pancreatic drainage tube,” he continued. “This resulted in severe life-threatening pancreatitis.”
“I am so very very grateful that with intensive treatment I am currently much better,” Barker wrote.
Twenty One Pilots have won everything from a Grammy and a Billboard Music Award to a VMA and a Kids’ Choice Award throughout their career. They’re even the first band to have every song on an album be RIAA certified. But now, they’ve finally achieved perhaps the most prestigious accolade in all of music.
We’re, of course, talking about being the Five Guys Featured Artist. Each month, the burger chain picks a musician to spotlight by playing their music in its restaurants. To celebrate the launch of the “Stressed Out” duo’s Icy tour, Five Guys named Twenty One Pilots the Featured Artist of August 2022.
The news reached the ears — and, presumably, taste buds — of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun, who understandably tweeted, “What an honor.”
By the way, this isn’t the first time Twenty One Pilots have crossed paths with the culinary world. Last year, they teamed up with Chipotle to create a signature burrito.
Twenty One Pilots’ Icy tour launched Thursday in St. Paul, Minnesota, and is currently scheduled into September. The outing supports the new Twenty One Pilots album Scaled and Icy, which was released in May 2021.
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Imagine Dragons frontman Dan Reynolds has a tremendous amount of respect for Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and revealed he sat down with the leader to discuss how he can help the war-torn country.
Speaking with People, Dan spoke about barring his band’s music from being sold in Russia after the country invaded Ukraine. Since then, he has worked to bring relief to Ukraine as an ambassador for UNITED24.
“We got in touch with people over there and had the honor of sitting down with President Zelenskyy on Zoom,” he recalled. “[We were] able to ask him how we could actually help more than just words and thoughts and all the things that come with social media.”
Reynolds continued, “The interesting thing he said was, ‘First of all, thoughts, words, those things actually do matter. So get on our social media, and don’t forget about us. Keep talking about us. That’s how it gets in the news.'”
The “Enemy” singer said that advice can help bring change by pressuring those in power to do more. “Ukraine is being bullied, and children are being killed,” he rallied.
Elsewhere in the interview, the singer opened up about making the albums Mercury – Act 1 and Mercury – Act 2. He said the albums were born from a period of loss, adding, “It’s been incredibly cathartic.” He lost several people over the past five years — including a manager, an ex-girlfriend, one of his best friends and his sister-in-law — to cancer.
“When you lose that many people close to you, or even one person, it makes you rethink life,” Reynolds said. “I couldn’t help but write about that.”
He said making music is “a therapy session for me” and he writes “a song almost every day, and it’s like a journal entry.”
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.
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.
