Mike Patton cancels national anthem performance after waking up “feeling horrible”

You want it all but you can’t have it! Rock fans were excited when news broke yesterday that Faith No More singer Mike Patton would be performing the national anthem at the NFL playoff game between the Dallas Cowboys and Los Angeles Rams on Saturday evening at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. However, just a few hours before kickoff, Patton broke the news that he would not be singing “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the football game, after all.

The vocalist, who also fronts the bands Dead Cross and Fantômas, posted the following message on his Facebook account: “Sorry football folks, I woke up feeling horrible. No anthem today for me!”

We reached out to Patton’s publicist, who confirmed the cancellation. The news was also divulged on Twitter by Associated Press reporter Greg Beacham, who tweeted that a violinist filled in for Patton:

So Mike Patton of Faith No More was supposed to sing the national anthem, but he canceled earlier today because he didn’t feel good, and a violin player filled in and sounded fine, but we’re pretty sure he skipped part of the song. Anyway, Cowboys won the coin toss.

– Greg Beacham (@gregbeacham) January 13, 2019

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Definitely a bummer for fans who were eager to see what the man with the six-octave range was going to do with the national anthem, but we hope Patton feels better in time for Wednesday’s Chris Cornell tribute concert, for which he was just added to the performance lineup.

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Stella Donnelly announces debut album, Beware of the Dogs, shares “Old Man”: Stream

Stella Donnelly made a splash with her 2018 debut EP, Thrush Metal. Now, the Western Australia native is gearing up to drop her first full-length album via esteemed indie label Secretly Canadian.

Titled Beware of the Dogs, the effort was recorded last June with assistance from producer Dean Tuza. In the studio, Donnelly assembled a backing band comprised of her best friends: Jennifer Aslett (bass), Talya Valenti (drums), and George Foster (guitar).

The forthcoming LP extends the sounds first explored on Thrush Metal, but sees Donnelly taking a more brazen stand: She is not one to be messed with. Through the album’s 13 tracks, the self-proclaimed “shit-stirrer” fearlessly calls out the racists, creeps, and oppressors that litter her life. And in the process, Donnelly reclaims her own sense of power and freedom.

“This album made me feel like I was back in the driver’s seat,” the 26-year-old remarked in a press statement. “It was really liberating and grounding to realize that no one can fuck with this except me.”

Our first taste of Beware of the Dogs comes with opening track “Old Man”. Although infused with warm melodies, it’s a song whose message packs a sharp bite aimed at gross, exploitative men. “Boy, if you touch her again, I’ll tell your wife and your kids about that time,” Donnelly sings. According to the rising songwriter, the track came to her while reflecting on Woody Allen and his troublesome comments regarding the #MeToo movement:

“I came up with the chords and chorus to this song in 2017 around the time when Woody Allen called the #MeToo movement a witch hunt. It was a very strange feeling for me watching the world change right before my eyes and to see that these men who had exploited their power for so long were actually being held accountable for their actions. It made me look back on my experiences as a young woman doing music and certain powerful men who tried to manipulate me and exploit other young women. I needed to write this song for myself because if I hadn’t I would still feel quite angry about things that I probably let slide in my younger, more naive days. I have no intentions of publicly calling out these people but it’s a nice feeling to me knowing that they may hear this song one day and feel perhaps an inch of the humiliation and powerlessness that they inflicted on me back then.”

Check out “Old Man” below via its Fiona Jane Burgess-directed music video.

Beware of the Dogs arrives March 8th. Pre-orders have begun here.

Beware of the Dogs Artwork:

Beware of the Dogs Tracklist:

01. Old Man

02. Mosquito

03. Season’s Greetings

04. Allergies

05. Tricks

06. Boys Will Be Boys

07. Lunch

08. Bistro

09. Die

10. Beware of the Dogs

11. U Owe Me

12. Watching Telly

13. Face It

Donnelly will promote her new album with a lengthy spring tour across North America and Europe.

Stella Donnelly 2019 Tour Dates:

03/15 – Washington, DC @ U Street Music Hall #

03/16 – Philadelphia, PA @ Johnny Brenda’s #

03/18 – Brooklyn, NY @ Rough Trade #

03/20 – Hamden, CT @ Space Ballroom #

03/22 – Somerville, MA @ ONCE Ballroom #

03/23 – Montreal, QC @ Casa Del Popolo #

03/24 – Toronto, ON @ The Drake Hotel #

03/25 – Detroit, MI @ Deluxx Fluxx #

03/27 – Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups #

03/28 – Bloomington, IN @ The Bishop #

03/29 – Chicago, IL @ Schubas #

03/30 – St. Paul, MN @ Turf Club #

04/02 – Seattle, WA @ Barboza #

04/03 – Portland, OR @ Polaris Hall #

04/05 – San Francisco, CA @ Cafe Du Nord #

04/06 – Los Angeles, CA @ Bootleg Theater #

04/11 – Berlin, DE @ Badehaus

04/12 – Hamburg, DE @ Skybar

04/13 – Rotterdam, NL @ Rotown

04/15 – Cologne, DE @ Yuca

04/16 – Brussels, BE @ Botanique

04/17 – Amiens, FR @ La Lune Des Pirates *

04/18 – Paris, FR @ Le Pop Up Du Label

04/23 – Cardiff, UK @ Clwb Ifor Bach

04/24 – Bristol, UK @ Thekla

04/25 – Southampton, UK @ Joiners

04/27 – Brighton, UK @ Haunt

04/28 – Manchester, UK @ Yes

04/29 – Dublin, IE @ Grand Social

05/01 – Glasgow, UK @ The Blue Arrow

05/02 – Leeds, UK @ Brudenell Community Room

05/04 – Liverpool, UK @ Liverpool Sound City

05/05 – Nottingham, UK @ Bodega

05/07 – London, UK @ Scala

# = w/ Faye Webster

* = w/ Yak

Pig Destroyer song used in torture scene on TV’s MacGyver

Pig Destroyer are one of grindcore’s finest, but apparently their music is not for everyone – just ask the title character on CBS’ TV show MacGyver, as he and his cohort were tortured with the band’s track “The Bug” from the band’s 2012 album, Book Burner.

The music blasts while Angus MacGyver and another character are captured in a fallout shelter, forcing the pair to cover their ears with their hands as they writhe in agony. The metal moment happened on the most recent episode of MacGyver, which aired this past Friday.

The band itself got a kick out of the scene, posting video of the clip, along with the caption, “That’s right you heard ‘The Bug’ by Pig Destroyer on CBS’s Macgyver last night!”

[See Also: Marilyn Manson, NIN Songs Used for Torture by U.S. Officials]

When they’re not torturing fictional characters on TV shows, Pig Destroyer are promoting their latest album, Head Cage, which landed on our list of the Top 25 Metal + Hard Rock Albums of 2018. The band last played a show at the Decibel Metal & Beer Fest in Los Angeles, but have no 2019 dates scheduled as of yet.

10 Most Anticipated Legacy Rock Albums of 2019

Releases from veteran rock bands and artists can bring a strange mix of emotions.

While we’re always anxious to hear from one of our all-time favorite bands again – an excitement often intensified as the gap between new releases typically widens over time – history also tells us that veteran acts that are several records, or even several decades, into their careers usually have their best music behind them.

That doesn’t mean that Pearl Jam will undoubtedly fizzle out again like they did on Lightning Bolt or that Bruce Springsteen doesn’t have another Born to Run left in him. It just means that we might have to listen a little closer for that spark that made us love a band in the first place. Some might even argue that’s part of the fun.

On this list, you’ll find reunions, reconfigurations, studio stalwarts, road warriors, bands you forgot all about, chart-toppers of both the present and long ago, and the songwriters and shredders behind some of the greatest rock music in history. Are the odds of another game-changing album from one of these artists long? Maybe. But something deep inside also tells us never to bet against anyone on this list.

–Matt Melis

Editorial Director

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Bob Mould – Sunshine Rock

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Release Date: February 8th via Merge Records

Why We’re Excited: Bob Mould makes loud and fast records. That should surprise nobody who has popped in at any point during the workhorse songwriter’s breakneck career. However, what makes every new record so welcome isn’t that it’s bound to be a proverbial (hell, maybe it’s a literal) kick in the ass. It’s that Mould can just as skillfully use his punk rock arsenal to envelop us in an emotional fog of grieving (like 2014’s Beauty & Ruin) as he can project a rainbow across the same sky that’s bombarding us with constant bullshit. And given Mould’s own words on the album and, more importantly, a couple blazing, chin-up/cheer-up singles, Sunshine Rock will largely be doing the latter. Thank god for rainbows. –Matt Melis

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Weezer – Weezer (The Black Album)

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Release Date: March 1st via Atlantic and Crush

Why We’re Excited: The best part about the Weezer sketch on Saturday Night Live a few weeks ago – besides the fact that SNL devoted an entire bit to our favorite nerd rockers – was that the argument between purist Leslie Jones and fanboy Matt Damon summed up exactly what Weezer fans have been arguing about for decades now. However, while Jones may know Rivers Cuomo better than he knows himself, we have to side with Damon – hey, we meh’d at Pacific Daydream but dug Everything Will Be Alright… – and give the Dave Sitek-produced Black Album and its zombie bastards a chance. Hey, we’re lifers and can’t knock the hustle. –Matt Melis

Sample:

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The Flaming Lips – King’s Mouth

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Release Date: April 20th (Record Store Day) via Warner Bros. Records

Why We’re Excited: Go ahead and embed this promise in your gummy skull while crowd-surfing in your private hamster ball: With the announcement of a new album from our favorite experimental Sooners, The Flaming Lips, 2019 got at least a little bit stranger. King’s Mouth, as far as we can tell, seems to be the soundtrack to an immersive, multimedia installation (pictured above). According to the lead Lip Wayne Coyne, the original idea for the art installation began from watching a Japanese game show in which a komodo dragon was loosed on contestants who had cuts of meat strapped to their foreheads, The Clash’s Mick Jones will be narrating the album, and the music blends “medieval baroque sounds with futuristic Mars music.” Um, color us at least curious – not to mention hoping that our vinyl copy won’t have Miley Cyrus’ urine pressed into it. –Matt Melis

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The Cranberries – In the End

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The Cranberries

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The Cranberries

Release Date: TBD

Why We’re Excited: When singer Dolores O’Riordan died this past January, so did The Cranberries. That’s something the remaining band members have been incredibly adamant about over the last year. However, the Irish rockers have one final statement to make with In the End, their eighth studio album that O’Riordan had recorded vocals for prior to her untimely death. “It’s a very strong album,” guitarist Noel Hogan told Rolling Stone back in October, hinting that the songs tag back to their earliest years as a group: “It’s very, very similar, and we deliberately tried to do that. We just said, ‘Let’s go back to the original Cranberries sound.’ And anyone that’s heard it has agreed: ‘Yeah, you managed to do that.’” With that in mind, get ready for an incredibly emotional bookend that should offer some closure to both fans and the band itself. –Michael Roffman

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The Cure

The Cure, photo by Debi Del Grande

Release Date: TBD

Why We’re Excited: Robert Smith has very little to be sad about lately. The Cure hosted two big soirees in London this past summer and they’re about to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. So, it’ll be interesting to see how the goth lord plans to bring the angst to their highly anticipated follow-up to 2008’s 4:13 Dream. A couple of weeks ago, Smith told Sirius XM, “We’re going in about six weeks’ time to finish up what will be our first album in more than a decade. It’s very exciting times for us all around.” He credits this renewed excitement to his own 2018 Meltdown Festival, adding: “Seeing all these new bands inspired me to do something new.” Whether or not the album will include “Step into the Light” and “It Can Never Be the Same”, two new songs the band performed in recent years, remains to be seen. Either way, get that allergy-free makeup ready. –Michael Roffman

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Watch Hop Along Cover Daniel Johnston’s “True Love Will Find You In The End”

Hop Along performed their last two shows of 2018 at the Paradise Rock Club in Boston and Asbury Lanes in Ashbury Park, New Jersey. During the encores of both sets, the band covered Daniel Johnston‘s infamous song “True Love Will Find You In The End.” In true Hop Along fashion, the band transformed the sparse…

Elton John tickets 2020: How to get tickets for the final Elton John tour

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Dave Grohl knows exactly who he wants to play him in his eventual biopic

It might come in five years or 50, but one-time Nirvana drummer and current Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl will one day get his own biopic. Grohl considered the possibility during a recent interview with 95.5 KLOS (via Tone Deaf), and didn’t hesitate to name the actor who he’d like to see play him.

“I’m going for Shelley Duvall,” he said. “Like, look at Shelley Duvall from The Shining, she’s like, ‘Get Away From Me! Get Away From Me!’. Like, that’s me. That’s totally me.” Sticking with the Shining theme, Grohl went on to say bandmate Taylor Hawkins should be played by Jack Nicholson, the film’s axe-wielding psycho killer.

(Read: 12 Music Biopics We Wanna See)

Obviously, Duvall and Nicholson have aged out of the roles by this point, but should there ever be a Shining remake…

Grohl recently guested on Tenacious D’s new album, rocked the vote alongside the Yeah Yeah Yeahs and shared the stage with St. Vincent and Beck for a cover of Blondie’s “Rapture”.

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Classic Album Review: The Strokes’ Room on Fire Still Exists on Its Own Terms

Earlier this year, Vulture published an in-depth Q&A with Julian Casablancas. The Strokes frontman explained that the title for the band’s 2003 sophomore record, Room on Fire, “is not referring to a dance party. It’s referring to the state of things.” It’s difficult to think of Room on Fire as an overtly political album. For the most part, its 11 tracks seem to center on the fleetingness of youth, fame, and difficult relationships, but, because of the lyrics’ simplicity, Room on Fire can transform itself depending on perspective. It’s partially why it’s still such a rewarding listen 15 years later.

Whether the album is politically outspoken or not isn’t its defining factor. The impact of Room on Fire helped establish The Strokes as an influence within the indie rock community. Their 2001 debut, Is This It, was their outstanding entry point, and Room on Fire cemented them as a representation of early 2000s guitar-band revivalism. It feels overlooked, especially compared to Is This It, but the album remains a pivotal evolutionary step for one of the most important bands in indie rock.

When the New York quintet released the follow-up to their widely acclaimed debut, critics enjoyed the album but deemed it a carbon copy of its predecessor. However, while the two sound similar, Room on Fire isn’t an unimaginative reiteration of Is This It. It has an identity of its own, and this identity is most visible in its songwriting. Guitarist Nick Valensi is essential, contributing textures that were then new to the band, such as The Cars-esque synth tones on “12:51” and “The End Has No End”. The second track and lead single, “Reptilia”, is perhaps his strongest moment on the record. He breaks into an impressive solo during the bridge, and the song features one of the most memorable hooks in The Strokes’ career.

The band’s expedition into unexplored territory laid out the blueprints for what would become 2006’s First Impressions of Earth and 2011’s Angles. Room on Fire is certainly liminal in that regard, serving as a transitory period between stylistic eras. They hold on to the distorted garage rock of their debut while leaving room for experimentation. It would have been interesting to hear what original producer Nigel Godrich, known for his work with Radiohead, would have pushed the band toward, but Gordon Raphael helped The Strokes maintain the post-punk tendencies fans know them for.

Room on Fire sets itself at a rapid pace, refusing to unnecessarily halt itself when its tracks are an incessant burst of energy. As soon as the palm-muted guitars and syncopated drums start off “What Ever Happened?”, the band unabashedly moves forward and never stops, even briefly. It’s one of the reasons why this record feels so invigorating. Its congruity and tenacity are emblematic of The Strokes themselves. “Please don’t slow me down,” Casablancas sings on “Reptilia”, which at once sounds like a plea and a demand. Drummer Fabrizio Moretti is integral to its pacing, too, never using his metronomic beats for showmanship but instead as a base for the band to return to.

Casablancas’ lyrics aren’t the strongest moments of the record, but they’re still worth considering in the album’s context. Most songs revolve around heartbreak and love while others discuss fame and attention. The former topic has a small handful of platitudes, such as the it’s-not-you-it’s-me mentality of “Under Control,” but these never make Room on Fire an unenjoyable listen, and most of its love-themed tracks are, indeed, heartbreaking.

The fame that originated from Is This It is also central. Casablancas isn’t pleased with the recognition. Many music publications pronounced The Strokes as the heroes of the rock revival, but Casablancas was more interested in making music on his own terms. “I wanna be forgotten,” he sings on opener “What Ever Happened?” He shrugs off the praise in “I Can’t Win”, singing: “Good try, we don’t like it.”

Room on Fire does just what Casablancas intended it to: exist on its own terms. Although it’s important to consider what came before and after it, it’s an album with a character distinct from The Strokes’ other releases. It helped strengthen the guitar-rock movement of its decade, and it’s a feat that shouldn’t go unacknowledged.

Essential Tracks: “What Ever Happened?”, “Reptilia”, and “The End Has No End”

Unheard versions of the Beatles’ While My Guitar Gently Weeps released

Acoustic demos of the song, regarded as one of George Harrison’s best compositions, to be included in remastered White Album set

Three unheard versions of While My Guitar Gently Weeps, regarded by many as George Harrison‘s greatest contribution to the Beatles, have been released online.

The song was written by Harrison in 1968, after he had studied transcendental meditation with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in India. There are two completely unheard versions: The Esher Demo is an acoustic version, complete with beautiful multitracked vocals, recorded at Harrison’s house in Surrey, in May 1968, in preparation for the studio recordings that began later that month. It is one of 27 demos recorded at the house included on a forthcoming remastered version of The White Album.

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Stream Ella Mai’s Self-Titled Debut Album

After introducing herself with hit single “Boo’d Up”-one of Spin’s best songs of the year so far–Ella Mai’s self-titled debut has arrived from 10 Summers/Interscope Records. Announced earlier last month, the album is executive produced by DJ Mustard (Travis Scott, Nicki Minaj) and features John Legend on “Everything,” H.E.R. on “Gut Feeling,” and Chris Brown on “Watchamacallit.” Additional contributions come…