Tag Archives: Living Colour

Anthrax, Faith No More, Motorhead playing Riotfest Chicago

Posted by on May 27, 2015

Since 2005, Riotfest has been a dependable Chicago music festival catering to punk and alternative. They’ve always thrown some metal in the mix as well, with last year being GWAR’s first post-GWAR-BQ performance without Dave Brockie. The festival, now relocated from Chicago’s Humboldt Park to Douglas Park from Sept. 11-13, has unveiled their first wave […]

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Metal Insider top 5: Metal David Lettterman performances

Posted by on May 20, 2015

After tonight, the late night talk show landscape is going to get a lot more barren, as David Letterman steps down from his long-running Late Show With David Letterman. He’s been a staple since 1982, when Late Night with David Letterman first signed on at NBC. And while Letterman was best known, at least initially, for his […]

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The metal world pays tribute to Leonard Nimoy

Posted by on February 27, 2015

Leonard Nimoy, who many knew simply as Mr. Spock from the Star Trek TV and film series died at the age of 83 earlier today (27). Nimoy announced this past year that he suffered from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. His wife, Susan Bay Nimoy confirmed her husband passed due to end-stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Last year Nimoy […]

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Metal Insider’s Top 10: Heaviest SNL Musical Guests

Posted by on February 15, 2015

Since launching in 1975, Saturday Night Live has become a mainstay for comedy. And while the live TV sketch show is renowned for its timely and sometimes politically incorrect satire, it’s also been revered for its musical performances from rising stars and music legends. Granted, SNL’s music guest often lean towards more mainstream acts, but […]

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Limp Bizkit headlining ShipRocked 2015

Posted by on October 22, 2014

The ShipRocked 2015 line-up has been announced, and it’s headlined by Limp Bizkit. Setting sail from Miami, FL and heading to Great Stirrup Cay, Bahamas, it’ll be six days of loud music and a pretty solid line-up of hard rock and metal music. Fred Durst seems pretty excited: “Limp Bizkit? New album? Sunshine? Metal party? Phil […]

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There might be some good rock and metal reading coming next year

Posted by on March 5, 2014

If you’re not familiar with them, the 33 1/3 series of books is a stellar way to read about an album. Each book of 30,000 words is written about a particular album. Some of them are actually about the album, others are written from the point of view of the author and the impact the […]

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Living Colour, Duff McKagan somehow make Down even better

Posted by on February 28, 2014

[youtube]http://youtu.be/KKuXKuQ0b88[/youtube] It’s our belief that every song in the history of of music can be made better by adding the chugging riff of Down’s “Bury Me In Smoke” to it. The song that closes Nola is as sludgy as an oil spill in a New Orleans swamp. So how to improve on the song, which the […]

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The djentstick – officially a thing now

Posted by on February 6, 2014

[youtube]http://youtu.be/I0lTecconGI[/youtube] Remember a few weeks ago when some kid invented the ‘djentstick,’ a one-string instrument on a stick perfect for playing along to After the Burial songs? Apparently, it’s a real thing now. Gear Gods were at NAMM, where they found “The Noodle.” It’s not exactly the djentstick, or the motograter, for that matter. What […]

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The whole Michael Jackson tribute streaming now? You can’t beat it!

Posted by on November 4, 2013

It’s about time that Michael Jackson got his own metal tribute. I mean, anyone that was alive in the ’80s and ’90s heard the King of Pop over and over again, and Jackson’s run from 1979’s Off the Wall to 1991’s Dangerous made him an unstoppable force in the music industry that any other musician […]

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Video: Living Colour Liven Up Wrestlemania

Posted by on April 9, 2013

New York City was overtaken this past weekend by Wrestlemania, as WWE Wrestlemania XXIX came to East Rutherford NJ’s Giants Metlife Stadium on Sunday. One of the high points of the evening was when Living Colour, currently celebrating the 25th anniversary of their debut album Vivid, performed “Cult of Personality” as wrestler CM Punk’s intro […]

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