Posted by Elise Yablon on November 21, 2022
There has been a lot of buzz lately about Ticketmaster and how much discretion they have when it comes to ticket prices. Things came to a head earlier last week when demand for tickets to Taylor Swift’s highly sought-after ‘Eras Tour’ led to the site crashing during pre-sale. Roughly 2.4 million people purchased tickets for […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on July 27, 2020
Taylor Swift surprised her fans with her new album Folklore, out now via Republic Records. However, her latest offering also surprised the metal community as her artwork is similar to Ihsahn’s single “Stridig,” taken from his Telemark EP, which was released this past February. The record showcases a darker and edgier side of Swift […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on August 27, 2019
Whether you listen to Taylor Swift or most likely not, there’s a chance you could have received a Taylor Swift box after purchasing something through Amazon reminding all that her new album Lover was released this past Friday (23rd). With that being said, YouTuber Wiliam Maranci was recently inspired by YouTuber DJ Cummerbund after he […]
Posted by Zenae Zukowski on September 21, 2017
No one in their right mind would listen to a Limp Bizkit song and say, “I wonder what this would sound like with Taylor Swift on vocals.” However, we are in 2017 and nearly anything is possible. Therefore, Super Deluxe designed a video entitled “SwiftBizkit” featuring Taylor Swift singing Durst-like to a Limp Bizkit-like song. After […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on February 23, 2017
We’re at that point in pop culture where it’s not uncommon to see pop stars co-opting metal style to appear edgy. Justin Bieber’s a Metallica fan, Lady Gaga actually jammed with them, and Rihanna rocked a Krokus shirt on her tour while making her own death metal logo. Taylor Swift, on the other hand? […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on September 10, 2015
[youtube]https://youtu.be/AxBTwMYkCBI[/youtube] The Ten Second Songs dude (Anthony Vincent) is at it again, and while already covered Taylor Swift’s “Bad Blood” in twenty different styles, he must have really had fun with the Disturbed version, because he’s done a full version of it. It’s got to be a lot of fun making the different versions, and […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on June 22, 2015
You’ve got to hand it to Taylor Swift: she’s undoubtedly the most powerful person in the music industry right now. If an open letter on your web site is enough to make the most powerful company in the world to change course, you’ve earned that title. Apple’s new streaming service, Apple Music, will launch next Tuesday […]
Posted by Matt Brown on February 12, 2015
Metal By Numbers is a weekly column in which we look at the top metal sellers and debuts of the week. We knew that Blind Guardian was going to have a solid first week when we saw last week’s Metal by Numbers, when it sold 300 copies even though it wasn’t technically in stores yet. […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on February 4, 2015
[youtube]http://youtu.be/uipp8kiYU9I[/youtube] Last week, news got out that music industry powerhouse Taylor Swift had trademarked the phrase “This Sick Beat,” the title of one of her songs on her quadruple platinum album 1989. That didn’t sit well with many, including musician Ben Norton, who made a frenetic metal protest song about it. The song, of course titled […]
Posted by Bram Teitelman on January 28, 2015
When we write our Metal by Numbers column, we always look for trends happening. In this week’s installment, we noticed that the new currency might be Taylor Swift covers of “Blank Space.” We knew there was already a really popular one by I Prevail, a band whose name sounds a hell of a lot like […]
