Good morning Radicals! The new album album from Ghost “Prequelle,” is out today!
Nickelback bassist and co-founder Mike Kroeger has put his Hawaiian oceanfront retreat on Maui’s North Shore up for sale. The 5,239-square-foot clifftop residence, set on two acres, is going for an asking price of $4,888,000. The four-bedroom, four-and-a-half bath residence was built just last year.
Amenities in the house include screened porches, an office, spacious walk-in closets, a master bath shower garden, a chef’s kitchen with pantry and double islands, a great room bar and a separate room that can be used as “a music, art, exercise studio, home theater or game room.” There is also a one-bedroom, one-bathroom unit with a separate entrance situated above a two-car garage. The outdoor areas also include an infinity edge pool, spa and fire pit with coastal and ocean views.
Nickelback’s latest album, Feed The Machine, came out last June and landed at Number Five on the Billboard 200 album chart. Frontman Chad Kroeger told us a while back that the band continues to enjoy what it does: “You know, we get to sit in studios and come up with music that we dig, and we get to give it to our fans and we hope they like it half as much as we do, and then we get to tour around the world and play it for them. And that’s a pretty good job, you know, as far as gigs go. I’ve had some pretty crappy jobs (laughs), and this is a good one.”
Nickelback is currently touring Europe, but will come back to North America for a handful of dates in July and head over to Japan in August.
Metallica will receive the prestigious Polar Music Prize next month at a ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden and Deep Purple drummer Ian Paice and bassist Roger Glover will be on hand to read the citation. Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich and bassist Robert Trujillo will attend the June 14th event and accept the prize from His Majesty King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden.
The ceremony traditionally features Swedish artists performing the Laureates’ music, and this year, members of Ghost and Candlemass will play a Metallica song, while Refused frontman Dennis Lyxzén and former Motorhead drummer Mikkey Dee will perform a piece of music written specifically for the occasion.
An evening banquet will be held at the Grand Hotel immediately following the ceremony at Konserthuset. The entire event will be broadcast live on Sweden’s TV4.
Sweden’s biggest music award, the Polar Music Prize was founded in 1989 by Stig “Stikkan” Anderson, the manager and music publisher of ABBA. The prize was first presented in 1992. Previous winners include Elton John, Sting, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Peter Gabriel, Stevie Wonder, Paul Simon, Joni Mitchell, B.B. King, Quincy Jones, Paul McCartney, Max Martin and Bruce Springsteen.
Metallica will donate its prize money, which is approximately $125,000, to its All Within My Hands Foundation, which is dedicated to assisting and enriching communities by supporting workforce education, the fight against hunger, and other critical local services.
Green Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong addressed autograph seekers who sell signed memorabilia at sites like eBay on social media, asking them for a less aggressive approach and some courtesy, common sense and respect when interacting with genuine fans who are also hoping to get Armstrong’s signature.
In a post on Instagram, Armstrong wrote, “Dear eBay autograph collectors, I know you want to get musicians to sign records. I understand you make a living from signed memorabilia and I’m cool with it. I’m happy to sign your stuff. But please stop shoving your way through real fans. Especially the young ones that just want to have a moment to talk.”
Armstrong added, “I love getting to know our GD fans and having real conversations. But when the eBay guys shove s**t in my face (literally getting hit in the face with a guitar) you make it near impossible to get to know real fans. Please respect my and and the real fans space. We’re just trying to get to know each other. Peace.”
Armstrong told us a while back he’s encouraged to see fans of all ages at the band’s shows these days: “We keep generating new fans all the time and it — you know, we played the 9:30 Club in D.C. and it was ages 12 to 55. And that’s the thing I’m really grateful for, ’cause like there’s the people that were with us back during Kerplunk! and then Dookie and then Nimrod, Idiot, and then even now with Revolution Radio.”
Green Day has been on a break since completing the tour cycle for its 2016 album Revolution Radio. The band has reportedly been working with HBO on the film version of its 2004 punk opera American Idiot. Armstrong has been spending the early part of 2018 with his new project, The Longshot, which released a debut LP titled Love Is For Losers in April and has been touring.
That’s a wrap for today! Have a great weekend!
