Good morning Radicals! Hope you’ve all got a short work week for Thanksgiving! We’ll be wrapping things up on Wednesday, but we still have a full week of rock and roll, so no worries there!
It got hot at Ozzy Osbourne’s and Post Malone’s #AMAs performance! #ozzyosbourne #postmalone pic.twitter.com/Zdkr2jMOXx
— Pop Newsroom (@PopNewsroom) November 25, 2019
Ozzy Osbourne joined Post Malone and Travis Scott on stage at the 2019 American Music Awards on Sunday night (November 24th) to perform Post’s hit song “Take What You Want.”
Malone opened the performance with a solo rendition of “Circles” before enlisting Ozzy and Scott for “Take What You Want,” with Ozzy sitting perched on a chair for much of the song. The track is taken from Malone’s latest album, Hollywood’s Bleeding, with Ozzy appearing on the studio version as well.
The performance at Sunday night’s show was Ozzy’s first time on a stage since last year. He postponed all his 2019 tour dates as he battled illness and underwent surgery, but has rescheduled them for 2020, along with a new album called Ordinary Man.
“Take What You Want,” which debuted on the Billboard Hot 100 chart at Number Eight, marked Ozzy’s first Hot 100 Top 10 cut in over 30 years. The Black Sabbath singer broke the record for the most time between Top 10 entries in the chart’s 61-year history.
The 2019 American Music Awards, hosted by Ciara, aired live from the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles on ABC.
Guns N’ Roses has now completed the third highest-grossing tour of all time. The band’s “Not In This Lifetime” reunion trek has grossed $584.2 million from 5,371,891 tickets sold at 158 concerts across six continents. Launched in April 2016, the tour featured original members Slash, Duff McKagan and Axl Rose performing together for the first time since 1993.
At least four other tours have topped $500 million in sales: U2‘s “360” tour, the Rolling Stones‘ “A Bigger Bang” trek, Ed Sheeran‘s “Divide” trip and Coldplay‘s “A Head Full Of Dreams” excursion. The Guns trek topped $82 million in sales during 2018 alone, having grossed an average of $3.7 million per show over the course of 24 dates.
After years of speculation, Guns kicked off its long-rumored and long-awaited reunion tour with a club show in Hollywood and appearances in Las Vegas and at California’s Coachella festival. The band returned to Vegas to wrap up its world tour with two final shows at Caesar’s Palace on November 2nd and 3rd.
Slash told us a while back that he never imagined the original Guns N’ Roses would reunite: “I never planned or thought that there was gonna be any reunion. Everybody else sort of alluded to it but, you know, I never saw it coming. I knew it was just an impossible thing, and it wasn’t something I really wanted.”
Now that the tour is over, the band has hinted that it will enter the studio to begin work on the first album to feature Slash, Axl and McKagan together in more than 26 years.
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Extended compositions and explorations created during the #BirdBox scoring sessions from Academy Award ™ winners Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross. Over two hours of music in a 4xLP set pressed on 180 gram vinyl. pic.twitter.com/1AHvnGj5ur
— nine inch nails (@nineinchnails) November 22, 2019
Nine Inch Nails has released what it describes as the “definitive edition” of its 2005 album With Teeth on 180-gram vinyl. The album was newly remastered earlier this year and comes in a revised package that includes a 12-page booklet with rare photos and an essay written by music journalist David Fricke.
NIN main man Trent Reznor told us a while back that he originally intended With Teeth to be a concept album: “I’d come up with this kind of elaborate storyline, and the record was gonna be a concept record that had a number of pretentious elements to it. I was gonna talk about multi-layered reality and waking up in a dream you can’t wake up out of, and eventually finding acceptance after you go through this period of trying to fight it. It was all kind of a big analogy for me getting sober.”
The band’s website explained that the updated double LP was “meticulously prepared by Reznor, Atticus Ross and NIN art director John Crawford” and that it contained “lots of details attended to that you may never notice but we care about.”
But that’s not the only surprise release that Nine Inch Nails served up on Friday (November 22nd). Also made available on vinyl was the expanded score to the 2018 Netflix film Bird Box, composed by the core Nine Inch Nails duo of Reznor and Ross.
Reznor and Ross said about the four-LP vinyl box set, “What started as a score for a film began to mutate and expand into something far beyond what you saw on the screen. Over two hours of music that began recording in Los Angeles and was completed before and after Nine Inch Nails’ performances (in 2018).”
Reznor and Ross have recently finished their score for the HBO series Watchmen and plan to begin work on a new NIN album soon.
Marilyn Manson has shared an eerie cover of the Doors classic “The End,” which he has recorded for the soundtrack of the upcoming limited series The Stand.
Manson also reportedly has a role in the series, which is based on Stephen King‘s epic 1978 novel and will air on the CBS All Access streaming service. The book tells the story of a confrontation between the forces of good and evil in a world where most of the population has been wiped out by a superflu created in a government lab.
The 10-episode series, which will feature a new ending written by King himself, is filming now and is scheduled to air sometime in 2020. It is unknown what role Manson will play in the series, which will feature James Marsden, Amber Heard, Whoopi Goldberg, Greg Kinnear and others.
Manson has acted in film and TV projects throughout his career, including Lost Highway, Jawbreaker, Californication, Once Upon A Time, Sons Of Anarchy, Salem and others. He is also working on his 11th studio album, due out sometime next year.
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Slipknot drummer Jay Weinberg appears to have gotten engaged to his girlfriend Chloe Howcroft. On Thursday (November 21st), the 29-year-old musician shared a photo of him getting down on bended knee and apparently proposing to Howcroft on a dirt road overlooking the ancient Incan city of Machu Picchu in Peru. Weinberg, the son of E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg, joined Slipknot in 2014.
Bad Wolves frontman Tommy Vext and guitarist Doc Coyle recently performed a three-song acoustic set for Hot Topic which has been shared online. Bad Wolves are currently touring behind their newly-arrived sophomore album N.A.T.I.O.N. as support for Five Finger Death Punch and Three Days Grace. The band plays a headlining show on Monday night (November 25th) in Nashville.
Finally, we want to wish a very Happy Birthday to Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong and Lanb of God guitarist Mark Morton! Have a great day!
