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Welcome to Drummergeddon 2025, when the entire music world wants to know: What the hell is going on with the drummers? There’s an epidemic of high-profile bands dumping their drummers, or getting dumped by them, and nobody has any clue why. It’s not just the Who or the Foo Fighters. It’s not just Nine Inch Nails or Pearl Jam or Primus. It’s not even just Gnr or Oasis or Iron Maiden. It’s a host of rock and metal bands from different genres, at different levels of fame,...

South Park co-creator Matt Stone joined Primus on drums for a cover of King Crimson’s “Thela Hun Ginjeet” during their show at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles on Wednesday, August 6th.

Playing alongside Primus’ new drummer John Hoffman, Stone channeled the song’s tense mood with a driving performance behind the kit, occasionally relishing in some fills in between Hoffman’s taut grooves. “Thela Hun Ginjeet” is a common cover that Primus bandleader Les Claypool likes to play, either with Primus or with his solo project; the 1981 King Crimson single features a primal, swampy rhythm. Watch Primus and Stone’s rendition of the song below.

In addition to his duties on South Park, Stone is a multi-instrumentalist with a particular penchant for the drums; he also has a noted interest in jam bands and progressive rock. Primus is a significant band in Stone and South Park’s lore,...

Ozzy Osbourne, the “Prince of Darkness” and iconic Black Sabbath frontman, tragically passed away on July 22, 2025, at age 76. Having had a string of health issues, including his 2020 Parkinson’s diagnosis, the metal legend continued performing until just weeks before his death.

Famous for his wild antics on the stage, no cause of death has been revealed by his family yet, as CNN reports. While tributes from across the world pour in, his legacy extends well beyond the confines of heavy metal and Black Sabbath. In a cameo that not everyone remembers, Osbourne once appeared in an episode of South Park.

Ozzy Osbourne Had a Bat-Biting Cameo as South Park Went Full Metal Chief Aid featuring Osbourne | Credits: Comedy Central

In South Park’s Season 2 Episode 14, titled Chef Aid, Ozzy Osbourne made an iconic cameo. Playing himself in a riotously over-the-top benefit concert scene.

Amid a star-studded line-up, which included guest appearances of Elton John,...

It’s been decades since Julia Sweeney was in the zeitgeist thanks to “It’s Pat,” her series of popular Saturday Night Live sketches in which she played Pat, an androgynous, awkward individual who confuses coworkers and passersby: Is Pat a man or a woman? Pat would never say, each answer only further clouding the issue.

Sweeney developed the Pat character during her time with the Groundlings, and she brought them to SNL, where she worked from 1990 to 1994. In August of 1994, a full-length It’s Pat movie hit theaters, receiving terrible reviews and tanking at the box office, effectively killing the character in the culture. Sweeney went on to do a series of superb monologues in the late 1990s and 2000s, including God Said Ha! and Letting Go of God, while Pat drifted out of the collective consciousness. But that started to change in the late 2010s once queer and trans...

Briston Maroney has returned with the announcement of a new album, Jimmy, and the release of its two latest singles, “Tomatoes” and “Bullshit.”

Due on May 2nd via Atlantic Records, Jimmy will be Maroney’s third full-length album, following 2023’s Ultrapure and his 2021 debut, Sunflower. According to its press release, the new album’s 12 tracks see him muse on the dual upbringings he received bouncing between divorced parents, one marked by the “devil-may-care spirit” of north Florida and the other by the “relatively privileged but pressured” life of a Catholic school student in Tennessee.

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Ultimately, the synthesis between these two worlds is a resounding belief in “simply being yourself.” Indeed, the singles “Tomatoes” and “Bullshit” showcase the candidness and intimacy that Maroney has a knack for conveying, turning personal observations and remembrances like “listening to Ween on an airplane” into expressive, resonant compositions.

On “Tomatoes,...

Just two weeks ago, it was all doom and gloom for Warner Bros. The 102-year-old movie studio was smarting from a string of high-profile flops that included "Joker: Folie à Deux," "Mickey 17," and "The Alto Knights," and was desperate for its big spring release, "A Minecraft Movie," to reverse its box office fortunes. Though tracking for the film, based on the enormously popular sandbox video game from Mojang Studios, was trending upward heading into the April 4 weekend, the studio seemed less than confident given reports that Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav was taking meetings with potential replacements for embattled production chiefs Michael DeLuca and Pamela Abdy. "A Minecraft Movie" was, stem-to-stern, their project. If it fell short of expectations, they would've been out on their ear.

There were uncertainties as to what number "A Minecraft Movie" would have to clear to be considered a bona-fide blockbuster, but, rest assured,...

Eclectic rock heroes Ween are currently on a touring hiatus, but the children of founding members Dean Ween (aka Mickey Melchiondo) and Gene Ween (aka Aaron Freeman) are set to play a gig together this Saturday (March 29th) in New Jersey.

Michael Melchiondo and Ashton Freeman will perform together at the The Soupcon Gallery (located in the back of Bucks on Bridge coffee shop) in Lambertville, New Jersey.

The news was revealed by Michael in an Instagram post, writing the following message: “My good friend Ashton Freeman has asked me to join them in playing a show this Saturday in Lambertville. We’ve come up with a very unique collaborative set. So come and witness the genetic duo merge our sounds… We are Not Ween.”

He also shared an image of the show flyer, which lists Ashton Freeman on the bill along with Hover and Rubix Pube.

As Live for Live Music points out,...

South Park has produced a lot of music over the years, yet the show hasn’t produced many albums. There was the soundtrack to South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut, the fecal holiday record Mr. Hankey's Christmas Classics and Chef Aid: The South Park Album, which memorably featured the full-length version of Sir Elton John’s ballad about Wendy Testaburger.

Suck it, Lion King soundtrack.

For a long time that was pretty much it — until the South Park “25th Anniversary Concert” came along, that is.

The 2022 event, staged at the Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado, found Trey Parker and Matt Stone performing some of the franchise’s most beloved original songs such as “The Ballad of Lemmiwinks,” a soulful rearrangement of “Uncle Fucker” and “What Would Brian Boitano Do?”

Plus, they performed some tunes from Team America: World Police, like “America, Fuck Yeah.” There was also a lineup...

At this point, SpongeBob SquarePantsis a ubiquitous household name. The character’s iconic laugh has been burning its way through parents’ nerves for over two decades, and the series’ success is far from over. The iconic show has been dubbed in over 70 languages — from Arabic and Mandarin to Cantonese and Zulu. Of course, it also has an extensive multimedia and merchandising influence.

But everything starts somewhere. SpongeBob is no exception. Its May 1999 premiere was like any other. It slowly found its footing as time passed, and it had slipped into its “groove” by Season 2. However, those early years were an interesting period for the beloved sponge.

The Origins of SpongeBob SquarePants Date Back to the Mid-1990s SpongeBob is Paramount’s most profitable franchise. SpongeBob is the fifth longest-running cartoon in history. SpongeBob’s television ratings handily beat Pokémon within a month of its premiere.

Series creator Stephen Hillenburg had...

Ween have announced they are stepping away from touring “for the foreseeable future” due to Michael “Dean Ween” Melchiondo’s continued mental health struggles. The impacted dates include the special Chocolate and Cheese anniversary show in Philadelphia that was scheduled for September 27th.

“It is with sincere regret and heavy hearts that Ween must make the decision to step away from the stage for the foreseeable future,” reads a social media statement. “Despite three great shows this summer, it’s become clear that touring and performing is too taxing on Deaner’s mental health to continue.”

Earlier this year, the group canceled the spring dates on their 40th anniversary tour and cut short their summer run. Back in March, Dean Ween shared a statement reading, “I need to step away from performing live in order to preserve my mental and spiritual well being, and instead focus on myself and loved ones.

After launching their 40th anniversary tour with shows in Bonner, Montana and Spokane, Washington last week, Ween are pulling the plug on their final three dates in Seattle, Portland, and Eugene.

“We regret to announce that we will have to cancel our shows this week in Seattle, Portland and Eugene,” reads a statement from the band posted to social media. “We love performing for the best fans in the world, and we are beyond disappointed we won’t be able to do these shows. All tickets will be refunded at point of purchase. Thanks as always for the love and support.”

Though the Pacific Northwest tour was intended to be brief, it was also meant to be a celebration of 40 years of Ween. It’s unknown whether they will still play their hometown show at the Mann Music Center in Philadelphia celebrating their 1994 album Chocolate and Cheese. Ween was also...

Ween have released a deluxe edition of their 1994 album, Chocolate and Cheese, with 15 previously unreleased outtakes and demos.

Available today, August 2nd, the 3xLP set features remastered version of the beloved alternative rock band’s fourth album, which served as Ween’s first in a professional recording studio. Order the vinyl here or stream the digital version below.

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Ween’s Mickey Melchiondo sifted through the band’s vast collection of outtakes to make up Chocolate and Cheese’s deluxe edition, and decided his favorites with Aaron Freeman. “Keeping with Ween tradition, Aaron and I probably picked all the wrong songs, mixed them, and now here they are,” Melchiondo said in a press release.

He elaborated further in the new album’s liner notes, writing, “When I hear it, I feel like I’m listening to an autobiography of our lives in the early to mid-’90s…...

Jeremy Tepper, who helped grow so-called “outlaw” country music into an industry force, died Friday night of a heart attack in Jackson Heights, New York. He was 60.

“I am heartbroken to share the news of the passing of my husband, Jeremy Tepper, who died suddenly today of a heart attack here in Jackson Heights,” said a post from his wife, Laura Cantrell, on Facebook. “Jeremy was an amazing, unique person, a loving father, son, brother, and friend who was close with so many of you, especially his many friends in the music world. We will share more soon about plans to celebrate his life, but we are devastated by this unimaginable loss and ask for privacy and time to grieve.

Tepper was the program director for SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country channel since 2004, and also helmed the Willie Nelson-centric “Willie’s Roadhouse” and the “Road Dog Trucking” channel, devoted to that industry.

Ween have canceled their April tour dates so frontman Dean Ween can “preserve [his] mental and spiritual wellbeing,” according to a statement he posted to social media. Ticket holders will receive refunds automatically, and Ween will get back on the road this summer for North American dates in August and September.

“For the majority of my life I have been blessed enough to have a career doing the thing that I love the most,” Dean Ween wrote. “This privilege has never been lost on me. The fact that the music reaches...

Ween have canceled the April dates of their 40th anniversary US tour as Michael “Dean Ween” Melchiondo temporarily steps away from performing live to work on his mental health.

“At this moment in time… I need to step away from performing live in order to preserve my mental and spiritual well being, and instead focus on myself and loved ones,” the band’s co-founder and lead guitarist wrote in a social media statement. “I know this will come as a disappointment and with great inconvenience to many people who bought tickets and made travel plans, and for this I sincerely apologize.”

To close out the note, Dean Ween promised to return to the stage with the “enthusiasm, joy, and renewed sense of inspiration that our fans deserve, and that I require of myself when we play live.” Ticketholders will automatically receive a refund from the original point of purchase.

As of publishing,...

South Park: The 25th Anniversary Concert will be released on vinyl for the first time ever on Record Store Day on April 20th.

The recording captures the August 2022 shows featuring South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker performing at Colorado’s Red Rocks Amphitheater alongside Ween, Primus, and Rush’s Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson.

While the concert is available to watch on Paramount+ and the audio can be found on streaming services, this marks the first time South Park: The 25th Anniversary Concert gets a vinyl release. The 3-lp set is pressed on “Towelie-Blue” vinyl and features 22 tracks.

The setlist includes a number of South Park songs along with Ween and Primus tunes, as well as a surprise performance featuring Lee and Lifeson joining Stone (on drums) and Primus for the Rush classic “Closer to the Heart.”

The Record Store Day release is limited to 4,000 copies, and...

Record Store Day has revealed the extensive list of limited edition vinyl, box sets, and other speciality releases that will be available as part of its 2024 edition taking place on Saturday, April 20th, 2024.

This year promises exclusive wax from Talking Heads, David Bowie, At the Drive-In, South Park, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Daft Punk, 100 gecs, Blur, The Replacements, Screaming Trees, Sonic Youth, Gene Clark, Fleet Foxes, and more.

You can find specifics on some of the most notable releases below, and find many more detailed at the Record Store Day website.

A live recording of Talking Heads’ November 1977 performance at Wcoz will be available as a 2xLP collection, featuring seven previously unheard songs from the original two-track tapes.

An early version of David Bowie’s The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, dubbed Waiting in the Sky (Before The Starman Came To Earth), will be released on vinyl.

The wonderfully weird indie duo Water From Your Eyes paid tribute to one of their many wonderfully weird predecessors, Ween, with a new cover of “If You Could Save Yourself (You’d Save Us All).”

The original tune appeared on Ween’s 2003 album, Quebec, a big, winding ballad flush with orchestral strings and end-of-relationship agony. Water From Your Eyes deliver a fully unplugged take on the tune that’s no less affecting when stripped down to Nate Amos’ acoustic guitar and Rachel Brown’s vocals.

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It's been a long wait, but fresh episodes of South Park are on the horizon.

Comedy Central revealed today that the 26th season of the hit animated series will premiere next month.

More specifically, new episodes will air beginning Wednesday, February 8.

The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning animated series returns to Comedy Central, where it has aired on Wednesday nights since 1997.

The cabler revealed that Season 26 would also roll out on Comedy Central internationally throughout 2023.

All-new episodes will be available to stream in HD on SouthPark.cc.com, Cc.com, and the Comedy Central App post-premiere.

Last summer, Comedy Central celebrated the historic 25th anniversary of cable's longest-running scripted series with South Park: The 25th Anniversary Concert.

Filmed at Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre, the concert, starring Trey Park and Matt Stone, Primus, and Ween, with a special appearance by members of the band Rush, premiered on August 13, 2022, twenty-five years to...

Poor Butters! Comedy Central’s super short teaser trailer for South Park season 26 shows the kid’s in big trouble. But, really, isn’t that pretty much par for the course with Butters?

The teaser trailer was just the cherry on top of Comedy Central’s South Park news. The network confirmed fans of the adult animated series can mark February 8, 2023 on their calendars for the premiere of season 26. The announcement did not indicate the number of season 26 episodes, but we can hope it’s many more than the shortened season 25.

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Series creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone recently celebrated the show’s 25th anniversary with the “South Park: The 25th Anniversary Concert.” The concert featured Parker, Stone, Primus, Ween, and members of the band Rush and included fan-favorite songs. The special aired on August 13, 2022, marking the anniversary of...

"South Park" has been on the air for over a quarter of a century, as the rambunctious, raunchy, and often reprehensible adult animated-comedy series returns to Comedy Central for its historic season 26. The Emmy and Peabody Award-winning series from Trey Parker and Matt Stone have been pushing the boundaries of good taste since 1997, and shows no signs of stopping anytime soon.

Serving as a bit of a cultural Rorschach test, "South Park" spent most of 2022 celebrating its 25th anniversary, complete with a six-episode season, two-part specials for Paramount+, and a celebration concert starring Trey Park and Matt Stone, Primus, Ween, and a special appearance by members of the band, Rush. The series continues to be one of the only remaining flagship programs at Comedy Central, which renewed the series until 2027 as part of a massive, 900 million dollar deal with MTV Entertainment Studios and ViacomCBS Inc.

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Comedy Central has set Wednesday, February 8, for the Season 26 premiere of South Park. Watch a teaser above.

Co-created by Trey Park and Matt Stone, the Emmy- and Peabody-winning animated series also will roll out its new season on Comedy Central internationally throughout 2023. New episodes will be available to stream in HD on SouthPark.cc.com, Cc.com and the Comedy Central App post-premiere.

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Last summer, Comedy Central celebrated the silver anniversary of cable’s longest-running scripted series with South Park: The 25th Anniversary Concert. Filmed at Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre, the concert, starring Park and Stone, Primus and Ween with a special appearance by members of the band,...

The Critics Choice Association has announced the winners of the 2nd annual Critics Choice Super Awards, which honors the greatest achievements in genre storytelling across television and film.

“It’s an honor to showcase these incredible accomplishments in Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Comic Book films and television. The Super Awards will proudly continue to shine a brighter light on the talented people telling stories in these fields,” Critics Choice Super Awards branch president Sean O’Connell said in a statement.

In the television categories, “Squid Game” and “Wandavision” led the winners, earning three awards each. “Squid Game” swept the action categories, taking home the best action series trophy alongside individual honors for actors Lee Jung-jae and HoYeon Jung. “Wandavision” won best superhero series, and Elizabeth Olsen and Kathryn Hahn both received awards for best lead and best villain. “Station Eleven” and “Yellowjackets” closely followed with two awards each, while “Loki,” “Snowpiercer...

Comedy Central will celebrate 25 years of South Park with a concert at the Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre in Colorado.

The anniversary concert, revealed on Wednesday, will take place on Aug. 10 and will feature Trey Parker, Matt Stone and Primus and Ween. The fall event will feature fan favorite numbers from the long-running, irreverent comedy series.

“We’re so excited to go home and play at Red Rocks, a place that’s been known for hosting the most legendary Artists and Musicians. Until now,” said South Park co-creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker.

The concert will be executive produced by Parker and Stone, along with Anne Garefino and Frank C. Agnone II. Eric Stough, Adrien Beard, Bruce Howell and Vernon Chatman are producers. Christopher Brion is the creative director of South Park Digital Studios.

South Park enthusiasts can register to purchase tickets here. The latest season premiered on Feb. 2.

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Hargus “Pig” Robbins, a member of Nashville’s A-team of session players who added keyboards and piano to albums by Dolly Parton, Bob Dylan, Kenny Rogers, Miranda Lambert, Ween, and many more, died Sunday. The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, who inducted Robbins into the Hall in 2012, confirmed his death. He was 84.

Robbins’ playing was all about the feel. Listen to the bluesy piano he dropped into Dylan’s “Pledging My Time” in 1966, the defining but never heavy-handed intro he played on Crystal Gayle’s 1977 “Don’t It Make My Brown Eyes Blue,...

In February, the drummer Eric Slick got a text from his friend, the Philadelphia-based sound engineer Jon Low.

“Hey, do you want to play on some songs?” Low asked the Dr. Dog drummer and singer-songwriter.

Slick agreed, and what followed was an intensely confidential remote recording process unlike anything the drummer had ever experienced: “I get the most private, secret disk image file that’s password protected with a song that’s also password protected,” he says. “I’ve never been involved in anything so top secret in my life.

Riot Fest announced the lineup for the festival’s 15th anniversary, to take place in Chicago’s Douglas Park on September 13th-15th. Blink-182, after having to cancel their 2018 Riot Fest performance for health reasons, will return for this year’s festival. Riot grrrl legends Bikini Kill will perform a reunion set and thrash metal band Slayer, who are currently on their last world tour, will play their final Chicago show.

Other highlights include The Raconteurs performing their first Chicago show in 11 years and the B-52s playing their final Chicago show,...

Before Wheeler Walker Jr. was melding raunchy lyrics with expert country instrumentation, there was Ween’s 1996 cult classic 12 Golden Country Greats. A collection of 10 songs — even the misnumbered title is a gag — the album finds the Nineties weird-rock duo parodying country clichés in tracks like “I Don’t Wanna Leave You on the Farm,” “Japanese Cowboy” and the ultimate kiss-off “Piss Up a Rope.” But the record wasn’t completely a lark: musically, it was superb, with Nashville aces like harmonica player Charlie McCoy, fiddler Buddy Spicher and the vocal...

Emma Roberts’ character was feeling a little blue during this year’s Chanel-o-Ween festivities — but not for any of the reasons you might have expected.

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It wasn’t because of Chad’s death. Or his entire family’s death. Or the fact that Chad left the Radwell fortune to Dean Munsch and the C.U.R.E. Institure. No, it was thanks to a shoddy prescription from Dr. Murder Hand that Chanel spent Tuesday’s Scream Queens in full-on Michael Ausiello-approved Smurf mode.

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It's been more than a decade since the 1990s ended, yet the Internet can't seem to go a day without a reminder of the neon slap bracelets that may have been banned from your school.

Yes, we get it. Times are tough and there's comfort in reflection, but enough is enough.

Below, a final goodbye to the 90s to end the nostalgia once and for all. (We're not kidding. There are 1990 items below.)

1. Scrunchies

2. "The Wild Thornberries"

3. Dawson and Joey

4. "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys"

5. Mr. Feeny

7. MTV playing music videos

8. Snick

9. The premiere of "Freaks and Geeks"

10. Levar Burton

11. "Daria"

12. "Arthur"

13. "The Powerpuff Girls"

14. "Smart Guy"

15. Comedy Central globe logo with buildings

16. "The X-Files"

17. Rosie O'Donnell

18. Bill Nye

19. "Dawson's Creek"

20. The Mighty Ducks"

21. "Are You Afraid of the Dark"

22. Cornholio

23. Rachel Green

24. Tim Allen

25. "All That"

26. "Beverly Hills 90210"

27. "Step by Step"

28. "The Ren & Stimpy Show"

29. "The Famous Jett Jackson"

30. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer...

Beavis And Butt-Head return to MTV after far too long this month, and we're elated to see Mike Judge's pair of teenage scumbags come back on the air. In the show's epochal 1990s run, the duo skewered everything that was popular in music, adding their juvenile—and frequently idiotic—commentary to rock videos from Cher to Ween. In between, they engaged in idiotic adventures around their small Texas town. To get hyped for the new episodes, we took a dive through the vaults to bring you the best Beavis And Butt-Head moments ever aired.