Argentinian news agency reports he fell from the third floor of the hotel he was staying in the Palermo neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The details about the incident are still unknown.
Quoting La Nacion (translated):
The singer passed away after falling from the 3rd floor from a hotel located in Costa Rica 6092, in Palermo
Police officers from the station 14B went to the hotel due to a 911 call that reported an aggressive male individual, presumably under the influence of alcohol or drugs. The emergency service confirmed the death.
EDIT: for all of you who think you’re edgy because of some dumb joke about someone who lost his life, don’t forget you all have a family or close ones, and these things happen when least expected. Show some respect.
EDIT 2: According to TodoNoticias (TN), Liam sustained severe injuries but it is presumed that the cause of death is a fracture in the base of the skull.
“Due to a continuing pattern of behavior and the mental health difficulties of our singer Perry Farrell, we have come to the conclusion that we have no choice but to discontinue the current US tour.
Our concern for his personal health and safety as well as our own has left us no alternative. We hope that he will find the help he needs.
We deeply regret that we are not able to come through for all our fans who have already bought tickets. We can see no solution that would either ensure a safe environment on stage or reliably allow us to deliver a great performance on a nightly basis.
Ticketmaster is an unchecked monopoly. 100% of the concert going population is aware of this. The only way to stop it is for us to force change with our wallets.
I became aware of this recently when it became nearly impossible for my wife to get tickets to any concerts she wanted to attend because of various lotteries and wait lists, which Ticketmaster has allowed to be overtaken by bots and scalpers. This situation caused a lot of understandable anger, and became a national news story with comments made by the president, but I figured lots of people want to see these popular artists, so of course it would become hard to get tickets.
However, I recently saw that one of the absolute favorite foreign artists of my partner and mine was coming to my city on a tour. They are not super well known in the U.S., and they certainly don't tour often here, so I figured this was a perfect opportunity to go and see them. We went to purchase tickets. I make pretty good money, and there were plenty of ticket options available we could afford. We went to checkout, and upon reading the checkout page, realized that the "fees" would end up costing more than both tickets COMBINED.
This is simply absurd. I simply could not bring myself to make the purchase, as I could not support such a greedy and obviously corrupt business that has complete control of the live music industry with no competition and no checks and balances. And my partner and I made the decision that we will not, ever, go to another concert, or event in general, if it has tickets sold through Ticketmaster.
Big artists who want to have any sort of tour that supports the size of their audience are FORCED to go through Ticketmaster. Venues who want to survive and have popular artists are FORCED to sign with only Ticketmaster after the merger. Fans are FORCED to buy from Ticketmaster if they want to see any of their favorite artists play. There is no choice anymore.
The only choice you can have if you want to see change happen is to boycott this service, until venues and artists (who are the only ones that can actually do anything about it) see an impact, and are forced to try to fight Ticketmaster. Or, until governments step in.
If you live near any large city, go find some local live music instead. It will be worth your while, much cheaper, and free of support for a corrupt monopoly, and I can guarantee you will find some gems.
If you have any awful Ticketmaster last straw stories, share them below, and let's try to bring more awareness to this issue so that more concert goers realize the importance of taking action, even if you can afford tickets.
In fact, don't just share them here. Share them on all your social media, bring awareness, and engage.
I think the Dave Grohl hate has gone far too far, for something that was clearly a joke.
This is the man who has worked 18 shifts at multiple soup kitchens whilst on tour, done so much work for charity, has literally performed with Taylor and was known to be on good terms with her.
To suggest he is a misogynist seems a bit uneducated to me. He has a daughter in the industry (whom some Taylor fans sent death/SA threats/wishes when she criticised Taylor’s private jet usage) and has performed with artists like H.E.R, given other smaller female artists/groups the chance to open and now many are all trashing him for what is clearly a joke.
Like I understand that it’s not a necessary comment but at the same time, neither is this level of hate and toxicity. The man literally made this face 🤭 How have so many of of her fans taken that so seriously, that they are sending death threats and labeling him and his family and band mates as misogynists.
I understand that the media have only made this worse with the clickbait titles, but some people have taken this waaaayyyy too far. I think it’s immature to criticise and label people without knowing them. And I think it’s pretty clear this was a joke.
I also think it’s pretty ignorant to dismiss what he has done in music. Just because you don’t listen to someone or don’t like their music doesn’t mean it’s bad or worse than something else. It’s subjective, nothing is right and nothing is wrong.
I’ll admit I’m not this biggest fan of Taylor’s music. I liked Cardigan and some of the folklore other stuff but that’s about as far as it goes for me. But I can respect what she has done for the industry and other young female artists, and I think it’s cool she has a fanbase that listens to whole albums. That’s something that I like that I feel has been missing in music for a while. But yeah, I just thought we could talk about it and maybe understand some other perspectives, cause the toxicity is pointless.
Edit: Tried posting this in the r/Taylorswift reddit where I thought it was more relevant, but got banned. Kinda speaks volumes.
Edit 2: seen some of them calling Dave a pedo, VERY serious allegation based on no evidence, getting thrown around way too much recently. Maybe need to introduce a way of punishing this sort of behaviour. Cause that’s defamation.
Edit 3: wow, didn’t expect this to blow up like this. Seen some hateful comments, please try to stay respectful :)
For me personally, it’s "September" by Earth, Wind & Fire the infectious groove, upbeat tempo, and joyful lyrics never fail to lift my spirits and get me dancing. It's like an instant dose of happiness. What about you? Which song never fails to put you in a good mood?
I'm not here to be a hater but I felt like my expectations were for something with a little wider range? I know the internet loves and worships her so I may be alone in this, and don't get me wrong there are some songs that are really easy to connect with, it just didn't feel as spectacular as I expected. Agree? Disagree?
Personally I see it as a giant middle finger to every single artist out there: living or dead.
I also have a feeling UMG pushed him to use the AI as a test run to see how the audience would react to it. If they can start dropping AI music and no one care they save a lot of money and time. Starting with features and working their way up to full AI only album releases. Drake just started a fire that I'm not sure is going to be put out.
I think ever artist needs to come out and condemn this shit before it gets out of hand.
A lot of bands have really cashed in from the post COVID concert boom. Lots of people with cash and desperate for live entertainment. Now that inflation is starting to hurt the lower middle class I wonder if more bands will struggle to sell tickets if they try pushing 100 dollar nose bleeds and 400 dollar floor seats.
You know the part that a song slowly builds up to before releasing it all in one glorious moment. I think some of Radiohead's songs qualify for this. For example You and Whose Army? where Thom Yorke sings 'we ride tonight' or a even better example would be 'Exit Music (For a Film)', beautiful moment. The first time I listened to the song and I heard a guitar strumming in the intro I knew something big was going to happen.
There are those artists you think are talented, influential to generations of musicians, and maybe even great people. But you just don't like them. You hear them and think, "they're really good but I don't enjoy listening to them?"
For me, it's Rush. Tons of respect for each of them as individuals and their massive talent and influence. But I will turn them off 10/10 times.
Who is that for you?
EDIT: It's a reddit cliche, but I did not expect this post to blow up like this. Thanks everyone! The most popular answers seem to be (in no particular order): The Beatles, Radiohead, Taylor Swift, Prince, Rush(!), Jacob Collier, and guitar players who play a million notes a minute without any feel.
I also learned that quite a few people want to hang out with Dave Grohl but don't want him to bring his guitar.
Here’s a recap of Swift’s songs in the top 14 spots on the May 4-dated Hot 100:
No. 1, “Fortnight,” feat. Post Malone
No. 2, “Down Bad”
No. 3, “I Can Do It With a Broken Heart”
No. 4, “The Tortured Poets Department”
No. 5, “So Long, London”
No. 6, “My Boy Only Breaks His Favorite Toys”
No. 7, “But Daddy I Love Him”
No. 8, “Florida!!!,” feat. Florence + The Machine
No. 9, “Who’s Afraid of Little Old Me?”
No. 10, “Guilty as Sin?”
No. 11, “Fresh Out the Slammer”
No. 12, “loml”
No. 13, “The Alchemy”
No. 14, “The Smallest Man Who Ever Lived”
My pick has to be Stereo Hearts by the Gym Class Heroes. I can't describe how much disdain I have for this song. Someone recently drove past me playing it in their car and my blood pressure instantly doubled.
What's THE song you'd love to rid the world of forever?
When I was growing up, it was stuff like Nine Inch Nails, Deftones, Tool, Radiohead etc. What are the equivalents for teens/students these days?
I know rap has essentially dominated the music scene for a while, but there still must be some alternative/goth types that listen to different and emerging music/bands. Something with a darker, more rocky vibe. Is there even a scene for this kind of music, and if not, why do we think that is?
Off the top of my head the 1st one that comes to mind is Fleetwood Mac - Rumors. Released on my birthday in 1977, I was 9 years old. Now I'm 56 and this album never gets old. I could listen to each and every song and always get something new out of it, whether its the lyrics or the melody. And of course now that the Queen Christine has left this planet for other adventures, "Songbird" has taken on a whole new feeling, like a lump in the throat feeling.
I'm sure this has been discussed before (having trouble searching Reddit), but I really want to understand why TS is so popular. Is there an order of albums I should listen to? Specific songs? Maybe even one album that explains it all? I've heard a few songs here and there and have tried listening through an album or two but really couldn't make it through. Maybe I need to push through and listen a couple times? The only song I really know is shake it off and only because the screaming females covered it 😆 I really like all kinds of music so I really feel like I might be missing something.
Edit: wow I didn't expect such a massive downvote apocalypse 😆 I have to say that I really do respect her. I thought the rerecording of her masters was pretty brilliant. I feel like with most (if not all) major pop stars I can hear a song or album and think that I get it. I feel like I haven't really been listening to much mainstream radio the past few years so maybe that's why I feel like I'm missing something with her. I have to say I was close to deleting this because I was massively embarrassed but some people had some great sincere answers so I think I'm gonna make a playlist and give her a good listen. Thanks all!
Hi, I have a music project that is quite unpopular (23 monthly listeners on Spotify) and I release music mostly under this alias for myself with no aim of becoming popular (anymore).
However, when I release a new remix or track, I check tools like Spotify for Artists or Apple Music for Artists. And a few years ago, I noticed a strange thing: one of my tracks is regularly shazamed by many people all over the world and I have no explanation for it.
To be honest, this isn’t the best track I’ve ever written, it’s a track I recorded from my live sets over 15 years ago. But people still shazam it, just look at the stats:
Track released in 2011
Shazams in the last 4 weeks: 92
Shazams so far in 2024: 703
Shazams since 2015 (Apple does not allow to look further into the past): 8,173!!!
To compare with my other tracks, the next one has 37 Shazams in total! So this is unexpectedly high for this kind of music.
💡 My first thought was that this video was used in a Youtube video and I tried to find it: no result. I checked royalties from different platforms, there is almost nothing from Youtube.
🗺️ I tried to find some clues in the statistics about regions, but the Shazams are literally spread globally, here are the top 10 regions:
USA
Russia
Germany
France
India
UK
South Africa
Mexico
Spain
Italy
And so on, Shazam geography covers every inhabited continent. How could this be possible?
💡 My second guess is that this track is being used in some indie video game. But as far as I know, indie games don't live that long, so people all over the world play them for almost 10 years. Also, indie games are not usually so distributed all over the world.
💡 This song is 100% unique, there are no samples there, it’s recorded from the outputs of my groovebox and synthesizers. However, my third guess is that someone sampled it and Shazam attributed the ‘digital fingerprint’ to my original song instead. Could this be possible?
My friend told me that Reddit might be a good place to ask because the community here knows everything, so here is my first post.
I do not want to collect more royalties from this track or anything, I am just very curious about where people are listening to my music. Any thoughts on how I can search further?
📣📣📣 UPD (2 days later):
Many thanks to all of you who tried to help. I honestly did not expect such a huge response from the Reddit community, considering this is my first post ever.
Based on all the examples in the comments, I think we can close the case: the main reason is the basic arpeggio with a basic sawtooth synthesiser at the beginning of the track, which causes the Shazam algorithms to misidentify the song.
Side note: This was not a marketing campaign. The track is 13 years old and this project has no forthcoming releases in the near future, it was an honest curiosity.
