Category: Music News

Slayer have announced that guitarist and co-founder Jeff Hanneman died yesterday after suffering liver failure. Hanneman was 49 years old, and passed in his Southern Californian home.

“Slayer is devastated to inform that their bandmate and brother, Jeff Hanneman, passed away at about 11am this morning near his Southern California home. Hanneman was in an area hospital when he suffered liver failure. He is survived by his wife Kathy, his sister Kathy and his brothers Michael and Larry, and will be sorely missed.

Our Brother Jeff Hanneman, May He Rest In Peace (1964 – 2013)”

Hanneman was bitten by a spider 3 years ago and had a bad reaction to it leading to complications as explained on Slayer’s website: “There was talk that he might have to have his arm amputated, and we didn’t know if he was going to pull through at all. He was in a medically-induced coma for a few days and had several operations to remove the dead and dying tissue from his arm. So, understand, he was in really, really bad shape.”

Since then, he had several painful skin grafts and had joined the band onstage for his last show at The Big Four show at Coachella whilst continuing his rehabilitation. Unfortunately his liver gave up on him.

This is extremely sad news. RIP. Our thoughts go out to all family and friends. Long live Slayer. We hope that this allows the band members to pull together and work together following what has been a difficult year for them all. Skate to Slayer all weekend for Jeff.

It looks like Mike D and Ad-Rock are to tell the Beastie Boys story in a new book that is said to be in the works for 2015. Spiegel & Grau, an imprint of Random House will be publishing their memoirs edited by hip-hop journalist Sacha Jenkins.

It is said that the book was underway before the unfortunate death of soul-mate MCA aka Adam Yauch last May but the remaining members have reignited their interest now in completing it.

This is too good. Press play for complete piss takes of Coachella festival goers discussing bands that don’t actually exist for the Jimmy Kimmel show. Why does the ‘facebook’ generation live in a fantasy world?

This band have been played to death on the Crossfire stereo and after seeing them play live last month in London they are the real deal. Noisey have come good with a new video documentary today featuring Parquet Courts in SXSW, Mexico and beyond. Get to know them.