Is Aaron Rodgers Gay?

First let me say, so what if he is. If this rumor has any truth so what, he's one of the best football players ever and he's green and gold all the way.

Gossip king Perez Hilton came out with an interesting story today saying that Aaron Rodgers, the Superbowl winning and NFL MVP quarterback of our Green Bay Packers is actually Gay. The evidence? It's from this "insider" source who's claiming his now ex-boyfriend and longtime personal assistant Kevin Lanflisi outed him.

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Kevin Lanflisi

Kevin Lanflisi

Kevin Lanflisi

Kevin Lanflisi

"Aaron has attended numerous sports award shows with Kevin, always color coordinated and without any double female dates, including the ESPY’s. Kevin was also the first person Aaron embraced when the Packers won the Super-bowl in 2011. I just find it really strange that as of late there has been many bitter subliminal tweets on Kevin Lanflisi’s twitter alluding to a relationship much deeper than a friendship he had, with who I perceive to be Aaron Rodgers, because Kevin has NEVER once tweeted about having a girlfriend, just mainly about the Green Bay Packers, Aaron Rodgers, and Justin Bieber’s music and sitting front row at Bieber’s concert. There has been speculation for years here in Wisconsin that Aaron is gay."

 According to this story there have also been some tweets by Kevin and some comments from the Quarterback himself regarding Kevin to show more proof. Until he comes out and says "I'm gay" these are just rumors.

On a personal note I very much support the LGBT community and their struggle for equality. If, and it's a big if, this turns out to be true then it would be a huge win for that community, esp here in this part of the country were maybe some are just not very open minded. I'll leave it at that.

Full story from Perez Hilton can be read here.

Interview: Joey Jordison

A couple of months ago I had the chance to have a conversation with one of the best drummers in metal of the last 2 decades Joey Jordison for my syndicated classic metal show Hangar 19. Since the mid 90's he has played with Slipknot. During Slipknot's numerous breaks he has played with other bands like The Murderdolls and his newest project Scar the Martyr. So when news broke this week that Joey was no longer a member of Slipknot, a band that has never replaced members, it took all of us by surprise. Even in this conversation Joey had nothing but good things to say about his now former band mates.

Here's the link to listen to or download my conversation with Joey Jordison.

A message from M. Shadows and trailer for an animated series

Avenged Sevenfold, Warner Bros. Records & Machinima teamed up for the Hail To The King animated series, which premieres Dec. 15.

FROM M. SHADOWS:

First we want to thank all of our friends that we just saw in Europe.  Hands down the best tour that we have ever had over there.  It was an honor to play for you all every night.  As we promised, we are slowly filling in summer dates so we can come play for you again.  We also have been getting quite a few requests for new countries that we haven't played yet.  We will use this summer as an opportunity to come to few new places.  Please stay tuned for that.

As for the rest of the world, we hear you,and we will be coming soon!  By now you’ve already heard announcements about Download, Graspop, Nova Rock, and Aerodome, and there will be a lot more dates announced in the coming months.  Right now though, we have decided to hangout at home until we get over to Australia for Soundwave in February. 

Since we have a couple months off we wanted to update you on a couple things that we promised a while back.  

First is our "Hail to the King"animated series that we did with Machinima and Jon Schnepp.  You may know Jon from his work on Metalocalypse on Adult Swim.  It's funny stuff and it was an honor to work with him.  Below is the trailer for the series which will debut Dec. 15th.  We hope it gives you something entertaining to watch over your Holiday break.  The series also plays as a backstory to our mobile game "Hail to the King: Deathbat."  We felt this was the best way to tell the story and give you all an idea about the type of game we are creating.

Check out the trailer for the “Hail to theKing” animated series here: http://youtu.be/ZeUhpV5kmBw

This brings us to the game.  Two years ago while touring in South East Asia I looked around the bus taking us from the airport to the hotel and noticed everyone was on their phones and iPads playing different types of games.  We had a discussion and decided that it would be fun to create one of our own.  The problem was that we didn't feel passionate about doing a full on typical music game.  We wanted to do something different.  Something inspired by some of our favorite games. So we came up with the idea of turning some of our songs and art work into a living, breathing, evil world.  We wanted to bring the story of the Deathbat to life and allow you to control its destiny. While the game stands on its own in terms of the story and game play, we still wanted to add in some extras for our fans.  In the game you can unlock 16 pieces of never seen before artwork from all of our albums.  There will also be 7 new Cam Rackam paintings available in the game.  We also recorded 7 new songs. Now these aren't metal songs, they are theme songs for each level and are done in an old school video game fashion with a new school twist.  There will also be reimagined versions of older songs.  Basically, we have not only packed the game with exciting gameplay, but also a lot of things for fans that might now be interested in a video game.  The trailer for the game will be released with the Machinima "Hail to the King" series on December 15th as well.  Expect a release date in early 2014 as we are in the BETA process now.  Remember, the game and series go hand in hand. The animated series tells the story "before" the game takes place.  When the series ends, the game picks up.

We hope these things keep you entertained while your hanging out at home for the Holiday Season.  Most importantly we hope you all enjoy the time with your families and we will see you on the road as soon as we can make it to you.  

M Shadows 

What happened to the one genre of music that hold's true and stands the test of time since it's initial taking over of the world in the 50's. Maybe I shouldn't ever look at the charts anymore but either no one actually likes rock music anymore (Imagine Dragons don't count) or rock fans don't actually buy music. There are only 5 bands that show up on any sales chart I look at,

Well f*** it, I'm going to keep flying the flag on RAZOR 94.7 and on Hangar 19 and I just hope there's enough of us left to keep Rock and Metal alive and well

In This Moment photos

But you have to click below for the photo gallery of In This Moment live

From Revolver Magazine

On Cutter's Guitar shop this week

I'm giving you the chance to win the new re-issued and re-mastered set from Nirvana's 3rd and final album In Utero. The prize includes all 4 discs including the original album and the 2013 remix of it. It also includes a bunch of rarities like demos and and b-sides.








This prize also includes the previously unreleased Live & Loud performance from 1993 on MTV. The DVD includes 40 extra minutes of the band that never aired.