Aerosmith farewell tour; ‘Black Barbies’; David Mancuso dead; ‘Inhumans’: AM Buzz

Joe Perry, guitarist for Aerosmith and Hollywood Vampires

Aerosmith’s lead singer Steven Tyler and guitarist Joe Perry perform during their Tokyo Dome concert in Tokyo, July 20, 2004.

Talk about bittersweet emotions: Aerosmith announced a “farewell” tour will begin in Europe next May. The band has booked 17 concerts, including the Sweden Rock Festival and the U.K.’s Download Festival, but no North American shows have been set. Steven Tyler has been teasing a final trek for years, but it’s unclear whether they’ll come to Upstate New York. Joe Perry performed with the Hollywood Vampires in Verona earlier this year, but Aerosmith last played Syracuse at the 2010 New York State Fair. Stay tuned.

Nicki Minaj tackles the

“Black Barbies.”

The rapper, who previously collaborated with Rae Sremmurd on a remix of “No Flex Zone,” released her version of the Mannquin Challenge-fueled hit “Black Beatles” with lyrics referencing last week’s presidential election: “Island girl, Donald Trump want me go home, Still pull up with my wrist like a snowcone,” Minaj rhymes. “Now I’m prayin’ all my foreigns don’t get deported.”

Note: Song contains mature content not suitable for younger audiences.

New York nightlife pioneer David Mancuso is dead at age 72, according to multiple reports. The former DJ notably held Manhattan’s first invitation-only dance party “Love Saves the Day” on Valentine’s Day in 1970 and inspired private discotheques and warehouse parties. The Dance Hall of Fmer also helped pioneer the “record pool” business model, where record labels would give music to disc jockeys first for play in nightclubs.
» Read more at Vulture.

And Jimmy Kimmel’s latest “Lie Witness News” pranked people in the street by convincing them that Donald Trump is planning renovations at the White House. For the record, the president-elect has not announced plans to tear the building down and make a bigger one with a food court and champagne fountain, but a few respondents didn’t realize it.

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