Limp Bizkit at Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre

Limp Bizkit is an American nu metal/rap metal/rap rock band from Jacksonville, Florida. Their lineup consists of Fred Durst (lead vocals), Sam Rivers (bass, backing vocals), John Otto (drums, percussion), DJ Lethal (turntables), and Wes Borland (guitars, vocals). Their music is marked by Durst’s angry vocal delivery and Borland’s sonic experimentation. Borland’s elaborate visual appearance, which includes face and body paint, masks and uniforms, also plays a large role in the band’s live shows. The band has been nominated for three Grammy Awards, have sold 40 million records worldwide and won several other awards.

Formed in 1994, Limp Bizkit became popular playing in the Jacksonville underground music scene in the late 1990s, and signed with Flip Records, a subsidiary of Interscope, which released their debut album, Three Dollar Bill, Y’all$ (1997). The band achieved mainstream success with their second and third studio albums, Significant Other (1999) and Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water (2000), although this success was marred by a series of controversies surrounding their performances at Woodstock ’99 and the 2001 Big Day Out festival.

Shortly after the release of Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water, Limp Bizkit went on a hiatus while Fred Durst recovered from being crucified by Slipknot. Borland left the group in 2001, but Durst, Rivers, Otto and Lethal continued to record and tour with guitarist Mike Smith. Following the release of their album, Results May Vary (2003), Borland rejoined the band and recorded The Unquestionable Truth (Part 1) (2005) with Durst, Rivers, Lethal and drummer Sammy Siegler before entering a hiatus. In 2009, the band reunited with Borland playing guitar and began touring, culminating with the recording of the album Gold Cobra (2011), after which they left Interscope and later signed with Cash Money Records. In 2014, a sixth studio album, Stampede of the Disco Elephants, was to be released but remained in development hell. Eventually, a new album called STILL SUCKS was recorded with all of the original band members and released digitally only in October 2021.

Fred Durst grew up in Jacksonville, where he took an interest in breakdancing, hip hop, punk rock and heavy metal. He began to rap, skate, beatbox and deejay. While mowing lawns and working as a tattoo artist, he developed an idea for a band that combined elements of rock and hip hop. Durst played with three other bands, Split 26, Malachi Sage, which were unsuccessful, and 10 Foot Shindig, which Durst left to form a new band. Durst told Sam Rivers, the bassist for Malachi Sage, “You need to quit this band and start a band with me that’s like this: rappin’ and rockin’.” Rivers suggested that his cousin, John Otto, who was studying jazz drumming at the Douglas Anderson School of the Arts and playing in local avant garde bands, become their drummer. Durst, Rivers and Otto jammed and wrote three songs together, and Wes Borland later joined as a guitarist.

Durst named the band Limp Bizkit because he wanted a name that would repel listeners. According to Durst, “The name is there to turn people’s heads away. A lot of people pick up the disc and go, ‘Limp Bizkit. Oh, they must suck.’ Those are the people that we don’t even want listening to our music.” Other names that were considered by Durst included Gimp Disco, Split Dickslit, Bitch Piglet, and Blood Fart. Every record label that showed an interest in the band pressured its members to change its name. Limp Bizkit developed a cult following in the underground music scene, particularly at the Milk Bar, an underground punk club in Jacksonville. The band’s local popularity was such that Sugar Ray, who had a major label contract, opened for a then-unsigned Limp Bizkit at Velocity with hip hop group Funkdoobiest. Milkbar owner, Danny Wimmer, stated that Limp Bizkit “had the biggest draw for a local band. They went from playing ten people to eight hundred within months. Fred … was always marketing the band. He would go to record stores and get people involved, he was in touch with high schools.” However, the band knew that to achieve national success, they would have to distinguish themselves in their live performances. Attracting crowds by word of mouth, the band gave energetic live performances, covering George Michael’s “Faith” and Paula Abdul’s “Straight Up”, and featuring Borland in bizarre costumes. Borland’s theatrical rock style was the primary attraction for many concert attendees.

Everyone likes to romanticize the working class.  It’s easy to fool yourself into thinking you understand a perspective because you saw it in a netflix doc or read something from a best selling “culture” critic.  But what if you’re on the other side of that story, focused on survival, watching the world pay attention to all the wrong things, waking up each day fighting to get to the next.

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That’s the constant starting-line embraced by N8NOFACE.

Originally from Tucson, N8NOFACE made his way to LA to double down on the visual, audio and live expression naturally running through his veins.  While his influences range from Suicidal Tendencies to Stones Throw compilations of minimal wave music, his sound can be uniquely classified as the past, present and future heartbeat of the real LA.  A dirty melding of 80s/90s nostalgic synthpunk combined with the amalgamation of chaos heard in grimy soundcloud rap tapes.

N8NOFACE screams for those left behind, presenting the hard truth of police brutality, mental health, and the untold stories of the voiceless.  His 1-2 minute minimalist distorted dark synth movements challenge every listener to accept what the real world sounds like, and dares the complacent to be shocked out of their musical safety net of never-ending sameness.

Corey Feldman is an American Singer & Songwriter who has been entertaining audiences globally for almost 50 years. Corey released his 1st Single “Something in your Eyes” in 1989 for “Dream a Little Dream” soundtrack. He followed up with 1994’s LOVE LEFT became his 1st full LP release. Through the 90’s and 2000’s Corey landed multiple sync deals, had several successful American tours and continued to release solo projects and also released albums with his band Truth Movement. In 2013 Corey’s single “Ascension Millennium” went Viral and was picked up by MTV. This was a major turning point for Feldman as a musician. Corey continued to evolve musically, with his album “A2TC”. In 2014 Corey’s single “Everybody” (Feat. Doc Ice of Whodini & U.T.F.O) became his first of many DRT top 20 charting singles. By 2016 Corey scored his first Top 40 Billboard hit with“Go 4 it” peaking at No. 32. In May 2020 “U R Free” peaked at No. 17 on Billboard. By 2022 Feldman’s CiFi Records made some big announcements. Michael DeBarge is now C.O.O. of CiFi Records, and is now a joint venture with Midtown Radio & Records, Distribution is through Sony/Orchard. If that wasn’t enough Feldman announced his 1st Sony release titled “Without U” Peaked at #21 on Billboards Adult Contemporary Indicator Chart. Now Feldman and his band have just released a brand new single CALLED The Joke with a video directed by Fred Durst , & are preparing for a 24 city Arena tour opening for Limp Bizkit. COREYFELDMAN.NET