A nine-year-old girl has shared a video of herself thundering through a medley of Tool songs – on a guitar  gifted to her by Adam Jones.

READ MORE: Drummer Nandi Bushell’s greatest cover songs

Similar to music prodigy Nandi Bushell, Neelakantan was gifted a Gibson Les Paul by Adam Jones after she was spotted by the musician earlier this year.

Neelakantan played a 15 song Tool medley on the guitar, playing parts of ‘Intension’, ‘Vicarious’, ‘7empest’, ‘Right in Two’, ‘Invincible’, ‘Lost Keys’, ‘The Patient’, ‘Pneuma’, ‘Descending’, ‘Pushit’, ‘Eon Blue Apocalypse’, ‘Third Eye’, ‘Wings for Marie’, and ‘Parabol/Parabola.’

Check out the clip in full here:

In a description accompanying the clip, Neelakantan wrote: “What I like the most in this is how each song connects nicely to the next one and it’s not random!

“This is a completely thought out video and I had such a blast with it! … I just love everything that Adam Jones does! This video only explored the clean (without distortion) melodies that he created and I can’t wait to explore everything else even more!”

Meanwhile, last month, Nandi Bushell shared a video jamming with her younger brother to Rage Against The Machine‘s 1992 classic ‘Killing In The Name’.

Bushell posted the cover on Sunday to Twitter and Instagram. In it, the 12-year-old wunderkind shreds on guitar while younger brother Thomas plays drums. “A family that Rages together, stays together!” Bushell wrote on social media when sharing their rendition.

She went on to say that she had been teaching Thomas about “all the greatest rock and metal bands”, and that Rage Against the Machine were at the top of the list. Tagging RATM’s Tom Morello and Brad Wilk, she added: “You guys are awesome! Thomas is really getting good!”

Some of Bushell’s covers this year have included renditions of Ed Sheeran and Bring Me The Horizon‘s ‘Bad Habits’, Jimi Hendrix‘s ‘Little Wing’ and John Coltrane‘s ‘Mr P.C.’ She also joined Foo Fighters onstage at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert in London earlier this year, accompanying them to play ‘Learn To Fly’.

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The Weeknd has teased some new music for the upcoming new Avatar film in a cryptic new social media post.

READ MORE: ‘Avatar 2’: Everything we know about the upcoming sci-fi epic

The mysterious, 12-second teaser clip was shared to his Twitter account and featured a blue ‘A’ with a bird in the centre and was scored by new, never before heard melody.

The Weeknd captioned the post with “12.16.22” – the same date that also appears in the later moments of the clip.

Soon after sharing, the musician retweeted a post from the new Avatar movie account, which read “#AvatarTheWayOfWater x @theWeeknd”, seemingly confirming his involvement with the upcoming film.

See the tweets below:

#AvatarTheWayOfWater x @theweeknd https://t.co/WPCQkNx9XB pic.twitter.com/MRH6V6bWSv

— Avatar (@officialavatar) December 4, 2022

12.16.22 pic.twitter.com/G2FpRlzOKK

— The Weeknd (@theweeknd) December 4, 2022

Recently, Guillermo del Toro delivered the first review of Avatar: The Way Of Water, calling the imminent sequel “a staggering achievement”.

The Way Of Water comes just over 13 years since the original Avatar, which first hit screens on December 10, 2009. The sequel is due out on December 16 and like the first film – as well as the series’ next three films in active development – was written, directed and produced by James Cameron.

Del Toro tweeted his praise for the film on Twitter, writing that it’s “chokefull of majestic vistas and emotions at an epic, epic scale”. He went on to describe Cameron as “a master at the peak of his powers”.

Cameron recently described the film’s production cost as “very fucking expensive”, while industry experts have estimated its budget to be somewhere between $350million (£292.4million) and $400million (£334million), easily making it one of the most expensive films of all time.

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Jeff Tweedy has paid tribute to Fleetwood Mac’s late singer and keyboardist Christine McVie, covering the band’s 1987 track ‘Little Lies’ during a show in Michigan.

READ MORE: Christine McVie, 1943-2022: an eternal songbird

Tweedy performed at Three Oaks’ Acorn Theatre in Michigan last Friday (December 2), where his cover of ‘Little Lies’ was the sixth song on his setlist. The track itself was co-written by McVie and her then-husband, Eddy Quintela, and first appeared on Fleetwood Mac’s 14th album, ‘Tango In The Night’.

Have a look at some footage of the cover, as well as the full setlist, below:

McVie died on Wednesday (November 30) at the age of 79. It isn’t yet known exactly how she passed, however in a statement, her family explained that it came “following a short illness”.

McVie was widely seen as one of Fleetwood Mac’s most integral members. She served three stints with the band – first from 1970 to 1996, then 1997 to 1998, and finally from 2014 until her death. In that time, she performed on 13 of the band’s 17 studio albums.

Other artists paying tribute to McVie have included bandmates Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, as well as Bill Clinton, Haim, LCD Soundsystem, Harry Styles, Keith Urban and many more.

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Nick Carter has opened up about how “very emotional” he felt after the Backstreet Boys supported him following the death of his younger brother, Aaron.

Aaron died suddenly at his California home last month (November 5) and the Backstreet Boys recently paid tribute to the late singer during a show at London’s O2 Arena. At the gig, the band played an in memoriam video of the singer during their performance of ‘No Place’.

Now, in a new interview with Extra, Nick has opened up about how much the support of his band members meant to him following Aaron’s death.

“It was very emotional for me, having my guys with me,” the musician star told Extra about going back on stage for the first time since the death of his younger brother.

“That night, it was tough to get up on stage. There’s the old saying ‘the show must go on.’ That’s been with us for years, but that night, I didn’t know what to expect, I didn’t know what was going to come from it, getting on that stage. Getting the reaction from the fans, it was definitely comforting, and it meant a lot to me.”

Aaron Carter. Credit: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images.

During their show at London’s O2 Arena, which took place the day after Aaron’s death, the band’s Kevin Richardson said: “Tonight, we’ve got a little bit of heavy hearts because we lost one of our family members yesterday.

“We just wanted to find a moment in our show to recognise him…he’s a part of our family. We thank you guys for all your love, all your well wishes and all your support.”

Nick shared a personal tribute to his late brother on the same day, writing in a statement: “My heart is broken. Even though my brother and I have had a complicated relationship, my love for him has never ever faded.

“I have always held on to the hope that he would somehow, someday want to walk a healthy path and eventually find the help that he so desperately needed.”

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During their days under the Blue Ribbon Sports banner, Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman anticipated the declining notion of jogging within the States as amateur runners struggled to finance their own training and travel for competitions outside of their University-sponsored events. Combatting the latter with Athletics West, a rag-tag group of 12 amateur runners – including Steve Prefontaine – broke multiple world records alongside achieving a gold medal while redefining the country’s definition of competition and the state of running.

In celebration of the group’s formation, the latest Nike Air Max 90 is set to begin a new seasonal in-line collection for next year titled “Athletics East”.

Centering its crisp white base layer in a doubled-up mesh construction, colorless matches render themselves across the tongue and laces while a grey nubuck overlay and mudguard create a murdered out aesthetic with its matching midfoot Swoosh. Directly underneath a darker grey affixed with a slight navy undertone envelops the “AIR MAX” branded midfoot panel in tandem with its quarter overlay while luminous “University Blues” lay claim to the horizontally ridged eye stays. Underfoot, the clad white midsole comes branded with “NIKE ATHLETICS EAST” in tandem with further denotations adorned at the tongue tab and insoles while its dark grey tread concludes the pairs design elements.

While we sit tight on further release details expected to be announced in early 2023, enjoy official images of the Nike Air Max 90 “Athletics East” below in the meantime.

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