A hemorrhaged vocal cord kept Sam Fender from taking the stage at Switzerland’s Montreux Jazz Festival for his headlining performance. But the injury proved to be beneficial for Benson Boone, who was bumped up to the headlining tier in his place. It wasn’t an exact one-to-one parallel, but the Fender …
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A 17-year-old in Wales was accused last month of plotting a knife attack, including one that would target fans at Oasis’ first reunion gig, The Times reports. According to prosecutors, the teenager (who was not identified because of his age) told a counsellor last month that he planned to carry …
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David Byrne has shared his new song “She Explains Things to Me,” the latest single from the former Talking Heads frontman’s upcoming album Who Is The Sky? The sweeping track was inspired in part by Rebecca Solnit’s 2014 collectionMen Explain Things to Me, with the titular essay providing a scathing …
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Jane’s Addiction members Dave Navarro, Eric Avery, and Stephen Perkins have filed a lawsuit against frontman Perry Farrell in the aftermath of a September 2024 onstage scuffle between Navarro and Farrell that resulted in the cancellation of their reunion tour and the dissolution of the groundbreaking alt-rock act. The complaint, …
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Luminate’s 2025 midyear report has arrived, and it has some surprising data: Rock is back. According to the report, rock came in second in the top U.S. core genre, ranked by on-demand audio streaming. It sits with 123.3 billion, behind hip-hop and R&B at 171.1 billion. But that’s not all: …
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Ariana Grande isn’t forfeiting her position in the upper echelons of the pop pantheon, no matter how many people believe that she no longer has an interest in being there. “Very silly of you all to assume that just because i have my hands full with many things that i …
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The only AI program SZA is interested in using is the one she naturally has: “Actual Imagination.” In a series of recent Instagram interactions, the singer criticized the damaging use of artificial intelligence programs thatconsume vital resourcesto function, such as ChatGPT and Elon Musk’s chatbot, Grok. “Ai is killing and …
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Tomorrowland will go ahead as planned, even after the main stage caught today, one day before the massively popular EDM festival in Belgium was set to begin. In a statement shared on Instagram, organizers wrote, “Due to a serious incident and fire on the Tomorrowland Mainstage, our beloved Mainstage has …
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Bruce Springsteen’s just-completed world tour with the E Street Band has proven to be the most successful of the rocker’s career with a gross of more than $700 million. The tour, which spanned 129 shows and two continents from 2023 to 2025 (with a peptic ulcer postponement in between), made …
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Fifty years ago this month, Fleetwood Mac released their self-titled 1975 album, which featured two new members: a young couple named Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks. As the story goes, the two musicians — who performed as the duo Buckingham Nicks — released their self-titled 1973 album, but it flopped …
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