When comic-book legend Grant Morrison met up with me in their hometown of Glasgow, Scotland, for an in-depth Rolling Stone profile back in 2011, they ended up dropping what would become awidely cited quote on the absurdities of asking for realism in superhero stories: “You give an adult fiction,” said …
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The Queen of Rap is headlining Rolling Loud New York. On Tuesday, the hip-hop music festival announced the uber-stacked lineup for their September festival, with Nick Minaj, A$AP Rocky, and Future headlining the three-day event at Queens’ Citi Field. With Minaj at the helm, the Sept. 23 lineup will see …
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Mark your calendars: Coachella is returning to Indio, California, next year. On Tuesday, the music festival announced that its 2023 iteration will take place over the weekends of April 15 to 17 and April 21 to 23 next year. Frank Ocean, who was originally one of the headliners for the …
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Festival season is officially back in full effect this summer, after disappearing in 2020 and making a sometimes tentative return in 2021. That joyful reality couldn’t have been clearer as Governors Ball returned to New York’s Citi Field for three days of music, headlined by Halsey, Kid Cudi, J. Cole …
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Slipknot have extended their 2022 Knotfest Roadshow with a fall leg set to kick off in late September. The new run of dates will launch Sept. 20 at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville, Tennessee, with shows planned in cities like Austin, Dallas, Albuquerque, and Phoenix. The run will wrap Oct. …
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Dead & Company kicked off their 2022 tour Friday evening with an epic show at L.A.’s Dodger Stadium that was heavy on Dead standards like “Casey Jones,” “China Doll,” “Jack Straw,” and “Scarlet Begonias.” Toward the end of the second set, they broke out a cover of Traffic’s “Dear Mr. …
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The Kid Laroi invited some veritable legends of Australian music to join him on stage Sunday, June 12 — and not anyone from AC/DC, not Olivia Newton-John, Keith Urban, Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker, Kylie Minogue, or Sia. Rather. Nope. It was the titans of down-under children’s entertainment, The Wiggles. The …
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One of Sunny Singh’s proudest moments as a videographer was the night he got punched in the face with his own camera. Singh — who for the past decade-plus has singlehandedly built up one of the web’s most robust and widely admired archives of live-music footage on his hate5six YouTube …
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Halsey covered Kate Bush’s resurgent “Running Up That Hill” during their headlining set Saturday at the Governors Ball Festival in Queens, New York. Towards the end of Halsey’s set, the singer unleashed a faithful rendition of the 1985 single that’s enjoying a renewed run atop singles charts worldwide thanks to …
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Bob Dylan has essentially stuck to the same setlist since kicking off his Rough and Rowdy Ways tour in November 2021, but he wrapped up his show at Oakland, California’s Fox Theater on Saturday night by covering the Grateful Dead‘s “Friend of the Devil” instead of the standard set-closer “Every …
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