What was expected to be a roaring summer comeback for live music has turned into a season of precarious doubt, thanks to vaccine hesitancy and the delta spread of Covid-19. And a financial tech company is giving would-be concertgoers a chance to cash in on the uncertainty. Kalshi, a startup, …
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While Drake is no stranger to the top of the Artists 500 chart, the rapper more than outdid himself and everyone else in the chart’s history as he took the Number One spot for the 32nd time with a record-smashing 793.8 million song streams. Drake’s remarkable tally following the release …
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The Kid Laroi will kick off a massive world tour next year. Dubbed the End of the World Tour, the North American leg will launch January 29th, 2022 at the Arizona Federal Theatre in Phoenix, Arizona, and wrap March 10th at the Coca-Cola Roxy in Atlanta, Georgia. A European tour …
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Dua Lipa will head out on her highly anticipated headlining tour next year. Lipa’s sophomore album Future Nostalgia was released in March 2020 and became one of the year’s biggest releases. The tour will span 28 dates across the US and Canada, including Lipa’s first headlining show at Madison Square …
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Colombian singer J Balvin has established himself as one of reggaeton’s most successful ambassadors of the last decade—taking pleasure in the broad, often vague task of making music “para la cultura” (or to push “Latin culture” forward). But, on his fifth album, Jose, he tries to separate himself from his …
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The Many Saints of Newark, the Sopranos prequel film premiering October 1st (in theaters and on HBO Max), was designed to make sense to fans of the series as well as those who’ve never seen a single frame. But given that The Sopranos is one of the greatest and most …
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Jesse Dayton will release a memoir detailing his musical journey with Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, punk bands like X and Social Distortion, and his own career as a solo artist this fall. Beaumonster is due November 9th with a companion album arriving a few days earlier on November 5th. Also …
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Bob Odenkirk has returned to AMC’s Better Call Saul following what he described as “a small heart attack,” which led to his hospitalization in late July. The show is in production for its sixth and final season. On Wednesday, the actor shared an update on Twitter along with a photo …
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Ava DuVernay penned a heartfelt tribute to late actor Michael K. Williams on Instagram Monday. Williams starred in the 2019 Netflix crime drama miniseries When They See Us, which DuVernay co-wrote and directed, and the pair had mutual admiration and respect for one another. In a 2020 video conversation with …
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Mastodon’s Brann Dailor spent his pandemic year embracing an unusual hobby: Drawing illustrations of clowns, in often terrifying settings. The fruits of that bizarre obsession will soon be shared with the world in the form of 101 Clowns of the Coronavirus, a book that the drummer will publish in partnership …
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