Like a serial murderer in a horror movie, the Texas voter suppression bill will not die. The state’s Republican lawmakers will hold a third special session of the legislature in the hopes of passing a law that would severely restrict voting in the state, along with a slate of other …
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A jukebox musical based on the songs of Adam Schlesinger will play at this year’s Adirondack Theatre Festival, August 5th through 14th. TitledTraffic & Weather, after the 2007 album from Schlesinger’s band Fountains of Wayne, the stage performance will feature the work of the late musician to tell a meet-cute …
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Duran Duran has released a new single, “More Joy,” featuring a guest appearance from Japanese rock band CHAI. The song will appear on the band’s upcoming 15th studio albumFuture Past, out October 22nd via Tape Modern for EMG. “More Joy” also features a contribution from Blur guitarist Graham Coxon. “The …
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Never-before-seen footage from Chris Cornell’s final photoshoot will be minted and sold as non-fungible tokens. The sale will launch this Thursday, August 5th at 12 a.m. ET via Cryptograph. The Last Session NFTs were taken from a photoshoot Cornell did with photographer Randall Slavin in 2017, not long before his …
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Video game giant Activision Blizzard announced that the president of its Blizzard Entertainment division, J. Allen Brack, would step down two weeks after the company was sued by the State of California over its toxic workplace culture, Variety reports. Activision Blizard President and COO Daniel Alegre said in a statement …
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Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival co-founder Paul Tollett revealed that Frank Ocean is set to headline the festival in 2023 in a newLos Angeles Times profile. Ocean was originally slated to co-headline the 2020 festival with Rage Against the Machine and Travis Scott, but after Coachella was rescheduled to …
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It’s been a long 16 months without in-person concerts and festivals, and as Lollapalooza returned for Day Two at Chicago’s Grant Park on Friday, attendees and artists alike were all still feeling their way into the new normal. While official attendance numbers were not made available, the grounds did not …
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DaBaby told Questlove he doesn’t know who he is in response to the Roots’ drummer’s criticism of the rapper’s homophobic comments and insensitive remarks about people with HIV/AIDS at Rolling Loud, and his subsequent doubling down. On Wednesday night, July 28th, Questlove condemned DaBaby on Instagram, sharing the lineup he …
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A music festival, held in 1969, is filmed — bits of it airing on local TV — but then shelved for decades before it’s resurrected for a new film. No, it’s not Summer of Soul. It’s Memphis ’69, a recently completed doc — which starts airing next week — that …
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Angels and Airwaves have released a new single and video, “Losing My Mind,” that calls back to lead singer Tom DeLonge‘s days in Blink-182. In the band’s 2001 video for “First Date,” DeLonge plays a hippie version of himself named Boomer, performing alongside his bandmates in a rundown garage. In …
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