After canceling its 2021 edition, Glastonbury Festival will host a global livestream concert from Worthy Farm on Saturday, May 22nd. Coldplay, Haim, and Damon Albarn top the lineup, with several unannounced appearances planned for the five-hour event. Idles, Jorja Smith, Kano, Michael Kiwanuka, Wolf Alice, and DJ Honey Dijon will …
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The Steve Miller Band have unearthed a 1977 live album and concert video, out May 14th via Sailor/Capitol/UMe. Steve Miller Band Live! Breaking Ground: August 3, 1977, was recorded at the Cap Center in Landover, Maryland. “[It] captures the band right at the peak after The Joker, and in the …
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In the pantheon of famous internet cats, few stand as tall as Lil Bub. The perma-kitten with saucer-sized eyes and a tongue perpetually flopping from her mouth became a social media star in the 2010s, and she remains a cherished favorite two years after her death in 2019 at age …
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Philadelphia rock outfit Low Cut Connie are prepping a new covers album featuring material recorded during the band’s quarantine livestream series. Tough Cookies: The Best of the Quarantine Broadcasts will arrive May 19th, and is available to preorder digitally and on CD and vinyl. Low Cut Connie frontman Adam Weiner …
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The Who have shared three rare “jingles” — the tongue-in-cheek ads the band placed between album tracks — from their massive The Who Sell Out reissue, out April 23rd. The Sell Out Jingles digital EP features three early takes of “Heinz Baked Beans” — the finished product of which made …
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French dance duo Justice have sent a cease-and-desist notice to Justin Bieber over the singer’s upcoming album Justice and what they claim is its use of Justice’s trademarked “cross” logo. When Bieber announced his new album Justice on February 26th, fans of Justice — as well as the duo’s label …
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The BBC has announced plans for the release of an upcoming documentary on Britney Spears and her conservatorship. Helmed by BAFTA-winning journalist Mobeen Azhar, the film, tentatively titled Britney, will center on the #FreeBritney movement and the singer’s recent court appearances. For the film, Azhar traveled from Spears’ hometown of …
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Nine Inch Nails‘ Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, who earned two 2021 Oscar nominations for Best Original Score, reacted to the news on Monday, with Reznor describing the nods to Billboard as “surreal and humbling and incredibly flattering.” The duo, who secured an Academy Award in 2011 for David Fincher’s …
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The Grammy Awards, now in their 63rd year, once again take place in L.A. but this time in Covid-safe conditions. For the 2021 ceremony, The Daily Show’s Trevor Noah makes his hosting debut. Performers include Taylor Swift, Cardi B, Bruno Mars, BTS, Bad Bunny, Cardi B, Billie Eilish, Brittany Howard, …
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It felt like church. Sure, more of a nondenominational, Unitarian-Wiccan gathering rather than a holyroller revival. After all, we were gathered in the Brooklyn Museum Beaux-Arts court — with its dramatic skylight and brass chandelier — on a gorgeous March afternoon that felt like spring. That felt like hope. When …
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