Music Midtown is back this fall after the Atlanta, Georgia, festival was canceled in 2020 due to the Covid-19 pandemic. Headliners include Maroon 5, Miley Cyrus, Jonas Brothers, and DaBaby. Set for September 18th and 19th in Piedmont Park, the fest will also feature Megan Thee Stallion, Machine Gun Kelly, …
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Rage Against the Machine, Serj Tankian, Roger Waters, Run the Jewels and Patti Smith are among the 600 musicians who have signed an open letter asking fellow artists to boycott performing in Israel until there is a “free Palestine.” The Musicians for Palestine letter was also signed by the Strokes’ …
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Jay-Z’s Made in America Festival will head back to Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway on Labor Day weekend, September 4th through 5th. The festival, in its 10th year, was paused last summer due to Covid-19 concerns. Early-bird tickets are now available at madeinamericafest.com and on VividSeats. Headliners and supporting acts are …
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Triller Fight Club is once again meshing music and combat sports with its “Greatest Showman” event on June 19th, which features the debut of the Triller Live Concert Series. Meek Mill will headline a lineup of notable acts at the LoanDepot Park in Miami who will perform prior to a …
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BTS have announced a special two-day online streaming event, Muster Sowoozoo, which will take place June 13th and 14th. The event will celebrate the eighth anniversary of BTS, their 2014 debut, Dark and Wild, and their fanbase, the Army. Few details about what the event will entail were released, although …
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Singer-songwriter Kate Nash has released a new song, “Misery,” her first new music in nearly two years. The track is driven by a mix of swift strings and delicate synths undergirded by propulsive percussion and thick bass hits. “I will never leave you behind/Even if the bridge was falling/Misery, it’s …
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This past weekend, the Strokes held a virtual fundraiser for New York City mayoral candidate Maya Wiley to benefit her campaign. As part of the event, the band played a semi-acoustic version of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” featuring lead singer Julian Casablancas having fun with AutoTune. Along with the performance, Casablancas …
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Coldplay performed their new single “Higher Power” during the 2021 Brit Awards on Tuesday in London. The band, who opened the awards show, delivered the song at sunset while on a barge in the River Thames. Mirroring the group’s official video for the song, their set included dancing alien holograms. …
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Billie Eilish, the Killers, Lizzo, and Tame Impala are set to headline the 2021 Firefly Festival, which will take place September 23rd through the 26th at the Woodlands in Dover, Delaware. The lineup for the four-day festival also boasts Megan Thee Stallion, Roddy Ricch, Cage the Elephant, Wiz Khalifa, Machine …
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The late songwriter Jim Steinman was a genre in his own right, with his over-the-top creations ranging from Meat Loaf‘s Bat Out of Hell to Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” to a tragically never-produced Batman musical. In the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Rob Sheffield (who …
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