Lifeguard starts spring and summer tour from June 13 in San Francisco, ending at Pitchfork Music Festival on July 20, with additional dates in the UK and Europe. [ more ]
California State Fair's concerts feature big names for dirt cheap
The California State Fair offers a more affordable alternative to major music festivals in California, featuring well-known artists and diverse acts. [ more ]
The Get Up Kids to play Something to Write Home About in full on anniversary tour
The Get Up Kids are embarking on a North American tour celebrating the 25th anniversary of their album Something to Write Home About, performing it in full each night. [ more ]
The article highlights six emerging R&B and pop artists to watch out for in 2024, including Chappell Roan, UMI, Audrey Nuna, Kenzie Ziegler, Mette, and Say Lou Lou. [ more ]
How to Eat Like a Music Festival Pro at Coachella 2024
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival marks the start of the music festival season, attracting thousands of attendees with a diverse music lineup and impressive food options. [ more ]
ECHO Rising Stars / Faye MacCalman... at the Glasshouse (formerly Sage Gateshead)
The European Concert Hall Organisation (ECHO) selects outstanding classical musicians as ECHO Rising Stars for support and development.
Júlia Pusker, Mathis Stier, and Sean Shibe are three Rising Stars who have already achieved great success. They each express their taste and personality through eclectic music selections. [ more ]
Courreges Creative Director Nicolas Di Felice on His Five Favourite Books
Nicolas Di Felice, creative director of Courrèges, has been paying homage to the creative community through collaborations and events.
Di Felice handed over the brand's shopfront in Paris to Dizonord, an independent record store, for a pop-up showcasing records, rave culture paraphernalia, and rare books and magazines. [ more ]
Courreges Creative Director Nicolas Di Felice on His Five Favourite Books
Nicolas Di Felice, creative director of Courrèges, has been paying homage to the creative community through collaborations and events.
Di Felice handed over the brand's shopfront in Paris to Dizonord, an independent record store, for a pop-up showcasing records, rave culture paraphernalia, and rare books and magazines. [ more ]
Courreges Creative Director Nicolas Di Felice on His Five Favourite Books
Nicolas Di Felice, creative director of Courrèges, has been paying homage to the creative community through collaborations and events.
Di Felice handed over the brand's shopfront in Paris to Dizonord, an independent record store, for a pop-up showcasing records, rave culture paraphernalia, and rare books and magazines. [ more ]
EXIT Festival reveals the first 24 acts for 2024 edition | News | Deep House London
The first 24 acts for EXIT Festival 2024 have been announced, including Black Eyed Peas, Gucci Mane, Tom Morello, and Carl Cox.
EXIT Starseed will take place from July 10 to 14, with a special Starseeds Takeover performance on Tesla Universe Stage reserved for day zero. [ more ]
Brockwell Park: South London residents fed up with constant' noise after 6 music festivals in 10 days
P eople living near a South London park taken over by music festivals for the last two weekends have hit out at organisers and the council over inescapable noise they say is ruining their lives.Thousands of revellers have flocked to Lambeth's Brockwell Park in the past two weeks for festivals including Mighty Hoopla, Wide Awake and City Splash.
Toronto summer festivals feeling the pinch amid rising policing costs and other price hikes | CBC News
Organizers of three major summer festivals in Toronto say budgeting has become a big challenge this year due to rising costs, particularly for policing.The heads of the Toronto Caribbean Carnival, Festival of South Asia and A Taste of the Danforth all say they are feeling the pinch amid higher prices for insurance, supplies and programming.
If Robbie Williams has given up on sex in marriage, what hope do any of us have?
Have we stumbled into an era of sexual ennui?Particularly as we age and couple up, do we increasingly drag our weary, uninspired carcasses to bed, and nothing?Nada.That's that.Robbie Williams has been talking about his sex life with Ayda Field, his wife of 13 years.Everyone knows there is no sex after marriage, he said, musing that stopping taking testosterone was probably partly responsible for his drop in libido.
Yo-Yo Ma Makes His Encore a Call for Peace, With a Nod to Casals
After a rousing performance of Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto with the New York Philharmonic on Tuesday, the celebrated cellist Yo-Yo Ma returned to the stage for an encore.But rather than rush into a familiar crowd-pleaser, Ma began speaking from the stage of David Geffen Hall to the sold-out crowd.
F5: Ed O'Donnell Lives for the Details, Theater, Apres-ski + More
When interior designer Ed O'Donnell met Richard Angel at a London-based design studio in 2017, he had a sixth sense that they were going to create a business together.One year after that fateful encounter, Ed and Richard opened Angel O'Donnell with one pitch win and zero investment.Since then, they've become one of the most critically acclaimed interior design studios in the UK.
Serhiy Zhadan: Ukraine's rock star poet DW 10/23/2022
In the 1990s, he published his first poems and helped organize literary and music festivals.When soldiers on the front lines and doctors urged him and his band to play in hospitals, Zhadan, who will also receive the Hannah Arendt Prize in December, realized how incredibly important it is for such cultural activities to take place, "that literature, theater, music take place, because that creates a connection with normal life."
Say Nice Things About... the Portland Music Scene!
[Welcome to our "Say Nice Things About Portland" guide to the city!Did you know that this feature package is also in PRINT?? That's right, this is our first print product since the start of the pandemic, and we're psyched to produce a lot more.Find the "Say Nice Things" guide in over 500 locations around the city, and if you'd like to see more guides you can hold, please consider making a small contribution to the Mercury, please and thank you!eds] Portland, consider yourself incredibly blessed: there are more music festivals and local series than you can shake a stick at, and certainly more than we have room to list here.
Grammy-nominated U.K. rapper Slowthai was charged Tuesday with two counts of rape in connection with a September 2021 incident.A woman told police that the 28-year-old artist, whose legal name is Tyron Frampton, forced her to perform oral sex and raped her, according to the Guardian.Frampton, who topped the British charts with his 2021 album, "Tyron," denied the allegations in a social media statement.
Gordon Lightfoot, the singer and songwriter, who has died aged 84, became one of Canada's best loved musical figures, winning 16 of his homeland's Juno awards.He scored eight Top 5 albums in Canada during the 1970s (including the 1975 compilation Gord's Gold), four of them reaching No 1, and Sundown (1974) topping both the Canadian and the US chart.
Lana Del Rey shares new album Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd: Stream
Lana Del Rey's new album Did you know that there's a tunnel under Ocean Blvd is out now via Interscope and Polydor Records.Stream it below First announced last December, the album is Del Rey's ninth full-length offering, and first since she dropped two records in 2021, Chemtrails Over the Country Club and Blue Banisters.
Mimi Parker, of the American alternative rock group Low, who has died aged 55 of ovarian cancer, had a voice renowned for its quiet, eerie intensity.Often blended in stunning harmonies with her bandmate and husband Alan Sparhawk, and enhanced by her delicate brushwork on the drums, her voice had an impact on the listener that was sometimes chilling, sometimes heavenly, always mesmerising.
EXIT Festival Partners with NFT-TiX for Multi-Year Collaboration After Winning Best Innovation Award | News | Deep House London
After receiving an award for Best Innovation at the UK Festival Awards, EXIT has entered into a multi-year collaboration with ticketing platform NFT-TiX for its upcoming festivals and events.Last July, EXIT, a multiple Best European Festival Award winner, became the first major music event in the world to use blockchain technology to sell NFT tickets for an event of this size, enabling the purchase of tickets on a decentralised ticketing platform.
5 Must-See Bay Area Artists at Noise Pop's 30th Anniversary | KQED
Since its first show at San Francisco's Kennel Club (now The Independent) in 1993, Noise Pop has grown into a gem of a festival that spans genres and generations.In its nascent years, it hosted early-career shows by bands like Modest Mouse, and made space for wacky experiments - like the time the Flaming Lips conducted an orchestra of 40 boomboxes in 1998.
Slick, playful and graphically precise: Cairo-based studio Ntsal puts quality and communication first
What do you get when you mix the acute design sensibilities of seasoned professionals, the scrappy "heart and soul of a small studio", and the steady stream of vitamin D from the sun-washed island of Zamalek in Cairo?You get a Ntsal, specifically its chamber of design headed by design director Nardine Shenouda.
Berlin, October 14th, 2021.Update: August 20th, 2022 (The Berlin Spectator) - Get some nougat, dark chocolate, marzipan and pistachio.Piece it all together and form a ball.
Lewis Capaldi Has Made Major Bank From His Love Songs & Pizza Business
Known for his music, as well as hilarious one-liners in interviews, Scottish singer Lewis Capaldi has made quite the name for himself since his debut single "Bruises" was released in 2017.But it was his 2018 single " Someone You Loved " that propelled the musician into global fame, with the hit song spending seven weeks in the charts top spot and, in November 2022, it became the UK's most streamed song.
Agreement to keep Lollapalooza in Chicago calls for tighter rules on competing Grant Park music fests and raises the number of fans allowed
The deal to keep Lollapalooza in Chicago for at least the next decade includes a complete revamp of how festival producers will pay the Park District, tighter restrictions that keep competing music festivals out of Grant Park and no provisions for investment in the grounds except a $100,000 tennis court renovation.
Things to do in the Austin area this weekend: Lucktoberfest, Levitation, Halloween fun and more
AUSTIN, Texas The weekend is here and, as always, there are a ton of things going on in the Austin area!From film and music festivals to a wide variety of Halloween events, there's no shortage of fun activities happening over the next few days.Here's a breakdown of just some of the events you can attend this weekend.
Walmart wants to wean kids on the metaverse through shopping and Roblox - Yanko Design
The metaverse might baffle many adults, but kids with wider and wilder imaginations might be able to wrap their heads around the concept better than their elders.
Douglass Park community forum grows contentious as residents clash over music festivals
A Chicago Park District community forum Wednesday evening in the West Side's Douglass Park turned contentious over the debate about large music festivals that occupy the park for much of the summer.
Mayor Lightfoot's youth curfew law sent to Chicago City Council to put earlier restriction on the books
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot will seek City Council approval for the 10 p.m. weekend curfew for minors that she announced after a teenager was shot and killed at Millennium Park Saturday.