Young Thug got a big lift from Travis Scott, Ken Carson and his Atlanta hip-hop predecessor T.I. tonight (June 22) during his first major live appearance since being released from prison in October 2024. His set capped the three-day Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash festival outside Chicago and, beyond the guest spots, also featured several live…
Dua Lipa pulled out all the stops last night (June 20) for her debut concert at London’s giant Wembley Stadium, bringing out surprise guest Jamiroquai for their first live performance together of the latter’s 1996 hit “Virtual Insanity” and dusting off “Hotter Than Hell” for the first time since 2019. Decked out in purple pants,…
After an elaborate introduction involving stunt doubles skydiving from a plane behind the stage, headliners Yeat and Don Toliver debuted several new collaborative songs during their first live performance as a duo yesterday (June 20) at the Lyrical Lemonade Summer Smash festival outside Chicago. The rappers alternately performed several songs in a row on their…
Led by brothers Stefan and Yavor Lilov, Swiss funkateers L’Eclair have always sounded like consummate pro session musos who’ve developed fruitful telepathy in the studio across three prior albums (they’ve adapted that prowess to backing W.I.T.C.H. on the Zambian psych-rockers’ recent tours). And while 2018’s Cruise Control EP and the full-length Polymood flaunt both the…
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There is a long history of artists coming back from oblivion after long periods of silence: Bowie, Miles Davis, My Bloody Valentine, and ABBA, among them. That doesn’t mean it’s easy. And when Us3 mastermind Geoff Wilkinson suffered a devastating series of heart attacks in early 2014, he thought his life making music was over….
If you’re planning to see Rebel Wilson’s new movie Bride Hard, you might notice a catchy new song you’ve never heard before. That track, “Butterfly,” is the debut from J-pop four-octave girl group Bi-Ray — the latest stars-in-the-making from Japan, produced and formed by legendary composer, Yoshiki. The group formed after all four of them…
Not much information about the film is available as of this writing, save for a trailer that premiered July 18 and a release date of October 24, 2025. Other than that, all we know is that Scott Cooper is directing, Jeremy Allen White plays Springsteen and Jeremy Strong plays Jon Landau, and that shooting has…
The gold standard of dads has to be Walt Johnsen, the man after whom Walt’s Bar, a pinball, beer, and hotdog joint in Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, is named. His son Jeff, who founded and owns the bar with brother Brad, tells it: “He’s one of those fix-anything guys, so he’d always be bringing home…
Being in a band takes work. It’s hard enough to manage conflicting schedules when all band members reside in the same city, but the three women who make up the heavy Ukrainian outfit Death Pill don’t even live on the same continent. “We’re a very well-organized band,” says drummer Anastasiia Khomenko, only half-joking. Khomenko joined…
