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Music lovers are spoiled for choice during New Orleans's annual Jazz Fest in the spring, as venues throughout the city host some of the most scintillating and legendary musical acts from around the world. You'd be challenged, however, to find more energetic and joyful performers than local Grammy-winning group Tank and the Bangas, presented by Rolling Stone and KOOL, who brought their unique blend of funk to a hyped-up crowd at Republic NOLA on a recent weeknight. Under the glow of green neon lights, fans of the band vibed out in the lofted, industrial space, while snapping photos in the…

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vote7.5 Bands: CROBU Duration: 00:38:18 Available from: 05/23/2026 In recent years we have often listened to many stoner groups from Sardinia (Bentrees, Fuzzriders, Basaltic Plateau), and it doesn't surprise us that much that Crobu come from the same land.In any case, if we cataloged the group within this category, we would perhaps commit a partial error of evaluation, despite the fact that the quartet themselves are keen to present themselves with this very term, both for the description of the sound and for the reference bands. Crobu's debut, “More Than This” – impeccably self-produced, among other things – distances itself…

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Paris Jackson has said she doesn’t want to be “performative” by paying tribute to her late father, Michael, online, saying it’s “no one’s business”. Read More: Paris Jackson – ‘Wilted’ review: inconsistent but, at times, excellent The model, actor and singer, 28, is the second child of the late King Of Pop and his second wife, Debbie Rowe. Paris was just 11 years old when Michael died from a cardiac arrest in 2009, aged 50. She has opened up about grief, music and growing up in the spotlight on the latest episode of Jack Osbourne’s Trying Not to Die podcast, where…

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The Cramps formally ended in 2009 following the sudden death of their co-founder Lux Interior. Ever since, there’s been no new music, reissues, or archival releases from the band, not even after Jenna Ortega’s viral dance to “Goo Goo Muck” in Wednesday caused a surge of interest. That changes today with Gravest Gravy, a lost collection of songs the Cramps recorded with Big Star frontman Alex Chilton in 1977. It’s out August 21 via Vengeance. Listen to the previously unreleased track “TV Set” below.In October 1977, the Cramps recorded their first two 7″ singles—“Surfin’ Bird” with “The Way I Walk,”…

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Matthew Perry’s live-in assistant was sentenced Tuesday to three years and five months in prison for injecting the Friends star with at least three shots of ketamine and leaving him alone in his backyard jacuzzi before he was found face down in the water on Oct. 28, 2023. The assistant, Kenneth Iwamasa, had pleaded guilty in August 2024 to a single count of conspiracy to distribute ketamine resulting in death and was the last of five co-defendants to be sentenced in the high-profile case. He had asked for six months in prison and six months of home detention. Prosecutors recommended…

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Gilla Band are back their first music in three years and an expansive list of tour dates through 2027. Check out the new single “Giraffe” —which arrives alongside an inventive animated music video from Cuan Roche and Chanthila Phaophanit—as well as the full list of stops below.In a statement about the making of “Giraffe,” Kiely said his head “can be a very scattered and sometimes lonely place. Feeling unloved and finding it difficult to articulate what I’m actually thinking. The song’s outro indirectly details a kind of confirmation that affection toward me does exist. While I appreciate it, I still…

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The prospect of an entirely AI-generated film opening at the Tribeca film fest is sure to raise eyebrows, but Dreams of Violets may become a bigger talking point than just the ethics of AI. The movie, which will premiere June 10 at the fest, dramatizes the plights of Iranian civilians weeks before the United States and Israel invaded the country this year. Filmmaker Ash Koosha, who is from Tehran but left Iran in 2009, made the 75-minute film for around $2,000 using various AI services for video generation, language editing, research, and imagery, according to Variety. Koosha produced the film…

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A curious thing took place Tuesday night. Shortly after networks began declaring Ken Paxton the winner of Texas' Republican Senate primary runoff election, things started disappearing. Like a grid of city lights powering down during a blackout, Republicans across the American political landscape began purging their websites and timelines of content criticizing the scandal-plagued nominee. Search results turned up 404 errors, or nothing at all. You could see the party sign itself to the Trump-approved state attorney general in real time. The National Republican Senate Committee deleted months of press releases criticizing Paxton — an alleged philanderer and kleptocrat —…

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A wholesome moment between neighbors captured on video went viral and caught the attention of nearly 4 million viewers, including Taylor Swift. Last month, an 8-year-old Swiftie named Madeline took notice of her next door neighbor Ethan Hayes, who spends his afternoons singing and playing his guitar. The moment was captured on video, which went viral on TikTok. Madeline's mom, Natalie Hulec, told People that her daughter was too shy to ask Hayes directly for a special request, so instead devised a different way to reach him. With the help of her parents, she asked him to play a tune…

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