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Papa Roach will no longer be playing their slot at Louder Than Life festival after bassist Tobin Esperance suffered a health “emergency”. READ MORE: Papa Roach talk mental health, Bring Me The Horizon and “pushing the boundaries” for their next album More than 200 bands are set to perform across the four-day fest in Louisville, which kicked off on Thursday (September 17) and wraps tomorrow. Papa Roach were slated to perform tonight (September 19), but have taken to social media to announce their withdrawal. “After careful consideration and advice from medical professionals, Papa Roach bassist Tobin Esperance will be unable to…

S ome of the biggest music deals in recent years have involved songwriting catalogs, from Bob Dylan in 2020 to Justin Bieber in 2025 to Pete Townshend this spring, many fetching nine-figure buyouts. Most of these have come from private-equity firms looking for reliable investments. But independent labels and artists are fast becoming the focus for a number of recently minted investment firms — companies, and catalogs, of seemingly every size. And one label owner, Aaron Schultz of the boutique soul-funk imprint Bastard Jazz Recordings, says the moves are “threatening for the entire indie-music ecosystem.” In a widely disseminated post…

In the year since Ian Munsick last released a studio album, he has put his career through a near-wholesale reset. He’s an independent artist now, working under his own label for the first time. In mid-September, he opened his own Western-themed bar, about as far from Nashville’s Lower Broadway — the conventional home for such enterprises — as he can get. And, to hear Munsick tell it, he’s never been more at peace since he dropped his new album, The Mountain Goat, last month. “I’ve been asking people their favorite tune on there, and getting all kinds of answers,” the…

AC/DC‘s Angus Young signed a fan’s baby at a ‘PWR/UP’ pop-up event in Toronto earlier this week – check out the footage below. The lead guitarist and co-founder of the Australian rock band attended the fan event after the cancellation of their scheduled show at Rogers Stadium on Wednesday (September 16). It is not typical for the members of AC/DC to show up at the pop-ups – which give fans access to unique merch, food, drinks, and even the chance to play and pose with one of Young’s guitars. However, the group reportedly made it up to disappointed ticketholders by…

Il 19 settembre 1996 usciva “Anime salve“, tredicesimo e ultimo album in studio di Fabrizio De André, scritto e realizzato insieme a Ivano Fossati. Trent’anni dopo, più che un disco da celebrare come monumento della canzone d’autore italiana, appare come un’opera ancora sorprendentemente viva: un viaggio immaginario e concreto al contempo, che sembra interrogare direttamente molte delle fratture del nostro presente. Storie di emarginazione, di diversità, di solitudine e di libertà, fra le più scomode e sentite della sua carriera, rese per mezzo di testi mai così diretti, espliciti, duri, ma sempre con quel tocco poetico che ha reso inconfondibile…

Dolly Parton posthumously accepted the Lifetime Achievement Award at the Americana Honors & Awards, appearing in pre-recorded video clip at the event on Wednesday night (September 12). News of Dolly’s death rocked the music world when it emerged last month. Though she had previously told fans she was dealing with some health issues that she “didn’t pay attention to” while looking after late husband Carl Dean, the public had no idea of her cancer diagnosis, which her sister later explained was because “she did not want people sad”. According to Variety, the audience gathered at the Ryman Auditorium for the Americana Awards gasped when…

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Former Labour Party deputy leader Lord Tom Watson has become a senior vice president at controversial American AI firm Palantir. Announcing his appointment on X on Friday (September 18), Watson said Palantir was “the most interesting company on the planet, doing work of real consequence”. Founded 20 years ago by billionaire Peter Thiel, the company has financial backing from the CIA, with clients including the US and Israeli militaries, ICE, the FBI, and the NHS. Watson said the company had “challenges” and although some criticism was “propaganda” there were “legitimate questions about large technology companies and sovereign control”. Responding to…

Duncan Sheik, the Tony Award-winning composer of the hit Broadway musical Spring Awakening, has died aged 56. Sheik died of organ failure at a hospital in Manhattan on Thursday night (September 17), which followed his family putting out a statement earlier this week saying the composer was “receiving medical care” and was in “critical but stable condition”. In a follow-up post shared on Friday (September 18), his family wrote: “The world has lost a singular talent, and deeply influential voice in music and theater. From his Grammy-nominated hit ‘Barely Breathing’ to his groundbreaking, Tony and Grammy Award-winning work on Spring…

Gorillaz kicked off their 2026 North American dates on Thursday (September 17), using their set to urge the audience not to be “neutral” about the genocide. Damon Albarn and co. played a 24-song set at Orlando’s Kia Center, drawing from their self-titled debut, as well as ‘Plastic Beach’, ‘Demon Days’, ‘Humanz’, and their most recent album, ‘The Mountain’. At one point in the set, Albarn took a Palestinian flag from an audience member, lifting it above his head and telling the crowd: “Don’t forget this. Ever. Stand your position. Don’t ever be neutral.” It comes at a time where artists’…