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David Byrne has covered Paramore’s After Laughter single “Hard Times,” returning the favor after Hayley Williams and the band took on Talking Heads’ “Burning Down The House” in January. Check out the song below, ahead of its 12″ release for Record Store Day.Byrne wrote on social media, “The band told me that their song ‘Hard Times’ was inspired by Talking Heads, so I learned it and recorded my version of their great song with a horn section. This was fun!” Paramore’s Talking Heads cover, meanwhile, is set to appear on Everyone’s Getting Involved: A Tribute To Talking Heads’ Stop Making…
New York police arrested dozens of protesters and students at Columbia University, as campus administration cracks down on pro-Palestinian protests in the aftermath of testimony by university officials before Congress. Police cleared an encampment of demonstrators on Columbia’s Morningside campus on Thursday, after University President Nemat Shafik sicced law enforcement on the protest. After the demonstrators were forcefully removed from the area, university staff were seen dismantling tents and throwing away food and other provisions brought into the encampment. “Out of an abundance of concern for the safety of Columbia’s campus, I authorized the New York Police Department to begin…
JT wants her next single to be a TikTok hit, whether her record label allows it or not. The City Girls rapper — signed to Universal Music Group’s Motown Records — took to X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, telling fans to make bootleg versions of her upcoming single “Okay” to help it go viral as her label’s ongoing dispute with TikTok prevents an official version from living on the platform. “Remember I’m with UMG so once song is out, TikTok will be muted so try to get a distorted sound going,” JT wrote on Wednesday. “I have one on my…
Donald Trump, a man renowned for craving adulation and approval, has this week been confronted with the disdain of Manhattanites called as prospective jurors in his New York criminal trial for allegedly falsifying business records to cover up a hush-money payment to porn star Stormy Daniels. No wonder he’s apparently trying to sleep through the proceedings. While no jurors were selected on Monday — with dozens excused after indicating they could not be fair and impartial in weighing the 34 felony charges against Trump — seven made the cut on Tuesday. (The court will need 18 people to qualify in…
Radio Italia Live – Il Concerto per la prima volta sarà a Napoli. Quest’anno il tradizionale appuntamento Radio Italia Live – Il Concerto si terrà per la prima volta a Napoli. Appuntamento in Piazza del Plebiscito il 27 giugno 2024. L’evento è gratuito e organizzato da Radio Italia in collaborazione con il Comune di Napoli. Lo ha annunciato l’Editore e Presidente di Radio Italia Mario Volanti insieme al Sindaco di Napoli Gaetano Manfredi. Mario Volanti, Editore e Presidente Radio Italia: “La seconda data del Radio Italia Live – Il Concerto quest’anno si terrà, per la prima volta, in Piazza del Plebiscito…
Chissà quale sia l’elefante nella stanza cui fanno riferimento Gabriele Mitelli, Pasquale Mirra e Cristiano Calcagnile con il primo album del loro nuovo gruppo, The Elephant. I tre musicisti italiani si erano già confrontati sui temi del free jazz e dell’improvvisazione all’interno del Cristiano Calcagnile Multikulti Ensemble, durante le registrazioni dell’album “The Gift Of Togetherness”, nel 2018. Cresciuti vertiginosamente nell’ultimo lustro grazie a esperienze che andrebbero raccontate nei dettagli, Mitelli, Mirra e Calcagnile hanno voluto dar vita a un trio in grado di traghettare il jazz in un futuro immaginifico, fatto di sogni e visioni.Per costruire questo universo parallelo, Gabriele…
O.J. Simpson paid the family of Ron Goldman just a small fraction of the $33.5 million wrongful death judgment he owed them at the time of his death, an attorney for the Goldman family revealed Friday. In 1997, after Simpson was acquitted in the murders of ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Goldman, a jury in a civil trial found him responsible for their deaths and ordered him to pay $33.5 million, which — with interest over the past 27 years — has ballooned to over $100 million. Of that judgment, Simpson paid only $133,000, Goldman family attorney David…
Simpson was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and Goldman’s son, Ron, but later found responsible for their deaths in a civil suit Fred Goldman, father of alleged O.J. Simpson murder victim Ron Goldman, tells Rolling Stone his thoughts are with his son and Nicole Brown Simpson following the news of Simpson’s death at the age of 76. “The only thing I have to say is that today is just a further reminder of how long we have missed my son, how long he’s been gone, and the only thing that is important today are the victims,” Goldman…
Il primo dei due fine settimana del Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival 2024 inizierà a Indio, California, venerdì 12 aprile. In Italia sarà la notte di sabato 13 aprile e sarà possibile seguirlo gratis in diretta su YouTube a questo link. All’evento sono dedicati sei canali specifici, uno per palco: Coachella Stage, Outdoor Theatre, Mojave, Sahara, Gobi e Sonora. Sarà trasmesso non solo l’audiovideo delle performance, ma anche collegamenti da dietro le quinte e fotografie dei concerti.Lana Del Rey, Tyler, the Creator e Doja Cat sono gli headliner. Ci saranno anche la reunion dei No Doubt e le esibizioni…
Ahead of the new Amy Winehouse biopic Back To Black arriving in cinemas, the search is on to find out which of her songs is the UK’s favourite. The film – which is directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson – is set to arrive on April 12, and will follow the life of the late singer. It stars Marisa Abela (Industry) as Winehouse and charts the iconic singer’s vibrant years living in London, as well as her intense rise to fame. Now, just days before it makes its way into cinemas, a nationwide search has been launched to uncover which of the…
