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“It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week,” former president wrote Barack Obama has shared his annual summer playlist, which the former president started on a somber note by acknowledging the death of Glen Hansard. “Here are some of the songs I’ve been listening to this summer,” Obama wrote on social media Thursday. “It starts with a song Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week. Our hearts go out to his family.” Obama opened his playlist with Hansard’s “Song of…

Juliana Huxtable takes what some might call an intense approach to DJing. She’s known to use four decks, allowing her to mix and match components from up to four different tracks at once. But last year, when Huxtable dropped deBasement’s “F.F.F.T.DJ” during her set at Honcho, a campout electronic music festival in the wilderness outside Pittsburgh, she cut out almost all the noise and, for over a minute, just let it ride. In purely practical terms, this was prudent. A rework of an earlier single called “FTDJ (Thank God),” “F.F.F.T.DJ” is a dancefloor apex predator, liable to gobble up all…

Singer-songwriter performed at a Dublin pub hours before his death Footage of Glen Hansard singing an apparently unreleased song at his final performance has surfaced. Hansard sang the song at a pub called the Wren’s Nest in the Strawberry Beds section of Dublin hours before he died in a motorcycle crash Wednesday night, according to RTE News. Accompanying himself on acoustic guitar, the artist, whose milieu was life itself, sings, “Everything that could have been done has been tried and failed.” The moving song, whose morose lyrics describe the end of a relationship, takes on new meaning now in hindsight.…

The Colombian superstar announced the LP, which arrives Aug. 7, during her latest tour stop It’s official — Karol G is entering a new era. The Colombian superstar has announced her sixth studio LP, No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto. Thankfully, fans won’t have to wait too long to hear the new album as it is set for release on Aug. 7. Karol G shared the news at her show at Rogers Stadium in Toronto during her latest tour stop on the Viajando Por El Mundo trek. “I’ve been working on a project for a couple of months,” Karol said…

Rachel Chinouriri has announced the new album ‘I Think I Spoke Too Soon’. Check out captivating single ‘One Song Away From Crying’ below, along with new tour dates. The new album is the first from Chinouriri since her critically acclaimed 2024 debut LP ‘What A Devastating Turn of Events’, and is set for release on October 16 via Parlophone / Atlas Artists. Visit here to pre-order. Coming as an expansion of her unique alt-indie pop sound, ‘I Think I Spoke Too Soon’ was recorded between London, Hereford and Los Angeles, and sees the singer put a surrealist spin on some…

John Legend is set to play the late singer and activist Harry Belafonte in an upcoming Bill Condon film, reports Variety. The Road Home, which is currently in production, focuses on Hugh Masekela, considered the father of South African jazz, and fellow legend Miriam Makeba while the duo toured South Africa with Paul Simon during Apartheid. Thabo Rametsi will play Masekela, Cynthia Erivo will play Makeba, and Guy Pearce will play anti-Apartheid advocate Archbishop Trevor Huddleston (who famously boycotted Simon’s Graceland tour).“I was honored to know Mr. Belafonte as my friend, mentor and collaborator in the struggle for justice,” Legend…

The annual “Grateful Dead Meet-Up At The Movies” is upon us, and this year Deadheads can enjoy special screenings of the band’s June 17, 1991 show, when they played a killer set at Giants Stadium. In an exclusive clip, the band — Jerry Garcia, Bobby Weir, Phil Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, with Bruce Hornsby and Vince Welnick on keys — tear through “Brown-Eyed Women.” Check it out below. The gig is notable for the fact that “Dark Star” was woven in and out of the set, making six appearances across the show that also included “Eyes of the World”…

The current party line around Gen Z is that they have ditched sex en masse in favor of more platonic relationships, thus leaving them more time and energy to lecture their elders about how we’ve monumentally fucked everything up. (Tough, but fair.) Gregg Araki — filmmaker, New Queer Cinema icon, staunch Generation X representative — would like to remind them that once upon a time, sex was cool. Sex was edgy. Sex was natural, sex was fun, sex was best when it was one on one. The fact that I Want Your Sex — not a biopic of George Michael,…

Belafonte served as advisor to Simon, who toured with South African musicians during Apartheid The multitalented John Legend will play the multitalented Harry Belafonte in an upcoming film dramatizing Paul Simon‘s Graceland tour of South Africa during Apartheid with Hugh Masekela and Miriam “Mama Africa” Makeba. Filmmaker Bill Condon will direct the picture, titled The Road Home, according to Variety. Shooting is underway. “I was honored to know Mr. Belafonte as my friend, mentor, and collaborator in the struggle for justice,” Legend said in a statement. “He was an incredible human being who lived a monumental, revolutionary life. He was…

Headlining Toronto’s Rogers Stadium last night—and becoming the first solo woman in history to do so—Karol G officially announced a new album, No Me Arrepiento de Sentir Tanto. Another surprise: It’s out next week. She went on to display the cover art across the stadium screens; take a look for yourself below. The release date is August 7.No further details have been revealed, but one imagines the single “Matadora,” released this week in tandem with her tour kickoff, is likely to feature. The urbano superstar will make her way across North and South America through the year before heading to…