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The Smashing Pumpkins and Chris Stapleton are set to co-headline a July 4 concert hosted by bipartisan initiative America250, following the controversy around President Donald Trump’s axed Freedom 250 celebration. The “America’s Block Party” event, hosted by Queen Latifah, is due to take place at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Tickets go on sale at 10am PDT today (Tuesday June 16), priced at $17.76. You’ll be able to buy yours here. READ MORE: Billy Corgan on his new podcast The Magnificent Others: “I’d like to celebrate people in the culture who are misunderstood” An official listing describes the upcoming show as “a…

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vote4.5 Bands: AXEMASTER Duration: 00:55:33 Available from: 06/19/2026 Label: Cosmic Fire Records Streaming not yet available. There are audio editing programs that allow you to isolate the various instruments, so as to better evaluate their performance with possible subsequent refinements: in the case of Axemaster and their new album, the present one “Of Beasts And Plagues” this case, without delaying too much, the best solution would be to extrapolate the entire vocal performance and simply throw it in the bin.This is the fifth recording chapter of the American band, whose foundation takes us up to 1982: theirs is a raw…

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A Perfect Circle are “working towards” new music, following them kicking off their first UK tour in eight years and releasing the standalone single ‘Starless’. The new track from the band dropped in a surprise release last month, and marked their first since the track ‘Kindred’, which featured on 2024’s ‘Sessanta E.P.P.P.’ alongside contributions from Primus and another Maynard James Keenan-led band, Puscifer. Since then, they have kicked off their first UK and European tour dates since 2018 – breaking out the new single for the first time at London’s O2 Academy Brixton, alongside some fan favourites and deep cuts.…

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Time flies when there’s so much good music to get stuck into, so it’s no wonder the first half of 2026 has whizzed past. Along the way, we’ve had headline-grabbing comebacks, experimental debuts and surprise resurgences from stars that might otherwise have been written off – and that’s just when it comes to albums. Has the sweeping beauty of My New Band Believe had you in a headlock, or the souful stirrings of Elmiene won your heart? Maybe BTS’ long-awaited return gave you your fix of bops, or Slayyyter’s new sound and story captured your imagination. Whatever it is, there’s…

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When Taylor Swift decided to launch the campaign to re-record her albums to free them from the control of the owners of the original masters, the famous Taylor's Versiontransformed a contractual issue into both a cultural and productive case. She drew attention to a mechanism of the recording industry that many artists before her had dealt with without achieving great success and at the same time she indicated a way to “take back” the songs: not by recording updated versions, but by remaking them as faithfully as possible, recalling producers and musicians of the time if possible. John Fogerty waged…

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Oliver Tree died in a helicopter crash on Sunday. In the days that followed, many artists paid tribute to the artist, such as Tommy Cash who thanked him for “going beyond barriers, for always being yourself, for pushing me to overcome my limits”, or Kid Cudi who in a short message defined him as “a magnificent person”.Another alternative personality from the world of contemporary music has been added to this list, Melanie Martinez, who had a relationship with Oliver Tree between 2019 and 2020.“I was really torn up today,” Martinez wrote in an Instagram story. «It is really difficult to…

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Tom Morello has postponed his scheduled live shows in London and Paris this week. READ MORE: Tom Morello: “In the past, I’ve wanted to use music as a battering ram for social justice” The soloist and Rage Against The Machine guitarist had been set to perform at Electric Brixton last night (Monday June 15), following his slot at Download 2026 the previous day (Sunday June 14). However, Morello took to social media yesterday to confirm that the gig in the capital would not be going ahead – just hours before he was due on stage. He also postponed his planned concert…

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Jon Stewart spent much of Monday night's episode of The Daily Show lauding the Knicks' victory, describing the NBA championships win as resulting in an “overwhelming sense of joy and solidarity and diversity and community and a good amount of crying and a lot of contact high.” Stewart recounted New York's enthusiastic reaction to the Knicks winning, including the appearance of multiple Spider-Man costumes, a dancing MTA bus driver, and a drum line. The right wing media, of course, described the holidays as “chaos” and “mayhem,” but Stewart noted that reaction was a “record low” for a Saturday night. “I…

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Just a year after the publication of their tenth long-distance work, “Culto”, Infection Code appear almost surprisingly again on the starting line with this “De… Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM

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