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The Cure played ‘Treasure’ and ‘In Your House’ for the first time in over a decade at their show at North Festival – watch below. Robert Smith and co. played the second of their summer shows at the event in Maia, Portugal on Sunday night (June 7), two nights after their return to the stage as a headliner at Primavera Sound in Barcelona, a show that was enjoyed by thousands, including Fontaines D.C.’s Grian Chatten. The North Festival set saw them bring in tracks that they did not play at Primavera, including the deep cut ‘Treasure’, a track from their…

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Morgan Wallen is one of the biggest music artists in the world, in any genre, but drama seems to follow him as closely as record-breaking songs. Here’s a timeline of the Sneedville, Tennessee, native’s most high-profile headlines. Baseball BluesThere’s an alternate-timeline scenario in which Wallen’s musical dreams are realized a little too late to make much of an impact, or maybe never even realized at all. As a baseball player at Gibbs High School near Knoxville, he dreamt of playing at higher levels and — according to his coach, anyway — had the talent to make that possible. But a torn…

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More than 20 rock bands and artists descended upon Nashville’s Lower Broadway on Friday during the heart of the 2026 CMA Fest to show that Music City is more than just three chords and the truth. While country fans crossed the pedestrian bridge to see Cody Johnson and Keith Urban headline Nissan Stadium, Cage the Elephant, Dexter and the Moonrocks, Edgehill, Mod Sun, and New Translations were playing over three stages at Jon Bon Jovi’s Nashville honky-tonk, JBJ’s. (In a bit of irony, a band in the window of a branded country-star bar across the street was heard covering Guns…

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Elvis Costello has told people who accused him of being “woke” for removing the N-word from ‘Oliver’s Army’ to “go fuck yourself”. In 2022, the legendary artist called on radio stations to stop playing the 1979 single, due to its controversial inclusion of the lyric, “Only takes one itchy trigger / One more widow, one less white n*****”. The anti-imperialist song is a satirical take on how governments and militaries use working class young people as soldiers in their battles, and Costello has long argued that the use of the N-word was a reference to how Catholics were historically referred to in Northern Ireland. However,…

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Ahead of this Friday’s release of So Help Me God, her first album in seven years, Kelsey Lu has announced a fall tour across North America, the UK, and Europe. The news arrives with a music video for new single “Cutting Off the Head of a Ghost.” You can watch that and check out the full itinerary below.Co-produced by Lu with Jack Antonoff and Yves Rothman, So Help Me God includes guest appearances Kim Gordon, Sampha, Kamasi Washington, and Lady Jess.Revisit our 2019 review of Lu’s last album, Blood.So Help Me God Tour:09-30 Philadelphia, PA – The Foundry10-03 Brooklyn, NY…

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I heard people started lining up for Cameron Winter’s solo set at seven in the morning. I heard Skrillex took over a whole stage and Four Tet was there. I heard the kebabs are nigh-inedible. I heard they’re shutting down the whole festival because of severe weather. No, wait, I heard it’s back on. I heard you and your band have brought turntables and guitars. I heard all the warning signs of early onset tinnitus. Mostly, though, I heard a lot of very good music this weekend, and I’m here to tell you about some of it.The Bomb SquadWhile I…

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The new and final season of The Bear premieres on June 25, with all eight episodes available to stream on Hulu and FX It's closing time for The Bear. In a new trailer for the fifth and final season, the scrappy Chicago kitchen crew pull themselves together in the immediate aftermath of head chef Carmy (Jeremy Allen White) hanging up his apron and leaving behind the food industry. But that's the least of their problems. Sydney (Ayo Edibiri), Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach), and Sugar (Abby Elliott) have to hold strong against the building being sold out from underneath them, torrential flooding,…

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