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Phil Collins has revealed he nearly died in 2024 after his alcohol addiction left him in intensive care, with his family “coming to say goodbye”. The former Genesis singer and drummer has opened up about the personal ordeal in a new interview with the Sunday Times, in which he said he was first admitted to a hospital in Switzerland in connection with his alcohol use in November 2023. He said he was discharged three days before Christmas, but was rushed back to hospital weeks later, eventually spending seven months receiving treatment. When he became critically ill in April 2024, Collins was unconscious and his manager contacted his…

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Material Girl also performs Confessions on a Dance Floor’s “Sorry” live for first time since 2008 at WorldPride Amsterdam’s Club Confessions gig A day after Kylie Minogue joined Nick Cave onstage in England, the pop singer made another surprise appearance Saturday, popping up during Madonna’s Confessions II show in Amsterdam. The Material Girl brought her Club Confessions album launch party to AFAS Live as part of WorldPride Amsterdam, with Madonna delivering a 30-minute set that included the guest appearance by Minogue, who joined Madonna for a new remix of Confessions II’s “Love Sensation”: The studio version of the Minogue remix…

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After a nearly 15-year fallow period, Tom Waits has returned with his second new release of 2026. “The Fly” is a spoken-word track dedicated to the eponymous pest. It’s also a family affair—Waits’ wife, Kathleen Brennan, co-wrote the piece, and it comes complete with a lyric video animated by his son, Casey. Check that out below.“Today, as in all of mankind’s yesterdays, guarantees this type of song will never go out of style,” Waits said of “The Fly” in a statement. “Man’s folly of fiascos is a feast for the flies,” The song serves as a B-side to “Boots on…

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New Radicals have shared their first new original song in 28 years in the form of ‘One Night Only (Break Loose Break Free!)’ – check it out below. The group, made up of songwriter and singer Gregg Alexander and Danielle Brisebois, scored a huge hit in the late ’90s with ‘You Get What You Give’ and released only one album together, ‘Maybe You’ve Been Brainwashed Too’, in 1998. Now they are back, with the new song serving as the theme song to the upcoming romantic comedy One Night Only, starring Monica Barbaro and Callum Turner. The piano-led pop-rock track is reminiscent of their familiar sound, and…

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Phil Collins reveals in a new interview that he nearly died in 2024 amid his battle with alcoholic addiction.  Speaking to the Sunday Times, the singer said that he was first admitted to a Swiss hospital in connection with his alcohol use in November 2023. He was initially discharged before Christmas that year, but was readmitted a few weeks later and placed into intensive care, where he lay unconscious. “My kidneys were packing up, my organs were just seizing up,” Collins said of the situation. “People were coming to say goodbye. But I don’t remember them coming. I didn’t have…

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Madonna brought out Kylie Minogue for a surprise performance of ‘Love Sensation’ at WorldPride Amsterdam – watch footage below. It went down at the latest of Madonna’s ‘Club Confessions’ album launch shows at the AFAS Live venue last night (August 1), with the Queen of Pop playing for approximately 30 minutes after sets from Honey Dijon and Bebe Rexha. As ‘Love Sensation’ began, Minogue emerged in a metallic purple outfit and joined Madonna to sing the track from the recently released ‘Confessions II’. The Australian singer stayed on stage as Madonna closed out the set with ‘Sorry’ and ‘Hung Up’, both from 2005’s original ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor’ album. Check out…

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It’s easy to associate Daniel Lanois with a distinct sonic approach shared by many of the classic albums he helped birth, from Emmylou Harris‘ Wrecking Ball to Bob Dylan‘s Time Out of Mind. The Canadian producer/musician creates songs that feel like they’re haunted by their own ghosts, laced with intertwining echoes, tiny sonic fractures, and a palpable sense of place. But in the new episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, Lanois says his job is much bigger than that. “People talk about the sound, but what about the soul?” he says. “The sound of a record, well, that’s a given……

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Rain that flooded Chicago overnight and continued to fall on Saturday delayed the third day of Lollapalooza 2026 and caused organizers to push back doors by about three hours for cleanup. The downpours caused pooling throughout Grant Park where the festival is held. By the time it opened at 3 p.m., the grounds were understandably muddy, but navigable for attendees. The delay also caused a shift in scheduling, with some performances canceled altogether, and others truncated. Fortunately, weather did not derail two of the day’s best performances, headliner Olivia Dean and rising star Sienna Spiro. Dean’s ascent to the top…

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Serial ‘90s rock legend collaborator Olivia Rodrigo added another notch to her belt at Lollapalooza over the weekend. On Friday (July 31) at the Chicago music festival, she made an appearance during the Smashing Pumpkins’ headlining set to sing “Thirty-Three,” off of the band’s 1995 album Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness. Watch her take on the track below.Rodrigo wasn’t the only special guest to pop up during the performance. Hole’s Melissa Auf der Maur, who was also briefly in the Smashing Pumpkins, joined the group on Machina/The Machines of God’s “The Everlasting Gaze.” At the beginning of the show,…

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“You Get What You Give” band’s “One Night Only (Break Loose Break Free!)” appears on soundtrack for upcoming film New Radicals, of Nineties hit “You Get What You Give” fame, have released their first new song in nearly 28 years, with the group’s “One Night Only (Break Loose Break Free!)” appearing on the soundtrack for the upcoming rom-com One Night Only. With the film, “about searching for love on the least romantic night of the year,” due out August 7, a portion of its soundtrack was released Friday, including the New Radicals track, King Princess’ cover of the disco hit…

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