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Joy Division stood at the intersection of austerity and ecstasy. Restraint to the point of severity is a core component of the band’s sound, look, and legend: four dour, unsmiling young men from Manchester in nondescript clothing, creating spare paeans to alienation and oppression, all under the watchful eye and glacial hand of producer Martin Hannett. Their album covers are colorless, and the accompanying music feels black and white and gray all over.Yet at the same time, Ian Curtis was one of the most nakedly emotive singers of his time. Throughout Joy Division’s concise discography, his warped crooner’s voice feels…

California rapper and producer Ovrkast is pushing back against a lawsuit filed by influential hip-hop duo Outkast. The complaint accuses the rising artist of unlawfully using a “nearly identical” stage name after previously agreeing to change it. In an exclusive statement to Rolling Stone, Ovrkast said that throughout his career, he has built his name independently of Outkast and never had the intention to copy their moniker or cause confusion among fans. “As a rising creative with recent career milestones and accolades attached to my professional name, I stand firmly on the fact that I have established this name and…

Madonna and Charli XCX have shared their new collaboration ‘Danceteria Afterhours’ – listen to it below. The track is a reworked version of ‘Danceteria’, taken from Madonna’s recent album ‘Confessions II’, and sees the two pop stars looking back at the club scenes that helped shape them. Produced by Madonna, Andrew Watt, Cirkut and Stuart Price, ‘Danceteria Afterhours’ takes its name from the legendary New York nightclub where Madonna spent time during the early stages of her career. The singer references figures from the city’s early-’80s downtown scene including Fab 5 Freddy, Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Rock Steady Crew. Danceteria…

Blink-182 have continued their collaboration with arcade gaming icon Pac-Man with a free-to-play throwback game. READ MORE: Blink-182’s Mark Hoppus on death, defiance and dick jokes: “I’m very thankful to be alive” Earlier this year, Blink-182 unveiled a range of Pac-Man-inspired merch at San Diego Comic Con to celebrate the 25th anniversary of their pop-punk classic ‘Take Off Your Pants And Jacket’.Advertisement A limited-edition Blink-182 x Pac-Man Comic Con vinyl edition of ‘Take Off Your Pants And Jacket’, produced by Blood Records, was available alongside a Blink-182 version of the Pac-Man x 7-Eleven t-shirt bassist Mark Hoppus wore during the…

The North Carolina alt-rock band brings the house down at Terminal 5, with help from L.A. band Common People Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM

Madness have been announced as the first headliners for Rock N Roll Circus’ inaugural London edition, where they’ll be joined by Fat Freddy’s Drop, Big Special, The Wailers and Hollie Cook. The Camden ska veterans will top the bill at Gunnersbury Park on Saturday July 24, 2027, in what is set to be their only outdoor summer show in the capital next year. “Calling all Madheads and madhatters, join us next July in the great outdoors for Rock N Roll Circus,” said Suggs. “Bring your friends, bring your family and come dance in Gunnersbury Park London. Yes London we are…

Fifty years ago this week, Larry Mullen Jr pinned a message to a noticeboard at Dublin’s Mount Temple High School that famously read “drummer seeks musicians.” To mark that anniversary, U2 returned to that very school this afternoon to perform a special career-spanning gig in the playground. With an audience that included current students and even the band’s religious education teacher, Sophie Shirley, the band entered shortly after 2 p.m., to the appropriate strains of Alice Cooper’s “School’s Out.” After opening with “I Will Follow,” U2 went straight into a run of hits, including “Vertigo,” “Beautiful Day,” and even a…

There’s an art to throwing a good dinner party. The right food, the right entertainment, and the right seating arrangements are all important, but nothing matters more than the guests. On Thursday, President Donald Trump threw perhaps the most consequential dinner party of his second term: a lavish state dinner with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the latest surreal meeting between the world’s two great powers. Or rather, three great powers. Because Trump and Jinping weren’t the only all-powerful executives in the room: the state dinner’s guest list, in many ways, was an exhaustive roll call for every oligarch, technocrat, and…

SZA is a seven-time Grammy Award winner with two RIAA diamond certified hit singles and the Hal David Starlight Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame — but one of her greatest accomplishments came Thursday night as she was inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame by Danny DeVito. “Got inducted into the New Jersey Hall of Fame,” SZA wrote on Instagram. “MORE IMPORTANTLY I MET DANNY DEVITO.” DeVito hosted the induction ceremony at Dream Live Performing Arts Center at American Dream. He was inducted in 2010. The singer and songwriter’s speech at the actual ceremony was more earnest.…

Ween will revisit their tour in support of their classic Chocolate and Cheese in a new box set that unearths seven full gigs from the trek. Boognish Provides, out October 16 via Rhino, captures Gene and Dean Ween — or Aaron Freeman and Mickey Melchiondo, respectively — as they embarked on the tour as a band for the first time, as the duo was augmented by drummer Claude Coleman and bassist Andrew Weiss. The 14-CD box sets feature seven full concerts from that 1994-1995 tour: McCabe’s Guitar Shop, Santa Monica, CA (10/9/94), The Metro, Chicago, IL (10/30/94), First Avenue, Minneapolis,…