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The National have announced plans for their first live show since 2024 – check out the details below. READ MORE: Matt Berninger: All that’s left when you’re gone are your ideas The band will be performing a special one-off show as part of AB100 festival in Sans Sebastian. Dubbed “The National And Friends”, the event will be staged at the Kursaal Donostia on October 18 and will include performances from the band alongside the likes Kevin Morby, Ben Howard, Jon Hopkins, Mina Tindle, Ragnar Kjartansson, Arcade Fire‘s Richard Reed Perry, Anaïs Mitchell and many more. Tickets go on sale on August 3…
Dr. Anthony Fauci invoked his Fifth Amendment right to refuse questions from lawmakers, during a high-profile hearing before the Senate’s Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC) on Wednesday. Republicans, as they have in the past, were set to grill the former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) and leader of America’s Covid-19 response on a myriad of conspiratorial claims about the pandemic. In his opening statement, Fauci, who has appeared before multiple congressional bodies in the past, told the committee that given Committee Chair Rand Paul’s “obvious obsession with calling for my prosecution,” the…
The Beatles’ next release in their ongoing Super Deluxe series is their seminal 1965 album Rubber Soul. The box set will be helmed once again by producer Giles Martin, along with engineer Sam Okell.Like previous deluxe editions, this one is overflowing with new mixes and behind-the-scenes goodies: never-before-released recording sessions and home demos, a fresh stereo mix, the original mono mix, a “previously unheard John Lennon song outline,” and an 88-page book with an introduction by Paul McCartney. It’s out October 2 via Apple Corps. You can listen to an early recording of “Michelle” below.The new mixes were created using…
S everal years ago, around the time Bernie Sanders' second presidential campaign was gathering force, my friend Ken Baer said something that stuck with me. Baer, a centrist Democrat who served in Barack Obama's budget office, told me I was missing a fundamental shift in the party, which we'd both spent many years thinking and writing about. “It's not a battle between moderates and liberals anymore,” he said. “It's between liberals and socialists.” At the time, this seemed to me a bit dramatic. Sanders defined himself politically as an independent and ideologically as a democratic socialist, rather than as a…
The Beatles grew up Rubber Soul. In the fall of 1965, the Fab Four went into the studio as the world's favorite moptops — but they emerged as bold artists, ready to challenge the world. John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr were experimenting with new sounds, weird ideas. They invented the whole idea of the album as we know it today — a full-length statement, rather than a hits collection. “Finally we took over the studio,” as Lennon told Rolling Stone. Rubber Soul shocked the world as soon as it arrived in December 1965. But it's never…
Recorded in both London and New York between 2019 and 2025, “The Living Likeness Of My Electric Daemon” marks the return of Miracle after an eight-year absence. A third album marked by a very fascinating cover, practically a mutation of Michelangelo's famous “Pietà”, with the Madonna and Jesus segmented by zippers, in such a way as to evoke devotion and bodily fragility filtered through a synthetic and technological lens. Who is behind this project? Certainly not the latest arrivals: we are talking about Steve Moore (American composer and producer) and the multi-instrumentalist David O'Sullivan, the latter an effective member of…
Irish singer-songwriter Glen Hansard, who became internationally famous thanks to his role in the drama film Ounces of 2007, died in a motorcycle accident at the age of 56. The news of his death was confirmed by ATC Management, the agency that represented him.Glen's family is deeply shocked and saddened by this tragic loss and requests privacy at this extremely difficult time,” their statement read. «The family is grateful for the support they have received and would like to thank the emergency services who attended the scene. As the matter is still the subject of an ongoing investigation by the…
Kavinsky, the French producer and DJ born Vincent Belorgey, has died at his home in Paris of a suspected stroke, the French TV station BFM and newspaper Le Figaro reported today (July 29). The Paris prosecutors’ office said it had opened an investigation and found “no suspicious elements” at the scene. Belorgey had reportedly been complaining of headaches in recent days. He was 50 years old.After launching his career in the early 2000s opening for Daft Punk, Kavinsky rose to prominence as part of the second wave of French touch. He broke out when “Nightcall” featured on the soundtrack of Nicolas…
Four women have accused Jared Leto of criminal sexual conduct. The allegations, which took place when the women were teenagers, were recounted in a new BBC documentary Jared Leto: Hollywood’s Dark Secret, which aired Wednesday. One of the women said she was sexually assaulted by Leto in a motel bathroom when she was 17. Another, then 19, said Leto threatened her with sexual assault after being left alone with him in a hotel room. A third woman claims she had underage sex with Leto in California when she was 17, which would be classified as statutory rape in the state.…
Spiritbox frontwoman Courtney LaPlante has defended stopping a recent show to have a violent fan removed from the crowd. The incident took place during the Canadian metal band’s set at the Talking Stick Resort Amphitheatre in Phoenix, Arizona on July 15, where they were supporting Evanescence alongside Nova Twins. Before closing the performance with ‘Soft Spine’, LaPlante brought the show to a halt after drummer Zev Rose spotted someone apparently hurting other audience members. The fan was then ejected from the show. Following the incident, the band have attracted some criticism with one fan writing on X: “So are we…
