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Jay-Z turned Yankee Stadium into a celebration of legacy, hometown pride, and the enduring impact of Reasonable Doubtdelivering an opening night performance that balanced nostalgia with spectacle as the first of three anniversary concerts. When I arrived in the Bronx, the atmosphere surrounding Yankee Stadium felt like an event long before anyone stepped inside. It was absolute pandemonium. Traffic had completely overwhelmed the Grand Concourse, River Avenue, 161st Street, and the surrounding blocks, forcing me to abandon the car and walk the rest of the way to the stadium. Thousands of fans poured through the streets in every direction, all…
Drummer Frank Ferrer was at his then-seven-year-old daughter’s talent show in 2006 when his phone rang. On the line was his friend Tommy Stinson, the Replacements bassist who was in the middle of a long tenure in Guns N’ Roses at the time. ”Hey, man, there’s this thing happening,” Stinson told him. “Why don’t you learn a bunch of Guns songs? I’ll give you more info later on.” As it turned out, Guns drummer Brian “Brain” Mantia’s wife was due to have a baby while the band had a tour booked, and the idea was to recruit a sub for…
Is Jude an omega? Will Haaland be able to resist his pheromones during Saturday's highly anticipated World Cup quarterfinal between England and Norway? Why are there more than 43,000 fanfics listed under the “Men's Football” tag on Archive of Our Own? Do these sentences mean nothing to you? The World Cup is always a collision of fandoms. Your favorite players from your favorite clubs divide themselves by nationality (patriotism is a fandom, right?) and clash on a global stage that produces the most legendary games and rivalries in sports. It's also a televised barrage of emotional moments and dramatic tension,…
Interpol played a secret warm-up show in Madrid before playing Mad Cool Festival with The Walkmen’s Matt Barrick on drums – check out what went down below. On Thursday (July 9), the band announced a secret intimate show billed as Iron City, the name of their latest single. The track is the third to be taken from the New York band’s forthcoming ninth album, ‘This Mirror Weighs A Ton’. Set for release on August 28 via Partisan Records, you pre-order it here. At the secret show in Madrid’s Sala But club, they were joined by Matt Barrick, of Muzz and…
Photo by Giada Stanzian Click here to see photos of KOKESHI in MILAN or browse the gallery below Directly from Japan, one of the most visceral and intense realities of the Asian post-hardcore and blackgaze scene arrives in Italy for the first time: the KOKESHI. For those who have followed their rise online, they know well that we are not faced with a simple concert, but with a strong emotional experience, built around the singer's heartbreaking vocal performances Nana Yokotto. The band's sound is a mix of blackened hardcore full of screamo, shoegaze and post-rock cuts, where Nana's high-pitched and…
When The Open Mind premiered on PBS in 1956, host Richard D. Heffner wanted to do something that had never been done on television before: each Sunday for an hour, have a weekly dialogue about ideas, not merely events, scrutinizing not just what we are doing as a country but why we are doing it. Sure, TV hadn’t been around that long — a decade earlier, only one percent of American homes even had one — but Heffner’s creation was revolutionary. He broadcast Martin Luther King Jr.’s first televised interview in 1957; he discussed “Living Within Our Means” with Milton…
In partnership with Bilbao BBK Live. Words: Lisa Wright Bilbao BBK Live 2026 knows how to scratch all your musical itches. Looking for erotically-charged, meticulously-crafted club pop or timeless, joyous hits given a clever on-stage makeover? Look no further than FKA Twigs and David Byrne on day one. Want a slice of ultimate catharsis via the best break-up album of the decade, or to throw yourself around in the pit and thrash it out? Lily Allen and IDLES have got your back on Saturday’s closing night. However, the Basque Country weekender’s turbo-charged Friday bill? Well, that was a time for…
Article by Simona Ventrella | Photo by Lara Bordoni There's a big difference between a band celebrating an anniversary and a band proving why, thirty years later, it's still needed. THE Subsonicon stage at Rugby Sound of Legnano, do not celebrate their past: they put it back into circulation, they update it, they give it current. There is no nostalgia, there is no “greatest hits” self-satisfaction, instead there is a group that continues to play as if it still had something to prove. And perhaps this is precisely the secret of the Subsonic. Having remained faithful not to a sound,…
In partnership with Bilbao BBK Live 2026. Fresh from headlining the main stage earlier that night, Robbie Williams surprised both CMAT and the crowd by running on stage during her set on day two of Bilbao BBK Live 2026. Nearing the end of her late night slot on the Repsol stage, the Dunboyne singer joked that “The A in CMAT stands for, ‘And through it all…’” she began, before leading the crowd in a singalong of Williams’ hit ‘Angels’. As she finished, Williams darted on stage to huge cheers, and hugged the singer who then informed people that, “I really…
Bring Me The Horizon played the new ‘Repented’ version of their 2006 debut ‘Count Your Blessings’ in full in Manchester last night – check out footage below. READ MORE: ‘Bring Me The Horizon L.I.V.E. In São Paulo’ review: a love letter to their fans and statement of greatness Back in April, the Sheffield band confirmed Monday that they’d be playing their debut album in full at Manchester’s BEC Arena on July 10. Billed as ‘Outbreak Presents: Count Your Blessings | Repented’, the gig was designed to “reactivate” the record rather than just lean on nostalgia. Having promised to be a “defining…
