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Jelly Roll is facing a few challenges booking an international tour. In a new interview with Jon Bon Jovi for Interview magazine, the country artist confirmed that his legal record has prevented his team from being able to send him overseas. During the chat, Bon Jovi asked Jelly Roll if he’s been able to tour outside the U.S. yet. “Not yet,” he replied. “I’m so excited. We’re figuring out the final pieces of some legal puzzles for me to get overseas.” A surprised Bon Jovi inquired, “Really?” “Yeah,” Jelly Roll confirmed. “It’s funny, America has finally agreed to let me…

MSeeing the UK's next best girl band in a dessert parlor on a weekday afternoon is as much of a sugar rush as you'd imagine. Cornered in a cozy booth in the Kings Cross branch of Creams on a damp Wednesday afternoon, NME finds sparkling new pop trio Say Now – Yssy Salvanera and Maddie Haynes, both 20, and Amelia Onuorah, 21 – who warmly greet us with a round of hugs across the table. It doesn't take long before there's loud squeals of laughter, impromptu singing, sharing of waffles, brownies and ice cream and too many anecdotes to keep…

This story is being published in partnership with American Doom, a newsletter that focuses on right-wing extremism and other threats to democracy. A Republican election official in Georgia’s largest county who has worked for prominent election denial groups is now suing for the discretion to refuse to certify election results with the help of Donald Trump’s America First Policy Institute.  Julie Adams, a member of the Fulton County election board, filed her lawsuit on May 22 with the help of lawyers from America First Policy Institute, a pro-Trump think tank. The lawsuit seeks access to voting records that Adams says…

The staff of Pitchfork listens to a lot of new music. A lot of it. On any given day our writers, editors, and contributors go through an imposing number of new releases, giving recommendations to each other and discovering new favorites along the way. Each Monday, with our Pitchfork Selects playlist, we’re sharing what our writers are playing obsessively and highlighting some of the Pitchfork staff’s favorite new music. The playlist is a grab-bag of tracks: Its only guiding principle is that these are the songs you’d gladly send to a friend.This week’s Pitchfork Selects playlist features Charli XCX, Nourished…

TODAYS continues to amaze the public with the announcements of the big names who will light up Turin from 23 August to 2 September: today it is the turn of the headliners of the final evening of the festival, scheduled for Monday 2 September 2024: on stage the unmissable appointment with the MASSIVE ATTACKwho return to our country after six years. Tickets on sale at this link > https://tidd.ly/3yLFa1f Robert “3D” Del Naja And Grant “Daddy G” Marshall they are considered the inventors of Trip Hop, which takes rhythms from hip hop, using electronic sampling and combining many other musical…

Bruhat Soma, a seventh-grader from Tampa, Florida, won the 2024 Scripps National Spelling Bee in a dramatic spell-off — only the second to happen in the competition's long-running history. According to The New York Times, the 96th Scripps National Spelling Bee kicked off on Tuesday with a total of 245 contestants from across all 50 states. Contestants also traveled from the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, the Department of Defense Schools in Europe, the Bahamas, Canada, and Ghana. Throughout six rounds of spelling and three vocabulary rounds posing contestants with multiple-choice questions, eight finalists emerged…

A guitar used by John Lennon has sold for $2,857,500, setting a new record for the highest-selling guitar at auction in the Beatles‘ history. The Framus 12-string Hootenanny acoustic guitar, used in the recording of the Beatles’ 1965 Help! album and film, was bought through a telephone bid as part of a two-day music icons sale by Julien’s Auctions. The guitar had an estimated price of $600,000 to $800,000, but was expected to fetch far more. It surpassed the $2.4 million price tag of Lennon’s Gibson J160E, which sold in 2015. “We are absolutely thrilled and honored to have set a new world…

Known by the general public for having been among the finalists of Sanremo Giovani 2020 and for his constant presence in Spotify playlists, the singer-songwriter MERLOT returns on May 29th with a fresh and light single entitled “Transparent” (distributed by ADA Music Italy) waiting for summer. MERLOT, “TRANSPARENT” In “Transparent“, MERLOT skillfully mixes the darkest nuances of life with an engaging ballad rhythm and an enveloping melody. The text takes the listener on an emotional journey through experiences related, for example, to love, loss and rebirth. The song captures the true nature of human intimacy and vulnerability, painting a lyric…

“You know Old Town Rd?”, asks me a Canadian journalist friend with whom I share (going to festivals costs a fortune) not only a room, but also the program of the Toronto Film Festival. And yes, I know this song is catchy, controversial and ahead of its time compared to the mix of pop, hip hop and country in vogue now (see Beyoncé). I know her above all for the video, one of those that are not easily forgotten especially for people like me who live in America.Lil Nas, the documentary directed by Zac Manuel and Carlos López Estrada, follows…

Live Nation will have to prove it does not hold a monopoly over live events if it hopes to avoid a breakup with Ticketmaster, legal experts say. But in looking ahead at a possible years-long fight with the Department of Justice following their bombshell, 124-page lawsuit, the world’s largest concert promoter points to past antitrust cases as reasons to not be worried about the suit’s outcome.  Following a two-year investigation, the DOJ claims that Live Nation, the parent company of Ticketmaster, holds an illegal monopoly given the company’s 80 percent market share for primary ticket sales in the nation’s largest…