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Late last fall, word suddenly got out about SML, Los Angeles’ latest torchbearers of slanted jazz. Following a snazzy New York Times profile and a second album that teased their squiggly sound out to delightful new levels, the quintet had two dates set at Frogtown scenester mainstay Zebulon, with each night comprising two sets in the round. Last time they played at Zeb, it was a similar two-night affair to celebrate the release of their 2024 debut LP—though both of those shows were free. This time, both nights were selling so fast that they had to add a third.The excitement…

Olivia Wilde has revealed that “real-life hero” Walton Goggins saved her from a gruesome death on the set of Favreau’s 2011 sci-fi Western film Cowboys and Aliens. Based on Scott Mitchell Rosenberg’s graphic novel of the same name, the film starred Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, while Wilde, Goggins, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach, Paul Dano, and Noah Ringer featured in supporting roles. When stopping by Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, Wilde said that she “had a very bad horse accident” during filming and that “Walt Goggins saved my life on that movie.” In the film, which takes place in 1873,…

In the wake of their massive Download set and increased popularity online, Wes Borland has said Limp Bizkit are “the biggest we’ve ever been right now”. READ MORE: Limp Bizkit live at Reading 2025: the nu-metal giants keep the hits rollin’ in The band recently headlined Download Festival for the first time, 23 years after they were first meant to. The nu-metal group have a long history with the Donington Park festival, and sub-headlined the last day of 2024’s edition, with Kerrang! suggesting that their set ultimately drew a bigger crowd than that year’s actual headliners, Avenged Sevenfold. Having now topped…

Boardmasters have vowed to “be better neighbours” to visitors and local residents following a series of fall-outs and shortcomings in recent years. Director Rob Spring spoke to BBC Radio Cornwall about the controversy that surrounded the 2024 and 2025 editions of the festival, and pledged to make the live event safer and more pleasant going forward. The concerns arose as the 2024 edition saw numerous concertgoers speak out about a crowd surge after the event, in which seven attendees were hospitalised and others needed treatment from on-site medical staff. That year also saw 11 people arrested at the festival site with…

Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has lost in his legal battle against PRS For Music over the distribution of so-called “black box” royalties. Rowntree had sought to challenge the way PRS distributes royalties that it has collected but cannot match to the correct songwriter or publisher because of missing or inaccurate information. Those funds are often referred to in the industry as “black box” royalties, while PRS prefers the term “unidentified royalties”. The case centred on Rowntree’s claim that PRS’ system for distributing those unidentified royalties was unfair to songwriters, and that writers could potentially have been deprived of up to £200million in earnings. Today (June 29), however,…

Filmmaker Carl Erik Rinsch was sentenced on Monday to 30 months in federal prison after being convicted of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million. Netflix had hired Rinsch, who previously made the film 47 Roninto write and direct a sci-fi series called White Horse (later renamed Conquest) in 2018. After the streaming giant poured $55 million into the project, the director failed to deliver a single episode. Rinsch later asked Netflix for an additional $11 million in funding, which — a New York Times report and later the accused — he used to gamble on the stock market and cryptocurrencies…

Photo by Luca Moschini With over three million tickets sold, now in its fifth edition, the triumphal journey of Vasco Live 2026 he definitively handed himself over to the history of pop music. Much more than a simple succession of extraordinary concerts, the tour turned out to be a true generational road trip, sung at the top of their lungs from the first to the last second by anyone who found themselves listening to even a single note. The tour officially ended at Blueenergy Stadium in Udinewith the second of the two completely sold out dates on 28 and 29…

Six people were taken to hospital after Angine de Poitrine’s huge free show at Montreal Jazz Festival. The anonymous duo – who also hail from Quebec – played the festival’s TD Stage at Place des Festivals on Saturday night (June 27), drawing one of the biggest crowds in the event’s recent history, with officials saying they had not seen a turnout of that size since Stevie Wonder’s appearance in 2009. According to Urgences-santé, paramedics assessed 10 people during the event, with six later being transported to hospital and four others refusing transport after being seen by medical teams. Benjamin Dansereau-Leclerc, head of…

Lizzo is addressing the reception to her latest album, Bitcheswhich made headlines this month after failing to chart on the Billboard 200 despite her previous album, Specialdebuting at Number Two with 69,000 equivalent album units earned in 2022. Of course, public perception of the Grammy-winning artist has changed within the few years between albums. In 2023, her former backup dancers accused her of sexual harassment, creating a hostile work environment, and fat-shaming in a lawsuit that has yet to be settled. During a recent interview with Zachary Hourihane, aka the Swiftologist, on his podcast Proto PopLizzo opened up about fans…

This weekend saw Foo Fighters complete two sold out shows at Anfield Stadium in Liverpool, where the band were joined on stage by two very special guests. The US rock titans’ only scheduled UK shows of 2026 (with the band teasing more to come next year) kicked off on Thursday June 25. In the latter part of the show, frontman Dave Grohl picked out (who was assumed to be) a fan from the audience, holding a sign that challenged the band to let him play a song if he could complete a Rubik’s cube. He took to the stage and…