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Hayley Williams brought out Rico Nasty to perform B.o.B’s ‘Airplanes’ in New York last night (Thursday September 17). Watch the footage below. The live collaboration took place during the Paramore frontwoman’s solo show at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, as part of the current North American leg of ‘The Hayley Williams Show’ tour. “Rico!” Williams shouted, as the American rapper and singer joined her on stage. The pair then hugged each other as the crowd cheered, before Williams sang the first verse of ‘Airplanes’. Nasty rapped over the tune, taking on the role of B.o.B from the original 2010 song.…

Emily Eavis has responded to calls for Oasis to headline Glastonbury Festival 2027. The Manchester band are heading back on the road next year for their huge Live ’27 tour, which includes stadium shows in Glasgow and Manchester in May and June. Their 11-night homecoming residency at the Etihad Stadium – home to Liam and Noel Gallagher‘s beloved Manchester City FC – wraps up on the Saturday of next year’s Glasto (June 26). This means that Oasis are free to top the bill on the Pyramid Stage at Worthy Farm on the Sunday (June 27). Fans soon clocked the suspicious…

Irish singer-songwriter Aaron Rowe has spoken out in support of Ed Sheeran and said that people are focusing on the wrong person and issue. Rowe abandoned opening for Sheeran‘s Loop Tour in the wake of Macklemore being forced off it after making onstage comments in support of Palestinians and criticized Israel’s war in Gaza. “I’m gonna be honest. I think you are all focusing on the wrong person here,” Rowe said in an lengthy, edited video posted to Instagram on Friday. “All I keep hearing is Ed Sheeran this, Ed Sheeran that — when you really should be focusing on the…

The actress starred in Spring Awakening composed by the late musician Lea Michele has paid tribute to Duncan Sheik, the songwriter-composer who worked with Michele and died on Thursday at age 56. The actress starred in Spring Awakening, which was composed by Sheik who won two Tonys in 2007 — Best Original Score, alongside Steven Sater, and Best Orchestrations — for the musical. “I met Duncan when I was 14 years old,” the Glee star wrote, captioning a photo of them together on her Instagram story. “I listened to a demo on tape of him singing songs from Spring Awakening…

The Department of Defense’s experimental, unpredictable use of artificial intelligence nearly caused a catastrophic diplomatic incident in the middle of the Iran war this spring, when an AI-generated intelligence report suggested that a Chinese vessel in the region was carrying nuclear weapons components.  According to a report by CNN, the U.S. military scrambled jets and armed servicemembers prepared to board the vessel. But right before the mission went underway, analysts at the DOD finally checked their work: the report, sources told CNN, was “entirely false.” The internal chatbot that a specialist command analyst had used to prepare the report had…

Donald Trump, who has repeatedly vowed to protect free speech as president, is escalating his effort to silence media outlets who don’t lick his boots, this time by attempting to ban CNN, MSNOW, and Politico from the White House press pool.  “I am proud to announce that, effective immediately, I am banning Fake News CNN, MSNOW … and Politico … from the White House as a result of their constant ‘reporting’ FAKE NEWS,” Trump wrote Friday on Truth Social.  “Media Outlets shouldn’t be able to constantly write or report FICTION and LIES when they’re covering the President of the United…

The Recording Academy may be a tad less stodgy these days, but there is still plenty of daylight between what the Grammys considers quality and what, say, the purveyors of online music magazine Pitchfork dot com champions. So let’s try to meet in the middle. Below, we’ve provided some far-too-early Grammys prognostication on albums and songs that should be up for awards at next year’s ceremony. We’ll find out how right or wrong we were on November 16, when the official nominations are revealed. The 2027 Grammys will air February 7 on ABC.Album of the YearBlood Orange: Essex HoneyGeese: Getting…

Michelle Zauner of Japanese Breakfast has shared details of her upcoming new book. Find all the info below. The singer-songwriter is due to publish Thank You for Your Suffering on April 27 via Knopf. Pre-order here. Comprising 224 pages, the memoir will explore Zauner’s year spent living in South Korea, “learning Korean in an impossibly challenging language school and forging extraordinary new relationships” with her late mother’s family. According to the official description, the book will take fans on an “immersive and deeply personal journey through the heart of South Korea”. It charts “Zauner’s dream of learning her mother’s native…

Shogun star Tadanobu Asano stars in latest visual for singer’s first album in seven years and spiritual companion to Sea Change and Morning Phase Beck marked the release of his new album Ride Lonesome on Friday with the video for standout track “Run Away.” After enlisting famed French actor Denis Lavant for Ride Lonesome’s “In the Night” visual, Beck recruits another arthouse favorite for “Run Away,” casting Ichi the Killer and Shogun star Tadanobu Asano to lead the lonely journey through Tokyo. “At the end of a long hot summer we went to Japan. I looked up my friend [Kunichi…

Katie Pruitt is one of those rare artists who bravely navigates the world through the songs she writes. Her first two albums were defined by her frank and candid reckoning with her sexuality and Catholic upbringing. Now, on her third, she’s letting listeners in on her broken heart. “All of us, including myself, are just trying to find reasons to keep going and keep hope alive,” she says. “Writing these songs was really cathartic.” On Friday, the 32-year-old Georgia native released Fools for the Fleeting on Rounder Records, her first studio LP since Mantras in 2024. The 10-track project, which…