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The fourth trial in a yearslong legal fight between TI, Tameka “Tiny” Harris, and the toy giant MGA Entertainment did not go the celebrity couple's way. TI and Harris had sought to restore some of the $53.6 million in punitive damages that a judge in California had previously thrown out. But on Wednesday, the jury in the latest trial found that MGA had not acted with malice, meaning no punitive damages would be awarded. As a result, the couple's total recovery remains capped at the $17.9 million in compensatory damages awarded by a different jury nearly two years ago. “We…
Photo by Emanuela Vh. Bonetti Devendra Banhart – internationally renowned musician and considered among the pioneers of “freak folk” and “New Weird America” – has returned to Italy on the occasion of his Summer Tour 2026 only at the Home of Jazz Of Rome Tuesday 30 June 2026 for the Rome Summer Fest. Devendra Banhart was born in Houston, Texas and lives in Los Angeles. Throughout his career he has collaborated with artists such as Vashti Bunyan, Yoko Ono, Os Mutantes, Swans, ANOHNI, Caetano Veloso and Beck. Banhart emerged in 2002 with his first collection on CD Oh Me Oh…
System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian has hit out at the Israeli government, accusing them of “using” Armenian history and their “genocide and pain” to their “political advantage”. The frontman is of Armenian descent and all four of his grandparents were survivors of the 1915 genocide that took place during World War I, and led to the deaths of between 664,000 and 1.2 million Armenians, according to United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Tankian and the band have regularly shed light on the mass killings of Armenians under the Ottoman Empire between 1915 and 1916, and even thanked former President Joe…
For fifteen years Maya Bouldry-Morrison has signed her records as Octo Octa. Active on the international scene, today she lives in the woods of New Hampshire together with her artistic and life partner Eris Drew. “Sigils For Survival” arrives seven years after the previous solo album and was born ten years after Maya made her journey as a transgender woman public; she describes the work as a way to fix that decade: a period in which she often felt she couldn't make it, and which for this reason she felt the need to celebrate with an entire recording chapter. We…
All four members of Venezuelan nu-metal band Van Der Dijs have died following the devastating earthquakes that struck the country last week. The band – vocalist Manuel van Der Dijs, guitarist Gabriel Gómez, bassist Xander Hernández and drummer Abraham Foucault – were killed after the building where they were rehearsing in La Guaira collapsed. According to Venezuelan outlet Últimas Noticias, the group were inside the Costamar II building in Tanaguarena when the area was hit by two powerful earthquakes. Their bodies were later recovered from the rubble by rescue teams. The earthquakes, which struck northern Venezuela on June 24, registered magnitudes of 7.2 and 7.5 and…
The SLEEPING WITH SIRENS announce “An Ending In Itself Tour”, a new series of dates in support of the album of the same name which will be released in a few days. The American alternative/post-hardcore band will also perform in concert in Italy for a single date which will be held on Sunday February 21, 2027 at Alcatraz in Milan.Before them they will also go on stage Arm's Length And Like Roses. SLEEPING WITH SIRENS An Ending In Itself Tour Tickets on sale > https://tidd.ly/4bkSES6 + Arm's Length+ Like RosesSunday 21 February 2027 – MilanAlcatraz Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
In partnership with Open’er Festival Zara Larsson thanked fans for turning her 2015 song ‘Lush Life’ into a viral hit while performing at Open’er Festival 2026. ‘Lush Life’ was originally released as the lead single to Zara Larsson’s second album ‘So Good’. The track blew up on TikTok last year after a live clip of Larsson performing the song alongside a fan during her ‘Midnight Sun’ headline tour went viral. The video inspired the ‘Lush Life’ trend, which has seen countless fans recreate the onstage choreography. The resurgence has also caused the song to top the charts in Germany, Austria,…
The singer said one of his “late-night drinking tricks” is to ring up the president MAGA mouthpiece Kid Rock is once again lauding President Donald Trump. In an interview with Sky News Australia, the country-rock singer, born Bob Ritchie, sat down with host Paul Murray as part of a one-hour special, Trump’s America: 250 Years in the Making. Over the past decade, Ritchie has become one of the president’s biggest cheerleaders — receiving invitations to the White House, performing at Republican-affiliated music gigs, and chumming it up next to Trump at football games and UFC matches. During a conversation that centered around Ritchie’s…
Singer-songwriter Michaela Anne just may be the quintessential indie artist, one for whom the hustle never stops. She's a working mom, a podcast host with her husband and bandmate, Aaron Shafer-Haiss, and the one in charge of keeping her music coming. Michaela Anne, the daughter of a military father who moved around for the bulk of her childhood, eventually settled in Brooklyn, then Nashville. Now she's on the move again: She'll perform this July 4th weekend at Rolling Stone's Stateside Festival, headlined by Noah Kahan, in Kingston, New York. The festival stop is just one of many live dates she'll…
Robert Smith was about to say no to the Rolling Stones. The Cure frontman, in fact, revealed that he initially rejected the invitation to collaborate on “Foreign Tongues”, the album due out on July 10th, only to have second thoughts a few hours later. The English musician plays the guitar in “Divine Intervention”, released in recent days together with “Jealous Lover”.In the new episode of the official Rolling Stones podcast “Speaking In Tongues”, previewed by Nme, Smith said that everything started from a phone call from producer Andrew Watt. “When the session was about to end he asked me if…
