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2Hollis is hitting the road behind his new album Pirouette. After a release-weekend show at Camp Flog Gnaw on November 14, the rapper-producer will kick off a full North American trek in Feburary, concluding some five weeks later in Vancouver. After that, he heads across the Atlantic to headline London’s Wembley Arena and a host of other European venues. A return to New York follows with an Under the K Bridge show next May. Find the itinerary below.Lucy Bedroque and Conceal will guest on the tour, a press release notes. Pirouette, 2Hollis’ Star follow-up, arrives November 11 via Interscope.2Hollis: The…
Funk Flex has publicly addressed the heated altercation he was involved in with entertainment executive Shadow Stokes and former Hot 97 employee TT Torrez during the New York Knicks’ NBA regular season opener at Madison Square Garden on Tuesday evening (Oct. 20). On Wednesday morning (Oct. 21), the Hot 97 DJ, who was in attendance at MSG to witness his hometown Knicks receive their NBA Championship rings, took to social media to deny reports that he was physically harmed during the altercation. In a series of posts on his Instagram account, Flex scoffed at rumors of him being attacked by…
The story of Fleetwood Mac is classic rock canon at this point, memorialized via an assortment of unauthorized films, loosely inspired TV shows and plays, and Lindsey Buckingham’s recent turn as a reaction influencer for some reason. Now the band themselves are ready to “officially” tell their story, in Fleetwood Mac: The Chain, a Frank Marshall-directed documentary. It’s set to premiere on Apple TV on January 29.Unsurprisingly, The Chain will keep its focus on the most popular era of the Mac: their 1974-2018 lineup of Stevie Nicks, Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, and the late Christine McVie. (Sorry to Peter…
Twentieth-anniversary celebration of Back to Black in London also featured Salaam Remi, Yebba, Lianne La Havas, the Amy Winehouse Band and more Mark Ronson, Jessie Reyez, Corinne Bailey Rae, Jorja Smith and more performed the music of Amy Winehouse at a tribute concert Wednesday at London’s Roundhouse. The all-star gig centered on Winehouse’s breakthrough 2006 LP Back to Black, which was released 20 years ago next week. Backed by Ronson and Salaam Remi, the album’s producers, and the Amy Winehouse Band — a tribute act led by the singer’s bassist and musical director Dale Davis — the artists involved switched…
We’re probably no closer to a Daft Punk reunion five years after the duo broke up—this despite completely unfounded rumors plus a run of legacy-building post-breakup projects—but now you can at least pretend Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo are playing at your house thanks to Lego’s latest collection. The Daft Punk set can be traced back to Covid lockdown, when a father and son from Luxembourg suggested the company recreate the duo’s 2007 Alive Tour pyramid stage. A rendering of that model can be found below, along with the DJ duo’s official Lego minifigures. Bangalter and Homem-Christo now join…
Heated Rivalry, the wildly popular sports-themed gay romance series, will heat up movie houses around the United States this fall. Some 650 participating theaters will screen the first season’s full six-show arc in two-episode couplings from Nov. 6 – 30. Screenings are also planned in the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand. The theater chain Regal, which operates 275 theaters, is leading the distribution of the series, which will also be available to watch at theaters run by AMC, Cinemark, and other chains. Regal will be offering $9.99 passes for two-episode pairings. In addition to showing the episodes, Regal is promising…
Queens of the Stone have added a slate of U.S. shows to their itinerary, kicking off with four dates across California in May 2027. Support comes from Pixies and Wheelchair Sports Camp. Check out the full QOTSA schedule below. Josh Homme and co. were also the musical guests on last night’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, giving the severe Perfecth single “Where the Goth Girls At?” its live debut.“Where the Goth Girls At?” came out last month with a video starring comedian Steve Agee, dancer Scarlett Kapella, and singer-actress Lou Lou Safran. Perfecth, the follow-up to the…
Talking Heads have announced New Feeling – their first ever authorised book that comes with unseen archive material, handwritten lyrics and more. The new coffee table book is set to drop on May 18, 2027, via Abrams Books, and comes as the iconic group – formed of David Byrne, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, and Jerry Harrison – are currently celebrating 50 years of their debut album, ‘Talking Heads: 77’. Described as the first ever authorised book, the 400-page book is made in collaboration with all four members and will bring together featuring unseen archive material, handwritten lyrics, early album artwork,…
Being Dead have signed to Polyvinyl and shared their first songs in two years. “Man or Myth” is the Austin rock trio ode’s to Marc Ornstein, a famed “interpretive freestyle” canoeist, while “Aquarium” is about “the taboo nature of falling in love in the workplace, which is especially scandalous if the workplace is an aquarium and your coworker is a dolphin,” according to the band. Both come with music videos directed by Being Dead’s own Falcon Bitch, which you can watch below.“We don’t mean to put too much pressure on Polyvinyl,” Being Dead said in press materials, “but if we’re…
Donald Trump wants you to know he’s not attracted to men. “I don’t like young, handsome men,” Trump said during a speech at the Board of Peace back in February, while acknowledging Panamanian President Santiago Peña. “Women… I like. Men, I don’t have any interest.” And yet, if you watch almost any of Donald Trump’s midterm elections rallies, it’s pretty easy to get the wrong idea. “The two guys that came up here, the people I watched today… you wanted to give them a big kiss,” Trump said during a rally in Durant, Oklahoma, on October 1. “I’m not at…