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London's £2.7 billion live music boom: How concerts are fuelling a record summer
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Scam advice for music fans as more than 1 in 10 bought fake tickets in last year
More than one in 10 gig-goers have fallen victim to fake tickets in the last year, polling shows today, as ministers warn of scammers on social media. Some 14% of music fans surveyed bought a fake ticket, with over three-quarters (77%) of the…
No Dogs in Space is a music history podcast for true obsessives
Now if only they'd give us some new episodes. Now if only they'd give us some new episodes. What we're listening to, watching, and reading right now. Terrence O'Brien is the Verge's weekend editor. He's covered the tech industry for over 18 years…
Funk music is as unapologetically Black as the musicians who pioneered it
This story originally ran July 26, 2020. At a time when some folks still don't think Black lives matter, and respond to any assertion that they do with deflections and denialist “All Lives Matter” reactions, I'm reminded of when James…
Fans Choose Stray Kids 'This & That' as This Week's Favorite New Music
THIS & THAT, Stray Kids ' new eight-song collection (which features an anthemic new track of the same name), tops this week's new music poll. Listeners voted in a poll published Friday (Aug. 7) on Billboard, choosing the octet's latest release as…
AIBU to think music festivals are unsuitable for babies and toddlers?
Please or to access all these features Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters. ShesRunningOutTheDoor · Today 16:30 Taking babies, toddlers and small children to music festivals is not good parenting. A) loud -…
Bliss review at Edinburgh Fringe: dazzling new musical
“Genuine musical treat” Aug 9, 202612:49 by Paul Vale Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Akshara Gunda, Miriam Nyarko, Alexandra Emmerson-Kirby and Matilda Shapland in Bliss at Pleasance Courtyard, Edinburgh Dazzling new musical from…
Andrea Bocelli to headline inaugural music festival in Cardiff
Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli will make his return to Wales after two decades to deliver his first headline performance here. The classical artist, 67, will take to the stage at the Principality Stadium in Cardiff in 2027 as part of the inaugural…
Donald Trump Responds to Taylor Swift Music Removal from TikTok Posts
Donald Trump ‘s TikTok account and Taylor Swift are back in the middle of a public back-and-forth after Swift's music was removed from a Team Trump video. The response from Trump's account was to take a not-so-subtle jab at the pop star…
Take a first look inside Leeds' major new revamped music venue TESTBED
Leeds' major new revamped music venue TESTBED is set to reopen next month after a major overhaul. READ MORE: Reading & Leeds boss talks biggest-ever arena overhaul and “strength of UK and Irish music” on line-up: “We're buzzing…
North West, 13, Just Dropped a Horror-Anime Music Video Where She Haunts an Abandoned School and Sings 'Everyone Betrays Me.'
“Aishite” landed August 7 and it's built like a horror anime, blood running down the frame as North West drifts through an abandoned school and arcade, her face slipping in and out of focus. Blue hair, facial piercings, staring…
New theater festival opens call for Filipino plays, musicals
Filipino playwrights are being invited to submit original one-act works for a new theater festival that will develop selected pieces for live production and provide further opportunities for their work to grow. Called Teatro Panalo, the inaugural…
Watching Full House's Dave Coulier, John Stamos And More Dance To C&C Music Factory Is Peak '90s
For all that Full House and Fuller House vets Jodie Sweetin, John Stamos and others may have had issues early on with embracing their sitcom fandoms as not to feel typecast, the stars have long since put aside such worries and have seemingly spent…
Madonna pays emotional tribute to music producer William Orbit
Madonna has paid emotional tribute to her longtime collaborator and acclaimed music producer William Orbit following his death at age 69, according to The BBC. The Grammy-winning producer, whose real name was William Wainwright, passed away at his…
Rock photographer Gered Mankowitz's private archive to be sold
A private collection of photographs that adorned the covers of some of the greatest British rock and pop albums of the 1960s, 70s and 80s is to be auctioned. More than 100 signed photographs taken by acclaimed music photographer Gered Mankowitz are…
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