Month: January 2024

Coachella, North Ameria’s largest musical festival, has announced its 2024 lineup, posting on its socials: “D.A.N.C.E. Register now for access to passes at http://coachella.com”

The 23rd installment of the festival features headliners No Doubt, Doja Cat, Lana Del Rey, and Tyler, the Creator, taking place at its home at the Empire Polo Grounds in Indio, Calif., on the weekends of April 12-14 and April 19-21. Also featured on the lineup are Peso Pluma, Blur, J Balvin, Ice Spice, Sublime, Lil Uzi Vert, Grimes, Victoria Monet, Jon Batiste, Bleachers, Justice, Deftones, Lil Yachty and more.

No Doubt will perform for the first time in nearly a decade. The band, led by Gwen Stefani, released their sixth album Push and Shove in 2012 before taking a break in 2015 to pursue individual projects. No Doubt last performed at the Kaaboo Festival in Del Mar, California on September 18, 2015.

Tickets are on sale now (for your best chance at passes, look to Weekend 2). Register now for access to passes at coachella.com.

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New York City’s Governors Ball have revealed the lineup for the festival’s 2024 edition, taking place on June 7-9, 2024 at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens. The festival posted on social media: “2024 presale: thursday, 1/18 from 11am-1pm ET.sign up for a presale passcode now at govball.com to guarantee access to the lowest-priced tickets. prices will increase at 1pm this thursday when public on-sale begins”

Headlining the 2024 festival will be SZA, Post Malone, and The Killers. who will be joined by artists including Dominic Fike, Carly Rae Jepsen, Reneé Rapp, Labrinth, Sabrina Carpenter, Don Toliver, Rauw Alejandro, 21 Savage, and Peso Pluma, Alex G, Flo, underscores, Sexyy Red, D4vd, Victoria Monét, Faye Webster, Kevin Abstract, Chappell Road, Beach Fossils, and Hotline TNT.

Queens Borough President Donovan Richards Jr. shared in a statement: “I’m thrilled to welcome everyone back to Flushing Meadows Corona Park for this year’s Governors Ball, featuring headliners SZA, Post Malone and The Killers. We’re deeply grateful for the economic activity the festival will generate for Queens, and we’re even more grateful that the festival is partnering with some of our local nonprofits, including Chhaya, Elmhurst/Corona Recovery Collective and the Alliance for Flushing Meadows Corona Park, to work with our local food vendors and other community groups doing important empowerment work.”

Tickets are available now via: www.governorsballmusicfestival.com.

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Green Day has recently been announced as a headliner of the ‘EA Sports Presents The Madden Bowl’ taking place on February 9 at the House of Blues in Las Vegas.  Joining Green Day are Big Boi, Killer Mike, and Breland. Andrea Hopelain, GM & SVP of Publishing for EA SPORTS, shared: “The Super Bowl is a moment where the world comes together in celebration of football, and we love being part of it with our fans, our partners at the NFL, and everyone who loves the sport. We’re thrilled Madden Bowl is back bigger than ever, with the brightest stars from sport, music, gaming and entertainment to kick off the biggest weekend in football.”

Green Day said in a statement: “Prepare your ears because we’re gonna bring the loudest show of Super Bowl weekend! Stoked to reunite with Madden NFL and remind the world that rock and football go together like EA SPORTS and It’s In The Game!!”

Said Big Boi: “Las Vegas isn’t ready for the show we’re about to bring! Madden Bowl will be the party of Friday night and as a longtime fan of Madden, I can’t wait to put on a show with my boy Killer Mike to celebrate another Super Bowl with EA SPORTS.”

BRELAND shared: “I’ve had almost every single Madden NFL since 2003, and as the smallest kid in my class with no athletic future, it gave me a chance to feel like a professional football player when I turned it on. Playing Madden Bowl is a full circle moment in my life and I couldn’t be more excited.”

The Madden Bowl will also include interactive experiences and the finale of the Madden NFL 24 championship. The last two players will go head to head in the live championship for the title of Ultimate Madden Bowl Champion, as well as $1 million. The championship will stream live on Twitch and YouTube starting at 6:30 pm.

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Variety has confirmed that Selena Gomez will play Linda Ronstadt in an upcoming biopic. Gomez teased the role by posting a picture of Ronstadt’s 2013 memoir “Simple Dreams” on her Instagram story. No other casting has been announced.

Ronstadt and Gomez are both of Mexican descent. The biopic, currently in pre-production, will be produced by Ronstadt’s manager, John Boylan, and James Keach (who produced the 2019 documentary “Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice.”) Ronstadt is known across many musical genres, and a legend of country, rock ‘n’ roll and Latin music. Her 1970s albums “Heart Like a Wheel” and “Simple Dreams” achieved critical and commercial success, and she won 11 Grammys throughout her career. Ronstadt was honored by both the Recording Academy and the Latin Recording Academy with Lifetime Achievement Awards.

Directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, Ronstadt’s 2019 documentary Linda Ronstadt: The Sound of My Voice chronicled the artist’s nearly five-decade career. In 2011, Ronstadt announced her retirement, revealing she was no longer able to sing due to her progressive supranuclear palsy, which was originally mistaken for Parkinson’s.

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Sheryl Crow has released the title track from her upcoming album “Evolution,” as well as sharing the lyric video for the new song. Evolution is Crow’s first album since 2019’s Threads.

“Evolution”, which follows the release of the album’s first single “Alarm Clock,” is produced by Mike Elizondo (Dr. Dre, Keith Urban, Turnstile). Said Crow of the new album: “I started sending just a couple of demos to Mike, but the songs just kept flowing out of me and it was pretty obvious this was going to be an album. This music and these lyrics came from sitting in the quiet and writing from a deep soul place. I said I’d never make another record, thought there was no point to it. But this music comes from my soul. And I hope whoever hears this record can feel that.”

Evolution is out everywhere on March 29th; you can take a look at the lyric video for the title track: here.

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The Black Keys have announced their 12th studio album, Ohio Players, will arrive on April 5. Ohio Players arrives on the heels of the band’s 2022 album, Dropout Boogie, and will feature contributions from Dan “The Automator” Nakamura, Beck, Noel Gallagher, Greg Kurstin and others.

Drummer Patrick Carney explains: “We had this epiphany: ‘We can call our friends to help us make music.’ It’s funny because we both write songs with other people – Dan all the time [as a solo artist and producer], me when I’m producing a record. That’s what we do.” Guitarist/vocalist Dan Auerbach adds: “No matter who we work with, it never feels like we’re sacrificing who we are. It only feels like it adds some special flavor. We just expanded that palette with people we wanted to work with. We were there to support them and their ideas, to do whatever we could to see that moment flourish. But when it came time to finish the album, it was just Pat and me.”

The band have also released the album’s first single, “Beautiful People (Stay High)”, written by Dan Auerbach, Patrick Carney, Beck and Dan the Automator; you take take a listen – here.

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