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Citing safety concerns, Indonesian authorities have refused to issue a permit for Lady Gaga’s June 3rd show in Jakarta. Conservative Muslim groups have protested Lady Gaga’s appearance since it was announced. Since 2008, there have been successful campaigns targeting concerts by Mötley Crüe, N*E*R*D, Rihanna, Akon, 50 Cent and Avenged Sevenfold. Salim Alatas, from the Islam Defenders [...]
With the release of Kristian Matsson’s newest LP under the guise of The Tallest Man On Earth in the next month, it’s high time that we heard a snippet from the new album. So here we have it. ’1904′. It’s a song with the typical Tallest Man On Earth sound that will be very pleasing [...]
Green Day and Neil Young & Crazy Horse have been announced as headliners at the 14th annual VOODOO Music Festival. Other confirmed performers include Skrillex; Justice; Tomahawk; Say Anything; Bootsy Collins; Gary Clark Jr.; and Preservation Hall Jazz Band. The full lineup consisting of 150 acts will be unveiled in the coming months. The three-day festival [...]
While he’s not producing hits for everyone from Jay-Z to Gloria Estefan, modeling for Louis Vuitton, or working as creative director of Karmaloop TV, Grammy winning producer Pharrell Williams will now be focusing his energy on building his new label “i am OTHER.” Four artists have been introduced as i am OTHER’s premiere acts: a [...]
Agree or disagree, I’m not one of those people who lets an individual’s personal life or ideologies impact my impressions of their art or products that they produce, to a larger extent. Harboring love-hate feelings toward artists is not a problem for me. I’ve always been a Guns N’ Roses fan, though I owned a [...]
Indie rockers The Blood Arm are to play a free acoustic gig on Berlin’s U-8 metro line, this Saturday, 19th May. Admission will be the cost of a U-Bahn ticket. Described as a public event on Facebook earlier today, the band has announced that all contributions from the show, presumably from their most generous fans, [...]
John Lydon and PiL are back after a 20-year hiatus with their new single, “One Drop’.” A promo video has also been unveiled, which features footage of the singer’s London home and producer Steve Winwood’s countryside studios. The song has already been released as part of an EP for Record Store Day, but it will [...]
Standing on the stairs of Philadelphia Museum of Art, with multiple media outlets awaiting in awe, Jay-z and Mayor Michael Nutter introduced the world to the “Made in America” Music Festival. Sponsored by Budweiser, the festival is set to take over Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park on September 1st and 2nd. This event, headlined by Sean Carter, [...]
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