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A Day to Remember is embarking on a tour to remember!

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic Filmmaker Michael Lindsay-Hogg is having a bit of a “hail the conquering hero” moment that very few people would have expected him to be having this far into the 21st century, least of all himself. Although he has had many successes in film and in the theater over the last 60 years or so, he remains most famous as the director of the Beatles documentary “Let It Be” — and that 1970 film remains most famous as something that has been kept locked in the vault since it got a brief VHS and laserdisc release in the early 1980s.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer A day after an unidentified assailant shot a security guard at Drake’s Toronto home, an intruder has been arrested for trying to gain access to the property, located in Bridle Path. Toronto police have confirmed that they returned to the rapper’s house around 2 p.m.

North West is officially going to be a Disney star!

Tonight’s performance of Broadway‘s Sufjan Stevens dance musical Illinoise has been canceled due to the death of a backstage company member.

Lexi Carson “Illinoise” may be called a new musical on Broadway, but its real language is dance. Tony Award-winner Justin Peck directed and choreographed “Illinoise,” a 90-minute show without any dialogue. “Illinoise” opened on Broadway at the St.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Meshell Ndegeocello, Fishbone and others lead the 2024 season of the long-running BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival lineup. Now in its 46 th year, the festival returns to the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park beginning on June 8 and wrapping on August 24. It is the longest-running free performing arts festival in New York City.

Todd Spangler NY Digital Editor An Apple commercial for the new iPad Pro tablet showing an industrial press literally crushing a TV, musical instruments, books and more ignited an angry backlash among many in Hollywood and other creative industries. The ad, titled “Crush!”, shows an array of various objects — including a record player, a piano, a guitar, an old TV set, cameras, a typewriter, books, paint cans and a classic arcade game machine — getting compressed into (voila!) the new iPad Pro.

Apple‘s new iPad Pro advert, which sees a selection of vintage instruments being destroyed, has caused controversy among music fans.The advert was shared by company CEO Tim Cook and features vintage, guitars, pianos, trumpets, and metronomes, as well as turntables, speakers, and arcade games being crushed to a soundtrack of Sonny and Cher‘s ‘All I Need Is You’.Fans have flocked to social media to share their outrage at the advert. “Can’t recall the last time I saw a promo that so immediately and completely turned me against the product it was supposed to be selling,” one wrote.Check out the advert – and the displeased response to it – below.Meet the new iPad Pro: the thinnest product we’ve ever created, the most advanced display we’ve ever produced, with the incredible power of the M4 chip.

It's been a difficult few weeks for Co-op Live. The £365m music venue, located at Eastlands next to the Etihad Stadium had been slated to open on April 23 with comedian Peter Kay taking to the stage, but its opening has been delayed several times due to 'technical issues' and ongoing building work.

Tributes have flooded in after rock producer Steve Albini, best known for collaborating with Nirvana, has died at 61 years old.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music A long list of artists including Robert Plant, Pink Floyd’s David Gilmour, Peter Frampton, Bryan Adams and more have joined the late British singer Steve Marriott’s children and bandmates in opposing the release of “new” recordings featuring AI-generated versions of his vocals. The former frontman of the Small Faces and Humble Pie (and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee) was one of the most influential rock singers of the 1960s, renowned for songs like “All or Nothing,” “Tin Soldier,” “Itchykoo Park,” “I Don’t Need No Doctor” and more.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Nearly three years after a crowd crush at Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival left 10 concertgoers dead, event promoter Live Nation has settled nine of the 10 wrongful death lawsuits that came in the wake of the catastrophe. News of the settlements comes as one of the lawsuits was set to go to trial this week.

The 46th annual BRIC Celebrate Brooklyn! Festival takes over the NYC borough's Prospect Park this summer, and today the lineup has been announced. From June 8-August 24, acts like Meshell Ndegeocello, Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Charlotte Adigéry & Bolis Pupul, Sinkane, The Halluci Nation, Black Belt Eagle Scout, and many more will perform free shows at the Lena Horne Bandshell.

Live Nation is celebrating Concert Week once again!

Coronation Street star Daniel Brocklebank has been seen enjoying a soap reunion as he was reunited with his friend and former co-star as she 'raises hell' in Manchester. The actor was out supporting Catherine Tyldesley as she was back on home turf with her latest show.

EXCLUSIVE: Afghan Star is a music talent format that ran for 15 seasons in Afghanistan and shephered in a cultural revolution in the country. Launched four years after the fall of the Taliban, the series searched for talented singers before it was canceled when the Taliban regained power and banned music.

Addie Morfoot Contributor Kino Lorber has acquired North American rights to “Daytime Revolution,” a documentary about the week that John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-hosted “The Mike Douglas Show” in early 1972. Directed by Erik Nelson, with creative consultation from Ono and her son, Sean Ono Lennon, the doc uses archival footage from each of the five 70-minute shows as well as interviews with six surviving guests, including Ralph Nader, to tell the behind-the-scenes story of theses shows.

EXCLUSIVE: The Voice is headed to the metaverse. The international format is getting an immersive gaming experience that will accompany the TV singing competition format.

North West, Broadway’s Heather Headley and Grammy winner Lebo M. have been added to the cast of Disney’s The Lion King 30th Anniversary – A Live-to-Film Concert Event, a musical concert set to run May 24-25 at the Hollywood Bowl.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans Editor North West is set to make her Hollywood Bowl debut next month at Disney’s live-to-film concert/screening of “The Lion King.” West, the daughter of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, is set to star alongside Jeremy Irons, Nathan Lane, Billy Eichner, Ernie Sabella, Jason Weaver, Jennifer Hudson and Bradley GIbson. Broadway actress Heather Headley and Lebo M. round out the cast.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music (This article is unintentionally a counterpoint to my colleague Owen Gleiberman’s considerably more-positive take on the Beatles‘ “Let It Be” film, restored by Peter Jackson and released today on Disney+.) When I was a Beatles-obsessed seven-year-old, my mother, in an act of selfless parental love, took me to a Fab Four film festival: “Hard Day’s Night,” “Let It Be,” “Yellow Submarine” and “Help!,” one after the other. My mom was a cool assistant professor of English at the local university who dressed “hip,” loved music and picked up some listening habits from her students.

Taylor Swift and Scooter Braun is coming out in June.The singer has been re-recording her first six studio albums after Braun’s Ithaca Holdings acquired Scott Borchetta’s Big Machine Label Group, which included Swift’s early work.Now, a two-episode docuseries titled Taylor Swift Vs Scooter Braun: Bad Blood, will premiere on Discovery+ in June 2024.The series, which will consist of two hour-long episodes, will explore the dispute and the lead-up to Swift’s re-recording decision.According to Rolling Stone, the series is set to explore gender dynamics and fandom culture within the music industry.Swift, who has released the re-recordings of four of the six albums as ‘Taylor’s Version’, has been vocal about the dispute over her masters, arguing that she was prevented from bidding on the purchase. She said in 2019 that she “learned about Scooter Braun’s purchase of my masters as it was announced to the world”.Braun, however, maintains that Swift created a public feud by turning her fans against him, and “refused to negotiate”, according to a description of the upcoming series.Back in 2022, Braun addressed the issue, saying: “I think a lot of things got lost in translation.

Manchester United loanee Jadon Sancho danced on the dressing room table with a music speaker and led his teammates to sing a rendition of Adele on Tuesday night.

In 2006, singer Sandi Thom shot to stardom with her hit song, I Wish I Was A Punk Rocker (With Flowers in My Hair), dreaming about rocking out with flowers adorning her hair. Fast-forward 18 years and she appears as youthful as ever, holding onto the revolutionary spirit we first fell in love with back then.The Scottish star was a sensation in the mid-2000s thanks to her foot-tapping melody, which managed to reach the coveted number one spot on the UK charts. She started out streaming via MySpace, putting on gigs right from her London flat, before being scooped up by RCA Records, after which she wowed on the music charts.

previously expanded into the Asia Pacific region last year, with SXSW Sydney in 2023.As well as continuing to welcome the world’s leading speakers, which have previously included Barack Obama, Dave Grohl, Steven Spielberg, Tilda Swinton and more, the UK edition promises to “bring its own distinctive personality, driven by London’s internationally renowned cultural life and creativity, its status as a global meeting place, and its proximity to other major creative and tech centres in Europe”.In addition to the keynotes and innovations in tech, the event will showcase a range of musical performances from both big names and emerging talent.

The South by Southwest festival is expanding to London in June, 2025.

Jack Dunn The South by Southwest festival, held annually in Austin, Texas, will launch a European edition in London in June 2025. SXSW London will feature the mix of keynotes conversations, film and TV events, music showcases and showcases for innovations in digital and gaming that have defined SXSW since the festival began in 1987. The London festival will emphasize visual arts, design and fashion with exhibitions and immersive experiences that will be held in the Shoreditch area of east London.

Nutsa is joining another competition – 2024 Eurovision Song Contest!!

You would think finding out your dad is in a music video with Taylor Swift would be the coolest thing ever! However, Ethan Hawke’s youngest daughters weren’t as hyped after all…