6 h. ago Fyre Festival 2 already shrouded in doubt after Mexican authorities say they have NO record of anyone asking for permits for the event which is charging up to $1.1m for tickets

The reboot of the 2017 festival has now been postponed just a month before its scheduled kick-off, with organisers failing to provide a specific reason as to why.

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11 h. ago ITV Emmerdale fans 'rumble' Joe Tate's real reason for dating Dawn and it's not good news

Emmerdale viewers are convinced that Joe Tate is up to something and is using Dawn Fletcher for one very specific reason.

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5 d. ago Benson Boone sends fans into frenzy with shock album announcement sparking tour hopes

American singer Benson Boone thrilled fans at Coachella on Friday - with a shock appearance from Sir Brian May - only to drive them even more wild with an album announcement

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5 d. ago Olly Alexander review – part night creature, part light entertainer

Palladium, LondonThe singer and actor hints at an outre new synth-heavy sound, drawn largely from latest album Polari. He stops short, though, of scaring his daytime TV fans“I’m all about playful subversion,” declares Olly Alexander with a grin on the final night of his UK tour. Clad in a series of outfits whose shiny buttons nod towards London’s pearly kings and queens and the dressing-up box – there’s one handily located on the left side of the stage – he is outlining the essence of Polari, the slang once used by the LGBTQ+ community, showfolk and the denizens of London’s Soho, as was.Evolving out of the vocabularies of Italian immigrants and Travellers to evade the understanding of law enforcement and mainstream society in the 19th and early-mid 20th centuries, Polari also doubles as the title of Alexander’s latest, queer-club pop-themed album. Released two months ago, it was the first under his own name; previously, he had traded as Years & Years, first as a band, then as a ...

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8 d. ago Bob Dylan fans 'keep going back' to one album for very specific reason

Music fans have been discussing whether one album from the legendary Bob Dylan is as good as they think - with one user dubbing it a 'comfort album' they can play again and again

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1 week ago 70s folk legend who rose to fame in Bob Dylan's NYC music scene dead at 83 as emotional tributes paid

His family announced his passing 'with resounding sadness' in a statement released by his record label, No Quarter Rex, on Thursday.

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2 w. ago Black Country, New Road: Forever Howlong review | Alexis Petridis's album of the week

(Ninja Tune)After losing their frontman, the band’s third studio album shows how resilient and adaptable they are, with luscious melodies, fantastical lyrics and lots of recordersThe last time Black Country, New Road released a studio album, in 2022, it was accompanied by a strange feeling. Their debut the previous year had reached No 4 in the UK charts, and Ants from Up There was an even greater breakthrough, the sound of the UK septet pulling confidently away from the serried ranks of sprechgesang-heavy alt-rock bands who proliferated in the late 2010s. But there was an elegiac feeling around its release: Black Country, New Road’s frontman, Isaac Wood, had announced his departure four days prior. The others had resolved to continue without him, but given how distinctive Wood’s declarative, ruminating vocals were, many thought the band’s future was uncertain at best.That proved to be an underestimation. Instead of touring Ants from Up There, the remaining members stopped playing an...

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2 w. ago Harry Styles listens to music through wired headphones as he passes a starstruck Deliveroo driver

Harry Styles was spotted listening to music through a pair of wired headphones while out and about in central London on Thursday afternoon.

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3 w. ago Ed Sheeran fans spot 'hidden meaning' in new single as star confirms new album

Ed Sheeran has announced he will be releasing a new single soon, and teased that a new album is also on the way as he shared a video of himself dancing in a music studio

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3 w. ago What to stream: 'Mufasa: The Lion King,' Timothée Chalamet, Will Smith, Seth Rogen and Atomfall

Will Smith releasing his first album in 20 years, the 14-track “Based on a True Story,” and “Mufasa: The Lion King,” Barry Jenkins’ photorealistic prequel to the 1994 animated classic, are some of this week’s new streaming entertainment releases

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3 w. ago Jeff Bridges ‘confused’ over Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown

Film secured eight Oscar nominations but did not win any

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3 w. ago Jeff Bridges shares confusion over Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown

Film secured eight Oscar nominations but did not win any

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3 w. ago ‘Emotions? They’re no big thing, man!’ Jeff Bridges on satisfaction, silver linings – and his secret life in music

As his lost 70s songs emerge, the Oscar-winner and musician explains how the magic of art keeps him upbeat even after losing homes to LA firesA rainy day in Santa Barbara, and Jeff Bridges sits in his garage, wondering where his favourite spectacles have got to. We are in the middle of a rangy conversation on a video call, meandering our way from Bob Dylan to the anthropomorphism of bees, via Crazy Heart, Cutter’s Way and The Big Lebowski. There are sidetracks and double-backs and loose threads. Intermittently, an unseen assistant hands the actor pairs of glasses seemingly identical to the ones he is already wearing. Bridges, in a soft brown cardigan, inspects each pair and dismisses them. “Where was I?” he asks.The garage here serves as Bridges’ jam space and ceramics workshop. He has drums set up for his grandson, and a picture of Captain Beefheart on the wall. Since December, when his FX series The Old Man was cancelled, the 75-year-old has been spending more of his days here. “N...

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4 w. ago Bryan Ferry and Amelia Barratt: Loose Talk review | Alexis Petridis’ album of the week

(Dene Jesmond)Veering from the standard heritage-artist playbook, Ferry pairs unearthed demos from across his career with cool narration from Barratt, to beautiful, unsettling effectThere comes a point in every august artist’s career where they’re forced to make an accommodation with their own past, a tacit acknowledgment that anything new they release exists in the shadow of their own back catalogue. In recent years, Bryan Ferry has done just that, tending his legacy via vast box set retrospectives of his solo work; reconvening Roxy Music for a 50th anniversary tour; and releasing a cover of Bob Dylan’s She Belongs to Me that seemed to discreetly reference the subtler moments on Roxy’s eponymous debut or 1973’s For Your Pleasure.Anniversary tours, deluxe box sets, slyly referential cover versions: these are the things almost all artists of a certain vintage and standing indulge in. But Ferry has also taken a more idiosyncratic parallel approach to his history. On 2012’s The Jazz Ag...

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