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Björk resurrects her avant-garde stage work Cornucopia at Reykjavík’s Harpa next February for ten nights as a walk-through installation. Audiences roam four sensory chambers—Water, Microbiology, Lungs, Aurora—guided by floor projections. Iris van Herpen’s new mycelium bodysuits sprout LED “spores” in response to body heat, while an
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Halfway through eligibility, insiders call the 2026 Grammy Best-New-Artist race the densest since Billie Eilish’s year. Nashville soul singer Tanner Ray leads betting after Coal Smoke Hearts topped Apple Music Americana for six weeks. London avant-pop duo Velvet Circuit ride TikTok loops of their 47-second “Sleep Debt.” Latin rocker
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Hip-hop outlet XXL’s May calendar is stacked with southern releases: Gunna’s Drip Godfather (Metro Boomin, Southside) headlines, while Megan Thee Stallion’s Hot Girl Graduate drops the same Friday, led by a Pharrell-produced Beyoncé sample. Veteran Slim Thug revives Boss of All Bosses; Mobile’s Flo Milli issues
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San Antonio alt-metal quartet Nothing More will support their LP Carnal (out 7 March) with an 82-date headline/festival circuit spanning four continents. The run opens 12 April at Mexico City’s Foro Palacio and wraps July 2026 in Helsinki. Front-man Jonny Hawkins debuts a hydraulically enhanced “Scorpion Tail” MIDI
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Sludge-metal legends Melvins and power-pop icons Redd Kross will share top billing this autumn on the 24-city “Stop Your Whining” tour—their first joint run after three decades of cult parallel careers. The trek launches 18 October in Boise, “because Idaho didn’t complain last time we blew the PA,
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In 1930s Belleville a four-foot-ten teenager named Édith Gassion sang beneath the quartier’s only working streetlamp. She believed the yellow glow acted like a spotlight, drawing late-night café drinkers to drop francs into her cap. Her repertoire mixed sailor ballads, café-concert waltzes and shards of opera she’d learned
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By 1977 Fela Anikulapo Kuti had turned his Lagos compound, Kalakuta Republic, into a self-proclaimed nation with a free clinic, pirate radio mast and 24-hour Afrobeat rehearsals. His single “Zombie” mocked Nigeria’s soldiers as mindless pawns—“Attention! Quick March!”—and taxi drivers blasted cassette dubs despite radio bans. At
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Joni Mitchell left hospital in 2015 after a brain aneurysm unable to walk unaided, let alone form the wide guitar shapes that defined her music. For three years she rarely touched an instrument, filling sketchbooks with charcoal portraits while friends like Brandi Carlile visited on Fridays to play her old
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In 1986, between Parade rehearsals, Prince tracked an instrumental LP under the alias Madhouse. He wrote liner notes as “Eric Leeds,” delivered tapes to Warner Bros. at 4 a.m., then called two hours later demanding it shelved. Bootlegs surfaced anyway; a 2023 vault search confirmed the master exists on
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After walking offstage in 1970 to protest segregated seating, Nina Simone fled to Barbados, then Liberia, before settling in Paris. There she played tiny Left Bank clubs for cash while teaching voice at the American School. To avoid French taxes, she carried her fee in a cigarette tin and slept
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Concertful’s rolling chart shows Coldplay with 30 arena shows booked through September, edging Metallica for the most in-demand tour of 2025. Broker SeatGeek notes average resale prices at $420, double 2024’s Music of the Spheres average. Promoters credit eco-friendly “kinetic floors,” allowing fans’ footsteps to power portions of
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Pitchfork’s updated release calendar lists 18 full-lengths dropping 14-16 May. Rapper Aminé’s 13 Months of Sunshine features Ethiopian jazz samples cleared by Mulatu Astatke himself, while Chuckyy’s cyber-punk opus I Live, I Die, I Live Again ships with a companion mobile game. Vinyl brokers warn pressing plants