TORONTO — Two Ontario music festivals spiralled into disarray over the weekend, leaving concertgoers fuming and calling for refunds.
20.07.2022 - 11:57 / nme.com
Chance The Rapper and Vic Mensa have announced plans to launch a music festival in Ghana.The rappers are set to launch The Black Star Line Festival on January 6, 2023 in Accra, Ghana’s Black Star Square.“Everything we’re doing is with the goal of uniting and building a bridge between black people of the diaspora and the globe, with the continent,” Mensa said in a statement (via Pitchfork).
“And Ghana is the gateway to all of that.”A line-up is yet to be revealed for the event, which draws its name from political activist Marcus Garvey’s short-lived but influential shipping company, founded with the intention of connecting black people across the global economy, but the rappers promised the “biggest artists in the world”.
.TORONTO — Two Ontario music festivals spiralled into disarray over the weekend, leaving concertgoers fuming and calling for refunds.
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Juan Gabriel passed away on August 28, 2016, at the age of 66, but there might be new Juanga music on the way. The official Instagram account for Gabriel, which was created in 2014, has shared two posts to an otherwise blank grid: a photo with the word “Ya,” along with a short video clip with the same word, and music.A post shared by Juan Gabriel (@soyjuangabriel_)Fans of the late singer have since been questioning what the posts mean in the comments. “Do you plan to revive?” Reads one of them.
Chance The Rapper has responded to suggestions online that his career has “fallen off”.The rapper was talking to The Breakfast Club earlier this week when co-host Charlamagne Tha God asked him about how he deals with negative criticism of his work.“How hard is it to not feed into criticism you may see of yourself online? Because there is a lot of chatter online that they like to say Chance the Rapper fell off, that’s their language,” Charlamagne asked him in the studio, the footage of which you can watch below.“Man. I don’t know,” Chance replied.
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Chance The Rapper has opened up about last year’s leaked footage of himself being yelled at by Kanye West, saying the interaction made him “evaluate” their friendship.Last January, a video emerged of Chance and West in the studio together for a ‘DONDA’ recording session. It appeared to show West — now legally known as Ye — growing increasingly agitated before lashing out at Chance, telling him to sit his “ass down and listen to the album or leave.”Speaking to The Morning Hustle about the exchange in a recent interview, Chance said it was a clip of “a larger moment, like no one’s ever gonna get the full story of what’s going on.”“I saw people put fake captions under the video to make it look like he was talking about my music or something like that. But in all honesty, this is real life.
Naman Ramachandran A galaxy of stars paid fulsome tribute to filmmaker John McTiernan (“Die Hard,” “Predator”) and stuntman Vic Armstrong (the Indiana Jones, James Bond and Star Wars franchises) as they were both awarded Moving Target awards on Friday for their outstanding contributions to the action genre at the inaugural London Action Festival.The awards were presented at London’s Royal London Geographical Society and icons from the genre attended, including Corin Hardy (“Gangs of London”), composer David Arnold (“Casino Royale”) Robert Davi (“Die Hard”) and Edgar Wright (“Last Night in Soho”).Prominent film personalities who have worked with McTiernan and Armstrong conveyed their appreciation via video messages. Harrison Ford praised Armstrong, saying: “We’ve been doing this Vic for like 50 years! You’ve had the good sense to turn it into a directing job ‘cos this running, jumping and falling down thing is a game for the young guys.
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Connie Constance has announced that she will release her new album, ‘Miss Power’, later this year, it sharing its name with the single she released in May.The latest single from the LP is ‘Till The World’s Awake’, of which she says: “The beast, the party, the anthem. Day one of this saturated over stimulating world and everything feels possible”.“For the most part”, she adds, “this song for me was just the indie dance single of my dreams, since writing it it has taken on a whole other meaning.
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Moss. “Brady saw the video very clearly in his head, but I can’t imagine he could have guessed how well his idea fit with what I wanted to reveal and express about the song,” Hawke told , saying she wanted to express, “the feeling that loneliness is the worst thing, until you realize it’s far superior to bad company; about how free we are as kids and then as we go through puberty and culture crushes down on us and instead of being ourselves, we start to try and be like everyone else.”It's traditional here to wonder what Maya Hawke's famous father thinks about his daughter expressing sexuality so openly, but Ethan Hawke has already indicated that he's the kind of dad who lets his girls live their own lives.