Despite having a bone to pick with last year’s Met Gala, Lizzo appeared at Anna Wintour’s pre-Met Gala dinner on Sunday night.
17.04.2023 - 21:25 / variety.com
Jeff Miller There’s no question that the most-talked-about performance of Coachella weekend one was Frank Ocean’s festival-closing, wildly uneven set. But that’s unfortunate seeing as the desert gathering, often seen as a state-of-pop-music coming out party, had an enormous amount of interesting and often great stories and sets over the course of three days. The biggest takeaway, trend-wise, is that international music has clearly cemented its place in the pop stratosphere; Friday night’s headliner Bad Bunny performed nearly his entire Friday headline set, including the intros and interstitials, in Spanish, while K-Pop superstars Blackpink blew away haters with a tightly choreographed, jaw-dropping Saturday night performance.
Coachella has been undeservingly slammed by its early indie-rock devotees for focusing on track-rappers and pop lip-synchers, but walking the field this weekend showed there was a heavy-duty emphasis on “real” musicianship — be that the lovely harmonies of supergroup boygenius, the inventive art-jazz of Hiatus Kaiyote, multi-instrumentalist FKJ looping instruments to build into fully-realized tracks while audience members picked up their jaws from the floor, or even producer Porter Robinson playing his beat-heavy bangers with a full-on live band. And for those who hit the desert hoping to catch a major surprise, so long as they were in the right place at the right time, they got their wish: not only did the original Blink-182 lineup reform for a surprise set, but last year’s headliner Billie Eilish performed “Never Felt So Alone” with her collaborator Labrinth; Odd Future’s Tyler the Creator appeared with “Telepatia” singer Kali Uchis; and Ciara joined in for a mini-set with K-pop star Jackson
Despite having a bone to pick with last year’s Met Gala, Lizzo appeared at Anna Wintour’s pre-Met Gala dinner on Sunday night.
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Coachella dominated the news cycle for the two weeks in which it elapsed. This year’s headliners took listeners on a roller coaster of music and emotions, from Bad Bunny becoming the first all-Spanish headliner to Frank Ocean having his first onstage performance since 2019.
The Last Dinner Party have responded to claims that they are an ‘industry plant’ band.The much-hyped London group and NME 100 alumni – who are signed to Island Records – released their debut single ‘Nothing Matters’ last week to widespread acclaim.On Tuesday (April 25), the five-piece played a sold-out headline show at Camden Assembly in London, which followed support slots with The Rolling Stones and Nick Cave. The band will open for Florence + The Machine and First Aid Kit this summer, and are also due to embark on a UK and European tour.Off the back of their recent plaudits and achievements, some Twitter users have suggested that The Last Dinner Party could be an ‘industry plant’ act, ‘nepo babies’ or may have had prior connections in the music industry.Earlier today (April 27), the group responded to a tweet that claimed they were “nothing special” and had been “clearly made by a label”.They replied: “I know I shouldn’t engage but this is just a nasty lie.“We weren’t put together like a K-pop girl group, we’ve known each other since we were 18 as we met during freshers week, there are videos of us playing live as an unsigned band all last year and we got signed from those.”i know i shouldn’t engage but this is just a nasty lie.
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Weekend two of the 2023 Coachella Music Festival has arrived and you can watch all of the live stream videos here!
It’s weekend two of the 2023 Coachella Music Festival and we have the set times for all of the performers set to take the stage.
Blink-182 are set to take the stage at Coachella 2023 weekend 2 after Frank Ocean dropped out.
After a very chaotic and polarizing set at Coachella Weekend 1, many music fest fans are asking: who is replacing Frank Ocean at Coachella?
The Last Dinner Party have shared their highly anticipateddebut single ‘Nothing Matters’. Check it out below.The much-hyped NME 100 stars’ launch single was produced by James Ford (Arctic Monkeys, Foals, Florence and the Machine, Depeche Mode) and draws on frontwoman Abigail Morris’ operatic voice and NSFW honest lyricism.Introducing the single on Instagram, the band wrote: “Thank you to everyone who has joined us on this journey so far, and to anyone who is new, welcome, take a seat at the dinner party.
Frank Ocean has cancelled his Coachella Weekend 2 headlining set, scheduled to close out the festival this coming Sunday (April 23), Pitchfork reports and The FADER has confirmed. Frank’s Weekend 1 performance — which some very vocal, extremely online fans felt was lackluster — was affected by a leg injury he had sustained earlier last week, according to his publicist.
Frank Ocean has pulled out of his headline performance at Coachella's second weekend.
Coachella this weekend after a controversial performance in the desert on Sunday, The Post can confirm. Blink-182 will reportedly take the 35-year-old “Lost” singer’s place this Sunday.The punk band’s original lineup, Mark Hoppus, 51, Travis Barker, 47, and Tom Delonge, 47, reunited at Coachella on Friday for the first time since Delonge left the band in 2015. “After suffering an injury to his leg on festival grounds in the week leading up to weekend 1, Frank Ocean was unable to perform the intended show but was still intent on performing, and in 72 hours, the show was reworked out of necessity,” Ocean’s rep said in a statement to The Post on Wednesday.
The show must go on. Frank Ocean will no longer headline the final weekend of Coachella after his polarizing first performance the week prior.
involving an ice rink and dozens of skaters for Ocean’s set Sunday, April 16 were scrapped hours before the performance began.Blink-182 member Tom Delonge posted on Instagram that the band will fill the headliner slot on Sunday, April 23, but the post has been deleted. The rock band were surprise performers at the first festival weekend.Attendees of Frank’s only set reported that he showed up an hour late, he couldn’t be seen by a lot of audience members and he didn’t perform some of his most popular songs.“It was chaotic,” the “Ivy” singer told media.
Frank Ocean is no longer set to headline the second weekend of Coachella after a divisive and poorly received performance last Sunday.A rep for the singer released a statement to ET confirming, «Frank Ocean will not be performing at weekend 2 of Coachella.»«After suffering an injury to his leg on festival grounds in the week leading up to weekend 1, Frank Ocean was unable to perform the intended show but was still intent on performing, and in 72 hours, the show was reworked out of necessity.»The rep's statement said that, «on doctor’s advice,» Ocean will not perform again «due to two fractures and a sprain in his left leg.»The statement included remarks from Ocean himself, who commented on his first weekend set, sharing, «It was chaotic. There is some beauty in chaos.
Frank Ocean will not be performing his scheduled headlining slot at Coachella this Sunday, a rep for the singer confirms to Variety. A source close to the situation says his spot will be taken by Blink-182. The statement reads: “Frank Ocean will not be performing at weekend 2 of Coachella. “After suffering an injury to his leg on festival grounds in the week leading up to weekend 1. Frank Ocean was unable to perform the intended show but was still intent on performing, and in 72 hours, the show was reworked out of necessity. “On doctor’s advice, [Ocean] is not able to perform weekend 2 due to two fractures and a sprain in his left leg.”
Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker are a very supportive couple!
A sly acknowledgement? Camila Cabello recapped her Coachella experience with a series of photos — and a very cheeky caption that may have alluded to her headline-making PDA with ex-boyfriend Shawn Mendes.