TORONTO — Two Ontario music festivals spiralled into disarray over the weekend, leaving concertgoers fuming and calling for refunds.
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Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music CriticNickelodeon is extending its brand to produce the channel’s first full-on music festival, to take place over two days at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena Oct. 22-23, with the Kid Laroi and K-pop group Monsta X as the headliners and support acts including Beabadoobee, 24KGoldn, Alec Benjamin and Joshua Bassett.General admission tickets are $115 plus fees for a single day or $175 for both.
VIP tickets that include separate viewing areas and food vendors are $220 for one day or $360 for two. Tickets go on sale to the general public July 26, preceded by a pre-sale for American Express Platinum cardholders beginning this Wednesday.The festival will include appearances by some of the channel’s non-singing stars, and “experiences” related to shows like “SpongeBob Squarepants,” “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and “The Loud House.” But the fest’s website emphasizes that “NickFest is first and foremost a music festival.” Given the family-friendly nature of the channel and festival, the booking of the Kid Laroi as headliner could prove interesting, given the prevalent R-rated language in his music.
Nearly every song on his debut album, “F*ck Love,” contains healthy amounts of profanity, with many also including testimonials to the benefits of Hennessy or other substances (sample lyrics: “Don’t give a fuck, let’s get drunk and then fuck, fucked up”). His between-song commentary also tends toward the salty, so whether Laroi will be asked to censor his set to make it suitable for Nickelodeon’s youngest fans — if that’s even possible, in toto — may pose an interesting question going in.The lineup is being geared toward kids and parents, but also those that may have aged out of the
.TORONTO — Two Ontario music festivals spiralled into disarray over the weekend, leaving concertgoers fuming and calling for refunds.
Some of the Love Island stars from this year's show proved their bond is stronger than ever as they enjoyed a group day out at a music festival in the summer sunshine.The stars in question included Danica Taylor, 21, Coco Lodge, 27, Summer Botwe, 22, Mollie Salmon, 23, Chyna Mills, 23, Jazmine Nichol, 21, Lacey Edwards, 25, Jay Younger, 28, Billy Brown, 23, and Josh Le Grove, 22.The group dressed to the nines as they showed up at We Are FSTVL, which was presented by British clothing retailer Pretty Little Thing, and it had performances from artists such as Craig David, Tyga, Mabel, Chipmunk and Yungen, to name a few. Dancer Danica, 21, who clawed her way to sixth place in Love Island after a very rocky road to finding love, confidently struck a pose in a black string bikini top and a cream belted mini skirt, which she styled with a pair of trainers, as she held a fan to cool off in the scorching temperatures.
Jon Burlingame editorMike Lang, one of the preeminent pianists in Hollywood history, died of lung cancer Friday morning at his home in Studio City. He was 80.Lang played piano (or organ, harpsichord or celeste) on an estimated 2,000 film and TV scores dating back to the mid-1960s, including scores by virtually every great film composer of the past 50 years: John Williams (“Close Encounters of the Third Kind,” “Catch Me If You Can”), Jerry Goldsmith (“Gremlins,” “The Russia House”), John Barry (“Body Heat,” “The Specialist”), Henry Mancini (“10”), Alex North (“The Shoes of the Fisherman”), Elmer Bernstein (“The Rainmaker”), Miklós Rózsa (“Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid”) and many others.Composer Lalo Schifrin (“Mission: Impossible”) was among Lang’s earliest champions in Hollywood, adding Lang’s piano to what eventually became the Grammy-winning Paul Horn album “Jazz Suite on the Mass Texts” in 1965.
With the Venice and Toronto International Film Festivals having unveiled their line-ups, and Telluride always keeping theirs under wraps until Labor Day, it’s time for the New York Film Festival to flex and show off their wares. And that’s exactly what they are doing.
A man whose mouth was "shattered" by a blow from a stranger in an unprovoked attack at Belladrum Music Festival has undergone major surgery to reconstruct his jaw back into place.
A man sustained a serious facial injury in an "unprovoked attack" after he was punched at a popular Scots music festival. The serious assault happened at the Belladrum Tartan Music Festival near Inverness on Friday, July 29.
Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterHoly hot-dog fingers! A24’s zany black comedy “Everything Everywhere All at Once” has cleared a major box office milestone, crossing $100 million in global ticket sales. It’s the first A24 movie to hit that box office benchmark.Since the movie landed in theaters in March, the multiverse adventure turned into the rare indie sleeper hit at the box office on its journey to becoming A24’s highest-grossing film of all time.
After getting fired amid a sexual misconduct scandal, Matt Lauer has plans to return to the spotlight.
Nick Vivarelli International CorrespondentVenice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera will soon unveil the lineup for the fest’s upcoming 79th edition, which will open with Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise.”“White Noise” stars Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig and Jodie Turner-Smith, and is based on the 1985 novel of the same name by Don DeLillo. The film, which will screen in competition, also marks the first time a Netflix film has landed Venice’s opening slot.Elsewhere, Luca Guadagnino’s “Bones and All,” starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell as cannibal lovers on a road trip across America in the 1980s, is among other titles strongly believed to also be set to vie for a Golden Lion.U.S.
LOS ANGELES – Ashlee Simpson recently updated fans on her life, including what it’s like for her kids to get older, and how supportive she is of her husband’s new endeavor into the restaurant world. The couple recently got together on the red carpet to celebrate the opening of The Hideaway, a new Mexican restaurant in Beverly Hills that Evans invested in and is a partner in.
Kid Cudi made a statement during his Rolling Loud Miami performance. On Friday night, Cudi walked off the stage during his headlining performance when fans continued to bombard the artist with water bottles and other objects on stage. Rolling Stone reported that Cudi was hit in the face with at least one water bottle.
Below Deck is one of the most popular shows on Bravo and fans are currently awaiting a 10th season.
Latitude 2022 has opened its gates to festivalgoers – you can check out the latest weather forecast for the bash below.Foals, Lewis Capaldi and Snow Patrol will headline this year’s festival after it returned last summer for the first time since 2019, alongside Maggie Rogers, Little Simz, Manic Street Preachers, Fontaines D.C., and Phoebe Bridgers.Those arriving at Henham Park today (July 21) can expect light cloud and a gentle breeze with highs of 23° this afternoon.However, according to BBC Weather, light rain is then expected from tomorrow afternoon (July 22) before giving way to light cloud and a moderate breeze on Saturday (July 23) and sunny intervals on Sunday (July 24).You can check out the latest BBC Weather forecast below.Thursday July 21: Light cloud and a gentle breeze, with temperatures peaking at 23° and lows of 18°.Friday July 22: Light rain and a gentle breeze, with temperatures peaking at 21° and lows of 15°.Saturday July 23: Light cloud and a moderate breeze, with temperatures peaking at 25° and lows of 14°.Sunday July 24: Sunny intervals and a moderate breeze, with temperatures peaking at 28° and lows of 16°.Foals frontman Yannis Philippakis previously spoke to NME about their upcoming headline performance, who recalled “a significant moment” for the band, when they headlined Latitude for the first time in 2013.“They were the first people to give us a shot at headlining a festival,” Philippakis said of Latitude. “That was obviously a pretty amazing night for us, and I think it arguably changed the trajectory of our career.
Vanessa Bryant took her girls on a family vacation to Italy. To keep their dad’s memories alive, the businesswoman and philanthropist visited Reggio Calabria, a coastal city in southern Italy where Kobe Bryant spent some of his childhood. “Visited Reggio Calabria, a city my husband lived in when he was about 8 years old.
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).
MONSTA X are one of the headliners for Nickelodeon’s first-ever music festival.The American television channel recently announced that they will be holding NickFest at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on October 22 and 23. Nickelodeon has also announced the line-up of acts set to perform on the show, with MONSTA X and The Kid LAROI set to headline the event.Other acts set to perform at the event include Alec Benjamin, Beabadoobee, Joshua Bassett and Tomorrow x Together collaborator Salem Ilese.A post shared by NickFest (@nickfest_live)According to the announcement, tickets for NickFest will go on sale to the general public on July 26, 10AM PT.
Steven Spielberg has a new first in his 50-year directing career.
Lady Gaga has officially kicked off ‘The Chromatica Ball’, premiering her new stage show to over 54,000 fans at the Merkur Spiel-Arena in Düsseldorf, Germany tonight (July 17).It comes after a lengthy string of delays were imposed on the tour, which initially scheduled to begin in 2020 before being postponed to last July, and then again to this month. The final run of dates was locked in back in March.Gaga performed 20 songs on at the first ‘Chromatica Ball’ show, including nine from the album it comes in support of (which landed back in May of 2020). Six of those were live debuts: in addition to singles ‘Stupid Love’, ‘Rain On Me’ and ‘911’, Gaga performed ‘Alice’, ‘Replay’, ‘Sour Candy’, ‘Babylon’, ‘Free Woman’ and ‘Enigma’ for the first time ever.The latter two songs featured extended outros, according to setlist.fm, while ‘911’ was performed with an extended intro, and both ‘Babylon’ and ‘Stupid Love’ were extended in different ways.Additionally, Gaga performed her 2009 hit ‘Monster’ for the first time in eight years – having last squeezed it into her set in April of 2014 – and incorporated elements of ‘John Wayne’ (from 2016’s ‘Joanne’ album) into a performance of ‘LoveGame’ (from her 2008 debut, ‘The Fame’).