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Slipknot have announced that their 2021 festival dates this summer in Russia, Ukraine and Europe have been rescheduled to 2022.Taking to social media on Friday (June 11), the metal icons shared new dates for festival shows in Moscow, Kiev, Bucharest, Plovdiv, Athens and Wacken.

SOPHIE's brother Ben Long has spoken about the producer's unreleased music in a new interview with Billboard. Long, who worked with SOPHIE in various capacities including as mixing engineer on SOPHIE's debut album Oil of Every Pearl's Un-Insides, said that his sibling recorded "literally hundreds of tracks" before dying after a fall in Athens at age 34.

Peter Caranicas Deputy Editor“Pari,” the story of an Iranian mother’s search for her missing son in Athens, directed by Siamak Etemadi, an Iranian who lives in Greece, won the top feature film prize at the Los Angeles Greek Film Festival, an annual showcase for Greek cinema that wrapped its fifteenth edition on May 30.“Parontes,” under its English title “Being Present,” a penetrating look at the COVID-19 crisis in Greece (pictured above), directed by Yorgos Avgeropoulos, took home LAGFF’s

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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have announced details of nine new festival shows for 2022.The band, who recently cancelled their 2021 tour due to coronavirus concerns, will kick off at Greece’s Release Athens Festival on June 15 next year.The dates will run until the middle of August, when they wrap up at Gothenburg’s Way Out West on August 12.You can check out the dates in full below.Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds have announced 9 live shows across Europe in Summer 2022.

SOPHIE have launched a new art auction of pieces relating to the artist for charity.The pioneering electronic DJ and producer died earlier this year during a sudden accident in Athens.‘God Is Trans’, which features art prints of the artist, clothes SOPHIE wore in the past and more memorabilia, has been organised to “honour her radical generosity, artistic vision, and commitment to supporting the trans community”.All of the proceeds from the auction, which ends next weekend, will go to the Trans

A.G. Cook has shared a tribute to his late friend and collaborator SOPHIE, who died earlier this year during a sudden accident in Athens.Taking to social media earlier today (April 25), Cook, the head of record label PC Music, said he was “still processing Sophie’s life” and shared a link to a tribute he penned for the late pop icon.“I’m still processing Sophie’s life…,” the caption on Cook’s Instagram post said.

Prince Philip is the uncle of Europe,” said Vassilis Koutsavlis, president of the Tatoi Royal Estate Friends Association.It's in that densely wooded estate at the foot of a mountain north of Athens that Philip's father, Prince Andrew of Greece and Denmark, lies buried.

Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough both bare it all in their new movie Monday and they’re opening up about what it was like filming all of those intimate scenes.

Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorSebastian Stan is best known as his superhero persona, the Winter Soldier. Clad in a leather jacket and reinforced combat pants and boots, he’s ready for battle across the Marvel Cinematic Universe.But in IFC’s April 16 release “Monday,” in which he plays a club DJ living in the hip Athens neighborhood of Kypseli, his bohemian-casual wardrobe made for a total contrast.

Sebastian Stan and Denise Gough set off on a whirlwind weekend romance in Monday, a romantic drama which IFC Films released in theaters and on-demand today.

Sebastian Stan bares his butt in what appears to be a still from his movie, titled Monday, out this week.

Amazon Prime Video France today published details of its upcoming slate of productions, including four new originals:

Sebastian Stan fans have a lot to look forward to this spring!

Movies cannot provide their usual sense of escape with the COVID-19 pandemic still going on, but maybe with the vaccine in sight, one film about a wild weekend romance on the beaches of Athens will help tide things over until summer hits.

Jessica Long is the subject of Toyota‘s inspiring Super Bowl Commercial.

Ed Meza @edmezavarThe Rotterdam Film Festival’s IFFR Pro Days and CineMart came to a close on Friday with awards for projects from Greece, China and Afghanistan, including the latest work from Kabul-based filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat.

EXCLUSIVE: IFC Films has acquired North American rights to Argyris Papadimitropoulos’ latest feature Monday, a sizzling romance that stars Sebastian Stan (Avengers Endgame and I, Tonya) and Denise Gough (Colette).

SOPHIE following the musician’s death last weekend.The 34-year-old was confirmed to have died during a “sudden accident” in Athens on Saturday (January 30), where the DJ and producer was living.The petition is calling for the planet TOI 1338 b, which was discovered in 2019 by a 17-year-old NASA intern, to be named after the late musical visionary.“SOPHIE was a highly influential singer, songwriter, and producer who was an source of great inspiration to the LGBTQIA+ community,” the petition

As the world continues to mourn the tremendous loss of SOPHIE, who passed away this weekend following an accident in Athens, fans are asking for the Scottish producer's otherworldly legacy to be honored in space. A new petition created by Christian Arroyo asks for NASA to consider naming the recently discovered planet TOI 1339 b after SOPHIE, due to the aesthetic similarities between the planet and SOPHIE's visual lexicon.

Charli XCX has paid tribute to SOPHIE, following the DJ and producer’s death this weekend (January 30).The 34-year-old was confirmed to have died during a “sudden accident” in Athens, where the producer was living.SOPHIE worked with XCX on many of her projects, beginning in 2015 with the latter’s ‘Vroom Vroom’ EP.

Producer Sophie died following a “sudden accident” at her home on Saturday. She was 34.According to reports, she climbed onto the roof of the three storey apartment block where she was living in Athens to view the full moon in the early hours of Saturday morning, but lost her footing and fell while trying to take a photograph.In a statement, Sophie’s record label Transgressive said on Saturday: “Tragically our beautiful Sophie passed away this morning after a terrible accident.

Groundbreaking pop producer Sophie has tragically passed away at the age of 34. The Scottish hitmaker, who was born and raised in Glasgow, made a name for herself with her avant-pop tracks which pushed the boundaries of the genre. She sadly died on January 30 at her home in Athens “following a sudden accident.” Here are 5 things to know about her.

SOPHIE, a Scottish musician, DJ and record producer, has died at age 34.

Groundbreaking pop producer Sophie has tragically passed away at the age of 34. The Scottish hitmaker, who was born and raised in Glasgow, made a name for herself with her avant-pop tracks which pushed the boundaries of the genre. She sadly died on January 30 at her home in Athens “following a sudden accident.” Here are 5 things to know about her.

LONDON -- Sophie, the Grammy-nominated Scottish disc jockey, producer and recording artist who had worked with the likes of Madonna and Charli XCX, has died following an accident in the Greek capital of Athens. She was 34.In a statement, U.K.

SOPHIE has died following a sudden accident this morning (January 30).An official statement from the artist’s team to Mixmag confirmed the news.“It is with profound sadness that I have to inform you that musician and producer SOPHIE passed away this morning around 4am in Athens, where the artist had been living, following a sudden accident,” the statement read.“At this time respect and privacy for the family is our priority.

Longtime Toronto Film Festival programmer Dimitri Eipides has died. He was 82.

EXCLUSIVE: Human Factors, the German-Italian-Danish drama that was announced last night in Sundance’s 2021 World Cinema Dramatic Competition selection, has landed an international sales deal with Athens-based Heretic Outreach.

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Manchester Airport, according to a report by the UK Airprox Board (UKAB). Both pilots in the cockpit of the Easyjet Manchester-to-Athens flight "saw a large drone pass very close to the aircraft windscreen", the inquiry found.

Pylon have shared the unheard first ever recording ‘Razz Tape’ from their upcoming Box Set. Hear it first on NME below.Tomorrow (November 6) sees the release of ‘Pylon Box’ – a comprehensive four LP box set of the Athens indie veterans’ studio albums remastered from their original tapes and available on vinyl for the first time in nearly 35 years.

Christopher Vourlias With their Athens offices shuttered by the pandemic in the weeks leading up to this year’s Thessaloniki Intl.

Christopher Vourlias Athens-born Fokion Bogris is among the generation of Greeks who have spent most of their adult lives in the shadow of austerity measures and a seemingly never-ending economic crisis. Like many of his country’s filmmakers, the self-taught director, who turned 40 last year, continues to persevere, even as the coronavirus pandemic has compounded the challenges for an already cash-strapped film industry.

Tommy Lee isn’t going to endure four more years of Donald Trump. Though Trump, 74, is trailing Joe Biden in the polls, there’s still a chance that he could be reelected on Nov.

Greece.Hislop has used Greece as the setting for several of her historical novels. In her first book, “The Island,” published in 2005, the action takes place near the Greek island of Crete.