Sigur Rós announce Asia tour dates for August 2022

Epik High have announced an Asia Pacific tour that so far spans five stops in Southeast Asia and Australia.This July, the Korean hip-hop group will head to Singapore, Melbourne, Sydney, Bangkok and Jakarta for the Epik High Is Here Tour, they announced today (May 14). A tour poster hints at four more stops that have yet to be revealed.The tour will kick off in Singapore on July 9 then head to Australia for stops in Melbourne (July 11) and Sydney (July 12).

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJust hours after Kendrick Lamar dropped his long-awaited fifth full-length album, “Mr. Morale and the Big Steppers,” he’s unveiled dates for a massive tour in support of the album, launching in Oklahoma on July 19 and wrapping in New Zealand five months later.

Objection. Many fans on social media are speculating that Johnny Depp is dating his lawyer, Camille Vasquez, in his defamation case against ex-wife Amber Heard. Is this theory true?

(G)I-DLE have announced a 2022 world tour that will take the Korean girl group to North America, Asia and more.The group took to social media on Wednesday (May 11) to announce the tour, titled ‘Just Me ( )I-DLE’. The tour, which so far runs from June to October, will see the group perform in the United States, Mexico, Chile, South Korea, Indonesia, the Philippines, Japan and Singapore.

Sigur Rós recently kicked off their 2022 world tour and have debuted new material – watch below.The band announced details of their huge world tour in February, which would be their first in almost five years. As well as Mexico, Canada and the United States, they’ll be heading to New Zealand and Australia in August, followed by Asia, and then the UK and Europe from September onwards.The Icelandic post-rock band started their tour in Mexico City on April 28, where they opened their 20-song set with ‘Svefn-g-englar’, marking the first time they’ve played the track since 2013.They then following this with ‘Rafmagnið búið’, giving the track from their 1999 album ‘Ágætis byrjun’, its live debut.

LE SSERAFIM member Sakura has spoken up about her support for the LGBTQ community and why she does it.During a recent interview with Weverse Magazine, the Japanese K-pop idol discussed a column she had previously written in 2017 about the Japanese drama film Close-knit, in which she had voiced her support for the LGBTQ community.The 2017 movie follows a young girl who is taken in by her uncle and his transgender girlfriend after her mother abandons her. In her review of the film, Sakura had advocated for developing a “better understanding of the LGBTQ community”.In the interview, Sakura spoke about how “there was actually an atmosphere of caution around idols speaking their minds around that time”, yet she though that she “could say that anyway”.She went on to explain that she wanted to use her platform as a celebrity to influence others.

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Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefThe sports rights and media businesses in the Asia-Pacific region are experiencing a post-COVID rebound that could continue at 6% annually until 2026. But the past domination of broadcast TV is being eroded.

Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorEarly 21 st century New York rockers the Yeah Yeah Yeahs — singer Karen O, guitarist Nick Zinner and drummer Jay Chase — have announced new music and tour dates in the summer and fall. The group, which recently signed with indie powerhouse Secretly Canadian, say they will have new music in the fall.The group will play a brace of dates in Europe and Australia in the summer before hitting North America, with dates at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium and the Hollywood Bowl in October, where they will be joined by high school punk rockers the Linda Lindas on both dates and (in Los Angeles) by Japanese Breakfast.

Soccer Mommy has performed live on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon for the first time this week, playing her recent single ‘Shotgun’ on Tuesday night (April 26).The performance saw Sophie Allison playing the alongside her four-piece backing band – guitarist Jules Powell, keyboardist/guitarist Rodrigo Avedano, bassist Nick Widener and drummer Rollum Haas. ‘Shotgun’ served as the lead single from Soccer Mommy’s third studio album, ‘Sometimes, Forever’, which is set for release this coming June.Watch the performance of ‘Shotgun’ below:Since the release of ‘Shotgun’ and the announcement of ‘Sometimes, Forever’ back in March, Soccer Mommy has released a second single from the album, entitled ‘Unholy Affliction’.

Kings Of Leon will return to Australia in late 2022, following the indefinite postponement of their planned tour earlier this year.The tour – in support of the band’s 2021 album ‘When You See Yourself’ – will now take place between late October and early November. In addition to their planned shows in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, the band will now also appear at the Sporting Precinct in Mildura – a regional city in the northwest of Victoria.

Actor Sophia Forrest, daughter of Australian billionaire and mining magnet Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest, got engaged to her girlfriend, actor Zara Zoe.   A post shared by Sophia Forrest (@sophia.forrest)The couple had made their relationship official in March 2020, when Sophia shared a photo of the couple kissing with the message, ‘Partner in Quarantine’ accompanied by the coronavirus, pride and toilet roll emojis.    A post shared by Sophia Forrest (@sophia.forrest)Sophia is known for her roles in the ABC show, Barons, the series Love Child, and the DC movie Aquaman, starring Jason Momoa. She reportedly met Zara, when they were both cast in the 2018 Michelle Payne biopic Ride Like A Girl.   A post shared by Sophia Forrest (@sophia.forrest)Sophia has spoken out about LGBTQI issues and recently praised the queer storyline in the ABC show Barons.

Gary Barlow is taking his acclaimed one-man theatre show on a further run of dates including coming BACK to Salford following huge demand from fans. The Take That star premiered A Different Stage in Runcorn before a run of shows in Salford in February and March this year.

Shakira has shared her new single ‘Te Felicito’ – watch the video below.‘Te Felicito’, which translates to ‘I congratulate you’, sees Shakira teaming up with Puerto Rican singer and rapper Rauw Alejandro, in a song that fuses electro-pop and reggaeton.The track is the singer’s first single of 2022, following last year’s ‘Don’t Wait Up’, which was also her first completely English single since 2016’s ‘Try Everything’.The accompanying music video for ‘Te Felicito’, directed by Jaume de la Iguana and filmed in Barcelona, features Shakira playfully dancing in a futuristic environment with a robot.She then constructs a robot boyfriend (Alejandro), who joins in as the pair take on some robot-inspired choreography.Shakira’s last album ‘El Dorado’ was released in 2017, and included the singles ‘Chantaje’, ‘Me Enamoré’, ‘Perro Fiel’ and ‘Trap’, the latter of which featured guest vocals from Maluma.In 2020, Shakira teamed up with Jennifer Lopez to perform at the Super Bowl halftime show. The highly praised performance at Miami’s Hard Rock Stadium saw them rattle through 20 songs in 12 minutes.“Hola Miami!” Shakira told the crowd as she opened with ‘She Wolf’.