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The Strokes have announced a Mexican headline show, with Mac DeMarco and The War On Drugs as support.The concert will take place at Foro Sol in Mexico City on May 19. Tickets for the gig go on sale Friday, February 11 with a presale taking place on February 9.
All the details can be found here.The Strokes last performed in Mexico in 2019 as part of Corona Capital festival.A post shared by The Strokes (@thestrokes)Mac DeMarco will also be supporting The Strokes at their rescheduled New Year’s Eve concert. The band were originally due to perform at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn on December 31, 2021 with IDLES and Hinds before a spike in the Omicron coronavirus variant forced them to cancel.
Now, The Strokes will play the same venue on April 6, this time with DeMarco replacing IDLES.The Strokes have been added to the line-up for next year’s Best Kept Secret alongside Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds and Alt-J while the band will also touch down in the UK this summer, having confirmed headline appearances at Lytham Festival in Lancashire and TRNSMT 2022.They’re also scheduled to perform at Barcelona’s Primavera Sound, Berlin’s Tempelhof Sounds and will support Red Hot Chili Peppers at select North American dates of their 2022 world tour. Last year, Julian Casablancas took the band’s first ever Grammys win (picking up the Best Rock Album award for their 2020 album ‘The New Abnormal’) as an opportunity to share his distaste for blues rock.After giving a delightfully awkward virtual acceptance speech, Casablancas spoke to journalists in the Grammys’ press room, and spoke about the state of rock music today.
EXCLUSIVE: The Sundance Institute has revealed the 9 fellows and 8 projects selected for its 2021 to 2022 Episodic Program.
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Noel Gallagher has added a date in Margate to his forthcoming UK tour.The former Oasis man will play a series of outdoor gigs under his High Flying Birds moniker including shows at the Eden Project in Cornwall and as part of the Bristol Sounds gig series in the summer.The month-long run of dates begin on June 4 with a headline set at the new In It Together festival in Wales, which will also feature Two Door Cinema Club, The Magic Gang, The Vaccines, Editors and more.This is followed by a date St Annes Park in Dublin the next day (June 5) before the new date at Margate Dreamland on June 8.
Meghan McCain has slammed the 2022 Winter Olympics, branding them the "Genocide Games" over China's human rights abuses.MORE: Hoda Kotb and Savannah Guthrie share disappointment over 2022 Winter Olympics newsThe 37-year-old took to social media to share an image designed by Chinese artist badiucao, which was created in protest of the host country. It showed an ice hockey player wearing the Chinese flag with blood on their stick and mask as they knocked over a Tibetan monk.WATCH: Meghan McCain announces departure from The View"I will not watch one minute of the @Beijing2022," she captioned her post, adding the hashtag, "#GenocideGames."On Twitter, she expanded on her opinion, writing: "There is no reason to watch a Winter Olympics that is holding up and spreading propaganda for a regime that is committing actual genocide and ethnic cleansing - on top of poisoning the world and killing 6 million people.
Meghan McCain has decried Whoopi Goldberg's recent comments on The View about the Holocaust, sharing that she is "heartbroken about what was said".MORE: Meghan McCain praised by fans for inspiring words about importance of 'listening to each other'The former TV star took to social media to share her thoughts in the hours after Whoopi apologized for the shocking remarks that have been branded "antisemitic". "I hate commenting on my old employer because I have moved in every way a person can move on," Meghan wrote.WATCH: The View star Whoopi Goldberg alleges the Holocaust wasn't about race"That being said I am an activist against antisemitism and it is a big part of my life.
Masked Singer fans have a new theory about who Panda is within seconds of tonight's show starting. Opening tonight's show (January 29) with her rendition of Blame It On The Boogie by the Jackson 5, Panda impressed the panel and the audience with a strong vocal performance.
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Ghost debuted a new song called ‘Kaisarion’ as they began their co-headline US tour with Volbeat earlier this week – check out the footage below.The band were performing at the Reno Events Center in Reno, Nevada on Tuesday night (January 25) after announcing their fifth album ‘Impera’, which is due to arrive on March 11 via Loma Vista Recordings.To usher in their new era, Ghost opened the 16-song setlist with the as-yet-unreleased ‘Kaisarion’ before playing previous single ‘Hunter’s Moon’ for the first time later in the concert.Both songs will appear on the group’s forthcoming new record. The latest preview of the album, ‘Call Me Little Sunshine’, wasn’t performed at the gig (via Setlist.FM).
50 Cent has announced details of a massive London show at Wembley Arena this summer – get all the info you need below.The announcement of the gig follows the rapper being announced as a headliner for Manchester’s Parklife festival yesterday (January 25), which will be a UK exclusive festival show for 2022.Tickets for the new London show, set for June 10, will go on sale on Friday (January 28) at 9.30am local time here, while pre-registration for Parklife 2022 has already closed – and those who have registered can access the pre-sale right now. Any remaining tickets will then go on general sale at 10am on Thursday (January 27) from here.Hip Hop heavyweight, @50cent headlines The @ssearena, Wembley in June.#SSEReward presale nowGeneral sale Friday 9.30am https://t.co/UQMwQljY63— The SSE Arena, Wembley (@ssearena) January 26, 2022Tyler, the Creator and Megan Thee Stallion are among the leading names joining 50 Cent on the line-up for Parklife 2022.The Heaton Park, Manchester festival returned last year after the coronavirus pandemic forced the cancellation of its 2020 edition.As well as Tyler, 50 Cent and Megan, the likes of Lewis Capaldi, Bicep, Chase & Status, Loyle Carner, Jamie xx, Arlo Parks, Headie One, Central Cee, Fred Again.., ArrDee, Caroline Polachek, Tom Misch and PinkPantheress will also perform.In other news, last December 50 Cent said that he wants to create a modern-day sitcom like The Cosby Show.50 Cent praised actress Phylicia Rashad, who played Claire Huxtable, in a post on his Instagram.