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Patrick Hipes Executive Managing EditorThe annual and original Comic-Con, which draws thousands of fans and millions of dollars to San Diego each July, has retooled in the COVID-19 world to engineer Comic-Con@Home, with the confab’s first-ever virtual-only event kicking off in earnest Thursday morning.The event, which officially began Wednesday, July 22 and runs through Sunday, July 26, will play host more than 350 panels and programs via YouTube including the usual slew of presentations

Janet W. Lee For the first time in its 50-year history, San Diego Comic-Con is happening as a virtual, streaming event.

Nilüfer Yanya is the latest artist to perform a socially-distanced NPR Tiny Desk concert, playing four tracks from the comfort of her home.Watch the Tiny Desk concert below:In addition to playing three tracks from her debut album, ‘Miss Universe’, Yanya debuted a new song, ‘Day 7’.

Perfume Genius performed his track ‘On The Floor’ on last night’s episode of The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon – watch the video below.The song appears on the Iowa artist’s fifth studio album ‘Set My Heart on Fire Immediately’, which arrived back in May and followed on from 2017’s ‘No Shape’.Joining his band onstage in an empty venue, the singer – real name Michael Hadreas – delivered an impassioned rendition of the cut, unleashing various dance moves and twirling around the stage

AC/DC have shared a rare performance video of ‘You Shook Me All Night Long’ from their 1981 ‘Back In Black’ tour – check it out below.The iconic rock group are currently celebrating the 40th anniversary of their seventh album ‘Back In Black’, which was released on July 25, 1980.To mark the milestone, the band have been posting previously unseen live clips to their official YouTube channel, with a video of ‘What Do You Do For Money Honey’ arriving on the platform last week.Continuing the series,

Bridgers’ second album ‘Punisher’, which came out last month.The new performance sees Bridgers donning her trademark skeleton suit, which she previously wore in the ‘Kyoto’ music video, for a loosely choreographed performance, for which she is joined by drummer Marshall Vore on tambourine for the ending.

Lenny Kravitz became the latest star to belt out some of his well-known tracks for NPR Music’s “Tiny Desk Concert” Monday.

Lenny Kravitz took NPR to the Bahamas for his new Tiny Desk (Home) Concert on Monday (July 20).Performing from his tropical abode on the island of Eleuthera, the rocker kicked things off with "Thinking of You," the second single from his 1998 album 5, which was dedicated to the memory of his mother Roxie Roker after she passed away from cancer a few years prior.Next, Kravitz transitioned to Baptism album cut "What Did I Do With My Life?" to ask some important questions against a pristine

NEW YORK -- Christopher Dickey, a veteran foreign correspondent and author who was a Paris-based editor for The Daily Beast, has died. The Daily Beast reports that he died Thursday at 68.

Tom Misch and Yussef Dayes have performed two tracks from their collaborative record, ‘What Kinda Music’, on an episode of NPR’s Tiny Desk series, released yesterday.The socially-distanced performance features a star-studded list of guest features, including appearances from John Mayer, Jordan Rakei, Rocco Palladino and more. Watch it below:On first track ‘Nightrider’, John Mayer substitutes for Freddie Gibbs‘ studio-recorded verse with an outro guitar solo.

Slipknot, Paramore, and Disturbed.Dorothea Taylor, who has been drumming for 56 years, is a private drum and drumline instructor, as well as her church’s organist, according to the bio on her Instagram.“Drummers come in all ages, sizes, shapes, ethnicities.

Tiny Desk concert series – watch the full clip below.On Wednesday (July 8) he filmed at West Coast Customs, without an audience, and delivered his favourite tracks ‘The Box,’ ‘High Fashion,’ and ‘Ballin’.He started off with ‘Perfect Time,’ and then introduced his collaborator Ty Dolla $ign to the quarantine version of Tiny Desk for ‘Bacc Seat.’Finally, he closed out by offering his words on the world around us, performing ‘War Baby’ to finish the set.“It’s dangerous,” he said before launching in

Roddy Ricch made the most of his socially distanced spin on NPR's re-adjusted Tiny Desk (Home) Concerts, which he re-dubbed Tiny Garage thanks to its unique setting.

The Late Show With Stephen Colbert last night (July 7). According to the description of his performance’s YouTube video, Hakim is a personal favourite of The Late Show‘s musical director, Jon Batiste.The multi-instrumentalist performed ‘QADIR’ remotely.

Tom Tapp Deputy Managing EditorLast week, Governor Gavin Newsom ordered 19 counties to immediately close all bars and suspend indoor operations at restaurants, movie theaters and card rooms for three weeks. Those counties had been on the state’s watch list at least three days due to elevated COVID-19 levels.Five more counties were added the state’s monitoring list over the weekend.

Public Enemy opened the 2020 BET Awards last night with a powerful rendition of ‘Fight The Power’, which saw them joined by the likes of Nas, Rapsody, YG and The Roots’ Black Thought and Questlove.Updating the track with timely verses, the performance saw the group referencing the Black Lives Matter movement and nationwide protests across the US after the death of George Floyd.“They say a suicide when dead bodies are swinging / Cowards are hunting Black men that’s what I’m seeing,” Nas rapped,

Roddy Ricch has delivered a medley of two of his biggest hits from the past year for the 2020 BET Awards. Watch it in full below.He performed a medley of his viral hits ‘High Fashion’ and ‘The Box’, the latter of which spent 11 weeks at the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 at the beginning of this year.This wasn’t Ricch’s only performance at the award ceremony.

Laura Marling performed in front of the Pyramid Stage as part of the BBC’s The Glastonbury Experience 2020 yesterday (June 27).The singer-songwriter was one of many artists set to feature on the bill for the Worthy Farm festival before it was forced to be cancelled due to the coronavirus pandemic.Marling played a version of her song ‘Strange Girl’, which features on her latest album ‘Song For Our Daughter’, in front of the Pyramid Stage structure, cows and a plane.

Shakira, Justin Bieber, Miley Cyrus and Chloe x Halle are just some of the stars set to perform at Global Citizen and the European Commission's Global Goal: Unite for Our Future – The Concert. The virtual concert, hosted by Dwayne Johnson, seeks to highlight the disproportionate effect COVID-19 has had on marginalized communities.

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson will host the "Global Goal: Unite for Our Future" concert Saturday, June 27 to shed a light on communities disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic with the help of a few stars.