Watch R.E.M. reunite for first performance in 15 years at Songwriters Hall Of Fame

Ludacris surprised fans in Milwaukee with a free performance over the weekend after his gig was cancelled due to severe weather conditions.In a video posted to his Instagram on Monday (June 24), Ludacris can be seen walking into a bar in the city, with a speaker strapped across his body as he performed his 2001 hit ‘Move Bitch’.Alongside the video, which features fans singing along at the surprise, free concert, the rapper wrote: “My show in Milwaukee got cancelled last night due to rain and thunderstorms, but I DEFINITELY wasn’t leaving the city without touching the people.”Check out a snippet of Ludacris’ performance below:A post shared by Ludacris (@ludacris)Last year he performed the track while descending from the Atlanta Falcons’ Stadium’s roof, as part of Atlanta’s celebrations for the 50th anniversary of hip-hop.Prior to that performance, he revealed that he plans on releasing new music this year, eight years after his last full length LP ‘Ludaversal’. Speaking to BET, Ludacris said: “Yeah, some music projects will be coming out [in 2024].

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Pulp performed ‘Bar Italia’ for the first time in 12 years in Italy last night (June 23).The track, which is based on the Italian café located on Frith Street in the Soho district of London, closes their classic 1995 album ‘Different Class’.The song describes the café as “round the corner in Soho” and “where all the broken people go”, and the band can be seen sitting in the haunt on the artwork for their classic hit ‘Common People’.Many fans expressed their delight at hearing the band play the track for the first time since 2012 at the Medimex festival, with one writing on X: “Pulp ending their set tonight with Bar Italia, the final song from Different Class, was EPIC.”Another added: “PULP PLAYED BAR ITALIA???? WHAT THE FUCK?????”I can’t believe it

Love Island's Samantha Kenny and Patsy Field have shown they're not letting getting dumped from the villa get them down.The girls, who started in the original cast of the 2024 ITV2 show earlier this month, were spotted out partying in London together with friends.The group enjoyed watching Girls Aloud from a box on Saturday night. Patsy, 29, posted a video of Samantha, 26, dancing and singing along to their hit song Love Machine. Later on she shared an update from a taxi, showing the party carrying on as passengers including Liverpudlian Sam, singing and dancing in the car.

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The Killers played their song ‘Battle Born’ for the first time in 11 years at their show in Dublin over the weekend – watch the footage below.Brandon Flowers and co. dusted off the 2012 track – taken from their fourth album of the same name – during their third gig at the 3Arena in Dublin on Saturday night (June 15).Once again, the Las Vegas band switched up the setlist for their ‘Rebel Diamonds’ UK and Ireland greatest hits tour.

Marc Malkin Senior Editor, Culture and Events “RuPaul’s Drag Race” powers on — literally. Season 16 stars Dawn, Mhi’Ya Iman Le’Paige, Morphine, Q, Plane Jane, Sapphira Cristál and winner Nymphia Wind performed the original song “Power” from the “Werq the World” episode at Monday’s Emmy FYC event at the Culver City Library. And only “Just for Variety” has the exclusive premiere of the performance.

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Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The Songwriters Hall of Fame, which staged its annual awards ceremony on Thursday night, is an institution and an event unlike any other in the music industry, even though many of its elements are hardly unique and many things about it have barely changed over decades, and possibly since it launched in 1969. Indeed, we say many of the same things about the ceremony in an article very similar to this one every year — it’s a combination of an awards show, a family reunion and a trade event that is invite-only yet features a mind-blowing array of Grammy-level, once-in-a-lifetime performances and tributes, always held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York’s Times Square.

Anohni and the Johnsons played their first show in nine years in Athens last night (June 13) – read on to see the footage.READ MORE: Anohni – ‘My Back Was A Bridge For You To Cross’ review: a sublime soul reinventionThe group last performed live in June 2015, the final show taking place in Hobart, Australia. That absence came to an end in the Greek capital’s Odeon of Herodes Atticus on Thursday with a show that took in material from across their career, as well as Anohni’s 2016 solo album ‘Hopelessness’.The group were introduced by the renowned performance artist Marina Abramovic, and gave live debuts to a number of songs, including ‘It Must Change’, ‘Can’t’ and ‘Why Am I Alive Now?’Check out footage below:ANOHNI and the Johnsons @ Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Acropolis.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music The four founding members of R.E.M. performed together publicly for the first time in nearly three decades at the Songwriters Hall of Fame Ceremony in New York on Thursday night, playing an acoustic version of their breakthrough song, 1987’s “Losing My Religion.” With characteristic understatement, the group — singer Michael Stipe, guitarist Peter Buck, bassist Mike Mills and drummer Bill Berry — showed their respect for the honor and the institution, their friendship and decades-long bond, and in gracious terms, fans, family, friends, and everyone who helped them along the way.

REM‘s first interview as a group in 30 years will air on CBS tomorrow (June 13).The quartet – frontman Michael Stipe, drummer Bill Berry, guitarist Peter Buck and bassist Mike Mills – have come together to speak about their induction into the Songwriters’ Hall Of Fame.In a clip shared to CBS’ social media accounts, the band are asked what it means to them to have their songwriting recognised in such a way.“We lived and died on the strength of our songs, so this is a huge honour,” said Buck.“it is the hardest thing that we do and it’s the thing that we’ve worked on most from the very beginning,” added Mills.“Because we had to. I mean really early on, just to put food on the table we had to write songs as fast as we could,” said Berry.In their first group interview in nearly 30 years, all four original members of R.E.M.

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