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Billie Eilish used one of her dancers as a body double onstage during the beginning of her headlining performance at Coachella earlier this year. “I dressed her up in a show look that I had worn before. We got a black wig and we put buns in it and we gave her a mask and sunglasses […]
A shooting at an outdoor festival in eastern Oklahoma has left one woman dead and seven others injured. According to the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigations (OSBI), gunfire erupted early Sunday morning after an argument broke out at the Memorial Day event in Taft, a small community located about 45 miles southeast of Tulsa. A 39-year-old woman […]
A shooting at the Mississippi Mudbug Festival on Saturday left one person dead and five others injured. NBC affiliate WLBT reports the shooting occurred before 10 p.m. at the Mississippi Mudbug Festival at the Mississippi State Fairgrounds in Jackson. Hinds County Sheriff Tyree Jones confirmed that three of the wounded people were stabilized at a local […]
It’s unclear if any festival could be as worse as the fraudulent Fyre Festival in 2017, but apparently, you can’t knock other festivals for lack of trying. According to Los Angeles Magazine’s Joseph Kapsch, influencers were complaining about the conditions at Revolve Festival, which took place this weekend in La Quinta, California. “Sources on the […]
Queens, New York will see a new festival this summer called LetsGetFr.ee Carnaval. The event is set to take place from Aug. 20-21 at Flushing Meadows Corona Park and will feature performances from Missy Elliot, Anderson .Paak, Wizkid, Kali Uchis, Jhené Aiko, ASAP Ferg, Jorja Smith, Ozuna, and more. The festival comes from Matthew Morgan, […]
iHeartMedia has unveiled the full lineup for the second edition of its Living Black! event. Fans tuning in this year will be able to experience performances by Big Sean, Moneybagg Yo, H.E.R., Ari Lennox, and more. The event, powered by AT&T, will be broadcast live from Los Angeles and a number of Black-owned businesses nationwide via […]
Coachella has reportedly locked down its 2022 headliners. Sources tell Variety that Billie Eilish and Kanye West have been tapped to headline this year’s festival on Saturday and Sunday nights, respectively. Ye first performed at Coachella in 2006 and headlined the event in 2011. He and Eilish also took the Coachella stage in 2019, when the event was last held. Since then, […]
It’s top of a new year, which—for the pandemic era iteration of live music—means fans and organizers alike are left with a number of question marks surrounding major festivals like Coachella. The Indio, California-set festival hasn’t taken place since 2019 due to continued COVID-19 concerns. The initially announced lineup for the ultimately-called-off ’19 event included confirmed headliners […]
On Nov. 5, the first day of Travis Scott’s Astroworld Festival in Houston, multiple attendees were killed in what’s widely been referred to as a crowd-crush incident. All told, eight people died on the evening of Scott’s set, while two others died following hospitalization. In the weeks since, a slew of lawsuits have been filed […]
Travis Scott’s legal woes continue as an attorney has just outlined a $750 million lawsuit brought against him, Drake, Apple, and Live Nation by 125 Astroworld Festival attendees. The family of Axel Acosta, a 21-year-old who died after attending Astroworld, is also included in the suit, TMZ reports. Houston attorney Tony Buzbee took to Instagram to lay out […]
