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Researchers have found that local wildlife was impacted by public urination that contained traces of drugs at the 2019 Glastonbury Festival. BBC reports dangerously high levels of cocaine and MDMA were found in the Whitelake River, which runs adjacent to the festival’s Somerset, United Kingdom location. According to researchers, the finding could hinder conservation efforts of rare European eels that are located […]
DaBaby may have been dropped from several festival lineups over his homophobic comments at Lollapalooza a few weeks back, but Boosie Badazz—who defended the rapper’s homophobic rant and made some comments of his own—has now given him the space to perform. As part of Boosie’s Boosie Bash, a Baton Rouge show at A.W. Mumford Stadium on Aug. […]
The Manchester, Tennessee-based music festival Bonnaroo has announced that it will require attendees to either provide proof of their COVID-19 vaccination or a negative test in order to enter this year. The festival took to Twitter to make the announcement. “The safety of our patrons and staff is our number one priority,” festival organizers said. “As […]
Megan Thee Stallion took the Lollapalooza stage this past weekend and put on an amazing performance for the roughly 100,000 people who attended the festival. Meg wasn’t the only one who put on a show, either. Social media went wild after a video surfaced of the ASL interpreter putting her all in translating Megan and […]
DaBaby reportedly had more to say after his initial apology for his homophobic rant at Rolling Loud Miami, and was set to play an apology video before his now-squashed Lollapalooza gig. As reported by Billboard, reps for DaBaby reached out to seven fall festival promoters and assured them the rapper would have a video apology ready […]
La Flame fans are being invited to track down special cans of CACTI that—in true Willy Wonka fashion—unlock tickets to the sold out 2021 edition of the Astroworld Festival. Starting June 23, i.e. today, Travis Scott will release 100 signed cans of his CACTI agave spiked seltzer that unlock two tickets to the sold out 2021 Astroworld […]
Texas’ JMBLYA hip-hop festival is marking its major return this year with six concert dates, headlined by Future and Gunna. The 2021 series launches on Labor Day weekend with three shows in a row. After Rogers, Arkansas on Sept. 3, the festival will travel to Dallas, Texas on Sept. 4, and then Austin, Texas on […]
Billie Eilish, The Killers, Tame Impala, and Lizzo have been tapped to headline the 2021 Firefly Festival later this year. Among the other noteworthy artists who are slated to hit the stage at The Woodlands in Dover, Delaware include Megan Thee Stallion, Wiz Khalifa, Machine Gun Kelly, and the star of the latest Complex cover story, Roddy […]
An official teaser for Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), Questlove’s documentary on 1969’s Harlem Cultural Festival, which was also known as the Black Woodstock, has been released. Searchlight Pictures and Hulu also announced that the doc will hit both movie theaters and the streaming platform on July 2. It will stream internationally on […]
An original painting, commissioned by Ja Rule, has been sold at auction for around $122,000 through the rapper’s NFT venture KickFlip, which offers established and up-and-coming artists, and holders of valuable art the opportunity to monetize their work with non-fungible tokens. The portrait of the Fyre Media logo was created by Tripp Derrick Barnes, and once hung in […]
