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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 […]
It looks like one of the U.S.’s bigger music festivals is seeing another delay. Variety reports that the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has been pushed back once again, from October 2021 to April 2022, according to industry sources. This could potentially be the fourth time the festival has been postponed, after April 2020 […]
For those of us who make live shows a central part of our existence, the total absence of them over the past year has added an extra layer of gloom to the abysmal pandemic experience. The industry-wide move to pause or outright cancel music festivals and individual artist tours, of course, was an inarguably necessary […]
In a new, unsanctioned interview from prison, Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland admitted he “knowingly lied” to investors. Per the New York Post, McFarland admitted that he conned millions of dollars from investors to fund his disastrous music festival. “I think the biggest mistake before I went awry was just setting an unrealistic time frame for the festival,” he […]
Woodstock 50 has ended a major legal battle. According to Billboard, organizers of the ill-fated festival quietly settled their lawsuit against Japanese marketing firm Dentsu in late 2020. Woodstock 50 sued the Tokyo-based company in April of last year, alleging the investor had “secretly decided to abandon, and then sabotage” the anniversary event just months before its scheduled kickoff. The plaintiffs […]
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has been pushed back for the third consecutive time. Riverside County officials announced the news Friday, after public health officer Dr. Cameron Kaiser signed an order that effectively canceled the event’s April 2021 dates. The order, which also pulled the plug on the Stagecoach Music Festival, cited ongoing concerns over COVID-19. […]
The 2021 edition of the Glastonbury Festival has been canceled due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. In a statement, shared on Thursday, organizers said 2021 will be “another enforced fallow year” for the iconic festival. ‘With great regret, we must announce that this year’s Glastonbury Festival will not take place, and that this will be another enforced […]
Originally set for consecutive weekends this April, the 2020 edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival has now been moved to October. Festival organizers made the announcement on Tuesday, following a wave of speculative coronavirus-inspired reports claiming the new dates would be instituted out of an abundance of caution. The Goldenvoice-backed festival will now […]
As is often the case when throwing down hundreds of dollars (or more) for entry into a multi-day music festival or similarly enticing event, the investment comes with the understanding that—as highly unlikely as such a scenario usually is—the whole thing can be called off at any moment for reasons not entirely in the organizers’ […]
It looks like the 2020 edition of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival—set to feature large-fonted headliners Rage Against the Machine, Travis Scott, and Frank Ocean—might be postponed. According to Entertainment Weekly, who cited two sources, the two-weekend throwdown, planned for April 10-12 and April 17-19, is excepted to be pushed back due to concerns surrounding […]
