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'I Honor Him'
"The band would not even be here today if it were not for your ability to jump in and save the day," returning guitarist writes to his replacement

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Travis Scott and Skepta will headline a one-day music festival, Mirror Mirror, honoring late designer Virgil Abloh. It’ll take place in just a few weeks, on Dec. 3, at the FPL Solar Amphitheater in Miami.

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Lizzo served as the musical guest on the final Saturday Night Live of 2022 — stepping in for the Yeah Yeah Yeahs — delivering a track of Special as well as a surprise cover of a Christmas classic.

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Lovers & Friends Festival is leaning further into early 2000s nostalgia that TikTok’s fashion influencers for the 2023 iteration of the Las Vegas music event. Scheduled for Saturday, May 6, the festival will feature headlining performances from Missy Elliot, Mariah Carey, and Usher.

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The romantic lyrics and soothing vocals of Marco Antonio Solís have been a staple in the homes of Latinos for decades. His music — as a soloist and as the frontman of Los Bukis — has crossed generations. Last year, he reunited with his bandmates of Los Bukis after 25 years for a stadium tour that tapped into decades-long nostalgia. Now, he’s ready to hit the road on his own.

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Wayne Swinny, guitarist and last remaining original member of Memphis rock band Saliva, has died at the age of 59, representatives for the band have confirmed. His cause of death has been attributed to a brain hemorrhage suffered while on tour supporting the band’s latest single “High on Me.”

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We’re not even halfway through 2023 yet, but this year’s festival season is already well underway, with a slate of huge music fests scheduled for the summer and fall from Austin City Limits to Lollapalooza to Riot Fest. Now, fans can buy tickets to the Chicago-based music fest online at Douglass Park to see everyone from the Foo Fighters to The Cure and more.

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Travis Scott’s determination to perform his new album Utopia at an ancient international monument is sending him to Italy. The rapper announced that in one week, on Aug. 7, he will bring his latest live show to Circus Maximus, an entertainment stadium and public park in Rome that used to host chariot races. The event will possibly get Scott’s live performance plans back on track after his scheduled appearance at the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt was canceled due to production-related complications.

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More than two dozen analog master tapes capturing Michael Jackson singing songs at The Hit Factory recording studio in New York in 1994 have been scrubbed from an auction site after a lawyer representing the singer’s estate threatened a lawsuit this week, Rolling Stone confirmed.

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Tems, her manager, and the producer of Future’s “Wait for U” featuring Tems and Drake have exchanged tense posts on X (formerly Twitter) over the producer’s claims that the singer initially refused to clear the track’s prominent sample of her song “Higher.”

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