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Bobak Champion is taking I’m Muslamic Don’t Panik 's hip-hop show to Ely
Described as an intimate spectacle of identity where being British, Iranian and a hip-hop head collide, I’m Muslamic Don’t Panik is the creation of British-Iranian dance artist and storyteller Bobak Champion. The show, which fuses spoken word,...
COMMENTARY: The Years the Locusts Ate, a Musical Evolution
Carey Marshall My album Year of the Locust was released in October. People might assume the songs were recent. In truth, I wrote them more than a decade and a half ago, in the middle of a 20-year marriage that was quietly breaking apart. I wasn’t...
Vilano Beach, Jax played key roles in TWEN’s new album
A pop-rock group led by a married couple traveling the country in their camper van says Vilano Beach and Jacksonville played a pivotal role in their forthcoming album’s production. Ever since they became “nomadic,” as Jane Fitzsimmons puts it, she...
OpenAI's Next Big Thing Might Be AI Music Generation
OpenAI already offers advanced image and video generation models. ChatGPT went viral earlier this year thanks to the GPT-4o image generation model that OpenAI built into the chatbot app. The Sora app went viral a few weeks ago when OpenAI unveiled...
School of Music’s latest show breaks opera boundaries
Art by Sam Bates The School of Music’s latest performance, “Putting it Together,” ran from Oct. 7–10 in Studio A of WQED, Pittsburgh’s local PBS station. A musical revue of celebrated Broadway composer Stephen Sondheim’s works, rather than a...
“It’s a celebration of our community”: Thornhill announce BODIES remix album
Thornhill have just announced a special new remix album, entitled BODIES X. Due out on November 7, the forthcoming record hears the Aussie gang team up with the likes of Northlane, Zetra, The Plot In You, Void Of Vision and more to reimagine...
Joe Jonas, Mel B, Simon Cowell & 'KPop Demon Hunters' star teaming for new music competition
Joe Jonas on 'New Year's Rockin' Eve with Ryan Seacrest' (ABC/Jose Alvarado)A new music competition featuring Simon Cowell and three pop stars is in the works. Deadline reports ABC is set to have Simon, Joe Jonas, Spice Girls' Mel B and hit-making...
Eighteen bands compete at East Georgia Marching Band Championship; Evans High School wins overall
The 48th annual East Georgia Marching Band Championship was held in Statesboro on Saturday. Eighteen bands competed at Womack Field at Statesboro High School to showcase their skills, creativity, and precision. Numerous school bands traveled to...
“From the Pyre” by The Last Dinner Party shows the band is here to stay
It’s been close to two years since I wrote my first Campus Times review: an analysis of The Last Dinner Party’s debut effort, “Prelude to Ecstasy.” Not only was writing about that album a foundational moment in my music criticism journey, but it...
Company re-releases Bermudian band’s 1970 album
Created: Oct 27, 2025 08:33 AM Ralph Richardson, left, and Michael Stowe, of The Invaders, with the band’s recently-re-released album Spacing Out (Photograph by Stefano Ausenda) A Bermudian band’s only album is being re-released more than five...
Introducing Cruz Beckham's manager... his girlfriend Jackie Apostel! How model was paid by Beckhams to help son crack music industry... before couple fell in love despite decade age gap, as we reveal all
As far as Jackie Apostel was concerned, it was just another job. The singer turned songwriter, and sometime model, then 28, had been drafted in by her manager to help an up-and-coming 18-year-old hone his body of work and find his feet on the...
Photos from the 2025 Bluegrass Island Music Festival
Lonesome River Band at the 2025 Bluegrass Island Festival – photo © David Kuehner Many thanks to photographer David Kuehner for sharing these images he captured at the recent Bluegrass Island Music Festival, held October 16-18 on North Carolina’s...
Gwyneth Paltrow shows her support for cheated pal Lily Allen by lauding her break-up album as a 'masterpiece' after she laid bare her ex David Harbour's affair
Gwyneth Paltrow has thrown her support behind Lily Allen, after the singer laid bare how she'd been cheated on by her ex-husband David Harbour. The singer, 40, has laid bare the actor's infidelity in her new album West End Girl, after the pair...
A Musician’s Brain Processes Pain Differently — Here’s Why
After years of working with musicians and witnessing how they persist in musical training despite the pain caused by performing thousands of repetitive movements, I started wondering: if musical training can reshape the brain in so many ways, can...
“I was trying to be this ‘bad boy’, and it prohibited my growth”: How Spiritual Cramp confront their insecurities on new album RUDE
That armour meant the brash Michael Bingham of old was quick to judge, form an opinion and concern himself with how others perceived him. This summer, he nearly cancelled plans to see Oasis, for fear of being recognised by some of the “lame”...
Band of the Week: Mary Persons High School
This week’s 41NBC Band of the Week spotlight shines on the Mary Persons High School Bulldog Brigade Band. Band Director Tyler Allen leads this year’s show, “Painted Black and Gold,” featuring music from Mozart’s Lacrimosa and The Rolling Stones....
David Harbour 'spotted with Lily Allen's daughters' as he brushes off break-up album to take on stepdad duties after she questioned whether he would remain in their life
Lily Allen's two children were spotted out with her ex-husband David Harbour over the weekend at Universal Epic Universe after she released an album about their split, other theme park-goers have claimed. The Stranger Things actor, 50, was said to...
Chris Gayle’s Srinagar Show Steals Spotlight as Stadium Turns into Dance Floor
SRINAGAR: The “Universe Boss”, Chris Gayle brought Bakhshi Stadium alive on Monday evening as he stepped onto Kashmir’s soil to bat for the the ongoing Indian Heaven Premier League (IHPL). What began as a low-attendance afternoon, soon turned into...
Marching Band performs at MCPS Marching Band Showcase
The Blazer Pride Marching Band performed their highly-decorated competition piece at the Marching Band showcase on Oct. 25. On Saturday Oct. 25, Blair’s Blazer Pride Marching Band took to the Einstein football field as part of the annual MCPS...
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