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Nothing can quite describe the feeling of standing in front of the stage at a rock concert, immersed in bodies, pushed to the point where you can't breathe, and everyone's screaming lyrics, singing along, phones aloft while they're being pummeled by the driving sound of grunge. This past Saturday night, Dec. 20, Dexter and The Moonrocks brought grunge back to Portland at the Crystal Ballroom. There was a twist, though. Their sound has a bit of country twang.

Glastonbury Festival has reported a rise in profits after a strong year that featured performances from global stars including Dua Lipa and Shania Twain, enabling millions of pounds to be channelled into charitable causes. Accounts filed at Companies House show that Glastonbury Festival Events Limited, the operating company behind Glastonbury Festival, increased revenues to £75.2 million in the year to March 31, 2025, up from £68.4 million the previous year. Pre-tax profits climbed to £7.7 million, compared with £5.9 million in 2024.

Ballad written in half an hour as a favour for a friend has left its mark on audiences in Ireland and around the world

Among those watching was Irish musician Bob Geldof, who became determined to help in the only way he knew how. Thus began an unlikely pairing of pop music and activism that would inspire other charity singles like 'We Are the World' and lead to the historic Live Aid concerts. The iconic Christmas single, 'Do They Know It's Christmas?', was written by Geldof and Midge Ure. It would raise £8m for Ethiopia within a year and forever changed the relationship between charity and celebrity.

Every week for the past month or so has been bittersweet because every week San Jose grows one step closer to the closing of one of the area's best venues, Art Boutiki. However, as their final days draw near, the venue continues to host an array of unique local artists, and this week-three days before their doors shut forever-is no different.

With Christmas just days away, Damon Albarn stopped by BBC Radio to read Dr. Seuss' classic children's book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Stream his rendition here, and listen to a preview below. Get Gorillaz Tickets Here Since its publication in 1957, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! has been adapted for TV, film, and as a 2007 musical. A live-action film starring Jim Carrey and directed by Ron Howard was released in 2000, followed by a CGI adaptation voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch in 2018.

Just over a month after he was released from prison following a 16-year-long stint behind bars, Max B is back with his first new full-length in four years. The rapper has surprise-released Public Domain 7: The Purge, the seventh installment of his ongoing Public Domain mixtape series. You can listen to it below. Public Domain 7: The Purge follows Max B's 2021 album Negro Spirituals.

The late '90s saw the advent of new subgenres variously dubbed trip-hop, downtempo, electronica and chillwave. The overall style was exemplified by Massive Attack, Portishead, Sneaker Pimps, Morcheeba, Zero 7...and Thievery Corporation. Deeply hypnotic melodies, sophisticated arrangements, top-flight guest vocalists and an undeniably sexy vibe are among the hallmarks of the music. Decades later, it still sounds fresh. Thievery Corporation was and remains better than most in blending world music elements into the heady mix.

Forget the vinyl revival. CD players and compact discs are back on Christmas lists this year amid a wave of 90s nostalgia and coveted deluxe releases from big acts such as Taylor Swift and Pink Floyd. Demand for compact discs peaked in the mid-00s and many households ditched their systems and libraries as digital music took off. But the distinctive whirr is returning to bedrooms around the country, with retailers and marketplaces experiencing an uptick in appetite for vintage tech and music to play on it.

Above all else, grief is intensely personal. Where hope is a thing with feathers, a flying, beautiful feeling we all recognize, grief is its opposite: a universal emotion that's nonetheless mostly private and impossible to convey in its depths. Grief creates a gulf between you and other people. I find that ironic, given its universality. We'll all lose someone or something foundational, but that certainty doesn't make it any more legible. Though it does resonate; it does produce echoes in others.

Basically, anyone who wants to participate grabs a color-coded bell, and the conductors raise their colored flags when it's time for those bells to be rung. At first, it takes everyone a little bit of time to get accustomed to it, says James Burke, the executive director of MMNY. But, you know, by the end of a half-hour music jam session, the first-timers are really genuinely making music together, and the compositions get kind of more complex as the program proceeds.

Not everybody loves Jesus, but you can certainly say the following: He was a duly elected president of these United States, perhaps overwhelming by the popular vote, as well as the Electoral College. End of story,

An investigation into chants by rap duo Bob Vylan at Glastonbury Festival in June will not lead to any further action by prosecutors as there is insufficient evidence for there to be a realistic prospect of conviction, Avon and Somerset Police said. In a statement, the force said: We have concluded, after reviewing all the evidence, that it does not meet the criminal threshold outlined by the CPS for any person to be prosecuted.

Simply captioned, "My Sunshine 12.17.2025," the singer and former tennis star posted a photo of their newborn on Instagram. The couple's new bundle of joy is seen wearing a blue and pink striped beanie and bundled up in a bassinet with a sloth stuffed animal on the side. The comments section was filled with congratulatory messages from friends and fans celebrating their happy news.

The universally beloved Moldavian DJ Andrei Rață, aka Andrew Rayel aka Rayel, has had a passion for trance music for two decades. Growing up in Eastern Europe, Rayel would listen to Armin [van Buuren], ATB and Tiesto, sending the young teen into ASMR heaven. Attending music school, Rayel began composing melodies that have caused millions of mostly young people to sway at international festivals like the Electric Daisy Carnival in Tokyo.

Amidst that select company, the Berkeley Community Choir and Orchestra stands out as an organization that has thrived by hewing tightly to the radically egalitarian vision of its founder, the color-line-breaking Oakland firefighter Eugene Jones. Launched in 1966, the BCCO has maintained Jones's open-door policy, inducting new members without audition and always performing for free. Conducted since 2011 by Ming Luke, the BCCO's third music director, the 240-member choir kicks off its 60th season with three performances of Verdi's Requiem at UC Berkeley's Hertz Hall

One thing we can all agree on is Mani was one of the greatest lads we ever met, one of the greatest men we ever knew. Lucky us.

A new Lady Gaga concert film will arrive on Christmas Eve. Lady Gaga in Harlequin Live: One Night Only was recorded last year during a performance at Los Angeles' Belasco Theatre, where Lady Gaga performed Harlequin-her 2024 "companion album" to Joker: Folie à Deux, in which she starred as Harley Quinn-in its entirety. The film premieres on YouTube this Wednesday, December 24, at 4 p.m. PST/7 p.m. EST.

To celebrate her birthday, Eilish took to Instagram to share a childhood picture from a past birthday. In the image, little Eilish appears to be mid-scream and in floods of tears. She's wearing a long-sleeved pink top with a beaded necklace draped around her neck. In front of her is a pink unicorn birthday cake with floral decorations. It's miles away from Eilish's current aesthetic.

From industrial dancehall to leftfield techno to deep, alienating drone made with saxophones, Kevin Richard Martin welcomes the spirit of dub into everything he touches. Across three decades, the physical force of his music has expanded and contracted, but two things remain constant: the pulse of dub, no matter how reduced, and the rumble of the bass. "[The goal] was to make a new form of dub music that I wasn't hearing,"

For several years, the supposed death of the band has been cropping up in state-of-the-nation style music discourse. The obvious culprit? Financial hurdles of the sort that even successful bands can no longer overcome. This autumn, Garbage vocalist Shirley Manson launched a diatribe against the unsustainable realities of touring. Meanwhile, UK post-punk four piece Dry Cleaning were forced to postpone their US concerts due to "increasingly hostile economic forces".