The Las Vegas emo and punk nostalgia festival Best Friends Forever has announced the lineup for its second year. Taking place Oct. 10 to Oct. 12, again at the Downtown Las Vegas Events Center, BFF ‘25 will feature reunions from the long-dormant bands Minus The Bear (playing Menos El Oso), Texas Is The Reason, Knapsack, Hey Mercedes, Marietta, and Empire! Empire! (I Was A Lonely Estate).
Last year, a lawsuit against Sean Combs was refiled by an anonymous Jane Doe, accusing Jay-Z of raping a 13-year-old girl alongside Combs in 2000. Shortly after, she admitted to inconsistencies in her story. She dropped the suit last month, and now Jay-Z is suing her.
Last year, Paul McCartney was one of many to endorse Foreigner to be inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, which was a campaign spearheaded by Mick Jones’ stepson Mark Ronson. Now, the Beatle is advocating for the late English blues-rock singer Joe Cocker, who was revealed as a nominee last month.
Taxidermists are a lo-fi indie rock duo from western Massachusetts who’ve been picking up some steady buzz as of late. Members Cooper B. Handy and Salvadore McNamara initially met on MySpace in 2007 when they were preteens and always bonded over music, but they didn’t really get the ball rolling on Taxidermists until last winter. Their new album 20247 is out this Friday, and today, they’re sharing the final single “Needles To Say.” (Yes, that’s “needles,” like the pointy objects.)
Sean Baker is one of two filmmakers who have won four Oscars during a single ceremony; the other is Walt Disney, way back in 1953. However, Baker is the only filmmaker to have won four Oscars for the same movie, and that movie is Anora, the Mikey Madison-starring romantic-dramedy that swept the awards show Sunday night.
Puddle Of Mudd played a benefit concert over the weekend during Daytona Bike Week in Florida, maybe the most appropriate event to ever warrant a Puddle Of Mudd performance. Ahead of the show, they auctioned off a signed guitar for $5,000 to go to St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. That’s all fine and good, but once Mudd hit the stage, shit hit the fan.
The 97th Academy Awards are currently underway, hosted by Conan O’Brien, and the two music categories have their winners. Clément Ducol, Camille, and Jacques Audiard won Best Original Song for “El Mal,” the Golden Globe-winning tune Best Actress winner Zoe Saldaña performed in Emilia Pérez. Daniel Blumberg, former frontman of Yuck and 2007 Stereogum Band To Watch Cajun Dance Party, won Best Original Score for The Brutalist.
Earlier this year, the heads of the Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences announced that for this year’s broadcast, they would not be doing the usual Best Original Song performances they’ve done in many years’ past. So instead, Doja Cat, Raye, and BLACKPINK’s Lisa performed at the Oscars tonight, doing a medley paying tribute to the James Bond film franchise.
Last May, police responded to a shooting in the Atlanta neighborhood of Dixie Hills, widely believed to have taken place on the set of a music video for Atlanta’s own Lil Baby. Then on July 2, two 13-year-old boys named Jakody Davis and Lamon Freeman were tragically shot and killed at the latter’s birthday party, also in Atlanta. In a press conference last Wednesday, city detectives said the attack had been “orchestrated” from prison, and involved members of “one of the most hyperviolent gangs in the city of Atlanta.”
After John Cena won the men’s Elimination Chamber match Saturday night, fellow WWE champion Cody Rhodes came to the ring to congratulate him in an apparently friendly encounter. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson then also joined the pair in the ring, and asked Rhodes whether he would become “his champion” and “sell his soul” to him. Rhodes replied “go fuck yourself.” Then, while Cena was giving Rhodes a big hug, the Rock gave him a cue to beat down Rhodes. Cena then kneed Rhodes in the crotch. But the weirdest part of the whole story might be that Travis Scott hopped into the ring, too, and socked Rhodes himself.