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Why we’ll never see anything like the Eras Tour again
Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour wasn’t just the most successful concert tour of all time. It was a “magic moment” that could be impossible to replicate.
- by Meg Watson
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Jack White returns to the grimy intimacy of the Melbourne venue where he wrote one of his hits
Jack White, rock and roll royalty, could fill a much bigger venue than the Corner Hotel several times over – but this grimy intimacy is what he prefers.
- by Will Cox, Vyshnavee Wijekumar, Cameron Woodhead, Andrew Fuhrmann and Tony Way
Taylor Swift dominates 2024 Spotify charts with 26.6 billion streams
Spotify Wrapped 2024 shows listeners were obsessed with Swift, female artists, collaborations and country music reimagined by big names.
- by Kerrie O'Brien
Just can’t get enough: The bar playing one band’s music for 25 years
It’s a British band with a French name, but the location of a bar dedicated purely to Depeche Mode’s music isn’t where you might expect.
- by Julia D'Orazio
My Chemical Romance star found dead at 44
Drummer Bob Bryar was last seen alive on November 4, according to US media reports.
- by Angus Dalton
This song was beloved 40 years ago. Now people are looking at it differently
In 1984, Band Aid’s Do They Know It’s Christmas? was lauded as a charitable masterpiece. Now, it’s being talked about for other reasons.
- by Nell Geraets
Twist on Frankenstein transports the classic to London under Thatcher
Cruel Britannia’s atmosphere of uncanniness and threat created by gender conformity resonates with deeper truths that a more straightforward retelling might miss.
- by Cameron Woodhead, Vyshnavee Wijekumar, Will Cox and Nell Geraets
Even Trump can’t kill the mood for musical funsters the Flaming Lips
A brush with death at 16 left frontman Wayne Coyne looking on the bright side. At 63, he has no plans to tone things down.
- by Barry Divola
Pearl Jam frontman pauses Sydney show to pay tribute to Laos drink-spiking victims
Eddie Vedder took a moment during the band’s Sydney concert to send his thoughts to the families of Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles.
- by Jessica McSweeney
Liam Payne’s One Direction bandmates among mourners at funeral
Zayn Malik, Harry Styles, Niall Horan and Louis Tomlinson joined friends and family at the service for Payne, northwest of London.