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Lincoln Center, whose theaters remain closed by the pandemic, will cover the plaza around its fountain with a synthetic lawn as it pivots to outdoor performances.Lincoln Center, which is holding a series of performances outdoors while its theaters remain closed by the pandemic, announced Tuesday that it would transform the plaza around its fountain into a parklike environment by blanketing it with a synthetic lawn.With the center using its outdoor spaces as stages this spring and summer, it turned to a set designer, Mimi Lien, to reimagine its campus. She came up with a plan to transform the plaza into something she calls “The GREEN” — adding a splash of color to a palette that is dominated by white travertine, and turning the space into a grassy-looking oasis that she hopes will invite New Yorkers in for performances and relaxation.“I wanted to make a place where you could lie on a grassy slope and read a book all afternoon,” Lien, the recipient of a MacArthur genius grant, said in a statement. “Get a coffee and sit in the sun. Bring your babies and frolic in the grass. Have a picnic lunch with co-workers.”“Like a town green,” she added, “a place to gather.”The installation, which will open on May 10 and remain in place through September, will be the physical centerpiece of Restart Stages, an initiative Lincoln Center announced in February to use its outdoor spaces for live performances. The initiative began last week with a performance the New York Philharmonic gave for health care workers, and it has continued since then with a blood drive and other pop-up arts programming.The artificial turf will be green in another sense: Officials said it that it would be made of recyclable material with “a high soy content, fully sourced from U.S. farmers.” It will also feature a small snack bar, and have books available for borrowing. Events that will be held in the space will be announced in the coming weeks, officials said.The space will be open from 9 a.m. to midnight; face coverings, social distancing and other health and safety protocols will be required. The plaza will be cleaned regularly, officials said. More

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The late rock legend’s pre-Linkin Park grunge band reveals that 10-year-old Lily and Lila are making their parents proud from the vocal booth at Sunset Sound studios in Los Angeles.

Apr 13, 2021

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Chester Bennington’s twin daughters’ vocals will feature on Grey Daze’s new album.

The late rock legend’s pre-Linkin Park grunge band took to Instagram over the weekend to share some snaps from Sunset Sound studios in Los Angeles, including one of Chester’s 10-year-old twins Lily and Lila and their mother Talinda Bennington in the vocal booth.

The pictures were captioned, “We had two of the cutest visitors at @sunsetsoundrecorders Lily & Lila this week. Making their Daddy and Momma proud #greydaze #makingchesterproud #foryouchester #newmusic.”

Grey Daze have been working under the guise of producers Esjay Jones of Alien Ant Farm and Brian Virtue of Chevelle.

Jane’s Addiction’s Dave Navarro and Filter frontman Richard Patrick are also on board.

The band released the remix album “Amends” last year (2020), which they finished in Chester’s honor, featuring the late rocker’s posthumous vocals.

Drummer Sean Dowdell said at the time, “He had just finished recording ‘One More Light’ with Linkin Park. He just said, ‘I think it would be great to reunite Grey Daze. We had 30 great songs, it would be good to re-record them with modern technology.’ ”

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“We talked about doing concerts and we had some interesting festival offers. We started exchanging ideas, he told me how he wanted to modernize the tracks with a view to releasing the record at the end of 2017.”

Following Chester’s death, Sean realized months later, “I need to finish this record. I need to do it for my friend, in his memory.”

The group was “guided” through the recording process by the “Numb” hitmaker’s vocals and it was an emotionally “intense” time for them.

“I was intense and emotional – I felt like I had the weight of the world on my shoulders,” he admitted.

Sean believes that Chester – who was 41 when he tragically took his own life in July 2017 – felt he had unfinished business with Grey Daze because Linkin Park’s record label allegedly erased their existence.

“The legacy of Grey Daze was literally wiped off by Warner,” he added. “They took all our music off the internet so Linkin Park could become huge.”

“I think it’s for that reason he wanted to reform the group. He said, ‘These songs deserve a second chance.’ ”

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Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend are set to launch limited-edition Beanz Meanz The Who cans to raise funds for Teen Cancer America, Magic Breakfast and the Teenage Cancer Trust.

Apr 13, 2021

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The Who have reunited with Heinz five decades after their iconic “The Who Sell Out” album artwork, which featured frontman Roger Daltrey sitting in a bath full of Heinz Beanz.

Daltrey, 77, and guitarist Pete Townshend, 75 – the surviving members of the legendary rock band – are set to launch limited-edition Beanz Meanz The Who cans to mark the release of the new expanded edition of the 1967 LP and raise funds for Teen Cancer America in the U.S., and child hunger charity Magic Breakfast and the Teenage Cancer Trust in the U.K.

The classic record also contained the track, “Heinz Baked Beans”.

What’s more, a signed giant replica of the limited-edition can is set to go under the hammer via givergy.uk/HeinzTheWho this Thursday, April 15 to Sunday, April 25.

Daltrey has recalled how he was in bed with flu-like symptoms for a week after shooting the cover.

He remembered, “[Afterwards] I ended up with a week in bed with either the flu or probably the worst cold that I’ve had in my lifetime and I put it down to the baked beans because they’d just come out of the fridge; they were freezing cold!”

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“I sat in them for twenty minutes until they had the great idea of putting electric fire round the back of the bathtub I was sitting in, which worked for a while. It started to heat them up, but then they started to cook. So my ar** was roasting while my front was freezing and within 24 hours, I was in bed with the sniffles. I don’t blame the beans; I blame the electric fire!”

However, it didn’t put the “My Generation” rocker, who admits he can’t cook, off the tinned food, as he hailed beans a “magical breakfast.”

Jane Ashton, head of entertainment at the Teenage Cancer Trust, added, “We’re thrilled that The Who and Heinz have teamed up to fundraise for teenagers and young people with cancer.”

“The money raised for Teenage Cancer Trust will fund our specialist nurses and support teams who work tirelessly to get young people with cancer through the hardest times of their lives.”

Beans lovers can head to heinztohome.co.uk/collections/beanz-meanz-the-who to get their hands on a limited-edition can now.

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Celebrating the success of his new track on the Billboard chart, the ‘Just the Way You Are’ hitmaker gives a shout-out to collaborator Anderson .Paak, and declares that they are just getting started.

Apr 13, 2021

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Bruno Mars is back at the top of the U.S. pop charts with his new Anderson .Paak collaboration Silk Sonic.

The pair’s “Leave the Door Open” rises from three to top the Billboard Hot 100 and become Bruno’s eighth number one. Reaching the top in its fifth week, the song became Mars’ quickest accession.

Mars now becomes one of 18 artists in the Hot 100’s history with at least eight chart-toppers. His other No. 1 included “Just the Way You Are”, “Grenade”, “Locked Out of Heaven”, “When I Was Your Man” and “That’s What I Like”.

The feat helped B.o.B’s collaborator on “Nothin’ on You” to tie the record held by Drake, Katy Perry and Rihanna.

Celebrating the success of “Leave the Door Open”, Mars expressed his excitement via Instagram. “Cmon @anderson._paak We did it!! Thank you everyone for supporting this song. Y’all really Came throoooougghhhhh. And we’re just getting started,” he wrote. “Press play on #LeaveTheDoorOpen and let us all celebrate and romantically twerk together as one. #LetSilkSonicThrive.”

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Mars’ collaborator, .Paak, turned to Twitter to share similar excitement. He tweeted, “[email protected] WE DID IT BRO!!! It is now safe to wear your bell bottoms all week!! #LeaveTheDoorOpen is the number 1 song in the country and I can’t thank y’all enough! @brunomars we poppin bottles in the Stu today I’m otw champ! AAAAHHHHHHH!!!!!!”

Anderson .Paak shared excitement over ‘Leave the Door Open’ success.

Last week’s number one, Lil Nas X’s “Montero (Call Me by Your Name)”, drops to two, while Justin Bieber’s “Peaches”, featuring Daniel Caesar and Giveon, also falls a spot to three.

Meanwhile, Olivia Rodrigo scores a top 10 double as her new single, “Deja Vu”, debuts at eight, three spots below her former eight-week number one “Drivers License”.

Olivia Rodrigo expressed gratitude for her Top 10 double.

Marking the chart double on Monday, April 12, “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” breakout star tweeted, “Ahhhh dl and deja vu on there!!!! screaming and crying!!!! thank u so much!!!!!!”

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The musicians, who went unpaid for nearly a year, have been invited to join Fabio Luisi, their former principal conductor, and his Dallas Symphony for two benefit concerts.The musicians of the Metropolitan Opera’s orchestra, who went unpaid for nearly a year, are getting a hand from one of their old maestros, Fabio Luisi.Luisi — who was the Met’s principal conductor for more than five years, and was seen as a candidate to succeed James Levine as its music director before the post went to Yannick Nézet-Séguin — has invited the musicians to Texas at the end of the month to join the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, which he now leads, for two benefit concerts.The Dallas Symphony announced on Monday that the Met musicians would join its players for performances of Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 on April 30 and May 1. The orchestra noted in a news release that the concerts would present the first opportunity in over a year for many of the Met’s musicians — who recently began receiving partial pay as they negotiate a new contract — to perform together for a live audience.A spokesman for the Dallas Symphony said that roughly 40 to 50 Met musicians were expected to travel to Dallas for the concerts, and added that they would be paid for the performances. The joint concerts will act as fund-raisers for the Met Orchestra Musicians’ Fund and the Dallas players’ union’s DFW Musicians Covid-19 Relief Fund; a filmed recording will be released.“As one of the few orchestras fortunate to be able to perform all season to live audiences, we are painfully aware that many of our colleagues around the country were not able to play concerts due to restrictions in their cities or the financial situation of their organization,” Kim Noltemy, the president and chief executive of the Dallas Symphony, said in a statement.Luisi said in a statement that he sought to “gather musicians together to make music” as a “symbol of solidarity.”“During my time with the Met,” he added, “I became close to many of the members of the orchestra. It is devastating that these incredible musicians have not had an opportunity to perform together in over a year.”Brad Gemeinhardt, a Met Orchestra hornist who is the chair of the committee which represents the musicians in negotiations with management, offered thanks to the Dallas orchestra. “We cannot overstate the impact this unprecedented collaboration will have on our members, both financially and artistically, after this long year of cultural famine,” Gemeinhardt said in a statement.After going without paychecks for nearly a year, members of the Met Orchestra voted last month to return to the bargaining table in exchange for temporary pay of up to $1,543 a week. The Met, which has said that the pandemic has cost $150 million in lost revenue, and its general director, Peter Gelb, are insisting on long-term pay cuts to offset those losses — cuts a number of other leading orchestras have agreed to.In January, Nézet-Séguin, the Met’s music director, agreed to give up to $50,000 in matching donations to the orchestra and chorus. After the musicians and the company reached their deal on temporary pay, he sent a letter to the Met’s leaders urging them to “find a solution to compensate our artists appropriately.”“I am finding it increasingly hard to justify what has happened,” he wrote.The Met said at the time that it shared his frustration and that all parties had been “working together for new agreements that will ensure the sustainability of the Met into the future.” On Monday afternoon, the company added in a statement that it hoped the musicians would “have an increasing number of performance opportunities between now and the fall, when we will once again be able to come together at the Met.” More

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Wayne Scot Lukas, who was in charge of the ‘Together Again’ singer’s look for 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show, reveals the ‘SexyBack’ crooner insisted on doing ‘a reveal’ to upstage Britney, Madonna and Christina Aguilera’s kiss at MTV VMAs.

Apr 12, 2021

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Justin Timberlake might not be as innocent as he’s claimed to be in the infamous Nipplegate at the 2004 Super Bowl Halftime Show. Having dubbed the incident that exposed Janet Jackson’s naked breast onstage as “wardrobe malfunction” for years, he’s now unveiled to have planned it beforehand.

Stylist Wayne Scot Lukas, who prepped Janet’s look for the halftime show performance with Justin, tells Page Six that the former NSYNC member pushed for the “wardrobe malfunction” in an attempt to outdo his ex-girlfriend Britney Spears. Months earlier before the Super Bowl show, the “Toxic” songstress, Madonna and Christina Aguilera became the talk of the town with their scandalous kiss at the MTV Video Music Awards.

Wanting to upstage his former girlfriend, Justin allegedly “insisted on doing something bigger than their performance. He wanted a reveal.” As to how he arranged for it, Wayne suggests that the “Cry Me a River” hitmaker had something to do with the last minute change of Janet’s outfit.

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The superstylist says the “That’s the Way Love Goes” songstress was initially going to wear a pearl G-string inspired by one that Kim Cattrall had worn in an episode of “Sex and the City”. He explains, “Janet was going to be in a Rocha dress, and [Justin] was going to step on the back of her dress to reveal her butt in this pearl G-string,” but “the outfit changed a couple of days before, and you saw the magic.”

For that reason, Wayne argues, “I wouldn’t call it a wardrobe ‘malfunction’ in a million years. It was the most functioning wardrobe in history.” He goes on defending his job to prepare Janet’s look on that now-infamous night, “As a stylist, it did what it was intended to do.”

Justin recently extended his apology to Janet as well as to his ex Britney, after he was criticized online for the way he treated the women in his life following the release of the explosive “Framing Britney Spears” documentary. “I specifically want to apologize to Britney Spears and Janet Jackson both individually, because I care for and respect these women and I know I failed,” he said in a statement issued in February.

He added, “I also feel compelled to respond, in part, because everyone involved deserves better and most importantly, because this is a larger conversation that I wholeheartedly want to be part of and grow from.”

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The manager Scooter Braun’s clients battled for the Billboard 200’s top spot, while Rod Wave slipped to third place.Justin Bieber’s new album, “Justice,” has returned to No. 1 for a second time, beating out Demi Lovato’s latest in a tight race for the top.“Justice,” which opened at No. 1 two weeks ago, then dropped to No. 2, reclaimed the Billboard 200 chart’s peak position with the equivalent of 75,000 sales in the United States, including 89 million streams and 6,000 copies sold as a complete package, according to MRC Data, Billboard’s tracking service. Bieber, 27, has had eight albums go to No. 1, but this is the first time that one of them has accumulated more than a single week at the top since “My World 2.0,” which notched four chart-topping weeks in 2010.Close behind is Lovato’s “Dancing With the Devil … The Art of Starting Over,” which opened with the equivalent of 74,000 sales, including nearly 47 million streams and 38,000 copies sold as a full package.Bieber and Lovato share the same manager, Scooter Braun, who has also been in the news lately as the former owner of Taylor Swift’s first six albums, which she has pledged to rerecord as an assertion of control and economic revenge. (Over the last 21 months, Braun’s company, Ithaca Holdings, bought Swift’s former label, Big Machine, for $300 million to $350 million, then sold Swift’s recordings to an investment firm associated with the Disney family, also for more than $300 million, and then Ithaca sold itself for just over $1 billion.)Swift’s first rerecorded album, “Fearless (Taylor’s Version),” was released last Friday and is expected to open at No. 1 on next week’s chart with big numbers.Also this week, “SoulFly” by Rod Wave, last week’s top seller, fell to No. 3 in its second week out. Morgan Wallen’s “Dangerous: The Double Album” is No. 4. And “Destined 2 Win” by the New York rapper-singer Lil Tjay opened at No. 5. More

A global outcry fueled by a sketch on a Chilean comedy show reflected a growing sensitivity to racist, particularly anti-Asian, speech.A parody on Chilean television of the Korean boy band BTS prompted an international backlash over the weekend, illustrating the power of the group’s many fans and a heightened sensitivity around the world to racist, particularly anti-Asian, speech.In a short sketch on the show “Mi Barrio,” which aired Saturday on the Mega Channel in Chile, comedians satirized the South Korean supergroup, mocking the Korean language and associating the band’s members with the North Korean dictator, Kim Jong-un.Asked to introduce themselves, the actors portraying the band’s members gave their names as “Kim Jong-Uno,” “Kim Jong-Dos,” “Kim Jong-Tres,” “Kim Jong-Cuatro” and “Juan Carlos.” Asked to say something in Korean, one comedian spoke in accented gibberish.Fans of BTS are legion and fiercely loyal. They quickly came to the band’s defense and linked the jokes to wider issues of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia that have flared since the coronavirus surfaced last year in China.Propelled by these ardent supporters, who call themselves Army, the group has made record-breaking runs at the top of the Billboard charts, released platinum-selling singles and won countless awards around the world. The group boasts the most-ever engagements on Twitter and the most video views in 24 hours on YouTube.While using their power and numbers to promote and defend the group, BTS fans have also demonstrated themselves to be a powerful bloc on other issues. Last year, Korean pop music fans coordinated to embarrass President Donald J. Trump by inflating ticket requests at a campaign rally.At a time of increased anti-Asian rhetoric and violence across the internet and around the world, “Mi Barrio” quickly became the target of a larger antiracism campaign. The trading card company Topps faced a similar backlash last week after releasing Garbage Pail Kids cards that were intended to mock the band but were widely perceived as racist and tone deaf.Not confined to Spanish-language social media and BTS fan accounts, outrage about the “Mi Barrio” episode quickly spread across the web, with the hashtag #RacismIsNotComedy becoming the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter in the United States on Sunday night. It was an indication that thousands of people were discussing the term at the same time.“There is NOTHING funny about racism, especially in a time where Asian hate crimes have been rampant around the world. This is disgusting,” wrote one Twitter user.A Chilean BTS fan account with 150,000 followers pushed people to register a formal complaint against “Mi Barrio” with the country’s National Television Council, calling on the regulator to “ensure that racist attitudes and stereotypes are eliminated from Chilean television.”In a statement posted to its Instagram account on Sunday, “Mi Barrio” struck a conciliatory, if not wholly contrite, tone. “We will continue to improve, learn, listen and strengthen our intention: to bring entertainment to families.”BTS has not officially commented on the Chilean episode, but in a statement released in March about increased attacks against Asians, the group said, “We recall moments when we faced discrimination as Asians. We have endured expletives without reason and were mocked for the way we look. We were even asked why Asians spoke in English.”“We stand against racial discrimination. We condemn violence. You, I and we all have the right to be respected,” the message concluded. “We will stand together.”That statement, released on Twitter, has been liked more than two million times. More