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      Lauren Jauregui Debuts Mental Health Anthem, Big Sean Releases Wellbeing Video Series

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      As part of Mental Health Awareness Month, the Fifth Harmony alum releases a new song called ‘Temporary’ while the ‘Finally Famous’ MC teams up with his mother for a video series.

      May 2, 2021

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      Former Fifth Harmony star Lauren Jauregui has dropped a new track focused on mental health issues in an effort to encourage teens and their caregivers to open up about anxiety and depression.

      Temporary has been released as part of The Ad Council’s ongoing Sound It Out campaign, which was created to promote music as a tool for troubled U.S. middle school kids.

      Lauren says she wrote the song after having a “deeply moving conversation” with a student named Anna.

      “I’m so grateful to Ad Council and the Sound It Out project for having me be a part of such a necessary conversation,” the singer explains. “I would say it’s the time we’re in but I feel as though my parents, my grandparents and great grandparents would’ve benefited greatly from these kind of conversations around mental health when they were kids.

      “The stigmas are only ever going to go away if we talk about it and I’m grateful to have been able to express how I feel and to have had such an open, honest conversation with Anna and her mom about our experiences. I hope others feel as warm listening to it as we felt making it.”

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      Similar to Lauren Jauregui, rapper Big Sean is also raising awareness of mental health issues. He and his mother have partnered for a new wellbeing video series.

      The hitmaker and Myra Anderson will release a weekly episode offering tips on sleep patterns, meditation and diet on the rap star’s Sean Anderson Foundation site and IGTV channel every Saturday in May, as part of Mental Health Awareness Month.

      Announcing the news, Myra says, “Sean and I wanted to share some of the no or low-cost techniques that we have used over the years to help us attain and maintain emotional balance. In the future, we may do a deeper dive into some of these techniques and other tools that we use.”

      Sean adds, “I feel that Mental Health Awareness Month is the perfect time to talk with my mom about some of the things I have learned from her that have helped me along the way, and I hope will help others.”

      Sean’s foundation previously hosted a mental health awareness panel, as well as fundraisers to help COVID-19 response efforts.

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      Enjoy an Online Concert

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      Virtually live performances are getting livelier (and bigger), with some great acts and multi-artist concerts to watch this month.While many cities across the country are increasingly opening up, the state of entertainment remains bifurcated. Socially distanced indoor shows have returned to live-music venues like City Winery in New York, and Austin’s Nutty Brown Amphitheater, while NY PopsUp is offering a series of indoor and outdoor performances at locations across New York State, leading up to the eventual reopening of Broadway. (As part of the venture, Nathan Lane and Savion Glover were the first artists to grace a Broadway stage since last March, while Amy Schumer, Chris Rock and Hugh Jackman are scheduled for future events.)But until vaccination numbers increase, livestreamed shows will continue. And as the traditional concert seasons near, the scale increases. For example, Glastonbury Festival (which will not occur in person until 2022) is holding a concert featuring customary top-tier artists. But while signs of a recovery might be in the air in some places, Covid remains very much top of mind. Selena Gomez will host a Global Citizen concert in an effort to encourage vaccination, while celebrated indie artists will come together to honor the songwriter Adam Schlesinger, who died of Covid-19 in 2020. So kick back and safely enjoy tuning into some of these multigenre continent-spanning shows.‘Adam Schlesinger: A Musical Celebration’The music, film and TV communities all mourned the loss of Adam Schlesinger, a founding member of Fountains of Wayne and an Emmy and Grammy winner who wrote songs for film like “Shallow Hal” and “That Thing You Do!” Artists including Courtney Love, Sean Ono Lennon, Michelle Branch and Micky Dolenz will perform his songs at a memorial concert that will benefit MusiCares, the nonprofit organization for musicians in need, and the venue Bowery Electric. May 5, 8 p.m. E.S.T., tickets are $20; rollinglivestudios.com/pages/box-officeVan MorrisonThe day after the release of his latest album, “Latest Record Project: Number 1,” the Northern Irish artist will perform songs from it, along with some best-known hits, in what will be his first virtual concert. Morrison has made waves in recent months with his anti-lockdown stance, which included a threat to sue the Northern Ireland Department of Health, and recently released three songs addressing the shutdown, including “No More Lockdown.” None of the three will appear on the new album. May 8, 3 p.m. E.S.T., tickets start at $14.99; nugs.net‘VAX LIVE: The Concert to Reunite the World’The anti-poverty organization Global Citizen is embarking on a very ambitious mission with their Vax Live concert to both endorse vaccination against Covid and advocate for global access to doses. The show, which is to be taped at Southern California’s SoFi stadium on Sunday, will be hosted by Selena Gomez with Prince Harry and Meghan Markle serving as campaign chairs. President Biden will also appear, while Jennifer Lopez and the Foo Fighters will be among the acts performing. May 8, 8 p.m. E.S.T.; airing on ABC, CBS, Fox and YouTubeKehlaniFans of Kehlani can tune in to see the R&B and pop artist performing her 2020 album “It Was Good Until It Wasn’t.” As a result of the pandemic, this will be her first time presenting the album in full, as well as her first livestreamed show. May 10, 9 p.m. E.S.T., tickets start at $20; nocapshows.com/artist?name=kehlani‘Glastonbury Festival Presents Live at Worthy Farm’England’s famed Glastonbury, a jewel in the crown of summer music festivals, will be on hiatus this year, just as it was in 2020. As a consolation, this livestreamed event, held at the festival’s traditional home in Somerset, will include A-list performances from the likes of Coldplay, HAIM and Jorja Smith (and no mud). Hopefully, this virtual sampling can hold festival-lovers over until the show goes on in June 2022.May 22, 7 p.m. E.S.T., tickets start at $27.50; glastonburylivestream.seetickets.com More

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      Travis Scott Expands 2021 AstroWorld Festival, Gary Numan Plans to Debut New LP at Livestream Gig

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      The ‘Sicko Mode’ rapper is expanding his Houston music festival to two days while the ‘Cars’ hitmaker is set to perform his new album ‘Intruder’ live at an online concert.

      May 2, 2021

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      Rapper Travis Scott is bringing his AstroWorld festival back to Houston, Texas and adding a day due to overwhelming demand.

      The two previous festivals sold out in advance, prompting Scott to make the 2021 event a weekend gig in November (21) at NRG Park.

      Scott, who will curate the concerts around the creative theme “Open Your Eyes to a Whole New Universe,” will also headline.

      The full line-up will be announced in the coming weeks.

      He launched AstroWorld as a tribute to the amusement park of the same name that was located across the street from the current festival grounds, which Scott attended as a child.

      In 2019, the festival became the largest single-day, artist-curated music festival in America, as well as the largest music festival in Scott’s native Houston.

      Previous invitees have included Post Malone, Pharrell Williams, Lil Wayne, and Megan Thee Stallion.

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      Tickets for this year’s festival will go on sale next week (05May21).

      Meanwhile, Gary Numan will perform tracks from his new album “Intruder” during a global livestream launch gig.

      The singer will drop his latest collection on 21 May (21) and, in support of the LP, he’ll hit the stage on 17 June for a special performance.

      “I have big news. We will be performing a one off, global online concert premiere of my brand new album Intruder on June 17th for you, wherever you are in the world,” the “Cars” hitmaker announced in a social media post.

      “This will be the very first time the album has been performed live anywhere, and the set will include songs from throughout my career.”

      Fans who pre-order the album, and subscribers to Gary’s email newsletter, will receive a link to purchase tickets at a discounted rate on 5 May.

      Standard access will be available at full price from 6 May onwards, For more information, click here: garynuman.tmstor.es.

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      Razorlight Reuniting for First Time in Decade for New Music and Special Gig

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      Johnny Borrell and his original bandmates announce a reunion to work on new music and perform a livestream concert, ten years after they went their separate ways.

      May 2, 2021

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      The original members of Razorlight have reunited after a decade apart.

      Johnny Borrell, Bjorn Agren, and Carl Dalemo formed the group in 2002, before being joined by drummer Andy Burrows two years later, and they’ve announced they’ve all been back in the same room for the first time together since 2011.

      As well as working on new music, Razorlight have announced a special live-stream gig on 2 June (21). The show begins at 8 pm BST, tickets are available here: universe.com.

      On getting the band back together, Johnny told “The Chris Evans Virgin Radio Breakfast Show with Sky”, “Here we are in the studio and we’re going do some new Razorlight stuff and the big news is that we’re back with the classic lineup, so I would like to introduce to my right, the incomparable Andy Burrows.”

      Andy added, “We are back together. It’s amazing. I didn’t think this would happen in a million years… this feels very special.”

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      Meanwhile, frontman Johnny reflected on their split and admitted he craved a normal life after years of non-stop touring.

      “I was disappointed, definitely but I think the reason I wasn’t really getting into how I felt about it was because, most people, having been raised in a culture where asking yourself what you feel about anything is the last thing you ever do.”

      “We hit the road for about six years in early 2004. Just touring and touring and touring which on the one side makes you the best musician you can possibly be.”

      “When we started doing it, it was our first job so you don’t know what’s normal and what isn’t. It’s a pleasure, I’m not going to complain about it in any way, but when it got really tight and you’re trying to do eight hours of interviews and shows every day in different countries… There’s a lot of pressure. You just think, well that’s normal. It must be normal to try and live on a bus with three other blokes.”

      In 2020, guitarist Bjorn re-joined the band and Johnny admitted at the time that he was hoping to persuade bassist Carl to make a comeback.

      Razorlight’s last studio album was 2018’s “Olympus Sleeping”.

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      Olly Alexander Confirms Reunion With Bandmate Mikey Goldsworthy

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      The ‘It’s a Sin’ actor reveals one of his Years and Years bandmates is returning as a touring member, only a year after departing the group in March 2020.

      May 2, 2021

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      Olly Alexander has confirmed Mikey Goldsworthy is staying in Years & Years as a touring member of the band.

      The pop trio – which originally formed in 2010 – became a solo project for Olly when, in March (21), it was announced that founding members Mikey and Emre Turkmen would be departing the electropop group.

      Olly, 30, has now revealed that only Emre has left the band full-time, as bassist and keyboard player Mikey will continue to tour with him.

      He said, “I love Mikey and Emre, we met over 10 years ago when we started Years & Years.”

      “Honestly, the truth is we just changed in that time, people change, we grew apart in the way that we make music. The pandemic just made us have a totally honest conversation about where we were at and this made the most sense, it’s definitely different.”

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      He added, “Mikey is still going to come on the road with us, he’ll still get some perks.”

      Olly also revealed he scrapped an entire album’s worth of songs for his third LP after deciding in lockdown that he wanted to make a record packed with up-tempo dance tunes.

      He said, “I started working on new Years & Years music straight after we released the second album back the end of 2018 and in 2019. ‘It’s a Sin’ started filming towards the end of 2019.”

      “Then last year, 2020, I scrapped all of the music I had been working on and started again because I wasn’t happy with it and I just listened wanted to listen to upbeat dance music so I was like, ‘OK, that’s what I want to make now.’ In my head it’s quite difficult to remember everything.”

      After receiving rave reviews for his performance in Russell T. Davies TV drama “It’s a Sin” – which was set during the 1980s AIDS epidemic – Olly is very keen to continue acting and is dreaming of a role in in racy Netflix period drama “Bridgerton”.

      He said, “Oh my gosh, I could be in Bridgerton Season 3, I could be a gay, something.”

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      Travis Scott to Bring AstroWorld Festival Back to Houston With Two-Day Expansion

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      The November concerts set to take place at at NRG Park will be curated by the ‘Sicko Mode’ rapper around the creative theme ‘Open Your Eyes To A Whole New Universe’.

      May 1, 2021

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      Rapper Travis Scott (II) is bringing his AstroWorld festival back to Houston, Texas and adding a day due to overwhelming demand.

      The two previous festivals sold out in advance, prompting Scott to make the 2021 event a weekend gig in November at NRG Park.

      Scott, who will curate the concerts around the creative theme “Open Your Eyes To A Whole New Universe”, will also headline. The full line-up will be announced in the coming weeks.

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      He launched AstroWorld as a tribute to the amusement park of the same name that was located across the street from the current festival grounds, which Scott attended as a child.

      In 2019, the festival became the largest single-day, artist-curated music festival in America, as well as the largest music festival in Scott’s native Houston.

      Previous invitees have included Post Malone, Pharrell Williams, Lil Wayne, and Megan Thee Stallion.

      Tickets for this year’s festival will go on sale next week (May 5). A portion of proceeds will benefit Scott’s nonprofit organization, Cactus Jack Foundation, which aims to provide educational access and creative resources for youth in his hometown of Houston, Texas.

      Scott himself has teased his plan in releasing his latest studio album, “Utopia,” in 2021. In October 2020, the ex-boyfriend of Kylie Jenner tweeted, “AFTER THIS TWEET IMMA THROW MY PHONE. IM TURNT. F**K I LOVE YALL SO MUCH. THIS SONG MAKE WE WANNA JUST RUN THREW A WALL AND PUKE !!!!! GOING TO GO COOK UP AND BUILD THESE WALLS FOR UTOPIA. SEE YOU GUYS SOON.”

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      Rufus Wainwright to Stage Special Judy Garland Tribute Concert to Mark Her 99th Birthday

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      The musician behind 2007’s ‘Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall’ will stream his digital performance from Capitol Studios in Los Angeles where he is joined by Kristin Chenoweth and Renee Zellweger.

      May 1, 2021

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      Singer/songwriter Rufus Wainwright will honor Judy Garland on her birthday with a special digital performance of his popular tribute concert.

      The musician recreated Garland’s famed gig at New York City’s Carnegie Hall in 1961 for his own 2007 showcase, titled “Rufus Does Judy at Carnegie Hall”, and to mark what would have been the late icon’s 99th birthday on June 10, Wainwright is staging the gig once more for fans to view online.

      The pre-recorded event, which airs at 8 P.M. ET, will be streamed from Capitol Studios in Los Angeles, where he got to use the same microphone as Garland once did.

      Fans will see him joined onstage by Kristin Chenoweth, and virtually by his singer sister Martha Wainwright, who was beamed in from Montreal, Canada.

      And there was one very special person making up the intimate audience – actress Renee Zellweger, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Garland in 2019 biopic “Judy”.

      Announcing the one-off show, which will close out his current series of virtual gigs, known as the “Rufus-Retro-Wainwright-Spective!”, the star said, “The American Songbook and Judy Garland’s famed 1961 Carnegie Hall concert gave me a lot of hope after 9/11 and lead [sic] to the idea for my first song by song recreation of that show at the same venue.”

      “It felt fitting to do the entire set again as the dazzling finale of my Rufus-Retro-Wainwright-Spective and hopefully the beginning of the finale of this global pandemic.”

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      “Once again, these songs revealed their healing power,” he continued. “To be able to sing them in front of Renee, to sing with Kristin Chenoweth and still have my sister Martha be part of these shows was particularly meaningful, although to sing them into the very microphone that Judy used for her recordings at Capitol Studios was the most mind-blowing.”

      His special guests were equally as thrilled about the show.

      “I’ve been wanting my moment with Rufus forever. It’s finally happening!” gushed Chenoweth, while Zellweger added, “I am still awed by Rufus’ voice just as I was 22 years ago in a friend’s living room where I heard him perform for the first time.”

      “Witnessing Rufus do the entire Judy Garland Carnegie Hall show was the most special day and I loved sharing the time.”

      To celebrate the occasion, the first complete performance of the “Rufus Does Judy” tribute in five years, the musician has teamed up with his friend and fashion designer Michael Kors to create a limited edition T-shirt commemorating the birthday tribute, with proceeds benefitting the LGBTQ human rights organization, OutRight Action International, until the end of June, which is also Pride Month 2021.

      For tickets, visit Veeps.

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      Grammys Announces Several Changes After The Weeknd Drama

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      The new changes arrive after The Weeknd publicly called out the organization for snubbing him as her received zero nominations at this year’s ceremony over his successful hit ‘Blinding Lights’.

      May 1, 2021

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      The Recording Academy is making changes after the backlash from The Weeknd and many other musicians. According to a new report, Grammys has changed a few rhings for the next event including removing secret voting committess.

      Among the alterations are “Elimination of Nominations Review Committees In General and Genre Fields” and “Reduction In Number of Categories Voter May Vote”. Additionally, two new categories are now added (Best Global Music Performance–Global Music Field and Best Musica Urbana Album–Latin Music Field). The next event will also show adjustments which will create less controversial craft categories that involve production and presentation.

      “It’s been a year of unprecedented, transformational change for the Recording Academy, and I’m immensely proud to be able to continue our journey of growth with these latest updates to our Awards process,” said Harvey Mason Jr., Interim CEO of the Recording Academy. “This is a new Academy, one that is driven to action and that has doubled down on the commitment to meeting the needs of the music community.”

      He went on saying, “While change and progress are key drivers of our actions, one thing will always remain — the Grammy Award is the only peer-driven and peer-voted recognition in music. We are honored to work alongside the music community year-round to further refine and protect the integrity of the Awards process.”

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      The new changes arrive after The Weeknd publicly called out the organization for snubbing him as her received zero nominations at this year’s ceremony, despite his single “Blinding Lights” being the biggest hit to date this year. “The Grammys remain corrupt. You owe me, my fans, and the industry transparency…,” he tweeted after the nominations were announced on November 24, 2020.

      He also hinted that he had already been planning his Grammy performance for weeks until he learned of the nominations snub. “Collaboratively planning a performance for weeks to not being invited? In my opinion zero nominations = you’re not invited!” he wrote in another tweet.

      He also hinted that he had already been planning his Grammy performance for weeks until he learned of the nominations snub. “Collaboratively planning a performance for weeks to not being invited? In my opinion zero nominations = you’re not invited!” he wrote in another tweet. The Weeknd also stated he would never submit his music to or attend the Grammys ever again.

      Mason later reacted to the complain, saying, “There were a record number of submissions in this unusual and competitive year. We understand that The Weeknd is disappointed at not being nominated. I was surprised and can empathize with what he’s feeling. His music this year was excellent, and his contributions to the music community and broader world are worthy of everyone’s admiration.”

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