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The June weekend lineup also includes Victoria Monét, Jill Scott, Nas, Gunna, and a celebration of New Orleans with Trombone Shorty The Roots have announced the lineup for their 2024 Roots Picnic. Philly fans will have their chance to see André 3000 bring his flute project New Blue Sun to the stage for a live performance. But it’s Lil Wayne who is tapped to headline the June festival. He’ll be backed by the Roots for a set of his hits and also pay tribute to the music of his hometown of New…

Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple's longest-serving senior industrial designer, Bart Andre, told colleagues this month that he is retiring; Andre joined in 1992 alongside Jony Ive — - Bart Andre retiring after three decades on design team — Departure marks near-complete turnover of group since Ive era Mark Gurman / Bloomberg: Sources: Apple's longest-serving senior industrial designer, Bart Andre, told colleagues this month that he is retiring; Andre joined in 1992 alongside Jony…

It appears that the last remaining member of Apple’s brilliant creative design team, the one led by Jony Ive, which produced some of the most successful and popular consumer electronics products in history, will leave the company.Bart Andre, one of Apple's longest-serving industrial designers, told colleagues earlier this month, that he is retiring, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. His departure marks the “near-complete turnover of a team, once led by Jony Ive, who left Apple in 2019. In other words, Apple's…

Just a few days before he would make his inevitable appearance on Usher’s Super Bowl LVIII halftime stage, rapper-producer extraordinaire Lil Jon tells me about the self-soothing mantras that kicked his decade-long wellness journey up a notch. “My affirmations in my time of really finding meditation were ‘I am healthy, I am happy, and I am at peace,’” he said. After he emerged from a mosh pit on the football field of Las Vegas’s Allegiant Stadium – performing his hit with DJ Snake, “Turn Down for What,” as a lead-in to…

Andre 3000 reveals he auditioned for — but didn’t get — Ludacris’ role in the Fast and Furious series in a bonus interview from the rapper/flutist’s recent appearance on The Late Show. Taking the soul-bearing “Colbert Questionert” back in January, the late-night host asked the OutKast legend what his favorite action movie was; Andre 3000 couldn’t think of one, so Colbert asked him a follow-up question about why he hasn’t yet appeared in any of the all-star Fast and Furious movies.…

I walked into Brooklyn’s Crown Hill Theatre wondering what kind of set to expect at the first stop of André 3000’s New Blue Sun tour. I had never been to the Crown Heights venue; I didn’t know whether he would be on a bare stage or have chairs arranged in a big circle that he’d play in the middle of. How would he split the difference between being an artist performing for paying fans and being the far-removed, flute-carrying maverick who does what he wants? When I walked in, I saw a dark stage with four light…

The performance was nearly as long as the song title itself, with the rapper performing the song on the flute for nearly 10 minutes André 3000 brought his latest studio album, New Blue Sun, to the Late Show with Stephen Colbert. The performance was nearly as long as the song itself as the musician performed “That Night In Hawaii When I Turned Into A Panther And Started Making These Low Register Purring Tones That I Couldn’t Control … Sh*t Was Wild” on the flute for nearly 10 minutes.…

André 3000 is taking his flute on the road, including a five-night stint in Los Angeles.The multi-hyphenate entertainer announced the New Blue Sun Live tour Tuesday to support his first solo album, “New Blue Sun.” The instrumental album, his first new music in more than a decade, came out to critical acclaim in November, along with the first track “I Swear, I Really Wanted to Make a ‘Rap’ Album but This is Literally the Way the Wind Blew Me This Time.”The album was also met with some raised eyebrows and light mocking.…

André 3000 announced his tour in support of his praised solo album, New Blue Sun, on Tuesday. Formerly one-half of Atlanta rap duo Outkast, André 3000 will be joined by Carlos Niño, Nate Mercereau, Surya Botofasina, and Deantoni Parks, who helped craft the flute-fused album. The tour runs from January 29 to March 9, with multiple-day stops in Brooklyn, New York; New York, New York; Detroit, Michigan; Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, California; Atlanta, Georgia; and Los Angeles, California. Tickets will go on…

Stories of estranged family members finding their way back to each other have long been a reliable Sundance staple, a stacked subgenre in itself and one that can grow a little wearying as a result. Artist-turned-film-maker Titus Kaphar’s debut Exhibiting Forgiveness, showing in the main dramatic competition here, may not exactly revolutionise the form but he finds an authentic and sensitive way through, distinguishing his film from the flurry of other superficially similar stories.It’s art as therapy for Kaphar, grappling…