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It’s 9pm on an otherwise unremarkable Tuesday, and the foyer of the Sydney Opera House is a crush of slightly smug excitement. Friends run to each other and whoop, then fall into selfie formation. Outside under the famous sails, groups vape in anticipation while cradling three cans apiece. Inside the moodily smoke-filled Concert Hall, a simple test of a lighting cue is met by a headliner-worthy cheer. On the same day that Taylor Swift left town, UK producer and DJ Fred Again has arrived to keep the hype alive.All this…

In early 1970, Brian Wilson called Beach Boys manager Fred Vail to a Los Angeles hotel room to propose an idea that was outlandish even by his wild standards: a country music album with Vail on lead vocals that he’d produce. The fact that Vail was a businessman without any formal singing experience didn’t strike Wilson as any sort of obstacle. “I said to him, ‘Have you written any country songs?'” Vail recalls to Rolling Stone. “And he said, ‘Well, no.’ I said, ‘Do you have any idea who you’d like to use as…

Post Malone, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Fred Again.., and Pretty Lights lead the Bonnaroo 2024 lineup. The four-day festival in Manchester, Tennessee, will kick off Thursday, June 13, and wrap Sunday, June 16. On night one, Pretty Lights — who returned to music last year after a lengthy hiatus — will headline the main stage, while the Australian producer/DJ Fisher also secured top billing. Other artists set to perform include Geese, Gwar, the Heavy Heavy, BigXThaPlug, Disco Lines, Militarie Gun, Durand Bernarr, and…

Reading and Leeds festivals have announced their headline acts for 2024, with Fred Again, Lana Del Rey and Gerry Cinnamon all headlining for the first time.Fred Again’s booking continues his journey from backroom pop producer to underground dance star to bona fide mainstream name, having headlined Parklife festival this summer and secured one of the biggest crowds of Glastonbury 2023 for his performance on the Other stage. He – alongside sparring partners Four Tet and Skrillex – was also last-minute replacement for Frank…

Fred “Dakota” Hurt, the rugged white-water gold miner who appeared on Discovery’s Alaska-set docuseries “Gold Rush: White Water,” has died. He was 80.Hurt’s family announced his death Monday with a statement posted on his official Facebook page. He died Monday surrounded by family after battling Stage 4 brain cancer, four months after he announced his diagnosis. He had marked his 80th birthday on Sunday.“He fought courageously in his battle against cancer. Fred touched many lives and was loved and supported by many,” the…

Friday was a beautifully sunny day to start the festival’s big stages. Prior to the day’s biggest acts – the not-so mystery act the ChurnUps, dance star Fred Again, and a Fomo-inducing final clash between Arctic Monkeys, Wizkid, Kelis, Hot Chip, Fever Ray and a Chemical Brothers DJ set – the day kicked off for many with a certain lustrously-curled motivator.Joe Wicks kicked things off early with an on stage fitness session, with the Theatre and Circus area providing a health kick for young and old festivalgoers…

Washington Post publisher and CEO Fred Ryan announced on Monday that he will step down from the helm of the newspaper in August.Ryan, who oversaw the Washington Post for the last nine years soon after Amazon founder Jeff Bezos' acquisition of it, will instead lead the newly formed nonpartisan Center on Public Civility at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation."Jeff is personally providing support for the planning and design phase of this new initiative and supports my decision to make this move," Ryan told Washington…

Other than the odd piper or Gaelic singer, the Isle of Harris is a place usually short of much live music. Visitors comment on the almost eerie silence that covers the island from dawn ’til dusk. After dark, the best you can hope for is an appearance from the local covers band Passing Places – or perhaps a ceilidh in the village hall. So you can imagine the commotion when one of the world’s biggest DJs turns up to play for an audience of 200 vape-wielding teenagers and tattooed ravers on a Friday night.Months after…

After recently closing out Coachella with UK bass rollers, heady trance and comedy dubstep in his trio with Skrillex and Four Tet, Fred again..’s next move is a quite colossal dynamic shift: releasing an album of ambient songs made with Brian Eno. The pair go way back, to 2010 and Fred again..’s mid-teens, when a mutual friend invited the boy who was then just Fred Gibson to join a singing group of Eno’s. Eno is not his godfather, as has been widely rumoured, but he quickly became a mentor, bringing him on to…

The animal kingdom is full of sexual competition, and extinct creatures are no exception: Researchers found evidence that male woolly mammoths experienced hormone-induced states of aggression towards their rivals, much like modern bull elephants.Rare Polar Bear Attack in Canada | Extreme EarthThis phenomenon is known as musth, and it describes a state of heightened sexual activity and aggression in male elephants. A team of researchers examining a 33,000-year-old mammoth tusk found annualsurges in testosterone and other…