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Christopher Vourlias Twenty years after a bitter rivalry tears a tight-knit Cape Malay community apart, the ghosts of the past threaten to consume a whole new generation in Muneera Sallies’ “Old Righteous Blues,” a story of music, family and reconciliation set within the colorful world of Christmas choir bands in South Africa’s Western Cape region. The film, which plays this week at the Joburg Film Festival, was South Africa’s submission for the best international feature film race at the 97th Academy Awards.

Naman Ramachandran Rock legends Guns N’ Roses will return to India after more than a decade as part of their global tour, with a performance scheduled at Mumbai‘s Mahalaxmi Racecourse, BookMyShow Live has revealed. The concert, produced and promoted by BookMyShow Live in partnership with Live Nation, marks the “Sweet Child O’ Mine” and “November Rain” band’s first appearance in the country since 2012. The Mumbai show is part of a sprawling global tour that kicks off in Incheon, South Korea, before heading to Japan, India, the Middle East, and then an extensive European leg that includes stops in Portugal, Spain, Italy, Germany, the U.K., and multiple eastern European countries.

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Tool have been booed over their two sets at their Tool In The Sand festival in the Dominican Republic.The band kicked off their first-ever destination music bash in the Caribbean this past weekend (March 7) in Punta Cana, Dominican Republic across two resorts; the Hard Rock and Royalton resorts. The stacked line-up for the fest featured the likes of Primus, Coheed and Cambria, Mastodon, and more. Tool were slated to perform two headlining slots.Maynard James Keenan and co.

Thania Garcia The Colombian duo Bomba Estéreo, and recent Grammy winners Rawayana, will soon head out on their first tour as a supergroup. The tour will take both bands across the United States and Canada for 16 shows in support of the release of their self-titled debut album.

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Manchester United legend Gary Neville has made a drastic career change, taking to the stage as part of his 'new job'.

Mastodon lead guitarist and singer Brent Hinds has announced he has left the band after 25 years.The Atlanta metal band shared the news on Instagram on Friday (March 7), revealing that the decision was mutual and that they would be continuing with their live plans as previously scheduled.“Friends and fans, after 25 monumental years together, Mastodon and Brent Hinds have mutually decided to part ways,” they said. “We’re deeply proud of and beyond grateful for the music and history we’ve shared and we wish him nothing but success and happiness in his future endeavors.”“We are still very inspired and excited to show up for fans in this next chapter of Mastodon.

A post shared by TONY! TONI! TONÉ! (@tonytonitoneofficial)Tony! Toni! Toné! are a highly influential group, defined by a unique blend of soul, funk and New Jack Swing. Wiggins formed the band in 1986 with his brother Raphael Saadiq and their cousin Timothy Christian Riley.Wiggins was the lead singer and guitarist in the group, who released their debut album ‘Who?’ in 1988.

A.D. Amorosi When Carlos Alomar talks about the 50th anniversary of “Young Americans” — David Bowie’s self-defined ode to “plastic soul,” released March 7, 1975, and re-released today by Rhino/Parlophone — it’s done with love and respect. Make that self-respect, too, because the guitarist knows exactly who he was to Bowie: the musician who helped the glam-rock god get on the good foot.

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Sleep Token have teased a brand new single with a video clip on their social media accounts.The masked band have taken to their social media channels to share a short video clip of a grey flamingo standing in a patch of grass with red and pink flowers all around it and the facade of a while mansion covered in red and pink foliage peeking out in the background. A few seconds into the video, the flowers begin to quickly bloom and the flamingo turns its head.The clip is soundtracked by a piano piece that sounds reminiscent of something you would hear out of a vintage music box.

Ghost’s Tobias Forge has explained the band’s “phone-free” rule for their 2025 world tour, saying it’s “so hard to get people to engage”.Back in October, the Swedish metal band announced a 55-date tour that will kick off in Manchester’s AO Arena on April 15 and run throughout the UK, Europe and North America, rounding off in Mexico City on September 24. Find any remaining tickets here.At the time of the announcement, Ghost made it clear that the shows will be “phone-free experiences”, explaining that audience members’ mobile phones would be secured in Yondr pouches, so that they maintain possession of their phones at all times.Now, in an interview with Loudwire Nights, frontman Forge opened up about the policy, saying “we want [fans] to be there in the moment”.He explained that the first time they tried it in Los Angeles, the crowd was “phenomenal”, despite finding it “hard” to get modern crowds to “engage” with the show.“We came off the first night and were just blown away that these people were so engaged,” he added.

Los Campesinos! have broken down the “financial restrictions” of touring and revealed a significant “loss” from a one-off show in Dublin.The band posted the breakdown of finances on their website in hopes that it would provide insight to fans into what it takes to go on tour.“We always get asked ‘why don’t you ever come to play in XYZ’, and, though flattered, I personally also feel frustrated that there’s a lack of understanding as to the financial restrictions touring bands often face,” the website post read.“I thought it might be interesting to break down the finances involved in playing one-off shows, or shows in locations that aren’t the approximately 25 different cities we know that we have a relatively large fanbase in. I will add, the following isn’t a breakdown of what it would cost every band to play this sort of gig, it’s a breakdown of what it specifically costs Los Campesinos! to do a gig like this.”The breakdown of costs included money made from show fees and merch sales, as well as outgoings including travel, haulage, accommodation, crew wages and essentials such as food.In total, for the one-off gig that the band played at Dublin venue the Button Factory, they earned £6,151.59.

Naman Ramachandran The U.K. has placed its Eurovision hopes in the hands of girl group Remember Monday, who will represent the country at the 69th Eurovision Song Contest with their upbeat anthem “What The Hell Just Happened?” The trio — comprising vocalists Charlotte, Holly and Lauren — will be the first girl group to represent the U.K. at the contest since 1999.

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Reunited boyband Five have announced EIGHT extra tour dates after "phenomenal" demand for tickets during Thursday's pre-sale. The band will perform together with all five original bandmates for the first time in 25 years this October and November.

Wolf Alice‘s return to Glastonbury 2025 has got fans excited, with many speculating that new music is likely on the way.The band were confirmed this morning (March 6) to make an appearance at Worthy Farm alongside headliners Neil Young, The 1975 and Olivia Rodrigo and acts including Charli XCX, Biffy Clyro and Noah Kahan from June 27 to 29.The performance is the band’s only confirmed live date of 2025 so far, having wrapped up their ‘Blue Weekend’ tour in 2022 before playing an intimate charity show at London’s Sebright Arms the following September.Wolf Alice return for Glastonbury 2025 pic.twitter.com/8jdjK3eQG0— gherkin rowsell (@gherkinrowsell) March 6, 2025Activity on their social media has been quiet but many fans on a Reddit thread are now speculating that new music could be set to drop.“Hopefully this means the new album is coming,” one wrote, while another added: “We are so back!!! Hope we hear something of the new music soon.”Fans on X also said they were expecting a new album to follow with one writing: “Wolf alice at glasto…. SURELY THAT MEANS A NEW ALBUM OTW.”Another added: “Ooh Wolf Alice playing Glastonbury New music on the way?” while one other fan wrote: “Wolf Alice is playing Glastonbury SOMETHING IS COMING.”wolf alice at glasto….

Nandi Bushell has shared her first single with her new band Blu Reflection, titled ‘The Only One’.The 14-year-old made her name performing drum covers that would go viral. She began playing the drums when she was five, and shot to viral fame in 2020 at just ten years old, for her online drum battles with Foo Fighters’ Dave Grohl – with Grohl even admitting defeat in November of that year.She would go on to perform ‘Learn To Fly’ at the Taylor Hawkins tribute concert, following his death aged 50 in 2022, playing with a pair of drumsticks that he gifted her.

You Me At Six have reflected on the time that they were able to get The X Factor final moved from Wembley Arena.The Surrey band are set to take over the legendary London arena for two nights next month as part of their ‘Final Nights Of Six’ farewell tour. Speaking to Kerrang! for the publication’s new print issue, frontman Josh Franceschi reflected on the first time the band played that venue in 2012.“I think we’ve always surpassed expectation, but sometimes it’s not that we’ve been the ‘best band in class’, but we’ve always been the most willing to dream big and work really hard towards it,” Franceschi told the outlet.

Ghost have announced details of a brand new album called ‘Skeletá’. Check out the latest details below, as well as the explosive new single ‘Satanized’.The announcement came as the Swedish occult metal band – led by Tobias Forge – began teasing that a new frontman was on the way, following on from Papa Emeritus IV.Forge has inhabited a series of different characters throughout the band’s career, with a different incarnation fronting the group for every new touring cycle.