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Paramore and Blink-182 to Headline New Festival on Atlantic City Beach

Adjacent Music Festival will also welcome Turnstile, Japanese Breakfast, and Thursday to New Jersey on Memorial Day weekend next year. Paramore and Blink-182 will headline the inaugural Adjacent Music Festival, taking place on New Jersey’s Atlantic City Beach on Memorial Day weekend (May 27-28) next year. Others on the three-stage festival’s bill include New Jersey natives Bleachers and Thursday, as well as Turnstile, Japanese Breakfast, Mannequin Pussy, PUP, Jeff Rosenstock, Coheed and Cambria, Jimmy Eat…

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Major concert promoter proposing music festival at Payson Park

The promoter behind such nationally known music festivals as Lollapalooza and Austin City Limits is proposing one for Portland’s Payson Park in July that would feature multiple performers over two days and could draw up to 20,000 people each day. The proposal by C3 Presents, a division of concert giant Live Nation, has stoked debate among residents who fear such a large event would damage the park or disrupt the neighborhood and others who welcome…

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GroundUP Music Festival Returns in 2023 With Diversity at Its Heart

GroundUP Music Festival continues to push the envelope, combining diverse soundscapes with a 2023 lineup running the musical gamut stretching across genres, continents, and generations. Now in its sixth year, the three-day event returns to the oceanside Miami Beach Bandshell February 3-5 with Grammy-award winners Snarky Puppy at the helm of a roster of all-star eclectic talent including Meshell Ndegeocello, Jeff Tweedy, Lizz Wright, Madison Cunnigham, Silvana Estrada, and many more. Joining them will be…

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Qatar to hold Bollywood music festival in World Cup stadium

Some of Asia’s biggest stars will perform at the Bollywood Music Festival, which will be held at Lusail Stadium in Qatar on November 4. The 80,000-capacity stadium where the final of the World Cup will be played on December 18, will host Sunidhi Chauhan, an immensely popular voice among youth during the last two decades in Hindi playback singing. Chauhan, who has rendered multiple superhit songs, is also a popular face on Indian general entertainment…

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Families of 2 people killed at Astroworld music festival settle lawsuits

Attorneys for the families of two people who died during last year’s Astroworld music festival say they have settled wrongful death lawsuits. Ten people died and hundreds of others were injured during a massive crowd surge at the Nov. 5 concert in Houston, headlined by rapper Travis Scott. The settlement terms for both lawsuits were confidential. Attorney Tony Buzbee announced Wednesday that the family of 21-year-old Axel Acosta had settled its lawsuit against more than…