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Grammy and Golden Globe nominee Vince DiCola leads film music celebration
Euro Weekly News
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July 19, 2025
This year’s edition of SONAFILM is themed around 1980s cinema. Credit: Hunter Kahn / Creative Commons From Friday August 1 to Saturday August 23, the Marina Alta region will host the seventh edition of SONAFILM, (Festival de Música de Cine). This...
Manny Pacquiao vs. Mario Barrios Walkout Songs: List of Ring Walk Music Sebastian Fundora and Undercard Boxers Have Used Before
Essentially Sports
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July 19, 2025
Only hours remain before Manny Pacquiao steps back into the ring, ending nearly four years of retirement. Driven by an enduring love for boxing, ‘Pacman’ returns to face the WBC welterweight champion Mario Barrios—a fighter not considered the...
Former KILLSWITCH ENGAGE Singer HOWARD JONES Begins Recording His Debut Solo Album
Blabbermouth - California
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July 19, 2025
Former KILLSWITCH ENGAGE singer Howard Jones has entered the studio to begin recording his debut solo album. Helming the sessions for the effort — which are apparently taking place at Sparrow Sound in Glendale, California — is the production team...
Masked Mystery Band PRESIDENT Announces Debut EP, 'King Of Terrors'
Blabbermouth - California
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July 19, 2025
Mysterious masked British rock band PRESIDENT, which is rumored to be fronted by Charlie Simpson of the pop-punk act BUSTED and the post-hardcore outfit FIGHTSTAR, will release its debut EP, "King Of Terrors", on September 26 via King Of...
As I fear for my ancestral homeland Iran, I find solace in Persian music | Dellaram Vreeland
The Guardian
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July 19, 2025
My vintage Pioneer turntable is playing the music of the Ballarat-based duo Zöj. The voice of the Iranian singer Gelareh Pour and her Persian kamancheh, a bowed string instrument, are feeding my lounge with the song The God of Rainbows. The...
'Mad fer it': Bonehead reunites with Manc music legends ahead of fourth Oasis Heaton Park gig
Manchester Evening News
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July 19, 2025
It's less than an hour until Oasis take to the stage once again to wow crowds on night four of their Manchester residency, but some of the band have been sharing a sneak back-stage as the rub shoulders with fellow rock 'n' roll stars. Oasis are...
Tim McGraw Claims That He's The Worst Singer in His Family
Wide Open Country
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July 19, 2025
Being a legend in country music and swearing you're the least talented in your family has to be crazy. I guess when you're married to Faith Hill like Tim McGraw, it's not entirely out of the question. Considering how big her prime was in the 90s,...
Carson Chamber Singers to begin 41st season with new director Jordan Gotchy
Carson Now - Nevada
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July 19, 2025
By Elinor Bugli — Calling singers! The Carson Chamber Singers, a performing group of the Carson City Symphony Association, is beginning rehearsals for their 41st season on Tuesday, August 12. Weekly rehearsals are from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the LDS...
China arrests Tibetan singer for performing at Dalai Lama’s 90th birthday celebration
Phayul
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July 19, 2025
Tenzin Nyidon DHARAMSHALA, July 19: A young Tibetan singer known as Ah Sang, or by his online alias Tsugte, has reportedly been arrested and forcibly taken away by Chinese authorities over two weeks ago from Ngaba, in the eastern Tibetan region of...
‘The SpongeBob Musical’ to close out summer theater season
The Minot Daily News - North Dakota
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Submitted Photo “The SpongeBob Musical” cast members, from left to right, are Cris Gifford as Sheldon J. Plankton, Camden Gifford as Patrick Star, Joey Fields as SpongeBob SquarePants, Sarah Belfrage Honerman as Perch Perkins and Sierra Jobman as...
Singer Lemar reveals how he copes with life-changing medical condition
The Mirror
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July 19, 2025
He’s the silky-voiced soul star who brought us hits like If There’s Any Justice and Dance (With U), and two decades on, Lemar Obika is still making waves – just a little more quietly these days. Now celebrating 20 years in the music industry, the...
The Horrifying True Story Behind This Metal Band's Hit Song Revealed
Screen Rant
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July 19, 2025
Many songs are created from real-life experiences, and for one metal band, a hit song of theirs was written after a horrifying night. The tune comes from Volbeat, a group helping keep the genre that many legends pioneered in the 1970s thriving....
How Kakuma Refugee School breeds hope, unity through music
The Standard
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They are students from various war-torn African countries, schooling in Kenya, and they share one painful experience: they have never known peace and stability in their home countries. Many of those who fled ended up in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in...
On This Day in 1993, Rage Against the Machine (Surprisingly) Performed the Quietest Set of Lollapalooza
American Songwriter
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July 19, 2025
Rage Against the Machine and the superlative “quietest” aren’t exactly two concepts that go together easily, but on July 19, 1993, that’s exactly the kind of performance the funk metal band delivered to a Philadelphia crowd as part of...
Minnesota Music Festival Prematurely Ends, Hozier Set Cut Short
American Songwriter
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July 19, 2025
Hozier was just another struggling musician when he wrote “Take Me to Church” in the attic of his parents’ home in Bray, County Wicklow, Ireland. The track reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and scored a Grammy nomination for Song of the Year....
Attorney Orders Ill-Fated Music Festival to Fully Refund Ticket Holders
American Songwriter
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July 19, 2025
The organizers of last year’s chaotic Capulet Music Fest must refund fans in full following the event’s dramatic implosion. In a settlement announced Thursday (July 18), Connecticut Attorney General William Tong said that Capulet Entertainment and...
“Worst Thing I Ever Heard”: The Tense Phone Call(s) Made Before Hair Metal Band Skid Row Came up With Their Name
American Songwriter
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July 19, 2025
Before there was the Skid Row of Toms River, New Jersey, fame with hair metal hits like “I Remember You” and “18 and Life,” there was the Skid Row of Dublin, Ireland, fame, a blues outfit formed on the influence of late 1960s rock ‘n’ rollers like...
PHOTOS: Crowds enjoy live music as free entry food festival kicks off in town
The Shuttle
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A popular food festival has officially returned to Kidderminster with the first day getting the weekend off to a great start. The Kidderminster Canal and Food Festival - Live Music Edition 2025 started today (Saturday, July 19) at Weavers Wharf....
Singer Suzi—Who’s Worked With Jim Jones & Tory Lanez—Talks 360M Streams & Doing It All Herself
AllHipHop
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July 19, 2025
Suzi, the North Jersey multi-talent behind over 360 million streams, is making waves at Summer Jam while rewriting the rules of indie stardom. New Milford, New Jersey? Even stars have an origin story. Suzi, a multi-faceted talent, hails from a...
Thousands to attend Galway Arts Festival performance
RTE Ireland
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July 19, 2025
Thousands of people are expected to line the streets of Galway this evening, for one of the main street theatre performances of the annual Arts Festival. "Microcosmos" from the French company Planete Vapeur sees giant insects making their way...