FireAid raises estimated $100 million for LA wildfire relief : NPR

Billie Eilish performs onstage with Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day during the FIREAID Benefit Concert for California Fire Relief at The Kia Forum on January 30, 2025 in Inglewood, California.

Billie Eilish performs onstage with Billie Joe Armstrong of Green Day during the FireAid Benefit Concert on January 30, 2025 in Inglewood, California. Scott Dudelson/Getty Images for FIREAID hide caption toggle caption Scott Dudelson/Getty Images […]

Questlove and Maya Rudolph on 50 Years of “Saturday Night Live”

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Photo by Al Levine, courtesy of NBC. After a half-century of America’s favorite variety show, there’s quite a legacy to revisit. Some of the most iconic moments on Saturday Night Live came from not just […]

Kenny Chesney at Sphere: How to Get Tickets

Kenny Chesney at Sphere: How to Get Tickets

Kenny Chesney is set to become the first country artist to headline the Las Vegas Sphere with a new spring 2025 residency. The 12-show run will be split between May and June, bringing a high-tech […]

Brian Eno music documentary offers unique viewing every time

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An ancient saying posits that you can never step into the same river twice. That also applies to the innovative documentary “Eno.” Filmmaker Gary Hustwit (“Helvetica”), collaborating with creative technologist Brendan Dawes, developed new generative […]

After 10 Years, Ana de Armas stars with Oscar Isaac in her TV comeback

Ana de Armas wears a black coat, a black dress in transparent lace, outside Louis Vuitton

Ana de Armas and Oscar Isaac seem to be preparing to work together on a new project. The Cuban-Spanish star, who is currently promoting her new movie ‘Ballerina,’ which is a spin-off of the John Wick franchise, and […]

Brian Eno Doc Uses “Generative” Tech To Change Narrative Every Viewing

'Eno' director Gary Hustwit at the Deadline Portrait Studio during the 2024 Sundance Film Festival on January 21, 2024 in Park City, Utah.

Eno is the world’s first generative feature film.  “I tell people, ‘The film is different every time,’” explains director Gary Hustwit (Helvetica, Rams). “And they always say, ‘What do you mean? I don’t understand!’ So […]

Band Aid Preps Ultimate Mix Of ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’

Christmas Music 2024 Playlist

Bob Geldof, Midge Ure, and Trevor Horn have announced special 40th anniversary details of Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” The anniversary will be celebrated with a brand new 2024 Ultimate Mix and accompanying […]

U2 Celebrates ‘How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb’ With ‘Vertigo: Live From Chicago’

Christmas Music 2024 Playlist

U2 is celebrating the 20th anniversary of their eleventh album, How To Dismantle An Atomic Bomb, in style. Tomorrow, the group is set to share Vertigo: Live From Chicago on YouTube, a full concert from […]

Consequence’s 2024 Artist of the Year

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According to White, he plotted an under-the-radar 2024 as a reaction to his hectic 2022. “Last time I went out, I did everything: two different-sounding albums, electric [Fear of the Dawn] and acoustic [Entering Heaven […]

What’s the importance of a supergroup these days? The Hard Quartet really aren’t worried about it

What's the importance of a supergroup these days? The Hard Quartet really aren't worried about it

Sitting around a North Hollywood rehearsal studio on a recent Wednesday evening, the members of the Hard Quartet are taking a break from prepping for the first concert by this indie-rock supergroup by recounting the […]

8 New Albums to Stream Today: U2, Father John Misty

8 New Albums to Stream Today: U2, Father John Misty

It is once again New Music Friday, and Consequence is back to recommend the best new albums to stream. Among today’s highlights are How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb, U2’s previously unreleased “shadow album” to their Grammy-winning […]

Secrets of Band Aid 40 years on including group on coke, ‘forgotten’ songwriter & why lyrics were changed

Biggest global pop stars of the time came together 40 years ago for the famous Christmas song that raised more than £80million for charity

IT is the Christmas song that raised more than £80million for charity, sold almost 12million copies worldwide and features some of the biggest global pop stars of the time. But today — to mark the […]

The Edge discusses U2’s concert movie at Las Vegas’ Sphere

U2 performs at Sphere

Nine months after U2 wrapped its 40-date residency at Sphere, the veteran Irish rock band is back at the dome-shaped venue just off the Las Vegas Strip. Well, sort of. “V-U2” is a new concert […]