Metallica to Headline Louder Than Life Fest, Mavis Staples to Perform at Libera Awards
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The James Hetfield-fronted band is booked for the Louisville music festival while the Uncloudy Day singer is set to sing at the American Association of Independent Music Awards. May 16, 2021
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Metallica will play two headline sets at the returning Louder Than Life Festival in Louisville, Kentucky in September (21).
James Hetfield and his bandmates will close out the Friday and Sunday nights of the four-day event, which will also feature sets from
Promoter
Danny Wimmer says, Weather got in the way of Nine Inch Nails in 2018, the pandemic derailed our plans for two big Metallica sets in 2020, so to have them both back for 2021, along with KORN and the rest of this incredible line-up over four days, that s the kind of new normal that we re all looking forward to.
“We are grateful to have such a stunning and diverse array of artists perform at this year’s A2IM Libera Awards,” Richard James Burgess, A2IM CEO, said in a statement. “…We are proud to use this platform to showcase and honor some of the brightest lights in the independent music world.”
The A2IM Awards honor “the hard work and boundary-breaking vision of independent artists.” The awards will be presented by Merlin and streamed exclusively on YouTube for the second year in a row. Fans can watch the show on A2IM’s official YouTube channel on June 17 starting at 6 p.m. ET. This year’s show is produced by The Control Room.
By David Cohen
Opinion - They say a week is a long time in politics, but a month of local music can feel longer still. We re not even halfway through NZ Music Month, and already it feels like it s had a rather good running time.
Long ago, the country s once solidly left-field acts morphed into the music of choice for putting callers on hold, says David Cohen.
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History never repeats, at least according to one of the better-known bands the country is meant to be in the middle of celebrating - as has been the case since the turn of the century. When it comes to dedicated days, weeks and months, though, history also high-rotates.
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(Thursday, 22nd April) Aotearoa’s iconic
NZ Music Month | Te Marama Puoro o Aotearoa kicks off on May 1st, celebrating great local music for all New Zealanders – in every place, for every age, and in every genre. The month of May will see a host of celebrations, new releases, artist tours and special events happening across Aotearoa.
NZ Music Month’s Rodney Fisher commented:
“With a focus on bringing great music from Aotearoa to all New Zealanders, we look forward to highlighting stories from across the country, along with the reminder to support our musicians by getting out and catching live gigs, streaming local, following local acts online, and buying local music and merch.”
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Lina Khan, nominee for Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), testifies during a Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 21, 2021.
The Columbia law professor has been a vocal critic of Big Tech.
Lina Khan appears poised to become the youngest-ever member of the Federal Trade Commission, following a largely warm reception from both parties at her confirmation hearing on Wednesday. If confirmed, the 32-year-old antitrust scholar and advocate will be one of three Democratic commissioners at the FTC.
Khan, who currently works as an associate professor of law at Columbia University, rose to prominence with the 2017 Yale Law Journal article Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox, in which she argued that the old standard of determining monopolistic behaviors – i.e. looking at whether said behavior results in rising prices for consumers – is insufficient when app