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Waxahatchee, Rufus Wainwright, and Dan Reeder also took part on the convivial affair where to singers cycled to and from the microphone to help Bleachers and friends cover artists like Ella Fitzgerald ('Dream a Little Dream of Me'), Roy Orbison ('You Got It'), and Newport legend Bob Dylan ('Not Dark Yet').
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Tweedy's appearance featured Bleachers and the Wilco frontman teaming up for a rendition of Lana Del Rey's 'Margaret' — the Bleachers-featuring track of Del Rey's Antonoff-produced Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd — as well a take on Wilco's own 'Kamera.' (Tweedy, like Waxahatchee and Reeder, were also booked to play their own sets at the fest.)
Williams used her cameo to debut her new song 'Mirtzapine' live for the first time in concert, as well as join Bleachers for a rendition of Modern English's new wave classic 'I Melt With You.'
Bleachers closed out their Newport Folk Festival set with yet another cover — the Waterboys' 'The Whole of the Moon' — before closing out the gig with 'Modern Girl.'
This year's Newport Folk Festival also featured sets by Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Luke Combs, Jessica Pratt, Margo Price, MJ Lenderman, both Goose and Geese, Public Enemy, the Lemonheads, Lukas Nelson, Iron & Wine, Maren Morris and more.
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How to Watch Lollapalooza 2025: Where Is the Music Festival Streaming?
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Margaret Qualley Manifested This Cover Story
'I personally feel like I'm always having an epiphany,' says Margaret Qualley as she leads me along her 'special walk' on her 'special beach' by the small seaside building where she married her husband, music producer and Bleachers frontman Jack Antonoff.¹ We met up an hour ago at her 'special coffee shop,' and as the sun starts to set over the Jersey Shore, she instinctively picks up her dog, Smokey, to protect him from a wave. It's hard to reconcile this version of Margaret—working through quiet revelations, doting on her favorite places in this sleepy pocket of the East Coast—with the Margaret who's one of the busiest women in Hollywood. The very morning of our interview, her movie Honey Don't!, the second installment in the Drive-Away Dolls lesbian trilogy from Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke, is announced to premiere at the Cannes Film Festival.² Blue Moon, the Richard Linklater film she's in, is set to premiere this fall. 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It's a body of work that when studied altogether makes clear Margaret has been carefully curating her portfolio all along, building up her comedic timing and signature moves (her lip bite practically has its own fandom now). Most recently, she found herself crawling out of Demi Moore's spine in The Substance, but there's also been Maid, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, and Poor Things, all of which were nominated for prestigious awards. Despite all she's accomplished—or maybe because of it—she is disarmingly open and curious on this special walk on her special beach. She's focused on how our conversation (and this magazine) might help others feel more at home in their bodies and, in turn, their relationships. 'I feel like I understand myself more every single day,' she explains. The kind of love we devote to ourselves and, in turn, our relationships with others is, she adds, 'the most profound thing in the world.' 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I'm not cool enough to wear a leather jacket. It doesn't work for me, you know what I mean? I'm just not that girl. Midway through my junior year of high school. I got a boyfriend then, too, and that relationship was super transformative. We were together for five or six years, and he had a good group of friends and a family that was super present. I ended up living with them—it was stabilizing for me. He also brought me to an acting class. We still talk today. He came to my wedding with his little brother. Falling in love with Jack was the biggest feeling I've ever felt. We met right as COVID was ending, at the first party I'd been to.³ We saw each other on a roof, and we just started talking and never stopped. We went on a series of walks throughout the city that summer.⁴ 3. Margaret's sister, Rainey Qualley, takes full credit for this meet-cute: 'I was recording at Electric Lady, where Jack Antonoff works,' she explains. 'We'd heard rumors he was looking for forever love. So when there was a small party on the roof and I had a bit too much to drink, I proceeded to tell Jack that he needed to date my sister!' 4. According to Margaret, 'Washington Square Park is the best place to fall in love.' He did, obviously. I'm very old-school about stuff like this. I would never put myself out there first. I never text twice. I mean, now we're married and I can text him anything at any time. We're always having a conversation; he's like my human diary. But before we were together, at the beginning, I would always follow Southern girl etiquette. In every other relationship I've ever been in, I still felt really lonely because I wasn't with my person, and it's like I was seeking something. I don't feel like that anymore. Jack makes me feel safe and comfortable. I spent so many years trying to be someone's perfect girl, and that girl changed over and over again. But I can't lie to Jack. I can't be that for him—he'd see through it. So I just have to be myself. He's been the person I've pictured my whole life. And I'm not even saying that metaphorically. My first crush was Adam Sandler in Happy Gilmore and Big Daddy, and I've been looking for that essence my whole life. I'm like, 'That's Jack.' Most of my girlfriends, most women I know, have had some version of an abusive relationship. Plus, we're kind of all trained to be pitted against each other, as women. It's just such bullshit, you know? I put everything I had into Maid, even casting my real mom as my show mom. I hung out with the girl who played my daughter—her name's Rylea—every weekend for the entire shoot. I really believed in it, and I wanted it to feel as real as it possibly could. It was super intense. I learned that in moments like this, the way that women quietly support each other, in even the most micro ways, is just so beautiful. 5. In its first month on Netflix alone, Maid was watched more than 67 million times, and Margaret was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for her role. I learned so much from Maid. Have you ever read bell hooks's All About Love?⁶ I read it after an intense, bad relationship. And I was like, 'Oh, right. This thing that we've been sold is not love.' Someone who loves you wouldn't try to hurt you. And I think that because we're lonely and seeking, we try to tell a story to ourselves that justifies people's actions, when the reality is that real love isn't painful in that way. 6. All About Love: New Visions, by bell hooks, was first published in 1999. It proposes that love and physical abuse cannot coexist. Like there's always a ground below you. You can't fall very far because you're going to be caught. But love is also hard. It's why I feel inspired to make movies about love, whether it's platonic or romantic or whatever. The kind of thing I would be proud to show my kids one day. I want kids. I'm not there this second—I know there's a lot of stuff I don't know—but I've always wanted kids. Even as a little kid, I would imagine having babies. I have, and it's iconic—she looks amazing. Ever since I was young, Cosmo has been the only magazine I've avidly read. I was this gangly thing that so badly wanted to be one of the girls with the spray tan and the blonde hair who played field hockey. I manifested this Cosmo cover. I remember being on a plane with my sister, Rainey, and we'd gotten our hands on a Cosmo. We immediately flipped to the questionnaire, then to the sex-stories-gone-wrong and read the most salacious bits. I was reading this way before I'd had sex. I was a late bloomer. I grew up in the South, and Cosmo was helpful in that it removed shame from sex. I realized that there's a world in which you can have fun and maybe not be so embarrassed about it all. Rainey⁷ is my best friend in the world. I talk to her every day. She just had a baby, Bluebell. She is in California right now but will probably move to North Carolina, where we grew up and where my dad lives. We're both like, 'I want to be there more than in the city' these days. For the longest time, I found it so comforting to be in the middle of chaos. But now I'm 30, and I'm starting to chill out. It feels good to just be able to have some peace and drive to the grocery store. 7. Rainey's album Before Blue is due out later this year. I've been in therapy since I was 16. In my early 20s, I had severe insomnia that got in the way of a lot. I would be awake until 9 in the morning and just begging for sleep. One of the first movies I did was The Nice Guys. It premiered at Cannes, and I didn't go to Cannes because I hadn't slept in four days and I felt like I wasn't going to survive. I'm just getting to the place where I feel like I can stay in my own body instead of shape-shifting to be whatever whoever wants. But I'm still very consistently trying to strengthen my own point of view and feel myself on my feet and in my shoes. The biggest thing I've learned is that the sooner you allow yourself to feel whatever you're feeling, the better. What I know for certain is that I'm happier than I've ever been, by leaps and bounds. I know myself better, and I can enjoy my life. I meditate every day, twice a day, and I feel very in touch with the same person that I was when I was 4 or 9, you know? But as a woman, I feel like, 'How much of this is me?' Like 98 percent is what the world puts on you—it's everyone else's baggage. The Substance was like entering the eye of the storm. It was like dealing with all of my shit, my mom's shit, generations of trauma.⁹ It was a nightmare, being this idyllic, youthful fembot. No one thinks of themselves like that. The movie is not a good touchstone for what femininity is—it is quite masculine in a lot of ways. 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Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke wrote to me that what makes Margaret so special is that she 'doesn't second-guess herself or try to sell the audience some image of herself; she just comes to play.' Cell phones are like cigarettes. I'm a big fan of airplane mode. Because opening your phone is also like going to work, you know? I don't have any apps on my phone except Uber, texting, and Maps. And that's nice, because then it's like if I'm at the grocery store, I don't just pull out my phone. I'm just there, listening to people's conversations. And I feel more immersed in my life. I have another phone at home that doesn't have cell phone service—it just has Wi-Fi, and I can look at Instagram. We are all definitely too plugged in. The best sex comes from making sure you know your body and that your partner knows your body—so you can enjoy yourself. (Cover Image) Versace dress Chanel High Jewelry rings. (Last Video) Courrèges bodysuit, Chanel High Jewelry jewelry. 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(Unfortunately, I arrived too late to see opening act Waylon Payne, but I caught him later when he played with Willie Nelson. Jones Beach is a beautiful amphitheater directly on the water, but the mass transit options from New York City are less than ideal.) Williams no longer plays guitar due to a stroke she suffered in 2020, but she made the excellent decision to bring former Black Crowes guitarist Marc Ford into her band to compensate, and her singing voice retains much of its power. The set began with back-to-back songs from her 2023 LP Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart, 'Let's Get the Band Back Together' and 'Stolen Moments,' before dipping back to Car Wheels on a Gravel Road for 'Drunken Angel.' Midway through her set, Williams broke out Memphis Minnie's 'You Can't Rule Me,' dedicating it to the 'so-called king of the United States.' She didn't speak Donald Trump's name once, but it wasn't necessary. 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Unlike his indoor theater shows of the past few years, which focus heavily on material from 2020's Rough and Rowdy Ways, this was Dylan's version of a crowd-pleasing set that drew from all eras of his career. That doesn't mean he played any actual hits besides a radically re-worked 'All Along The Watchtower' that stripped out every bit of Jimi Hendrix's influence, but it did mean we heard 'To Ramona,' 'Desolation Row,' 'Gotta Serve Somebody,' and 'Love Sick' from his back catalog. More importantly, he was once again in remarkably clear voice, even if he occasionally slurred lines in wordy tunes like 'Desolation Row.' Many people were forever turned off to Dylan shows after witnessing 'wolfman' era gigs about a decade back, but they need to give him another chance. Somehow or another, at age 84, his voice has been rejuvenated. It's a minor miracle. If you're only seen Dylan at a theater these past few years, the atmosphere of the Outlaw Festival will be quite jarring. At the theaters, phones are taken away, the houses are completely dark and silent, and ushers roam the aisles with flashlights to pounce on anyone violating the rules. At the Outlaw shows, people are eating chicken fingers, spilling ketchup on themselves, chugging beers, loudly talking with their friends, scrolling through their phones, and taking selfies with Bob in the background. It's the opposite vibe in nearly every imaginable way. As always, practically every song in Dylan's set was rearranged not just from its original version, but the live rendition we heard as recently as last summer. ''Til I Fell In Love With You' is now practically a spoken-word track with sparse instrumentation, 'Gotta Serve Somebody' has a rollicking groove, and 'Blind Willie McTell' has rarely sounded so loose and playful. There are some grumblings in the fan community that nearly 30% of the set is devoted to obscure covers like 'Charlie Rich's 'I'll Make It All Up To You,' Bobby 'Blue' Bland's 'Share Your Love With Me,' and George 'Wild Child' Butler's 'Axe and the Wind,' but Dylan delivers them with real passion and tenderness. And if they cause anyone to seek out the originals, he's done them a favor. The set wrapped with a revved-up 'Highway 61 Revisited,' Roy Acuff's World War II-era folk song 'Searching For a Soldier's Grave,' which Dylan regularly played live at the turn of the century and only recently resurrected, and 'Don't Think Twice, It's All Right.' Casual fans perked up at the latter one, and some surely recognized it from A Complete Unknown. He delivered it like a torch ballad, and it was easily the most moving moment of the evening. There's virtually no figure on the planet with the song catalog and the gravitas to follow that besides Willie Nelson. He missed several shows last summer due to health matters, and he looks every day of his 92 years, but every ounce of his essential Willie-ness remains. Smartly, he's stripped his band way down to the essential players, centering the focus on his voice and guitar. His lean band includes Waylon Payne, who doubles many of the vocals, and takes over on lead for a handful of songs, including 'Me and Bobby McGee,' 'Help Me Make It Through The Night,' ' and 'Workin Man Blues.' This gives Willie a chance to catch his breath, and prep for the next song. Willie standards like 'Angel Flying Too Close to the Ground' and 'You Were Always On My Mind' sounded absolutely majestic, and were reminders that this man wrote a decent chunk of the Great American Songbook. It's impossible to cram all into one set, so he combined 'Funny How Time Slips Away,' 'Crazy' and 'Night Life' into a medley. Wilco came back out near the end of the set for 'Will The Circle Be Unbroken?,' but there was no sign of Dylan. 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