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Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Bloc Party concert moved to smaller venue weeks after Metric drops off tour
Bloc Party's return to Minneapolis after more than a decade is getting its second big change since being announced in February. The London-based group is on tour celebrating the 20th anniversary of their debut album, Silent Alarm. They were scheduled to play the entire album, as well as assorted "greatest hits," at The Armory on June 9. On Wednesday, Live Nation announced that the show has been moved from the 8,400-capacity Armory to the 1,800-capacity The Fillmore. Representatives for the venue and the band did not respond to a request for comment, but moves of this nature are frequently related to sales. If that's the case, it may not have helped that the tour lost an alluring opener. Metric was originally announced as the opener with plans to play its 2009 record Fantasies in its entirety. However, Metric dropped off the tour in April. "We were so excited going into this tour and we'd all landed on an agreement that would allow both parties to collaborate and to build a truly special show for the fans," Metric said in a statement at the time. "In the last few weeks, Bloc Party's team made some sudden production decisions that broke the agreement we'd made, which left us unable to continue despite our best efforts to find solutions." Blonde Redhead and Family Dinner have since been added to the tour. On the upside, Bloc Party fans will get a more intimate performance than they originally bargained for. Elsewhere in the Twin Cities concert world, First Avenue announced on Wednesday that DEVO's farewell tour stop at St. Paul's Palace Theatre has been rescheduled from June 18 to Nov. 15 "due to unforeseen circumstances."
Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kneecap Call for a Free Palestine During Uncensored Coachella Set
Kneecap returned to the Coachella stage this weekend after claiming that the pro-Palestine message they shared onstage during weekend one of the festival was cut from the official livestream. At the time, the band assured 'it'll be sorted' in time for their next set. During their Friday performance, the Irish rap group challenged censorship by conveying their message through visual graphics, though Coachella did not broadcast any performances from the Sonora tent during weekend two. At the close of their early evening set, Kneecap broadcast three screens of text, which they reshared on social media with the caption, 'Some uncensored messaging to Coachella 🤝🇵🇸.' The first message read 'Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,' followed by 'It is being enabled by the U.S. government who arm and fund Israel despite their war crimes' and a final screen reading, 'Fuck Israel. Free Palestine.' More from Rolling Stone Green Day and Charli XCX's Coachella Non-Feud Gets the Goofy End It Deserves Watch Ed Sheeran, Jelly Roll Join Post Malone at Coachella Dave Grohl, Cynthia Erivo Join Gustavo Dudamel and LA Phil at Coachella Kneecap's first weekend performance also included an anti-Margaret Thatcher chant that was also cut from the festival stream and a call for the reunification of Northern Ireland with the Republic of Ireland. During their second weekend performance, the group highlighted the connection between the causes they're advocating for. 'The Irish are not so longer persecuted under the Brits, but we were never bombed under the fucking skies with nowhere to go,' they said. Last year, Kneecap told Rolling Stone that 'because of where we're from, everything has to be about politics,' noting their Northern Ireland origins. 'We're a band, for fuck's sake. We make music. Obviously, we do things that are political. But I worry that just because we're a band from Belfast that raps in Irish, any kind of political crisis, they're like, 'Oh, let's fucking ask Kneecap what they think,'' Mo Chara said. He made their stance clear: ' It doesn't matter who you are, where you're from. Just because we rap in Irish and might not align with your political views — we can be friends with people that we don't align with politically.' Kneecap weren't alone in using their platform at Coachella. During Green Day's headlining set, the band tweaked lyrics in 'Jesus of Suburbia' to sing: 'Runnin' away from pain, like the kids from Palestine / Tales from another broken home.' Palestinian flags appeared during sets from Blonde Redhead, who featured the voice of the detained Columbia University graduate student Mahmoud Khalil, and Bob Vylan, who said 'Palestinians have always mattered' during his set in the Sonora tent. 'We must continue resisting, here from the belly of the beast. Because this genocide is funded by American money, with technology from Silicon Valley, and thanks to the complicity of all the politicians in this country,' Darkside's Nicolas Jaar said at the festival. 'I also wanna say that today, these days, as some of you may know, just protesting a genocide that is happening means you can get deported, like Mahmoud Khalil. That doesn't feel right.' Their advocacy comes as pro-Palestine activists from Hollywood to academia face retaliation from political forces. In March, Hamdan Ballal, one of the Palestinian directors of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, was reportedly attacked by Israeli settlers and detained by the Israeli authorities. Meanwhile, the Trump administration has a list of pro-Palestine students and activists to target for deportation. Best of Rolling Stone The 50 Greatest Eminem Songs All 274 of Taylor Swift's Songs, Ranked The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
Express Tribune
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Express Tribune
Coachella 2025 performers show solidarity with Palestine through onstage messages and political statements
At Coachella 2025, artists used the global spotlight to voice solidarity with Palestinians, weaving political statements into their performances across both weekends. With sets livestreamed on YouTube, acts including Green Day, Kneecap, Blonde Redhead, Amyl and the Sniffers, Clairo, Thee Sacred Souls, Bob Vylan, and Darkside took the opportunity to speak on the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and other global struggles. Some uncensored messaging to Coachella 🤝🇵🇸 — KNEECAP (@KNEECAPCEOL) April 19, 2025 Irish rap group Kneecap said their April 18 visuals condemning U.S.-backed actions in Gaza were censored on the Sonora Stage. Twitch streamer Hasan Piker streamed their performance uncensored, broadcasting the original message, which criticized Israeli policies and U.S. support. During the same show, the audience chanted 'Free Palestine,' with Kneecap tweeting that 'young people of America don't support genocide.' Green Day altered lyrics in 'Jesus of Suburbia' to reference the deaths of children in Gaza, while Blonde Redhead ended their set by waving a Palestinian flag and playing a recording of Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil, reportedly detained by ICE after pro-Palestinian protests. Clairo was introduced by Senator Bernie Sanders, who praised her activism and condemned the war in Gaza. Amy Taylor of Amyl and the Sniffers offered solidarity not only with Palestinians but also with the queer and trans communities, immigrants, and Ukrainians. Thee Sacred Souls' Josh Lane spoke of shared humanity, saying, 'If I deserve freedom, so do you… so do the Palestinians, so do the Congolese, so do the Sudanese.' Bob Vylan expressed firm support with the statement, 'Palestinians have always mattered,' during his Sonora Stage set. Darkside's Nicolas Jaar closed with a powerful speech connecting the violence in Gaza to historical injustices and private immigration detention in the U.S.
