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Corona Capital Reveals 2025 Lineup with Foo Fighters, Chappell Roan & Linkin Park
The post Corona Capital Reveals 2025 Lineup with Foo Fighters, Chappell Roan & Linkin Park appeared first on Consequence. Corona Capital in Mexico City has revealed its 2025 lineup, featuring Foo Fighters, Chappell Roan, and Linkin Park as headliners, along with Queens of the Stone Age, Deftones, Vampire Weekend, Alabama Shakes, Garbage, Weezer, Franz Ferdinand, and Jelly Roll. The three-day festival takes place November 14th-16th at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez in Mexico City. The newly revealed 2025 lineup also boasts names like TV on the Radio, Grizzly Bear, 4 Non Blondes, Lucy Dacus, Damiano David, Aurora, Mogwai, Jerry Cantrell, PinkPantheress, Of Monsters and Men, Lola Young, James, OMD, Cut Copy, Waxahatchee, Jehnny Beth, AFI, Kaiser Chiefs, Nilüfer Yanya, Marina, Jet, Aluna, Samia, and more. See the full lineup poster below. Tickets to Corona Capital 2025 go on sale beginning Friday, June 6th via Ticketmaster. If you're planning a trip to attend Corona Capital 2025, you can save 15% off travel and accommodations through For more live music news, sign up for our weekly live music email digest for the latest tour and festival announcements, pre-sale ticket codes, and more. Popular Posts King of the Hill Revival Gets Hulu Release Date, New Opening Sequence Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence Are Now In-Laws Dave Mustaine: Metallica Stole "Enter Sandman" Riff from Another Band David Lynch's Personal Archive Going Up for Auction Man Wearing Nazi T-Shirt Gets a Beatdown from Fans at Punk Rock Bowling Fest Jonathan Joss, Voice of John Redcorn on King of the Hill, Shot and Killed by Neighbor Subscribe to Consequence's email digest and get the latest breaking news in music, film, and television, tour updates, access to exclusive giveaways, and more straight to your inbox.
Japan Times
6 days ago
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- Japan Times
Anime's big night out is getting bigger — and more surreal
All eyes at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards turn to NFL defensive end Myles Garrett as he begins to sing the theme from 'Pokemon.' There's a lot happening on the 'orange carpet' ahead of the ninth edition of the anime streaming service's awards ceremony, held on May 25 at the Grand Prince Hotel Shin Takanawa in Tokyo. Musician Rina Sawayama and Maneskin vocalist Damiano David chat with the media about how Japanese animation has inspired them over the years. On the other side of the aisle, 'Stranger Things' stars Finn Wolfhard and Gaten Matarazzo joke with one another while photographers snap pictures of them. Still, hearing the massive American football all-pro breaking into song while standing next to Olympic gold medalist and snowboarder Chloe Kim for an interview with Teen Vogue grabs the most attention in this surreal scene. This spectacle is exactly what Crunchyroll wants to project about the current global popularity — and continued growth — of anime. An event that started in 2017 as a low-key affair held in San Francisco has evolved into a glamorous ceremony styled after major events like the Academy Awards. 'We've been putting more production value into it,' Travis Page, Crunchyroll's chief financial officer, tells The Japan Times from a conference room in the hotel a day before the event. 'Every year, we've been leveling up.' While the event itself grows in size and cost annually, Page says the central aim remains the same. 'The team is constantly thinking from first principles — how do we want to celebrate anime?' American snowboarder Chloe Kim and NFL star Myles Garrett attend the Crunchyroll Anime Awards. | Courtesy of Crunchyroll The ninth edition of the Crunchyroll Anime Awards did so by leaning further into the prestige associated with traditional awards ceremonies. For the first time, a kind of lifetime achievement award dubbed the Global Impact Award is bestowed upon critically acclaimed action series 'Attack on Titan.' Host Sally Amaki wears an elegant orange dress reflecting the company's colors. The messaging on screen approaches the self-important tone beloved by the American film industry: 'Anime doesn't just tell stories... it shapes our culture. It shapes our world.' Which isn't to say the peculiarities of the anime community have vanished. Virtual avatar Ironmouse interviews celebrities during the preshow. Winners go on stage holding plush dolls of characters from the series they represent. Crunchyroll devotes space to categories both silly (''must protect at all costs' character') and specific ('best isekai anime,' referring to the genre where characters get transported to new worlds). The celebrity fashion references various series, running from Japanese talent Dean Fujioka's nod to 'Spy × Family' to American country artist Kacey Musgraves channeling 'Sailor Moon.' 'My look today is inspired by Zero Two from 'Darling in the Franxx,' but we had to drag it up a little bit,' says drag queen Plastique Tiara from the orange carpet about their get-up for the awards. 'I think most of my looks are very anime inspired,' Plastique Tiara adds. 'I think it's a world of creativity and like a recycling bin of just fab. I always go to anime.' As has become the norm for the Crunchyroll Anime Awards in recent years, the ceremony itself allows the Sony-owned streaming service to show just how beloved the medium has become via a plethora of famous guests hailing from a variety of fields. It's also an opportunity for Crunchyroll to flaunt its power in the industry. 'We just announced that we've hit 17 million subscribers, up from 15 million last year,' Page says of Crunchyroll's 'exciting' continued growth. 'The confirmation that we are doing our jobs and we are successfully giving customers and fans what they want is the fact that people keep signing up for us.' J-pop artist Lisa performs 'crossing field' from 'Sword Art Online' at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards on May 25. | Courtesy of Crunchyroll Crunchyroll has come under plenty of scrutiny as it has become the key player in anime streaming, most recently facing criticism for expressing interest in experimenting with artificial intelligence (a plan it backtracked from in April). Still, the data coupled with the soft-power pageantry of its Anime Awards underlines its status as interest in the medium continues to grow. 'Lots of young fans are coming in. Gen Z and Gen Alpha tell us that anime is a huge influence in their lives,' says Crunchyroll President Rahul Purini from the orange carpet. That statement is echoed by the younger stars present at the ceremony. 'Through the storytelling aspect of anime with all the complex characters and themes of like, battling yourself, I use that in my music to process emotions in my own life and how I put that to song,' says 20-year-old artist d4vd, adding that anime helped expose him to Japanese artists such as tricot and Eve, who he 'loves.' 'It's such a magical way to portray human emotions and to kind of exaggerate what we feel every day, and it's very beautiful, because sometimes the emotions we feel are exaggerated compared to the context we're in, and it's something that makes you feel very understood,' says Maneskin's David of anime. 'Sometimes it can also give you the strength to talk about something that you don't really feel ready to.' The Crunchyroll Anime Awards also gives the company an opportunity to highlight the global reach of the industry, underlined by the Association of Japanese Anime reporting in its 2024 industry report that the international market has become bigger than the domestic one. Page says the 2024 ceremony saw a greater push to bring in guests from diverse places, an initiative that has continued in 2025 with attendees hailing from the United States, Europe, Asia and Latin America. '(Anime) is still a bit underground in Chile, but there's so many people watching it overall,' says Chilean American pop star Paloma Mami. Maneskin vocalist Damiano David says anime is "a magical way to portray human emotions." | Courtesy of Crunchyroll This global reach proves to be one of the most interesting developments for Page. 'One of the exciting things to me is seeing which markets and territories really have fallen in love with the dubs we've been producing for them,' he says of Crunchyroll's efforts to offer programs in local languages. 'In India, for example, we're dubbing into three different languages — Hindi, Tamil and Telugu. The passion for which viewers are watching in those dubs rather than the subs makes me think we did something right here.' It applies to the shows being produced, too. Page points to the growing number of series being created from intellectual property outside of the usual manga-to-anime pipeline. His go-to example is 'Solo Leveling,' an action-centric series based on a South Korean webtoon. Crunchyroll recently partnered with entertainment company Aniplex to form Hayate, a joint anime production operation aimed at 'being a little more experimental' in creating new titles geared toward the international market, according to Page. Yet signs of the globalization of anime appear frequently at the Crunchyroll Anime Awards. 'Solo Leveling,' directed by Shunsuke Nakashige, ends up being the big winner of the night, taking home the anime of the year trophy. The award for best original anime goes to 'Ninja Kamui,' a series animated by a Japanese studio but directed by a South Korean director and premiered on U.S. entertainment block Adult Swim. 'People in many countries have been watching anime for a long time, but thanks to Crunchyroll distributing it worldwide, I can really feel just how many people are watching it and hearing my work. It's become more tangible for us,' says J-pop artist Lisa, who has enjoyed global success via songs tied to anime and will tour North America this June. While the main goal of the Crunchyroll Anime Awards is to celebrate the industry from its birthplace while also flexing the company's strength, the ceremony also offers a kind of best-case scenario for the spread of pop culture, bringing together people from far-flung places thanks to entertainment. 'The fact that an Italian band can collaborate with a Japanese artist ... that's such a long jump, but it's actually possible,' David says, referencing his group's work with the series 'Beastars.' 'Just look at tonight. There's people from all over the world united by their love of art.'
Los Angeles Times
28-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Los Angeles Times
Damiano David on his first solo album, his famous girlfriend and that Springsteen moment
Rock-star conspicuous in a brown leather bomber jacket, Damiano David struts into a hotel bar in downtown Los Angeles, finds a table near the back and orders an orange juice in his suave Italian accent. The 26-year-old singer from Rome broke out in 2021 when his band Måneskin scored a global smash with its cover of the Four Seasons' 'Beggin''; by then the quartet had already won the Eurovision Song Contest with 'Zitti e Buoni' and crashed the top 10 of the U.K.'s singles chart with 'I Wanna Be Your Slave.' (If the latter calls to mind the Stooges' 'I Wanna Be Your Dog,' consider that Iggy Pop teamed with Måneskin for an alternate version of the song.) Yet David is here on this April afternoon to talk about 'Funny Little Fears,' his debut album as a solo act. Written and produced with a squad of industry pros including Jason Evigan, Sarah Hudson and Amy Allen, the LP moves away from Måneskin's glammy rock toward a more synthed-up pop sound somewhere between Harry Styles and Benson Boone. Among the highlights are the swooning 'Born With a Broken Heart,' which has more than 100 million streams on Spotify, and 'Sick of Myself,' a dreamy ballad David wrote about his girlfriend, the singer and actor Dove Cameron; 'Zombie Lady' features a vocal turn by Cameron herself, with whom David is in the middle of moving into a new place when we meet up. 'We're getting furniture and all that bull—,' he says, his hair still shower-wet (or coiffed to look like it). David, who still spends half his time in Rome, will tour this summer with stops at Bonnaroo and Lollapalooza before a show at the Wiltern in November. These are edited excerpts from our conversation. You're living in L.A. part time because of work? It's mainly for my partner. But also because for this project, I started everything here, so it made sense to have a life here. You like L.A.? It's cool — sunny and everything. What really matters is the people, and I built a very nice community. Songwriters and producers and the like. Basically, I speed-dated every songwriter in L.A. for two months, then I made my selections based on guts and personal feeling and how much we would click with each other. I found my people, and now we go for dinners and we text. In an interview with Zach Sang, you referred to experiences with a couple of songwriters that didn't work out well. Really didn't. What happened? Sometimes it was nobody's fault — we just didn't click. What happened once was with a very big name — a big, big, big one — and he was basically never in the room. So it felt like a waste of time. They were like, 'This big name wants to do a session,' and I was like, 'F— yeah.' Then I went there and it was me and his sound engineer. Fair to say that with Måneskin you were operating in a rock space, and on your own you're operating in a pop space? I think it's fair to say if you're strictly talking about genres. But I don't think it's 100% correct because even with the band — what we did, of course, had distortion and everything, but I think it has a pop scheme. That's a good term for it. Me being the songwriter in both scenarios, I have a pop soul. I'm truly into my generation's sound, rather than an older sound, which is more what [the other members of Måneskin] are into. I think the connection between these two things made us work. On my own, not having the power trio — that's basically what we are — the sound is going to be more pop because it's cleaner. The New York Times said Måneskin 'play rock music, but operate according to the logic of pop.' I was born in 1999, so I started listening to music with a conscience in 2010. I'm born and raised with pop, and that's what I was always mainly interested in. What was the first band rock band that spoke to you? My first music memories in general are R.E.M., Red Hot Chili Peppers and Soundgarden, because that's what my dad would listen to. I'm trying to think how old you would've been when Chris Cornell put out the record he made with Timbaland. Sick. I don't know about it. Some people were like, 'This is insane,' and some people were like, 'He's such a good singer that he can do anything.' For me it would probably be the second one. Not everything is done to be extremely successful — some things are done really just for the sake of it. The male pop star has sometimes seemed like an endangered species over the last decade or so. Did you sense a vacuum that you thought you might step into? I really don't think that way — I'm not that industrialized, OK? But it's true: Girls are taking over, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. Honestly, it gives a lot of hope to see that the five biggest people in music right now are girls in their 20s to 30s. There's still men — there's Benson, who's doing amazing. And he's actually good. It's not something put-together that feels weird and made-up. I hear he's the nicest and most normal guy. You clearly put a lot of thought into your visual presentation. Is this solo record giving you an opportunity to try looks that wouldn't work with the band? It's a different aesthetic. With the band, we started very, very young. You know how in school there's the football guys, there's the basketball guys, there's the art-project guys? We were the art-project guys. So we made that our strength, and we started playing with makeup and nakedness and weird clothing because it made us feel special. In this [solo] scenario — well, first of all, I'm not 15 anymore. With the band, we were kids in an industry of adults, so we needed this armor or shield. Now I'm 26 and I don't need it. To my eye there's a bit of classic Hollywood to the styling with your record. If I have to imagine how I would look my best, I would think it's in a nice suit with an open-collar shirt. Did you care about clothes even before you began performing? Always. Not about brands — just about having something that felt personal to me. Both my parents are very well-put-together people. Stylish. My mom is very stylish. My dad dresses as a man of his age. In terms of appearance, one difference between Europeans and Americans, broadly speaking, is that Americans — You're for comfort. That's a nice way to put it. What's it like for you to walk through an airport in the U.S. and take in the view? In an airport, I'm a fan of looking like trash. These people in the industry who come off a plane and get papped in a full outfit — like, what the f—? You're on a metal tube with 20 centimeters for your legs. Why are you wearing a dress? Where did the idea for 'Zombie Lady' come from? I'm a big fan of [Tim Burton's movie] 'Corpse Bride,' and I always rooted for the zombie lady somehow. I was watching it with my girlfriend, and I thought: What would happen if I was with another girl and she popped out from a grave? 'The First Time' has a big sax solo. I think it beats a guitar solo. We were doing a writing camp in Malibu, and we were listening to Bruce Springsteen. We were like, 'Let's do something like him,' basically. I think we nailed it. It's very driving-on-Route-66 type of s—. Was Springsteen someone you cared about when you were young? I was never a huge fan, but he definitely mattered for my dad. I mean, when it was full activity [for Springsteen], I was like 2. Did you go to concerts as a kid? I'm not a big concert person. Even now? I have a hard time finding someone that I think the whole project is fire. It's always four or five good songs, then the others, I'm like, 'Why?' But also I'm not a big crowd person — it kind of overwhelms me. You said another thing to Zach Sang that I wanted to hear more about, which is that you're determined to make beautiful art even when the art is about something ugly. I have a hard time finding a piece of art that talks about a negative matter that stays negative. There's paintings of assassinations and war, but we consider them masterpieces because of the ability to take something that on its own would be bad, horrible, painful and somehow reshape it and make it into something beautiful. Ugliness can't be an artistic virtue? I'm thinking about a band like the Sex Pistols, for instance. To go to a concert of the Sex Pistols was probably the most fun thing you could do in that decade. They were about freedom and f— the rules. How can we consider that ugly? You sing in English on this album. What's Italian about the music? The level of drama. I'm extremely feeling — up and down — and I manifest it in a very express-ful way. That's very Italian about me. I'm very passionate and easy to read — I don't have many masks. Though I do think you've got a bit of rock-star mystique about you. That's because there's a complexity. I'm the Måneskin singer and everything that comes along with it, and I'm also what I am in this record. I'm an extremely positive person, and I'm also a person that went through stages of depression. This complexity is something that cannot be expressed fully in even 10 records. Which song on this album would surprise the you of five years ago? 'Sick of Myself.' I would never have declared so openly that I'm in love with this person. She's the major inspiration for this album — what she makes me feel. It's a level of directness that I would never have had. Even in interviews, I would've been more circling around the point: 'If there's a person…' Now I'm like, 'This song is for my girlfriend, 100%.' Sometimes you wear a mustache, but not today. What shapes that decision? How I feel in that moment. It's not strategic. Walking around Coachella last month, I think I saw more guys with mustaches than without. Maybe that's why I don't. Since everyone started having a mustache, I stopped. You told Vogue you listen to podcasts in the shower. Which ones? European football podcasts. Comedy stuff. Which comedians do you like? I don't think I can say the ones — I like the harsh ones. Are you interested in marriage and children? Marriage, yes — I want to get married at one point in my life. I don't see me in the future with kids, but I'm 26, so what the f— do I know?
Irish Times
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Damiano David: Funny Little Fears review – Eurovision-winning Måneskin frontman goes solo with a beautifully overwrought LP
Eurovision has become synonymous with shape-shifting Swedes wiping the floor with the competition, but one of the contest's other emergent superpowers is Italy, which in 2021 gave the Wagnerian kitschfest a rare rock'n'roll winner. The gong was claimed by the ludicrous Rome quartet Måneskin and their glam stomper Zitti e Buoni. In a twist that seemed to catch even the musicians unawares, the tune immediately transcended the narrow parameters of Eurovision fame and catapulted the group to global stardom. They went so far as to turn heads in the United States, where people essentially think of Eurovision as the Borat movie with a disco beat. It was an astonishing rise. When the band played 3Arena in Dublin, in December 2023, Måneskin's star appeal was obvious. Just as striking was that something as old fashioned and uncool as a mere rock show could draw so many Gen Zers. Waving their phones like glo sticks at a rave, they shrieked along to every bass solo and drum flourish. Such was the band's charisma in the docklands shed that they could even get away with covering the U2 weepie One – and make it sound as frothy and flamboyantly ridiculous as a Queen power ballad. Amid a wonderful marriage of chaos and charm, a bright future seemed to stretch ahead. READ MORE But then Måneskin's frontman, Damiano David, put a glammy spanner in the works by announcing he was going solo. The career he had built with the band he started as the 17-year-old son of two Italian cabin crew was not one he craved (although Måneskin haven't broken up, merely gone on hiatus). 'I really started a process of questioning the things I built and the people I surrounded myself with and the goals I was chasing,' he told DIY Magazine. 'And the picture it painted was really not the picture I wanted.' What picture did he want? With Funny Little Fears, his solo album, he has ripped upped that Måneskin canvas and scribbled in the blanks with vivacious pop songs that soar like a diamante albatross. Even when David was fronting a rock band, there was always an escapist quality to his sound. He leans further into that across a beautifully overwrought collection that is full of twinkling Eurobeats yet is astute enough to keep pure Eurovision cheese at bay. It will set your antennas tingling without clogging your arteries. Funny Little Fears begins, as all good things do, with a barrage of house piano and a big wonky techno beat, then plunges into the dance-floor-adjacent pop of Voices. It's a belter, a number that, were it any bigger, would require its own power supply and planning permission. As an opening statement it could not be more definitive. David isn't doing Måneskin 2.0. Instead he's hell-bent on bringing the listener to pop heaven. That journey features a pivot into synth escapism with Zombie Lady, on which he has a go at sounding like a one-person Coldplay, albeit with lyrics you wouldn't catch Chris Martin humming in the shower ('My beautiful zombie lady, the only one I adore' – a reference to Tim Burton's Corpse Bride). There are further surprises. Tangerine's slide guitar introduces a Buddy Holly-style country rocker, only for the tune to morph into a Wicked-style hairdryer epic. The record reaches a pop-metal apotheosis on the single Silverlines. It's a thunderous triumph produced by Labrinth, the Euphoria music supervisor, and culminating in a heartfelt 'whoa-oh-oh' chorus light-years removed from the moody poseur vibes David emanated with Måneskin. His new incarnation as an over-the-top troubadour could go either way. The world was not crying out for a solo project by the guy from the Rotterdam competition. Only time will tell if he succeeds. Still, he has at least given himself every possible chance with a thoroughly solid LP. He's even had the savvy to release it on Eurovision weekend, when Måneskin are sure to benefit from an uncontrolled outbreak of nostalgia. A solo career is always a gamble, even if you've won the song contest and gone on to headline arenas and stadiums worldwide. But, with Funny Little Fears, David has the courage to take the jump. Regardless of whether he ultimately flies or flops, it makes for a fascinating leap into the unknown.
Times
16-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Damiano David on life after Eurovision: ‘An apology would be nice'
'Shall we go and see the Pope?' I ask Italy's biggest pop star, Damiano David, the frontman of the heavily kohled and leather-clad 2021 Eurovision winners Maneskin. He laughs, blowing cigarette smoke out before letting me down: 'I don't think so.' I'm sort of joking. I know he has listening events with fans and journalists for his debut solo album, Funny Little Fears, after our interview. It would be a special kind of diva behaviour to abandon that for some papal devotion. But Leo XIV is giving his first Sunday address at the same time as our interview, just two miles to the west of the hotel balcony where we're sitting in Rome. Plus, Harry Styles was spotted in St Peter's Square last week
