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Reading & Leeds boss tells us about “groundbreaking” new stage The Chevron

Reading & Leeds have unveiled details of a huge and “groundbreaking” new stage, with The Chevron debuting at the festival this summer. Check out video above, with photos and an exclusive interview with festival boss Melvin Benn below.Speaking to NME last year, Festival Republic boss Benn teased that “stage changes” were on the way – potentially seeing an end to the two main stage format of recent years.
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Bonobo, Skrillex and Four Tet announced for Kappa FuturFestival 2024
Skrillex, Four Tet and Bonobo leading the line-up.Set to kick off on July 5 and run until July 7, next year’s event will mark the 11th instalment of the Italian electronic music festival and will be held at the usual spot at Parco Dora, Turin.It also follows on from the milestone 10th anniversary of the festival, which took place earlier this year and saw performances from Swedish House Mafia, Diplo and Fatboy Slim.Now, the first wave of acts set to appear at the 2024 edition have been announced, featuring returning favourites, as well as some big names who will be making their debut.Leading the way includes American DJ, producer and dubstep icon Skrillex, who will be performing at the Italian festival for the first time, as well as Jeff Mills, Bonobo and Tiësto.More iconic DJs such as Carl Cox, Nic Fanciulli, Seth Troxler, The Blessed Madonna, Honey Dijon and Four Tet have also been confirmed as appearing at the upcoming edition, as well as Nina Kraviz, who hasn’t performed there since 2019.Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased here. Check out the poster below for the current 2024 line-up.As previously mentioned, the forthcoming instalment of Kappa FuturFestival follows on from the huge 10-year anniversary celebrated earlier this summer, and saw a complete sell-out for the Saturday and Sunday.It also marked the festival’s biggest to date, with 105 different DJs & artists performing across five separate stages.
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Skrillex surprise releases new album ‘Don’t Get Too Close’ featuring Justin Bieber, Kid Cudi
Skrillex has surprise released his second new album ‘Don’t Get Too Close’ – check it out below.The EDM superstar released ‘Quest For Fire’ on Friday (February 17) after announcing it less than a week before. It was the first Skrillex album since his 2014 debut ‘Recess’ but now he’s followed it up with another new album.‘Don’t Get Too Close’ features Skrillex’s already-released collaborations with PinkPantheress and Trippie Redd (‘Way Back’), Bibi Bourelly (‘Don’t Get Too Close’) and Bladee (‘Real Spring’) alongside new tracks with Justin Bieber, Kid Cudi and Circa Survive/L.S. Dunes vocalist Anthony Green. Check out ‘Don’t Get Too Close’ below alongside the complete tracklist:1. ‘Don’t Leave Me Like This’ (ft. Bobby Raps)2. ‘Way Back’ (ft. PinkPantheress, Trippie Redd)3. ‘Selecta’ (ft. BEAM)4. ‘Ceremony’ (ft. Yung Lean, Bladee)5. ‘Real Spring’ (ft. Bladee)6. ‘Summertime’ (ft. Kid Cudi)7. ‘Bad For Me’ (ft. Corbin, Chief Keef’)8. ‘3am’ (ft. Prentiss, Anthony Green)9. ‘Don’t Go’ (ft. Justin Bieber, Don Toliver)10. ‘Don’t Get Too Close’ (ft. Bibi Bourelly)11. ‘Mixed Signals’ (ft. Swae Lee)12. ‘Painting Rainbows’ (ft. Bibi Bourelly)Skrillex celebrated the release with a sold-out show at Madison Square Gardens alongside Four Tet and Fred Again… after playing on top of a school bus in the middle of New York’s Times Square.A post shared by Sonny (@skrillex)Back in May 2022, Skrillex confirmed that he had at least two new albums on the way and started 2023 by teasing a double album.Skrillex also revealed that his recent absence from music came down to 2022 being “the toughest year of my life”, during which he felt “no drive and purpose for the first time”.“For the first time in 4-5 years I’ve found a new sense of peace.
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Skrillex photographed with right wing academic Jordan Peterson
Skrillex has been pictured backstage with controversial academic Jordan Peterson.The producer was photographed with Peterson after attending one of his talks in Miami Beach.“Good to see you yesterday @Skrillex,” tweeted Peterson before sharing a photo of the two together with the caption, “Guess who.”Skrillex did not share the photo or comment on the picture on any of his social media pages.Good to see you yesterday @Skrillex— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) February 4, 2022Guess who pic.twitter.com/783rU9U9YR— Dr Jordan B Peterson (@jordanbpeterson) February 5, 2022Peterson’s views on subjects such as feminism and gender identity have been criticised in the past. He has previously claimed that Islamophobia is “a word created by fascists and used by cowards to manipulate morons”, that white privilege is a “Marxist lie”, and that “The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.”More recently, Peterson has likened Canada’s COVID-19 vaccine mandates as an imitation of “a totalitarian state.”Mumford & Sons previously faced criticism after they were pictured with the controversial academic.At the time, then guitarist Winston Marshall explained how he invited Peterson to the band’s London studio after becoming fascinated with his work on psychology.“I primarily was very interested in Dr.
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