Music Festivals

Parklife, a music festival scheduled to take place in Manchester’s Heaton Park from June 10-11, says that it will still go on as scheduled, despite yesterday’s attack at the nearby Manchester Arena. The festival’s statement echoed Prime Minister Theresa May’s Tuesday speech responding to the attack, saying “We are certain we will not be defeated by such cowardice.”

On the Parklife lineup are acts including Manchester’s own The 1975, Frank Ocean, Run The Jewels, Boy Better Know, Fatboy Slim, Two Door Cinema Club, Jess Glynne, Stormzy and others. A Tribe Called Quest was previously scheduled to perform, but pull out last week after Q-Tip was injured.

Parklife wrote on Twitter that their social media accounts would go silent for the next 48 hours “in sympathy with all those that lost their lives or were injured, physically and/or mentally, by the devastating attack.”

Our thoughts are with those affected by last night's Manchester attack, and the emergency services working tirelessly to keep our city safe.

— Parklife 2017 (@Parklifefest) May 23, 2017

#WeStandTogether pic.twitter.com/jK7lFrjaVF

— Parklife 2017 (@Parklifefest) May 23, 2017

Read more about yesterday’s Manchester attack here.

The sixth annual Paradiso Festival is coming to the Seattle area and will showcase big-name performers like Tiësto, Marshmello, Zeds Dead, Troyboi, Yellow Claw, and Porter Robinson.

The festival will be held at the Gorge Amphitheater and will take place over two days – June 23 and 24. The festival’s tagline is “Where Digital Meets Nature,” and considering the venue, that’ll likely come to fruition.

See the full lineup below and go to the Paradiso Festival’s website to buy tickets, which are on pre-sale now.

The Chicago festival Lollapalooza has expanded in the past to countries as far Germany, Argentina, Chile, and more. The festival most recently announced that its next foreign location will be Hippodrome de Longchamp in Paris, France. France makes the sixth country the festival has come to.

Along with this announcement came this year’s lineup, which includes The Weeknd and last year’s headliners the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Lana del Rey. Many other performers are listed on the lineup, including Imagine Dragons, Alt-J, Marshmello, Glass Animals, and many more. You can see the full lineup here.

While Lollapalooza Chicago generally lasts four days, Lollapalooza Paris will take place in two – July 22nd and 23rd. Tickets to Lollapalooza Paris go on sale Thursday.

Yesterday, owner of Coachella’s parent company Phillip Anschutz broke news when media outlets reported that he used company funds to support anti-LGBT political groups and that he is allegedly a climate change denier.

In response, Anschutz released a statement on Thursday (Jan. 5) calling the assertions “fake news,” pointing to the diversity of his own company as evidence.

Read his full statement here:

“Recent claims published in the media that I am anti-LGBTQ are nothing more than fake news — it is all garbage. I unequivocally support the rights of all people without regard to sexual orientation. We are fortunate to employ a wealth of diverse individuals throughout our family of companies, all of whom are important to us — the only criteria on which they are judged is the quality of their job performance; we do not tolerate discrimination in any form.

“Both The Anschutz Foundation and I contribute to numerous organizations that pursue a wide range of causes. Neither I nor the Foundation fund any organization with the purpose or expectation that it would finance anti-LGBTQ initiatives, and when it has come to my attention or the attention of The Anschutz Foundation that certain organizations either the Foundation or I have funded have been supporting such causes, we have immediately ceased all contributions to such groups.”