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Concertgoers in Hong Kong were left stunned when a suspended video screen fell onto the stage injuring two dancers at a performance by the popular Cantopop boyband Mirror on Thursday night.

Dave Matthews has withdrawn from an imminent wildfire benefit concert due to a “critical illness in the family”.Matthews was due to perform at FireAid with John Mayer – the event was first announced earlier this month in support of the victims of the devastating Los Angeles wildfires, which will take place later today (January 30) concurrently at the Intuit Dome and the Kia Forum, the latter venue originally meant to host Matthews.“Due to a critical illness in the family, Dave Matthews is unfortunately unable to perform at the FireAid and MusiCares benefits this week,” a statement read.The Kia Forum show will proceed with a line-up of Alanis Morissette, Anderson .Paak, Graham Nash, Green Day, John Fogerty, Joni Mitchell, No Doubt, P!nk, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stephen Stills and Stevie Nicks, among others.On Tuesday (January 28), Dave Matthews Band announced a 2025 summer tour, which notably includes a concert at the Kia Forum on August 22.

The ongoing Joe Rogan/Spotify controversy has taken yet another turn — this time in the form of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson siding with the podcast host.

Daniel Ek is opening up about the controversy surrounding Spotify in a conference call which announced new quarterly numbers.

COVID vaccines.The actor hit out at the podcaster in light of COVID misinformation spreading on his podcast The Joe Rogan Experience, which Rogan works on in an exclusive deal with Spotify.More than 270 members of the science and medical community signed an open letter, which called Rogan’s actions “not only objectionable and offensive but also medically and culturally dangerous”.“COVID is not an opinion-based situation and Mr Rogan thinking that his opinion or disclaimer for the lives he personally has affected and caused losses of – it’s not an opinion,” Stone said to TMZ.“Mr Rogan is risking people’s lives with his idiocy and his professing that his thoughts about COVID are opinions.“Infectious diseases are science, and they are fact-based situations, so the pretence that these are opinions is dangerous.“He should put a disclaimer that he’s an asshole and that his behaviour is dangerous and affecting people’s lives and deaths.”Rogan publicly responded to the situation earlier this week (January 31), as many artists have started removing their music from Spotify in protest.In a video clip posted to Instagram, Rogan addressed “some of the controversy that’s been going on over the past few days”.He told fans: “I don’t always get it right. I will do my best to try to balance out these more controversial viewpoints with other people perspectives so we can maybe find a better point of view.”Admitting that it is a “strange responsibility to have this many views and listeners,” he promised “to do my best in the future to balance things out”.

Joe Rogan introduces fighters during the UFC 269 ceremonial weigh-in at MGM Grand Garden Arena on Dec. 10, 2021, in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Carmen Mandato/Getty Images) Neil Young vs Joe Rogan seems like the strangest of cultural clashes.Yet the 76-year-old rock star's protest over coronavirus-related content on Rogan's popular Spotify podcast has ignited a hot debate over misinformation and free speech, bruising a streaming service that has become the central way that millions of people around the world experience music."Rockin' in the Free World"? Not on Spotify.

Prince Harry and his wife Meghan Markle have been "expressing concerns" to Spotify about Covid-19 misinformation amidst the Joe Rogan controversy.

Joe Rogan is addressing the controversy surrounding his Spotify podcast.

company blog post published Sunday by CEO Daniel Elk and comes after Young, Joni Mitchell and Nils Lofgren parted ways with Spotify in protest of podcaster Joe Rogan, who they’ve accused of spreading fake information about COVID vaccines.The content advisories will be rolled out in the coming days and will direct users to a COVID-19 information hub.The hub will include “easy access to data-driven facts, up-to-date information as shared by scientists, physicians, academics and public health authorities around the world, as well as links to trusted sources,” Elk wrote.Elk also announced that Spotify has taken the step to publish its “long-standing” platform rules in an effort to boost transparency.

Nils Lofgren is the latest artist to pull his music from Spotify to boycott COVID-19 misinformation on the platform.

Spotify is updating its protocols.

Neil Young has taken a stand against the COVID-19 vaccine misinformation being disseminated on Spotify via “The Joe Rogan Experience”, pulling all his music off the music-streaming service in protest.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle have some thoughts about the ongoing controversy with Spotify.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are joining the conversation surrounding the COVID-19 misinformation on Spotify. After it was revealed that Neil Young and Joni Mitchell pulled their music from the streaming service, due to the misinformation on the app, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex are calling for the platform to make a change.  “Since the inception of Archwell, we have worked to address the real-time global misinformation crisis.

Prince Harry and Meghan Markle are speaking out to Spotify.

Spotify row, revealing they reached out to the platform last year about the spread of COVID misinformation.Neil Young and Joni Mitchell announced this past week that they were planning on removing their music from Spotify because of the spread of misinformation on the Joe Rogan Experience, a podcast the platform hosts.“Please immediately inform Spotify that I am actively canceling all my music availability on Spotify as soon as possible,” Young wrote in an open letter. “I am doing this because Spotify is spreading false information about vaccines – potentially causing death to those who believe the disinformation being spread by them.He added: “They can have Rogan or Young.

Kid Rock is hitting the road, but he’s being selective about exactly where he’s going.Just days after announcing his upcoming “Bad Reputation” tour, the artist took to his official Facebook account this week to reveal he won’t be performing at venues that require COVID-19 masks or vaccination.“There’s been a lot of talk about vaccine mandates and venues. People saying, ‘I’m not going to that venue because of the vaccine mandate’ and this, that and the other.

Joni Mitchell says she stands with Neil Young and has decided to remove all her music from streaming giant Spotify.Earlier this week, Young pulled his music from Spotify after giving the company an ultimatum over concerns about podcaster Joe Rogan spreading misinformation about the COVID-19 vaccine on his show “The Joe Rogan Experience.”In a statement on her website Friday, Mitchell says she is taking action because “irresponsible people are spreading lies that are costing people their lives.”Mitchell says she also stands with the scientific community on the issue. Spotify taking down Neil Young’s music after his Joe Rogan ultimatum On her website, she includes a letter signed by a coalition of scientists, medical professionals, and professors that criticizes Spotify for featuring Rogan podcasts that they say include misinformation about the pandemic, including discouraging vaccinations in young people and children.Spotify, which has a multi-year distribution agreement with Rogan, granted Young’s request on Wednesday and within hours began taking down his albums.“I Stand With Neil Young!” Mitchell says in the statement on her website.“I’ve decided to remove all my music from Spotify,” reads the statement.

Joni Mitchell addressed her ongoing health issues in a rare speech at the 2021 Kennedy Center Honors last night (December 5).The singer-songwriter suffered a brain aneurysm in 2015 that left her temporarily unable to walk or talk. Later that year she was said to be “making good progress”.And last year she spoke out again about the incident in a rare interview saying at the time: “I got my speech back quickly, but the walking I’m still struggling with”.Now, the singer has addressed her health issues at the 44th Kennedy Center Honors after picking up a lifetime achievement award at the John F.

WASHINGTON - The Kennedy Center Honors is returning to tradition this year.The lifetime achievement awards for artistic excellence will be presented Sunday night in a gala at the Kennedy Center's main opera house after the coronavirus pandemic forced delays and major changes to last year's plans.Honorees include Motown Records creator Berry Gordy, "Saturday Night Live" mastermind Lorne Michaels, actress-singer Bette Midler, opera singer Justino Diaz and folk music legend Joni Mitchell.RELATED: December movie preview: Spider-Man, West Side Story, The Matrix and moreWASHINGTON, DC - DECEMBER 05: Actress and singer Bette Midler is hosted at a reception for Kennedy Center honorees by U.S. President Joe Biden and first lady Dr.

The pandemic was just a month old when the 50th anniversary of a folk anthem passed by almost unnoticed.

The cover originally featured on Blake's 2011 EP 'Enough Thunder'

The songwriter says Wonder "invented music"

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Gene Shay, a folk DJ who spent a half-century on the Philadelphia airwaves and helped promote the careers of Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell and countless others, has died of complications of the coronavirus.Shay, 85, who had been hospitalized in recent weeks, died Friday, according to WXPN-FM station manager Roger LaMay. His weekly “Folk Show” ran on various stations in the city from 1968 to 2015, the last 20 of them at WXPN.“He was a giant in terms of his impact on artists and the music.

It's difficult to believe it's only been two weeks since we saw Rangers take on Bayer Leverkusen in the Europa League.

He also covered Billie Eilish and Joni Mitchell in a solo piano performance