Billie Eilish, Haim, Tame Impala Set To Headline Life Is Beautiful Festival
The annual three-day event is scheduled to return to Vegas this September.
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Las Vegas’ annual Life is Beautiful Music & Art Festival has announced its return for 2021. The three-day event, which includes music, food, comedy, and inspiring talks, is scheduled for September 17-19 and includes a vibrant line-up of performers, including Billie Eilish, Brittany Howard, HAIM, Tame Impala, 6LACK, Green Day, and St. Vincent.
Also slated to appear is Celeste, A$AP Rocky, Glass Animals, Young Thug, LANY, Ludacris, Death From Above 1979, Remi Wolf, Earthgang, Noah Cyrus, and Purity Ring, among many others.
Think of progressive rock and what immediately comes to mind is caped keyboard players navigating a sea of wires connected to their Moog. Yet many of the pivotal players in prog rock have been guitarists, and there are easily as many earth-shaking guitar solos in prog as there are in hard rock or metal. Sometimes those prog guitarists are the leader and mastermind of their band, sometimes they’re the player who keeps those cosmic flights well-grounded. This list pays tribute to some of prog’s landmark ax-slingers.
25: Steve Rothery (Marillion)
In both the Fish and Steve Hogarth incarnations, Marillion was always an unconventional prog band. They avoided instrumental prowess for its own sake, preferring slow and stately pieces built largely around the vocal. Steve Rothery can be a model of restraint, playing mood-enhancing textural parts, but he can also deliver a solo as dramatic as the one on “Easter,” Hogarth’s lament for Northern Ireland.
Southern rockers Lynyrd Skynyrd are celebrating their historic 1976 performance with the multi-format release of
Lynyrd Skynyrd: Live At Knebworth ‘76 available on DVD+CD, Blu-ray+CD, limited edition 2LP+DVD, and digital video on April 9.
Originally only available on the 1996 film
Freebird..The Movie, this latest installment gives fans the opportunity to enjoy the 1976 performance in its entirety. Get the latest rock news straight to your inbox!
The band performed at the day-long festival with the likes of Todd Rundgren’s Utopia and
The Rolling Stones, playing to a crowd of over 150,000 people, and effectively stealing the show to create a historic moment for Southern Rock.
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Says Byrne: “On February 13 (Valentine’s Day Eve), some musician friends of mine, and many I’ve never met, are doing a virtual concert to raise money for meals for New Mexico’s hardest hit. New Mexico ranks almost at the bottom in poverty (49th) in the US and the Navajo and other Native American lands have long been short of basic health, jobs and education services- so the impact of Covid on these folks has been devastating.
“How in the world are they going to fit all these folks into one show? We’ll see.
Mutual appreciation
“Now for some folks my connection to these musicians might seem a little odd – we don’t exactly make the same kind of music – but I sense there exists some mutual appreciation – it’s certainly there from my end. I met Terry Allen, the artist and musician who helped put this together, in the mid eighties when I was making the