Travis Scott performs at 2019’s Rolling Loud music festival at Citi Field in Queens. Photo: Steven Ferdman/Getty Images The fate of indoor concerts remains a mystery, but the organizers behind the nation’s biggest outdoor musical festivals are hoping you’re ready to get loud in close proximity to a ton of your fellow fans sometime this summer. According to Pitchfork, Rolling Loud announced the details of its 2021 festival , set to take place at Miami Gardens, Florida’s Hard Rock Stadium from Friday, July 23 to Sunday, July 25. The schedule retains Rolling Loud’s previously announced headliners from last year’s festivities, which were canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic, meaning Travis Scott , Post Malone , and A$AP Rocky will each close out one night of the festival. The trio will be joined by dozens of acts that Rolling Loud hopes will have you lining up those vaccination appointments (please, God, before you go), including Megan Thee Stallion , City Girls , … [Read more...] about Rolling Loud Rolls Into Miami This July With Last Year’s Would-Be Headliners in Tow
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We’ve Been Having the Same Fights About the Oscars for 70 Years
Complaints about Parasite winning Best Picture echoed similar grumblings about Hamlet decades earlier. Photo: Left: Granada International/Shutterstock, Right: Neon/Moviestore/Shutterstock It’s a very human thing to assume that, just because something annoys you, it must therefore be new. Consider the Oscars, which in recent years have been at the forefront of cultural debates over diversity and inclusion, high art versus populism, and what exactly constitutes a supporting performance. This has proven incredibly frustrating to people who remember a more innocent time, a lost golden age when the Oscars used to be all about the movies, man. But many of these analyses leave out one crucial element — the Oscars have always been like this! In fact, those put off by the annual brouhahas around the Academy Awards should find solace in the fact that many of the Oscars fights of recent years are actually reprises of controversies from days of old. Take a look at this voyage through … [Read more...] about We’ve Been Having the Same Fights About the Oscars for 70 Years