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Vans Warped Tour might be one of the best-selling festivals of 2025, but organizers say no one music act is responsible for moving the bulk of the 240,000 tickets sold so far across three U.S. cities. Indeed, the brand name alone seems to have been enough. “We sold the vast majority of those tickets before we had a lineup,” says Kevin Lyman, founder and producer of the traveling punk show, which ran from 1995 to 2018 before returning this year for a limited 30th anniversary run.

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Queens of the Stone Age frontman Josh Homme has some sage advice for anyone who finds themselves in a difficult situation. “If you’re going through hell,” Homme says, “keep going.” Easy for him to say: He’s one of the few lucky souls who has left the Paris Catacombs, the subject of his band’s new film and the final home to more than 6 million deceased Parisians following an 18th-century effort to fix Paris’ overcrowded, dilapidated cemetery system.

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NowJudge Arun Subramanian warned the defense that Sean “Diddy” Combs could be excluded from the courtroom if he continues to attempt to interact with the jury. The judge said he saw Combs on two different occasions during Bryana Bongolan’s testimony, looking at the jury and “nodding vigorously." …

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For Wu-Tang Clan superfans with money to burn, snagging a premium ticket for their upcoming tour won’t just buy killer seats, but gain them entry to an exclusive pre-party offering an immersive look at the kung-fu and iconography of the famed Staten Island hip-hop collective.

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A Honduras-based hotel owner says he’s reviving the Fyre Festival brand alongside Billy McFarland as a pop-up experience at his island resort, marking the latest twist in a bizarre saga. Heath Miller, a former New York concert promoter and one-time manager of Webster Hall in Manhattan, says he reached an agreement with McFarland to stage a 300-to-400-person Fyre Resort Pop-Up at his hotel, Coral Villa Utila, located on the island of Utila, one of Honduras’ famed Bay Islands in the Caribbean.