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Worldwide FM, the radio station and platform for eclectic international music, will pause most of its operations in late October after a six-year run, founder Gilles Peterson tweeted Monday (September 12). A post on Worldwide FM’s social media pages describes a “period of transition” while the station seeks new financing options. In the meantime, the platform’s website, Mixcloud, and archive will remain active, and Peterson himself will host shows.  Peterson founded Worldwide FM in 2016, expanding a niche for offbeat jazz and eclectic international music—particularly from South America and Africa—that he had established as a DJ, radio presenter, and music curator. The station billed itself as a “community and platform where marginalised voices, alternative perspectives and shared prog...

Paramount+ will stream a new documentary on the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas that took place in 2017. The four-part documentary, titled 11 Minutes, features the first in-depth interview with country star Jason Aldean, who was performing when the 11-minute shooting spree began. Other interviewees include concert-goers, emergency trauma teams, first responders, police, and FBI agents. The series will arrive at Paramount+ on September 27, during the week of the event’s fifth anniversary.  The massacre, for which an FBI investigation found no clear motive, left 58 people dead, making it the worst mass shooting in U.S. history. Directed by Jeff Zimbalist, the documentary includes footage drawn from 200 hours of cell phone video, as well as previously unreleas...

Weyes Blood: 12-08 Los Angeles, CA – The Theatre at Ace Hotel12-09 Los Angeles, CA – The Theatre at Ace Hotel01-28 Berlin, Germany – Festsaal Kreuzberg01-30 Stockholm, Sweden – Berns01-31 Oslo, Norway – Rockefeller02-01 Copenhagen, Denmark – Vega02-03 Cologne, Germany – Kulturkirche02-04 Paris, France – Le Trianon02-05 Brussels, Belgium – Botanique – Orangerie02-06 Amsterdam, Netherlands – Paradiso02-08 London, England – Roundhouse02-09 Bristol, England – SWX02-10 Glasgow, Scotland – QMU02-12 Dublin, Ireland – Vicar Street02-13 Manchester, England – O2 Ritz Manchester02-14 Brighton, England – Chalk02-22 Nashville, TN – Brooklyn Bowl02-23 Atlanta, GA – Variety Playhouse02-24 Ash...

Sofia Coppola has written and will direct a forthcoming biopic about Priscilla Presley, as Variety reports. Cailee Spaeny (Mare of Easttown) and Jacob Elordi (Euphoria) are slated to star in the project, which is based on Presley’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me. It’s set to shoot in Toronto later this year, eventually arriving on theater screens in the United States via A24.  Born Priscilla Ann Wagner in 1945, she was 14 when she met the then-24-year-old star during his military service in Germany. The pair married at Las Vegas’ Aladdin Hotel in 1967, and had one daughter, Lisa Marie Presley. Both Priscilla and Lisa Marie have remained heavily involved with the singer’s estate since his death in 1977. Coppola’s project follows this year’s Baz Luhrmann-directed Elvis biopic, which featured ...