The xx announce London residency featuring Cat Power, Robyn, Sampha, and more

The xx will take over London’s O2 Academy Brixton from March 8th through the 15th for their latest Night + Day festival. The residency event will find the band performing each evening with different supporting acts. Today, the official lineup has been revealed.

Sampha, Kelela, Cat Power, Savages‘ Jehnny Beth, Floating Points, and Joy Orbison will all make appearances. Robyn will present her RBN/RMX Live experience on the night of the 10th, and she’ll also appear at an afterparty on the 11th. What’s more, Jamie xx will host a six-hour DJ set with friends on the 12th, and the London Contemporary Orchestra will perform the works of Mica Levi on the 14th.

Other afterparty events will feature DJ sets from Sampha, Mica Levi, and others. There will also be live broadcasts from Brixton Academy, a pop-up shop, film screenings, and fundraisers throughout the week.

Tickets for the individual afterparties are available now, but the main Night + Day passes are sold out. Still, The xx encourages fans to swap dates using their free ticket exchange website.

More information on Night + Day can be found at the official website. Find the complete schedule below.

Night + Day Brixton Schedule:

03/08 – Sampha, DJ Joy Orbison

03/09 – Kelela, DJ Ben UFO B2B, DJ Beatrice Dillon

03/10 – Robyn RBN/RMX Live, DJ Benji B

03/11 – Francis and the Lights, DJ Floating Points

03/12 – Jamie xx + Friends

03/13 – Cat Power (solo), Jehnny Beth (solo piano), DJ Siren DJS

03/14 – London Contemporary Orchestra performs Mica Levi, DJ Daniel Brandt

03/15 – Floating Points (full band), DJ Gilles Peterson

Night + Day Afterparties:

03/08 – Trouble Vision, more TBA @ Corsica Studios

03/09 – Sampha (DJ set), Benji B & Judah, Radi Dadi, Jagger, secret surprise guest “jungle set” @ Prince of Wales

03/11 – Robyn & Mr. Tophat (DJ set), HAAi, more TBA @ Phonox

03/14 – Brother May, Coby Set, Mica Levi, more TBA @ Block 336

Migos’ Offset Says He Was Kicked Off Airplane

Migos‘ Offset has been kicked off an American Airlines flight, according to TMZ‘s sources. In a since-deleted Instagram video, Offset explains that he was ejected for talking on his phone. In the post, Offset vents about the airline before showing off a bag filled with cash and saying, “Kick me off the plane, I’ll go private.” According to sources at TMZ, his Migos bandmates Quavo and Takeoff remained on the flight. Pitchfork has reached out to Migos’ representatives for comment.

Offset is not the first rapper to have trouble with American Airlines. Last year, Vic Mensa took to social media after being kicked off two of their flights in the span of three months (one of those times was also for talking on the phone).

Spotify’s Daniel Ek named most powerful person in the music business

The chairman and CEO of the streaming service displaces Universal’s boss at the top of Billboard’s Power 100

Spotify’s chairman/CEO, Daniel Ek, has been named as the most powerful person in the music industry by the trade magazine Billboard. Ek, 33, tops Billboard’s annual “Power 100”, rising from No 10 last year. He displaces Lucian Grainge, the chairman and CEO of Universal Music Group.

Opening its citation for Ek, Billboard says: “For the first time since Napster decimated music sales, the recorded-music industry is showing signs of growth, and that reversal of fortune is largely due to one man … Daniel Ek.”

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Kanye West has unendorsed Donald Trump

In the wake of controversial executive orders, including a temporary travel ban on seven Muslim countries, Donald Trump‘s early approval ratings are in the toilet, and some of his supporters have already begun to abandon ship. Among them: Kanye West.

According to TMZ, the rapper-producer has scrubbed his Twitter of pro-Trump tweets after “disapproving of his actions during his first two weeks in office.”

West drew public ire for coming out in support of Trump during a concert in November 2016. Weeks later, he met with the then President-elect to discuss “an “ambassador role of sorts,” as well as “multicultural issues, including “bullying, supporting teachers, modernizing curriculums, and violence in Chicago.”

TMZ’s sources say West’s decision to remove the tweets were all his, and the “Muslim ban” and other actions have turned him against the President. Indeed, Kim Kardashian has spoken up against the travel ban via Twitter. If anyone has sway over West, it would be his wife.

Twitter has a field day fact-checking song lyrics

“No way Adele called ‘a thousand times.’ Phone records clearly show 873 attempted calls!”