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Australian music festival Spilt Milk has returned from a fallow year with what is shaping up to be one of the country’s biggest touring events in 2025.
Confirming its 2025 lineup on Friday (May 2), the Spilt Milk festival has announced that the four-date affair will be headlined by Kendrick Lamar and Doechii, with Sara Landry, Dominic Fike, and Schoolboy Q rounding out the topline. While Lamar’s appearance will be his first Australian visit since 2022, and the other headliners have previously performed on Australian soil, Doechii will make her debut visit to the country as part of the festival.
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D4vd, Nessa Barrett, and Sombr also join Australian producer Skin on Skin as second-tier additions, while international names such as Rebeca Black and Chance Peña join local acts The Dreggs, The Rions, Ninajirachi, and more.
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Lamar’s high-profile addition to the festival is something of a coup for the event, which first launched in 2016 as a one-day affair in the country’s capital, Canberra.
After three years of events, the festival expanded to the Gold Coast and regional Victorian city Ballarat in 2019, with the likes of CHVRCHES, Khalid, and Juice WRLD appearing on the lineup. The Ballarat edition of Spilt Milk would also serve as Juice WRLD’s final performance before his passing just one week later.
The festival returned from a COVID-induced hiatus in 2022, though announced they would be taking another year off in 2024. “Sorry pookies, we couldn’t get you the Spilt Milk you deserve this year,” event organizers wrote in July. “Sooo imma dip for a bit and come back when I can make all ur dreams come true.”
At the time, concerns were raised for the future of Spilt Milk given the cancellation of other high-profile festivals such as Splendour in the Grass, though organizers confirmed on May 1 that it would return in December 2025. The four-date affair will take place across Ballarat, Perth, Canberra, and the Gold Coast between December 6-14.
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One of the culture’s most identifiable voices is living his truth publicly. Khalid has come out as gay after he says someone outed him.
As spotted on Vulture, the El Paso, Tex., native gave the world more insight on his private life. On Friday (Nov. 22), he took to X, formerly Twitter, and made the very surprising announcement in a very short but powerful post. “🏳️🌈!!! there yall go. next topic please lol,” he wrote. Naturally, the news took some of his followers by surprise prompting him to double down on his earlier reveal. “I am! And that’s okay,” he responded to one user. He would go on to allude someone he had relations with in the past had started disclosing his sexual preference without his consent. “I got outed and the world still continues to turn. Let’s get this straight (lmao) I am not ashamed of my sexuality! In reality it ain’t nobodies business! But I am okay with me 🖤 love yall.”
🏳️🌈!!!
there yall go. next topic please lol
— Khalid (@thegreatkhalid) November 22, 2024
Even then he was pressed online with questions on why he chose to hide his truth. Later on he clarified that he was not “hiding” anything. Within that same hour the sleuth community was able to identity the individual who they suspected outed Khalid as singer Hugo D Almonte. In a series of now since-deleted posts he had alluded to dating a “dumb a*s singer” who accused of him breaking into their home. In a following post he wrote, “B*tch a*s 🥷🏾 lied and said that I broke into his house cause I didn’t want him,” with an accompanying selfie of him with Khalid.
I got outed and the world still continues to turn. Let’s get this straight (lmao) I am not ashamed of my sexuality! In reality it ain’t nobodies business! But I am okay with me 🖤 love yall
— Khalid (@thegreatkhalid) November 23, 2024
The performer explained his actions in an exclusive email statement to Vulture. “[It’s] really funny how it works because my intentions was never to out someone who’s clearly been out already in the community in Los Angeles,” he wrote. “My intentions was to share my story and share how he tried to use his power to silence me because I simply ended our relationship, he was afraid of what I might say.”
I wasn’t hiding anything! It’s just not any of your business https://t.co/jAW9f7I5oO
— Khalid (@thegreatkhalid) November 23, 2024
Almonte went on to share that he has since faced criticism and even death threats. “All I’ve learned from this is never allow anyone to silence me, it’s crazy that these people said I was chasing clout, when I was holding onto this for five years, and I finally had enough,” he concluded. Almonte later say that he “would do it again and again and again the same way” in another since-deleted post.
Khalid has unveiled the full tracklist for his forthcoming album, Sincere, which is set to release on Aug. 2.
Posting to social media on July 23, the singer-songwriter wrote, “10 days left until Sincere, The Album. Here’s the tracklist. The countdown has started!”
The album, which features the singles “Please Don’t Fall In Love With Me,” “Adore U,” and “Ground (Cotton Candy Skies),” marks Khalid‘s first full-length project since his 2019 release, Free Spirit.
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Khalid previously explained of the forthcoming album, “Sincere is a combination of my life experiences, it takes inspiration from conversations that I have had with my fans, supporters, and the people that love me. When I listen back to this project, I hear a sound that’s so unique and represents me at my best. This album is me at 26, continuing to evolve with the knowledge that I have garnered throughout the years.”
Back in early July, Khalid revealed that new music was coming via Instagram, where he called the album a “return to form,” adding, “I’m so happy to finally be back! Can’t wait to do it all over again.”
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Khalid has been teasing this album for some time, initially referring to it as Everything Is Changing and describing its creation process as “overwhelming” on X (formerly Twitter) in 2021.
Despite the challenges, he has managed to complete the album, which features a single collaboration with English indie-pop singer and songwriter Arlo Parks.
Here’s the complete tracklist for Sincere:
Adore U
Everything We See
Altitude
It’s All Good
Broken
Dose
Please Don’t Fall In Love With Me
Breathe
Ground
Who’s There To Pick Me Up
Tainted
Long Way Home
Heatstroke
Sincere
Owe It To You
Decline
Sincere will be Khalid’s first major release since his mixtape Scenic Drive in 2021 and follows the success of Free Spirit, which topped the Billboard 200 chart and included hit singles like “Better,” “Right Back,” “Saturday Nights,” and “Talk.”
Khalid’s latest project Sincere is out Aug. 2 via Right Hand Music Group/RCA Records.
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