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It’s never too late to chase your dreams: Anthony Hopkins, 88, signed with Decca Classics to release Life Is a Dream, a new recording project encompassing more than six decades of original compositions. The album’s tracks were conducted by Gustavo Dudamel and performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra. Hopkins has been playing piano since the age of four. He began composing music for local plays as a teenager. The album’s first single, “Bracken Road,” comes from Hopkin’s “1947: Suite for Solo Piano and Orchestra. It was “inspired by childhood memories of Margam, South Wales,” and “is a nostalgic musical portrait of…
The actors both appeared in 2019's Spider-Man: Far From Homeand and 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home JK Simmons and Tom Holland apparently never crossed paths on the sets of 2019's Spider-Man: Far From Homeand and 2021's Spider-Man: No Way Home. Simmons, who played J. Jonah Jameson in both films, says he has never actually met Holland, who plays the titular Spider-Man. Simmons appeared on podcast Happy Sad Confused this week to discuss his career and admitted that he has still yet to encounter his co-star. “I didn't meet Tom Holland,” Simmons acknowledged. “Delightful guy, I'm told.” The actor first embodied…
Eighteen years after their last studio work, the Yuppie Flu they're back with new music. The song is now available on all streaming platforms “Be free now”first single from “Kings Without a Crown”the band's highly anticipated new album out next September 17th For 42 Records And HomesleepMusic. The announcement contains a profound emotional and artistic value: “Kings Without a Crown” it is in fact the disk to which Matteo Agostinelli he was working intensively in recent years, before his untimely death on February 16, 2026 at the age of 53. The songs that will make up the tracklist are not…
The lovelorn song was inspired by the singer’s real-life relationship coming to an end Teddy Swims dropped a new single, “Break Up in Reverse.” The heartbroken anthem, released via Warner Records, sees Swims reflecting on a breakup without regret or resentment. “I wish we could break up in reverse/ Every night would get better, instead of getting worse,” Swims sings on the track. “I’d watch you slowly lip back into my hands/ Say goodbye to me in the beginning, and love me in the end.” “‘Break Up in Reverse’ really hits home for me right now and where I am…
Hanoi’s Tran Uy Duc makes noisy assemblages that involve both the far reaches of experimental sound art and the instinctive drive of pop songwriting. Tran, founder of local event series hanoi bedroom shows, is at the forefront of a scene in Vietnam where thoughtful interdisciplinary chaos is the norm, associated with eclectic acts like the collective Rắn Cạp Đuôi and singer-songwriter Vĩ. In his unpredictable music, which often soundtracks open-ended multimedia projects involving poetry, film, and live performance, Tran stacks layers of dry, tawdry sounds—samples of smoggy Auto-Tuned vocal fry, guitar fuzz, or basic drum presets—then riles them up with…
Parlare con Johnny Marr non vuol dire solo farsi quattro chiacchiere con il chitarrista degli Smiths, ma con un artista poliedrico che in quasi cinquant’anni di carriera ha fatto praticamente tutto. Collaborato con alcuni dei gruppi più interessanti e significativi degli ultimi anni (dai Talking Heads ai The The, dagli Oasis ai Gorillaz); prestato la chitarra ad alcune delle colonne sonore più significative del periodo (Inception, grazie al sodalizio con Hans Zimmer); girato il mondo come padre nobile di un gruppo di giovani ragazzi (The Cribs) e come sparring partner di una delle indie band più significative di sempre (i…
The presentation of the schedules Mediaset for the 2026-2027 season it is putting music at the center of Canale 5. Between prime time concerts, event shows and tributes to the big names of Italian song, the company is building an autumn-winter full of live events, with an eye already turned to 2027. The four concerts announced for the first evening of Canale 5 are those of Irama, Achille Lauro, Georgie and Emma. For Achille Lauro it is the broadcast of his concert, after the project of an event show on Rai had not come to fruition: we told you here…
If Caetano Veloso started working with Arthur Russell instead of Arto Lindsay at the end of the ’80s, it might have sounded like Bruno Berle. Since his 2022 debut, No Reino dos Afetos, the Brazilian songwriter has bridged lo-fi dream pop and música popular brasileira, or MPB, by adding his acoustic guitar and thick vocal timbre to looped sample-based beats. On his latest album, Sem Fronteiras, when the alchemy works, he lands on weird, tender lullabies like “A Noite de Estrelas” that extract and expose the alien elements of the Brazilian sound into a kind of “hyperbossa.” When it fails,…
synecdoche new york’s 2024 self-titled debut was meant to be a one-off upload, quickly recorded as a low-stakes riff on the work of then-ascendant slowcore revivalists like sign crushes motorist and flyingfish. The Chicago act’s sole, anonymous member didn’t consider it a fully fledged project until they checked Spotify a year later and discovered that their song “when you call” had its play count inflated overnight after it landed on the same slowcore playlists they’d been drawing from in half-earnest.Despite crisp, sped-up vocals and splashy drum programming, SNY’s first work felt more aligned with the hushed and cathartic songwriting of…
In the days of rock’s youth, we were told what it meant to be a man. Presley was said to be the first star to slick back his hair, with Johnny Cash, Buddy Holly, and Gene Vincent soon also to sport the telltale pompadour of the reckless troubadour. Roger Daltrey pioneered bare-chested fringe jackets and a masculine/fey dialectic which Robert Plant both refined and operatically expanded upon, in ways that remain transporting and mortifying in equal measure. Rod Stewart begat Paul Westerberg who begat Kurt Cobain, the chiseled, raspy-voiced pretty boy with a chip on their shoulder and a melody…
