Author: Press Room

Dummy’s third full-length release tasks itself with offering an affirmation of life, spelled out in no uncertain terms through the thwack of DnB drumlines, abrasive distortion, and incisive songwriting. On do you love the color of the sky?, the L.A. band brings together space rock, drone, and UK electronic music into a dizzying sound that seems to stop just short of a roiling boil in its rebuke of stagnation.Though Dummy have always embraced a spaced-out, electronic sound, their instruments sound more synthetic than ever before: Guitars read synth-like, keys seem inorganic, and precise looping and sampling bring an insular feel…

Antonio Silva, preside in pensione, ha compiuto 80 anni un mese fa e per 50 è stato la voce del Premio Tenco. L’anno scorso in chiusura, sul palco dell’Ariston, ha letto la poesia Itaca di Kavafis trattenendo le lacrime. Un congedo: dal 22 al 24 ottobre la 49esima edizione, intitolata Dio è morto, sarà presentata da Neri Marcorè, Chiara Buratti e Silvia Boschero. Il “bravo presentatore”, com’è soprannominato, la aprirà per ricordare Sergio Secondiano Sacchi, il direttore artistico del Club Tenco, e poi se la godrà, per la prima volta, da spettatore in prima fila. Il motivo dell’addio ce lo…

John Anderson, the beloved hitmaker known for his deep country warble, died on Wednesday at the age of 71. The country great had more than 20 studio albums to his name and throughout his career released a slew of country Number Ones including “Wild and Blue”, “Swingin’,” and “Straight Tequila Night.” Many of the artists Anderson influenced throughout his prolific career took to social media following news of his death. Tim McGraw, Blake Shelton, Riley Green, and more mourned Anderson, and honored the Country Music Hall of Fame member’s generational talent. “I am completely heartbroken by his passing,” wrote McGraw,…

Before Moodymann rewired his brain, Stiltz idolized Elliott Smith, mentioned here by name in the slow-burning closer “15,” and he cites Mark Linkous of Sparklehorse as an inspiration. Having grown up between Stockholm and California, he’s recently been reconnecting with the Golden State and its highways, motels, and rest stops as these songs are littered with references to the I-5, Pasadena, and Santa Rosa. Totally suggests the pensive headspace of an adult returning to his childhood haunts trying to make sense of it all.Writing diaristic, country-leaning soft-rock, Stiltz also touches on the work of David Berman and Bill Callahan. The…

Case in point: “Never Learned,” wherein Hemsworth gets his childhood heroes Tegan and Sara to cosplay as psychotherapists fronting a pop-punk band. Meanwhile “Break,” with its grimy, compressed production and slowed down jungle beat, sounds like something that could have appeared on Liam Howlett’s Dirtchamber Sessions. “Breed” marries knuckle-dragging guitars and metalcore vocals with skittering hi-hats, producing a hybrid that’s nearly as weird as 300SkullsAndCounting’s recent work. And while “Shifting and Tuning” opens like a folk number, the guitar figure eventually collides with a stumbling rhythm at an odd angle; it feels, well, downright Hemsworthian.A few songs on Numbskull tilt…

Eris Drew and Maya Bouldry-Morrison (aka Octo Octa) live in a log cabin in rural New Hampshire, which seems a little strange at first—so far removed from the dance music touring circuit—but it also makes a lot of sense. Radical, queer, and believers in a psychedelics-fueled liberation theology based around the Motherbeat, the long-term couple are actually so New Hampshire. The cabin, where they’ve lived since the pandemic, is the focal point of their artistic lives, where they keep a gigantic sound system they’ve used to throw their own festival in Vermont, and the hallowed turntables that they lug around…

Singer Jack Avery won a five-year restraining order and sole physical custody of his seven-year-old daughter on Wednesday after testifying that he was “very scared” of the girl’s mother, TikTok influencer Gabriela “Gabbie” Gonzalez, who is charged with conspiring to hire a hit man on the dark web to kill him. “I’m overwhelmed and happy at the same time,” Avery, 27, a former member of the boy band Why Don’t We, told Rolling Stone after testifying in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom and hearing the judge’s ruling. Judge Brenda Comer Robinson ruled in Avery’s favor after a two-day hearing, finding…

Leave it to country’s current record holder to tackle one of Dolly Parton’s most famous (and frequently covered) songs. During Wednesday night’s CMA Presents I Will Always Love You: A Celebration of Dolly Parton, Ella Langley offered her take on the 1974 hit “Jolene,” which the star first performed at her Auburn, Alabama, concert shortly after Parton’s death. Following an introduction from Katy Perry (who called Parton “the blueprint”), Langley offered a smoldering version of the classic that paid tribute to Parton’s original arrangement. It’s an appropriate song choice for Langley, who broke the Billboard Hot 100 chart record with “Choosin’ Texas,” a…

The Florida, native was known for an idiosyncratic warble, which he used to power hits like “Swingin’,” “Seminole Wind,” and “Wild and Blue” John Anderson, a Country Music Hall of Fame member known for his distinct, idiosyncratic singing style, died Wednesday. He was 71. A rep for Anderson confirmed his death to Rolling Stone. A post on the singer’s social media announcing his death called Anderson a “gifted country music singer whose voice and songs touched countless lives.” A native of Apopka, Florida, Anderson possessed an unmistakable country warble, one that rivaled that of even Hank Williams. He put it…

The singer’s family settled wrongful death claims against the company and another pharmacy that filled Carter’s prescriptions before his death in 2022 Aaron Carter‘s estate has reached a settlement in the wrongful death lawsuit filed on behalf of his toddler son against Walgreens and another pharmacy over the singer’s drug-linked drowning in 2022. In a court filing obtained by Rolling Stone, an attorney for Carter’s estate said that they had “reached a settlement resolving all claims” between Walgreens and Santa Monica Medical Plaza Pharmacy. The settlement does not include the estate’s claims against dentist Jason Mirabile, which remain pending. The terms of the…