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Over the past year, Saam Sultan has built a cult-like following off the back of his visceral, self-produced sound: a blend of misty cloud rap, ambient pop and film-score sensibilities that’s guided by instinct rather than genre. Breakout tracks like the astral, lovesick pull of ‘Locked In Love’ and the blown-out, mantra-like ‘Ydoifeel?’ have quietly gathered momentum online, positioning the Fort Lauderdale-born, Brighton-raised artist as one of the UK’s most intriguing new voices. There’s little doubt why he earned a spot on this year’s NME 100. Although the 20-year-old says recognition has “never been something that’s on my mind” and…
Souvenirs: 80 Years of John Prine, a Chicago concert celebrating the late singer-songwriter, has been lined up for October 8, two days before his 80th birthday. Musicians including Ratboys and Steve Earle will pay tribute at the Chicago Theatre show, playing alongside Prine’s longtime live band. The actor John C. Reilly will host and perform.Organized by the Prine Family and their Hello in There Foundation, the concert is the latest in a series of tributes to Prine, who was born in Maywood, Illinois, before moving to Chicago to get a foothold in music. Other performers in the announcement include Joy…
Pressing play on a new Aldous Harding record for the first time is always an adventure. Since her self-titled debut, released in 2014, the New Zealand singer-songwriter’s work has become more inscrutable, each successive album more beguilingly weird. In that time, she appears to have stopped giving interviews – not that she was ever an especially obliging examiner of her own work to begin with – and has become equally enigmatic in her work, both lyrically and musically. Harding’s previous record, 2022’s ‘Warm Chris’, seemed like it might have been the logical endpoint of her journey; gone was the drama…
Anger and pride, conspiracy thinking and ecstasy: 'Make-Up Is a Lie' is the imperfect self-portrait of a 66-year-old who perceives himself as a victim, despises the music biz, keeps the point. The review The post Morrissey is back to bust your balls first appeared on Rolling Stone Italia. Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
To throw Damn Hykeem “Baby Keem” Carter has released a series of three short documentaries. They are titled Boommanafter his childhood nickname, and are filled with videos of his childhood shot by his aunt LaConnie Govan. Seeing them you understand what life Baby Keem has led: the birth in Los Angeles to an absent mother, the move to Las Vegas with his grandmother and aunts, the beats and then rap as an activity in which to find comfort. Directed by Govan with Alexandre Moors, the trilogy underlines the symmetry between the child Keem who listens to everything happily in the…
In the 1960s, India was one of the symbolic poles of the European counterculture: an alternative spiritual and political horizon to the West. In the midst of the psychedelic season, young artists and intellectuals looked to the East as a new anti-system model. The Beatles' trip to Rishikesh in 1968, George Harrison's introduction of the sitar into pop music, interest in Hinduism, Buddhism, transcendental meditation. India becomes a concrete presence in the European cultural imagination, a promise of authenticity and transcendence, a place where spirituality and everyday life seem to coexist without the fracture perceived in Europe.Today, a historical moment…
The protagonist of Mitski's new album Nothing's About to Happen to Methe eighth, is a woman who lives in a neglected house. “Outside the house she has deviant behavior, inside the house she is free.” From a thematic and musical point of view we are on the same line as The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We of 2023. Even in that case, literary-flavored stories of the hardships of those who live in small towns were expressed with indie folk enriched by orchestrations.It is the first time that an artist like Mitski, ambitious and therefore restless and able to…
In between shooting movies and working on her anticipated Brat follow-up, Charli XCX invested in the British audio brand and stars in its latest campaign If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. Nothing has made a name for itself as an under-the-radar tech brand, but it doesn’t look like it will stay under the radar much longer. The London-based company announced that Charli XCX will be its first global ambassador, with the singer appearing in a campaign highlighting its headphones. In addition to joining Nothing…
Fakemink’s previously teased sophomore album Terrified now has an official release date and artwork. The follow-up to 2023’s London’s Saviour arrives May 22 via EtnaVeraVela. A full track list has yet to be revealed, but you can check out the album cover below.Mink is currently in Europe for his A Terrible Beauty tour, which wraps up at Warsaw’s Clout Festival in July. In January, he released the EP The Boy Who Cried Terrified.Revisit Kieran Press-Reynolds’ 2025 Rabbit Holed column Fakemink Deserves the Hype.
Gaze out from the city quayside in Belém, Brazil, and there’s a lot to take in. To the north, the sprawling Baia de Marajo estuary stretches towards the mighty Atlantic Ocean. To the south, an epic blanket of green – the uppermost tip of the Brazilian Amazon, 60 per cent of all the world’s remaining tropical rainforest. To the east, in contrast, is the concrete skyline of the region’s urban capital. Home to 2.5million people, Belém’s waterside colonial old town is soon dwarfed by high-rise apartment blocks. Cutting through it all, and oozing Main Character Energy, the muddy Guamá River.…
