Author: Press Room
Gracie Abrams has addressed the “nepo baby” discourse that’s followed her throughout her pop career. The singer and daughter of director JJ Abrams is due to release her third studio album, ‘Daughter From Hell‘, on July 17 via Interscope (visit here to pre-order). So far, she’s previewed the record with the enchanting single ‘Hit The Wall‘. Ahead of the album’s release, she appeared on the New York Times‘ PopCast, where she was asked about how having a famous parent has impacted her career. “The nepo stuff is obviously in the discourse appropriately,” she said. “I think about the privilege there, and it’s…
Anthony knows the feeling of grief well. Before the pandemic, his mother, father, and brother died within a few years of one another. When the 55-year-old lab technician from the Northeast received news in October 2024 that his cousin suffered a fatal heart attack, he was devastated. “Everyone passed away around me,” Anthony says. “It was really depressing.” Anthony looked up to his cousin, who was 13 years older than him. Every month, he looked forward to their afternoon hangouts, where they would watch Bob Ross videos, paint, and drink brandy and beer. He wished there was a way he…
Italo Sanchez was in a bad way in the spring of 2015. He’d been in and out of lockup, first in juvie, then prison, since the age of 13. Now, at 35, he’d been stuck in solitary for the best part of eight years. Then, out of nowhere, came a break in the clouds: a fellow inmate named Sandy sailed him a kite (a prison note sent by paper plane) about a spiritual retreat that weekend in the prison chapel. The gathering would be more about healing the past than chanting hymns and Hail Marys, said Sandy. Somehow, Sanchez talked…
If once we talked exclusively about dream-pop and shoegaze, today with a little imagination we can also introduce some new and fitting associations, because gloomgaze is really the most appropriate term to describe the music of these Chainlacing. Rick Martel and Lauren Crosser, bouncing between Massachusetts and New Hampshire, gave life to the project only recently, reaching this debut (they were discovered by These Hands Melt, label Italian very active in the circuit underground international) after a series of qualitatively impeccable singles. The album, to tell the truth, starts with the rough post-punk of “Petty Pleas”, and then immediately sinks…
vote5.5 Bands: SMOKING SNAKES Duration: 00:35:09 Available from: 10/07/2026 Label: Frontiers Streaming not yet available. The Scandinavian Ratt, called Smoking Snakes, return to make themselves heard after a debut, “Danger Zone”, which in 2024 had convinced fans of the genre. Everything unchanged or almost, in this comeback entitled “All Lights On”, at least as far as the sound is concerned.Inspiration, however, seems to be wavering, and if the debut didn't already stand out in terms of personality, this time we expected a step forward from the Swedish quartet which instead we don't see at all. A short intro announces -…
The Eiffel 65 they return to Padua with an appointment that goes beyond the classic concert. The September 27, 2026 The Gran Teatro Geox will host Eiffel 65 & Friendsa show-event that will bring together Maury And Jeffrey along with a host of special guests to be announced in the coming weeks. The event comes after a summer full of concerts in Italy and Europe and a few days after the duo's participation in San Siro Dance 2026where Eiffel 65 performed together with Gabry Ponte. Tickets are already available in advance on the main official circuits. Eiffel 65 & Friends:…
Noah Kahan has once again had to publicly remind fans how to conduct themselves. READ MORE: Noah Kahan in London: rising folk-pop superstar graduates to arenas After pleading with fans to stop stealing a street sign referenced in his song ‘The View Between Villages’, he’s now had to follow up with a second request: that they use the toilet. “If you have to poop at a show please dear god just go to the bathroom lmao,” Kahan wrote in a post to X on Saturday (June 27), after one fan reportedly defecated in their seat rather than miss a song. “I’ve…
While waiting to define the August programme, as per tradition the AMA Music Festival begins in July with some dates which to define as “preview” is now absolutely an understatement. This year two legendary names of hard rock such as the Scorpions and Alice Cooper will perform in the park of Villa Negri in Romano d'Ezzelino (VI). We'll start warming up on Friday 10.07 with a day entirely dedicated to Italian flower-punk, in memory of Cristiano “Ruvido” Baldo (among the main “cultural agitators” of that scene), with Punkreas, Derozer, Persiana Jones, Shandon and Moravagine (entrance €10). On Saturday 11th, however,…
There are bands capable of transporting the audience to another Meridian from the first notes, and they Of Monsters and Men belong to this rare category. Thursday June 25, 2026the Icelandic indie-folk collective made a stop at Sequoie Music Park in Bologna for the second of three highly anticipated events in our country, offering a night full of poetry, acoustic energy and deep connection. The tour, which recorded a resounding sold out on the following date in Gardone Riviera, marks the band's return to Italy six years after their last LP. A return that smells of home and rediscovery of…
A celebration of life memorial service has been set next month for the late Oliver Tree – find all the details below. The eccentric singer-songwriter died in a helicopter crash in Brazil on June 14 at the age of 32, in an incident that also took the lives of five others. In a recent tribute, Tree’s mother Christine Begin Nickell said she was “so proud” of her son and thanked fans for their support. Now, Tree’s family have also announced details of a celebration of life and memorial service. Scheduled for July 25, there is a public livestream planned “due to limited…
