Author: Press Room

The current cult status of the Windmill—the famed South London venue/indie-rock incubator/rite of passage—cannot be overstated. After the breakthrough success of bands like black midi and Black Country, New Road, playing the Windmill has become an important checkpoint for young British post-punk outfits like Man/Woman/Chainsaw. But on their debut album, Cannonball, the six-piece don’t invoke the jagged, now-familiar experimentation that first made the Windmill famous. Instead, they tread a knife’s edge between post-punk and impassioned pop, balancing stretches of dry, studied intensity with moments of impressive musicianship.Even as they distance themselves from the Windmill set, they still harbor strands of…

Distorting Time is the sixth album by Radiator Hospital, the project of prolific Philadelphia singer-songwriter Sam Cook-Parrott, whose 19th-century ancestor Big Nose George Parrott was equivalently prolific in horse theft, railway banditry, and murder. The elder Parrott was the ringleader of an outlaw gang that terrorized a godforsaken stretch of southern Wyoming known as Rattlesnake Canyon. Although Big Nose George—whose beak was, truly, enormous—did attempt to escape from jail 10 days before his scheduled execution, using a pocket knife to saw through the rivets of his shackles, he was ultimately thwarted by the jailer’s wife, hanged from the crossbar of…

Kiwi Jr.’s fourth album, Blowin’ Up, radiates a frantic, bottom-of-the-ninth hopefulness. After releasing three albums in four years, including two on Sub Pop, Blowin’ Up follows the group’s longest gap between records; you get the sense they’re making this one count.As on those previous records, the songs on Blowin’ Up are stuffed with guitar licks, and singer and guitarist Jeremy Gaudet crams as many words as possible into every breath. But here, the Canadian quartet finally gets more explosive: “All signs point to it that pretty soon, baby/We’re about to blow up,” Gaudet sings on the title track, capturing the…

When Felix Manuel, aka Djrum, released the brain-scrambling Under Tangled Silence last year, his composition and production finally caught up to the technical wizardry of his DJ sets. By now, Manuel’s approach to DJing is well documented. He doesn’t jump between genres so much as inhabit several at once, changing their DNA from the inside, one flick of the wrist at a time. He has a penchant for dazzling tempo twists, and he frequently layers acoustic instruments like piano, harp, and cello into convoluted beats, like a Four Tet with eight hands. Under Tangled Silence compressed those traits into a…

Hayden Panettiere, known for her roles in Heroes and Nashville, has died, according to ABC News. She was 36. “It is with profound sadness that we share the tragic passing of our beloved Hayden. She was an incredible light and a force of nature who brought immeasurable love and joy to all who knew her — and to the millions who watched her onscreen,” her representative said in a statement. Details surrounding her death are currently unknown. A rep for Panettiere did not immediately respond to Rolling Stone’s message. Panettiere’s acting career began as a child star in 1994, when she was cast…

Footage from Boomtown has captured the moment that festivalgoers received the government’s emergency wildfire alert at the same time – watch below. The alert was sent out to mobile phones across England and Wales at 7pm on Friday (August 14), while this year’s edition of the festival was taking place at the Matterley Estate near Winchester. In footage spreading on social media, you can see and hear the cacophony of thousands of siren-like alerts all sounding off at the same time in the Boomtown campsite, prompting laughter and shouting from those in attendance. “British humour is unmatched,” one video was captioned on Instagram. Check it…

A GoFundMe for the parents of Lindsay Clancy, the Massachusetts mother accused of strangling her three children to death in 2023, has raised more than $700,000 at press time. Michael and Paula Musgrove are the beneficiaries of the GoFundMe campaign titled The Musgrove Family Fund. According to the description, it’s intended to provide financial help to Clancy’s parents for the “travel, lodging, and living costs” they’ve incurred over the past three years and their continued support of their daughter through the ongoing trial. The couple, originally from Connecticut, relocated to Massachusetts “so they can be close to their daughter” and…

Townies have responded to Wednesday‘s song ‘Townies’ by releasing a track of their own named ‘Wednesday’ – check it out below. The Boston-formed, Los Angeles-based band – made up of Tom Lynch, Chris Magnani and Nolan Melia – released the single last Wednesday (August 12) through Brain Synthesizer. They first signalled their intention to reciprocate Wednesday’s track around the time of the release of the ‘Bleeds’ album last September, on which ‘Townies’ appears. “Wait til they hear Wednesday by Townies,” they wrote at the time. The track is an angsty, pent-up emo track with chunky guitar riffs and a melodic through line that builds to a fuzzy, frenetic payoff.…

Angine De Poitrine‘s Khn has argued for the importance of music theory, saying musicians should embrace the terminology behind their work. The anonymous Quebec duo – completed by percussionist Klek De Poitrine – are known for performing complex microtonal rock music from inside giant papier-mâché masks and black-and-white polka dot costumes. Speaking in a new interview with Guitar World, Khn was asked whether he thinks in terms of scales when he is playing on stage. “I think in terms of scales all the time,” he said. “Or rather, intervals in a context. But it’s just a harmless piece of information that sits there in the consciousness.…

Jay Weinberg has opened up about a challenging time in his life when he said he was prevented from collaborating with other artists because he didn’t have the “legal ability” to do so. He added that part of his creative self “was dying” as a result. Weinberg has been working with a variety of bands and projects since his departure from Slipknot in 2023. He toured with Suicidal Tendencies, recorded with Fuming Mouth, launched the new band Portraits of an Apparition, recorded his first solo music, and recently collaborated with Canadian duo Softcult on a song called “Drown Fountain.” However,…