Author: Press Room
Four years ago, an announcement appeared on the Grateful Dead subreddit. “Casting Knowledgeable Deadheads for Pilot of Grateful Dead Game Show Podcast — Prize for Winner,” the message read. “It’s called Guess the Year.” That was followed up three months later with an Uncle Sam-style recruitment poster, featuring a skeleton pointing to the viewer. “We still need contestants!” These posts were written by host Mike McClure, who launched Guess the Year in October 2022. The podcast is as self-explanatory as it sounds: each episode, several Deadheads join a Zoom call, listen to the first part of a Dead live track,…
Tucker Pillsbury, a.k.a. Role Model, does not enjoy being pinned down. He knows he makes pop music, but don’t call him a pop star. He’s comfortable drawing on country music — even Toby Keith — but definitely don’t call him a country artist. He’s not even sure about his own stage name, despite his growing fame under it. As he tells it, he spends most of his strong new album, Chuck Timely & The Hourglass, dodging labels, blending vintage influences from Fleetwood Mac to Stephen Bishop in search of something new. Pillsbury recently sat down for an in-depth Rolling Stone…
Yesterday, Courtney Love posted an Instagram video offering some updates on her years-in-the-making next record, which will mark her first new work since Hole’s 2010 LP Nobody’s Daughter. In the clip, Love confirmed that the album is “done,” but revealed some startling context to the long germination time—a mystery 2019 illness that almost killed her.”I went to England in 2019, and when I went there, my body just exploded,” Love recalled in the clip. “I lost all my hair. I was about 100 pounds. And they told me I was going to die. I didn’t believe them.”According to Love, her…
Liam Gallagher has claimed that his Pretty Green clothing brand was “stolen” from him by “vultures”. The Oasis frontman founded the menswear label in 2009, with its name coming from the 1980 song of the same name by The Jam. He responded to an X user yesterday (August 15) who asked him why he sold the brand, writing: “I didn’t sell it it was stolen from me by vultures who wouldn’t know how to dress a fucking salad let alone the youth.” Gallagher did not spell out who he was referring to as “vultures”. Pretty Green was bought by JD Sports after falling into administration in 2019, with the sale being…
“Manson is the big bang of true crime,” Joe Berlinger tells me over Zoom from New York on a muggy summer afternoon. When we talk, it’s been 57 years and two days since Los Angeles woke up to news that Sharon Tate, the pregnant wife of one of Hollywood’s hottest young auteurs and a budding movie star in her own right, was stabbed to death in her home in Benedict Canyon, brutally murdered alongside four other people. Leno and Rosemary LaBianca, a middle-aged couple who owned a local chain of grocery stores, would be found dead in their Los Feliz…
Twenty One Pilots have asked fans attending their upcoming All Points East gig to help chronicle the experience. READ MORE: Twenty One Pilots live at Mad Cool: alt-rock innovators play their hearts out The Grammy Award-winning duo are set to make their debut at London’s Victoria Park on Sunday August 30. It will be their only UK concert of the year, and will see them supported by Wunderhorse, Nova Twins and more – you can find any remaining tickets here. Ahead of the gig, their creative and content director, Mark C. Eshleman, sent out a request to fans attending, inviting them to be a part…
Fontaines D.C. brought out Kurt Vile for ‘Roman Holiday’ during their set at La Route Du Rock – check it out below. The Dublin band closed out the final night of the festival at Fort de Saint-Père in France yesterday (August 15), while Vile and his band The Violators performed on the same stage earlier in the day. Vile then appeared during Fontaines’ set and played ‘Roman Holiday’ with the band. The collaboration was particularly fitting, as Fontaines frontman Grian Chatten has spoken about the ‘Skinty Fia‘ song being substantially inspired by Vile in the first place. The set also saw Fontaines once again air the two…
Lewis Capaldi made a self-deprecating nod to a Florence Welch lyric while onstage at Sziget Festival – check out footage below. The Scottish singer was appearing on the festival’s main stage in Budapest, Hungary on Thursday (August 13), where he performed immediately before headliners Florence + the Machine. “Is everyone looking forward to Florence + The Machine,” he asked the crowd to cheers, before launching into one of the most searing lines from the ‘Everybody Scream’ track ‘One of the Greats’: “Must be nice to be a man, and make boring music just because you can”. After chuckling and pointing to…
Dee Snider and Kelly Osbourne got locked into a war of words after Kelly accused the Twister Sister vocalist of diminishing her late father’s musical contributions. READ MORE: Ozzy Osbourne, 1948-2025: culture-smashing revolutionary that redefined rock and reality TV The spat kicked off on social media earlier this week, seemingly triggered by Snider suggesting that Ozzy’s songwriting contributions were overstated on the credits of his solo and Black Sabbath material. When a fan brought up Motörhead‘s Lemmy, who is credited with co-writing a number of songs on Ozzy’s 1991 ‘No More Tears’ album, including ‘I Don’t Want to Change the World’,…
Phil Collins has said he has not had a drink in three years after what he described as “dark times” with alcohol addiction. The former Genesis singer and drummer recently revealed that his alcoholism left him critically ill and on life support in 2024, with his children travelling to Switzerland amid fears that he might not make it. In a new interview with Prog, he has given a more hopeful update on his health. “Physically now, I reckon I’m A1, 100 per cent,” he said. “I’ve worked at it. Haven’t drunk for three years. I do physio three times a week, to bring me up to speed.…
