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Metallica covered The Proclaimers’ ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)’ in Glasgow and The Pogues‘ ‘Dirty Old Town’ in Dublin this week – check out footage below. The metal icons played Glasgow’s Hampden Park on Thursday (June 25) as part of their ongoing ‘M72 World Tour’, where guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo used their mid-set ‘Kirk and Rob Doodle’ section to pay tribute to two Scottish acts. The pair first played Nazareth’s ‘Hair Of The Dog’, before leading the crowd through a rendition of The Proclaimers’ ‘I’m Gonna Be (500 Miles)’. Check out fan-shot footage here: Four days earlier, Hammett and Trujillo played Ewan MacColl’s…
Oliver Tree's family has established a new foundation, as per the late singer's wishes, to provide grants to young artists. Just two weeks after Tree died in a helicopter crash in Brazil at the age of 32, his family launched Dr. Oliver Tree's Extremely Epic Art Grant for Baby Geniuses on Saturday. “Oliver believed the most valuable way for artists to master their craft was not through studying, but by physically getting their hands dirty and creating things,” the foundation said in its mission statement. “The foundation provides grants to artists working in music, film, installation, and performance art.” The…
Trap, Italian hip-hop, the explosion of dubstep with “Scary Monsters And Nice Sprites”. The long wave of return eurodance of the various David Guettas, Calvin Harris, who soon became one with the omnipresent sound of Max Martin and his most prominent disciples. Reggaeton-pop from “Despacito” onwards. The landing in the West of k-pop. Adele and Bruno Mars; Taylor Swift and Pharrell Williams' hits. Justin Bieber. “Somebody That I Used To Know”, “Call Me Maybe”, a long line of summer hits (from Shakira to Fedez + J-Ax). There is more, besides this, in the range of mainstream Ten years? I understand…
The second day of the La Prima Estate festival, in Lido di Camaiore, was dominated by the only Italian date of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, protagonists of a concert lasting over two and a half hours which transformed the BussolaDomani Park into a sort of collective ritual.Accompanied by the Bad Seeds, with Warren Ellis in the foreground and Colin Greenwood on bass, Cave proposed a repertoire that spanned his entire career, also giving ample space to the latest album “Wild God”. The opening with “Get Ready For Love” and “From Her To Eternity” immediately lit up the concert,…
Madonna has refused to confirm or deny long-swirling rumours that Kylie Minogue will feature on her upcoming album. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Madonna: ”People pick on me. That’s just the way it is” The pop legend is gearing up to release her 15th studio record on July 3 – the spiritual follow-up to 2005’s ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor’, and on Friday (June 26), she was a guest on The Graham Norton Show to discuss the album. Kylie made a surprise appearance during the interview, and the pair were immediately put on the spot by Norton, who said: “There are rumours that…
Instrumental storms. Rising tension, tormenting density, sudden clearings and moments of quiet. Shadow. Light. Pianissimo and fortissimo chasing and colliding. Many fans are used to associating sensations like this with the music of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, Mono, Sigur Rós. And to a term: “post-rock”. For some, this expression has even become synonymous with the musical style described above, a succession of highly emotional guitar surges and thinnings that others have mockingly named crescendo-core. Another label, less widespread but even more descriptive, is soft/loud. In addition to indicating the bands mentioned above, the combination is…
vote6.5 Bands: IRON REAGAN Duration: 00:10:18 Available from: 12/06/2026 Label: Relapse Records Six pieces for ten minutes of music: here is the proposal of Iron Reagan's new EP, “Demonetization”, as per true hardcore tradition.Let's clarify it right away, there isn't much to say: if you know the band's production and in general the type of crossover proposed, you can easily understand the extent of violence and aggression within these six songs. For those who don't have any bells that ring with the name Iron Reagan, we are practically talking about a partial incarnation (especially in terms of line-up, currently, in…
The story of the RCF Arena in Reggio Emilia – already the scene of the shipwreck of the Hellwatt Festival, later renamed Pulse of Gaia and finally officially canceled at the beginning of June, with the concerts of Kanye West and Travis Scott banned by the prefect at the end of May – is enriched by a new chapter made up of public accusations, legal threats and repeated denials. On June 27, C.Volo SpA, the company that manages the venue, issued two separate press releases in rapid succession, one against the founder and former artistic director of the festival Victor…
Tom Hardy is gearing up to release his debut rap album – check out all the details below. READ MORE: Czarface – ‘Czarface Meets Ghostface’ review The actor is collaborating with Czarface – the East Coast supergroup made up of producer 7L, rapper Esoteric, and Wu-Tang Clan‘s Inspectah Deck – for ‘Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer,’ with Hardy’s rap persona being Frankie Pulitzer, AKA Face Puller. Method Man will also make an appearance on the new album, along with El-O and Busta Rhymes. Hardy previewed the LP on Thursday (June 25) with new single ‘Brothers Grimm’, which, over a ‘90s hip-hop…
Do you want alternative? Do you want alternative? Metallica gives you alternative, bay-bee! After the early-Nineties alt-rock explosion, bands that had made it big in the Eighties largely pulled their hair out trying to fit in. U2 went disco. Guns N’ Roses spent about 25 years chasing Chinese Democracy. And Metallica? Well, they just got weird — and, contrary to popular belief, that wasn’t a bad thing. Neither of the quartet’s Load albums, released in 1996 and 1997, sound overtly “alt,” since James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett’s riffs owed a greater debt to the blues and Lynyrd Skynyrd than shoegaze…
