Author: Press Room
Lorde marked the one-year anniversary of Virgin by sharing nearly 50 demos from the album, as well as shared a personal note about the making of the LP. “On Sunday night I was putting my clothes away and realized Virgin had been out for almost a year,” Lorde wrote in her newsletter to fans. “I decided something had to be done about that. To be honest I haven't really known how to talk about Virgin since it came out. I'd thought I was accustomed and even a bit desensitized to marketing and commodifying my feelings at this point in my…
Often viewed with distrust if not openly opposed by the rock of the 70s (a decade in which the Stranglers' amazing “Walk On By” was released), Burt Bacharach's music was rediscovered by subsequent generations of musicians, particularly fascinated by the lounge sounds of the 50s and 60s, subject to an impressive work of rediscovery and revisitation in the 90s, by Portishead's trip-hop & C. to Belle & Sebastian's lullabies up to the new ranks of Britpop and even the electronic scene, complete with unpredictable sampling (like that of “Blue On Blue” in Royksopp's “So Easy”). But, looking more carefully, the…
The Rolling Stones have released “Divine Intervention”, one of the two songs from “Foreign Tongues” featuring Robert Smith of the Cure. The curious collaboration, described by Mick Jagger during the presentation of the new album, was born almost by chance. “I saw this guy in the studio, from behind, with a long robe on,” Jagger recalled. “When he turned around he was completely covered in lipstick. I'd never met him before and I said, 'But you're Robert Smith from The Cure!'. He said, 'Yes!'” Once the initial embarrassment was overcome, the two began to converse and Jagger saw fit to…
B efore she was an acclaimed actress, comic, and vocalist, Midler was a young teen living in Hawaii and dreaming of the stage. At 14, she had a short-lived career in community theater. It involved being hired and then immediately fired for “hamming it up” so much that she drew attention away from the lead actress. The lesson was a swift one: You can’t upstage the star. So, Midler decided to become one. Now 80, Midler has three Grammys, two Tonys, three Emmys, four Golden Globes, and a history in the entertainment industry so storied that she genuinely can’t remember…
How much Phil Collins trivia do you know? Let's find out! On Nov. 14, 2026, a tremendous injustice will finally be rectified when Phil Collins is inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist. When you consider his achievements outside of Genesis in the 1980s and 1990s, it's absolutely wild that it took this long. He created the sonic palette for the Reagan decade with “In the Air Tonight,” and then landed hit after hit after hit, while somehow keeping busy with Genesis, and working with his buddies, including Eric Clapton and Robert Plant. Collins'…
Born close to the Seventies thanks to Nigerian musicians Fela Kuti and Toni Allen, Afrobeat is more relevant today than ever. Its fusion of funk, jazz and typical West African call-and-response dynamics, already at the basis of Talking Heads' “world breakthrough”, is the model for a new explosion of styles. For some time now it has been back in vogue in North America with groups such as Antibalas and Souljazz Orchestra, and in recent years nu jazz has been the number one reference for the young and kaleidoscopic London jazz scene. The compilation guides the exploration of this varied musical…
Last night, Friday June 26, 2026the Visarno Arena in Florence was the beating heart of world rock, hosting the only, highly anticipated Italian date of “From Zero World Tour” of the Linkin Park. Beyond 60,000 people responded to the call, pulverizing the tickets in record time and confirming a visceral bond between our country and the band, exactly two years after the publication of “From Zero”the album that redesigned the boundaries of their path. Four acts of pure power and vulnerability The show was structured as a real cinematic journey divided into four distinct acts, capable of bringing together the…
Yesterday, June 26th, was the first birthday of VirginLorde's latest album.For the occasion, the artist “gave” fans 49 unreleased demos from the making of the album – the dates go back to 2022. “Happy birthday Virgin”, this is the message shared on social media. And then the link where you can listen to the tracks for free, for a total of approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes of music.The tracks were also accompanied by a letter, in which Lorde shared some of the experiences she had over the last year and during the making of the album: «On Sunday evening…
BBC DJ and presenter Trevor Nelson has announced he is taking a break from his BBC Radio 2 show for medical reasons. The Radio 2 and 1Xtra presenter, who has been off air this week after undergoing tests, announced that he is “taking a little break from my work commitments” due to “health issues” yesterday (June 26). He did not go into detail about his diagnosis, but told his Instagram followers that he was now “concentrating on getting better”. “Some of you may already have noticed that I’ve not been on my daily Radio 2 slot this week,” he told…
The path of Italian punk immediately crossed that of the so-called “crazy rock”: above all Skiantos and very early Gaznevada, from Bologna, progenitors of both strands; the movement expresses an antithetical approach to that of “committed” songwriting, well represented by “Largo all' avant-garde”: “All singer-songwriters buy / As oarsmen do / When they want to do choirs / That smell of flowers” or by the provocations of “Nevadagaz” (“At midnight on the streets of East Berlin / automatons in SA uniforms / sprinkle the streets with Nevada Gaz / neon swastikas on the city walls”). It is just one of…
