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Your day will come. Your day will come. Your day will come. Say it enough times and it tilts from an optimistic mantra to a looping curse. On 2024’s Your Day Will Come, Shane Lavers sought relief from guilt, the death of a loved one, and other phantoms of the mind with a nervy tangle of organic and digital sounds that felt at once scuzzy and super-clean. Inspired by Donald Fagen’s concept of “fake jazz,” Lavers defaced his sophisto-pop influences: Keep the regal strings, the pingy bass, and the gossamer synth shivers, but pollute it with askew guitars and samples,…

After teasing a studio collaboration together several months ago, Steve Lacy has finally shared the new song he recorded with SZA. “Is It Cool?” is a back-and-forth track between the two singers where they delve into their struggles with romance and tendencies to self-sabotage. Give it a listen below.SZA first teased the existence of a collaboration in March with i-D, telling the magazine that her and Lacy “made a random little project together.” She said it’s part of a recent streak where she makes songs that “feel good and don’t say too much.”“Is It Cool?” appears on Lacy’s upcoming album,…

With an hour’s notice and a bat of her eyelashes, Charli XCX ushered in her third single from Music, Fashion, Film: “Wink Wink.” The new song gets a music video directed by Aidan Zamiri, in which the pop star swears she’s “not a bad girl anymore” while eating strawberries in a field, washing window panes, sneaking onto a roof, and letting loose by herself. Check it out below.“Wink Wink” arrives after the headline-baiting single “Rock Music” and the more traditionally pop-indebted song “SS26.” (No, their accompanying “b-sides” aren’t part of the album’s tracklist.) Charli XCX previously denied that Music, Fashion,…

“On Wires” will appear on Day and Nightthe Canadian singer-songwriter's first double album Carly Rae Jepsen wants her love to last forever on “On Wires,” the first taste of her recently announced album Day and Night. “On Wires” is one of Jepsen's most ambitious tracks to date. Opening with staccato piano, the chorus explodes into an arena rock declaration of her love. It was produced by Kyle Shearer, and co-written by Jepsen, Shearer, and Nate Cyphert. In the song's accompanying music video, Jepsen sings her way through a concert hall and down the street. The Caio Viera-directed video was filmed…

Brat Summer's diet consisted of cigarettes, but this summer Charli XCX is indulging in strawberries and cream (and home wrecking) on ​​her new single “Wink Wink.” The singer described the song as the “final piece in the Music, Fashion, Film rollout,” according to a video posted to her @b.sides Instagram. The song's accompanying Aidan Zamiri-directed video opens with Charli laying in a field underneath a cloudy sky. Soon, we see Charli sitting on top on her roof at home and writing in her diary as she insists that she's changed, reasoning in the open verse: “I used to jump on…

Nel periodo d’oro del cantautorato italiano (anni 70–80), all’ombra di star di prima grandezza, è cresciuta una generazione di songwriter rimasti – più o meno – sottotraccia. Alcuni hanno avuto anche il loro momento di gloria, scalando le classifiche o sfornando almeno una hit, di altri si ricorda ormai a malapena il nome. Tutti avrebbero meritato miglior sorte rispetto a quella riservata loro da un crudele destino: trovarsi a competere con la più straordinaria e ineguagliabile generazione di cantautori della musica italiana. Questa playlist vuole essere un piccolo “risarcimento” nei loro confronti, oppure semplicemente un modo per riportare alla luce…

In these days of final exams you can hear it bouncing here and there, “Night before exams”, a 1984 song with which Antonello Venditti will probably have bought a couple of seaside villas thanks to the copyright.We imagine you all know the song. Furthermore, this is not the place to tell you about its historical references or its harmonic and melodic evolution. Let's rather take a few minutes to ask ourselves why after more than forty years this song is still the one that young, beautiful high school graduates sing outside schools on the fateful “night before” of the first…

Gregg Phillip previously claimed that he found himself “teleporting” into ditches Gregg Phillips, the far-right activist installed as a high-ranking Federal Emergency Management Agency official, is out of a job at the agency. Sources told CNN that he was pushed out after a series of wild remarks he made on right-wing podcasts, which included his claims that he had found himself “teleporting” into ditches, or even into a Waffle House. “Teleporting is no fun,” Phillips said in an interview last year. “It's no fun because you don't really know what you're doing. You don't really understand it, it's scary, but…

Italia 90 is not just the historic edition of the World Cup in our country, which culminated with the unfortunate semi-final lost on penalties to Argentina. Italia 90 also means a magical – and in some ways unrepeatable – season of national indie-rock. A period of extraordinary creativity on the scene underground tricolor, blessed by far-sighted record companies and the success of the public, which brought those sounds to the top of the charts for the first time. In the beginning it was the CCCP saga, which laid the foundations in the 80s. A decade later, converted into the new…

Iron Maiden wrote an unprecedented page in the history of Italian concerts by performing on June 17th at the San Siro stadium in Milan, thus becoming the first heavy metal group to take the stage at the Meazza. Around 45 thousand spectators attended the Italian leg of the “Run For Your Lives. From Iron Maiden To Fear Of The Dark” tour, the tour that celebrates the band's 50th anniversary by retracing the repertoire of the first nine albums released between 1980 and 1992.From the stage, Bruce Dickinson underlined the symbolic value of the event: “Milan, finally at San Siro! It's…