Author: Press Room
The nominations for the MTV VMAs 2026 have been announced, with Madonna leading the way. See the full list below. This year’s ceremony is due to take place at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, California, on Sunday September 27. It’ll be broadcast live, airing simultaneously on CBS, MTV and Paramount+. Read More: Madonna – ‘Confessions II’ review: Queen Of Pop digs deep on thrilling return to the dancefloor The Queen Of Pop has earned 11 nods, including Video Of The Year for the star-studded Confessions II – The Film – which accompanied her acclaimed latest studio album. Madonna is also in the…
At this year’s edition of tastemaker new music festival The Great Escape, the most potent performance of the weekend belonged to a band whose roots stretch back more than a century. In the absolutely heaving basement of Brighton’s Chalk, Dublin sextet Madra Salach unleashed their visceral, punk-entwined take on Irish trad classics dating back to the 1950s (‘Murphy Can Never Go Home’) and the 1870s (‘Spancil Hill’), weaving their tales of displaced immigrants mourning for a sense of belonging among original new songs finding kinship within grief, love and loss. At the set’s climax was closer ‘The Man Who Seeks…
Charley Crockett has said he “lost a lot of respect” for Jack White after the latter invited Twin Temple to open for him on tour. Country artist Crockett kicked LA rock duo Twin Temple off his tour over their “Satanic imagery” last month. This caught the attention of the former White Stripes frontman, who offered them a support slot at his Hollywood Palladium gig on September 29. Read More: Jack White – ‘Frozen Charlotte’ review: cheeky classic rock meant for the stage Twin Temple have since made their US late-night debut with a performance on The Daily Show. Crockett criticised White’s…
Hailing from João Pessoa, the easternmost city in South America, Papangu are part of the latest wave of bands incorporating the sound of Brazil into heavy music. The tradition may have reached its greatest international visibility with Sepultura back in the 1990s, but it has continued to spark new iterations in the generations since. Compared to their contemporaries, Papangu have always been a bit more inclined toward MPB (Brazilian Popular Music), tending toward sweeter melodies and catchy choruses. Celestial complicates this formula. Compared to their debut, 2021’s Holoceno, and its 2024 follow-up, Lampião Rei, the new album is brighter and…
Nel lungo viaggio che li ha riportati a essere i Rush, Geddy Lee e Alex Lifeson si sono lasciati alle spalle morte, malattia, età, dubbi su se stessi e, nel caso di uno dei due, la marijuana che fumava dal 1966. Non avevano messo in conto la nebbia. Ai primi di giugno erano sul punto di tenere il loro primo concerto dopo 11 anni, il primo del Fifty Something Tour. Nel backstage del Kia Forum di Los Angeles, quella domenica sera, Lee era teso, Lifeson molto meno. «Stranamente non ero nervoso», ricorda il chitarrista. Quand’è arrivato il momento di salire…
Few songs have catapulted and consequently demolished an artist’s career as decisively as Icona Pop and “I Love It.” But few artists have also ridden a song till the wheels fell off quite like Icona Pop and “I Love It.” The 5x platinum 2012 single featuring an up-and-coming songwriter named Charli xcx established Caroline Hjelt and Aino Jawo as the young decade’s most relentless party starters, but it also confined them to a suffocating identity. The pair meandered through singles and features but never aimed for anything more ambitious. They became so single-focused, in fact, that they didn’t get another…
For BG, Zeimani, and Kucha Womack, the expectations that accompany their last name are impossible to escape. As descendants of one of soul music’s most celebrated families, they’re used to fielding questions about their lineage. (Their father, Cecil Womack, was one half of both the Womack Brothers, alongside his brother Bobby, and Womack & Womack, with his wife, Linda; their grandfather—Linda’s father—was Sam Cooke, aka the King of Soul.) “As a family, we try to stay together because that energy and that deep history that we have between us is what keeps us sane in the face of all the…
For years, King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard have been dipping their toes in electronic waters. It began in 2022, on the spaced-out, DJ Shadow-featuring remix album Butterfly 30001. Then came the twinkling downtempo two-piece Made in Timeland, followed by The Silver Cord, two hours of Moroder-inspired electro-disco odysseys, in 2023. Last year, the Australian group went further, leaving behind their vast arsenal of gear and setting their newest band member, Nathan—a Eurorack moulder synthesiser—to work across nine European raves. Now, we arrive at Alien Metal: King Gizzard’s first album of full-throated, big-tent EDM.Even for a band who regularly veer…
The official trailer for the new Oasis documentary film Don’t Look Back In Anger has been released. Watch below, and find details on how to book cinema screenings. READ MORE: Oasis live in Cardiff opening night review: a supersonic reunion for a new generation The “landmark” two-hour movie, produced by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight, is due for release in cinemas worldwide, including IMAX, on September 11. It is directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, known for the LCD Soundsystem doc Shut Up And Play The Hits. “Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger charts Liam and Noel Gallagher’s triumphant reunion tour, Oasis Live…
Tributes from Hayden Panettiere’s co-stars across television and film have been pouring in following her death at 36 on Sunday. Actor Sendhil Ramamurthy, who played Mohinder Suresh on the NBC sci-fi series Heroes, remembered the actress in a heartfelt post on Tuesday. Panettiere featured as the virtually invincible high school cheerleader Claire Bennet on the series across four seasons. “This is such a rough one,” Ramamurthy began. “The 1st time I met Hayden was at the final screen test for Heroes. I was so nervous I was sweating through my shirt b4 I even got there. I went straight to the bathroom…
