Author: Press Room
Alessandra Amoroso reaches an important milestone: the singer from Salento has passed the billion streams on Spotifywhere it now has over 1.6 million monthly listeners. A result that comes at a busy time for the artist, between the new single with Gianni Morandi and his presence among the guests of the Taranta Night 2026. One billion streams on Spotify The achievement certifies a popularity built over over fifteen years of a career, from the victory to Friends to date. Among his most listened to songs on the platform are Mambo Salentinothe catchphrase with i Boomdabash which surpassed 112 million streams,…
Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett has shared his thoughts on the current state of songwriting and pop music, calling it “crap”, amid controversy over him wearing a Taylor Swift T-shirt. READ MORE: Metallica live in Amsterdam: still the greatest heavy metal band around The musician faced backlash from Swifties earlier this month, when he donned a satirical tee reading ‘Taylor Swift Is A CIA Psyop’ at Metallica’s concert in Budapest. Hammett and co. are currently out on their ‘M72’ European and UK tour. Photographs of the shirt circulated on social media, prompting criticism from some Swift fans. Hammett did not publicly address…
In partnership with Electric Castle Festival season is upon us and while many will be attending inner-city events across the UK, the chance to jet off to somewhere exciting and new in Europe holds an undeniable appeal. For those searching for their perfect festival escape, may we suggest the non-stop thrills of Romania’s Electric Castle. Taking place at Bánffy Castle in the heart of Transylvania, the long-running festival is an eclectic and unique four-day extravaganza of music, mayhem and community. Here are six reasons why it’s the festival to be at this summer. The headliners are massive Running between July…
Given the band’s short lifespan, the Joy Division nostalgia machine has churned out no shortage of live material. Never before, though, has so much of it been compiled in one place. Now, as the surviving band members prepare for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction, Rhino has assembled just that in Eternal (Live): a box set of 16 complete live albums, spread across 14 CDs, with a couple of DVDs thrown in for good measure. Among the concert recordings are three full concerts being released for the very first time and several more full recordings of shows that have been…
Each American Aquarium album is best viewed as a slice of BJ Barham’s life. The frontman writes in the moment, and his music is a distillation of the world as he sees it, and the life he has carved for himself along with his wife, Rachael, and their 8-year-old-daughter, Pearl, in the increasingly-suburbanized Wendell, North Carolina, a half hour east of Raleigh. In the two years since the last Aquarium record, as he wrote and recorded what became New Ways to Lose, Barham has been thriving. If Bueller were still around, that would be the takeaway from the 10-track, Shooter…
It's been more than a year since Blondshell released 2025's spectacular If You Asked for a Picturebut she's back again with more evocative rock songs. The singer-songwriter, whose real name is Sabrina Teitenbaum, just unveiled her third album Violinsset for a Sept. 25 releases via Partisan Records. “This record's heavy in a way,” Teitelbaum said in a press release, adding that her goal “was to have songs that hit hard.” Produced by Yves Rothman, mixed by Beatriz Artola, and mastered by Emily Laza, Violins features 11 tracks that “explore troubled friendships, religion, the body, and the long, unglamorous work of…
“One chord is ok. Two chords are borderline. With three you're already making jazz”, says a famous quote attributed to Lou Reed. But there is another option: if you have three chords, always the same three, IV-IV (the central one can at most be replaced every now and then by the relative minor), it is probably heartland rock. It is plausible that the expression tells you nothing. It is not, in fact, part of the canonical musical lexicon of the Italian enthusiast. Yet the sound it identifies is more vital today than ever. Reverberates in the big music by Sam…
Photo by Marco Aricthe There was little doubt that Tedua had become one of the most influential artists on the Italian urban scene. What was missing was perhaps only the last seal, the symbolic passage to the place that more than any other represents success in Italian music: the San Siro Stadium. On Tuesday 24 June the Genoese rapper took this step in front of a real sold-out, giving a show that combined the narrative dimension of his music with a production that was up to the occasion. The show retraced the most important chapters of his career, putting the…
Geolier are you already looking to 2027? This is the question that many fans have been asking themselves in the last few hours after the appearance of a new visual on the Neapolitan rapper's Spotify profile. A few hours after the start of the three sold out dates at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples, the message appeared on the streaming platform “Naples is your home 2027”accompanied by dedicated graphics. At the moment there are no official communications explaining the meaning of the initiative. However, the appearance of the banner coincides with one of the most important moments of…
On Tuesday, General Chris Donahue was relieved of his duties as top U.S. Army commander in Europe by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The four-star general was the latest victim of Hegseth’s purging of the Army’s combat-tested leadership. Hegseth likes to use the phrase “G.I.’s over Generals” when talking in broad strokes about his plans, but it was hard not to believe that General Donahue was being axed for doing his duty leading the efforts to get Americans and allies out of Kabul in August 2022 as Afghanistan fell into the arms of the Taliban. There’s even a famous photo of…
