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Brad Pitt opened up about experiencing suicidal thoughts over ongoing family issues, the movie star admitted in a wide-ranging cover story with Esquire.  “I just couldn’t — just didn’t see a way out,” the 62-year-old told the magazine. “The pain was so oppressive that — I wasn’t going to act on this, but I could feel — I could feel the cold steel of the bullet in my head, and it felt like relief. And I thought, ‘Oh, okay, now I understand.’ I understand suicide, in the sense that it’s just relief. It’s just looking for relief from the pain.…

The pop stars Garner grew up with in the late ’90s and early aughts were the products and, often, victims of exacting major-label machinery. But over the last two decades, the serrated steel of the star machine has rusted, forcing young artists to effectively develop themselves. So Slayyyter’s a pop star, yes, but also her own creative director and, occasionally, an auteur filmmaker. Garner directed four out of WGIA$’s five proper music videos on her own, and makes most of her stage costumes. “It’s all glue,” she winks. She carefully considered every aspect of the album’s packaging, down to where…

It’s a warm morning in May, and thousands of YouTubers, TikTokers, Facebook posters, and Instagram influencers have flooded the Fox Studio Lot in Century City, Los Angeles. They’re being ushered through manicured sidewalks by the hosts of this gathering, creator-industry whisperers Colin Rosenblum and Samir Chaudry. Winding past murals of the Simpsons and Marilyn Monroe, the group eventually finds itself in a rough re-creation of New York City, as imagined by Samsung, Canon, and Google, among others.  Corporate sponsors pursuing creators isn’t new. But Rosenblum and Chaudry hosting a summit on this century-old lot marks a new era of partnership.…

Iceage will head to North America for a tour next April. The run includes dates at New York’s Bowery Ballroom, the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angeles, and Chicago’s Thalia Hall. Check out the itinerary below.The Danish band has played sporadic shows around the release of June’s For Love of Grace & the Hereafter, including a recent two-night run at Hollywood Forever’s Masonic Lodge. They have a hometown show in Copenhagen lined up this week, before a festival date in Norway, a Geese support slot in Germany, and, this November, a set at Pitchfork Paris. The European tour resumes early next…

Ariana Grande‘s new album ‘Petal’ has topped the US Billboard albums chart. Her eighth studio LP shifted 295,000 equivalent album units according to Variety, marking her most successful album in America since 2019. The pop star took to her Instagram Story to hail her fans for helping her reach the summit after a week in which it was announced that she would withdrawing from the public eye. “Thank you from the bottom of my heart,” she wrote, along with a heart emoji. Her album also topped the UK albums chart over the weekend. The pop star’s representatives confirmed earlier this…

Florence Road have shared a new single, ‘7563’ – you can listen to it below. The Irish band and former NME Cover stars‘ latest track follows on from their 2026 breakout song ‘Hanging Out To Dry’, which reached Number One on the Irish Airplay Chart and went viral on TikTok. ”7563′ is about feeling out of place, lost and confused. Not being sure of who you are,” the group explained in a statement. “It’s about knowing that you need to break yourself out of it, feeling that something is calling at you to wake you up from this ‘bad dream’.”…

Iron Maiden frontman Bruce Dickinson has teased a new solo album, which he is recording at Dave Grohl‘s Studio 606. READ MORE: ‘Iron Maiden: Burning Ambition’ review: shock and roll with metal’s new wave pioneers Dickinson previously released his last record ‘The Mandrake Project’ in 2024 following on from ‘Tyranny Of Souls’, which was shared back in 2005. Along with an album, ‘The Mandrake Project’ was a cross-media multimedia concept, combining the record with a 12-issue quarterly adult comic book series. But Dickinson has now confirmed in a new interview with VSX, that he is working on a new LP due for release…

Palchi mai visti prima, la prima rock band occidentale oltre la Cortina di ferro, stadi esauriti in un’ora. Il Magic Tour fu l’ultimo dei Queen dal vivo, anche se nessuno allora poteva saperloIl 10 agosto 1986 il mondo si svegliò senza sapere che i Queen, intesi come live band, erano finiti per sempre. La sera prima, Freddie Mercury e compagni avevano suonato a Knebworth Park, nei pressi di Stevenage, data extra del Magic Tour aggiunta per via delle numerose richieste di biglietti nel Regno Unito, davanti a più di 120 mila spettatori. Ad aprire il concerto, i giovani scozzesi Big…

Brandon Flowers has shared another new solo single, ‘Tiger’s Blood’ – you can listen to it below. READ MORE: Brandon Flowers talks new solo and Killers music – and the power of Springsteen and Oasis The track is the third taste of the Killers frontman’s third solo album, ‘Thrasher’, which is out on August 21 via Island. He released the first track, ‘Plans’, in June before dropping ‘Paradise’ last month. ‘Tiger’s Blood’ is a driving and nostalgic Bruce Springsteen-esque anthem that packs a bigger punch than Flowers’ previous two offerings. “The last thing that I heard/ You were doing OK/ We took different roads…

The Weeknd has seemingly gone back on his plans to retire the moniker, telling fans at a recent show that he will “never disappear”. The artist, real name Abel Tesfaye, has been releasing music as The Weeknd since 2011, and dropped his sixth album under the name, ‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’, in January 2025. That record was the final instalment in his ‘Blinding Lights’ album trilogy – following 2020’s ‘After Hours‘ and ‘Dawn FM‘ – and planned to be his last LP under the moniker. Discussing his plans to retire his stage name, the singer and actor previously explained why he…