Author: Press Room

Thirty-six years have passed since the formation of Converge. Today, more than ever, few groups have learned a lesson heavy they manage to materialize, because fury can be a sea that slowly retreats and then overwhelms you. “Hum Of Hurt”, the second work in this absurd 2026, arrives just four months after “Love Is Not Enough”, yet it sounds like its complementary opposite. It goes from an adrenaline rush hardcore in a race against time and against the world for a slow and viscous post-hardcore, post-metal, post-everything exploration. These two albums should be taken as a diptych: if the visceral…

Among the new names announced arrive MARCO CASTELLO, SAMA' ABDULHADI And THE AVALANCHESwhich are added to an increasingly rich and transversal program. Together with them they will also go on stage MARUJA, ELA MINUS, DOVE ELLIS, RARES, AVALON EMERSON & THE CHARM, PIPPO SOWLO, FLORENCE ROAD, CORTO.ALTO, SOPHIA STEL and numerous other artists, including names already announced and new surprises that will be revealed in the coming months. The new names of Poplar Festival 2026 outline an edition that interweaves great international debuts, highly anticipated returns on the Doss Trento stage – like those of MARCO CASTELLO And RARES –…

Today songwriting and popular music are rubbish, they are «crap», or rather «KRAP». Kirk Hammett says this in an interview given toIrish Times. The Metallica guitarist is not referring to pop in the strict sense, nor to a pop star in particular, but to all popular music, a definition that embraces non-classical, non-folk and non-jazz styles, therefore including rock.In fact, Hammett's reasoning starts from his own musical education. «I started by learning from records, trying to sharpen my ear and learning songs and solos by listening to the albums over and over again. It's a monotonous and laborious process, especially…

Morrissey has shared a lengthy attack on Johnny Marr over an upcoming BBC documentary about The Smiths. In a since-deleted post on his website, Morrissey Central, the former frontman took issue with the documentary, which was warned to be “critical in nature towards Morrissey”. He slammed the feature as a “timeworn story”, “wherein Marr grabs center stage as the unchanging face of discord … and Bigmarr Strikes Again”. “This new BBC program already sounds like it is NOT for anyone who knows or cares about the Smiths,” he wrote, going on to claim that “Marr has intentionally divided the Smiths…

Here comes the science bit, concentrate: all you space nerds out there will be well aware that ‘the Wow! signal’ was of course a narrowband radio signal detected by Ohio State University’s Big Ear radio telescope back in August 1977. So intense was its strength and so mysterious was its frequency that it was chalked up to being from bloody aliens. Astounded astronomer Jerry R. Ehman simply scribbled ‘Wow!’ on the initial report. Ever since their gothic sci-fi masterpiece 2001 album ‘Origin Of Symmetry’, Muse have been largely preoccupied with matters of life up there and who’s really pulling the…

Visto il gradimento ottenuto dalla playlist “Hit mancate e nevergreen”, dedicata alle canzoni da riscoprire di Francesco De Gregori, abbiamo pensato di ripetere analogo esperimento anche con il suo ex-compare e amico di una vita musicale: Lucio Dalla. Nel caso del cantautore bolognese, per chi scrive, i “gioielli nascosti” sono da individuare soprattutto tra i primi dischi degli anni Sessanta, nella fase della cosiddetta “trilogia dei motori” ideata assieme al poeta Roberto Roversi, alla quale abbiamo dedicato l’approfondimento “Storia di una trilogia” nel suo cinquantennale, e nel periodo d’oro dell’artista nato il 4 marzo 1943, ovvero quello compreso tra il…

The third edition of BOP – Beats of Pompeii kicks off on Wednesday 24 June 2026, the festival that transforms the Amphitheater of the Archaeological Park of Pompeii into an exceptional stage, where music, history and art come together in an unparalleled union. The event, promoted by the Ministry of Culture and the Archaeological Park of Pompeii, by the Municipality of Pompeii and the Campania Region, confirms itself as a cultural reference point and a powerful international tourism driver. The Festival will open on Wednesday 24 June with a concert by Of Monsters And Men. The established Icelandic art rock…

After making us discover his more emotional and nostalgic side with photo, October returns with a courageous and original experiment, which unites two apparently distant worlds: the cover of Obsession (Thamsanqa / TheOrchard), the song with which Samurai Jay took part in Sanremo Festival 2026which will be available in all digital stores starting Friday 26 June. With extreme audacity, October thus he takes a song born and raised in the urban, pop and sentimental world to forcefully drag it into a totally distorted, violent and visceral dimension. And so what was originally an intimate and tormented story about the dynamics…

Chelsea Wolfe has shared two new songs and announced a huge US and European tour. Find all the details below. ‘The Dark’ and ‘Death is Not the End’, out now via Lomo Vista Recordings, mark Wolfe’s first new music since her 2024 album ‘She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She’, and serve as the first taste of her upcoming ninth studio album. ‘Death is Not the End’ opens with the soft plucking of an acoustic guitar alongside hushed vocals from Wolfe, which steadily unfolds in dramatic, explosive guitar riffs and a heavy, pulsing bassline. The track finds Wolfe…

The evolution of rock, the thousand nuances of contemporary pop, the most recent electronic trajectories and the heartfelt voices of singer-songwriters: these are just some of the areas explored in the monthly selections. Added to these are the more eclectic experiments, the mutability of border jazz, the vitality of the Italian scene and the darker tones that resonate in the underground. This wealth of proposals, extracted from the vast catalog of new monthly releases, finds space in OndaRock's Spotify playlists. Our editors have curated each selection to offer an agile and engaging overview. A starting point for those who want…