Author: Press Room
Some letters that the young Lucio Battisti sent to his mother Dea between 1963 and 1965 will be auctioned off on 26 June by Finarte in Rome. A correspondence that recounts his early years, between hopes, economic difficulties and the determination to establish himself in the world of music. In a letter dated 15 October 1963, when he was twenty years old and had recently started playing with I Mattatori, Battisti reassured his mother about his living conditions away from home: “As far as my stay in Verona is concerned, you can rest assured: I eat three times a day…
Striking a balance between the deep seriousness of early Polo G and the hardheaded trust issues of NBA YoungBoy, YFG Fatso’s “Roll Out” is the kind of melodic pain rap song you want to sing along to. There’s passable yet indistinguishable music in this exact style dropping every day, but the difference with Chicago’s Fatso is that his lyrics feel like scraps of conversations that communicate his hurt without leaning on platitudes. “Do you love me how you said you do?” he asks on the hook, followed by, “She wrote back, ‘Hell no.’” That might seem like the usual my…
Country artist Martina McBride drops out of your supposedly apolitical “Great American State Fair”? No problem: The FBI Director has one on speed dial. Kash Patel’s girlfriend Alexis Wilkins has signed on to be a “featured performer” at Trump’s Freedom 250 celebration, which is slated to begin June 25, after McBride, Morris Day and the Time, Young MG, Bret Michaels, and more all bailed when they reportedly discovered the event wasn’t the nonpartisan celebration they were promised. Wilkins will join the remaining lineup of Lee Greenwood, tenor Christopher Macchio and … Trump himself? It’s somewhat unclear exactly what’s in store, though…
Croz Boyce, the duo of Animal Collective’s Avey Tare and Geologist, will hit the road for the first time this September. The U.S. tour kicks off in Asheville, North Carolina, on September 8 and wraps three weeks later at Public Records in New York. Festival dates at Austin’s Levitation and Cincinnati’s Talk Low Festival are sandwiched in the itinerary. Check it out below, along with a new More Eaze remix of Croz Boyce’s “Towson Acid.”The duo—otherwise known as Dave Portner and Brian Weitz—released their self-titled Croz Boyce debut last month. In a press release, Weitz said of the More Eaze…
Max Martin and Shellback's Wolf Cousins, a songwriting collective the two producers founded, have entered a partnership with investment firm HarbourView Equity Partners. The deal includes HarborView acquiring a selection of compositions by Wolf Cousins. The songs include hits by Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, the Weekend, and more artists. The acquisition price reportedly ranged in a low nine figures, according to Variety sources, although this was not confirmed by HarborView. The investment firm told the outlet it does not disclose terms for its deals. “At HarbourView, we invest in culturally relevant intellectual property and the visionary creators behind it,” said…
When DC Studios' co-CEO James Gunn took to YouTube three years ago to announce plans for turning around the comic company's cinematic universe, he gleefully went straight for the hardcore nerdbait. Yes, he and his partner in corporate-IP-resetting Peter Safran would be tackling the usual legacy suspects, including a new Superman (which turned out quite nicely, thank you very much) and eventually, a new Batman. But everything else Gunn mentioned in terms of their initial “Gods and Monsters” phase suggested they were more interested in exploring the fan-favorite margins than simply milking previous moneymakers to death. Deep-cut characters like Booster…
Smashing Pumpkins' frontman Billy Corgan has revealed that he plans to formally release over 60 songs from his short-lived supergroup Zwan. In a video interview with Stereogumhe noted the songs will be remixed and remastered and feature tracks from their only album to date, plus two records' worth of unreleased material. “There will be, like, maybe two more LPs of unreleased tracks,” he said. No further details regarding the release date have emerged. “Because there's so much Zwan stuff, I'm gonna put it out in different sets, otherwise the box set would be, like, 20 records long and it's just…
Every now and then, in the musical panorama, we find those records in which a band manages to keep together immediacy and a rather extreme eccentricity without falling into pure chaos as an end in itself. The… Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
From Friday 19 June it will be on the radio and on all digital platforms Romantic Southernersthe new single from the Sicilian singer-songwriter Saitta. Romantic Southerners comes from the phrases that thousands of kids from Southern Italy have heard repeating since they were children: “find a real job”, “you can't eat with music”, “learn a trade”. Words that often become the wall against which the dreams of those who decide to believe in their passions hit, and to which the song tries to respond. Romantic Southerners: a dedication to those who leave and those who remain The piece, published on…
A DJ who performed at some of Ibiza’s biggest nightclubs has been named as the alleged “mastermind” behind an international drug smuggling operation. The suspect is believed to be DJ Hugo Bianco from Argentina according to Mixmag and Diario de Ibiza , who was once a regular face at Marco Carola’s Music On parties in Ibiza and clubs such as Amnesia, Pacha Ibiza and Destino. He also featured on line-ups for Albania’s Unum Festival, London’s 93 Feet East, and BPM Festival in Costa. According to a court ruling, a joint investigation by Spain’s Guardia Civil and US Homeland Security Investigations (HSI)…
