Author: Press Room
The second album this year from metalcore pioneers Converge is named for a mysterious, pulsing, low-frequency ambient drone, likened by those who hear it to a diesel engine, an idling airplane, or a kind of inescapable torture. Lead vocalist Jacob Bannon came across the phenomenon when researching his own tinnitus and reimagined it as a culmination of all the pain and suffering in human existence. Appropriately, Hum of Hurt may be the heaviest album Converge have made: lean and sinewy, direct and intentional, stripped of any embellishments.Drawn from the same writing sessions that produced Love Is Not Enough, released in…
C’è qualcosa di paradossale nel nuovo romanzo di Emidio Clementi, Prima dell’incendio (edito da Playground), che è ambientato nel 1993 ma sembra parlare più del presente di tanti libri ambientati nella contemporaneità. Nella villa marchigiana di Livia, infatti, si ritrova una compagnia di giovani artisti, musicisti e universitari arrivati da Bologna, tutti alle prese con quella fase della vita in cui si cerca disperatamente di capire chi si vuole diventare da grandi. Al centro della storia c’è Guido, attore, musicista e figura magnetica, ispirato al ricordo di Dario Parisini, fondatore dei Disciplinatha (e per un biennio musicista dei Massimo Volume),…
Until a few years ago, Slayyyter believed that luxury items were symbols of desirable status and style, and he believed it so much that he bought a designer bag that he couldn't afford. “It practically destroyed itself within a month,” he says. I meet her in the offices of Rolling Stone in New York. She wears torn denim shorts and fake-worn custom boots like Kate Moss at Glastonbury 2005. It's her idea of style today and it's a rougher aesthetic, with hair that isn't always combed, second-hand and, when necessary, self-created clothes that are perfect for the spirit of Wor$t…
Hearts forged in steel never melt, but on the contrary constantly beat to be able to tread the stages and write and play new music: this is the case of Franco Nipoti and… Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
On a two-year-old episode of Ebro in the Morning, Tierra Whack admitted she was “very bored” with rap. By “bored” she didn’t mean that “there’s too much music about pussy and guns” shit that seems to come up any time a rapper sits in a podcast chair; what she was feeling had more to do with burnout. She was struggling with how to stay hungry amid the expectations and demands, from fans and labels alike, that come from life as a professional rapper.Whack didn’t have to think about any of that back on 2018’s Whack World, her stylish and offbeat…
A listen that leans delicately on the ear, without ever attacking it, the type of music that doesn't need to scream to be noticed. “Squares”, released on June 5, 2026, belongs exactly to this category. The single was born from the meeting between Melty Groove — power trio composed of Alice Costa (bass and vocals), Edoardo Luparello (drums and vocals) and Carlo Peluso (keyboards and vocals) — and the rapper Bo Rascomoving on a soft and warm groove with enveloping and light sounds, where everything is based on the essential and the superfluous disappears. Even the voice chooses not to…
Nate Mendel has been performing Sunny Day Real Estate track ‘Seven’ while on tour with Foo Fighters. Check out footage below. The bassist started out as a member of the Seattle group, before they disbanded after their second album and both Mendel and drummer William Goldsmith went to join Foo Fighters in the mid ‘90s. While Goldsmith left the Dave Grohl-led band in 1997 during work on ‘The Color And Shape’ – with Grohl re-recoding all of his drum parts – Mendel has been in the line-up much longer, and only returned to Sunny Day Real Estate briefly in 2009…
Lip Critic enjoy continually sabotaging any possibility of emotional or sonic stability and their way of transforming chaos into entertainment is proof of this. “Theft World” is a work that screams at you and laughs in your face while you hyperventilate. The story behind the album (a fan who steals the identity of singer Bret Kaser convinced he has discovered hidden messages in the band's music!) already seems like the plot of a fantasy movie. From this absurd situation arises the central mythology of the album. “Theft World” tells us about a paranoid world where everything becomes theft: money, desire,…
“Excited to have a great group of contemporary artists covering SP tracks,” the Pumpkins wrote on social media. “Go stream Tame Impala’s version of ‘Hummer’ now.” An official description reads: “More than a tribute album, ‘Sending Hearts To All My Dearies’ serves as a conversation between generations of artists, with musicians shaped by The Smashing Pumpkins’ fearless songwriting, experimentation, and emotional honesty paying homage through reinterpretation and new perspective.” “More than three decades after redefining alternative rock, the band’s music continues to inspire artists and audiences alike, making this collection both a celebration of their enduring legacy and a reminder…
Rob Thomas was fresh off the success of Matchbox Twenty's debut album, Yourself or Someone Like You, when he was brought on to work on “Smooth,” his smash collaboration with Carlos Santana. The chart topper remains one of his most recognizable hits, but it's the two key relationships formed behind the scenes that would prove monumental for Thomas — with Santana and with music executive Clive Davis, who Santana was working with at the time. In the three decades since, Davis became a key mentor, friend, adviser and confidante. Here, in his own words, as told to writer Leena Tailor,…
