Author: Press Room
Jimmy Eat World have cancelled some tour dates as frontman Jim Adkins recovers from emergency surgery. The Arizona emo icons have been out on the road since June, celebrating the 25th anniversary of their 2001 breakthrough album ‘Bleed American’ – playing the record in full alongside cuts from 1999’s ‘Clarity’ and 2004’s ‘Futures’ and a host of B-sides. Already they have kicked off the shows with a run of US headline dates including a stop at the iconic Red Rocks Amphitheatre, and have since come across the pond for a massive gig at London’s Crystal Palace Bowl alongside Jay Som,…
Macklemore has donated his entire $1million earnings from Ed Sheeran‘s tour to Palestinians – with Robert Kraft matching with $2million to “aid in the region”. This week, Macklemore has been embroiled in a major row over his impassioned “free Palestine” speech made while opening for Ed Sheeran at New Jersey’s Gillette Stadium. The speech prompted calls for Macklemore’s removal from figures like Pink and the Israeli American Council. Macklemore was then announced to have been dropped from the tour, with Gillette Stadium owner Robert Kraft later confirming that he found Macklemore’s speech “deeply offensive and hurtful to the Jewish community”,…
Matthew Lillard admitted to being “embarrassed” by his decision to return to the Scream franchise after the producers fired Melissa Barrera for her vocal support of Palestine in 2023. Lillard reprised his role as Stu Macher in this year’s Scream 7 despite the controversy. During a recent audience Q&A at a 30th anniversary screening of the original Scream, Lillard was asked about the difficulty of speaking up about politics as an actor. “I don’t know how else to do it,” Lillard responded. “For me, I have queer kids. If I’m not standing up for queer kids or kids in the…
Julia Stiles danced to a Dolly Parton classic during the Dancing With the Stars premiere. The actress and her professional dance partner Ezra Sosa performed a quickstep routine to Parton’s 1980 song “9 to 5,” which was written and recorded for the comedy film of the same name. The high-energy routine marked Stiles’ debut on the competition series, which premiered over two nights this week with its 35th season. During the episode, Stiles revealed that Parton had cleared the use of the song prior to her death in August. “It was only a couple weeks before Dolly passed that she…
Lily Allen has spoken about how the ‘West End Girl’ shows are the first she has done fully sober, and said that part of her “misses the post-show celebrations”. The London singer and actor is currently out on the road, embarking on her ‘West End Girl’ tour which celebrates the hit 2025 album of the same name. It marked her fifth studio album, and was written and recorded in 10 days following the collapse of her marriage to the Stranger Things actor, after he allegedly cheated on her. Allen previously described the record as “a mixture of fact and fiction”…
Angine de Poitrine have showcased a new song on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. The Canadian math-rock duo performed the track ‘Zugzegk’ live for their US TV debut in their trademark polka dot outfits and masks. You can watch it below. The unreleased track does not feature on 2024 debut ‘Vol. 1’ and the recent acclaimed ‘Vol II’. The performance came ahead of their forthcoming sold-out UK tour in October which saw most of the venues upgraded due to high demand. The dates include headline shows in Leeds, Bristol, London, Glasgow, Dublin and Leeds. The shows kick off at…
Hope Is the Thing With Feathers is a sort of homecoming for Rhiannon Giddens. The folk singer and string musician first gained acclaim for her work with the Carolina Chocolate Drops, a group dedicated to preserving traditional string band music of North Carolina. Since 2015, her solo career has taken her far afield, exploring the tributaries that flow from the folk music of the Carolinas: discovering austere, arty branches through her work with Italian multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi and adding enough polish to her essential sound on 2023’s You’re the One so it resembled a crossover.A slight echo of You’re the…
Curbside Lambsear means nothing. As a band name, it’s drawn from a photo Magdalena McLean posted on Instagram a few years ago—of a lamb’s-ear plant that was growing next to a curb—and does not really necessitate interrogation. But wow, what a phrase to say out loud! There’s no band I’d rather speak the name of right now: Those consonant clusters give the tongue a real workout, bring back Proustian memories of spelling bees and schoolyard riddles.When I say Curbside Lambsear are wordy, I don’t mean in a literal sense. Maybe I’d describe them as wordsy: as in, headsy about words.…
When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, East Berlin crumbled. Many residents flocked to the West, compelled by the promise of a more robust economy and a higher standard of living. On the city’s eastern side lay a constellation of factories and industrial buildings, abandoned in the scramble of reunification. With curfews abolished and noise ordinances ignored, these neglected spaces became playhouses through the ’90s. At clubs and raves that enshrined techno, kink culture, and queer exploration, youthful mischief-makers gained access to their every unintelligible desire.In 2006, this is where Rhode Island native Gavilán Rayna Russom spawned Black Meteoric Star—before…
Just when you thought the kids had buried the Beatles for good, here’s AKRIILA with lucy miró al mundo y notó que está girando. The title of the rising Chilean star’s new album (“Lucy looked at the world and noticed it’s turning”) borrows lines from “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” and “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds,” the first song AKRIILA learned to play on the piano. The Fab Four might seem like an unlikely reference point for a flame-haired 22-year-old whose berserk debut album was filled with robotic tags like “Hot gays listen to AKRIILA” and “Hot twinks listen…
