Author: Press Room
KATSEYE are dropping out of Olivia Rodrigo’s inaugural Daisy Chain festival due to one of the members being injured. The single-day event will take place for the first time at Great Park in Irvine, California tomorrow (Saturday August 29), bringing together a line-up of women and female-fronted artists across two stages, alongside non-profit and community-focused organisations. Rodrigo will be performing at the festival, with the line-up also set to include Chappell Roan, Bikini Kill, Doechii, Garbage, Mitski, The Breeders, Santigold, Rachel Chinouriri, Die Spitz, Eli, Not For Radio and Quiet Light. Special guests Karen O, Sarah McLachlan and Stevie Nicks…
David Byrne’s 2025/26 tour is coming to cinema, with the hometown concerts being shot on 70mm film by director Brady Corbet. Launching in September 2025, Byrne’s ‘Who Is The Sky?’ tour travelled to four continents and over 150 shows, with 13 musicians creating what the press release described as a show that “blends visual art, storytelling, and music into one compelling live performance”. The tour’s multi-night stop at The Hippodrome in Baltimore has been captured by Corbet, and Byrne was quoted in a press release at being amazed by the results. “When Brady told me he wanted to shoot our…
“The way I describe the record is that musically it’s still pretty immature, and lyrically it’s a little bit more mature,” Mike D told NME earlier this summer when we met him at his debut UK solo show at a social club and bingo hall in North Shields – somewhat of an unassuming spot to launch the first music released by a Beastie Boy since the death of the universally beloved Adam “MCA” Yauch back in 2012. “I had to learn how to feel all over again.” Beastie Boys were a revolution. Carrying the “do what the fuck you want”…
On his final night of guest-hosting Jimmy Kimmel Live this week, Jelly Roll finally addressed his political views. At the Grammy Awards in February, Jelly Roll was asked about his politics, but he declined to answer. “I have a lot to say about it and I’m going to in the next week,” he said at the time. “And everybody’s going to hear exactly what I have to say in the most loud and clear way I’ve ever spoken in my life. I look forward to it.” The musician didn’t follow through — until now. Jelly Roll cracked jokes at the…
The duo also filmed a music video for the track, which was directed by AMD and Little Miles Ice Spice and Lil Yachty dropped a new single, “Out My Face (My Baby).” The swaggering track, which sees the artists joining voices on the chorus, will get an official music video later today. The clip was directed by AMD and Little Miles, and features appearances fby Gio, Karrahboo, Concrete Boys, Che Mario, and more. “I was never afraid to fight/ I was never the one to run,” Ice Spice spits on the track. “I was always numéro one/ You ain’t comin’…
Ci sono luoghi in cui la musica smette di essere un semplice ascolto e diventa un’esperienza sensoriale totalizzante. Tolmin, in Slovenia, è uno di questi. Qui, dove il fiume Tolminka si getta nella Soča e l’acqua gelida di color smeraldo sembra uscita da un filtro fatto apposta per far sembrare tutto più bello di quanto già non sia. È lì, sulla penisola del Sotočje, dentro i confini del Parco Nazionale del Triglav, che da quindici edizioni il Punk Rock Holiday pianta le sue tende, letteralmente. Perché prima ancora di essere un festival, il PRH è un campeggio: migliaia di persone…
Supergrass have announced a 2027 UK tour, where they’ve promised to “pull out the hits and deep cuts”. Gaz Coombes and co. will perform throughout April and May next year, marking their first UK headline tour since their 2025 ‘I Should Coco’ 30th anniversary jaunt. They’ll play nine dates across the country, kicking off at Newcastle’s NX on April 26. From there, they’ll head off to Glasgow (27) and Leeds (30), before performing at Manchester Academy on May 1. They’re also set to play in Nottingham (4), Birmingham (5), London (7), and Bristol (11), with a final show at Portsmouth’s Guildhall…
A Pagliacci in Pumas, erstwhile Beastie Boy Michael Diamond is hurting inside and ready to vent his truth. But how do you drop your “Sounds of Silence” when your medium is “The Sounds of Science,” a 47-year legacy of puckish punk-rap, ill communication, and party-rock anthems, a life lived as a beacon of inspiration to some of the best and worst music to ever exist?Well, as a wise man once said, “Be true to yourself and you will never fall.” You can’t say 60-year-old Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Mike D is faking the funk on Thank You, his…
Most rappers and beatmakers who manage to stick around for more than a few years, build a dedicated following, and make a healthy living off of music eventually hit a wall. They may ask themselves, “Why am I still doing this?,” searching for the fire they had in their belly when barely anyone knew their name. Music becomes business and business can become tedious. In the background of ii, the long-awaited follow-up to 2020’s Unlocked, Denzel Curry and Kenny Beats—my fault, Kenneth Blume—are reckoning with the reality of the mid-career creative plateau.“I’m not doing this just to do it, I…
How has Jim James not named an album Wowed Out already? With the classic rock fireworks and cosmic adventures of My Morning Jacket and his solo work alike, the phrase feels so apt that it could almost scan as self-parody. Yet James’ fifth solo album and first in eight years both plays into and thwarts expectations, his boundless voice suggesting it is, in fact, possible to hit capacity. Wielding an array of his wheelhouse sounds with acuity and warmth, James returns with an album whose maybe-goofy-maybe-pensive title allows him to dance between world-weariness and renewed awe, resulting in his best…
