Author: Press Room
«Signora Badu, le piacciono i film?». È la prima cosa che mi è venuta in mente quando mi è apparsa sullo schermata Zoom Erykah Badu, per cominciare la nostra conversazione sul suo primo album in studio dopo 16 anni Before the World Blows. È frutto di 18 mesi di registrazioni insieme a The Alchemist, leggenda dell’hip hop che ha prodotto molti grandi artisti degli ultimi trent’anni.«Se mi piacciono i film? Sì. Certo».Mi era venuto in mente C’era una volta in America, quando Fat Moe chiede a Noodles, «cosa hai fatto in tutti questi anni?» e lui risponde: «Sono andato a…
Jamie T has confirmed that he will be playing a surprise secretset at Reading Festival 2026. The indie legend dropped a hint that he was planning an appearance at the festival on social media early this morning (Thursday August 27) – sharing a video asking organisers if they would consider adding him to the line-up at the “last minute”. “Reading Festival, do you think I can get on the bill at the last minute?” he said in the clip. “Please? I’ll play any time, any stage, all I need is 33 minutes and 10 seconds. That’s it. Short and sweet.”…
The acclaimed Japanese artist, whose installation became the set of the singer’s 2016 Brit Awards performance, died earlier this month Back in 2016, Adele spent an hour exploring Infinity Mirrored Room – The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away, an art installation by Yayoi Kusama housed at the Broad in Los Angeles. The singer roamed the space, which created an eternity out of glass, and captured the experience on camera. It resulted in her stunning performance at the 2016 Brit Awards, where she sang the appropriately nostalgic “When We Were Young.” Kusama, an acclaimed Japanese artist, died earlier this…
David Byrne is once again adding to his decades-long concert-film legacy with the upcoming Who Is the Sky? Helmed by The Brutalist writer-director Brady Corbet, the forthcoming project, a follow-up to 2023’s Spike Lee-shot American Utopia, was filmed over multiple nights in Byrne’s hometown of Baltimore during his most recent tour. Release details will be unveiled at a later date.“When Brady told me he wanted to shoot our show in 70 millimeter (70 millimeter!) I didn’t realize what a difference it would make until I saw some frames he sent me,” Byrne wrote in a statement. “He was right, it…
From breakout comedians and beauty experts to fashion newcomers and political stars, here are some of the biggest voices shaping the internet in 2026 The days of explaining what a content creator is are long gone. Now, they are firmly enmeshed in our world — taking off in every industry, influencing every aspect of culture, and filling every minute of people’s lives. This leaves us in need of a new definition of what it means to be influential online. This year, you may notice that we left off some of the highest-ranking creators from past lists. That’s because their empires…
Raving, ratchet music and drill fuse in the Toronto rapper’s music. We spoke to him about his debut mixtape 6ix Pop and what it means to be “greezy.”
“When Brady told me he wanted to shoot our show in 70 millimeter (70 millimeter!) I didn’t realize what a difference it would make,” singer says of upcoming documentary David Byrne’s hometown Baltimore show on his recent tour will be the focus of an upcoming concert film shot on 70mm by The Brutalist director Brady Corbet. Filmed over multiple nights at Baltimore’s Hippodrome on Byrne’s lengthy trek in support of his 2025 album Who Is the Sky?, the concert film is currently in postproduction, with release details to follow. “When Brady told me he wanted to shoot our show in…
Orville Peck has paid tribute to Dolly Parton by putting his own spin on her hit song ‘I Will Always Love You’. Parton passed away on Tuesday (August 25), aged 80, following “a brief battle with cancer”. She had spoken publicly about her health in the run up to her passing, and shared an update last week, telling fans that she was dealing with issues she had neglected while caring for her husband of 58 years, Carl Dean, before his death last year. While on stage at Rough Trade East in London just hours after news of her passing broke…
Straight off the release of new album Punching the Clown, Lambchop have shared a deadpan comedy short, Joke Country, depicting a fictional radio interview. Steve Marsh plays the host interviewing Lambchop’s Kurt Wagner, portrayed by Henry Phillips, who led the cast of a 2009 film also called Punching the Clown. The 10-minute film packs in a barrage of dry riffs, meta gags, and pinwheeling semi-sequiturs. Watch it below.As Sam Sodomsky notes in Pitchfork’s review of the album, the movie Punching the Clown, which Lambchop have cited as an inspiration, “centers on the trials and tribulations of a comedian-musician making his…
Tom A Smith, Gans and The Slow Readers Club are among the artists due to perform at Manchester’s Beyond The Music 2026. Find all the details below. This year’s edition of the festival is due to take place across multiple spaces within MediaCity in Salford between October 6 and 9. BMT’s core ethos is to “raise, discuss and solve some of the biggest problems facing the creative industries” currently. The event will bring together major voices in music, tech, film, gaming and content, as well as various political figures. Now, the next wave of artists confirmed to perform at the…
