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The Killers’ Brandon Flowers is hopping on the increasingly crowded country bandwagon. Thrasher, his first solo LP since 2015’s The Desired Effect, was recorded in Nashville; includes tassel-heavy cover art (see below); and features contributions from David Rawlings, pedal-steel virtuoso/longtime Garth Brooks collaborator Bruce Bouton; and harmonica player Charlie McCoy, best known for his work on multiple Dylan albums, including Nashville Skyline. Thrasher arrives August 21 via Island.“As I’ve gotten older, I’ve found my way back to my father’s music — ‘Country-Western’ (as he called it) — and discovered that the stories I carry really feel most at home in the…
Eight times a week, a miracle happens at Broadway's Broadhurst Theater — Andrew Lloyd Webber's famed musical Cats actually makes sense. Since its premiere in 1981, the musical has built a reputation for being notoriously nonsensical. Loosely based on TS Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Catsthe show accelerates this state of confusion by adding in fantastical human-cat hybrid costumes. There's plenty of feline choreography, like crawling, meowing, and hissing. Oh, and there's also the plot following a community of junkyard pussycats competing in a talent show to decide who is allowed to die and be reborn in the Heaviside…
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Grammy award-winning femcee and producer Missy Elliott is set to receive the Amazon Music Visionary Icon Award at the Culture Creators Innovators & Leaders 10th annual awards brunch on Friday, June 26, 2026. The honor will be presented by the Culture Creators Foundation and Amazon Music at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Los Angeles. Up-and-coming R&B artist JayDon will take the stage to deliver a special tribute performance in honor of Elliott's legacy and impact on the music industry. “For the past ten years, Culture Creators has sustained, elevated, and celebrated the people in front of and behind the scenes…
What drives four guys to lock themselves in a bedroom, pick up instruments and found one of the most coherent and long-lived bands of Italian independent rock? Often the answer lies in a handful of songs discovered at the exact moment you need to hear them; that fraction of a second in which the music stops being a simple background and becomes real sliding door existential. On the occasion of their whirlwind 2026 summer tour, we asked the Vintage Violence (Nicolò Caldirola, Rocco Arienti, Roberto Galli and Beniamino Cefalù) to choose the five songs that have redefined their musical DNA.…
It's called damned lies the new single by I ASKavailable on all digital platforms from June 19th for Estro Vibesdistributed by Altafonte Italy and produced by Saturn. It is an intense and direct song that tells the story of the moment following a betrayal. Through a lucid and sharp monologue, the betrayed person speaks out, bitterly observing the superficiality, boredom and indifference with which a relationship was broken. The text highlights the contrast between the detachment of those who betray and the vortex of anger and suffering that overwhelms those who remain. With a sincere and contemporary language, I ASK…
Brennan Wedl has arrived at Anti- for a new album out August 21. Co-produced by Waxahatchee’s Katie Crutchfield and indie wizard Brad Cook, the self-titled record pairs Wedl with backing musicians including Snail Mail’s Lindsey Jordan, Colin Croom, and Matt McCaughan. Watch Wedl’s self-directed video for “Pretty Little Fantasy” below.Brennan Wedl is the Nashville-based musician’s formal solo debut. It follows her sole LP with Dazey and the Scouts, 2017’s Maggot, and a 2019 mini album, Holy Water Branch; Wedl also released the EP Sleeping With Jeans On in 2021. Snail Mail and Soccer Mommy are preparing to take her on…
In partnership with Open’er Festival Taking place on the northern Baltic coast of Poland, Open’er is a heavyweight of the European festival calendar – boasting world-class line-ups and diverse cultural offerings spanning theatre, music, fashion and more. This year’s edition – which takes place July 1-4 – features headline sets from Florence + The Machine, The xx, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, The Cure and Calvin Harris. The four-day event is also absolutely stacked with the most vibrant and exciting pop music around. Before the action kicks off at Gdynia-Kosakowo Airfield next month, we’ve put together this banger-stuffed playlist…
A s our 80-year-old Mad King goes on midnight social media revenge benders from the White House, attacking the pope after attacking Iran, enriching his family by billions and comparing himself to Jesus, some of his supporters are now panicking and asking, “Who could have seen this coming?” The answer, of course, is any sentient being not blinded by partisanship who lived through the first four years of Trump’s presidency, which included more than 30,000 lies, a mismanaged pandemic that killed a million Americans, and culminated with his attempt to overturn an election on the back of a big lie…
My Morning Jacket's Jim James is back with his first new solo song in eight years, “Come Again,” which will appear on his new album, Wowed Outout Aug. 28 via ATO Records. James built the new album around music he originally composed for two film projects in the early 2010s. “Come Again,” for instance, began with a cue James cooked up for a scene set in a teddy bear factory, which has now been transformed into a marching, characteristically psychedelic meditation on finding beauty in a chaotic world. In a statement, James said the song “came from feeling discouraged by…
