Author: Press Room
It’s easy to forget—especially today—that being retro can actually mean being modern. Retro styles let artists treat history like a patchwork: transmuting an homage into something new, using the past to tell stories of the present, creating today out of yesterday. Denshattack!, the new rhythmic trick-based platformer from indie developer Undercoders, reads from Y2K Sega like it’s the Bible. The game has the beaming cell-shaded graphics of Jet Set Radio, the high-octane attitude of 3D-era Sonic the Hedgehog, and the hedonistic gameplay of Crazy Taxi. But Denshattack! parlays its old scripture into a product of the now—not even cracked-out late-’90s…
Seconds into her debut mixtape, Karrahbooo steps out of the spotlight. “I don’t want to link, I stay out the way,” she explains on “Inside the Booth,” tone unphased enough to back it up. It’s a pretty diplomatic opening for an artist who has spent the past two years fighting her way off the bench. After emerging as one to watch in Lil Yachty’s Concrete Boys collective, Karrahboo cut ties with the crew amid a public label dispute that left her estranged from Yachty and unable to drop for two years. (Yachty has refuted claims that he held back her…
Poco più di un anno dopo il suicidio di Ian Curtis i musicisti dei Joy Division, che nel frattempo erano andati avanti a suonare come New Order, hanno pubblicato l’antologia Still. È una raccolta di outtake in studio e registrazioni dal vivo, tra cui l’ultimo concerto dei Joy Division. «Pensavamo che fosse tutto lì», dice oggi Stephen Morris, batterista di entrambe le band. «Era un modo per chiudere quella storia, tipo: grazie, dopo questo non ci sarà più niente. È stata un’ingenuità, perché qualcosa salta sempre fuori da qualche parte».Così è stato. Nei decenni successivi sono uscite varie compilation dei…
Haruomi Hosono has been at the vanguard of pop music for the majority of his nearly 60-year career. He spearheaded Japan’s folk-rock boom in the 1970s with Happy End, sparked the synth-pop revolution of the 1980s with Yellow Magic Orchestra, and has written for, performed on, or otherwise contributed to thousands of records. But recently, the 79-year-old artist has been looking in the rearview. In 2019, he circled back to his country-inspired 1973 solo debut, Hosono House, and reworked it into Hochono House, which somehow sounded even more retro than the original. “I was curious to see if I returned…
Owen Williams wrote the last Tubs album, Cotton Crown, in the midst of a breakdown. But the harder you squint at their catalog, the harder it is to surmise what is breakdown and what is not. The Welsh singer’s unreliable narrators slip between gurning heartache and a self-sniping internal monologue that says cruel things you would never accept from a friend. His trade is failure anthems set to jangly folk-rock that stops short of storming the barn. Their darkest snapshots of tragedy and depression are often their funniest and winningest. On “Heaven or London” from their new record, Hard Life,…
The sprawling video also featured an intimate moment between Drake’s mom and her best friends Drake revealed his elusive project, “Fear of Missing Out,” on Tuesday night. While the video was set to rollout at 9 p.m. ET, there were a few delays on the livestream that sent eager fans clamoring online for the release. When his not-so-short video finally dropped, viewers were taken on a tour of Drake’s sumptuous lifestyle and summer antics. The camera followed Drake dancing through his sprawling mansion and driving his lime green boat along the slick Toronto skyline; joining an intimate chat between his…
Beck has spoken to NME about tapping into a certain spiritual and emotional realm for his new album ‘Ride Lonesome’, as well as his often misunderstood genre-hopping musical journey to here from the ’90s. We met Beck in a studio space at his label’s London offices where he was lucid but admittedly “in jet lag mode, man” – quite fitting to talk about his beautiful new album ‘Ride Lonesome’, which he described as a “slow motion, twilight, Mojave, acoustic, a trance of sound and emotion” It’s been seven long years since his previous album ‘Hyperspace‘, but it’s not as if…
New Order‘s Gillian Gilbert has told fans that she is living with cancer, and not her husband Stephen Morris, as recent reports had suggested. Morris was the drummer in Joy Division alongside Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Ian Curtis, and the remaining members formed New Order with Gilbert after Curtis’ death in 1980. In June, the Manchester band confirmed that both Morris and Gilbert would not be touring with them in the “foreseeable future” due to “personal health reasons”. Ahead of New Order and Joy Division being inducted together into the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame earlier this year, Morris had told Rolling Stone:…
Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez took aim at New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft after Macklemore was forced off Ed Sheeran’s tour following onstage comments the rapper made in support of Palestinians amid Israel’s war in Gaza. “It’s not just what has happened with the act and not just in removing Macklemore from the lineup, but when you see what Robert Kraft did to line up all of the stadiums to censor speech in that one specific way, it’s become clear that this is not just about one music artist or two music artists, but this is about how just a handful…
Drake must be stopped. In a year when he’s already dropped two-and-a-half hours of new music—plus 18 accompanying music videos—the rapper has (at least) one more trick up his sleeve. In August, he began teasing something called “Fear of Missing Out,” which last week he described as “a not so short film,” and, later, “self funded surrealism.” Now the full FOMO has arrived. You can watch it below.Prior to their release in May, Drake’s three new albums—Iceman, Maid of Honor, and Habibti—were billed as one project called Iceman. The promotional cycle included the erection of a massive ice ziggurat in…
