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Twenty years after his death and in the year in which he would have turned eighty, the city of Cambridge will pay tribute to Syd Barrett with a series of initiatives dedicated to the founder of Pink Floyd. The main event will be a tribute concert scheduled for October 10th at the Cambridge Corn Exchange, a historic venue which also hosted Barrett's last public performance in 1972. The date also coincides with World Mental Health Day.Several artists linked to the psychedelic and progressive scene will take to the stage, including Kula Shaker, Soft Machine, Men On The Border, Diana Silveira…

Madonna has opened up about her ill-fated biopic, saying that it was scrapped after she had a “falling out” with Universal Studios over the budget. The movie went into development in 2020 and was slated to be titled Who’s That Girl. Madonna was set to direct and write the script herself, and it was later announced that Weapons star Julia Garner would be taking on the lead role. After a few years, the production eventually collapsed and it later emerged that it was going to be made into a Netflix series – although few announcements have been made since then. Now,…

In the current live music industry, putting on an independent festival is a dicey proposition. But that hasn't stopped the Northlands Music & Arts Festival from going all in. Held in Swanzey, New Hampshire, surrounded by the White Mountains, Northlands celebrates the rootsy jam music and culture that is ingrained in the region. This past weekend, Joe Russo's Almost Dead, Disco Biscuits, Yonder Mountain String Band, and Andy Frasco & the UN all performed at the fifth installment. “Corporate America can't take over music. There's too much soul in the music and in the festivals,” festival co-producer Jen Meyerhardt tells…

“La Divina Commedia” (2023) closed a chapter in the career of the Genoese trapper Tedua, leading him to a commercial triumph also guaranteed by the version deluxedriven by the song “Beatrice” (2024) paired with Annalisa. Then we lost track of him a bit, except for a few featuring. In October last year, a video clip revealed the rapper's first concert at San Siro, scheduled for June 24. To accompany this event, this “Ryan Ted” arrives on May 22nd mixtapes a little messy but true that brings to mind the sound practiced at the beginning. The songs flow fast, aggressive but…

Delia announces his first album: it's called Sicily Bedda and is available everywhere from Friday 3 July for Island of Artists / Warner Records / Warner Music Italy. An eagerly awaited debut that comes at the end of an extraordinary season for the Sicilian singer-songwriter and pianist. From experience to X Factor 2025which made his talent known to a national audience, up to the stage of Sanremo Festival on the cover night, next to Serena Brancale And Gregory Porterpassing through the success of To my country with Serena Brancale And Levant, Delia has built a recognizable and identifying path step…

Bodega have announced their new album ‘All Inside Aquarium’ and shared its melodic title track – check it out below. The New York City band will release their fourth full-length album and the follow-up to 2024’s ‘Our Brand Could Be Yr Life’, on October 9 via Chrysalis Records, and you can pre-order it here. They have shared the record’s title track as the lead single, a song built around chunky, melodic guitars, with frontman Ben Hozie channelling a ‘90s slacker indie energy. Check out the video, directed by percussionist/vocalist Nikki Belfiglio, here: Speaking about the song, Hozie has said: “This track is an attempt at an existential anthem. Pain (after…

If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. RGB LED TVs have swept the TV market, with players like TCL, Hisense, and LG showing off dazzling displays, and it didn't take long for one of the biggest players in the market to get in on the action. Sony's latest TVs include the Bravia 7 II and the more premium Bravia 9 II, each with vibrant RGB displays across a range of sizes. Now, the brand-new TVs are discounted at Best Buy, with savings of up to…

The blistering noon heat is close to a hundred degrees, but the boys swarming the soccer arena seem to move with extra pace in their step. One-touch passing, feinting and ripping hard shots into a tattered net, each is super-charged by vivid daydreams of glory on the international stage. Despite the prevalence of armed gangs that control vast swathes of the capital and growing parts of the countryside, the Haitian national football team is playing in its first World Cup in 52 years — an improbable feat of resilience that's given people something to celebrate amid one of the most…

Slam poetry and jazz music, spirituality and rhythmic sinuosity, corrosive lyrics and refined hip-hop and soul sounds: in Aja Monet's second album there is all this, but also more. “The Color Of Rain” is not just a record, but also an atypical and at times surreal combination of psychedelia, jazz, black music and words, marked with a persuasive musicality and with an incisiveness that goes hand in hand with the invectives against the current American system. In “The Color Of Rain” words become music and music becomes words. Aja Monet's new album has the advantage, compared to her debut, of…

Clive Davis, one of the most influential record executives in pop music history, has died at the age of 94. The news was confirmed by his longtime representative Aliza Rabinoff, who said Davis died peacefully at his home in Manhattan earlier today (June 22), surrounded by his family and loved ones. Davis had recently been hospitalised in New York City following an upper respiratory issue, and was discharged on June 4. “To the world, our father was the iconic music legend whose vision, instincts, and relentless pursuit of excellence shaped the soundtrack of countless lives,” his family said in a…