Author: Press Room
Turnstile fans have started a new tradition while in the pit at some of their shows – playing Magic: The Gathering. The Baltimore hardcore giants are currently out on the road, joined by Clipse, Ceremony, Thundercat, Slayyyter, Hatebreed, Vince Staples and more at their headline dates across the US. Now, it appears that fans have come up with a new tradition, breaking out the famous trading card game Magic: The Gathering while in the mosh pit. Footage has been going viral of fans whipping out their cards and locking in with one another while the crowd is jumping around them…
There’s a very particular type of panic that swoops in once you hit your mid-twenties. It’s like you have no clue where the rest of your life is heading, and you’re somehow expected to act like an adult when you still feel like a teenager at heart. For Beabadoobee, that uncertainty has fuelled a blistering fourth album, ‘Pylon’. Inspired by the isolation, nostalgia, anger and romantic obsession that have coloured her last few years, Beatrice Laus has crafted her most forceful record yet. The title is a fitting analogy. Pylons are fixed points on a shifting landscape, carrying power across…
Dolly Parton was honoured at last night’s (September 14) Emmy Awards, with Sally Field and Reba McEntire paying tribute to the late country legend. News of Dolly’s death rocked the music world when it emerged last month. Though she had previously told fans she was dealing with some health issues that she “didn’t pay attention to” while looking after late husband Carl Dean, the public had no idea of her cancer diagnosis, which her sister later explained was because “she did not want people sad”. At the Emmys on Monday night, Reba McEntire performed an emotive tribute to Dolly with a cover…
‘Day And Night’ is, quite literally, an album of two halves. Carly Rae Jepsen has always been a prolific songwriter, but this time around, a full 15 years after her global breakthrough with ‘Call Me Maybe’, she’s finally surrendered to the “indulgence” of making a double album. Its 24 tracks (plus two more on the Japanese edition) are split evenly between a ‘Day’ side and a ‘Night’ side. What this idea lacks in originality – British Pop Idol singer Gareth Gates did the same thing on his 2003 LP ‘Go Your Own Way’ – it makes up for in conceptual…
After an iconic turn in 1994’s Beavis & Butt-Head: The Game, GWAR have announced their first gaming collaboration in more than 30 years. GWAR were Beavis & Butt-Head’s favourite band in the classic ‘90s cartoon and the video game spin-off saw the two teenage slackers desperately trying to get to a GWAR gig. Since then, the shock rockers’ music has appeared in 2009’s Guitar Hero 5 and Backyard Wrestling 2: There Goes The Neighborhood but now the heavy metal band have confirmed details of a brand new video game collab. GWAR will appear in the Antarctica Scumbags expansion for Mutant…
It was a moment Bright Eyes had worked towards for more than a year. Over 10,000 noughties indie-folk fans turned out to watch the Omaha group, led by Conor Oberst, perform their revered twin albums ‘I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning’ and ‘Digital Ash In A Digital Urn’ at a specially staged, 21st anniversary show at New York’s Forest Hill Stadium. They got through half of it… and then the storm arrived. Promoters called the band off stage, pulled the concert, and told fans to get to safety before conditions worsened. For Oberst, it was painful deja vu. A concert weeks…
Tony Iommi has revealed why he turned down the chance to make one final Black Sabbath album with the original line-up. The band’s last album was 2013’s ‘13‘, which saw Iommi appear alongside Ozzy Osbourne and Geezer Butler. The line-up was completed Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave drummer Brad Wilk after original drummer Bill Ward’s chose to not participate due to a contractual dispute. ’13’, which was the iconic heavy metal band’s nineteenth album, topped the UK and the US charts and earned the group a Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance. Now, Iommi has opened up about his…
Stephen Colbert doesn’t think the foundations of America have been shaken by the cancellation of The Late Show. After winning the Emmy for Outstanding Variety Series last night, Colbert told Variety that he believes “free speech is alive and well.” “Because if you can’t say something because you go to jail, that is a violation of free speech,” Colbert said, pointing to the other late-night shows that have continued, including The Tonight Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live. “I think that late night is just as funny and just as vital as it ever has been, and I love watching Jimmy…
Hakushi Hasegawa believes in the unlimited. Since their earliest releases, the Japanese producer and composer has pursued the dissolution of musical boundaries. They retrofit their tracks with sounds of past and present, covering free jazz and breezy J-rock, even extending to the outer edges of hyperpop’s nebula. Honest Feeling Album, their fourth record, extracts a facsimile of order from the chaos, undergirding the variation with earnest, curious songwriting without smoothing out the gleefully jagged edges.Hasegawa broke out as a teenage wunderkind with their 2018 EP of junglist jazz, Sōmoku hōdō. Subsequent releases stretched to contain more multifarious ideas—their 2019 debut…
Articolo di Lorenzo Vezzosi | Foto di Luca Simonazzi DISCLAIMER “Ah s*#t! Here we go again” recitavano in un famoso franchise videoludico. Siamo di nuovo qui, e stavolta la missione in cui ci siamo sobbarcati è piuttosto ardua e pretenziosa, per due motivi: il primo è che stilare una classifica di artisti incredibili è una sfida sostanzialmente impossibile, mai e poi mai oggettiva (sentito, Sanremo e X-Factor?); il secondo, è che ho abbastanza anni di esperienza sul web per sapere che le polemiche sono dietro l’angolo in questi casi… Per rendervi l’idea: ecco un esempio di scambio d’opinioni pacato sul…
