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Interpol played a secret warm-up show in Madrid before playing Mad Cool Festival with The Walkmen’s Matt Barrick on drums – check out what went down below. On Thursday (July 9), the band announced a secret intimate show billed as Iron City, the name of their latest single. The track is the third to be taken from the New York band’s forthcoming ninth album, ‘This Mirror Weighs A Ton’. Set for release on August 28 via Partisan Records, you pre-order it here. At the secret show in Madrid’s Sala But club, they were joined by Matt Barrick, of Muzz and…
Photo by Giada Stanzian Click here to see photos of KOKESHI in MILAN or browse the gallery below Directly from Japan, one of the most visceral and intense realities of the Asian post-hardcore and blackgaze scene arrives in Italy for the first time: the KOKESHI. For those who have followed their rise online, they know well that we are not faced with a simple concert, but with a strong emotional experience, built around the singer's heartbreaking vocal performances Nana Yokotto. The band's sound is a mix of blackened hardcore full of screamo, shoegaze and post-rock cuts, where Nana's high-pitched and…
When The Open Mind premiered on PBS in 1956, host Richard D. Heffner wanted to do something that had never been done on television before: each Sunday for an hour, have a weekly dialogue about ideas, not merely events, scrutinizing not just what we are doing as a country but why we are doing it. Sure, TV hadn’t been around that long — a decade earlier, only one percent of American homes even had one — but Heffner’s creation was revolutionary. He broadcast Martin Luther King Jr.’s first televised interview in 1957; he discussed “Living Within Our Means” with Milton…
In partnership with Bilbao BBK Live. Words: Lisa Wright Bilbao BBK Live 2026 knows how to scratch all your musical itches. Looking for erotically-charged, meticulously-crafted club pop or timeless, joyous hits given a clever on-stage makeover? Look no further than FKA Twigs and David Byrne on day one. Want a slice of ultimate catharsis via the best break-up album of the decade, or to throw yourself around in the pit and thrash it out? Lily Allen and IDLES have got your back on Saturday’s closing night. However, the Basque Country weekender’s turbo-charged Friday bill? Well, that was a time for…
Article by Simona Ventrella | Photo by Lara Bordoni There's a big difference between a band celebrating an anniversary and a band proving why, thirty years later, it's still needed. THE Subsonicon stage at Rugby Sound of Legnano, do not celebrate their past: they put it back into circulation, they update it, they give it current. There is no nostalgia, there is no “greatest hits” self-satisfaction, instead there is a group that continues to play as if it still had something to prove. And perhaps this is precisely the secret of the Subsonic. Having remained faithful not to a sound,…
In partnership with Bilbao BBK Live 2026. Fresh from headlining the main stage earlier that night, Robbie Williams surprised both CMAT and the crowd by running on stage during her set on day two of Bilbao BBK Live 2026. Nearing the end of her late night slot on the Repsol stage, the Dunboyne singer joked that “The A in CMAT stands for, ‘And through it all…’” she began, before leading the crowd in a singalong of Williams’ hit ‘Angels’. As she finished, Williams darted on stage to huge cheers, and hugged the singer who then informed people that, “I really…
Bring Me The Horizon played the new ‘Repented’ version of their 2006 debut ‘Count Your Blessings’ in full in Manchester last night – check out footage below. READ MORE: ‘Bring Me The Horizon L.I.V.E. In São Paulo’ review: a love letter to their fans and statement of greatness Back in April, the Sheffield band confirmed Monday that they’d be playing their debut album in full at Manchester’s BEC Arena on July 10. Billed as ‘Outbreak Presents: Count Your Blessings | Repented’, the gig was designed to “reactivate” the record rather than just lean on nostalgia. Having promised to be a “defining…
It’s impressive to still be standing by day three of a festival, but now we must pull ourselves up and head into the fourth and final day of what has so far been an epic Mad Cool 2026. Many of the highlights from the big Madrid bash were gifted to us last night (Friday July 10), as 53,000 people descended upon the Iberdrola Music arena to catch beloved legends and rising talent. Check out NME‘s favourite photos snapped at day three of Mad Cool 2026 to capture all the magic below. Karen Dió How about a little bit of unfiltered…
Piji wins Tenco 2026 license plate as best first work. The Roman singer-songwriter wins recognition with his debut album It's recording audio…published by Azzurra Music, which collected 81 votes in the category, the most voted among the finalists. The party then continues immediately live: Monday July 13th Piji will be on stage at Testaccio Summerin Rome. The award comes at the end of a long and unconventional journey: almost a thousand concerts, twenty-three awards won as a singer-songwriter and a career built between music, theatre, radio, writing and artistic direction, up to the unconventional choice of waiting for the right…
Twin Temple were kicked off the Charley Crockett tour earlier this week because of their “Satanic imagery”, prompting Jack White to offer them an opening slot. With tracks like ‘Let’s Have A Satanic Orgy’, ‘Lucifer, My Love’ and ‘Burn Your Bible’, the Los Angeles duo’s blend of ’60s doo-wop and Satanic imagery is hardly subtle, but appeared to come as a surprise to country singer Charley Crockett. According to a statement shared by Twin Temple on Wednesday (July 8), Crockett dropped them from two upcoming gigs due to their use of Satanic imagery. “We are sorry to everyone who was…
