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Hayley Williams was joined by The xx’s Romy in London for a version of Prefab Sprout’s ‘Wild Horses’ – watch footage below. The Paramore frontwoman is in the middle of an extensive run of shows around the world in support of her third solo LP ‘Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party’, which she released in July last year. Last night (June 19), she played the first of two straight nights at London’s Roundhouse, and towards the end of her set, she brought out Romy for a duet on ‘Wild Horses’, the track first released on art pop group Prefab Sprout’s 1990 album ‘Jordan: The Comeback’. The two singers previously worked together on a reworked version of…
“You've got a lot of fans out there, people are posting, marching in the streets,” the prison security guard tells a young inmate with thick eyebrows, handing him a stack of fan mail. “Apparently, there's even a musical.” “What kind of sick fucks would buy tickets to something like that?” the prisoner asks, prompting a round of laughter from the audience. It's Monday night and Luigi: The Musical has made its New York City debut as a staged reading to a sold-out crowd at the Green Room 42, a cabaret club in Hell's Kitchen. Four actors sit on chairs on…
From Sylvester to Pansy Divsion to Lil Nas X, from disco to punk to pop Is there an LGBTQ sensibility? What was it 50 years ago, before much of today’s language for gender and sexual identities even existed? Or, much more simply: Which songs best evoke the sex, drama, heartache, struggle, liberation, and mindfucks of queer lives then and now? What follows is not a completely comprehensive (or ranked) list, but one that follows the story from post-Stonewall disco parties to the gender-queer rock, R&B, and pop of today. Here are 25 essential pride songs from the 1970s to today.…
Complete footage of the Beatles' long-lost first-ever appearance on Top of the Pops in 1964 it was found. Recorded March 19, 1964 at the BBC's Television Theater in London, the Beatles pantomime through “Can't Buy Me Love” and “You Can't Do That” the day before those songs were released as a single. After airing, the recording of the historic performance was placed in the BBC archives and subsequently erased, as the BBC commonly (and now notoriously) wiped and reused tapes at the time. While grainy, distorted clips of the Beatles' Top of the Pops visit existed, a complete and clean…
I want to take you back to the year 2008, when New York City's Museum of Sex launched an exhibit on the sex lives of animals. The exhibit ran for a full decade, and I had the chance to check it out about a year or so before it closed in 2018. The Sex Lives of Animals exhibit is, in fact, where I learned that ducks possess massive, corkscrew-like penises. But duck genitalia aside, the Museum of Sex's intention, nearly 20 years ago, was to reveal the “astonishing array” of sexual behaviors animals routinely engage in, from kissing to hugging…
Third work for the French Verdun, a quartet from Montpellier active since 2010 and son of that wave of bands dedicated to a very black and dark sludge that had a real explosion among… Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
Tributes have poured out following the death of Sixpence None The Richer bassist Justin Cary. He was 50 years old. Leigh Nash, the frontwoman of the US alt-rock band, confirmed news of his passing on Thursday (June 18). “‘We sure had a great time’ is an understatement,’” she wrote on social media. “Thank you, Justin. We love you forever. Please keep his dear [wife] Linda close to your hearts. She is our family. There’s never been anybody like Justin.” Nash later added a moving tribute shared to her Instagram Stories, saying that Cary was “kind, talented, and one of the funniest…
In 2020, while the world was reeling from a global pandemic, there was only one thing that kept John Early calm: the Bon Appétit test kitchen. A content studio run by the venerated food magazine, the kitchen was a hallmark of internet optimism and a harbinger of the current pivot-to-video media model. “It was a huge fixation of mine,” Early tells me on a bench in Manhattan's Stuyvesant Square Park. “I was watching it in bed before going to sleep, not even to cook.” The comedian, 38, best known for his role as the acerbic gay best friend Elliott Goss…
Questlove's stellar new documentary Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs That's the Weight of the World) shines a long overdue spotlight on one of the greatest R&B/funk acts of all time, and the genius of bandleader Maurice White. It traces the story from their earliest days in 1960s Chicago all the way to the present, utilizing stunning archival footage, and new interviews with the surviving band members. But a nagging sense of déjà vu rang through my head as I watched it for the first time, as if I'd somehow seen a version of this movie before. It…
The Mirano Summer Festival 2026 crosses the finish line of the twentieth edition. From the June 26th to July 18ththe area of the Sports Facilities of Mirano (Venice) hosts one of the busiest summer events in the North-East, this year with a program that lines up Hernia, The Kolors, Emma, Francesco Renga, Elio and the Tense Stories, Cristina D'Avena And Giorgio Panariello. The event, organized by the Volare 4.0 Association with Radio Company, Radio Wow and Contatto Srl, celebrates twenty years with the slogan “20 years of Music with the Heart” and opens its doors on Friday 26 June with…
