Author: Press Room
Nashville's indie-rock scene is having a moment. Bands like New Translations, Flight Attendant, and Snooper, who just performed on Rolling Stone's Rock Tour with Die Spitz, are yet again showing that Music City means all music — not just country. (Check out the rock takeover that happened during this year's CMA Fest.) Lombardy are also part of that group. One of the most eclectic bands on the scene, the four-piece mixes rock, punk, and hip-hop, and have earned a reputation for unpredictable concerts. At one show, they took the stage dressed like The Sopranos' Christopher Moltisanti, in suits and foam…
The world of international songwriting loses one of its most sincere, visceral and generous souls. Glen Hansard died this morning at the age of 56 due to a road accident near Lucan, just outside his beloved Dublin. Born in 1970 in the working-class neighborhood of Ballymun, Hansard began his adventure with music in the purest and roughest way possible: playing as a busker on the streets of the Irish capital. From those first performances, pavement after pavement, the spark was born to found i TheFramesthe historic folk-rock band with which in the nineties he became an absolute point of reference…
Laura Pausini may release a new single on Friday August 7. The artist posted three photographs and a date on his social profiles, 7.8.2026: no title, no caption, no label statement. August 7th falls on a Friday, the day the singles are released, and this is where the hypothesis circulating among fans starts. In the shots the artist wears a white dress and a band of flowers covering her eyes, with a pink peony in her hand. In a second shot she is sitting on the ground, in beige, with a bouquet of blue delphiniums. No element of the images…
Amy Winehouse’s father has been ordered to pay almost £1million to two of the late singer’s friends after losing a High Court case over the sale of her belongings. Mitch Winehouse must make interim payments of £569,330 to the singer’s former stylist Naomi Parry and £394,521 to her friend Catriona Gourlay within the next two weeks. He has also been ordered to cover their legal costs on an indemnity basis. The order follows the dismissal of his claim against the two women in April. Acting as the personal representative of his daughter’s estate, Winehouse claimed that Parry and Gourlay had profited from selling items…
Ear have lined up a smattering of North American tour dates behind Rumspringa, their recent A24 Music debut. The New York-based IDM-pop duo will play headlining shows in Boston, Philadelphia, Toronto, and Chicago throughout the month of September—plus a hometown gig at a helipad on the East River. Support at different dates will come from New York, Bby Kell, Slauson Malone 1, Quiet Light, and more. Ear also have upcoming festival slots at Philly’s Making Time ∞, San Diego’s Crssd, San Francisco’s Portola, and Form Arcosanti in Arizona. Check out their 2026 live slate below.Revisit Samuel Hyland’s review of Rumspringa.Ear:09-12…
Glen Hansard stepped away from the mic, stepped to the lip of the stage, and shouted the words “I got a home on high.” Coming out of Ireland’s busking tradition, Hansard had been singing this way his entire life. So when he was faced with some seeming sound issues mid-way through a spellbinding Carnegie Hall performance in March 2019, where he was appearing at a tribute to his hero, Van Morrison, Hansard ripped the cord from his guitar, moved closer to the crowd, and reduced the historic 2,800-person theater to yet another cramped Dublin pub or street corner. Hansard was…
Some good news the world doesn’t get every day: There’s a brand new John Lennon song from 1965 that nobody knew about until now. It’s a home demo called “Little Girl,” a previously unheard tune on the upcoming Rubber Soul Special Edition, which arrives on October 2. Nobody had any idea this song existed — it’s never been bootlegged or even rumored. “Little Girl” is a real mystery. How did it stay hidden until now? “Yeah, it was surprising,” producer Giles Martin tells Rolling Stone. “It was one of those things that came from the Lennon Estate — I think…
U2 frontman often participated in the Christmas Eve Busk, which Hansard organized in Dublin Bono paid tribute to Glen Hansard, the late singer-songwriter best known for the movie Once and his bands the Frames and Swell Season, in a heartfelt tribute posted to U2’s Instagram on Thursday. The singer called Hansard an “angelic presence,” a “voice of the streets,” and “the shining star of the Christmas Eve Busk,” the annual charity concert that they and other Irish performers participated in to raise money for those in need. Hansard died at age 56 on Wednesday in a motorcycle crash. “He really…
Sometimes I would wonder if Glen Hansard really existed….Seriously, he was such an angelic presence… not otherworldly…in fact, very present this presence… A smiling rascal if you needed him to be… this most musical and mischievous archangel of Ballymun… no airs, plenty of graces…Of course, Glen was the shining star of the Christmas Eve busk… sometimes the only one reminding the rest of us that Christmas began with a refugee born in a manger, which is hardly a step from living on the street.To be utterly yourself by being more interested in others – a clue for any of us…
The late Kavinsky once told NME that another collaboration with The Weeknd was likely to arrive “soon”. The French electronic producer, whose real name was Vincent Belorgey, has died at the age of 50, after being found at his home in Paris on Tuesday evening (July 28). The Paris prosecutor’s office has opened an investigation to determine the cause of death, but said that first responders found “no suspicious elements” at the scene. Kavinsky was best known for his synthwave sound and his breakout track ‘Nightcall’, which featured on the soundtrack to Nicolas Winding Refn’s 2011 film Drive, starring Ryan Gosling. Kavinsky also joined forces with The Weeknd in 2013 on a version of the song ‘Odd…
