Author: Press Room
Diiv have made a stealth announcement of a new album, Zirp!, via a hotline number mailed to fans and teased on social media. Produced by A. G. Cook, the follow-up to Frog in Boiling Water is due October 30. The hotline presents a telemarketer-style message heralding the LP as “the future of alternative multimedia entertainment,” Stereogum notes; Diiv’s own website playfully touts the record as an emissary of “the new alternative: a new genre for the 21st century.”Coming two years after Frog in Boiling Water, Zirp! will mark the quickest turnaround for a Diiv LP yet, despite a chaotic interim…
If you want to get an inside view into Donald Trump's accelerating, public detachment from reality, all you need to do is scroll through his posting diary on Truth Social. The president spent the weekend feverishly sharing a deluge of AI Slop about the Iran war, his critics, and his own self disappointments. The barrage began Sunday morning, when Trump shared an image of CNN host Kaitlan Collins edited to look like transgender influencer Dylan Mulvaney — a frequent target of right-wing attacks. The image was a reference to comments the president made during Friday night's re-do of the White…
Two of the most popular political figures in America right now are a democratic socialist from the Bronx and a gay man from Indiana. Last week, the University of New Hampshire’s Granite State Poll — a long-running survey widely used as an early bellwether in one of the nation’s first primary states — found them statistically deadlocked among prospective 2028 Democratic primary voters: Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York leads the field at 22 percent, with former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg just one point behind. It’s not just a New Hampshire thing. A national poll released by Emerson College last…
Faith No More are officially back in business. After years of uncertainty, less than encouraging statements and a long break, Mike Patton's band has announced four concerts in Australia and New Zealand together with System Of A Down. They will be the group's first live performances since 2016.There reunion it had been anticipated in June by an enigmatic post on social media, but confirmation arrived on July 26: Faith No More and System Of A Down will be co-headliner of four major stadium concerts between January and February 2027. For the moment no further dates have been announced, although the…
Near the very end of Bon Jovi‘s final show of their nine-night residency at Madison Square Garden on July 26, Jon Bon Jovi told the crowd he was going to welcome a special guest to the stage. “For 50 years he has been a beacon of light and truth,” he said. “Will you please welcome my friend, my brother, and the poet laureate or our series of rock & roll. Ladies and gentlemen, the one and only Bruce Springsteen. The king of the great state of New Jersey.” As the crowd erupted, the band kicked into “Who Says You Can’t…
Until the announcement last month of her first album in 16 years, Carly Simon had been keeping a fairly low profile. Today, in a heartfelt and good-humored letter to fans, the decorated singer-songwriter revealed two reasons why: She has been living with Parkinson’s disease and recovering from successful skin cancer surgery. “Some days I’m so tired I can’t get the day moving at all,” Simon writes of her Parkinson’s symptoms. “On others, it gives me a little more room to move, think, work, and feel like myself.”Simon noticed signs of Parkinson’s during her recovery from multiple knee and hip replacement…
It’s late July, the time of year when the days are long, the parents are restless, and everyone is consumed with a seasonal debate: What exactly is the Song of the Summer? Though this amorphous title isn’t usually anointed until around Labor Day, the chatter starts almost as soon as the season heats up. In today’s social media-centric, algorithm-driven market, however, it’s harder than ever to reach consensus. Still, one thing seems pretty clear to me — Ella Langley’s “Choosin’ Texas” is hands down the song of Summer 2026. So, why aren’t we admitting it yet? If the song stays…
After several years of failing to get a reunion off the ground, Faith No More will finally take the stage again in 2027. “It's been a minute,” the band wrote on Instagram as they announced a run of stadium dates with System of a Down. The shows will take place in Australia and New Zealand early next year, kicking off Jan. 22 in Sydney; continuing Jan. 27 in Melbourne and Feb. 1 in Brisbane; and then concluding Feb. 7 in Wellington, New Zealand. For Faith No More, these shows will be their first since August 2016, when they performed two…
Thursday 30 July, at 11.45pm, on Rai5, Peter Gabriel talks about the genesis of the album “So”, released in 1986, in a documentary directed by George Scott. Considered his most successful work, as well as his most musically accessible, “So” transformed Gabriel from cult artist to international superstar. The album received unanimous acclaim from specialized critics, being praised for its sound and fusion of different genres, and was nominated for the Grammy Award for album of the year. Who knows if it was also the “Collinsmania” that raged in the mid-eighties that pushed Peter Gabriel towards pop. What is certain…
In a touching letter to fans, Carly Simon revealed she has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease.“Many people wrote to me, politely inquiring about my relative silence, wondering how I was and what I had been doing,” the 83-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee wrote. “The truth is that I have learned to live with Parkinson's disease.”She added: “It took me some time to understand the diagnosis, to accept it and to decide how much I wanted to talk about it publicly. Parkinson's manifests itself differently for everyone and can be unpredictable. Some days I'm so tired I can't…
