Author: Press Room
Michael Stipe has shared a new solo song, “Hum Desiderata”, a further preview of the path that will lead to the release of his first album without REM. The song arrives a few months after “The Rest Of Ever”, presented last April during an appearance on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert”, an occasion on which Stipe also confirmed that he was working on his solo debut.“Hum Desiderata” is currently available exclusively through Joyfully Waiting, a platform dedicated to sound exhibitions. The project sees Stipe joined by singer Elizabeth Hatmaker in the recitation of “Desiderata”, a famous poem written by…
Katy Perry has condemned the White House for using her song ‘Firework’ to soundtrack footage of US military strikes on Iran. The Trump administration shared the video through the official White House TikTok account earlier this week, pairing footage of military operations with Perry’s 2010 hit. It was accompanied by the caption: “Iran has been warned.” Responding in a statement on X today (July 25), Perry said she had neither been consulted nor granted permission for her music to be used. “I am deeply appalled and angry to see ‘Firework’ used on the White House TikTok as a backing track for video footage…
Singer also plays surprise set at his curated Wisconsin festival, Vernon's first full set of Bon Iver music in nearly three years Justin Vernon, aka Bon Iver, returned to the stage Friday at his curated Eaux Claires festival, performing a lengthy set of Bob Dylan covers as well as a surprise set of his own music. The announced “Bon Dylan” set featured Vernon and friends playing over a dozen of the legendary singer-songwriter's tracks, from well-known classics like “Knockin' on Heaven's Door,” “All Along the Watchtower,” and “Tangled Up in Blue” to more obscure fare like Shot of Love's “Shooting…
Weezer add a new chapter to their discography. The Rivers Cuomo band's twentieth studio album, simply titled “Weezer,” will be released on August 21, 2026 by Reprise/Warner Records. The album arrives after the tour for the thirtieth anniversary of their debut, a sold-out tour during which the group performed the legendary “Blue Album” in its entirety. Once the concerts were over, the four musicians found themselves in Orange County, California, choosing to return to their original working method: a rehearsal room, instruments connected to amplifiers and the goal of writing new music by playing together.It was precisely from those sessions…
Marilyn Manson concludes his Italian mini-tour this evening with the third appointment of the triptych, that of July 14th at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, after the dates of July 11th at the Ferrara Summer Festival, in Piazza Ariostea, and July 13th at the Fiera del Levante in Bari. As for the setlist, the official one could undergo some changes, but the last concerts of the tour offer a rather reliable indication of the songs that Marilyn Manson will bring to the stage. The show goes through all phases of his career, alternating classics such as “The Beautiful…
A collection of previously unseen letters written by Morrissey as a teenager, in which he predicted that he would become a “rock ’n’ roll star”, is going up for auction. The archive comprises hundreds of handwritten pages sent by the future Smiths frontman to his Birmingham pen pal Simon Pitt between 1974 and 1979, when Morrissey was aged between 14 and 20. Titled Before The Smiths: The Morrissey Letters, the collection is being offered across 65 lots by Dawsons Auctioneers on August 26, with a combined estimate of more than £22,000. See further details here. The earliest surviving letter was written in March 1974, when Morrissey was just 14. In it, he…
“We have our mics, but this is your mic.” When I saw Sick of It All play a gig in Denver in 2001, a couple of years before I moved to New York, it seemed like a revelation that a professional band would place a microphone on the Ogden Theatre's stage for anyone to climb up and sing along with them before diving back into the pit. He also asked for everyone to look out for each other in the mosh pit. I was a metalhead, a few years into college, and still relatively fresh to New York hardcore. Metal…
Other than “seminal”. Some songs have truly contributed to the birth of entire musical genres. With an ambitious selection of thirteen titles, the British magazine BBC Classical Music has tried to indicate some of them. “There are songs that don't just become great hits: they change the course of music forever – underlines Steve Wright in the introduction – A riff, a rhythm, a way of singing or a production technique can in fact give life to a completely new language, destined to influence generations of artists. Some of these songs had an immediate impact, others were understood only with…
Hayley Williams welcomed Jack Antonoff, Lucy Dacus, Jenny Lewis and a host of other special guests at Newport Folk Festival – watch footage below. The Paramore frontwoman performed a collaborative set billed as Hayley Williams & Friends on the festival’s Fort Stage at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island yesterday (July 24). After opening with ‘Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party’ and ‘Kill Me’, Williams brought out Wednesday singer Karly Hartzman for a performance of the heavier ‘Mirtazapine’. She then welcomed This Is Lorelei – the project of Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos – to cover ‘I’m All Fucked Up’, before being joined by Joy Oladokun for a rendition of Oladokun’s own ‘I’d Miss…
Rick Moranis received a standing ovation Friday at San Diego Comic-Con, where the long-sleeping actor was part of a panel promoting the upcoming Spaceballs sequels. Moranis — who last appeared on the big screen in 1997's Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves — will reprise his role of Dark Helmet in 2027's Spaceballs: The New Onehis first on-screen/non-voice acting role in 20 years. Moranis — the one-time SCTV member who starred in films like Ghostbusters, Little Giants, Honey I Shrunk the Kidsand Little Shop of Horrors — left the movie industry in 1997 following the death of his wife to breast cancer,…
