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Conor Oberst has opened up about being “really close to the edge” as he faces personal struggles, while saying it’s “almost impossible” to write music about the era of Donald Trump. During an interview on the New York Times‘ Popcast, the Bright Eyes frontman and soloist was asked about the “near-death experience” he’d spoken about in a conversation with the LA Times earlier this year. READ MORE: Bright Eyes on new album ‘Five Dice, All Threes’, and why “Elon Musk is one of the biggest pieces of shit” “I didn’t see the light or anything like that, but it was very…
Only five singles into her career, Tyla struck gold. ‘Water’, her 2023 single, became a global phenomenon, introducing amapiano to new audiences through its irresistible blend of R&B and South African club music. Her eponymous debut album followed the next year, and proved ‘Water’ wasn’t lightning in a bottle, cementing her place as one of pop’s brightest crossover stars. It’s not easy to keep that light shining, though. Although the build-up to the Johannesburg singer’s second album, ‘A*Pop’, suggested a technicolour pop spectacular on the way, it instead shows her shine is starting to dim. Beyond its strongest singles, the…
“I think the dancefloor is dead, so now let's make rock music” was the first phrase that, months ago, we could hear from Music, Fashion, FilmCharli XCX's new album released tonight. Sold as statementto then be recalibrated as a joke within the anti-marketing professed by the pop star, the phrase on which the first single from the album is built is actually the true key to understanding this work. Because Charli is right: the dancefloor is dead (and killing it was the enormous spotlight on clubbing in recent years which has polluted and dried up the environment) and she and…
REM – “Fall On Me” (from “Lifes Rich Pageant”, 1985) Often masterpieces are born in the darkest moments. When it seems like we have reached the brink of the abyss. It also happened to Rem at the halfway point of the 1980s. Stressed by the frustrating experience of “Fables Of The Reconstruction” and a nerve-wracking series of live performances, Michael Stipe and his companions had reached the limit and were in danger of truly exploding. The plastic image of the collapse is Peter Buck's Rickenbacker thrown towards one of the technicians at the Beacon Theater in New York, during the…
From the July 29th to August 2nd returns to Livorno Venice effectnow in its forty-first edition. On the stages of the Venezia district they take turns The Kolors, Tosca, Frankie hi-nrg mc, Toe in the sore And Ginevra Di Marcobut the heart of the review directed by Grace Di Michele is in a meeting on August 1st: the one with Teresa Manesmother of Andrea Spezzacatena. Venice Effect 2026: the concerts in Piazza del Luogo Pio Five evenings, all with free entry, in the main location of the event. Venice Effect 2026 · The concerts in Piazza del Luogo Pio Date…
Noah Kahan has jokingly called for Congress to get involved and force his fans to wear diapers to gigs, following people shitting and peeing on the floors of his shows. The ‘Stick Season’ singer has had to tell fans numerous times now how to conduct themselves when they are attending his gigs, following multiple instances where fans have soiled themselves while stood in the audience, rather than go to one of the bathrooms provided. A few weeks ago at a show in Philadelphia, it was revealed that a female fan defecated near the stage as he performed, and soon afterwards…
Article by Agnese Ermacora (Rome) | Photo by Luca Moschini (Asti) I let the evening settle before trying to tell it. I wanted to understand what would remain, once the enthusiasm of having been there had gone through. If the impression had just been the effect of a successful concert or something deeper. A few days later, the answer is the same: everything is left. Saturday 18 July, at the Ippodromo delle Capannelle, for Rock in Roma, i Bluvertigo they brought the second date of the tour to the stage Being Human. A reunion which, more than a nostalgic return,…
The collaboration between U2 and Martin Garrix continues. «Every time we meet again» says The Edge «it's always a new adventure», which however doesn't shine through in the songs they release. This is the case of Fireflies which came out today and where for the first time the Dutch DJ collaborates with the entire Irish group. The piece is credited to Martin Garrix & U2. In 2021 it was out We Are the Peoplethe European football anthem in which only Bono and The Edge participated.Fireflies was presented a week ago by Garrix and The Edge at Tomorrowland. The DJ participated…
Charli XCX has revealed her top five songs from her back catalogue. Watch the clip below. The pop star, who releases her new album ‘Music, Fashion, Film’ today (Friday July 24), shared the list during a wide-ranging interview on SPIN‘s Lipps Service podcast. Towards the end of the chat, host Scott Lipps asked her to run through her “two five Charli XCX songs of all time”. She responded: “Oh, God. I’m gonna get it wrong, I think, but… OK, one would be maybe like the first song I officially released, which is called ‘Stay Away’. It’s from my [debut] album…
Exactly 37 years ago, on 15 July 1989, Pink Floyd succeeded in an undertaking that until then seemed unthinkable: transforming the San Marco Basin into a gigantic open-air theatre, with a floating stage in front of the most fragile and spectacular city in the world. What was supposed to be the culminating moment of the Festa del Redentore turned into one of the most discussed and memorable musical events ever organized in Italy, capable of dividing public opinion but also of definitively entering the history of rock.37 years later, that concert could return to the cinema. In fact, a mysterious…
