Author: Press Room
In a new interview wth VIBE, Tyga opens up about his new album $tarface, which also serves as an introduction to the artist’s new alter ego, an eighties-influenced empressario whose music sounds very different from Tyga’s catalog, which by now spans well over a decade. In the interview, Tyga addressed fans who this week speculated online that his album uses A.I. Speaking on the claims, Tyga is forthright about his use of the technology on the album. I’ve never spoken on this with anybody because I always felt like it’s similar to a magician explaining how he does his tricks.…
W hen it was over in 2025, officials toured the dimly lit building in rural Saskatchewan. Tarps covered the windows and doors, blocking the sun. The air was so foul that an officer ran outside gagging. For the previous two years, about 20 members of a group known as the Kingdom of Canada had been living inside the decommissioned school, claiming they had taken over the country. They operated under their own principles, issued their own laws, and threatened the surrounding village with “publicly broadcast executions.” They slept in classrooms and, without running water, used five-gallon buckets as toilets. Their…
Peter Katsis, the renowned music manager who worked with Smashing Pumpkins, Morrissey, Backstreet Boys and more has died. His passing was confirmed yesterday (Thursday August 6), and is being widely reported as being due to congestive heart failure complications. He was aged 69. Starting out in the ‘80s, Katsis first turned heads when he took on the industrial rock group Ministry in his Chicago hometown. He would later relocate to Los Angeles in the ‘90s and go on to work with The Cramps and Jane’s Addiction, as well as nu-metal pioneers Limp Bizkit and KoRn. As his notoriety grew, he…
The Avalanches have announced new album ‘No Bad Memories’, which is inspired by jingles and start-up sounds. Check out the joyous single ‘Can’t Get Over Losing You’ below. The record marks the fourth from the Australian electronic group, and is set for release on October 16. Visit here to pre-order. According to the Melbourne artists, the LP comes inspired by the “simultaneously magical and insidious” ways that jingles and advertisements go into our memories, and is meant to be an “ambivalent ode” to nostalgic jingles and start-up sounds. “It’s been interesting as adults to reflect on this often stunning period…
Susanne Sundfør has announced her new album ‘Revelations Of Divine Love’ with the ethereal single ‘I It Am’. The Norwegian singer-songwriter will return with her seventh studio album, which will land on October 2 via Bella Union (pre-order/pre-save here). Sundfør’s new album will focus on “her renewed understanding of love, inspired by becoming a mother of two and moving to the countryside in the time since her 2023 album ‘blómi,’” according to a press release. “We live in a world of horror, full of unhappy, unsatisfied people doing terrible things to each other,” she said of the album. “You don’t…
Babyshambles have announced their ‘Live At KOKO’ album. The indie legends reunited for their first shows together in 11 years last year, playing a final show at London’s KOKO on December 15. During the night, Babyshambles brought out Carl Barât to also play The Libertines’ ‘What Katie Did’, and played ‘Wolfman’ for the first time in 20 years. Now, Pete Doherty and co. will release their new album ‘Live At KOKO’ through Strap Originals on October 9. It will be their newest music since 2013’s ‘Sequel To The Prequel’. A live 4-track EP of the first four songs from the…
Brandon Flowers dropped a new single, “Tiger’s Blood.” The track comes ahead of his forthcoming solo album, Thrasher, out Aug. 21, 2026 via Island Records. Flowers debuted the Springsteen-esque song last week during his set at Newport Folk Fest. Like the rest of Thrasher, “Tiger’s Blood” was recorded in Nashville with Flowers’ longtime producers Shawn Everett and Jonathan Rado. “Last thing that I heard/ You were doing okay,” Flowers croons on the nostalgic anthem. “I still smile when I remember us in younger days/ The things that we can’t explain/ Roll on like a runaway train/ Into the fire and…
In the lead up to ‘Blue Island’, Ravyn Lenae’s third studio album, the singer told The Fader she hoped to free herself of “preconceived notions about Blackness” and what’s expected of her as an R&B stalwart: “It’s fun to challenge the idea of what R&B is supposed to sound like, what pop is supposed to sound like… and really say ‘fuck all of that’ and do my own thing.” Lenae took a pop-tinged R&B approach on 2022’s ‘Hypnos’ and 2024’s ‘Bird’s Eye’, but on album three ‘Blue Island’, that tinge lends way to a pop tidal wave with dashes of…
Lauryn Hill and Wyclef Jean have said there’s “absolutely” new music in the future. The Fugees bandmates have reunited for Hill’s Diaspora Calling! festival, which takes place today (7 August) at Milton Keynes National Bowl. Hill and Wyclef Jean are scheduled to play, alongside Erykah Badu, Giggs and Hill’s sons YG Marley and Zion Marley – also the grandchildren of reggae icon Bob Marley. Speaking to the BBC, the Fugees bandmates were asked whether a new album might be on the way. “Will there be music in the future?”, Jean restated, with Hill responding: “Absolutely”. Jean added that “we’re in God’s hands,”…
The pop duo teased the track during a live performance in Amsterdam earlier this month Madonna‘s long-rumored collaboration with Kylie Minogue is finally here. The duo shared “Love Sensation (Afterhours Mix)” today after previewing it live during Madonna’s Confessions II show in Amsterdam last week. The dance floor-ready number adds Minogue’s vocals to Madonna’s recent track “Love Sensation,” which appears on her latest LP Confessions II. Produced by Stuart Price, the single marks the duo’s first time appearing together on a song. There are two versions of the track, “Afterhours Radio Edit” and the more expansive “Afterhours Mix.” Minogue previously denied persistent rumors that she…
