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Melissa Auf der Maur has dug into her archive and put together her first new album in 16 years. Dubbed ‘Bass Womb Room: My ’90s 4-Track Demos x Field Recordings’, the music on the record is previously-unreleased living room demos that she recorded back in the 1990s. They were made as she put a handycam on her amp during her time in Hole, as well as her time as a touring member of The Smashing Pumpkins. Set for release digitally and on cassette on September 4, the album also features eight new interludes, and is all put together to coincide…
The official vulgate wants the history of Genesis to be divided into two eras: the progressive one led by Peter Gabriel and the more pop one with Phil Collins as singer. A distinction which, however, as we have also tried to underline in this special, risks diminishing the contribution that Collins gave to the band both before and after becoming its leader. frontman. Having joined Genesis in 1970 as drummer, Collins was in fact one of the architects of the group's sound during the golden years of progressive music. His technical, powerful and creative style contributed significantly to the creation…
THEt's a balmy Monday afternoon in London when NME meets Syd in the lobby of Shoreditch's Aethos Hotel. Dressed in a charcoal co-ord and cool gray Air Jordan IVs, she's in a chirpy mood, laughing about how her longtime barber back home recently recommended she buy her own clippers while she's on her London retreat. The conversation soon drifts to her 2025 run supporting Billie Eilish on the Hit Me Hard And Soft Tour – shows she jokingly “didn't tell my fans about” because tickets sold out lightning fast. The exchange serves as a reminder of the many hats Syd,…
Former guitarist of Eternal Tapestry and collaborator of Jackie-O Motherfucker, Dewey Mahood returns to focus on his favorite creature: Plankton Wat. With the help of Dustin Dybvig (drummer of the Rose City Band), James Shaver (bassist in Abronia and Deep Earth) and Victor Nash (trumpet player in the Decemberists), the Portland musician continues his interpretation of the 70s rock canons of bands like Can and King Crimson, with a post-hippy attitude and an expansive psychedelic streak managed with sufficient technical mastery. Having archived the experience with the Thrill Jockey, Plankton Wat have scaled down the more adventurous nuances, focusing on…
Before the World Cup final won by Spain, Robbie Williams performed with Laura Pausini and Nicole Scherzinger. After the match he was interviewed by German TV Magenta. As he spoke, a white fragment appeared to fall from the singer's mouth. It ended up on the microphone, from where it was removed by Williams.The video went viral and some users assumed that it was cocaine falling from the nose, despite the consistency of the fragment.Robbie Williams goes on a German live TV World Cup 2026 broadcast and a little white rock dropped from his nose 👃Netizens wondering what just happened? 🧐…
Representatives for Madonna have dispelled a viral rumour that she was in Donald Trump‘s suite during the World Cup final. READ MORE: Madonna – ‘Confessions II’ review: Queen Of Pop digs deep on thrilling return to the dancefloor The singer, whose latest album ‘Confessions II’ recently reached the top spot of the Billboard 200 Album Charts, performed during the Chris Martin-curated World Cup halftime show on Sunday (July 19). Since then, speculation has gone viral on social media that she was sitting in President Trump’s luxury suite at MetLife Stadium. It comes due to a brief shot of Trump’s box during the match…
Abbey Road will present Japanese photographer Masayoshi Sukita with the Lifetime Achievement Award at this year's Abbey Road Music Photography Awards. Best known for his 44-year collaboration with David Bowie, Sukita took the iconic cover shot for Bowie's 1977 Heroes album. He is also known for photographing Iggy Pop, Marc Bolan, Joe Strummer, Yellow Magic Orchestra, and David Sylvian. David Bailey received the inaugural Lifetime Achievement Award in 2025. Sukita was born in Kyushu, Japan, in 1938. In 1965 he moved to Tokyo, taking fashion photographs and filming TV commercials. He became a freelance photographer in 1970, and between 1970…
Jon Stewart yet again took aim at Donald Trump on a new episode of The Daily Showthis time for inserting himself in Spain's triumph at the World Cup final on Sunday night. “The Spain-Argentina final was like a reverse Super Bowl where the players spoke Spanish and the halftime show was in English,” Stewart quipped. “They had Madonna and Justin Bieber and, for some reason, the Muppets.” The host explained that Spain, “clearly the best team in this year's tournament,” celebrated their win with a trophy hoist. For some reason, Trump was involved in that hoist. “Traditionally, it's a moment…
On the occasion of the release of “Loneliness, Desire and Revenge” Antonio Ciarletta wrote: “talking about Maurizio Abate is difficult because his music is enough in itself, it really doesn't need to be told”. Eleven years have passed and things are still like this. Confronting the sound shaped by the Milanese composer is an experiential fact, difficult to translate exhaustively into words. This is demonstrated once again by “Sacre Stanze”, a long-gestating work conceived as a set of songs designed to be refined by the skilled arranging work of Marco Giudici. A process started in 2019, which has finally come…
The note released by the Ministry of Health in July 2026 spoke clearly. The new epidemic of tropical origin had been classified as Bad Bunny Acute Exposure Syndrome (SEABB) and, according to initial estimates, had already affected almost five million Italian citizens. The Ministry even admitted that the real figure could be considerably higher: many subjects, in fact, continued to declare themselves simple occasional listeners, despite already pronouncing the words Puerto and Rico with the nostalgic intonation of those who had spent their childhood there. Concert organizers invited the population not to be alarmed: the fatality rate was nil and…
