Author: Press Room
Fresh off a recent international tour, Chicago post-rockers Tortoise are headed across the States this summer for a slate of shows. Starting on June 25 with a performance with L’Rain at New York City’s Knockdown Center, the tour will make stops in Boston, Toronto, Los Angeles, and Montréal. Find all the upcoming dates below.The quintet of Dan Bitney, John Herndon, Douglas McCombs, John McEntire, and Jeff Parker returned in 2025 with their first album in nine years, Touch. Recorded between Chicago, Los Angeles, and Portland, Oregon, the LP featured two singles, “Layered Presence” and “Oganesson.”Revisit Grayson Haver Currin’s recent profile…
We are not alone in the universe — Steven Spielberg has been telling us this for years. Aliens are among us. Sometimes they hide in our closets, looking like adorable geriatrics with glowing fingers (ET). Other times, they swoop down to us terra firma on mother ships, inspiring us to contemplate life, the universe, and everything in between playing with our mashed potatoes (Close Encounters of the Third Kind). Spielberg has warned us to watch the skies, least these visitors try to recruit us for human zoos (Firelight, a sci-fi movie that the 17-year-old Spielberg made in 1964) or eradicate…
Despite the flop on Broadway, the former Police tries again with his musical “The Last Ship” Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
James Blood Ulmer, the avant-garde jazz, funk, and blues guitarist, died on June 3 at the age of 86, reports NPR. In a statement, Ulmer’s family said his “music was fearless, and so was his spirit.”Born Willie James Ulmer in St. Matthews, South Carolina in 1940, Ulmer received his first guitar at the age of four, and later got his start playing in funk and R&B bands. Following stints in Pittsburgh, Columbus, and Detroit, he made his way to New York City, where he was hired by the house band at legendary jazz club Minton’s Playhouse. He eventually connected with…
Militarie Gun are embarking on a North American tour this fall with a very straightforward premise: a $20 ticket will get you a 20-song set from the Los Angeles punk band. The 20 Songs for 20 Dollars tour kicks off on September 5 in Pryor, Oklahoma at Rocklahoma Festival, and will make its way across the US and Canada before concluding on October 15 with a hometown show at the Regent Theater. Find a full itinerary below.Supporting the Gun on this run will be Soft Cult, Shady Nasty, and Dazy. After the band finishes up their headlining shows, they’re set…
Chat Pile are back with a new album. Who Loves the Sun follows the Oklahoma noise-rockers’ 2024 LP Cool World and last year’s pleasantly unexpected Hayden Pedigo collab album In the Earth Again. The new LP title is a reference to the Velvet Underground’s 1970 track, but, per the band, “not in any profoundly meaningful way.” “Deep Blue” leads it off, with a video documenting strange goings on in a macabre barbershop. Watch it below.“This record focuses on my grievances with the modern world,” singer, screamer, and songwriter Ray B. said in a press release, surprising no one. “AI, genocide,…
Jay-Z is expanding his upcoming performance slate, with the announcement of headlining concerts, dubbed “Jay-Z30,” in Paris and Los Angeles. On Tuesday (June 9), Roc Nation announced that the Grammy Award-winning artist will perform in Paris at Stade de France on Thursday, Sept. 10, and another concert at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles on Friday, Oct. 23. Tickets for Jay-Z's Paris and Los Angeles shows will be available beginning Thursday, June 11 through Citi and Mastercard presales. The general on-sale will begin Friday, June 12 at 10 am local time via Live Nation. Hov's stops in Paris and Los Angeles…
On 5 and 6 June the Il Tiro Sports Center in Martinengo hosted the fourteenth edition of Rock in Riot, a now consolidated event in the Bergamo music scene. Born as an independent festival with free entry, over the years Rock in Riot has managed to carve out an important space for itself among events dedicated to alternative sounds, maintaining an authentic spirit and a strong focus on the national and international underground scene. The 2026 edition also proposed a heterogeneous line-up, capable of crossing different languages of contemporary rock: from punk to hardcore, from metalcore to psychedelia, up to…
Jay-Z has announced huge shows in Paris and Los Angeles, taking place later this year and celebrating his “legacy”. The new dates come following the rapper returning to the stage for a rare solo performance last month, headlining Roots Picnic 2026 as his first festival date in seven years and breaking out some of his biggest hits. That set also saw him take aim at Nicki Minaj, Drake, Kanye West and more in a freestyle, and came ahead of his upcoming anniversary shows planned for New York’s Yankee Stadium. Those three shows which will celebrate 30 years of his debut…
The Menzingers were getting fired up over a couple of beers, talking about their new album when the topic of where to record came up. There were legendary studios and cities, like Los Angeles, that they had never worked in. Then they had one idea: What if they recorded right in South Philly, the neighborhood they’ve lived in for 20 years? Sure, they’ve made albums in Philadelphia before, at studios in Fishtown and nearby suburb Conshohocken, but for their ninth studio LP, Everything I Ever Saw, they kept everything right in their backyard at producer Will Yip’s newly built studio.…
