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“2 Late,” “Wrong Number,” and “Mint Car” among the rarities at Robert Smith and company's first concert since Nov. 2024 The Cure played their first show in 18 months Friday at Barcelona's Primavera Sound, where the band performed a handful of deep cuts live for the first time in years. During their massive 29-song headlining set, Robert Smith and company played their usual stable of hits and fan favorites before first deviating to give the “Lovesong” B-side “2 Late” its first performance since 2019. The Cure later unearthed “alt.end” and Wild Mood Swings' “Mint Car” live for the first time…
Disney created a “decoy version” of Toy Story 5 to keep Taylor Swift’s involvement a secret, even from the cast and crew. Yesterday (June 5), Swift shared ‘I Knew It, I Knew You’, a song she wrote and produced alongside Jack Antonoff specifically for the film. The track is written from the perspective of cowgirl Jessie, and it sees Swift going back to her country roots. The film is released on June 19, but Swift’s involvement was only officially confirmed in recent days, despite the project having been in production for multiple years. It had, however, been the subject of rampant speculation among Swifties in recent months, something that Swift fuelled when she…
Blink-182 have announced their first dates for 2027, with headline shows at Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park. The pop-punk band have been confirmed as topping the bill for the twin German festivals next summer, with both events posting on Instagram yesterday (June 5), saying: “THEY ARE COMING…” Rock Am Ring and Rock Im Park take place on the same weekend every year, with the former being held at the Nürburgring motorsport complex in Western Germany and the latter at the Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg. Most artists play both festivals over the course of the weekend. Next year’s events are taking place…
Bruce Springsteen returned to the OceanFirst Bank Center in Monmouth, New Jersey, on Friday for the second and final night of the ‘Music America: The Songs that Shaped Us’ concert, a celebration of 250 years of American music, and the opening of the Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music. The first evening focused on American music pioneers like Robert Johnson, Hank Williams and Woody Guthrie, and this one moved the clock towards latter acts like Elvis Presley, Chuck Berry, Dion DiMucci, and Public Enemy. Dion and Public Enemy were part of the stacked bill, which also included Jon Bon Jovi,…
By now, Governors Ball has become a New York staple and one of the most anticipated festivals of the year, thanks to massive lineups and three gigantic stages teeming with talent. 2026 was no exception — in fact, it may be one of the most stacked, star-studded rosters in recent memory. All of it kicked […] Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
The band releases a new version of “Nancy Boy”. Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
Download Festival 2026 is going down next weekend, but what is the weather looking like? Find the latest forecast below. The rock and metal festival returns to Donington Park in Leicestershire from June 10 to 14, and at the end of last year, organisers confirmed that Limp Bizkit, Guns N’ Roses and Linkin Park would be the 2026 headliners, each a UK exclusive for the year. Other big names announced for the event included Bad Omens, Cypress Hill, Tom Morello, Trivium, Halestorm, Pendulum, Mastodon, BABYMETAL, Architects and Feeder, while the line-up for the District X stage will feature Five, Electric Six and The All-American Rejects. There will also be some secret sets that will be revealed on the weekend…
Earth, Wind and Fire's 1975 song “Reasons” is widely considered one of the defining love songs of the past 50 years. The sweeping R&B ballad, flush with horns and string and a yearning groove presided over by Philip Bailey's impassioned falsetto, is so synonymous with the rich, full, purity of true love that it's become a wedding staple, soundtracking countless first dances over the decades. But “Reasons” is not about that. At all. In fact, it's the exact opposite. In Questlove's new documentary about the legendary band, Earth, Wind & Fire (To Be Celestial vs That's the Weight of the…
Here's what the Tribeca Film Fest organizers told Madonna fans to expect at the Friday night premiere of her Confessions II: It's “an ambitious visual work exceeding 10 minutes, built around the first six tracks of Madonna's forthcoming album.” This is what they ended up seeing: a surrealistic polyptych of women with lasers shooting out of their private parts, Benedict Cumberbatch voguing in a bathroom, and Madonna in all her various personae, from vulnerable, lonely songwriter to you-can-dance-on-a-moving-table contortionist. And in addition to Madonna, the short featured 16 celebrity cameos, including Sabrina Carpenter, Feid, Debi Mazar, Kate Moss, Julia Garner,…
On the morning of July 15, 1992, 24-year-old British mother Rachel Nickell and her two-year-old son Alex Hanscombe stood on the stoop of their home and waved goodbye to Rachel’s partner and Alex’s father, André Hanscombe. Rachel and Alex planned to spend the day going through their usual routine, playing inside before taking a long walk with their dog Molly through Wimbledon Commons, a popular park in southwest London. But when André called home to check in, Nickell didn’t answer the phone. It was a police officer with devastating news — Nickell was dead, and Alex was the only witness to…
