Author: Press Room
As Todd Blanche’s confirmation hearings for U.S. Attorney General wrap up this week, anti-abortion activists are demanding that he demonstrate his “concern” for women by protecting them from abusive men — by making it harder for women to obtain abortion medication. Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America recently sent a letter urging Blanche to resolve a lawsuit brought by Louisiana challenging the federal policy allowing mifepristone to be dispensed by mail. This time around, the group is particularly focused on horrifying stories of men who secretly administered abortion pills to pregnant women or coerced them into taking the medication. They specifically…
Some three weeks after sharing an album called Standing on the Corner: II, Standing on the Corner have announced SOTC (“II”), an album that is… similar but not the same, apparently. The original record, still on YouTube following its surprise drop on the platform last month, featured cameos from Gang Starr’s Big Shug, Danny Brown, Styles P, and poet Sonia Sanchez, as Matthew Ritchie noted in Pitchfork’s review. Most of them are listed as collaborators on SOTC (“II”), though Big Shug is not named in the press release; Solange, however, is. The album is out September 11 via XL. (The…
Dave Kendall, who created and hosted the influential MTV show 120 Minutes, has died. His friend Matt Pinfield, who hosted the show after Kendall’s tenure, shared the news on Instagram. Bangkok Post, where Kendall worked from 2017 to 2025, also ran an obituary. No cause of death was given. Kendall was 63, according to Bangkok Post.The British-born Kendall got his start writing about music for UK and U.S. publications such as Melody Maker and Spin, he explained in a website bio. He relocated to New York City in the 1980s and created 120 Minutes for MTV, where he spent seven…
Slick Rick also takes the stage as ESPN's annual award show celebrates New York's NBA title The annual ESPYs kept the Knicks' NBA Championship celebration going Wednesday with performances by four New York rap legends. Long Island's De La Soul first took the stage at the Lincoln Center's David H. Koch Theater, encouraging the audience of athletes to take their feet during a medley that included snippets of “Stakes Is High” and “Run It Back!!” Bronx-via-London's Slick Rick opened his performance in the audience before taking the stage for an abridged version of his classic “La Di Da Di”: Trending…
After Wednesday's nomination hearing by the US Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, it remains an open question as to whether Dr. Erica Schwartz, a highly credentialed Coast Guard doctor, will become the next director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. But one thing came across clearly during the two-hour hearing: Senators from both parties had more than enough of Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and anyone aligned with him. Committee Chairman Bill Cassidy, a Republican physician from Louisiana, opened the hearing with a red line. He made it clear, as he addressed Schwartz and…
TTSSFU has spoken about the potential for new music and shaking self-doubt. Watch the full video interview above. The Mancunian singer (real name Tamsin Stephens) spoke to us at Mad Cool Festival, where she gave an update on future new music. Her latest project was ‘Blown’, which she dropped last August. Speaking to NME, she said of her upcoming material: “I would say it’s a lot more synthy, and I’m trying to really connect what I do next with what I’m about passionate about – not that the past hasn’t, but [to] go back to my roots of what inspired…
Chloe Slater has spoken to NME about how she is becoming “desensitized” to politics and social media, while discussing the inspiration behind her debut album 'Riot Youth' and more. Watch the interview in full above. The Manchester-based artist caught up with us at Mad Cool 2026 last week, shortly before she took to the stage in the Cinco Estrellas tent on Thursday (July 9). Her slot at the Madrid festival comes ahead of her releasing her highly anticipated first record on October 9. Speaking to NMESlater revealed that much of the upcoming LP tackles that feeling of being disillusioned and…
The Laos Fest celebrates an important milestone in 2026: ten years of activity in the name of live music, valorisation of the territory and support for new talents. From the July 31st al August 2the suggestive one Spinelli Square of Scalea, at the foot of the medieval Palazzo dei Principi, will host a new edition of the festival with free entry, confirming its vocation as a point of reference for the independent Italian scene in the South of the country. The tenth anniversary line-up features some of the most interesting names in contemporary Italian music. The event will open Mottaengaged…
Lazza, Rondodasosa, Emis Killa defend Mario Roggero, the jeweler from Gallo di Grinzane, in the province of Cuneo, definitively sentenced to 14 years and 9 months in prison for the events that occurred in 2021.On April 28, Roggero's jewelry store was robbed by three people armed with fake guns and knives. Roggero chased them out of the shop and fired a gun, killing two of them, Giuseppe Mazzarino and Andrea Spinelli, and wounding the third, Alessandro Modica.Yesterday the sentence: legitimate defense (art. 52 of the Criminal Code) is not applicable since Roggero was not defending himself, but shot when the…
There is a blood stain, several feet long, on the crosswalk and down the curb at the intersection of Pool Street and Hill Street in Biddeford, Maine. It is not roped off by crime scene tape. It has a red tint, but it could be mistaken for some kind of spill. Someone has written “THIS IS BLOOD” in white chalk, because why would someone in Maine know what it looks like when blood pools in the street and dries? On the corner, three women are arranging flowers, candles, and rosaries. Across the street, in front of a pawn shop and…
