Author: Press Room

È il 2006, Frank Ferrer è al saggio di fine anno della figlia di 7 anni, il telefono squilla. All’altro capo c’è l’amico Tommy Stinson, bassista dei Replacements che in quel periodo suona coi Guns N’ Roses. «Sta per succedere qualcosa», gli dice. «Perché non impari un po’ di pezzi dei Guns? Poi ti dico di più».In pratica, il batterista Bryan “Brain” Mantia stava per diventare padre, ma i Guns avevano un tour programmato. L’idea era trovare un sostituto per un paio di settimane. Alla fine Ferrer è restato coi Guns N’ Roses per 19 anni, un record, più a…

The singer-songwriter formally released the acoustic version of her Lost Weekend single Phoebe Bridgers is back at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallonthis time for a surprise performance of “Lost Boys (Acoustic).” The singer-songwriter returned to New York City's Rockefeller Center just 24 hours after her performance on Tuesday, when she performed “Lost Boys” alongside young musicians ranging from eight to 14 years old. For the acoustic rendition — which she formally released tonight — she performed with a band of veteran musicians. Bridgers released “Lost Boys” last month, with a Renaissance faire-themed video that featured actor Skyler Gisondo as…

Jason Newsted recalls only a handful of occasions when his Metallica crashed a concert. One of these happened in Canada, at a time when they were still building their gigantic fan base. During an appearance on the podcast Nashville Now Of Rolling Stonethe former Metallica bassist recalled a concert in a remote Canadian location where he and James Hetfield ended up under a dart throw.At the time the band didn't yet fill the arenas where hockey teams play in Canada, so the promoters divided the arena in half with a large rubber tent. In this way the audience was concentrated…

Loathe are in an enviable position. At first, the Liverpool four-piece followed a familiar trajectory for metalcore acts—coalescing from various corners of local scenes, gradually sleekening their sound, playing those broad “heavy music” festivals in Europe with names like Metaldays and Destruction Derby. Then they embraced shoegaze at the exact moment that the genre started gaining cultural cachet. Their second album, 2020’s I Let It In and It Took Everything, bridged the formidable gap between the mainstream and the more pigeonholed outskirts of modern heavy rock. Following a 35-minute ambient companion to ILIIAITE released a year later, Loathe have been…

At the beginning of Standing on the Corner II, a murky prayer arises through a break in the noise. Before the twisted funeral procession and organ crashes of “Will it ever be the same?” kick into gear, a distorted voice muses about being cast away from home and forsaken to roam the earth. The mangled vocals of founder and songwriter Gio Escobar take over, narrating from a theological crossroads: “And at the very time I thought I was lost/My dungeon shook/Burning/At the foot of a bright light that appeared as it all fell down around me,” he booms from the…

In a climate where plenty of artists prefer to cloak their reference material in secrecy, Kelela draws a refreshingly complete map. She’s so effective at communicating her musical ideas because she’s willing to share exactly what she’s studying for inspiration. For the past 13 years, she’s nurtured this curiosity alongside a deep sense of familiarity with her core audience, bringing them with her as she’s fused R&B vocals into multiple musical traditions: East Coast club, drum’n’bass, ambient, and her hometown D.C.’s go-go. When I interviewed the Maryland-raised singer about the remix version of 2023’s Raven, she was reading Amiri Baraka’s…

Two days after Sam Neill's death, the beloved actor's cause of death has been revealed. According to Philip Grenz, Neill's longtime representative, the actor died of pneumonia. In a statement shared with Entertainment Weekly on Wednesday, Grenz said, “As Sam was an intensely private man who sacrificed a fuss, his family will honor him with a private family memorial at his farm in New Zealand at a still-undetermined later date.” The news of Neill's death at 78 came just a few months after he shared that he was cancer-free after a lengthy struggle with lymphoma. In 2023, the actor announced…

Scott Mills was the highest-paid BBC star before he was sacked in March this year. According to the corporation’s annual report (via BBC News), Mills was paid around £745,000 before his exit for his tenure hosting the BBC Radio 2 Breakfast Show as well as other BBC work, including several editions of Scott & Rylan’s Pop: Top 10 podcast. Mills was sacked from the BBC over what the corporation described as concerns relating to his “personal conduct”. It was subsequently reported that Mills’ dismissal was linked to a police investigation in 2016 involving allegations of sexual offences against a teenage boy. The BBC later admitted that concerns about…

Lana Del Rey has gifted fans with a mid-week surprise: Stove will be accompanied by a “beautiful, secondary album,” each representing different parts of her journey over the last four years. In a lengthy Instagram post, Del Rey shared that “so much time” was spent “waiting for things to come together and so much time wondering if it was ok that things were falling apart.” Meanwhile, “in between the songs came new thoughts about old friends and new dreams and from the doubt of whether the tree I had been planting would grow- came new sprouts and so grew a…

THE BowLandan electronic trio of Iranian origin based in Florence, are back with the new single Look at Meavailable from July 10, 2026 on all digital platforms. The song marks the beginning of a new phase for the band, which with this release inaugurates the collaboration with MAVE MGMT and announces a winter tour produced by Kashmir Music. Look at Me moves on deep house coordinates, with a dreamy and sustained rhythm in which ethereal voices intertwine with organic percussion and electronic production. The song tells of the subtle border between seduction, intimacy and emotional control: what seems like a…