Author: Press Room
Find your ear plugs. After a short North American stint this spring, Sunn O))) is touring the States again. The drone-metal duo, known for producing high-decibel walls of sound at their live performances, will kick off their trek on October and continue through the month. In support of their self-titled album released earlier this year, the band will travel across the U.S. and Canada, from Louisville to Vancouver. See the full itinerary below.Released in April, Sunn O))) is the duo’s first album since 2019’s Pyroclasts. The album also marked the band’s first for Sub Pop, after signing to the iconic…
The official trailer for Katseye: Wild Hearts is here; and notably, on-hiatus member Manon Bannerman is featured in a few short clips. Dubbed a “love letter to the Eyekons,” the movie follows the global girl group on their rise to superstardom and amid their transformation for their third EP. Tickets are on sale now via the movie's official website. Set to “Pinky Up,” the trailer opens with shots of Katseye's field-filling festival performances at Coachella and Lollapalooza. Interspersed with talking heads shots with each member (except Bannerman) the group's leader Sophia muses, “How did we get to this point so…
Bizarre footage has captured the moment that Matty Healy performed with a 1975 tribute band after they were seemingly hired for the singer's very own bachelor party. Footage shared on social media shows Healy getting involved with tribute band the 9075 after they were apparently hired for the party in Malibu, California. In one viral clip, Healy is seen dancing onstage as the singer of the band serenades him with a rendition of “The Sound,” one of the band's biggest songs from their second record I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware of…
Turns out, President Trump's taste for endless pardons has its limits. According to a report from Notus published Monday, the rapper Boosie BadAzz paid a team of lobbyists $600,000 in hopes that they could secure a pardon from Trump for the federal charges he incurred from illegally possessing a handgun in 2023. Boosie, born Torence Hatch, is now demanding a $300,000 refund from JM Burkman & Associates, the team of DC Lobbyists made up of Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, who claim that they are not contractually obligated to return any payments. Earlier this year, Boosie was sentenced to time…
photo by Lara Bordoni On July 13th a wave of underground Roman rap arrived in Turin: Noyz Narcos, Danno & DJ Craim And Grudge were the artists who graced the stage of Flowers Festival of Collegno, now in its 11th edition. Noyz with the tour Cruel Summer 2026 presented the songs from the latest project 'Funny Games' and his historical classics, literally inflaming the audience alongside DJ Sine. Danno & DJ Craimalways a guarantee, have retraced the history of underground rap while continuing to carry forward their latest project 'AKA Damage', solo album by one of the voices of Colle…
On a blue-skied morning in March, gentle house music wafts from inside the Brooklyn lounge bar Superior Ingredients. When I get to the door, I flash my ticket to the bouncer and scurry past a sign that reads “WELCOME TO FRIENDSHIP” until a smiling woman with sequined UGGs chases me down for a hug. “Huh? Oh, sure,” I say, lightly patting her shoulder. I learn she’s been hired to hug everyone at Daybreaker, the self-described sober rave I’m attending.Inside the venue’s sun room, a pre-rave yoga session is already underway. As a mashup of Rihanna’s “Kiss It Better” and Luther…
Ekko Astral are disbanding “for the foreseeable future.” “It’s time to end things,” the Washington, D.C. punks wrote in a statement posted to social media. “We are putting the band on indefinite hiatus to prioritize other musical projects.” The band says it will no longer release The Beltway Is Burning, the album they announced in February, “any time soon.” Read their statement in full below.Two final Ekko Astral concerts are slated for August 22 in New York City and August 29 in Washington, D.C. According to the band, the shows “will span our entire catalogue, serve as a celebration send-off…
Can you imagine working at NPR, sitting down at your regular-sized desk to report on politics, the environment, or science, and all of a sudden Napalm Death sets up shop at the Tiny Desk next door? Well, you’d just have to go check it out. And fortuitously, Napalm Death, who played a 19-minute set, espouse the same lefty politics as NPR, in fact maybe even a little more leftist, all things considered, since Barney Greenway wore a Crass T-shirt to the gig. The long-running death metal and grindcore group, which put out a collaborative album with Melvins called Savage Imperial…
“How long have I been gone?” The question is asked by Odysseus — father, husband, warrior, king, and the lost soul at the center of Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey. Our man in the Bronze Age cosplay is none other than Matt Damon, rocking a hermit's beard and perfecting the look of a man who's seen too much, forgotten more than he'd like, and wants for nothing but the familiar comforts of what he once called home. The inquiry is aimed at a caretaker named Calypso, who may or may not have taken him captive. She is played by Charlize Theron.…
Ariana Grande has dropped a video of her doing impressions of characters from the Harry Potter world, and fans can’t get enough. The singer and actor dropped the new video on Instagram, as part of a promotion for her make-up and beauty line R.E.M Beauty. Advertising a new product, Grande decided to do an assortment of impressions of the most popular Harry Potter characters, but reworking some of their most famous lines to promote the make-up. Starting with Molly Weasley, the mother of Ron Weasley played by Julie Walters, the singer reworked the line ‘Not my daughter, you bitch’ from…
