Author: Press Room
Authenticity is arguably the main currency in country music. Well, that and double denim. We’re not sure about 19-year-old TikTok sensation Waylon Wyatt’s official stance on this controversial look, but he certainly has an interesting approach to the other issue at the centre of the genre. Last year, when he graced NME’s The Cover, he explained that his emotionally wrenching tunes aren’t always about lived experience and have, in fact, been inspired by everything from Forrest Gump to the gaudy reality show Dance Moms. Even his badass name is something of an invention, given that Wyatt is really his middle…
ORon a sub-zero night in January 2025, during a visit to Minneapolis, NME stumbles onto a band that won't remain a local secret for much longer. Called She's Green, they have been handpicked by influential local radio station The Current to open its 20th-anniversary celebration at the legendary First Avenue. It's easily the biggest show of the band's career, supporting Pixies frontman Frank Black before a packed hometown crowd. On the stage that Prince made famous, She's Green look firmly in command. Their stately, sonorous take on shoegaze casts a dreamlike spell over the room while frontwoman Zofia Smith pirouettes…
Weezer are excited to announce their new project, “Weezer”, out on August 21, 2026 on label Reprise/Warner Records. After releasing the albums Blue, Green, Red, White, Teal and Black, Weezer returns with a new color in their arsenal for “Weezer” – their twentieth album over the course of their monumental, decades-long career. After an incredible, sold-out 30th anniversary tour during which Weezer played their iconic debut album in its entirety, the band reunited in Orange County – a meeting point halfway between their respective California homes – and went, essentially, back to their roots: in a rehearsal room, playing together,…
What's happening to Queens of the Stone Age? Is there a turning point in sight? Will there be an album influenced by performances from the Alive in the Catacombs Tour? The question arises from the atmosphere and arrangement of the new single Easy Street in which the band breaks away from the typical electric and nervous style, the piece being mostly based on acoustic guitars. Guest on backing vocals is country singer Nikki Lane. It had been presented during the theatrical tour (in the related film there was a teaser for another unreleased film entitled Insignificant Other).“The ones who should…
Phil Collins has opened up about potentially meeting Oasis at the upcoming Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame 2026 ceremony. READ MORE: Oasis live in Cardiff opening night review: a supersonic reunion for a new generation Both acts are among this year’s inductees along with Billy Idol, Iron Maiden, Joy Division/New Order, Sade, Luther Vandross and Wu-Tang Clan. In the past, Noel Gallagher was outspoken about Collins during his younger days as shown in the 2016 documentary Supersonic, when he described him as “the antichrist of music”. “We’re gonna get rid of Phil Collins and Sting,” said Noel. “We’ve got to get in the charts…
The actor was rooting for France at the match at Dallas Stadium on Tuesday night Timothée Chalamet is apparently a huge fan of the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders. The Oscar-nominated actor attended the World Cup match between France and Spain at Dallas Stadium on Tuesday night and was revealed becoming completely “starstruck” by the cheerleaders. In a video posted to Instagram by the famed cheer squad and the NFL, Chalamet can be seen freaking out as he meets them. “Yo, nice to meet you guys,” Chalamet says after hugging a few of them. He turns to the camera and marvels, “I’m…
With the debut single Like Thin Icepublished on June 1st, Cecilia Barra officially inaugurates her solo journey. Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and producer from Milan, after her studies in jazz singing and her experience at the Berklee College of Music, she has built a personal stylistic signature in which Italian songwriting, neo-soul, jazz and contemporary R&B coexist naturally. Like Thin Ice tells the emotional fragility of the twenty years through sounds that look to the London jazz-funk scene and to realities such as Kokoroko and Ezra Collective, anticipating an artistic project that intertwines international influences and Italian authorial tradition. For the occasion…
Wake up Geneva expands the path of his latest album with a new chapter. It will be available from Friday 17 July The best photo (Nigiridistributed by Columbia Records / Sony Music Italy), single that enters the tracklist of The end of the warthe album released after the artist's participation in May Day concert and received positively by the press and critics. With this song, the singer-songwriter returns to talk about the feelings that run through her latest project, focusing on a love destined to run out in the time of a summer. A memory that remains alive, without regrets,…
It comes out Friday July 17 Carandirúthe new single by Eyes For Nigiri Records / Sony Music Italy. The song arrives two months ago Origami and it brings with it a detail that is as valuable as the song: it was the fans who chose it as a single. During a private meeting, the artist from Lodi played two unreleased songs to a group of supporters and asked them to indicate their favorite by writing it anonymously on a note. Carandirú garnered the most votes and became the new release. It's not fan engagement from Instagram posts, it's a recording…
In 2024, hours after his wife and kids embarked on a cruise for Thanksgiving week, Pat Flynn received word that his mother had died. Alone at home and unable to reach his family adrift in the Caribbean Sea, the Fiddlehead vocalist broke down and shared the news with his bandmates. Two days later, he answered the front door to find guitarist Alex Henery and bassist Nick Hinsch on his Massachusetts stoop. They had flown across the country to support their friend in a time of destabilizing loss, and guitarist Alex Dow and drummer Shawn Costa drove over to do the…
