Author: Press Room

It doesn’t take long for Happiness Anytime, the fifth full-length album from neo-soul singer Leon Bridges, to deliver upon its titular promise. “Light the Way” kicks off the proceedings in high spirits, taking flight on an ebullient Latin beat intent on suffocating sadness, establishing a tone the rest of the record maintains, even when the tempo slows or the genre shifts. Freely adapting rhythms from around the globe, Happiness Anytime represents a stylistic shift from the country-soul leanings of Leon, the 2024 album where Bridges eased into mellow introspection, but it shares one important trait. It’s comfort music, aimed at…

The first song I remember hearing Tony Orlando and Dawn – ‘Tie A Yellow Ribbon Round The Ole Oak Tree’ “I distinctly remember my mum and dad singing this song on road trips when I was a kid. Me and my brother would try and sing along from the back of the car, even though we didn’t know the words, so it’s quite a nice childhood memory.” The first album I bought Lionel Richie – ‘Back To Front’ “Back in the day, you could walk into HMV and listen to an album in-store. I remember being about nine and putting…

Blondshell has always weaved violence throughout her searing alt-rock. Her ’90s-inspired breakout single ‘Olympus’ started with the head-over-heels promise that Sabrina Teitelbaum would “still kill” for a toxic partner, while her self-titled debut album wrestled with daydream vengeance and potent self-destruction over explosive guitar breakdowns. Her second LP, 2025’s ‘If You Asked For A Picture’, was prettier but no less vicious as she reflected with unapologetic directness on generational anguish, body image struggles and coming-of-age uncertainty. Coming less than 18 months later, the former NME Cover star‘s third album ‘Violins’ is as playful as it is savage. The album title…

Danger Mouse will not join CeeLo Green on Gnarls Barkley’s upcoming North American tour, despite the run initially being announced as the duo’s first tour in 18 years. The ‘To Whom It Still Concerns’ tour was announced last week, initially advertised as featuring both Green and Danger Mouse, with the trek being described as Gnarls Barkley’s first run of live dates since 2008. However, Green has now clarified in a social media post that Danger Mouse – real name Brian Burton – will not be taking part in the shows. “Danger Mouse will not be performing,” he wrote. “We want…

Late-night hosts focused their efforts on Donald Trump‘s meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping this week, which went about as well as anyone would have expected. On Jimmy Kimmel Live, Jimmy Kimmel quipped, “My nine year old had a friend over to the house for the first time this weekend and he wanted to show him all his stuff, his Legos, his video games, his bunk beds, everything. And this is exactly what Trump did today. He dragged President Xi around the show, showing him all the insane gold paint he put on the walls. He showed him his half-built…

Jimmy Kimmel Live will head to Brooklyn for a week of shows, which kicks off on Monday with a stacked lineup. The shows, which will be taped at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House, will feature New York City mayor Zohran Mamdani, Mahershala Ali, Billy Crystal, Pete Davidson, Robby Hoffman, Paul McCartney, Seth Meyers, Tom Morello, John Oliver, Bernie Sanders, Bruce Springsteen and Howard Stern, with musical guests De La Soul, Goose, TV On the Radio, and Springsteen & Tom Morello. Jimmy Kimmel suggested there are more to be announced, teasing “surprise visitors too, as if the…

Tom Morello’s guitarwork across Rage Against the Machine’s four immortal albums landed a perfect bullseye in the rarefied nexus of radical creativity and rock’n’roll classicism. The elastic wah-wahs in “Bulls on Parade,” the valiant chords in “Know Your Enemy,” the laser beam solo in “Sleep Now in the Fire”—these are generational soundtracks for battering steering wheels and pumping fists. None of the subpar projects Morello did after his Wall Street-crashing rap-rock band initially disbanded—Audioslave, Prophets of Rage, the virtuous yet unmemorable protest folk he released as the Nightwatchman—came close to eclipsing Rage Against the Machine’s incendiary music and incisive political…

Primetime, the new A24 film directed by Lance Oppenheim that chronicles Chris Hansen’s infamous 2000s TV program To Catch a Predator, hits theaters today (September 25). Robert Pattinson portrays Hansen, with Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo, and Phoebe Bridgers starring in additional roles. As it turns out, Bridgers recorded a new song for the movie as part of its soundtrack, too. Listen to “On Video” below.“On Video” isn’t just a one-off single that was tacked onto the movie. Bridgers composed it specifically for Primetime, drawing influence from composer Ari Balouzian’s original score to draw the film to an end, as her…

Pursuing sex and love as a highly accomplished and beautiful woman—a baddie—is hard work. People will call you conceited simply for having high standards, partners might act intimidated or jealous of your success, and what about the guys you’ll have to beat off with a stick when they get too attached? Such are the problems Jae Stephens confronts on her stellar major label debut, AUDACITY.Born in Dallas and raised in Los Angeles, Stephens is a Beyoncé Tumblr stan turned self-taught pop artist. She found early success as a songwriter, helping to pen tracks for the likes of Normani, Ashanti, and…

Jonny Greenwood has admitted that he “felt like a clumsy guitar player and was always lazy” in the early days of Radiohead. The guitarist, who joined the band in 1985, spoke to the Independent about his evolving relationship with the guitar. “I will sit and play guitar every day now,” he told the outlet. “It’s funny. It’s something I kind of never wanted to do. I used to distrust any sort of fluidity and think that was somehow part of that thing of technical playing. But now I just feel different about it. And it feels lucky that my fingers do…