Author: Press Room
Massive Attack have been playing a powerful cover of Seo Taiji and Boys’ ‘Regret of the Times’ on tour, describing it as an “act of continuity, revival and solidarity”. The song was released in 1993 by the South Korean hip-hop group, and features lyrics that both express resentment towards the corruption and serve as a cry for revolution. Taiji wrote the song in light of two tragedies in the country: the collapse of the Seongsu Bridge in 1994 and the collapse of the Sampoong Department Store the following year. The two incidents killed over 500 people, and were ultimately found…
1964: Davie Jones and The King Bees release their first single, “Liza Jane”/”Louie, Louie come home”, on Vocalion Records. It is David Bowie's recording debut. Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
IDLES’ Joe Talbot and his dad Nigel have launched an art exhibition, ‘Musoleum – Remembrance of Remembering’. The singer and his father have created a series of sculptures that explore the nature of memory and they are on display at the Newport Museum and Art Gallery in South Wales. The exhibition is free to enter and it opened on May 23 and it will run until September 12. The museum is open between Tuesday and Saturday every week, and you can find out more here. A description of the show explains that the sculptures “explore memory through the metaphor of the vessel”, making use of salvaged and recycled materials to “examine how memories are…
From Prince's archives, a new chapter from his immense musical legacy. “Timeless” will be released on August 28, a posthumous album created by The Prince Estate in collaboration with Legacy Recordings and Sony Music. The album collects ten rare and previously unreleased recordings, selected between 1977 and 2016, with the aim of offering an overview of the entire artistic career of the Minneapolis musician. This is the first recording project conceived to span all the main phases of Prince's career, from the first sessions made as a teenager to the last years of his activity. The result is a sound…
Well, it seems securing tickets for Christopher Nolan‘s upcoming epic The Odyssey turned into its own arduous journey. On Thursday, as tickets went on sale for special formats like IMAX and PLF, moviegoers faced long wait times in online queues, and in person outside of theaters, trying to secure tickets to the highly-anticipated blockbuster. Unfortunately, it seems ticketing platforms like AMC, Fandango, and Regal weren’t prepared to meet the demand audiences had for these formats. The AMC app and website were briefly paused, and when they did return, users faced hour-long queues before they could even open the app to…
The president will be in Madison Square Garden to watch his hometown New York Knicks on Monday Donald Trump has confirmed reports that he will attend Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Monday, when his hometown New York Knicks take on the San Antonio Spurs at Madison Square Garden. He may even stick around for Game 4 later in the week. “I've been a Knicks fan for a long time, and I'm also a Jim Dolan fan,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Thursday, nodding to the team's longtime conservative owner. “He has invited me, I'm going,” the…
The album will collect ten rarities from almost forty years of career. Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
Primavera Sound has been hit by “adverse weather conditions”, with Alex G and Mac DeMarco’s sets cancelled and stages being temporarily suspended. Today (June 4) is the opening day of the festival at the Parc del Fòrum in Barcelona, with tonight’s headliners set to be Doja Cat, Massive Attack and Bad Gyal. It runs for the next two days, with The Cure, The xx, Gorillaz, My Bloody Valentine, Addison Rae and Skrillex also topping the bill. However, earlier this evening, the big screens on the main stages showed a warning message, explaining that “due to adverse weather conditions, performances on this stage have been temporarily suspended.” “Please remain calm and follow the instructions of the festival’s security and staff teams,” it continued.…
The Pixies continue to dig into their archive. Over thirty years after the release of “Bossanova” and “Trompe Le Monde”, the Boston band will release new reissues of the two albums enriched with hitherto unreleased recordings. Remastered editions of the 1990 and 1991 discs will arrive on September 11th for 4AD. Alongside the standard versions, two limited editions on vinyl will also be available, called “Dinked International Editions”, accompanied by bonus singles in 7″ format containing previously unreleased material.For “Bossanova” the extra content includes a version of “Dig For Fire” originally recorded with Steve Albini during the “Surfer Rosa” sessions.…
For a few days the face of Vasco Rossi appeared unexpectedly on the digital advertising panels of numerous Italian cities, from Milan to Rome, from Bologna to Florence to Naples, with reports arriving from over twenty locations. A widespread initiative, without any official communication, which sparked the curiosity of fans and onlookers and in a few hours became a case on social media. The detail around which the interpretations revolve is the number: not just one portrait, but five different expressions of Zocca's rocker. And precisely that five, according to many observers, would be the key to understanding, five like…
