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Thursday 19 June. The day starts quite early: at 1.35pm we are already at the Warzone for Die Spitz and from the first notes it is clear that today the festival intends to give us no respite. Their show is pure of girl powerwith the crowd breaking into a collective leap after just a couple of songs. After a few slower songs, the pit opens and people go crazy having so much fun that they throw leeks in the air. Yes, real vegetables, throughout the show. Only at Hellfest can this happen! We rush to Mainstage 2 for i Tesseractwho…
There is something deeply reassuring about seeing eighty thousand people cross a field turned to mud to attend concerts that start shortly after midday and end late at night. In a historical moment in which the debate on the health of rock seems to resurface cyclically, the Rock in Park 2026 continues to provide a simple and difficult to dispute answer: rock is not dead, it has simply changed shape. The 2026 edition of the festival Nurembergperformed since 5 to 7 June in the area of Zeppelinfeldrecorded the sold out. Confirming itself, together with its twin Rock am Ring, as…
The Toronto rapper’s self-produced music slips down a labyrinthine rabbit hole of regional dance rap styles, filtering West Coast ratchet through EDM rave pop and post-OVO mood music.
Thirteen-year old Ralph Hill isn’t the most famous kid preacher from Michigan. These days, that’s nine-year-old “Pastor Luke” Tillman, the Grand Blanc cutie-patootie who baptized his Paw Patrol stuffie in the bathtub, screamed glory to his Grandpa, and appeared on The Jennifer Hudson Show so many times he got his own highlight reel. Go viral like Pastor Luke, and you might wake up with half a million Instagram followers, a children’s book deal, and a presenter slot at the Black Christian Influencers awards. But hang around the BFA types instead, and your word might end up on a Ridgewood-based cassette…
This Friday, Kelela will finally release New Avatar, her long-awaited third album. She’s satiating her fans’ appetites a few days early, though, with the new single “The Bridge” featuring PinkPantheress. Give the song a listen below.New Avatar deviates from the electronic R&B that Kelela is known for and, instead, pays homage to her early songwriting career in the Washington, D.C. music scene, mixing together shoegaze, grunge, and indie rock with her usual influences. “The Bridge” follows previous singles “Idea 1,” “Linknb,” “Point Blank,” and “Outta Time,” and is one of several collaborations on the record, alongside guest features by A.K.…
A couple of years ago, the three members of mary in the junkyard flew to New York City from London with no plan other than to play for whoever would have them. It’s not hard to imagine them busking in the subway tunnels, their semi-acoustic music rich with the earnest anguish of Big Thief and the grandeur of early Arcade Fire, the lyrics delivered in a feathery register by singer Clari Freeman-Taylor. When they asked the crowd at the Bowery Ballroom if anyone had a place where they could stay, a film producer named Todd Eckert offered up the flat…
Like an author of fantasy fiction, Wolfgang Voigt is continually rewriting and restructuring the internal logic of his own world, going back to his old work in the hopes of imposing some order upon his sprawling mythopoeia. His self-titled debut as GAS was one of several breakthroughs the German producer experienced in 1996, but its vast, emotionally neutral expanses of nothing had little to do with the sampledelia of his later work under the name; when he rereleased it on 2008’s Nah Und Fern compilation, he swapped two tracks out entirely for new work that felt more apiece with the…
Bruce Springsteen has interrogated what it means to be a patriot, saying that to him, it means the freedom to criticise those in power. READ MORE: ‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ review: a bruising boss of a biopic The music icon has been largely outspoken against Donald Trump over the years, and frequently used his time both on and off the stage to call out the President and his administration. Heated disputes between the two of them include The Boss calling for Trump to be impeached and “consigned to the trash heap of history”, as well as describing the President as “corrupt, incompetent, and treasonous”. During…
My Chemical Romance played ‘AMBULANCE’ live for the first time ever at a recent Glasgow gig – check out footage below. READ MORE: My Chemical Romance live in Liverpool: prodigal sons of emo make tragedy transcendental Gerard Way and co. are currently out on their ‘Black Parade’ UK tour, which also includes upcoming dates at London’s Wembley Stadium. During their stop in Scotland on Saturday (July 4), the 25-song set saw them playing their seminal 2006 album ‘The Black Parade’ in full, after which the band returned for a run of tracks from their wider career from the B-stage. “I don’t…
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has issued an apology for making “inappropriate” comments about Kylie Minogue in a recent podcast appearance. The comments about the pop star were made when the PM made an appearance on the Bush Deep podcast, hosted by comedian Nikki Osborne. The host is best recognised for her crude comedy skits on YouTube, and launched the podcast earlier this year, describing herself as a “wildly inappropriate journalist” who is willing to ask guests “questions no one else would dare”. During the 20-minute interview, Osbourne asked Albanese who he would “shag, marry or date” out of Kylie…
