Author: Press Room
30-year-old Illinois travel agent Justice Washam is an on-again, off-again TikTok creator who has been posting about travel and parenting for almost a decade. But despite her 250,000 followers, as of early April, the mother of three hadn't made much money off the platform, and her goal of hitting a million followers by the end of 2026 seemed far-fetched. Then her best friend sent her a TikTok featuring screenshots of funny texts that had been turned into the lyrics to an AI-generated song: “She was like, 'Your daughter's messages are what this trend is made for!'” Washam assembled some texts…
Arctic Monkeys, Kim Gordon and Dry Cleaning open 2026 with new releases and albums already in circulation. Rome returns with his solemn dark folk, while Zu pushes their jazzcore into the roughest and most uncompromising metal. On the electronic front, Shackleton digs into the most hypnotic depths and Skrillex signs an EP with three unreleased songs born from new collaborations. Then Cosmo, Marta Del Grandi, Tutti Fenomeni, Cat Power, The Ruins Of Beverast: different names, distant directions, but the same feeling that the year started with a lot of irons in the fire. The February playlists collect the songs that…
The second edition of the Raccoon Music Award, the contest in collaboration with OndaRock, created to discover the new talents of the emerging Roman under thirty scene, finally arrives at the Monk for the highly anticipated final! For the occasion the event will take the form of a real festival: starting from 6.30 pm the courtyard of the Monk will be colored with varied stands, including artisan jewellery, make-up artists, vintage clothing, vinyls and listening desk. Furthermore, to best welcome the fervor of the Roman underground scene before the start of the race, the garden will host an open mic…
A new FIMI certification for Olly and for Whole life: in the week 21 of 2026 the single We don't need to make lovewith the production of Julireceives the gold record. The song joins a collection of 11 certified songs from gold to triple platinum. The album, meanwhile, is already up 8 platinum albums for further 400,000 copies sold: the fastest in history FIMI to reach this goal. Olly's Tutta vita: from the first edition of 2024 to the re-issue Tutta vita (always) Whole life comes out at September 2024 For Epic Records. In the twelve months following its release,…
Hundreds of billions of dollars are flowing through the artificial intelligence industry and new AI tools seem to be popping up everywhere you look — but most Americans are not big fans of where things are headed. Nearly half of the country holds a negative view of AI, and seven in 10 Americans do not want a data center built in their area. The battle over the construction of these centers has been heating up in recent months, and opposition to them is notably bipartisan. From red states like North Carolina to blue states like Oregon, communities are forcefully pushing…
To the surprise of everyone, most of all maybe themselves, historians Dominic Sandbrook and Tom Holland have become the Jagger and Richards of the nerd podcasting world. Their show, The Rest Is History, was Apple’s Show of the Year in 2025, and boasts over 20 millions streams a month. There’s a Rest Is History club, a Rest Is History tour, two Rest Is History books, with another coming this fall, plus a spinoff The Rest Is History Book Club podcast. These are very big doings for a couple of middle-aged Englishmen delivering deep dives into everything from the fall of…
[The following contains spoilers for The Mandalorian and Grogu.] A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, ie 2019, a man in a helmet walked into a bar and quite possibly saved a franchise. “Saved” might be too strong a word, but it helps to remember that when The Mandalorian premiered on Disney+ in November of that year, the House That George Lucas Built (and Sold to a Mouse) was on slightly shaky ground. Alone, which chronicled the early days of Han Solo as a scrappy young smuggler, had been admired in backstage drama and severely under-performed when…
Iceman, Habibtiand Maid of Honour place at Numbers One, Two, and Three respectively as rapper ties Taylor Swift for most-ever Number One LPs by a solo artist Drake made charts history as the rapper's new album trilogy — Iceman, Habibtiand Maid of Honour — scored the top three spots on the latest Billboard 200, becoming the first artist to occupy Numbers One, Two, and Three simultaneously. Iceman led the way at Number One, ending its first week of release with 463,000 equivalent album units, the vast majority of which (449,000 units) came from streaming equivalent albums and 462.2 million on-demand…
One hundred songs for one hundred women's names. Behind each of them a story, a mystery, a love (often only dreamed or finished). To celebrate March 8th, we thought we'd collect them all in an “open” mega-playlist (in the sense that it can continue to be integrated thanks to your suggestions). These hundred woman's recipesto put it with the late Ornella Vanoni, are just a mirror – sometimes even a little distorted from the male perspective – of a female universe which has been told in music in the most varied and disparate ways. Many of these hundred women are…
With “Neverending” Monolord sign the sixth seal of their discography and return to the scene with an album that could make some of their most loyal fans discuss, especially after the… Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
