Author: Press Room
Frank Zappa’s estate will mark the 60th anniversary of the Mothers of Invention’s debut album Freak Out! with a deluxe reissue featuring the LP’s long-lost mono mix, unreleased 1966 performances, and other outtakes from the vault. Freak Out!: 60th Anniversary Edition, out Sept. 25 via Zappa Records/UMe, features the band’s pioneering 1966 double-LP — an album that Paul McCartney credited with inspiring the Beatles own “concept album” Sgt. Pepper’s — in three formats: A newly remastered stereo mix, a pre-master mix culled from unearthed 1966 tapes, and a full-album mono mix which remained unavailable for decades, as Zappa “vaultmeister” Joe Travers…
“I thought the whole idea of celebrating a 50th Anniversary was preposterous” Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
Empire Of The Sun’s Luke Steele has admitted that he uses AI to create music, saying the tech can “empower artists that know how to use it”. During an interview with iHeartRadio Canada at last weekend’s Osheaga festival in Montreal, the frontman of the Australian synth-pop duo was asked whether he used artificial intelligence in his work. Read More: Soundtrack Of My Life: Empire Of The Sun’s Luke Steele “Of course,” he replied, before the interviewer noted many artists’ aversion to AI, such as Mac DeMarco, SZA, Lorde and Jack Antonoff – the latter of whom called AI music creators “godless…
James Talarico is asking me if my hand is OK, and I’m trying to laugh it off. We’re stopped at the site of a collapsed water well in the craggy outskirts of Alpine, Texas. Behind us, the red and ochre cliffs of Big Bend National Park glow in the late afternoon sun. Roughly an hour earlier I had — accidentally, I must stress — whacked a cactus while walking out of Talarico’s campaign rally in Marfa. This unfortunate encounter with some variant of a prickly pear resulted in a scramble to dig a pair of tweezers out of my carry-on…
Yaelokre‘s Keath Ósk has launched a new solo era, announcing debut album ‘Foreword’ with the experimental single ‘And The Hound’. Check it out, along with live tour details, below. Set for release on September 4 via Atlantic Records (pre-order here), ‘Foreword’ marks a new chapter for Keath Ósk, and sees them re-record and reimagine the songs that they originally released under the Yaelokre moniker. While the original releases saw the Filipino-Icelandic singer-songwriter, illustrator, and multimedia creator lean into traditional acoustic indie-folk and mythological themes, the new versions under their own name and identity will see them push the boundaries of…
G racie Abrams would like very much to ensure that, no matter what she reveals, I will not get angry. “Just don’t be mad at me,” she pleads, bending over in her chair, imploring. “Shit. I’m scared, girl. I hope you’re not so horrified.” It’s a sunny spring morning in Brooklyn, though in this cavernous art studio, the lights are dim and candles are lit, creating a mood that’s as contemplative as an Abrams ballad amid the sawhorses and drop cloths. It had been Abrams’ idea to conduct our first interview while painting portraits of each other, an attempt, she…
Several music stars are set to appear in the new instalment of the V/H/S franchise, titled V/H/S/MIXTAPE. Beginning in 2012, the V/H/S movies are found footage horror anthologies, with each movie broken up into different segments of fictional horror presented as reality. There have been eight V/H/S movies so far, with directors such as Johannes Roberts (Primate), Gareth Evans (The Raid), and Scott Derrickson (Doctor Strange) contributing. Now, Variety reports that streaming service Shudder will debut the ninth instalment, which will be released on October 9. Among those directing sequences will be Wu-Tang Clan legend RZA, while Flying Lotus and…
System Of A Down’s Shavo Odadjian has been revealed as part of the cast of Dexter: Resurrection’s second season. The show stars Michael C. Hall as the titular serial killer, and is a sequel series to the popular thriller show Dexter, which ran from 2006-2013. Season one of Resurrection aired last summer, and its success has led to a second season being greenlit by streamer Paramount Plus. Season two will air later this year, and new photos have shown Odadjian in a tense face-off with Dexter. The official synopsis for the season (shared by Variety) teases that Dexter is “caught…
Bob Dylan has wrapped up the US leg of his 2026 tour by adding new guitarist Jimmie Vaughan to the live band. The change to the live band comes following a tumultuous few months of line-up changes as the iconic singer-songwriter hit the road for his ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ tour. In June, guitarist Doug Lancio stepped back from touring duties after a show at the Santa Barbara Bowl. Lancio had been part of Dylan’s touring band since 2021, and has seemingly been replaced by jazz guitarist Julian Lange. A spokesperson for Dylan said they had “no word” on whether…
Leonardo DiCaprio‘s Re:wild, which he co-founded with Dr. Wes Sechrest, and the Bezos Earth Fund are launching the Phoenix Species Project — an initiative with a goal to recover 100 species facing imminent extinction that aims to work with Indigenous Peoples, scientists, and conservationists in an effort to change the future of Earth’s biodiversity. According to a press release, the project received a $200 million commitment, making it the “largest single philanthropic initiative dedicated exclusively to the recovery of critically endangered species across taxonomic groups, a diversity of habitats, and countries.” “For decades, scientists, Indigenous Peoples, local communities, and conservation leaders…
