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Legendary broadcaster Bob Harris has decided to step down from BBC Radio 2 after over five decades due to “ill health”, and described the move as “one of the hardest decisions of my life”. The broadcaster is leaving both of his shows on the station: Radio 2 Country (Thursdays, 9-10pm) and Sounds of the 70s (Sundays, 3-5pm). He has shared a statement explaining that the move was done due to health issues, and expressing what it meant to be a part of the station – which he describes as the “Champions League” – for 30 years. “It’s incredible to think…
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The official soundtrack album for the 2026 FIFA World Cup has been announced, featuring The Rolling Stones, Shakira, Stormzy and more. The full tracklist has been released today (Thursday June 4), and brings together a collection of huge artists, genres and cultures from around the world. It looks to reflect the diversity, energy and scale of the upcoming FIFA World Cup. Among the songs featured on the 18-song tracklist are opening tracks ‘Goals’ by LISA, Anitta and Rema, ‘Game Time’ by Future and Tyla, and ‘Illuminate’ Jessie Reyez and Elyanna. A remix of Rolling Stones’ ‘In The Stars’ is also…
San Francisco trio Midrift are one of alternative music’s fastest-rising names. Arriving at a time where shoegaze is at its commercial peak – and where almost anything drenched in reverb and emotional ambiguity gets labelled as such – ‘Silhouette’ finds Midrift stepping directly into that conversation. But as the album buckles beneath the weight of its influences, it’s sometimes difficult to tell exactly what the band themselves are trying to say. The group have already amassed millions of streams through viral singles like ‘Twin Flames’ and ‘Unrequited’, building momentum through support slots with Fleshwater and Angel Du$t, and even landed…
“Speak Speak” is the new single from Latitude 45a song that tells with irony and lucidity the difficulty of enjoying a moment of break without being continually interrupted by the chaos of everyday life. The piece comes to life around a simple and universal scene: a beer at the bar which quickly becomes the meeting (and clash) point between nostalgia, unexpected conversations and sudden presences. Between the “good old days” evoked by nostalgics and friends who re-emerge from the past, the quiet dissolves, leaving room for a continuous flow of stimuli and distractions. From a sound point of view, “Speak…
Radio Italia Live – The Concert returns in 2026 to Palermo. The appointment with one of the most popular free events of the summer is set for Sunday 28 June 2026 al Foro Italicowhere some of the protagonists of Italian music will take the stage accompanied by Radio Italia Live Orchestra directed by the Master Bruno Santori. The event is organized by Radio Italy in collaboration with the Municipality of Palermo and will start at 8.40pm. This year too it will be possible to attend the concert for free, after accreditation on TicketOne while available seats last. Radio Italia Live…
More artists have been added to Reading & Leeds 2026, including Villanelle, December 10, and Beth McCarthy. This year’s edition of the dual festival is set to take place at Little John’s Farm in Reading and Bramham Park in Leeds across the summer Bank Holiday weekend (Thursday August 27 to Sunday August 30). Last December, organisers confirmed six headliners – Fontaines D.C., Florence + The Machine, Dave, Charli XCX, RAYE and Chase & Status – along with Kasabian as a Thursday night exclusive for Leeds only. The rest of the initial bill featured Skepta, Sombr, Role Model, JADE, Kneecap, Kettama,…
Two years ago, HorsegiirL told NME that “making people happy is something I take quite seriously”. The masked German DJ (a.k.a. Stella Stallion) claims to have been discovered by chance by one “Whitney Horseton”, so when her songs ‘My Barn My Rules’ and ‘My Little White Pony’ went viral, Miss Stallion saddled up and became a festival staple. Soon, she was performing at hallowed techno spaces like Berghain, HÖR, Detroit’s Movement Festival – but just as quickly as she had risen, the DJ was having a proper mare thanks to severe burnout. Consequently, HorsegiirL decamped to Ecuador for four months,…
It's good news to find Social Distortion again. Not only because “Born To Kill” arrives fifteen years after the last album of unreleased songs and Mike Ness' well-known health vicissitudes, but above all because the band proves to still be fully recognizable and artistically vital. The most comforting aspect of the album is that it does not simply certify the survival of the group. On the contrary, it reaffirms with conviction all the elements that have defined its identity: rough and dusty guitars, essential but incisive riffs, melodies with a strong emotional impact and that peculiar synthesis between punk rock,…
Charli XCX has discussed her move into cinema, acknowledging that the musician-to-actor path can be perceived as “cringe”. The ‘Brat’ artist stars in the new drama Erupcja, about a woman who reconnects with someone from her past while stranded in Warsaw with her boyfriend due to a volcanic eruption. It’s the first traditional acting lead role for her, having played a fictionalised version of herself in mockumentary The Moment and a supporting role in the fantasy drama 100 Nights Of Hero. On Monday (June 1), she appeared at a Q&A for the film in London and discussed the reason for…
