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Longtime Yard Act fans could be easily forgiven for being frightened by frontman James Smith's startling missive on the first track of their excellent third album. “I've got absolutely nothing new to say,” comes his proposition on the claustrophobic gloom of “Empty Pledges.” But fear not. One of Britain's most acerbic lyricists of recent years has not, in fact, found himself struggling to discover new pastures. “I would be back in Leeds after tour and bumping into old acquaintances who I hadn't seen in the last four years,” he tells Rolling Stone UKsitting down with bassist Ryan Needham in north…
Paris Hilton is finally at “peace” after the Provo, Utah boarding school where she was allegedly abused as a teenager has shut down. “This horrific chapter of abuse, neglect, and trauma has finally come to an end,” she said in a statement Friday. On July 17, nearly two weeks after the Utah Department of Health and Human services (DHHS) revoked the licenses for the Provo Canyon School, the school’s boys and girls campuses officially shut down, ending a years-long effort by Hilton and other survivors for accountability. “Today, I can finally say the words I’ve been fighting to say for years: Provo…
It's a Friday afternoon, and Amber A'Lee Frost is scouring the large, colorful, laminated menu in a Greek diner in Silverlake, Los Angeles, talking about why she decided to move to LA It was 2020, she remembers, and the co-founder and at the time co-host of the mega-hit socialist podcast Chapo Trap House was just coming off tour with the pod. She'd already been considering a change of coasts — she'd been living in New York City for almost a decade — and when Covid hit, she realized it was time. “I was like, I don't believe in the universe…
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist's weekly newsletter here. On a 200-acre farm and cattle ranch in Bandera, Texas, Mollie Engelhart grows organic produce, sells raw milk, and writes a daily column about the power of regenerative agriculture. She's a farmer and a Make America Healthy Again mom who doesn't like being called a MAHA mom. She prefers to think of herself as “MAHA-aligned.” In May, Engelhart opened her ranch to a couple hundred pro-MAHA politicians, activists, and leaders for a two-day MAHA farming retreat. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy…
It's 1998. The World Cup is in France. But a new era of globalization and international trade has created a rising demand for Latin music, and the world's biggest soccer tournament needs anthem. Enter Puerto Rican singer Ricky Martin. A global sex symbol. A man blessed with a divine voice and the charisma to sell it anywhere. He is asked to write that year's official song of the tournament, and boy does he deliver. “La Copa de la Vida,” or “The Cup of Life,” immediately defined both a generation of music and the musical impact of the biggest sporting event…
Teddy Swims performed a cover of Van Halen’s 1984 classic ‘Jump’ during his set on the second night of Electric Castle 2026. Scroll down to watch footage now. Slotting the track into the closing section of his Main Stage set, the cover arrived before Teddy Swims launched into his mega-hit single ‘Lose Control’ and the recently released ‘Break Up In Reverse’. Teddy Swims covers @VanHalen’s ‘Jump’ on the main stage at @electric_castle 2026 🤘🎸 pic.twitter.com/oQgiTjanjm — NME (@NME) July 17, 2026 Swims first covered ‘Jump’ at Coachella in April where he was joined by Van Halen frontman David Lee Roth.…
vote7.0 Bands: PSYCROPTIC Duration: 00:38:38 Available from: 07/17/2026 Label: Metal Blade Records If it is true that perseverance pays, Psycroptic could become an exemplary element of this principle: after their distant debuts released independently, the subsequent move to a record giant like Nuclear Blast and the return to a minor label like Prosthetic, the Australians today release their first work under Metal Blade Records and marking, twenty-seven years after their formation, the band's return to the “world that matters”. We had left them, now four years ago, to a particularly experimental period attentive to the development of atmospheric passages contained…
In partnership with Electric Castle Words: David Renshaw and Laura Molloy Electric Castle 2026 is well underway, with Friday (July 17) seeing the main stage open up and the crowds roll in. On Thursday, we saw the likes of Sleaford Mods and Kneecap deliver high-octane performances in the grounds of Bánffy Castle (did we mention this festival takes place in the grounds of an actual Transylvanian castle?!) While, after dark, DJ sets from Kitty Amor and SG Lewis kicked off a weekend of 24-hour dancing – you can read a full report here. We’ve now caught both Teddy Swims and Twenty…
vote7.0 Bands: FINAL RESTING PLACE Duration: 00:27:19 Available from: 10/07/2026 Label: Mass Casualty Recordings There are those who recover the death metal of the Nineties by limiting themselves to a few stylistic references and those who, instead, decide to immerse themselves completely in a specific historical moment, bringing both its merits and imperfections back to life: Final Resting Place undoubtedly belong to the second category.Coming from a hardcore background and with members who have passed between Simulakra, Sanction, Vomit Forth and other realities of the US scene, young Americans are building their identity around that groovy brutal death metal which,…
The Rolling Stones have drawn level with The Beatles after scoring their 15th UK Number One album with ‘Foreign Tongues’. The band’s 25th studio record, which was released on July 10, debuted at the top of the Official Albums Chart yesterday (July 17), matching the success of their previous record, 2023’s ‘Hackney Diamonds’. The achievement puts the Stones alongside the Fab Four on 15 UK Number One albums each, with only Robbie Williams ahead of them on the all-time list. Williams overtook The Beatles in January when ‘BRITPOP’ became his 16th solo chart-topper. Taylor Swift follows The Stones and The Beatles with 14 Number Ones, while Elvis Presley and Madonna have 13 each. The Stones’ first…
