Author: Press Room

“No talent, no ratings, no life,” the president writes after Stephen Colbert's final Late Show episode aired Thursday Donald Trump predictably celebrated the demise of The Late Show on Thursday amid the president's years-long campaign to cancel late-night shows that are critical of his administration. “Colbert is finally finished at CBS. Amazing that he lasted so long!” Trump wrote on Truth Social about an hour after Stephen Colbert's final show aired on the East Coast. “No talent, no ratings, no life. He was like a dead person. You could take any person off the street and they would be better…

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Braxton Keith is well aware that he's carrying a torch for traditional country music. He just doesn't want fans thinking it's a passing fancy. “It's only gonna get bigger,” Keith says of the pivot to country's old-school roots that artists like Zach Top, Cody Johnson, and Keith have helped engineer. “It's the same thing that happened with the bro stuff, and with the Nineties country. It's here now,” he says. “Traditional is always going to be a lane in country music. But we've also got the rappers collaborating now. Country music can literally go anywhere. It blows my mind. I…

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The singer-songwriter and performer ECCA VANDAL arrives live in Italy, for a single appointment, theSeptember 3, 2026 at the Santeria Tuscany 31 Of Milan. On the occasion of the live event, the artist will present live “LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW”, the new album available from Friday 22 May and preceded by the single “SORRY! CRASH!”. Tickets on sale > https://tidd.ly/4nGvY3M “LOOKING FOR PEOPLE TO UNFOLLOW” is an intense and personal project, born from the desire to eliminate everything that drains energy and distorts the perception of reality. The artist tells: «The systems, the trends, the illusion of continuous connection.…

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Samurai Jay public AMATEURthe new album out today May 22nd for Island Records. The album arrives after the Sanremo debut with Obsessionstill at the top of the FIMI/NIQ chart after eleven consecutive weeks, and is available digitally and in five physical formats: standard CD, signed CD, standard vinyl, signed colored vinyl and signed alternative cover colored vinyl. The first song taken from the album is Flamenco Paranoianow in radio rotation. AMATORE, the new album by Samurai Jay created with Vito Salamanca and Luca Stocco The title of the album is the surname of the singer-songwriter – Samurai Jayin the registry…

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Fontaines D.C. are set to make their live return with three shows in Spain this summer, ahead of their headline slots at Reading & Leeds 2026. Find all the details below. Read More: Fontaines D.C. live in London: surreal, powerful statement from future Glasto headliners The Dublin band haven’t performed live since last August, when they rounded off their ‘Romance’ era. They also played a massive gig in London’s Finsbury Park as part of that tour. Today (Friday May 22), Grian Chatten and co. have announced a trio of dates in Cádiz, Alicante and Pamplona, bringing their almost year-long hiatus to…

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James Gray is a grandmaster of conversational tangents. Should you meet up with the veteran filmmaker behind Little Odessa, Ad Astra, Armageddon Time, and a number of other movies that run the gamut from epic to scrappy for, say, an old-fashioned coffee klatch, you’ll find yourself wonderfully dizzy from all the detours. If your goal is to interview Gray about a film, however, we wish you the best of luck in staying on topic. We have no sooner sat down in the back of the Carlton Hotel in Cannes to talk about Paper Tiger, his latest tale of crime and…

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Philipp Jung, the German DJ and producer behind the electronic duo M.A.N.D.Y. and the influential Get Physical label, has died. The British DJ Damian Lazarus, a onetime Get Physical signee, shared the news on May 20, giving his age as 55. Jung’s personal Facebook page and his labels’ Instagrams have since posted their own tributes. No cause of death was given.Jung worked as an A&R in the 1990s before teaming up with childhood friend Patrick Bodmer to form M.A.N.D.Y. and Get Physical in the early 2000s. They and the label’s other founders—DJ T., and Booka Shade’s Arno Kammermeier and Walter…

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IDLES guitarist Mark Bowen has revealed to NME and revealed that the ban are currently working on their “most exciting” album yet, as well as opening up about his “beautiful” and “liberating” time working with Florence + The Machine. The guitarist and producer caught up with us on the Ivor Novellos 2026 red carpet yesterday (Thursday May 21), where he was nominated alongside Florence Welch for Best Song Musically and Lyrically with the title track to Florence + The Machine's latest album 'Everybody Scream'. Bowen worked closely with Welch throughout the record, which tackled themes of womanhood, partnership, aging and…

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Moses Sumney had never been “terribly interested” in being a film composer. But when he read the script for Aleshea Harris' directorial debut, Is God Isit blew him away. So much so that he had to say yes to Amazon-MGM Studios' offer to score it. “I thought the script was really wonderful and it was cool to read such an original voice jump off the page […] In the end, it actually felt like a lot of friends and mutual friends sort of coming together to do something great,” he explained to VIBE. The actor-singer — in collaboration with Harris'…

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Paul McCartney wants to tell you a story. Have a seat, and listen as he paints the scene in soft-spoken words: “I used to walk past your house,” he begins, his voice a little hoarser these days but no less tender. “Every night, I'd look up at your window. The light was on. I saw your silhouette on the blind….” It's a bittersweet memory from long ago, something like the Beatles' “No Reply,” but with all the resentment replaced by gentler feelings. “Do I ever cross your mind as you lie there?” he asks that ancient crush. Then the band…

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