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The first thing that strikes you when talking to Suzanne Vega is the way she listens. It is not an obvious quality for an artist who has been used to being interviewed, celebrated and analyzed for almost forty years. While many artists end up mainly telling their own myth, she seems to focus on the details: a word, a memory, a scene. First comes the observation, then comes the music. It's a characteristic that has accompanied her since the beginning, when the Greenwich Village of the 80s was still a place where songs were born in small clubs before reaching…
The singer-songwriter's third studio album has arrived, featuring hit singles “Hit the Wall” and “Look at My Life” Get ready to spiral tonight, Gracie Abrams has released her third studio album, Daughter From Hell. The 16-song collection is the singer-songwriter's follow-up to last year's The Secret of Us (Deluxe)following the original version's 2024 release. “This album came from being kind of quiet after we had gone our separate ways after tour ended,” Abrams said during her exclusive underplay show at Bowery Ballroom on Tuesday. She added: “Being in your 20s is so strange and weird, it can feel lonely in…
The song features on the band's massive hit album, Arirang BTS unveiled the music video for “Normal,” the ninth track on their chart-topping album, Arirang. The video is currently only viewable on Spotify in select Beta markets, where it will be available to watch for 48 hours before releasing on other streaming platforms. The video portrays each member in the aftermath of a celebration, following them from scenes captured during the previous night's festivities to the quiet moments the following morning. The video also recreates the viral promotional photo of all seven members standing in front of a row of…
As counterintuitive as it feels to say about a guy who coats his vocals in a slurry of Auto-Tune, Rylo Rodriguez is a traditionalist at heart. That’s not to say he harkens back to a mythical era when Outkast, UGK, and 8Ball & MJG ruled the land; instead, his reference points assert that we need to update our conception of what a throwback is these days. On the 32-year-old Alabama rapper’s third album, S.K.A.T.E., he rides lush instrumentals in his half-rapping, half-singing style with vocals processed nearly to the point of unintelligibility—a gesture which, in the age of rappers who…
“Belt 2 Ass,” the fourth song on Rome Streetz’s glitzy and paranoid new project Sock It 2 My Pocket, starts off as a victory lap before running over some gravel. For Rome—a stalwart of the neo-classical hip-hop underground who rapped his way to becoming a pinch hitter for Griselda Records—celebrating his good fortune with Ken Griffey Jr. comparisons and an air of superiority befitting a Lox affiliate over a swanky Conductor Williams groove makes sense. But the rug pull comes barely 30 seconds in; the music expands into a rickety trumpet-backed breakbeat, and Rome shifts into telling a cautionary tale.…
In a Popcast interview about her third album, Daughter From Hell, Gracie Abrams talked about how she’d changed her songwriting style. A few years older and more conscientious of the feelings of the people she wrote about, she described the new record as “a little bit less diaristic, and mildly more existential.” Existential is right, but “mildly” is putting it, well, mildly: By the end of the album, you will hear many different attempts to explain how it feels to be Gracie Abrams, or at least to be around Gracie Abrams. There are physical descriptions: She is sick, she is…
Josh Homme is set to make an appearance on Celebrity Gogglebox. The reality show sees a host of famous faces “sharing their sharp, insightful and funny points of view” as they watch various TV programmes, news broadcasts and films. Season eight is currently airing on Channel 4, with episodes being broadcast every Friday. Today (Thursday July 16), it’s been confirmed that Queens Of The Stone Age frontman Homme will feature on tomorrow night’s edition (Friday July 17). He’ll be sharing the sofa with Scissor Sisters singer and actor Jake Shears, his longtime friend and former collaborator. Homme made a cameo…
Photo by Francesca Maffioletti Before Scar he tore up the turf with hard trap and street attitude. Sharp voice, minimal beats, zero compromises. Then 18Kwhich raised the temperature: autotune, melody and provocation. Two generations of Italian rap preparing the ground, one after the other, like two acts of a prologue. The live: Salmo entered without frills, only against the light. Black jacket, microphone, and now “90MIN” to act as a starting point. Rugby Sound exploded. What is striking about Salmo live is the tension between control and chaos. On the one hand, the meticulous performer: tight band, surgical tempo changes,…
Matty Healy has performed with a tribute band of The 1975 on his Malibu stag do. Healy is due to be married to model and former Nasty Cherry musician Gabbriette. Now, he’s held a stag do in Malibu in preparation for the big event – where he got on stage to perform with The 9075, a tribute band of The 1975. Footage has captured the frontman singing along to ‘The Sound’ with the tribute band, before requesting his doppelgänger join him on stage. In addition to The 1975, all members of The 1975 (George Daniel, Ross McDonald, Adam Hann) were…
New Music Friday: the report cards of All Music Italia to the new Italian singles of 17 July 2026, edited by Alvise Salernoradio host and web music disseminator who reviews new Italian releases for us every week. In the week of July 17, 2026 we find, among others, new songs by Artie 5ive, Chadia, Antonio Maggio, Sethu, Svegliaginevra and many others, especially emerging and independent. These are the report cards of New Music Friday dedicated to the new Italian singles released this week. Within the categories, each song is rated in stars and with a numerical rating, so as to…
