Author: Press Room

Djrum has barely taken a breath since returning in spectacular fashion with the EP Meaning’s Edge in late 2024. Within two years, the British producer has released the stellar Under Tangled Silence, various remixes, and, just last month, another EP, I Wander. Now, he is completing the cycle with a DJ-Kicks mix, set for release on October 16 via the series’ !K7 home. Among the 33 tracks are exclusives from Skee Mask and Clark (plus—curveball!—the Raincoats deep cut “Only Loved at Night”). There are also four new Djrum originals; listen to one of them, “Psychic Video,” below.Djrum recorded the album…

Aussie indie upstarts Radio Free Alice caught up with NME backstage at Reading 2026 to talk about Anglophile sound, playing with “genius” Cameron Winter and Geese, plans to move to London, and what to expect from their “coming of age” debut album ‘What’s In Between’. After smashing an early afternoon set in The Gallery set – one of our highlights of the weekend – frontman Noah Learmonth, drummer Lochie Dowd and guitarist Jules Paradiso came and sat on the NME couch where they they reflected on their set and the “hefty weight” that comes with playing a festival with the…

Travis Kelce and Taylor Swift wanted their wedding to be “intimate and genuine,” Kelce said on the first episode of his New Heights podcast since the July 3 ceremony. Naturally, they went with the most famous arena in the world. Madison Square Garden perplexed some spectators as a venue choice, but it made perfect sense to Kelce and Swift. “We needed it to be a private feel and MSG went above and beyond to give us that,” Kelce said. The athlete didn’t spill too many details about what happened in the room, which was populated by guests including Brad Pitt,…

Film, which premieres this month at TIFF, also features the Police’s Stewart Copeland, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith The trailer for Neil Peart: No One’s Disciple, a new official documentary about the late Rush drummer premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival on Sept. 16, shows his bandmates, peers, and musicians who cite him as an influence coming together to discuss his legacy. The Police’s Stewart Copeland, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Chad Smith, Tool’s Danny Carey, and Porcupine Tree’s Gavin Harrison jam with Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson with breaks for reminiscences. “I remember thinking there’s no way this…

One of the first times I remember seeing Dolly Parton as a child was on a talk show. Late Night With David Letterman, most likely, though I don’t remember exactly which man was in the chair. How could I, when Parton, with her big smile, sky-high hair, and pronounced…assets was also on my screen? On the cusp of puberty myself and feeling the way my existence in the world was changing alongside my body, I asked my mother why Parton looked the way she did. She responded that she wanted people to look at her. That it was part of…

In her first public appearance following the successful debut of her all-women festival, Daisy Chain Fields, Olivia Rodrigo joined Cameron Crowe for a conversation on Tuesday at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. The event was held as a preview for the museum’s new exhibit, Olivia Rodrigo: The Cure Unraveled, which features the sets, artwork, and props that were fashioned for her music video for “The Cure,” released earlier this year. “The concept of ‘The Cure’ was a feeling that I had been trying to articulate for a really long time, but I didn’t really know how,” Rodrigo told Crowe.…

Michael Sanft, the defense attorney who represented Duane “Keffe D” Davis in his trial for the 1996 murder of Tupac Shakur, told NBC News his client intends to appeal the conviction. “Even before the first set of jurors came in for jury selection, we knew it was going to be an appeal issue,” Sanft said. Davis was convicted Monday of first-degree murder with use of a deadly weapon. He will be sentenced, possibly for life in prison, on Oct. 13. “For a jury to come back two-and-a-half hours after submitting it to them … they had pretty much made up…

Sean Ono Lennon has announced the birth of baby boy, Aurelius – with the child becoming John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s first grandchild. The musician and his girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl announced the birth on social media last night (Tuesday September 1), sharing a photo of the three of them together and saying that they had “created a Human Bean”. The caption also shared that they had named him Aurelius, and the birth marks the first grandchild of Yoko Ono and John Lennon. Ono Lennon also posted some other photos of himself and his partner holding the baby, and comments…

After a five-year break from studio releases, Andy Stott has returned to his toolbox for a new album. Late Loop, a press release notes, is the product of fewer tools than usual: The British producer made the record using no basslines, no reverb, and no effects but a delay unit. The follow-up to Never the Right Time arrives October 30, via Modern Love. Watch Kitty Handley’s video for new track “Something in Mind” below.After evolving from an experimental drone album to “something like brass band concrète,” Stott decided he wanted the album to be more song-led, the press release notes.…

W hen I first met Rahm Emanuel, almost 25 years ago, he had a pretty solid reputation, in some quarters, as an arrogant prick. Rahm — even then, he needed only one name, like Cher or Snoop — was recognized by his fellow Democrats as a brilliant political tactician, which is how he had risen to become one of Bill Clinton’s chief enforcers in the White House. But he was also known to be self-certain, occasionally thuggish, and unusually crass. (For many years, there seemed to be a rule in journalism that one couldn’t write about Emanuel without prudishly noting…