Author: Press Room
Key to World Peace, the second album by Australian musician Sam Perry, aka Prophetic Justice Ministry, is an odd bird: Sometimes it rattles and churns, synth and drum machine scraping up against each other like ungreased pistons; at other points, it floats like fog, sounding a little like the creeping, elegant scores of Angelo Badalamenti. It frequently feels like a DIY folk record, not least when Perry, who was raised in New Zealand, faithfully covers Lana Del Rey’s “Mariners Apartment Complex” with a distinct Kiwi lilt. Uniting these decidedly disparate moods is a keen sense of atmosphere: Key to World…
Do you want alternatives? Do you want this alternatives? Metallica gives you the alternative, baby! We are in the 90s and after the alternative rock boom many bands that made it big in the previous decade are trying in one way or another to stay afloat. U2 more or less devote themselves to disco. Guns N' Roses spend a quarter of a century chasing the ghost of Chinese Democracy. And Metallica? Well, they get weird. And, contrary to what many say, that wasn't a bad thing at all.Load And ReLoadreleased in 1996 and 1997 respectively, are not strictly alternative records…
Jordan Patterson’s Songs From a Valley Girl is a rapid, wide-ranging follow-up. The five-song EP—the Los Angeles singer’s debut on Secretly Canadian—comes just nine months after her debut album, The Hermit, and spans a few subgenres of turn-of-the-millenium radio pop. Another singer—especially one so early in her career—might find herself getting lost in the cracks between, say, The Hermit’s standout “Racecar,” with its limber rap influence, and the EP’s waltz-like opening track “QDS.”But once the microphone’s on, everything Jordan Patterson does is in character, and the strength of that idea gives her the freedom to explore a broad spectrum of…
The most popular video on Madeon’s YouTube channel, with almost 70 million views, is also one of the oldest. The try-hard earnestness of “Pop Culture” is characteristic of the golden age of OK Go videos and ill-advised Chris Brown covers; the camera stays locked in on a then-17-year-old Hugo Pierre Leclercq’s uncalloused fingers as they dance across a Novation Launchpad cued up with samples of 39 different pop songs. Within the first minute and without the aid of Google, I can discern snippets of “Video Killed the Radio Star,” Kylie Minogue’s “Wow,” Gorillaz’s “DARE,” and, of course, some requisite Daft…
Late last fall, word suddenly got out about SML, Los Angeles’ latest torchbearers of slanted jazz. Following a snazzy New York Times profile and a second album that teased their squiggly sound out to delightful new levels, the quintet had two dates set at Frogtown scenester mainstay Zebulon, with each night comprising two sets in the round. Last time they played at Zeb, it was a similar two-night affair to celebrate the release of their 2024 debut LP—though both of those shows were free. This time, both nights were selling so fast that they had to add a third.The excitement…
Olivia Wilde has revealed that “real-life hero” Walton Goggins saved her from a gruesome death on the set of Favreau’s 2011 sci-fi Western film Cowboys and Aliens. Based on Scott Mitchell Rosenberg’s graphic novel of the same name, the film starred Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford, while Wilde, Goggins, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach, Paul Dano, and Noah Ringer featured in supporting roles. When stopping by Dax Shepard’s Armchair Expert podcast, Wilde said that she “had a very bad horse accident” during filming and that “Walt Goggins saved my life on that movie.” In the film, which takes place in 1873,…
In the wake of their massive Download set and increased popularity online, Wes Borland has said Limp Bizkit are “the biggest we’ve ever been right now”. READ MORE: Limp Bizkit live at Reading 2025: the nu-metal giants keep the hits rollin’ in The band recently headlined Download Festival for the first time, 23 years after they were first meant to. The nu-metal group have a long history with the Donington Park festival, and sub-headlined the last day of 2024’s edition, with Kerrang! suggesting that their set ultimately drew a bigger crowd than that year’s actual headliners, Avenged Sevenfold. Having now topped…
Boardmasters have vowed to “be better neighbours” to visitors and local residents following a series of fall-outs and shortcomings in recent years. Director Rob Spring spoke to BBC Radio Cornwall about the controversy that surrounded the 2024 and 2025 editions of the festival, and pledged to make the live event safer and more pleasant going forward. The concerns arose as the 2024 edition saw numerous concertgoers speak out about a crowd surge after the event, in which seven attendees were hospitalised and others needed treatment from on-site medical staff. That year also saw 11 people arrested at the festival site with…
Blur drummer Dave Rowntree has lost in his legal battle against PRS For Music over the distribution of so-called “black box” royalties. Rowntree had sought to challenge the way PRS distributes royalties that it has collected but cannot match to the correct songwriter or publisher because of missing or inaccurate information. Those funds are often referred to in the industry as “black box” royalties, while PRS prefers the term “unidentified royalties”. The case centred on Rowntree’s claim that PRS’ system for distributing those unidentified royalties was unfair to songwriters, and that writers could potentially have been deprived of up to £200million in earnings. Today (June 29), however,…
Filmmaker Carl Erik Rinsch was sentenced on Monday to 30 months in federal prison after being convicted of defrauding Netflix out of $11 million. Netflix had hired Rinsch, who previously made the film 47 Roninto write and direct a sci-fi series called White Horse (later renamed Conquest) in 2018. After the streaming giant poured $55 million into the project, the director failed to deliver a single episode. Rinsch later asked Netflix for an additional $11 million in funding, which — a New York Times report and later the accused — he used to gamble on the stock market and cryptocurrencies…
