Author: Press Room
The singer admitted that when she sees a photo of the actress sometimes she thinks, “Oh, that’s a picture of me” Monica Barbaro has already embodied Joan Baez onscreen so why not Olivia Rodrigo as well? During a conversation with filmmaker Cameron Crowe at the Grammy Museum last night, Rodrigo revealed that she hopes the A Complete Unknown actress could someday play her in a movie. “Sometimes I see a picture of Monica Barbaro and I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s a picture of me. Oh no, that’s Monica,’” Rodrigo replied after being asked who would play her in a film. “So…
The global trek will hit the U.K., Europe, and North America before wrapping in November Katseye launched their global Wildworld Tour last night at Dublin’s 3Arena. The tour opener comes only days after the group cancelled their appearance at Olivia Rodrigo‘s Daisy Chain Fields Festival in Irvine, California, after member Megan Skiendiel suffered a sprained ankle. Skiendiel was rested up for the Dublin concert, which also featured group members Daniela Avanzini, Yoonchae Jeung, and Lara Raj. Sophia Laforteza was notably missing after announcing a hiatus from Katseye in August. The show opened with single “Hootie Frutti” and included several of…
R.I.P. to the internet. In the same way those who believed in punk’s revolutionary promise had declared it dead by 1977 (despite the music’s persistence), tech critics have long argued that we’re spending our lives on a necrotic World Wide Web that decays further every day. The Dead Internet Theory argues that the combined effects of SEO juicing, corporatized traffic flow, and the overwhelming presence of bots have riddled the system with so many cavities it’s functionally incapable of sustaining pure human expression. Presumably, you already know this—you’re reading this on the internet, after all. But knowledge is one thing,…
iKeda’s music conjures images of Day-Glo leggings, plastic shutter shades, and early Photoshop collage: an eternal summer 2007. The singer is a familiar face on the London scene, opening for PinkPantheress, collaborating with Babymorocco, and holding her own among the city’s rising class of cool girls. Her debut EP, 2024’s Pretty Little Problem, made a quick study of the sounds of late-aughts electronic music, piling up layers of references and knocking them down as it swerved from dubstep to bassline, speed garage to UK funky. Its strobe-lit glare sometimes seemed to outshine iKeda’s own personality, a fatal flaw when staking…
“SHIT FEEL LIKE 1993 AGAIN AND I WASNT EVEN BORN IN 1993😂‼️” Mike Shabb recently proclaimed. So many roads lead back to albums like Midnight Marauders, Doggystyle, and Enta Da Stage. We demand that young artists know their history, but sometimes you have to ask if they’re true disciples of the 36 Chambers or just greedy hirelings flipping “T.R.O.Y” or “O.P.P.” for C.R.E.A.M. It takes a certain gumbo of technique, knowledge, and skill to venerate the past without coming off like a tribute band. Leave it to a sound architect like Shabb to give up the goods on Sewaside IV,…
In Asher White’s hands, melody can seem to do almost anything: It can vault across baroque chord progressions, bridge the distance between genres, chart a course from the doldrums to redemption and back. On Love Aggregates, her latest record and her second full-length release this year, her nimble voice leads you through the densest arrangements, even when the music swallows most of her words. It is a surprise, then, to go back over the 26-year-old musician’s 27 (yes, 27) releases over the past decade or so and find that she began her recording career not as a singer-songwriter but as…
Jay-Z has announced an immersive pop-up experience taking place at London’s Trafalgar Square this week, which follows on from him opening a pop-up shop in Camden. Both new events come in celebration of the rapper bringing his massive ‘JAŸ-Z 30’ world tour to the UK later this week – where he will headline Tottenham Hotspur Stadium on September 4 and 5. At the shows, he will continue to celebrate the 25th anniversary of his huge album ‘The Blueprint’, and also look back at his three decades of releasing music. Last week (August 27), Jay-Z launched an exclusive JAŸ-Z 30 pop-up…
The couple shared the happy news on social media Sean Ono Lennon and girlfriend Charlotte Kemp Muhl have announced the birth of their baby boy. The couple shared the happy news on social media Tuesday evening. Alongside a photo of their son posted to Instagram Stories, Lennon captioned that they “would like to announce that we have created a Human Bean! His name is, Aurelius! Thank you.” Aurelius is the first grandchild of Yoko Ono and John Lennon. Sean shared another photo of Kemp Muhl holding Aurelius and wrote: “Baby Momma!” While Sean has largely kept his private life out…
Andrew W.K. has surprised released his first album in five years, ‘Temptation to Exist’ – check it out below. The ‘Party Hard’ artist has dropped a 10 track jazz noir LP that “marks one of the most unexpected transformations in the career of an artist who has spent more than two and a half decades defying expectations,” according to a press release. It adds: “Trading the maximalist hard rock associated with much of his career for a sprawling instrumental landscape of piano, brass, woodwinds, cello, percussion, vibraphone, organ, synthesizers, and more, the album reveals another dimension to an artist whose…
Following the conclusion of the tour, Grande plans “step back” from public life During Ariana Grande‘s final stop of her headlining Eternal Sunshine tour, the star paused the London show to reflect on the moment and thank her fans for joining her along the way. Grande, who was healing from a minor foot injury, addressed the crowd from the stage while sitting on a stool overlooking the thousands gathered at O2 Arena. “I just want to say thank you so much. This has been such an extraordinary experience. Thank you for 10 beautiful London shows and for 41 incredible Eternal Sunshine…
