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Faith No More have reunited—for real this time, apparently. After a series of ill-omened interviews, Mike Patton and the band have lined up four stadium shows Down Under with System of a Down, their first live dates since 2016. Check out the full itinerary below.Faith No More have been reliably unpredictable since Patton joined as the permanent singer in 1988, launching an erratic and sometimes scandalous classic era that lasted more or less until their first split in 1998. A reunion tour and greatest-hits LP followed in 2009, and the band played on and off for the next decade, releasing…
Fedez has announced the cancellation of the summer tour for health reasons. He did so with a long post published on Instagram, explaining that he had been hospitalized and had to interrupt his live commitments on the advice of the doctors.«My body raised its hand for the umpteenth time and told me “stop”. Now the doctors are also telling me, and that's what I will do”, wrote the rapper, without going into details of the health problem. In the message, however, he recounts the moments of fear experienced during hospitalization: “When you are in hospital waiting for the last blood…
Richard Hawley joined Reverend And The Makers on stage at Tramlines Festival for ‘Silence Is Talking’ – check out footage below. READ MORE: Reverend & The Makers on their charity Christmas single: “The Samaritans helped me, so I should help them” Hawley made a surprise appearance during the Sheffield band’s performance on the Sarah Nulty Main Stage at Sheffield’s Hillsborough Park on Sunday (July 26). During the performance, frontman McClure gave an emotional tribute to his family, telling the crowd: “My name is Jon McClure. The son of the late John McClure Snr., who used to always come to Tramlines, we…
«We have our microphones, but this is yours». When I saw Sick of It All live in Denver in 2001, a couple of years before I moved to New York, it seemed like a revelation to me that a professional band would leave a microphone on the Ogden Theater stage for anyone who wanted to come up and sing along before diving back into the pit. Meanwhile Lou Koller asked everyone present to take care of each other during the mosh pit. I was a metalhead, I had been attending university for a few years and I still knew little…
Sometimes we still discover new bands that, apparently, we should have followed carefully; this is the case of Yeti On Horseback, for example, defined as “the hope for the future of… Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
Idlewild have announced two new shows to mark their 30th anniversary this winter – check out all the details below. Back in April, the Scottish band hit the road in support of their self-titled 10th studio album, and also played a massive support slot with My Chemical Romance in Glasgow, made an appearance with Embrace at Halifax’s Piece Hall, and played a set at this summer’s Bearded Theory. Now, they’ve announced that they’re set to play more dates this winter. Taking to Instagram, the alt-rock veterans looked back to January 1996, “when Idlewild first took to the stage at the…
In a heartfelt letter to fans, Carly Simon has revealed she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. “So many people have written to me, kindly wondering about my relative silence, asking how I am and what I have been doing,” the 83-year-old Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee wrote. “The truth is, I’ve been learning how to live with Parkinson’s disease.” She added: “It has taken me some time to understand the diagnosis, to adjust to it, and to decide how much I wanted to say about it publicly. Parkinson’s is different for everyone, and it can be unpredictable. Some…
The Strokes' new album, “Reality Awaits”, released last Friday after a long series of postponements, is causing discussion not only for its musical choices, including the marked use of autotune on Julian Casablancas' voice. Also fueling the debate was a controversy between the frontman of the New York band and Anthony Fantano, popular music critic and creator of the channel The Needle Drop.The spark comes from “Lonely In The Future”, one of the songs on the album, in which Casablancas reflects on the legacy of the Strokes twenty-five years after the beginning of their career. The singer claims the band's…
It has been repeatedly underlined on these pages how absurd the contrast between prog and punk sounds (see also this in-depth analysis). But the long progressive wave reached even further, touching the frontiers of one of the dominant genres of the 90s: Seattle grunge. An elective affinity that can be summarized in a special bond: that of Kurt Cobain with King Crimson, and in particular with their 1974 album, the revolutionary “Red”. Red in the evening Just forty minutes to demolish decades of future progressive clichés. “Red” is first and foremost this: the compendium of an entire season now in…
Warning: this article contains distressing details Someone has hacked D4vd’s profile on Apple Music and uploaded a fake track called ‘I Did It’, amid the singer being suspected of murder. Earlier this year, the singer (real name David Anthony Burke) was accused by prosecutors of killing 14-year-old Celeste Rivas Hernandez and dismembering her body with a chainsaw in his garage after buying tools online. On April 20, he was charged with her murder. He has pleaded not guilty to murdering and sexually abusing the teen, whose remains had been found severely decomposed in the front boot of a Tesla registered…
