Author: Press Room

Weezer add a new chapter to their discography. The Rivers Cuomo band's twentieth studio album, simply titled “Weezer,” will be released on August 21, 2026 by Reprise/Warner Records. The album arrives after the tour for the thirtieth anniversary of their debut, a sold-out tour during which the group performed the legendary “Blue Album” in its entirety. Once the concerts were over, the four musicians found themselves in Orange County, California, choosing to return to their original working method: a rehearsal room, instruments connected to amplifiers and the goal of writing new music by playing together.It was precisely from those sessions…

Marilyn Manson concludes his Italian mini-tour this evening with the third appointment of the triptych, that of July 14th at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, after the dates of July 11th at the Ferrara Summer Festival, in Piazza Ariostea, and July 13th at the Fiera del Levante in Bari. As for the setlist, the official one could undergo some changes, but the last concerts of the tour offer a rather reliable indication of the songs that Marilyn Manson will bring to the stage. The show goes through all phases of his career, alternating classics such as “The Beautiful…

A collection of previously unseen letters written by Morrissey as a teenager, in which he predicted that he would become a “rock ’n’ roll star”, is going up for auction. The archive comprises hundreds of handwritten pages sent by the future Smiths frontman to his Birmingham pen pal Simon Pitt between 1974 and 1979, when Morrissey was aged between 14 and 20. Titled Before The Smiths: The Morrissey Letters, the collection is being offered across 65 lots by Dawsons Auctioneers on August 26, with a combined estimate of more than £22,000. See further details here. The earliest surviving letter was written in March 1974, when Morrissey was just 14. In it, he…

“We have our mics, but this is your mic.” When I saw Sick of It All play a gig in Denver in 2001, a couple of years before I moved to New York, it seemed like a revelation that a professional band would place a microphone on the Ogden Theatre's stage for anyone to climb up and sing along with them before diving back into the pit. He also asked for everyone to look out for each other in the mosh pit. I was a metalhead, a few years into college, and still relatively fresh to New York hardcore. Metal…

Other than “seminal”. Some songs have truly contributed to the birth of entire musical genres. With an ambitious selection of thirteen titles, the British magazine BBC Classical Music has tried to indicate some of them. “There are songs that don't just become great hits: they change the course of music forever – underlines Steve Wright in the introduction – A riff, a rhythm, a way of singing or a production technique can in fact give life to a completely new language, destined to influence generations of artists. Some of these songs had an immediate impact, others were understood only with…

Hayley Williams welcomed Jack Antonoff, Lucy Dacus, Jenny Lewis and a host of other special guests at Newport Folk Festival – watch footage below. The Paramore frontwoman performed a collaborative set billed as Hayley Williams & Friends on the festival’s Fort Stage at Fort Adams State Park in Newport, Rhode Island yesterday (July 24). After opening with ‘Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party’ and ‘Kill Me’, Williams brought out Wednesday singer Karly Hartzman for a performance of the heavier ‘Mirtazapine’. She then welcomed This Is Lorelei – the project of Water From Your Eyes’ Nate Amos – to cover ‘I’m All Fucked Up’, before being joined by Joy Oladokun for a rendition of Oladokun’s own ‘I’d Miss…

Rick Moranis received a standing ovation Friday at San Diego Comic-Con, where the long-sleeping actor was part of a panel promoting the upcoming Spaceballs sequels. Moranis — who last appeared on the big screen in 1997's Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves — will reprise his role of Dark Helmet in 2027's Spaceballs: The New Onehis first on-screen/non-voice acting role in 20 years. Moranis — the one-time SCTV member who starred in films like Ghostbusters, Little Giants, Honey I Shrunk the Kidsand Little Shop of Horrors — left the movie industry in 1997 following the death of his wife to breast cancer,…

With the publication of “Beflean: An Alternative History 2002-2023”, Jim Moray had ideally closed the circle of a twenty-year career by reinterpreting his repertoire in an acoustic key. That project seemed to be the definitive balance of a journey that began with the dazzling debut of “Sweet England” and continued over time with a production that was discontinuous in rhythms, but studded with pearls of absolute value.Today the wait for his return is over. The new album “Gallants” fills a creative silence that lasted seven years – a prolonged absence even by the standards of an author who has always…

Mumford and Sons' Ben Lovett has been curating experiences since his sixth birthday party. While other kids his age were doling out loot bags stuffed with Bazooka bubble gum and slap bracelets, Lovett was recording his favorite music on cassette tapes as party favors. “I've always wanted to guide people through some sort of an experience that I can make sure is optimal, fun, and meaningful,” he says. While Lovett, 39, is best known as a keyboardist and songwriter in the UK band, he's also been showing people a good time in other ways for the last decade — specifically,…

Kelela Mizanekristos has built a discography that is both map and territory: from that “Cut 4 Me” (2013) which launched her from the ashes of the Fade To Mind collective, through the EP “Hallucinogen” (2015) produced by Arca, up to the official debut “Take Me Apart” (2017) and the sumptuous “Raven” (2023), she has redefined the boundaries of alternative R&B with a coherence that few can match. In the meantime, his name has bounced between illustrious collaborations (Danny Brown, Solange, Gorillaz) and even an acoustic interlude at the Blue Note in New York, immortalized in “In The Blue Light” (2025),…