Author: Press Room
Speaking from beyond the grave, Andy Warhol talks with Jasper Dean about the latter’s love for Beat poets and Cameron Winter. True biographical statements emerge from the charming fictional exchange, part of the 22-year-old model-musician’s self-published Communist Party Animal zine, as do heartwarming sentiments. That same blurring of artifice and sincerity informs their debut full-length, TOY COLLAGES. It marks a sharp departure from Dean’s run of bedroom-pop singles and last year’s subdued indie-pop EP, pivoting towards rowdy, absurd post-punk and electro-pop.The Detroit-based musician’s frenetic mishmash of sounds recalls Le Tigre’s most vibrant, out-there sensibilities. Their music shares the overpowering fuzz…
In the lush opening moments of Terra Incognita, composer Pascal Bideau’s new album as Akusmi, it’s as though he were swinging a giant magnet, drawing in every sound that fascinates him. Low piano notes gather tentatively; sostenuto woodwinds hover just above ground level; a rainstick adds contour and shading. As the piano arches into a sparkling glissando, a harp follows suit, carving out space for a light, airy synthesizer drone to materialize. The elements all curl around each other into a blissful tangle; listening feels like tracing a stream widening as it cuts into a mountainside. As the nearly 11-minute…
When Twisted Teens broke through with their second album, Blame the Clown, only five months ago, the New Orleans duo’s southern-fried mix of garage rock, early punk, rockabilly, and country screamed both “First thought is absolutely best thought” and “Wait until I show you what else I can do.” But if their last album presented the band at their most gleeful and cocky, ready to call the world as they saw it, then Florida Water Blues takes place the morning after: a touch more vulnerable now that the liquid courage has subsided and the hangover is setting in. Blame the…
I’ll leave it to others to provide Foreign Tongues with the traditional blessing that greets every new Rolling Stones album—“it’s their best since Some Girls!”—but I will say it features their best cover art since Some Girls. Created by Chicago painter Nathaniel Mary Quinn, the image mashes up caricatures of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ron Wood into a glorious grotesquerie that channels the colorful glam-trash aesthetics of the band’s late-’70s phase. In the process, it also takes every ageist insult that’s been lobbed at the Stones over the years—they’re too old, too wrinkly, too decrepit—and rubs it in our…
AVAILABLE FOR 12 TEAMS Buffalo Bills Americana Gnome Just in time for America's 250th birthday, this Uncle Sam-inspired design features a bearded gnome in a patriotic red, white, and blue suit. Of course, these just happen to be the Buffalo Bills team colors, but FOCO makes this Americana gnome for 10 other NFL teams, with the stars and stripes suit rendered in each team's color palette. As with the Knicks gnome, every unit in this collection is hand-crafted and hand-painted. This is officially-licensed merch from the NFL. These NBA and NFL garden gnomes make a great gift for sports fans…
Pulp played an epic closing set at Mad Cool 2026 last night (Saturday July 11), with their performance also doubling up as a celebration for England fans. The escalations of the World Cup have been a focal feature of the Madrid festival, particularly the day before when Spain beat Belgium. Not only was the home country’s match shown on a big screen in the middle of the Iberdrola Music arena site, but their 2-1 victory was celebrated by Kings Of Leon and Interpol from the stage. Then on the closing Saturday, the England match clashed with the latter part of…
Grand finale for Max Pezzali and his Max Forever – The golden years – Stadiums 2026. Over 683,000 tickets sold for the multigenerational live tour in which parents and children sing songs that have made the history of Italian music. The hits follow one another as if they were a single track. One of the advantages of Max Pezzali is to have been able to tell in music the personal experiences that over the years have become moments of life written in the personal history of many. The energy that can be felt at the San Siro stadium in Milan…
Singer scores her 10th chart-topping album, and becomes first artist of the 2020s to land Number Ones in four different decades Madonna returned to the top of the charts for the first time this decade as her Confessions II opened at Number One on the Billboard 200. Over 20 years after Confessions on a Dance Floor ruled the charts, Confessions II similarly debuted in the top spot, moving 134,000 equivalent albums in its first week of release. This Number One marks the first time Madonna has ruled the album charts in the 2020s Beginning with 1984’s Like a Virgin, Madonna…
Max Pezzali closes this evening, July 12, 2026, at San Siro Stadium in Milan the tour Max Forever – The golden years – Stadiums 2026. On the eve of the last date, the singer-songwriter met the press to take stock of a tour that exceeded quota 680 thousand tickets sold. More than the record, however, Max Pezzali he focused on another data: the number of people who chose to return to see the show in multiple cities. Max Pezzali: «The real sign is that people are coming back» Second Max Pezzalithe result achieved also depends on the live performance's ability…
Charli XCX debuted new songs from ‘Music, Fashion, Film‘ at a surprise Brooklyn gig this weekend – check out footage below. READ MORE: Charli XCX – ‘Wuthering Heights’ review: delicious gothic pop for a winter of yearning The upcoming album, which includes recent singles ‘Wink Wink‘, ‘Rock Music’, and ‘SS26‘, is set to land on July 24, and you can pre-order it here. On Friday (July 10), Charli performed a handful of tracks from the LP live for the first time during an intimate pop-up gig at Brooklyn’s Music Hall of Williamsburg. Charli opened the show with three live debuts from ‘Music,…
