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Madonna has refused to confirm or deny long-swirling rumours that Kylie Minogue will feature on her upcoming album. READ MORE: The NME Big Read – Madonna: ”People pick on me. That’s just the way it is” The pop legend is gearing up to release her 15th studio record on July 3 – the spiritual follow-up to 2005’s ‘Confessions On A Dance Floor’, and on Friday (June 26), she was a guest on The Graham Norton Show to discuss the album. Kylie made a surprise appearance during the interview, and the pair were immediately put on the spot by Norton, who said: “There are rumours that…
Instrumental storms. Rising tension, tormenting density, sudden clearings and moments of quiet. Shadow. Light. Pianissimo and fortissimo chasing and colliding. Many fans are used to associating sensations like this with the music of Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Mogwai, Explosions In The Sky, Mono, Sigur Rós. And to a term: “post-rock”. For some, this expression has even become synonymous with the musical style described above, a succession of highly emotional guitar surges and thinnings that others have mockingly named crescendo-core. Another label, less widespread but even more descriptive, is soft/loud. In addition to indicating the bands mentioned above, the combination is…
vote6.5 Bands: IRON REAGAN Duration: 00:10:18 Available from: 12/06/2026 Label: Relapse Records Six pieces for ten minutes of music: here is the proposal of Iron Reagan's new EP, “Demonetization”, as per true hardcore tradition.Let's clarify it right away, there isn't much to say: if you know the band's production and in general the type of crossover proposed, you can easily understand the extent of violence and aggression within these six songs. For those who don't have any bells that ring with the name Iron Reagan, we are practically talking about a partial incarnation (especially in terms of line-up, currently, in…
The story of the RCF Arena in Reggio Emilia – already the scene of the shipwreck of the Hellwatt Festival, later renamed Pulse of Gaia and finally officially canceled at the beginning of June, with the concerts of Kanye West and Travis Scott banned by the prefect at the end of May – is enriched by a new chapter made up of public accusations, legal threats and repeated denials. On June 27, C.Volo SpA, the company that manages the venue, issued two separate press releases in rapid succession, one against the founder and former artistic director of the festival Victor…
Tom Hardy is gearing up to release his debut rap album – check out all the details below. READ MORE: Czarface – ‘Czarface Meets Ghostface’ review The actor is collaborating with Czarface – the East Coast supergroup made up of producer 7L, rapper Esoteric, and Wu-Tang Clan‘s Inspectah Deck – for ‘Czarface Meets Frankie Pulitzer,’ with Hardy’s rap persona being Frankie Pulitzer, AKA Face Puller. Method Man will also make an appearance on the new album, along with El-O and Busta Rhymes. Hardy previewed the LP on Thursday (June 25) with new single ‘Brothers Grimm’, which, over a ‘90s hip-hop…
Do you want alternative? Do you want alternative? Metallica gives you alternative, bay-bee! After the early-Nineties alt-rock explosion, bands that had made it big in the Eighties largely pulled their hair out trying to fit in. U2 went disco. Guns N’ Roses spent about 25 years chasing Chinese Democracy. And Metallica? Well, they just got weird — and, contrary to popular belief, that wasn’t a bad thing. Neither of the quartet’s Load albums, released in 1996 and 1997, sound overtly “alt,” since James Hetfield and Kirk Hammett’s riffs owed a greater debt to the blues and Lynyrd Skynyrd than shoegaze…
Lorde marked the one-year anniversary of Virgin by sharing nearly 50 demos from the album, as well as shared a personal note about the making of the LP. “On Sunday night I was putting my clothes away and realized Virgin had been out for almost a year,” Lorde wrote in her newsletter to fans. “I decided something had to be done about that. To be honest I haven't really known how to talk about Virgin since it came out. I'd thought I was accustomed and even a bit desensitized to marketing and commodifying my feelings at this point in my…
Often viewed with distrust if not openly opposed by the rock of the 70s (a decade in which the Stranglers' amazing “Walk On By” was released), Burt Bacharach's music was rediscovered by subsequent generations of musicians, particularly fascinated by the lounge sounds of the 50s and 60s, subject to an impressive work of rediscovery and revisitation in the 90s, by Portishead's trip-hop & C. to Belle & Sebastian's lullabies up to the new ranks of Britpop and even the electronic scene, complete with unpredictable sampling (like that of “Blue On Blue” in Royksopp's “So Easy”). But, looking more carefully, the…
The Rolling Stones have released “Divine Intervention”, one of the two songs from “Foreign Tongues” featuring Robert Smith of the Cure. The curious collaboration, described by Mick Jagger during the presentation of the new album, was born almost by chance. “I saw this guy in the studio, from behind, with a long robe on,” Jagger recalled. “When he turned around he was completely covered in lipstick. I'd never met him before and I said, 'But you're Robert Smith from The Cure!'. He said, 'Yes!'” Once the initial embarrassment was overcome, the two began to converse and Jagger saw fit to…
B efore she was an acclaimed actress, comic, and vocalist, Midler was a young teen living in Hawaii and dreaming of the stage. At 14, she had a short-lived career in community theater. It involved being hired and then immediately fired for “hamming it up” so much that she drew attention away from the lead actress. The lesson was a swift one: You can’t upstage the star. So, Midler decided to become one. Now 80, Midler has three Grammys, two Tonys, three Emmys, four Golden Globes, and a history in the entertainment industry so storied that she genuinely can’t remember…
