Author: Press Room
April is the cruellest month. You Are Spring!, the fourth album from Chicago-born, New York-based singer-songwriter Tasha Viets-VanLear, is decorated by soft flutters of woodwind and languid harmonies. It conjures a fantasy universe of analgesic pleasures. And like all little utopias it is imposed upon by a more complicated and painful reality.Even on the paradisiac-seeming a cappella introduction, a collaboration with Jamila Woods and L’Rain, something lingers in the foreground. The album’s opening line may sound like a positive affirmation—“Don’t die now/There is life to be found now”—but someone’s clearly close to dying, thinking about it, drifting into its orbit.…
What’s a Rick Owens hypebeast to do this side of Playboi Carti’s MUSIC? The gloriously messy rage-rap capstone could’ve brought a graceful conclusion to the era-defining breed of metallurgic trap that Carti popularized with 2020’s Whole Lotta Red. It was a full-circle finale that simultaneously celebrated and snuffed out its own generational sound. The neat critical narrative is that MUSIC’s untouchable extremity knocked rage unconscious, both with its glass-shattering production and zeitgeist-engulfing sprawl. The messier truth is that rage’s fanbase is still growing, even as the sound is trending toward a sharp creative decline. Second-wave ragers like Che and OsamaSon…
Steven Hall, the man behind the Nirosta Steel moniker, is fond of mentioning the notion of “deep play.” It’s a phrase coined by the 18th-century British philosopher Jeremy Bentham that describes a game with impossible odds, one that no sane or rational person would ever sign up for. More than amateurism or religion, “deep play” seems to have been the governing principle of how the musician has navigated his remarkable life.Hall moved to America from Scotland after urging his widowed mother to marry her closest suitor, studied poetry with Allen Ginsberg, Buddhism with the Chögyam Trungpa (the teacher who popularized…
Courteeners have shared a brand-new single, ‘Plus One Forever’ – you can listen to it below. READ MORE: Liam Fray talks Courteeners’ legacy, survival and unfinished business: “To be still breathing and wanting to do it is a fucking miracle” The track will feature on the Manchester group’s first ‘best of’ compilation, ‘God Bless The Band’, which is released on August 28 via Ignition. “‘Plus One Forever’ is a song I’ve had (in various forms) for quite a while,” frontman Liam Fray wrote on social media. “Buzzing to finally share it with you all today.” The love-struck anthem finds Fray…
Interpol are staring down the reality of AI on their atmospheric new single ‘Iron City’ – listen to it below. The track is the third to be taken from the New York band’s forthcoming ninth album ‘This Mirror Weighs A Ton’, which is set for release on August 28 via Partisan Records – pre-order it here. Following the Massive Attack-inspired title track and the single ‘See Out Loud’, ‘Iron City’ finds the band leaning into the tension between past and future that runs throughout the new record. Paul Banks’ lyrics conjure recurring dreams and strolls through Central Park, with the track’s recurring refrain of “I can…
Live Beats 2026the lineup of the second episode. This evening, Thursday 9 July, the second of five evenings of the show will be broadcast in prime time on Canale 5 TIM Battiti Live 2026, registered in Trani. To the management Ilary Blasi with Fabio Rovazzi And Daniele Battaglia. On this page you will find all the singers who will perform during the evening, enriched again this week by exclusive performances on the road recorded in two locations in Puglia: Manfredonia and Martina Franca. # Artist 1 Emma 2 J-Ax 3 Irama 4 Samurai Jay 5 The Kolors and Merk &…
Brian Molko has admitted he would love Yungblud to play him in a Placebo biopic. READ MORE: Placebo interview: “David Bowie taught me how to be a better person” Speaking in a new interview with Radio X, when it was put to him who he would choose to portray him and direct, the frontman gave The Doncaster artist (real name Dominic Harrison) his seal of approval and Jim Jarmusch. He said: “One of my favourite filmmakers is Jim Jarmusch. I have one of his films tattooed on my skin – Only Love Is Left Alive, my favourite film. “I think Yungblud would…
Graham Platner, the Democratic party’s nominee for Senate in Maine, ended his campaign today amid allegations that he sexually assaulted a woman in 2021. “We believe that for the movement to continue, it can’t be me,” Platner said in a video. “And for that reason, we are suspending campaign operations.” Democrats will now have to select a replacement candidate for the November election against incumbent Republican Senator Susan Collins. In the 11-minute video, which he posted to social media, Platner repeatedly denied the accusations made against him, while calling on Maine voters to continue the fight. “I learned about this…
New Girl creator Liz Meriwether is set to write the screenplay for the forthcoming Britney Spears biopic. Wicked director Jon M. Chu has already been confirmed to helm the anticipated project based on the pop star’s recent memoir The Woman In Me. Now, New Girl and Dying For Sex creator Liz Meriwether has been brought on board to write the script, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The Woman In Me was a huge success upon release and sold over 2.5million copies in the US alone, and shifted a million copies worldwide in its first week in October in 2023. Meanwhile,…
The Rolling Stones are gearing up to release their new album Foreign Tongues, their 25th LP arriving on Friday, and ahead of its release, Mick Jagger and Ronnie Wood appeared at an event in London where they previewed “Ringing Hollow” live. In the clip the band shared on Instagram, Jagger, Wood, and keyboardist Matt Clifford perform the song acoustically in what looked to be an intimate gathering. “So this just happened in London…,” reads the caption to the clip. “Mick and Ronnie have surprised guests at a special event, with a performance of Ringing Hollow, from the new album Foreign…
