Author: Press Room
Each American Aquarium album is best viewed as a slice of BJ Barham’s life. The frontman writes in the moment, and his music is a distillation of the world as he sees it, and the life he has carved for himself along with his wife, Rachael, and their 8-year-old-daughter, Pearl, in the increasingly-suburbanized Wendell, North Carolina, a half hour east of Raleigh. In the two years since the last Aquarium record, as he wrote and recorded what became New Ways to Lose, Barham has been thriving. If Bueller were still around, that would be the takeaway from the 10-track, Shooter…
It's been more than a year since Blondshell released 2025's spectacular If You Asked for a Picturebut she's back again with more evocative rock songs. The singer-songwriter, whose real name is Sabrina Teitenbaum, just unveiled her third album Violinsset for a Sept. 25 releases via Partisan Records. “This record's heavy in a way,” Teitelbaum said in a press release, adding that her goal “was to have songs that hit hard.” Produced by Yves Rothman, mixed by Beatriz Artola, and mastered by Emily Laza, Violins features 11 tracks that “explore troubled friendships, religion, the body, and the long, unglamorous work of…
“One chord is ok. Two chords are borderline. With three you're already making jazz”, says a famous quote attributed to Lou Reed. But there is another option: if you have three chords, always the same three, IV-IV (the central one can at most be replaced every now and then by the relative minor), it is probably heartland rock. It is plausible that the expression tells you nothing. It is not, in fact, part of the canonical musical lexicon of the Italian enthusiast. Yet the sound it identifies is more vital today than ever. Reverberates in the big music by Sam…
Photo by Marco Aricthe There was little doubt that Tedua had become one of the most influential artists on the Italian urban scene. What was missing was perhaps only the last seal, the symbolic passage to the place that more than any other represents success in Italian music: the San Siro Stadium. On Tuesday 24 June the Genoese rapper took this step in front of a real sold-out, giving a show that combined the narrative dimension of his music with a production that was up to the occasion. The show retraced the most important chapters of his career, putting the…
Geolier are you already looking to 2027? This is the question that many fans have been asking themselves in the last few hours after the appearance of a new visual on the Neapolitan rapper's Spotify profile. A few hours after the start of the three sold out dates at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples, the message appeared on the streaming platform “Naples is your home 2027”accompanied by dedicated graphics. At the moment there are no official communications explaining the meaning of the initiative. However, the appearance of the banner coincides with one of the most important moments of…
On Tuesday, General Chris Donahue was relieved of his duties as top U.S. Army commander in Europe by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. The four-star general was the latest victim of Hegseth’s purging of the Army’s combat-tested leadership. Hegseth likes to use the phrase “G.I.’s over Generals” when talking in broad strokes about his plans, but it was hard not to believe that General Donahue was being axed for doing his duty leading the efforts to get Americans and allies out of Kabul in August 2022 as Afghanistan fell into the arms of the Taliban. There’s even a famous photo of…
Three albums, all classics. Let’s celebrate a budding rock & roll legend Olivia Rodrigo has spent her career making pop history, dropping three of this century’s best albums. She made her mark with her 2021 instant-classic debut Sour, and the even-better 2023 follow-up Guts. But with her brilliant new album, You Seem Pretty Sad For a Girl So In Love, she proves what everybody already knew: Olivia’s an artist with her own voice, not just here to stay, but already hitting the level of the all-time greats. She’s a master of every move whether she’s serving pop-punk bangers or piano-ballad…
Every month the panorama of new releases becomes increasingly crowded. How to orient yourself? Our Spotify playlists are intended to be a useful compass to point out some of the most stimulating news. This time too, the editors of OndaRock have selected songs that tell the evolution of rock, the thousand faces of contemporary pop, the electronic trajectories, the voices of songwriting, the most eclectic experiments, the mutability of border jazz, the creativity of the Italian scene and the darker tones that resonate in the underground. An agile – and, we hope, stimulating – overview for those who want to…
After almost twenty years of waiting, “Eros”, the legendary “lost album” by Deftones, has suddenly resurfaced online. On June 22, on a forum dedicated to Chino Moreno's band, eleven songs appeared attributed to the sessions of the unfinished album, recorded between 2007 and 2008. The diffusion of the material immediately sparked debate among fans: there are those who consider these recordings a precious testimony to the history of the group and those who, however, believe that listening to them means violating the will of the band. “Eros” was supposed to represent Deftones' sixth studio album. Officially announced in January 2008,…
Robyn invited CMAT to the stage to perform ‘Call Your Girlfriend’ during her show in Dublin last night (Wednesday June 24). Watch the footage below. The Swedish pop star played at the 3Arena in the Irish capital to kick off her 2026 ‘Sexistential’ headline tour. She treated the crowd to a 19-song set featuring tracks from her latest album of the same name, as well some old classics and fan favourites. After beginning the encore with ‘Missing U’ from 2018 album ‘Honey’, Robyn brought out CMAT to assist her on ‘Call Your Girlfriend’ from 2010’s ‘Body Talk’ (via Setlist.FM). Fan-shot footage…
