Author: Press Room

The Glasgow band’s last album, Screen Violence, arrived in 2021 Chvrches dropped a new single, “Roses,” along with a music video for the raucous track. The song marks the first new music from the trio, comprised of Lauren Mayberry, Martin Doherty, and Iain Cook, after going on hiatus. A press release describes the song as “a mission statement for the band’s sonic shift.” It sees the musicians reflecting on the political state of Britain as Mayberry sings, “Raise a glass to delusions of the good days of blood and wine; of pearls for swine.” The chorus interpolates English folk song…

Compie vent’anni Il Rumore del Lutto Festival, la prima e più importante rassegna italiana dedicata alla cultura della Death Education. Dal 26 settembre al 15 novembre torna a Parma – dove continua a mantenere il suo cuore pulsante – per estendersi poi in altre città italiane e, per il secondo anno consecutivo, fino a Los Angeles attraverso le sue speciali Experience. Un festival che, anno dopo anno, si conferma punto di riferimento nel promuovere una riflessione culturale sulla morte e sul lutto, custodita dal claim «Vivi intensamente, abbraccia ogni istante». Un invito a ricordare che la vita è preziosa e…

Javier Bardem has shared a petition calling for Pink to be removed as a UNICEF ambassador over her response to Macklemore’s recent pro-Palestine comments. The actor re-shared several posts to his Instagram Stories on Monday (September 21) encouraging his followers to sign a Change.org petition asking UNICEF to remove the singer from the role. The petition, which was launched on September 11 by a group calling itself Swifties Against Genocide, has now surpassed 179,000 signatures. It argues that Pink’s recent comments are “incompatible with the role of a UNICEF Ambassador” and calls for the organisation to take “decisive action” by…

The Killers frontman recently released a country-inspired solo album, Thrasher Brandon Flowers stopped by The Tonight Show to perform “An American Dream,” a wistful song off his new LP Thrasher. Appearing alongside his band and several back-up singers, Flowers gave a rousing performance of the country ballad, which reflects on whether money can buy happiness. Flowers also sat down with host Jimmy Fallon to discuss Thrasher, which dropped last month. Some of the musicians who recorded on the album include Gillian Welch collaborator David Rawlings, pedal steel guitarist Bruce Bouton, and harmonica player Charlie McCoy, whose playing graced Bob Dylan’s…

La notte scende sulla collina e, per un momento, non esiste più un palco. Le voci arrivano dal buio, si accavallano, si cercano. Qualcuno canta con gli occhi chiusi. Qualcuno abbraccia uno sconosciuto. Qualcuno piange senza nascondersi. Le ultime luci del giorno hanno lasciato il posto alla luna e, sotto di lei, le persone si stringono attorno a canzoni che conoscono a memoria. La persona per cui sono venute non è lì. Eppure, se ci si guarda bene intorno e si ascoltano le voci, è difficile pensare che non ci sia veramente.La mattina del 29 luglio mi squilla il telefono.…

Tom Morello has spoken to NME about the “State of the Union address”  of new solo album ‘Everyone Gets Everything They Want’ – which sees him team up with Kneecap for the incendiary ‘Unconquered’. The Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave guitar hero turned solo star explained how the “spectre of authoritarianism” and rising tide of politicians globally embracing far-right ideology acted as a catalyst for the album, which also sees him collaborate with System Of A Down’s Serj Tankian, Beartooth, and his 15-year-old son Roman Morello (who has written savage riffs for five of the record’s 11 tracks). “In…

In Spike Lee’s 2000 stand-up showcase The Original Kings of Comedy, Steve Harvey has a Black-famous segment reminiscing on the days when “music was music.” On stage, he transports the rowdy crowd back to the mid-1970s, the era of yearning soul ballads that felt so deeply real they could send a tingle through your entire body. He makes his point by blasting a few examples: The sweet vocal harmonies of Earth, Wind & Fire’s “Would You Mind” gets people hitting doo-wop snaps in the aisles; the opening drum roll of the Ohio Players’ “I Want to Be Free” morphs into…

Dolly Parton’s estate has been thrown into legal turmoil less than a month after the legendary singer’s death. On Tuesday, She’s Alive — a corporation tasked with managing Parton’s sprawling business ventures — filed a restraining order in Nashville’s Davidson County Chancery Court against the singer’s nephew Bryan Seaver, who served as the Parton’s head of security and announced her death in a video. According to The New York Times, Seaver is accused of launching “an obscene, deliberate and escalating campaign of threats” to extract money from the Parton estate. The filing states that Seaver’s operation “was not a conventional…

Good morning, “Britain” was a centuries-long sociological study conducted by imperial grifters. In 2012, it came to an end; the country thanked us all for our participation in its great and terrible colonial project. The funeral took place at the London Olympics that year, and the ghost of Britain soon came rolling out on a Union Jack hovercraft.A new generation of artists has since scooped ooze from the zombie, venturing into a memory of Britain they were barely old enough to experience themselves: from PinkPantheress’ cool but campy vision of pre-austerity Britain to Jim Legxacy’s dreamy historiography of Black British…

Ask anyone who saw Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma, Jane Schoenbrun’s breakout horror-romance-comedy, to name the big musical moment in the film, and they will instantly say “Counting Crows.” When the film’s fictional slasher villain Little Death arises from the lake, some familiar piano chords surface as well, and “A Long December” plays uninterrupted, every single drawled “na-na-nah” and “yeah” accounted for, as counselors fall to the ground screaming in fountains of corn-syrup blood and fake guts. It’s transcendent; it’s hilarious. During my first viewing, I cackled so loudly during this scene I worried one of my neighbors…