Author: Press Room

A Broadway jukebox musical about “Weird Al” Yankovic is in the works, Deadline reports. Titled Dare to Be Stupid, its soundtrack will be comprised of parody songs from throughout Yankovic’s extensive spoof oeuvre, including “White & Nerdy” (his take on “Ridin’” by Chamillionaire), “Amish Paradise” (Coolio’s “Gangsta’s Paradise”), “Eat It” (“Beat It”), “Like a Surgeon” (“Like a Virgin”) and “Smells Like Nirvana” (this one’s pretty obvious).“Ever since I was a middle-aged man, I’ve always wanted to be a part of the New York theatre community,” Yankovic said in a statement to Deadline. “Plus, the one thing people always say about…

Spring has sprung, bucket hats are back, and the imminent return of UK festivals can only mean one thing: The Great Escape. After 20 years, the Brighton shindig has grown into an unofficial curtain-raiser for UK festival summer, spotlighting the hottest emerging artists from around the globe across 35 venues. Alongside a conference programme and The Alternative Escape’s free showcase events, the seaside city will be overflowing with live music this week, kicking off tonight (May 13) as viral duo Angine De Poitrine headline NME’s opening beach party. Global stars including Haim, Little Simz and Sam Fender all cut their…

Isaiah Rashad’s new album title is hardly subtle: ‘It’s Been Awful’. Then again, his records have always been frank about life’s tough moments. From acclaimed 2016 debut ‘The Sun’s Tirade’ to 2021’s ‘The House Is Burning’, Rashad has long been the quiet outlier of Top Dawg Entertainment: woozy, moody and unwaveringly introspective, blending laidback Southern rap with neo-soul and jazz while continuously mining introspective terrain his labelmates only occasionally touched. His last album followed a tumultuous stretch of homelessness and rehab, and after another five-year wait, Rashad’s third full-length arrives out of an equally bruising period: relapses, family fractures and…

È quasi sera, e due figure abbandonate discendono una collina del profondo Veneto, da cui svetta un campanile. Uno è vestito di tutto punto. Jeans nero, scarpette con tacco, Ray-Ban, borsalino, cappellaccio, portamento e tratti orientali. Avanza a piccoli passi, da ballerino. Lei – quella che fa strada – ha la falcata più lunga, occhiali da sole di plastica neri, capelli un po’ schiariti, si accende una sigaretta di tabacco con un accendino di metallo. La falce e il martello incisa sullo zippo, e la scritta CCCP in corrispondenza della copertura dello stoppino. Si sono accorti che non c’è la…

The Ear is the Eye of the Soul (the ear is the eye of the soul) explains the poster positioned at the entrance to the Mystical Garden of the Discalced Carmelites in Venice, a monastic green space hidden inside a 17th century convent which since last week has hosted the much talked about and eagerly awaited Pavilion of the Holy See for the Art Biennale, and from the moment we enter we cannot help but witness the change in sound perception to which we are called even just by the location.The wind blowing, shaking the leaves. The birds chasing each…

The Tonight Show will air a rerun on May 21 Following Jimmy Kimmel's lead, NBC will air a rerun of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on May 21 when The Late Show With Stephen Colbert broadcasts its final episode, according to Variety. With no new competition, The Late Showwhich CBS canceled after nearly 11 years on the air, stands to be the late-night leader for a final time. Since September 2015, when Colbert took over The Late Show from David Letterman, Fallon and Colbert have been crosstown rivals, both broadcasting late-night talk shows from New York City in the…

I knew a girl who wrote'Silent all these years'Where is she?We too asked ourselves, where did that girl go who in just a few years changed songwriting forever with her small earthquakes. After the very thunderous falls of the current millennium, we welcomed the newfound composure started with Deutsche Grammophon and evolved into the good “Unrepentant Geraldines”, leveling out, however, on a prudent and lazy sufficiency in the following years. In this scenario of limited expectations, how can we not react with renewed fear to the news of a titanic event concept of seventeen tracks? A declared political invective, territory…

When the reference to Pascoli's little boy began to be repeated incessantly among the school desks, my CD player first, then MP3, investigated with cautious fear the American emo of the late nineties, that of Sunny Day Real Estate, Texas is The Reason, Mineral. After all, what was more similar to the concept of a child than these boys, who soon became men, who looked at themselves with such ferocious emotional naivety? Midwest emo, that specific subgenre made up of serpentine intertwined guitar arpeggios and math rock-style drum rhythms, would have arrived later in my life, but I still believe…

All true: after the case of Taylor Swift, a concrete move has arrived in Italy too to combat musical deepfakes generated by artificial intelligence. It was accomplished by Giusy Ferreri, who decided to register her vocal timbre as a sound trademark with the European Union Intellectual Property Office, effectively becoming the first European artist to choose this path to defend herself from digital cloning of the voice.The singer's lawyer revealed this to Repubblica. «In the era of artificial intelligence, voice recognition takes on a central role also with respect to unauthorized uses, imitations and synthetic reproductions».A decision that comes at…

Christopher Nolan has explained why he cast rapper Travis Scott in his forthcoming movie The Odyssey. READ MORE: ‘The Odyssey’ could be Christoper Nolan’s biggest blockbuster yet The upcoming blockbuster, an adaptation of the epic Greek poem by Homer, sees Matt Damon lead an all-star cast telling the story of Odysseus and his journey home from the Trojan War. Tom Holland also plays Telemachus, Odysseus’ son, while Anne Hathaway, Zendaya, Lupita Nyong’o, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, Benny Safdie, Elliot Page, Samantha Morton and Mia Goth will also star. But back in January in a teaser trailer for the movie, Holland’s Telemachus is seen interrupted by Scott, who…