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I was excited for the challenge to compose a song in the ‘voice’ of Voyager 2. I have long been fascinated by the spacecraft and its journey, and asked myself what it might say to us if it could? This was an inspiring route to take to develop the song. The song had already started life as part of the ongoing work towards my new album, so when Professor Brian Cox invited me to write a piece for his new show, I sent him the voice memo of this song to see if it resonated. It immediately made him think…
T he trouble began with Harry Houdini’s beaver-skin top hat. Tim Moore — known in Columbus, Ohio, as Dr. Magic Smile — was a dentist and magician, in one. He performed sleight of hand to settle his patients’ nerves, and he helped run MagiFest, a longtime Columbus magic convention. But Moore didn’t just love magic. He had spent much of his life collecting antique posters and tricks that once belonged to history’s greatest magicians. One day in April 2011, a friend came to Moore with an irresistible offer: Houdini’s top hat. It was tall and dignified, nestled in the plush…
Idles began to reveal the future of the band live with “Levitator”, an unreleased song that represents the first real taste of the material destined for their sixth studio album, expected in 2027. After the release of “Tangk” in 2024 and the subsequent work on the soundtrack of the film “Caught Stealing” by Darren Aronofsky, the Bristol group seems ready to inaugurate a new creative phase.“Levitator” debuted on May 27 and 28 at the Estadio GNP Seguros in Mexico City and has since become the band's regular concert opener, also appearing in sets at festivals such as Primavera Sound, NorthSide…
M¥SS KETA announces the new single: it's called Hangover Girlfeaturing with Miss Bashfuland will be released on all digital platforms from Friday 26 June for Island Records / Universal Music Italy. The song is a lucid and irreverent photograph of a generation that refuses to choose between nightlife and everyday life, between last drink and first call in the morning, between dancefloor and 8am subway. Through the sharp irony that has always characterized it, M¥SS KETA builds a hymn dedicated to those who dance until dawn and a few hours later are already in front of a computer, behind a…
When the guitar legend Tom Verlaine died in 2023, at the age of 73, he was hailed as one of New York’s most influential musicians. He defined the city’s avant-garde-rock sensibility with his 1970s band Television, helping to kick off the CBGB punk scene. When he plugged his guitar into downtown Manhattan, in classics like “Marquee Moon” or “Breakin’ In My Heart,” he changed the way people heard music around the world. But now, Verlaine’s personal record collection is opening up. Discogs is partnering with the New York record store Academy Records, which acquired his collection, for a public sale.…
vote7.5 Bands: THE PRETTY RECKLESS Duration: 00:50:07 Available from: 06/26/2026 Label: Fearless Records Streaming not yet available. After having accompanied AC/DC around stadiums all over the world for the last three years – complete with a bat bite that is very Ozzy – it's not that The Pretty Reckless needed particular visibility, but in order not to miss anything, singer Taylor Momsen in the last year played with the surviving members of Soundgarden to celebrate their entry into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame and with the Foo Fighters, fishing out a couple of songs from an unreleased Mariah…
From 10 to 13 September, Doss Trento hosts the new edition of Poplar Festival: three stages between the Piedicastello neighborhood and the hill overlooking the city. Today, with the second release of the lineup, the billboard is enriched with international names and Italian confirmations.Among the highlights already announced are I Cani, who will conclude their summer tour in Trento before a new break from the scene, and Floating Points live – an electronic project by Sam Shepherd, a national exclusive – capable of moving between orchestral compositions and immersive sets with which they redefine the boundaries of contemporary electronics.The new…
Two Door Cinema Club have announced a huge outdoor London show to mark the 15th anniversary of their debut album ‘Tourist History’. Find all the details below. READ MORE: Two Door Cinema Club interview: “We don’t want people to kneel at the altar of our genius, we want to entertain them” The Irish trio are due to headline Crystal Palace Park in the capital on Friday June 26, 2026. They’ll be performing their 2010 first LP ‘Tourist History’ in full at the event, along with all their greatest hits. Support will come from special guests The Vaccines, James Marriott and The Royston Club,…
The third episode of has been released on YouTube SPOT – THE PODCASTthe format hosted by Michele Monina And Massimiliano Longodirector and founder of All Music Italy. Guest of the episode, fresh from the launch of Black Monday, Mr. Rain. The artist talks about himself without filters between fifteen years of apprenticeship, the two albums in progress, the new tour in theaters and a clear reflection on a market that moves too quickly. The podcast was born within the Spot Music Festthe Bareggio festival of which All Music Italy is media partner. A dialogue recorded in front of the festival's…
The Editors are back with a new album. The band led by Tom Smith will release “Surface, Echo & Sound” on October 30th, the British band's eighth studio work and first recording chapter after “EBM” in 2022. Accompanying the announcement also comes the single “The Rush”, available together with a video clip shot in Tokyo and directed by Henry Ehara (see below). After the electronic breakthrough of “EBM”, created with the contribution of Benjamin John Power, better known as Blanck Mass, the Editors have chosen to change perspective again. In the summer of 2025 the group met in Stafford to…
