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System Of A Down are launching pop-up shops with exclusive merch ahead of their huge UK and European tour. Their European tour will begin in Sweden on June 29, before the metal legends play venues in France, Italy and Germany, and two mammoth nights at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium in London on July 13 and 15. They wrap up the tour with a stop in Poland on July 18, and supporting them at all dates will be Queens Of The Stone Age and Acid Bath, with the latter having reformed in 2025 after a 17 year hiatus. The 2026 shows…

In 1992, on the pages of the British magazine Melody Maker, Siouxsie Sioux retraced her artistic journey through twelve fundamental records. A varied background emerged that drew on different worlds: the glam-rock of Marc Bolan and David Bowie, the urban nihilism of Lou Reed and the Stooges, American punk, the contemporary music of Philip Glass and even the soundtracks of Bernard Herrmann and the classical compositions of Prokofiev. The first great point of reference for Susan Janet Ballion was Marc Bolan and the song “Jeepster”. Even more than the music, what struck her was its ambiguous and elusive image. “Bolan's…

The Competition & Markets Authority, the competition and markets authority that protects consumers in the United Kingdom, has ordered the StubHub UK platform to refund 50 thousand consumers and pay a fine of 900 thousand pounds, equivalent to over one million euros.The live event ticket marketplace did not display the total price of tickets from the start of the purchase process, as required by UK law, adding mandatory fees late in the process.For 50 thousand or more consumers, a total of over 590 thousand pounds will go, over 680 thousand euros, with an average reimbursement of around ten pounds each,…

Editors have announced their eighth studio album, ‘Surface, Echo & Sound’ – listen to new single ‘The Rush’ below. READ MORE: Editors – ‘EBM’ review: brooding bangers show flashes of their very best The Birmingham band are due to release the 11-track record on October 30 via Play It Again Sam, following on from 2022’s ‘EBM’. You can pre-order/pre-save it here. ‘Surface, Echo & Sound’ will feature Tom Smith and co’s previous single ‘Call It In’, which they shared in April alongside news of a UK and European tour for 2027. For their upcoming new LP, Editors adopted a more organic…

Return to the typical aggression of the early Eighties with Speedslut, a band from Aalborg that has been active for about three years and has reached its debut full length after an excellent EP dated 2025 from… Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM

Edinburgh International Festival has confirmed that every show in its Queen’s Hall series will be a “phone-free” environment this year. The 2026 edition of the event is scheduled to take place between August 7 and 30, boasting a “hand-picked programme of the finest performers in dance, opera, music and theatre”. Today (Tuesday June 23), organisers have shared details of the festival’s new ‘Lights Down, Phones Off’ policy, and are urging concertgoers to “lose yourself in the moment”. “We’re acting on what audiences and artists have told us: phones are disruptive,” the announcement reads. “In 2025, phones interrupted every single concert…

Charli xcx crede nei fantasmi e quindi tende a evitare i posti dove potrebbe incontrarli. Non oggi, visto che ci troviamo nell’enorme Hollywood Forever Cemetery che lei stessa ha scelto come luogo dove fare l’intervista. Qui riposano circa 95.000 anime tra cui quelle di Judy Garland, Cecil B. DeMille e Dee Dee Ramone. Tirare fuori una tavola Ouija non serve, per Charli. «Probabilmente siamo già posseduti», dice osservando il posto attraverso le lenti scure degli occhiali da sole.Ci troviamo in una sezione del cimitero chiamata Garden of Legends e s’affaccia su un laghetto tranquillo adornato da salici piangenti, palme e…

All You Can Hate they are a Roman band with indie rock sounds contaminated by post-punk, midwest emo and shoegaze, the lyrics of the songs talk about contemporary generational discomfort: social isolation, addiction to social media, desire for change, sense of impotence, love and hate that overlap without clear boundaries. Afterglow is their latest EP, published by Vina Records, which consists of seven tracks, available on all digital platforms and in vinyl ed format. limited and numbered, available for purchase on Bandcamp and on the Vina Records website. The video clip is a live session recorded in studios of Radio…

Few record companies have had such a broad and lasting influence from a stylistic point of view as Clive Davis. Died yesterday at the age of 94, he entered the world of rock through the Monterey festival in 1967, when he was struck by Janis Joplin. It wasn't at the beginning of his career, but it was his rock “baptism” that then led him to deal with various labels, from Columbia to Arista to J Records, with artists ranging from Carlos Santana to Bruce Springsteen, from Whitney Houston to Alicia Keys (his story here).And so after his death, copious messages…

The Cardigans legend Nina Persson has spoken to NME about the band’s return to London, while looking back on surviving the highs and lows of the ’90s and contemplating new material in light of a new generation of fans. The Swedish indie veterans will be performing at Hammersmith Eventim Apollo on Saturday (June 27), marking their UK show of 2026 and first in the country since 2018. This will be a special early doors show with a 9pm curfew, so fans can still catch England’s World Cup match against Panama. Chatting to NME from on the road in Barcelona, frontwoman…