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Queens Of The Stone Age have announced their first Icelandic show since 2005 – check out all the details below. Read More: How Queens Of The Stone Age’s ‘Rated R’ was a no-bullshit antidote to nu-metal Last night (Sunday June 21), Josh Homme and co. teased fans with a video showing a Google search of things to do in Iceland, which they followed up by searching when the band’s next gig there would be. Now, they’ve officially announced a one-off show at Reykjavík’s Laugardalshöll on Saturday October 24 at Reykjavík’s Laugardalshöll, marking a long-overdue reunion with local fans, who will also…

Time comes for us all in ways both banal (your Warped Tour tee is worth $300 on Grailed) and cataclysmic (someone you love dies). On Distant Lands, their fourth solo record, zzzahara, aka Los Angeles’ Zahara Jaime, stares backwards at the past’s foggy contours, whether it was last night’s nightmare or the vicissitudes of childhood. Through a slurry of distorted guitars and deadpan singing, the album brushes against grief, addiction, and abandonment through a layer of gauzy nonchalance.Sunny like an overexposed photograph, dysthymic like the “before” half of a Zoloft commercial, the record’s gentle shoegaze would sound just as at…

Sabine Réthoré è una cartografa e artista francese, autrice dell’opera Mediterraneo senza frontiere. Si tratta di una mappa del Mediterraneo ruotata di 90° rispetto alla rappresentazione convenzionale. Il nord si trova a est e il sud a ovest; lo stretto di Gibilterra è collocato nella parte superiore, mentre il Canale di Suez chiude il mare nella parte inferiore. Attraverso un gesto apparentemente semplice, Réthoré mostra quanto le mappe siano costruzioni culturali prima ancora che rappresentazioni geografiche.Osservando la Tunisia e l’Italia da questa prospettiva, i due Paesi sembrano quasi due mani che si allungano nel tentativo di stringersi. Le rispettive penisole…

An important year for indie rock, full of fundamental albums that laid the foundations for the music of the entire decade of the Nineties. There are many records released in 1990 that left their mark, as the golden decade of Britpop, but also of alternative rock and grunge, dawned. The Radio X webzine has decided to collect 25 of them in this list. Many of these records are absolute classics, several of them are also our milestones. Although obviously this is a very subjective and inevitably questionable selection, to be taken – as usual – only as a starting point…

In 2000, Jake Kaufman scored his first game as a professional chiptune composer: a mobile version of a silly little arcade game called Q*bert for the Game Boy Color (GBC). Q*bert is an archetypal 8-bit game: On essentially one single screen, with no substantial narrative, the objective is to step on squares to change their colors. It was a basic, consequence-free game, but the composing process was the opposite. With the GBC’s sound chip limiting him to just four individual instruments (bleeps and bloops), Kaufman could have taken the easy route and phoned in a simple score for a simple…

French electro-pop artist Cannelle Ferragu is from a tiny village in the south of France that you’ve probably never heard of. Where she lived, she’s said, there were no other Black girls and no one who shared her interests, “no alternative people whatsoever.” Only as a teenager did Cannelle discover an escape through Instagram and Tumblr: She’d go out into the meadows and stage self-photoshoots, pretending to be a “fairy in the forest” with her icy-blue hair.Since then, Cannelle’s world has opened up: On a whim, she began making music, and she’s played shows alongside Live From Earth in Paris…

Somewhere in the fashion industry, some smart people around a conference table are determining what’s getting produced next season: barrel-leg jeans out, giant jorts in, whatever. As far as I know they don’t do this in the underground pop scene, but if you need a guy, call CFCF’s Michael Silver, who is standing ready to give a just-back-in-fashion sound a bespoke makeover. In 2015 and 2019 it was new-age electronica, and in 2021 the Y2K-inspired cult classic Memoryland. On L.U.V., supposedly short for Life in Ultra Violet, the longtime electronic musician performs a similarly reverential refurbishment on some of the…

Diane Warren paid tribute to music executive Clive Davis following news of his death on Monday at his home in New York City at the age of 94. The prolific songwriter, who has nine Number One songs and 33 Top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100, mourned his passing and credited Davis for her success in the music industry, thanking the music mogul for always championing her work. “Dear Clive, losing You today feels like losing my father,” Warren began in her heartfelt remembrance shared to social media. “Because you were always family to me. It was my Dad…

More than twenty years after the Police's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Stewart Copeland continues to remember that evening with mixed feelings. In the documentary “Copeland”, the drummer says he felt “heartbroken” and felt a deep “sadness” after what was supposed to be a celebration of the band's history.On March 10, 2003, Sting, Andy Summers and Stewart Copeland reunited at the Waldorf Astoria in New York for the Hall of Fame induction ceremony, performing three classics from the Police repertoire: “Message In A Bottle”, “Roxanne” and “Every Breath You Take”. Yet, behind the scenes, the atmosphere…

Mad Cool have announced the final line-up additions for this year’s festival – check out the new names below. READ MORE: Mad Cool 2024: eight memorable moments from previous festivals The 2026 edition of the festival will run next month between July 8 and 11, and will see Pulp, Foo Fighters, Florence & The Machine, and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds perform at the 10th anniversary instalment. This year’s milestone event is set to bring together over 70 of the biggest names in music, with names including Twenty One Pilots, Lorde, CMAT, Wolf Alice, Jennie, Moby, The Last Dinner Party, Kings Of Leon, The War On Drugs, Halsey, Teddy Swims, Pixies, The Black Crowes, David…