Author: Press Room
John Mayer‘s new single “Tom and Jerry” began with a voice note and an urge to follow a new idea to the end of the road. Along the way, the singer-songwriter recruited a dream team of musicians to help hone in on the heart of the song, the lyric, “And if you ever come through, which I doubt you’ll do, I’ll run away with you.” “From that moment on, the adventure began in bringing that feeling to life,” Mayer shared on Instagram about the origin of the record, which marks his first single as a lead artist in five years.…
Los Tigres del Norte will bring their formidable spirit as headliners of Voto Latino’s “Ready. Go. Vote.” rally in Texas‘ Rio Grande Valley on Sunday, Oct. 25. The rally will take place in the outside space of Mustang Lounge nightclub and also feature Texas Senate candidate James Talarico, gubernatorial candidate — and RGV native — Gina Hinojosa, and musician-turned-politician Bobby Pulido, who is hoping to flip the Republican seat for Texas’ 15th Congressional District. “Voto Latino knows Texas is ground zero for the Latino vote,” said María Teresa Kumar, President and Co-Founder of Voto Latino. “We’ve directly registered close to…
Suede have shared with NME that they are “deep into” progress on their next album, which they describe as their “anarcho-punk” record. The band were speaking to us from the red carpet of the Mercury Prize 2026 in Newcastle, where their 10th album ‘Antidepressants‘ was shortlisted alongside records by the likes of Jade, Kojey Radical, Nia Archives and Florence & The Machine, but ultimately lost to Raye’s ‘This Music May Contain Hope‘. Ahead of their performance of ‘Dancing With The Europeans’, the alt-rock veterans shared that they didn’t think too much of their chances of winning anyway, especially having already…
Daft Punk have joined forces with Lego for a new collaboration, which so far includes a set of the duo and the iconic Pyramid they had on one of their tours. The partnership was unveiled in a new promotional video, which showed minifigures of the duo – formed of Thomas Bangalter and Guy-Manuel de Homem-Christo – finding a holographic red brick and following it through a dark landscape. In the new collab, there is a brand new Lego set replicating the iconic Pyramid stage design that the French electronic music icons had when they hit the road in 2007 for…
Billy Corgan has defended his friendship with Marilyn Manson and said that he “personally didn’t feel that he was guilty” of sexual and domestic abuse. The Smashing Pumpkins frontman has been friends with the shock rocker for decades now, and hit the road with him back in 2015 for the co-headlining ‘End Times Tour’. Manson spoke about how Corgan gifted him his very first guitar and tried to teach him how to play. He also opened up about having the same musical influences as Corgan and shared how they both love cats in a 2015 interview with Loudwire. They did…
Young Eman has become the talk of the UK underground with his warped, genre-blurring take on rap. The 20-year-old delivers sonic whiplash, hurtling between electronica, trance, trap and more at skin-melting speed before your brain has had a chance to categorise what it’s hearing. Since his explosive 2025 breakthrough EP ‘Steeze Kills’, the Sheffielder has stretched his music far beyond the conventions of rage rap. And on his debut mixtape ‘BINE (Born In New England)’, he pushes that restless experimentation to the max, finding beauty in the chaos – even when something bleaker lurks beneath it. From the start, you’re…
Isle Of Wight Festival has announced the headliners and its first wave of artists for 2027. See the line-up below. Next year’s edition of the three-day event will take place at Seaclose Park in Newport between June 17 and 20. It’ll mark the legendary festival’s 25th edition since its revival in 2002. Scheduled to top the bill on the main stage on the Friday night is Fatboy Slim. On the Saturday, Robbie Williams will close proceedings off the back of his history-making 16th UK Number One album ‘Britpop’. Headlining the final day of music at IOW ’27 will be Kings…
In the late ’70s and early ’80s, Lebanon endured an intense civil war. Sectarian tensions and the disrupting force of the Cold War plunged the Middle Eastern nation into decades of armed conflict, with a chilling effect on daily life. Music scenes were insular; tapes were copied by hand and passed between friends and family. Nearly every musician in Beirut knew one another. Against the backdrop of seemingly endless violence, artists banded together and dabbled in soul, disco, and jazz as a salve to their suffering. Beirut City Pop, the latest compilation by archival label Habibi Funk, tells the story…
Shabazz Palaces exists at the point of sublimation. For the past 15 years, Ishmael Butler and his cast of collaborators have drifted further and further into the outer reaches, deconstructing and reassembling hip-hop, jazz, and kosmische conventions into sprawling, proggy rhapsodies. Their grip on song structure has loosened with each record and, by their most recent, 2024’s Exotic Birds of Prey, nearly dissipated altogether. Butler’s imperturbable, reverb-soaked raps can feel like communiques from some cosmic entity ruminating on our stardust origins and infinite potentialities. It’s a Style Sport, the latest Shabazz Palaces album, delivers plenty of that signature haze, but…
It’s funny to think that when Jacques Greene started making hazy, dub-inflected house music for Night Slugs in the ’10s, some critics wondered why a producer from Montreal had wound up launching his career through a London label. “My best friends at the time were people I spoke to on the internet, people I was sending tracks back and forth to,” Greene once told Resident Advisor. “To me that never felt unnatural.” These days, situations like that are commonplace. Regional sounds will never be as localized as they were before SoundCloud, YouTube, and Bandcamp. Today, cross-regional pollination is the norm.…
