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About three months after officially announcing that he was leaving Enhypen, the singer formerly known as Heeseung is officially embarking today on his solo career under the new stage name Evan. His debut project as a soloist, Ride or Die, features two tracks that he participated in from ideation through topline creation, and offers a first glimpse into who Evan is as an individual and the stories he hopes to tell through his music. With Ride or Die, Evan strips away all expectations and aims to start over and present an unfiltered side of himself. The project is defined by a commitment to…
The second episode of has been released on YouTube SPOT – THE PODCASTthe format hosted by Michele Monina And Massimiliano Longodirector and founder of All Music Italy. Guests of the episode Georgie And Paola Iezzicurrently engaged in X Factor as presenter and judge respectively, who tell their stories without filters about their thirty-year career, the profession seen by women and the relationship between talent and apprenticeship. 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 audience of young artists of the festival, with…
“Life Of Mu” marks the most intimate album by Artur Strekalov, an author who has always fluctuated among the reverberations of the unconscious. The change of direction is not in the material, but in the structure: a fragmentary diary made of impressions and sketch of the moment, brought to life by the presence of stories told by close friends, cinematic champions and an attitude to collage sound which here becomes more melodic and material, less ethereal. This is also confirmed by the length of the songs: despite the genres covered, they range from a scant minute to just three minutes,…
A year ago two concerts by Jonny Greenwood and the Israeli Dudu Tassa, fresh from an album in which they were accompanied by musicians and singers from Syria, Lebanon, Kuwait and Iraq, were cancelled. A success of peaceful pressure on venues in London and Bristol, according to the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel. According to Greenwood and Tassa, however, the venues that were supposed to host them were subjected to such threats as to endanger the safety of musicians, workers and the public.It's a topic the Radiohead guitarist doesn't like to talk about in interviews.…
In honor of Father’s Day, Moshe Kasher revealed he was diagnosed with tonsil cancer. The comedian and writer shared a series of slides of Instagram detailing his experience, including a recent surgery. Kasher explained that he discovered the cancer while working on the Judd Apatow–Glen Powell project The Comeback King in Savannah three months earlier. “I found a bump on my tonsil,” he wrote. “It was cancer, which did not rule so hard.” Last week, Kasher underwent surgery at Cedars Sinai, which involved “a Jewish robot” yanking “my jaw open for five hours.” “This has been the most terrifying and consciousness…
The story of Open To The Sea began in 2017. Born as an occasional collaboration between Enrico Coniglio and Matteo Uggeri, it turned into a stable parallel path that took its name from that first piece. Starting from “Ten Rooms Under The Sea”, released at the end of 2023, the project has become a trio with the inclusion of Saverio Rosi. “Beyond The Emotional Flood” is the seventh product of this synergy and continues to speak with that peculiar electroacoustic lexicon explored and fine-tuned also thanks to many external interventions. A sound inclined towards emotional content, built on a measured…
Sometimes reality meets fiction and the original mixes with the copy. After the success of MichaelAntoine Fuqua's film about Michael Jackson that surpassed Bohemian Rhapsody in terms of total grosses worldwide, the Jacksons have announced a new tour.Beyond some historical inconsistencies and strange disappearances (see this article), Fuqua's film focuses on the first part of Michael's career, including the period with the family group the Jackson 5 and the reunion after the boom of Thriller by which time they were calling themselves the Jacksons.For some time the group has been led by Marlon and Jackie Jackson, who are however the…
While closing out this year’s TRNSMT Festival, Lewis Capaldi opened up about a period his mental health “took a beating” and confirmed he’d be taking some time away to write a new album. READ MORE: Lewis Capaldi – ‘Broken by Desire to Be Heavenly Sent’ review: overwrought and frustrating This year’s edition of the three-day event took place on Glasgow Green over the weekend, with Richard Ashcroft, Kasabian, and Capaldi headlining. The latter’s slot last night (June 21) followed him making his return back in November with ‘Survive’, marking his first new music since his 2023 album ‘Broken By Desire to Be…
Olivia Rodrigo's new album, You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Lovedebuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, marking her third No. 1 LP and her biggest sales week ever. It was also largest week of 2026 for any album by a soloist, meaning You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love outperformed Drake's Iceman. Rodrigo's album sold 485,000 units in the United States in the week ending June 18, according to Billboard. By comparison, Drake sold 463,000 for Iceman in May. Drake has held the No. 1 spot since then for four weeks,…
«Once upon a time» is the new EP by Tommi Scerdreleased by Pioggia Rossa Dischi: a work born between Italy and China, as if music were a way to hold distant places together and make them, for an instant, communicating. We had a chat with Tommi to delve into the folds of «Once upon a time»discovering how imagination can become the sharpest tool to decipher our present, our roots and our precious imperfections. Here is our interview: In “Once Upon a Time” the fairy tale does not seem like a way to escape from reality, but a tool to read…