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Article by Umberto Scaramozzino The release of “Embers”, eleventh studio album released at the end of 2024, reported i God is an Astronaut to focus on the present and above all on the future. Having put aside the necessary celebrations for entering their third decade of activity, the Irish band had the opportunity to take back its creative strength and enjoy the contribution of Jo Quail (known for having already worked with groups such as Amenra and Mono) on cello and di Dara O'Brien on the sitar. “The End of the Beginning” and “All Is Violent, All Is Bright”, the…
Bobby Prince, the renowned video game composer who scored titles like Doom and Wolfenstein 3Dhe died at the age of 81. Prince's family confirmed the composer's death, adding that he “passed peacefully into Heaven's Musical Gates on June 16, 2026.” No cause of death was provided. “His innovative work helped define an era of gaming and influenced generations of players around the world,” Prince's family wrote in a Legacy.com obituary. “Through his compositions and sound design for landmark titles including Doom, Doom II, Wolfenstein 3D, Rise of the Triadand Duke Nukem 3DBobby helped establish video game music as a respected…
Twenty-two years after the last concert hosted by Luigi Ferraris, that of Vasco Rossi in June 2004, the Genoa stadium returned to an evening of music thanks to Olly. The Genoese singer-songwriter inaugurated the series of three concert-events of the “Tutti a casa” project, scheduled for 18, 20 and 21 June, in front of a total of around 90,000 spectators. Announced eight months ago during the double “Grande Festa” at the Milan Hippodrome and sold out in record time, the dates represent an important step in the artist's career, in his first experience as a protagonist in a stadium. During…
The Connecticut band Goose have declared their love for Brooklyn’s Geese. Goose are the indie jam band from Wilton, Connecticut who formed in 2014 and just released their sixth studio record ‘Big Modern!’ on June 12, while Geese are the creators of NME’s choice for the best album of 2025, ‘Getting Killed’. The former band have the edge in terms of how long they have been around, but it is no surprise that they are now being asked about their near-namesakes, given the buzz around them over the past year. In a new interview with Consequence, Goose frontman Rick Mitarotonda has given his take on the rise…
Article by Umberto Scaramozzino Around Italy there could be people close to becoming adults, who were waiting for a concert Jack White literally my whole life. In fact, his last appearances in our country date back to 2008, when he played in Turin and Ferrara with his The Raconteurs to promote the album “Consolers of the Lonely”. From that moment on, the most absolute emptiness. THE The White Stripes cease to exist, i Dead Weather they snub Italy, the Raconteurs don't go back, and with the prolific solo project that consolidated Jack White as one of the greatest rockers in…
FKA Twigs has shared a new single, the pulsing, vibrant ‘On Your Mind’, featuring Lil Yachty – check it out below. It is the musician’s first new music of 2026 and her return following the one-two punch of ‘EUSEXUA’, NME’s Number Three album of 2025, and its companion piece ‘EUSEXUA Afterglow’. Yesterday (June 19), ‘On Your Mind’ arrived on streaming platforms via Atlantic, a continuation of the techno club energy of her 2025 output. Produced by DJH, it features a verse from Lil Yachty, marking the two artists’ first ever collaboration. Check out the video, which sees Twigs performing some impressively tight choreography alongside a group of dancers, here: Twigs has…
In 2020, while the world was reeling from a global pandemic, there was only one thing that kept John Early calm: the Bon Appétit test kitchen. A content studio run by the venerated food magazine, the kitchen was a hallmark of internet optimism and a harbinger of the current pivot-to-video media model. “It was a huge fixation of mine,” Early tells me on a bench in Manhattan's Stuyvesant Square Park. “I was watching it in bed before going to sleep, not even to cook.” The comedian, 38, best known for his role as the acerbic gay best friend Elliott Goss…
The Strokes have postponed the release of their new album “Reality Awaits” by almost a month. The album, initially expected for June 26th, will now arrive on July 24th. Guitarist Albert Hammond Jr. clarified the reasons for the postponement, replying to a fan on X explaining that the band chose to move the release to coincide with the release on digital platforms with that of the vinyl edition. A postponement therefore linked to production and distribution issues, rather than to artistic or organizational problems. In the comments, subsequently removed but relaunched by users on Reddit, Hammond also hinted at something…
Hayley Williams was joined by The xx’s Romy in London for a version of Prefab Sprout’s ‘Wild Horses’ – watch footage below. The Paramore frontwoman is in the middle of an extensive run of shows around the world in support of her third solo LP ‘Ego Death At A Bachelorette Party’, which she released in July last year. Last night (June 19), she played the first of two straight nights at London’s Roundhouse, and towards the end of her set, she brought out Romy for a duet on ‘Wild Horses’, the track first released on art pop group Prefab Sprout’s 1990 album ‘Jordan: The Comeback’. The two singers previously worked together on a reworked version of…
“You've got a lot of fans out there, people are posting, marching in the streets,” the prison security guard tells a young inmate with thick eyebrows, handing him a stack of fan mail. “Apparently, there's even a musical.” “What kind of sick fucks would buy tickets to something like that?” the prisoner asks, prompting a round of laughter from the audience. It's Monday night and Luigi: The Musical has made its New York City debut as a staged reading to a sold-out crowd at the Green Room 42, a cabaret club in Hell's Kitchen. Four actors sit on chairs on…
