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Kelly Clarkson found herself emboiled in an online feud with Brooklyn shop Art of Play over the weekend. On Saturday, the singer shared that she had visited the store and was met with an experience similar to the one Julia Roberts’ character encounters in Pretty Woman. “Just drove all the way to Brooklyn to check out this store I thought looked really rad and had a few things in mind to buy and literally was looked at as if I couldn’t afford it and was told he could find something comparable for me,” she wrote on X. “Wow, dude. You’re…

When two paths to ecstasy unexpectedly converged in the middle of the Mediterranean, Maxime Denuc’s Club Imperiale was born. Two years ago, the French composer was sent video footage of a bride and groom walking the aisle on the small Spanish island of Menorca, but it was the soundtrack, rather than the scenery, that made an impression: Instead of the standard nuptial accompaniment—Vivaldi, Bach, Celine Dion—the organist performed Denuc’s own “Infinite End,” a minimalist epic from his 2022 album Nachthorn.Encountering his own music reverberating through the church’s majestic limestone arches, Denuc experienced a vision of gleaming whitewashed chapels perched above…

But once the album lands on its fourth tune, the wheels start to come off. The 2-steppy “I’m Just Being Honest” is an overheated Overmono pastiche with perfunctory drums and grating vocal samples, with different phrases pitched up or down seemingly just for the sake of doing it. You can hear frustration in the words, but the vocal processing and generic production dull any emotion, a problem that drags down much of the album. Some tracks are perfectly catchy—like “Obsessed,” with its rolling jungle breaks and atomized vocal samples, or “I Don’t Know What It Is,” a fusion of drum’n’bass,…

Aging gracefully as a pop band is difficult. This is music for teenagers, which, at best, brings a technicolor flush to the infatuations, the growing pains, and the outrages of youth. Teenage Fanclub once scaled those adolescent heights by excelling at the basics: Their 1995 single “Sparky’s Dream” still boasts the dreamiest power pop melody ever put to tape, while 1991’s “Alcoholiday” illustrates how it feels to fall into bed without falling in love. It’s been decades since these Scotts have leaned into their killer instincts. Even when “Home,” a lovely amble from 2021, breaks into a solo, Raymond McGinley’s…

Alice tumbles down the rabbit hole into Wonderland, Lucy enters Narnia through the back of a wardrobe, and Dorothy gets whisked away in a tornado to the Land of Oz. Literary theorist Joseph Campbell would define each of those moments as a “call to adventure,” the first step of the hero’s journey that underlies all storytelling. Now we can add one more such odyssey to the list: Marina Herlop follows her muse into the world of Dja Dja.After two relatively unadorned albums of piano and voice, Herlop made her name with the expansive Pripyat and the daring Nekkuja. For her…

“To be creatively understood by too many people feels like flies settling all over your clothes and all over your face,” Fontaines D.C. frontman Grian Chatten told NME in his typically vivid and poetically unsettling manner on the eve of their last album ‘Romance’. “Every now and again you have to fucking shake them off, just to see who you are again.” After the neon shock and anti-nostalgia sentiment of the genre-defying ‘Romance’, there were certainly no flies on Dublin’s finest. But then what? A winning formula that turned one of the most acclaimed bands of recent years into a…

The Neighbourhood’s Jesse Rutherford also performs “Sweater Weather” at Sombr’s Kia Forum gig Sombr brought out surprise guest Lindsey Buckingham to perform a Fleetwood Mac classic during the singer’s Los Angeles concert Saturday. “I’d like to welcome to the stage someone I look up to so much,” Sombr said in his introduction. “This man’s music is one of my biggest influences. I grew up on this guy, I think we all grew up on this guy, everyone… He’s just been a great mentor, a great person. Please, give it up for the fucking legend, Lindsey Buckingham of Fleetwood Mac.” Buckingham…

Le pagelle di Amici 26 della prima puntata, andata in onda domenica 11 ottobre dalle 14 su Canale 5 e in streaming su Mediaset Infinity, sono di Luca Jurman, vocal coach, cantante, arrangiatore e produttore. La conduzione è di Maria De Filippi. Jurman, per quattro stagioni insegnante di canto ad Amici, dà un voto a tutte le 12 esibizioni dei cantanti, da 4 a 6. I sì e i no di Amadeus, Rudy Zerbi e Samurai Jay, i tre responsabili artistici del canto, sono nel racconto della prima puntata.Leggi ancheNicolò Bassani, Un altro ancora: prestami l’aria anche se fa paura…

The year was 1976. Everything was weird — but especially the music. Everyone walked around saying “Dy-no-mite!” or “Up your nose with a rubber hose.” Jimmy Carter became the first President to hang out with the Allman Brothers. The Apple computer and VHS player were invented. So was The Muppet Show. The Farrah Fawcett poster was everywhere. The radio was full of Stevie Wonder and Kiss. On Saturday Night Live, Lorne Michaels offered the Beatles $3000 to reunite. A few months later, George Harrison showed up to collect. It was that kind of year. You could go to the movies…

“It was detected at a very early stage and is well-localized,” the pontiff said Sunday. “The doctors believe that it is best to intervene” Pope Leo XIV announced Sunday at the Vatican that he will soon undergo surgery to remove a nodule in his lung. The pontiff made the announcement while addressing those gathered in St. Peter’s Square for the Angelus prayer, as subsequently on social media. “Dear friends, during some recent medical examinations, the doctors found a small, localized nodule in my lung,” Pope Leo XIV wrote. “It was detected at a very early stage and is well-localized. The…