Author: Press Room
Miguel has issued a statement against racist attacks on his family. The Grammy-winning R&B singer took to Instagram on Friday (August 28) to call out the “racism, harassment, stalking, invasions of privacy, and false allegations” he, his partner, Margaret Zhang, and their child, have been facing “Recent racist and anti-Asian attacks directed at my partner — including comments and DMs, as well as abusive comments about my child — crossed a line that should require no explanation,” the singer wrote. “People can have opinions about me. About the music. About the work. I accept the realities that come with doing anything…
At around 5:19 p.m. on the last Monday of August 1997, Dillon Moulder recalls the moment he snapped a photo that has gotten more interesting with age. He was standing downstairs in a social space off Thorpe Close in Ladbroke Grove. Nearby, under the Westway, Jay-Z was about to walk onstage at Notting Hill Carnival. Moulder wasn’t even there as a photographer. “I was an A&R at that time,” he says. He worked for an independent label based in Ladbroke Grove, and one of his artists, the British rapper Mr45, had been invited to perform on Tim Westwood’s Radio 1…
Sam Smith has revealed their regret at not responding to a letter Tom Petty sent them during the songwriting-credit dispute surrounding ‘Stay With Me’. The singer reflected on the controversy during a recent appearance on Alchemy With Anthony Mason, maintaining that they had never heard Petty’s ‘I Won’t Back Down’ before writing their 2014 breakthrough single. Petty and Jeff Lynne were added as co-writers of ‘Stay With Me’ in 2015 after the publishers of the 1989 track contacted Smith’s team about similarities between the songs’ choruses. Smith’s representatives described the resemblance as a “complete coincidence” at the time, with the parties ultimately reaching an amicable agreement. “You’ve…
Twenty One Pilots debuted ‘Robot Voices’ live and covered The Beatles, Radiohead and The White Stripes at All Points East – watch footage below. Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun closed the 2026 edition of the London festival at Victoria Park last night (August 30), playing a career-spanning set for their only UK appearance of the year. Among the biggest moments was the first live performance of ‘Robot Voices’, taken from their eighth studio album ‘Breach’, which is due out on September 12 (pre-order here). They were joined for the song by Emi Grace, who had performed on the festival’s E3 Stage earlier that day, and it concluded with Joseph…
Bruce Springsteen joined Bleachers onstage during their recent Asbury Park gig to perform ‘Jersey Girl’ and ‘Chinatown’. Watch the footage below. The Boss teamed up with the Jack Antonoff-led band on ‘Chinatown’ in late 2020. That December, the two New Jersey acts recorded a stripped-back rendition of the song on the roof of Electric Lady Studios in New York City. After that acoustic version, they performed it together once before its fully electric form in 2022, and now have teamed up again during Bleachers’ hometown show at Shadow of the City Festival on Friday (August 28). “There’s nothin’ like playing at home. There’s…
Chase & Status brought Reading 2026 to a close with a star-studded headline set – check out footage below. The UK production duo were the final act on the festival’s main stage – now known as The Grid – at Little John’s Farm last night (August 30), following on from co-headliner Florence + The Machine. They were joined by ArrDee for ‘Liquor & Cigarettes’, NADIAH for ‘Count On Me’, D Double E for ‘Levels’ and Novelist for ‘NRG’ in the first half of their set, which took place against a torrential downpour for the Reading crowd. IRAH contributed vocals during a mash-up of the duo’s remixes of Britney Spears‘ ‘Toxic’ and Shy FX and UK Apache’s ‘Original Nuttah’, while Flowdan came…
Un solo disco di platino: complici anche le nuove soglie delle certificazioni FIMI introdotte nel 2025, i tormentoni dell’estate 2026 ne lasciano sul campo soltanto uno, quello de La testa gira di Fred De Palma con Anitta ed Emis Killa, oltre 250.000 copie vendute. L’unico brano che può davvero fregiarsi del titolo di canzone dell’estate 2026. Agosto è ormai giunto al termine e con l’arrivo di settembre il mercato discografico si prepara a lanciare i nuovi brani che ci accompagneranno fino alla fine dell’anno, in attesa di Sanremo 2027. Ma prima di lasciarsi l’estate alle spalle, numeri di copie vendute…
KATSEYE have given an update on singer Sophia Laforteza’s hiatus ahead of their upcoming tour. The 2026 ‘WILDWORLD’ tour, which will take them across the UK, Europe and North America, kicks off on September 1. It includes shows at London’s The O2 and Manchester’s Co-op Live – see all of the dates here and find any remaining tickets here. It comes less than a month after Laforteza, who is the leader of the group, announced she would be taking a break to focus on her mental health. Now, the group has provided insight into Laforteza’s status ahead of the shows. In a statement…
Admit it, you miss me. María Isabel Severino is certain of that on her new post-relationship glow-up EP, Miss Me Much? As an aspiring star at a performing arts high school, she taped Alicia Keys posters in her locker and studied the sepia-toned R&B you might’ve once owned on CD. In 2021, she released two tender and subdued EPs, Stuck in the Sky and i hope you’re very unhappy without me. Now, she’s linked up with El Guincho, known for his career-making work with Rosalía, to produce her third. On a 20-minute tessellation of Latin pop flecked with dembow, reggaeton,…
Stone Gossard aveva 24 anni e nessuna voglia di mollare. Nel marzo del 1990, poche settimane prima del debutto su major, era morto per overdose Andrew Wood, il cantante dei Mother Love Bone, la band in cui suonava. Gossard e gli altri, tra cui il bassista Jeff Ament, erano rimasti a fare i conti con il lutto e non sapevano che fare. I Mother Love Bone avevano firmato un contratto discografico dopo aver fatto meno di dieci concerti, un successo quasi istantaneo che aveva fatto infuriare altre band locali. Quali erano le probabilità di vincere alla lotteria per la seconda…
