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Lily Allen has responded to criticism of her current ‘West End Girl’ tour, saying she is “extremely proud of it”. The singer-songwriter is out on a UK and Ireland arena trek, marking the biggest headline shows of her career. She is performing her acclaimed 2025 album in full at the dates. Read More: Lily Allen – ‘West End Girl’ review: a vicious, vulnerable and victorious comeback As with her intimate theatre gigs earlier this year, Allen is not playing any of her older hits. However, a string section called the Dallas Minor Trio is reimagining some of the star’s classic tunes…
Listening to a record is a gesture that is becoming mechanical. The streaming era allows music to be the soundtrack of our days: a mental and physical exercise that is now habitual, by no means immune to boredom. Finding myself listening to the new album by singer-songwriter Ásgeir Trausti Einarsson was casual and involuntary. The promise of Icelandic music has already played all its cards to emerge in the contemporary folk-pop cauldron. Not even calling on John Grant for the English lyrics undermined the pleasant predictability of his latest rehearsals, at times prey to routine. However, it only took a…
The success of Michael. A couple of weeks ago the biopic dedicated to Michael Jackson topped Bohemian Rhapsody and with its 911.9 million dollars raised worldwide it became the highest-grossing musical biopic in history. Now Michael is officially the most successful biopic (not just musical) ever. With 977 million dollars at the box office (around 858 million euros) it surpassed the record set three years ago by Oppenheimer by Christopher Nolan, which grossed 965.It was clear from the first weekend of screenings in April that the film directed by Antoine Fuqua, with Jaafar Jackson as the uncle, was destined for…
Queens Of The Stone Age dusted off some deep cuts from their 2007 album ‘Era Vulgaris’ as they kicked off a run of European shows with System Of A Down last night (Monday June 29). Check out the videos and full setlist below. The trek kicked off at the Strawberry Arena in Solna, Sweden, ahead of dates in France, Italy and Germany, and two mammoth nights at the Tottenham Hotspur stadium in London on July 13 and 15. It is scheduled to conclude with two concerts in Poland on July 18 and 19. Both QOTSA and Acid Bath are supporting…
PRINCE come back with Sparksthe single is available on all digital platforms for Warner Records Italy / Warner Music Italy. After the route a Sanremo Giovani 2025 with Mon Amour and the publication of Very sad Sundaythe Emilian singer-songwriter opens a new chapter that anticipates his first EP. Who is PRINCE PRINCEstage name of Eugenio Bovina, was born in 2004 and is originally from Sant'Agata Bolognese. Growing up in the Emilian countryside, he began writing songs with his father's guitar, developing a writing style influenced by Italian songwriting and artists such as Vasco Rossi, Lucio Dalla And Cesare Cremonini. After…
The singer apologized for moving three upcoming concerts due to production issues Ariana Grande broke the “unfortunate” news to fans on Monday and announced that three stops on her Eternal Sunshine tour have been rescheduled due to production issues. “We are so sorry for these unfortunate scheduling changes,” Grande wrote on Instagram Stories. “This was our best and safest option as these challenges with production have come to our attention.” A July 12 show at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center was moved to July 14, while concerts at Boston’s TD Garden on July 22 and July 24 were rescheduled to July 23 and July…
Key to World Peace, the second album by Australian musician Sam Perry, aka Prophetic Justice Ministry, is an odd bird: Sometimes it rattles and churns, synth and drum machine scraping up against each other like ungreased pistons; at other points, it floats like fog, sounding a little like the creeping, elegant scores of Angelo Badalamenti. It frequently feels like a DIY folk record, not least when Perry, who was raised in New Zealand, faithfully covers Lana Del Rey’s “Mariners Apartment Complex” with a distinct Kiwi lilt. Uniting these decidedly disparate moods is a keen sense of atmosphere: Key to World…
Do you want alternatives? Do you want this alternatives? Metallica gives you the alternative, baby! We are in the 90s and after the alternative rock boom many bands that made it big in the previous decade are trying in one way or another to stay afloat. U2 more or less devote themselves to disco. Guns N' Roses spend a quarter of a century chasing the ghost of Chinese Democracy. And Metallica? Well, they get weird. And, contrary to what many say, that wasn't a bad thing at all.Load And ReLoadreleased in 1996 and 1997 respectively, are not strictly alternative records…
Jordan Patterson’s Songs From a Valley Girl is a rapid, wide-ranging follow-up. The five-song EP—the Los Angeles singer’s debut on Secretly Canadian—comes just nine months after her debut album, The Hermit, and spans a few subgenres of turn-of-the-millenium radio pop. Another singer—especially one so early in her career—might find herself getting lost in the cracks between, say, The Hermit’s standout “Racecar,” with its limber rap influence, and the EP’s waltz-like opening track “QDS.”But once the microphone’s on, everything Jordan Patterson does is in character, and the strength of that idea gives her the freedom to explore a broad spectrum of…
The most popular video on Madeon’s YouTube channel, with almost 70 million views, is also one of the oldest. The try-hard earnestness of “Pop Culture” is characteristic of the golden age of OK Go videos and ill-advised Chris Brown covers; the camera stays locked in on a then-17-year-old Hugo Pierre Leclercq’s uncalloused fingers as they dance across a Novation Launchpad cued up with samples of 39 different pop songs. Within the first minute and without the aid of Google, I can discern snippets of “Video Killed the Radio Star,” Kylie Minogue’s “Wow,” Gorillaz’s “DARE,” and, of course, some requisite Daft…
