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“THEt's been a big week!” declares James Smith, sat in a precious patch of Kings Cross shade in the middle of London's apocalyptic heatwave. “I've just been to the Royal Academy to see my paintings, now I'm doing an interview with NMEtomorrow I'm starting therapy – AND,” he suddenly remembers, waggling a finger gleefully towards bassist Ryan Needham, “we're going to Dishoom later! A lot's happening!” There's more than a whiff of playful humor to the way the Yard Act frontman delivers his to-do list. Half a decade in and approaching the release of career-best third album 'You're Gonna Need…

Mick Jagger has clarified what his “mad mogul” lyric on The Rolling Stones‘ new album  ‘Foreign Tongues‘ is really about. Find all the details below. READ MORE: Mick Jagger on The Rolling Stones’ future: “I’m already writing for the next album The band’s 25th album, released last week, sees Jagger examine the state of America today, with track ‘Mr Charm’ specifically calling out Elon Musk by name. “When I was oh-so-young, I used to want to go to Mars/ And burn the rubber on the road, And drive around in fancy cars,” Jagger sings. “And who would take you into space?…

The song comes off the British singer's recent debut LP, Visitor Sienna Spiro stopped by The Tonight Show to perform her song “Great Expectation,” taking the late-night show stage alongside a live band and two back-up singers. The British singer offered a sultry, impassioned rendition of the anthemic song. “Great Expectation” comes off Spiro's debut album, Visitorwhich dropped earlier this month. She shared a music video for “Great Expectation” on the day of release, which shares its visuals with her live performance on The Tonight Showincluding its red and white backdrop. In a review, Rolling Stone wrote of the album,…

For the first time in Italy, Bologna and the Music Museum they host QUEEN The Last Tourphotographic exhibition by Torleif Svensson dedicated to Magic Tour in 1986, Queen's last tour with the historic full lineup made up of Freddie Mercury, Brian May, Roger Taylor and John Deacon, whose 40th anniversary is celebrated this year. The exhibition project joins the Images a selection of original items belonging to Freddie Mercury and Queenincluding some material never before presented to the public, offering a close-up account of the band's last great live season.The International Museum and Library of Music of Civic Museums Sector…

On the latest episode of The Daily Show, Jon Stewart addressed Donald Trump‘s mediocre reaction to the death of Senator Lindsey Graham, who died on July 11. “The big news from the weekend was the sudden passing of Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina,” Stewart said as he opened the show. “Now, obviously, I knew him a bit from lobbying down at Capitol Hill, but I didn’t know him particularly well. So I’ll let Lindsey Graham’s best friend memorialize the late senator.” Stewart then cut to a clip from Fox and Friends, where Trump called in and said, “He was…

All Life Of Olly achieved its ninth platinum album. The certification, which arrived with this week's FIMI survey, brings the album published in October 2024 just one step away from diamond discthe highest threshold established by the Italian Music Industry Federation. The achievement adds to the fourth platinum obtained last week by Silly Nostalgiathe song with which the Genoese singer-songwriter won the 75th edition of the Sanremo Festival. With these two recognitions Olly reaches 40 certifications in his career: 30 platinum records and 10 gold records. What is needed for the diamond disk The diamond is obtained by overcoming the…

It's called “If I were” the new song by Martha May which explores one of the most common and exhausting dynamics of the human condition: the risk of being trapped in a time that doesn't exist. Through a continuous game of hypotheses (“if I were”, “if I had”, “if only I had”…), the song photographs that psychological limbo tense between the ghosts of the past – the things not done or the missed presences – and the projections of an ideal future never experienced. It is not necessarily an autobiographical piece, but rather a universal story that anyone can relate…

Flaco G returns with a new single. It's called PAO PAOcomes out Friday July 17 for Atlantic Records/Warner Music Italy and once again bears the signature of Lubiwith whom the Milanese rapper had already collaborated. The song arrives two months after the release of THE GOLDFATHERthe first album, and precedes the appointment of October 12th at the Fabrique in Milanthe first headlining date in the club. PAO PAO, the new single with Lubi PAO PAO it's built on a straight rap, with recognizable punchlines and an immediate chorus. The verses alternate technique and character, in a combination that works precisely…

Garrett Burke collects weird sounds. He has an aficionado’s ear for the wet slap, the digestive gurgle, the fleshy smack that might be pornographic, violent, or both. The Philadelphia-based experimental percussionist crafts all of these noises himself, and then stores them in Ableton, like jars in an apothecary. He hammers out a welter of cross-rhythms on a discontinued MIDI drum pad with all these sounds, piles on effects with a rat’s nest of modules, mulches that back into Ableton, and then spits it back out onto his drum pad, adding ever more layers.Somewhere in this regurgitative process, the music takes…

Sadie Dupuis is still a hot mess—“like, infinite degrees,” to be exact. On “Six Ways,” her humblebrags surf programmed drumrolls that tick like a faulty gas stove and riffs that punch like the ones on Sleigh Bells’ debut. It’s been over a decade since the Speedy Ortiz record where Dupuis dubbed herself “caller of the shots” and “the best at being second place”; now, the cool-loser laureate fancies herself an “armchair head cheerleader.” It’s a juxtaposition that sums up Dupuis’ niche as a hardworking oddball putting her slacker vocal fry and poetry MFA to use in tongue-twisting, slice-of-life pop rock…