Author: Press Room
Carly Rae Jepsen has spoken to NME about her upcoming double album, 'Day And Night', as well as heading out on tour for the first time since becoming a mother in March. Jepsen has always been a prolific songwriter who tends to follow each studio album with a companion piece featuring previously unreleased tracks. For example, her 2015 pop opus 'Emotion' was accompanied by the 2016 EP 'Emotion: Side B', which yielded the euphoric hit single 'Cut to the Feeling'. But this time around, the cult Canadian artist said she is going all-in from the start. “Sometimes in the past,…
Lionel Richie has postponed his next two concerts on advice from his doctors after cutting short his concert in St. Paul, Minnesota earlier this week. “Under advice from doctors to rest and return to full health, Lionel Richie has postponed his next two concerts,” a statement from the singer's team read. “Lionel is heartbroken to postpone these two shows and cannot wait to be back performing for his fans.” The impacted shows are Richie's June 26 gig in Chicago and June 27 in Columbus, Ohio; rescheduled dates were not announced at press time. The singer is expected back on the…
Dua Lipa just wants to get the world to crack open a book. Since 2021, the pop star has championed literary arts with her Service95 book club. Now, Lipa is moving that mission forward by opening her very own library. The first physical version of Service95, titled the Manifesto Library, will open on June 27 as part of new international book festival, BABELL – City of Books. Lipa's library will permanently reside inside the famed Livraria Lello bookshop in Porto, Portugal. In a press release, Lipa called the new library “a dream partnership” and a result of years pushing her…
Sombr returns with a new single, “My Body Isn't Ready”, an intense and vulnerable ballad in which he addresses the themes of self-esteem, body image and his own insecurities without filters. The song, written and co-produced entirely by the American artist, presents itself as an emotional anthem dedicated to those who struggle to accept themselves. “I hope this song can mean different things to different people,” Sombr explained. “It can be interpreted as a metaphor or in a literal way, as a description of how I have perceived my body all my life.” Sombr's goal is to transform a personal…
If it was probably “Sunday Bloody Sunday” that saved U2 from an early dissolution, as told by the Irish band some time ago, there are many other songs that contributed to “saving the life” of the Dublin band's frontman, Bono Vox. Sixty, to be exact. The U2 leader collected them in a playlist entitled “60 Songs That Saved My Life”, a selection of songs which, as he himself explained, represent the soundtrack of his existence. “These are some of the songs that saved my life, the ones I couldn't have lived without,” he wrote presenting the project on the band's…
Unsound Festival has announced the first tranche of artists for the 2026 edition, the first in the history of the festival to take place between two cities. From 2 to 6 October the event will start in Warsaw, and then move to Krakow from 8 to 11 October, with a dedicated train – the Unsound Train – which on 7 October will connect the two stages, also transforming the journey into part of the experience. No concert will be replicated: the festival was conceived as a single chronological journey divided into two chapters.For this reason, at least for now, Unsound…
Kneecap have launched a pop-up merch shop ahead of their huge show at Crystal Palace Park tomorrow (Saturday June 27). The band are set to play their biggest headline gig to date in the capital with special guests The Mary Wallopers, Fat Dog, Biig Piig, Gurriers and Madra Salach. Ahead of the show, the trio have opened a merch store in the South London area until 8pm BST tonight (Friday June 26), and from 10am to 6pm BST tomorrow. Kneecap fans will be able to get their hands on a limited edition gig print signed by designer Raissa Pardini, a new…
Party drill hasn’t hit the same since the 41 run, but here come babyfaced duo Baby6didit and HbDaG with tunes that could go off at the West Indian Day Parade. On the heels of their shoulder-bopping “Get Up and Dance,” now they have “Dubsmash,” which combines a claustrophobic bounce—hypnotic quick snaps, mind-scrambling Jersey club drums—with a whine-ready melody that makes me feel like I’m at the sweatiest bashment. Their racing flows keep with the theme, too, as Baby6 hands out the Henny-drunk twerk commands and HbDaG (I’m usually out on the drill whiteboys because their whole schtick is they’re a…
Empress Of has announced new album Dream House, the follow-up to 2024’s For Your Consideration. Out Sept 18 via Giant Music, the record reflects on life after the Altadena fires that destroyed Lorely Rodriguez’s home—a topic explored on the single “Wild Storm,” released today with a Mitch deQuilettes-directed video shot in the aftermath. She will celebrate the album release with a show at New York’s Music Hall of Williamsburg on September 30. As well as the video, check out the art and tracklist—which includes a feature from Cecile Believe, who collaborated across the album—below. Blood Orange also features on the…
On Sept. 12, 1966, a new television show called The Monkees premiered on NBC, running opposite The Iron Horse on ABC and Gilligan's Island on CBS. And while The Iron Horse remains a tiny footnote in pop-culture history, and Gilligan's Island lived forever as a time loop in reruns, the Monkees saga is somehow still unfolding — even though Micky Dolenz, the voice behind most of their biggest hits, is the last living member following the deaths of Davy Jones, Peter Tork, and Michael Nesmith. To celebrate the upcoming 60th anniversary, Dolenz is releasing the six-song EP Timeless on Sept.…
