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Back in April, Neil Young revealed that his upcoming album Second Song will feature new recordings of at least a couple of songs he wrote as a teenager in the mid-Sixties, while still gigging around Canada with his high-school band the Squires. But he didn't share their titles until a Zoom Q&A on July 8 with Patron-level subscribers of the Neil Young Archives. The first one is “I'll Love You Forever,” which he recorded with the Squires at the radio station CJLX in Fort William, Ontario, on Nov. 23, 1964. “A DJ on the radio station there was looking to…
From “Girl with the Pearl Earring” to Boy (in this case, Harry Styles) at the Met Gala, few gemstones match the enduring and transformative power of a well-placed pearl. At once classic and contemporary, organic and cultured, simple and rarefied, pearls can make a powerful, personalized statement that nothing else can. This summer, Pandora is announcing Pandora Wonders, a multi-year rollout of artisanally-crafted charms encapsulating the innovative, whimsical essence that has come to define the brand. Each new Pandora Wonders collection, released annually, is designed around a distinct material and will feature an exciting array of international guest collaborators. Available…
Every hero's journey starts with a single step, they say. For Gail Daughtry (Zoey Deutch) — ace hairdresser, proud Midwesterner, and enthusiastic bride-to-be — it begins with a flight to Los Angeles. Normally, Daughtry would be back in her idyllic hometown of Willowbrook, Kansas, putting the final touches on her upcoming wedding to her longtime sweetheart, Tom (Michael Cassidy). Instead, she's accompanying her coworker and best friend, Otto (Mile Gutierrez-Riley), to a convention in the City of Angels, partially out of revenge and partially to save her relationship. The stakes are truly life or death here. Because Gail and Tom…
Article by Marzia Picciano New year, new session of I-Days Milan Coca-Cola, same certainties. In other words: it's not worth changing the beach and the sea if the combination is a winning one, at least for us. Here we are talking about the enormous spaces of the La Maura and San Siro racecourses, the summer heat waves that only those who live in Milan can understand and, on a positive note, the certainty that in the quintessential summer concert event in the Milanese capital there is always room for those musical comfort foods of us desperate millennials. Oh, and then…
Twin Temple are a Los Angeles duo who write and record Sixties-sounding doo-wop/rock songs with titles like “Lucifer, My Love,” “Let’s Have a Satanic Orgy,” and “I Am a Witch.” They embrace an aesthetic of pentagrams and upside-down crosses, and apparently, it was all just too much for the country singer Charley Crockett. According to an Instagram post, Twin Temple say they were axed from opening a string of shows for Crockett this month due to their “Satanic imagery.” “Today we were informed that Charley Crockett has decided to remove Twin Temple from his upcoming shows next week due to…
Radiohead guitarist Ed O’Brien has finally released his spectral song, “Abbeycwmhir,” which was previously only available on an exclusive seven-inch vinyl. The song arrives two months after the release of O’Brien’s sophomore solo record Blue Morpho. “Abbeycwmhir” takes its name from a village in Powys, Wales, the Welsh translating to “Abbey in the Long Valley” in English. The brooding, ambient track opens with a chorus of ghostly layered voices as O’Brien’s guitar breaks through a cloud ambient swirls and flourishes. The guitarist revealed he battled depression and a “mid-life crisis” spurred by the Covid pandemic while making Blue Morpho in…
On the opening night of their three-date, sold-out residency at Wembley Stadium, Gerard Way and his merry band of ghouls delivered a theatrical rock spectacle, blurring the lines between musical performance, political satire, and a full-scale stage production. With help from opera singers and lashings of pyro, the band had the crowd bending to their will before the famous G note of “Welcome to the Black Parade” was even played. My Chemical Romance's loyal fans are no strangers to the extreme, and marked the occasion by decking out the stadium in military jackets and black eyeliner across a 75,000-strong crowd.…
After covering songs by Ratt and Skid Row on last year's Space Brainthe gritty singer-songwriter embraces the twang on Discount Country Alex Williams turned heads back in 2017 with his outlaw country debut Better Than Myself. Since then, he's been grinding it out on the road, and last year indulged in a hair-metal side quest with Space Brainan album of country-fied covers of Ratt, Poison, and Skid Row songs. It was a fun listen, with Williams shining a light on the strong songwriting behind a genre once dismissed as vacuous. Now, however, the Indiana native is returning to the sounds…
Don't worry about Bill Ward, he's doing just fine. The Black Sabbath drummer, 78, issued an update via social media on Thursday informing fans that if they see him out and about in a wheelchair, well, that's just being 78. Nothing to worry about. “I've reached a place where publicly more and more I need to use a wheelchair, mostly in airports, or public events,” he wrote on Instagram. “I can still walk, let there be no doubt, but I can't walk very far without needing to rest, meaning I need to sit down.” The drummer started using a wheelchair,…
Getdown Services have shared the “saddest song we’ve ever written” – check it out below. The downbeat single ‘Cha Cha Slide’ from the Bristol disco-duo follows ‘I Can’t Die Like That’ from their upcoming second album ‘Massive Champion’. The record follows on from the recent NME cover stars‘ 2023 cult classic debut ‘Crisps’. It is set for release on August 14 via Breakfast Records and is available to pre-order here. “This song is about the feeling of everyone else somehow knowing what to do. It’s about a feeling I’d get as a child that has never quite left me; that…
