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From somewhere within the fertile ooze of Montreal’s famously prolific late-’00s underground scene emerged Oen Sujet, a revolving musical collective whose robotic, astringent art pop rendered them orthogonal to peers who’d go on to make some of the era’s biggest splashes. Oen Sujet released a lone album, 2009’s Life Given To Quiet Places, and a few remixes of other artists before retreating as silently and suddenly as they had arrived. Now, after 17 years, they return with The Friendliest Fight We Know, a record that builds on the band’s prior work with startling continuity and immediacy.Oen Sujet boasts just one…

For Yard Act’s 2022 debut, The Overload, the quartet chiseled flamboyant caricatures of British life and portrayed their flawed country with an abrasive, punishing tone. Drummer Jay Russell kept to stark rattles, Sam Shipstone patched in his scratchy electric guitar, and Ryan Needham needled through grumbling basslines. “The knotty roots of a shameful past will never let it be,” rapped James Smith in “Land of the Blind.” “Each new shoot is an escape root/Loot the debris/And make no mistake, we are living out our last days.” But soon, they started getting nostalgic. 2024’s follow-up, Where’s My Utopia?, dusted off the…

Shortly after releasing Anger Management, her collaborative release with ascendant producer Kenneth Blume (then known as Kenny Beats), Rico Nasty headed out on tour with the reigning king of rage, Playboi Carti. The noisy, chaotic sound of her 2019 release helped set the stage for Carti’s Whole Lotta Red, which brought rage to the mainstream and pushed rap at large toward more aggressive sounds in the 2020s. Despite her clear influence, Rico was mercilessly heckled by Carti fans during her performance at the Portland tour stop. When one attendee threw a bottle at her, she dove into the crowd and…

During his stop in Washington, the singer pretended to get a phone call from the government about fans relieving themselves mid-show People are reported soiling themselves at Noah Kahan concerts. Yes, that means fans are literally shitting their pants rather than abandoning their seats. The singer-songwriter himself addressed the ongoing debacle on stage at his concert in Washington, DC, pretending to get a call from Congress during his “Dial Drunk” phone booth segment. “Hello? Congress. Oh, people have been pissing all over the floor at my shows as well?” Kahan exclaimed into the telephone. “So, you guys are ordering by…

Litfiba land in Rome for one of the most anticipated stages of the tour which celebrates forty years of “17 Kings”, the second chapter of the historic “Trilogy of Power”, together with “Desaparecido” and “Litfiba 3”. After the concerts of the past few weeks, the Florentine band – in its original line-up from the Eighties, formed by Piero Pelù, Ghigo Renzulli, Antonio Aiazzi and Gianni Maroccolo – will take the stage at Rock in Roma on Thursday 16 July, bringing live one of the most representative repertoires in the history of Italian rock.The concert will be held at the Capannelle…

Right publishes Friday 24 July Nothing specialthe new single for Beat Sound. The song anticipates the first official album of the Salento singer-songwriter, expected in the coming months. The title is a statement in reverse. The song starts from what seems ordinary in relationships, the fragilities and everyday gestures, to get to the opposite point: that it's in there that everything happens. An essential writing, which is then the figure with which Right he made himself known right from the start. Nothing special, the single that anticipates Destro's first album The production is once again by Beppe Tiredwith whom the…

This week at a film screening, someone asked Isabelle Huppert how her work relates to other art forms. Music, fashion, literature—does she incorporate her appreciation into her films? She said, “I don’t.” She said, “I could be the same actress without coming out of my bedroom, just by my imagination and thinking.” I think that’s as clear a distinction as you could make between the actor’s job and the pop star’s: representing a version of someone else versus representing a version of themselves.Charli xcx spells it out in the title of her new album, Music, Fashion, Film, which she’s described…

Emmylou Harris, Noah Cyrus, and Allison Russell feature on the singer’s second LP, due out September 18 Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM

Charli XCX's new album Music, Fashion, Film has arrived, and unlike the lyrics of “SS26” suggest, it might save us after all. Music, Fashion, Film spans 11 tracks, clocking in at just over 30 minutes. It features her previously released singles “Rock Music” (b side: “I Keep On Thinking Bout You Every Single Day and Night“), “SS26” (b side: “Playboy Bunny“), “Wink Wink,” and “Camera” (b side: “If You Take Away the Music Then What Has She Got”). The final track, “No One Lasts Forever,” features director David Cronenberg. In her recent Rolling Stone cover story, Charli spoke about the…

Phil Collins doesn't believe Noel Gallagher really thinks of him as “the Antichrist”. After over thirty years of public barbs, the British musician has ironically dismissed one of the most famous rivalries in English rock, explaining in an interview with Mojo that he is convinced that behind the provocations of the Oasis guitarist there is no genuine hatred.The clash between the two dates back to the early nineties. Already in 1994, at the beginning of Oasis, Noel Gallagher declared that the band's goal was to “make Phil Collins disappear from the charts”. In the following years he increased the dose,…