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In partnership with Open’er Festival Words: Mark Beaumont and Ali Shutler Open’er Festival prides itself on being the biggest and most diverse festival in Poland and day two of the 2026 bash certainly lived up to that promise. After a loved-up first day saw Florence + The Machine offer communal catharsis, David Byrne delivering forward-thinking art-pop and the continuation of Kneecap’s rowdy, outspoken victory lap, Open’er Festival’s second day delivered an even more eclectic mix of pop titans and cult heroes. On Thursday (July 2), punters could check out performances from Halsey, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Calvin Harris…
With “It Is Going to Get Dark”, No Cure takes the step that every hungry young band dreams of: releasing their first real album after gaining the scene's attention… Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
Who are we when we stop identifying with what we do? It's the question that runs through All Waythe song by Jungle Julia the official video clip of which has just been released. A question born during a move, among the boxes of a new house in Rome, and became the heart of one of the most particular entries among this year's debuts. Jungle Juliastage name of Giulia Covitto, is a Tuscan singer-songwriter with a rough and physical writing, raised between the Maremma countryside and the community of the Neocatechumenal Way. It is from there that her visceral relationship with…
Charli XCX has opened up about her Indian heritage, saying it can be “difficult” to understand her “identity” as a mixed-race person. The singer, born Charlotte Emma Aitchison, was speaking on Nicky Reardon’s Nicky At Night podcast while discussing her upcoming album ‘Music, Fashion, Film’, which is set for release on July 24. On recent single ‘SS26’, Charli sings: “Think my politics could work as a press strategy/ And my heritage could give me quite the USP.” When asked about referencing her heritage in the lyric, Charli said: “I feel like there is this world where I could really play…
The talented man presents himself under the pseudonym Aho Ssan sound designer Niamké Désiré, who in her third solo performance decides to exploit the most interesting and primordial aspects of her music. Exuberant and eclectic, the Parisian artist of Ghanaian origin, in his previous efforts, has wandered between genres, creolizing his muscular and apocalyptic electronics first with hip hop (“Rhizomes”, Other People, 2022) then with the dark and alchemical viola of Resina (“Ego Death”, Subtext 2025); and also setting KMRU's hyper-layered ambience on fire with texturess so varied that they resemble dubstep scores in super slow motion (the beautiful “Limen”,…
Muse's tour began yesterday in support of their latest album, the tenth of their career, The Wow! Signal (here is our review). The first date was held at Summerfest in Milwaukee, in the States, where the band will continue to perform between July and August before moving to Europe in November, with dates scheduled in Milan for the 20th and 21st of the month.24 tracks, two encores, and a series of firsts. The band stuck with the single Hexagonsone of the five tracks – which follow Be With You, Cryogen, Nightshift Superstar, Unravelling – Of The Wow! Signal enter the…
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s reported wedding schedule has been revealed, with more than 1,000 guests expected at Madison Square Garden. The couple, who announced their engagement last August, are reportedly set to celebrate their wedding at the New York venue this weekend, with a city permit obtained by the Associated Press outlining the schedule for the high-profile event. According to the permit, around 100 guests were due to arrive at Madison Square Garden at 6:30pm last night (July 2) for a “pre party celebration”, understood to be an intimate rehearsal dinner. The main event is then scheduled to begin at 5pm local time today…
Grudge was a guest of SPOT – The Podcastthe program that Michele Monina And Massimiliano Longo they record live at the Spot Music Fest in Bareggio. An almost hour-long conversation, which starts from the meaning of his name and arrives at the craft of writing, the relationship with discography and a position on the role of artists. Why did he think about leaving the Rancore name With the latest album Tarek coloring pagewhich bears his first name, Rancore had thought about abandoning the pseudonym. He felt it was tight, he says: the idea that resentment in music only served to…
Madonna is back, and it would already be an event. Because unlike many experts who always struggle to understand how much his figure has shaped the pop culture of the world we inhabit (and who inhabit), only to then be mega reactive in judging the fillers, here we understand the importance of this event very well. As we understand very well that, after a life like this, it's a bit as if a new album were a sort of miracle. There is nothing owed after 40 years in the game, but also after much less.So I wouldn't have been too…
Healthy publishes Friday 3 July 2026 When you maybe, then we alreadya seven-track EP out now for Bomb Discs / WEA. The album was anticipated by Very fascistwith All Phenomenaand the new single Sun Sunon the radio from the same date. The title starts from a direct relationship between the writer and the listener: the “we” takes shape only when it encounters a “you”. The songs do not close the meaning in a definition, but leave room for images, places and personal relationships. When you maybe, then we already: summer, relationships and adulthood In the new EP by Healthysummer is…
