Author: Press Room

Judas Priest bassist Ian Hill, the longest-serving member of the heavy metal legends, has announced his retirement from the band. Hill revealed his departure to fans in a lengthy statement on Friday, citing the “evil arthritis” and other injuries as the reason for his exit. “For a long time now, when asked ‘how long can you continue’ – I’ve always answered ‘until my performances suffer’…. I hate to say it, but that time has come,” Hill wrote. “For some years now, I’ve been struggling with the onset of the evil arthritis, which is now in an advanced state in my…

It’s a prosperous time to be a Phoebe Bridgers fan. After four years of relative inactivity, Bridgers returned with her third album, a tour, and a substantial role in longtime friend Lance Oppenheim’s new film Primetime. Now, she and Oppenheim have reunited for a filmed live performance for A24’s Sound Check at Cherry Lane Theater series, which captures Bridgers playing “Lost Boys” and “Haunted” with Boygenius bandmates Julien Baker and Lucy Dacus, plus Primetime soundtrack song “On Video” with Ethan Gruska. Check it out below.Bridgers and Oppenheim shot the session at the titular West Village off-Broadway theater after her three-night…

Raye has announced a special one off show at London’s Royal Albert Hall, which will see her reimagine her album ‘This Music May Contain Hope’ with an orchestra. The gig is titled ‘This Symphony May Contain Hope’ and will be held at the historic venue in South Kensington on Friday October 23. At the show, the London singer will play her critically acclaimed sophomore album in full, reimagining each of the songs as a symphony. She will play alongside her band, The Heritage Orchestra and Flames Collective, and present hit songs including ‘Where Is My Husband!’ and ‘Click Clack Symphony’…

Instagram have issued an apology and said that they are unsure why their algorithm is repeatedly suggesting Creed’s ‘Higher’ to “more people than intended”. Over recent weeks Instagram users may have noticed that when they go to post stories, one of the recommended songs that the platform recommends for them to have in the background is the 1999 hit song from the Tallahassee post-grunge stars. Now, in a new report from CNN, it has been confirmed that the track is being pushed regardless of if it has anything to do with what users are posting, and it isn’t clear why.…

Madra Salach have announced their debut album ‘Gorta’, and dropped the looming new single ‘Ribbon Factory’. Check it out below. The record is the first full album from the rising Dublin six-piece, following the release of their debut EP ‘It’s A Hell Of An Age’. It is set for release on January 15 via Island Records, and you can visit here to pre-order. Produced by Loren Humphrey (Westside Cowboy, Cameron Winter) in New York, ‘Gorta’ takes its title from the Irish word for “hunger” and sees the band continue to pay homage to Irish traditional music, but also push their…

Thom Yorke has shared that he was already sick of the Radiohead album ‘OK Computer’ by the time that it was first released, and was itching to “move on” from it by the time they heading on tour. The rock icon and Radiohead frontman spoke about his relationship with their hit 1997 album during a new, wide-ranging conversation with Harry Styles for Rolling Stone. In the discussion, Yorke went on to admit that while the record remains one of their biggest releases, the “worst thing” about it for him was that he got fed up of playing the songs before…

It’s hard not to feel disillusioned by the state of the world right now. It’s getting harder to scrape by; our algorithms are a constant whiplash between images of genocide and manmade destruction and TikTok Shop hauls that will end up in rotting landfills; and it feels like few in power are interested in helping anyone besides the rich. Why not just give up, stop caring and bury your head in the sand? Chloe Slater knows exactly how you feel. She’s made putting a voice to those frustrations her M.O. since her 2024 single ‘24 Hours’, whose viral success opened…

New Music Friday: le pagelle di All Music Italia ai nuovi singoli italiani del 9 ottobre 2026, a cura di Alvise Salerno, conduttore radiofonico e divulgatore musicale sul web che ogni settimana recensisce per noi le nuove uscite italiane. Nella settimana del 9 ottobre 2026 troviamo, tra gli altri, nuovi brani di Marco Mengoni, Levante, Sangiovanni, Jovanotti feat Samurai Jay, Baby K feat Guè e molti altri ancora. Queste sono le pagelle della New Music Friday dedicate ai nuovi singoli italiani usciti questa settimana. All’interno delle categorie ogni brano viene valutato in stelle e con un voto numerico, così da…

Every year that Britain is disgraced at Eurovision (i.e. most of them), a weary strain of music fan insists that if we just entered a real band, glory could be ours. This year, the theory was almost put to the test. South London band Fat Dog claim that they discussed representing the U.K. but pulled out because of Israel’s continued participation. (The BBC refused to comment when I checked.) If not for that admirably principled stance, you could see it. Their ripe seam of klezmer, spitting punk, booming ’80s synth-pop, raging dark disco, and one kerrrrrazy frontman is just the…

Too often, a pop singer’s maturity comes at the expense of her whimsy. Take Remi Wolf, who, on her debut album Juno, was a captivating enfant terrible, her attitude so irreproachable and her staccato so daggerlike it seemed Rihanna birthed her at the height of the Talk That Talk era. Her second release, Big Ideas, was more polite than its predecessor but no less fun—see “Toro,” a horny disco-funk confection about hotel room sex with an enormous man. But nothing as mischievous exists on her third record, a somber portrait of semi-reformed adulthood. It’s called Mud, but contains very little…