Author: Press Room
Buffalo Traffic Jam are adapting to overnight success on the fly. The Montana duo are country music’s most recent — and arguably most striking — example of the power of streaming and social media’s ability to create a career. Barely two years ago, the group’s core members were set to graduate college and enter fields that had nothing to do with music. Since then, their stripped-down folk sound, not as country as Zach Bryan and not as pop as Noah Kahan, has gained mass appeal, and they’ve been selling out shows at every turn. Now they just have to figure…
Barack Obama has paid tribute to Glen Hansard while sharing his annual summer playlist for 2026. The former US President posted a rundown of “some of the songs I’ve been listening to this summer” on social media yesterday (Thursday July 30). “It starts with a song [wife] Michelle and I love by Glen Hansard, a great musician who passed tragically this week,” he continued, referring to ‘Song Of Good Hope’ from the late Irish musician’s 2012 debut solo album, ‘Rhythm And Repose’. Obama added: “Our hearts go out to his family.” The nod comes after Hansard – known as the…
L eslie Buck had just arrived home from a meeting with her teacher’s sorority, warm from conversations with old friends. There’d been a celebration for one member’s 90th birthday, and she’d snagged a piece of cake for her mother; it would be a nice treat when she went to check on her the next day. As Leslie closed the door of her white Buick, she heard someone familiar utter her name from the corner of her three-car garage: Russell Kirby, her husband Charlie’s friend and handyman, who had no reason to be lurking on their property at that hour. She’d…
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds surprised fans in Brighton today (Friday July 31) by performing a surprise pop-up gig on the roof of Resident Records ahead of their huge homecoming show tonight. See photos, footage and what went down below. The band will be headlining Preston Park tonight with special guests The Flaming Lips, English Teacher, Cate Le Bon and Warmduscher, and have been celebrating their return to the town Cave has often called home with treasure hunts and selling exclusive merch and records at Resident via a takeover. Then, word got out that the Bad Seeds would be performing a Beatles-style rooftop…
North West and Molly Santana have cancelled their joint ‘Kimokawaii Tour’. The two rapper and singers had been scheduled to head out on a 14-date North American trek together next month. They had announced the run, dubbed ‘Molly x North Kimokawaii Tour’, on June 16. However, the opening show at the House Of Blues Dallas on August 5 was recently marked as “cancelled” on Ticketmaster. The planned gig was taken down from the venue’s official website, too. Ticketmaster also stated that the Toronto concert on August 17 had been axed. Elsewhere, ticketing website AXS listed the pair’s show at The…
It’s hard to know what to expect every time Arca extends an invite to a new world. If Alejandra Ghersi’s ambitious 2021 pentalogy ‘Kick’ was a dip into mainstream avant-pop, then her new album ‘XXXXX’ is her retreat into introspection, where she thrives unrestrained and unbound amid chaos and distortion. Described as “everything all at once”, Arca dances between psychedelia and arrhythmia on the record, weaving an intoxicating web that lures listeners into her lone techno lair. Though ‘XXXXX’ seems most at home in distortion – offering different takes in ‘Heart’, ‘Raver’, ‘Futurality’ and ‘Grip’ – there are other elements…
Footage has emerged of Glen Hansard‘s final live performance, captured just hours before the Irish singer-songwriter’s death. Watch below. Hansard, known as the frontman of The Frames and one half of the duo The Swell Season, tragically died in a motorcycle crash on Wednesday (July 29). He was 56 years old. The incident occurred in the village of Lucan, west of his home city of Dublin. Tributes have since poured in from across the music world and beyond, with the likes of U2, Warren Ellis, Rachel Zegler and Bruce Springsteen paying their respects. Now, a video has surfaced showing Hansard singing and…
The past two years have been life-changing for country-fusion star Shaboozey. Waking up to two features on Beyoncé’s 2024 album ‘Cowboy Carter’, an unprecedented cosign of dreams, came first. Weeks later, his breakthrough hit ‘A Bar Song (Tipsy)’ topped the Billboard Hot 100 and his third album, ‘Where I’ve Been, Isn’t Where I’m Going’, released to critical acclaim. There was no denying it – Shaboozey had arrived. Yet such a spotlight comes with heightened expectations. Shaboozey’s acceptance speech as the first Black male artist to win a Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group Performance was met with scrutiny from Bernice King,…
We’re days away from the release of ‘A*Pop’ when NME meets a highly energetic Tyla at the chicly minimalist Pan Pacific hotel. “Should the Gucci be in frame?” she questions our videographers, the bounce in her cadence as audacious as her overall demeanour. Like her album title suggests, this is an African popstar – from the walk to the talk to the look, there’s no pretense here. It’s who she’s always wanted to be. “[Ever] since I was a little girl in South Africa, I was always like, ‘Nah, there has to be a way,’” the 24-year-old says of her…
Lorde brought out Charli XCX during her headline set at Lollapalooza last night (Thursday July 30) – watch them perform ‘Girl, So Confusing’ below. The Kiwi pop star topped the bill at the festival, which is taking place at Chicago’s Grant Park until Sunday (August 2). After treating the crowd to ‘Man Of The Year’ from her latest album ‘Virgin’, Lorde took the energy up with a live rendition of her huge collab with Charli – taken from 2024’s ‘Brat’ remix record. The latest on-stage team-up for the pair came ahead of Charli’s own bill-topping slot at Lollapalooza tonight (Friday…
