Author: Press Room
A gallery of artists performing at Night Out, a Pride celebration and concert at Knockdown Center in Queens, including Tinashe, Pom Pom Squad, Lido Pimienta, and more
Another hot day awaits but as water is always on tap thanks to the Glastonbury water aid connection, there should be no reason not to be safe and sound in body. As for the spirit, a great day of music awaits new and old stuff intertwined.Rick Astley opens the day on the Pyramid Stage. He has seen his kudos elevated in the last decade as artists like Foo Fighters and Blossoms (more later) have given him praise. And why not! When you have that voice, been part of 80s pop history, with let’s be honest, the most singable songs possible,…
It’s not a live record, it’s not a collection of unreleased songs, it’s not a re-proposition of classics for the benefit of nostalgics, it’s not an exuberant re-reading. It’s Dylan making a show of passing time, in his own way The post ‘Shadow Kingdom’, Bob Dylan’s songs corroded by time first appeared on Rolling Stone Italia.
Rick Astley and Blossoms have announced the return of their Smiths supergroup covers band for a secret set at Glastonbury 2023, with the pop icon telling NME about what went into it and the backlash from Johnny Marr. Astley, who this weekend made his Glastonbury debut by opening up the Pyramid Stage, made headlines last year when he joined Blossoms on stage in London to perform a number of Smiths covers – before they then played a number of full gigs dedicated to the iconic ‘ 80s indie icons. Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr was less than pleased having not…
Is titled Viper venom the new single by Wayne Santanatoday simply Wayneout Friday June 16 for Warner Music Italy. The piece, with a strong 80s sound, represents a second piece of the new artistic puzzle of the young artist born in 1991, who after the long parenthesis with the Dark Polo Gang (never really “infamous”, but more on that later) he started taking his first steps alone. What Wayne’s Viper Venom is all about The song has been described by the artist himself as a banger. The song speaks of his inner torments “like a last mad rush, naturally accompanied…
Among the many aspects that contributed to creating the cult of Verdena, what made it so long-lived, pure and radical was the punk, vaguely antisocial and absolutely artisanal attitude of the three members of the band. If the visceral love for complex melodies, peculiar lyrics and the power of live performances are characteristics that we can find in many other fanbases, it is Verdena’s lifestyle that has made not only their music, but also the relationship with the fan a unique example in the Italian panorama. Their propensity for chaos and sabotage of all forms of success and worldliness have…
There is enormous mutual esteem between Charlie Risso and Federico Dragonna. You can tell by how they talk and talk about each other’s music, by how they listen to it and live it. That the Genoese singer-songwriter and the Milanese musician, the backbone of the Ministers, would therefore find a way to get together to work was in the air. The occasion was Charlie Risso’s new EP, The Light, of which Dragonna supervised the artistic production. Four songs, released on November 4th, which collect mutual inspirations and lead Risso into new sound and emotional dimensions. Taking advantage of this occasion,…
The nasty critics of the past accused the Gentle Giants of proposing a pompous and baroque music, full of abstruse and long-winded medieval references; moreover, since each member of the group played a myriad of instruments, they considered them very virtuosic. In short, they were the emblem of everything rock shouldn’t be.And to think that when their story began, the three young Scottish brothers Derek, Ray and Phil Shulman devoted themselves to a crackling rhythm’n’blues with Simon Dupree & the Big Sound, a band which, among other things, hosted for a brief period such Reginald Dwight before he launched a…
There was Zucchero first with Salmo and then with Andrea Bocelli, Laura Pausini and Giorgia in You’ve Got a Friend. And then Emma and Fiorella Mannoia on the notes of The weight of courage, Ligabue who split between Elisa, Max Pezzali and Tananai, Irama & Rkomi, already announced in tandem. And again Rkomi with the Negramaros and Elodie, to continue again with Tananai, this time together with Pezzali for Years. Other duets: Irama and Elisa and then the tribute to Lucio Dalla by Morandi, Mannoia and Elodie with Life. In short, the duets – unpublished or already tested, foreseen in…
Berlusconi’s death is for many the end of an oppression, for others the end of a hope, for all it is an end. We are faced with the disappearance of a Lynchian character who for years has modeled Italians in his image and likeness by modifying their psyche, so much so that even his opponents, almost all taken by a surreal grief, seem to move like his pawns. By now the late Silvio is in their DNA. In his diabolical design of consumerist paradises based on an astonishing and artificially constructed well-being, every means had to be used to its…
