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Netflix deal or no, Vince Staples will tell the hell out of a story. For those keeping track, it may feel like his new album, Cry Baby, is finally making good on his assertion from two albums ago that he’d be leaving his traumatic past and complex Long Beach neighborhood behind him, material-wise. It turned out those records, Ramona Park Broke My Heart and Dark Times, were not a stark pivot, but an elaborate interstitial, entangling memories of hardship and community into his present psyche. Cry Baby, essentially a rock album, is instead a reflection and rebuttal to American instability…
The American Federation of Musicians (AFM), a union for session musicians, is suing Universal Music Group (UMG) and Warner Music Group (WMG) for breaching their collective bargaining agreement over use of their music by AI programs. In the lawsuit filed on Friday (June 5), AFM claim that the major labels’ recent licensing training with Suno and Udio, two prominent AI music companies, have not been sharing proceeds with the union, as required in their agreement to compensate members for “new uses” of their music.“The AFM brings this lawsuit because defendants, two of the largest music companies in the world, have…
Evilgiane has a new project on the way. On June 5, the rapper, producer, and Surf Gang founder announced a the follow-up to his debut album #HEAVENSGATE would drop soon, and shared a new track that will ostensibly appear on the record, “Helllp Meeee !!!!” with Harto Falion. Check out the music video for that below.#HEAVENSGATE Vol. 2 will be Evilgiane’s second release of the year, following January’s beat tape Giane 2. He and Harto Falion also dropped a joint album, The Hurtless, in 2025. Surf Gang recently collaborated with MIKE and Earl Sweatshirt on their recent album Pompeii //…
Photo by Francesca Maffioletti“STADI 26”, TIZIANO FERRO's new tour which between May and July will take him live to 12 of the main Italian stadiums . The show that Ferro will stage in this hot Italian summer which tells of his many musical souls, from the r'n'b of the beginning to pop up to the more urban sound of the latest project, making a stop at the San Siro Stadium in Milan up to the San Filippo Stadium Messina (sold out). At the center of everything are the songs, or rather, the hits for two hours of music and over…
Gorillaz were introduced at Primavera Sound by Palestinian activist Aarab Barghouti, the son of imprisoned politician Marwan Barghouti. Damon Albarn and co. played on the Barcelona festival’s Estrella Damm stage on Saturday night (June 6) and invited Barghouti to give a speech to open their set. The activist’s father has served as an elected legislator in Palestine and has been tipped as a potential future leader, but he has been imprisoned by Israel since 2002 after being convicted on charges related to deadly attacks during the Second Intifada. He has consistently denied responsibility for those attacks and rejected the legitimacy of the Israeli court that tried…
1962: Nicholas James Bates, aka Nick Rhodes, keyboardist and founder of Duran Duran, is born in Birmingham, UK. Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
Bruce Springsteen was joined by Bon Jovi, Public Enemy and others at a star-studded New Jersey event – see footage below. The two-day concert series was thrown for the opening of the new Bruce Springsteen Center for American Music at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, New Jersey this week (June 4 and 5). The institution officially opens on June 13. The shows celebrated 250 years of American music, with the first night focusing on pioneering artists such as Robert Johnson, Woody Guthrie and Hank Williams, while the second saw performances of songs by Elvis Presley, Bob Dylan, Dion and Public Enemy. The latter two artists were on hand, as were Darlene Love, Sheryl Crow, Jackson Browne,…
Staff at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. have started to remove all references to Donald Trump. In December last year, the Trump-appointed board of the arts venue voted to rename the institution to the ‘Donald J. Trump and John F. Kennedy Memorial Center for the Performing Arts’, or the ‘Trump-Kennedy Center’ in short. In May, however, a US district judge ruled that the board had no authority to make that change because the centre’s name is fixed by federal statute and can only be amended by Congress. He ordered all references to Trump’s name to be removed from the building and the official name to be restored to…
Note: This article contains references to sexual assault that readers may find disturbing.Duffy, the Welsh singer behind the 2008 smash “Mercy,” will make a surprise return to the stage next month for the first time in nearly 15 years. She revealed on Friday (June 5) via Instagram Stories that she’ll play a “secret intimate gig” in London on July 5—a venue has yet to be announced.The show is the latest step in Duffy’s return to the public eye after stepping away for over a decade in the wake of a traumatic attack. In a pair of statements published in 2020,…
Jessie J has announced she is cancer-free, saying she “exhaled for the first time in a year” after receiving the news. The singer revealed in June last year that she had been diagnosed with early breast cancer and she successfully underwent surgery shortly afterwards. Three months later, however, she cancelled a tour as she was scheduled for a further surgical procedure. Last month, she posted a video on Instagram that showed her going for her annual health checkup after a breast MRI, and she captioned the post with the jubilant news: “RESULTS ARE IN AND I AM CANCER FREE!!” “I sobbed for hours and then exhaled for the first…
