Author: Press Room
Royal Blood have been announced for a surprise secret set at this weekend’s Reading Festival. Check out details below along with our exclusive interview with the band. Fresh from announcing their fifth album ‘Dead Company’ with the pummelling comeback single ‘Ten Over Ten‘, the Brighton rock duo have been announced to join Fontaines D.C., Charli XCX, Geese and many more at the iconic festival this Friday (August 28) – where they’ve been announced for a surprise early set on The Gallery stage at 2pm. “The set planned for Reading is pretty brutal,” frontman Mike Kerr told NME. “That’s been the…
Miley Cyrus shared a moving tribute to her godmother and mentor, Dolly Parton, writing, “I will always love her and want to make her proud.” In a statement shared on Instagram, Cyrus wrote: “The feeling of losing my Aunt Dolly is beyond what feels right to share. Our most sacred moments were private and they’ll stay there behind the stage, beneath the glamour & between our hearts.” Despite her grief, Cyrus said she knows Parton would want her to “feel it, write a song about it, and then continue on and be strong.” She added, “I have an angel by…
See a trailer for Queen Budapest, filmed in 1986, which will open in cinemas this fall A concert film of Queen‘s majestic 1986 gig in Hungary, the band’s final filmed performance with Freddie Mercury, will be hitting the biggest possible screen this fall. Queen Budapest will open on Oct. 7 with screenings at more than 2,000 cinemas, including some IMAX screens. Full ticketing details are on a bespoke website. The film’s trailer opens with Mercury alone on the stage doing one of his famous “Aaayyoo” calls. It then shows the group playing “We Will Rock You,” and Mercury in a…
From Transylvania’s corseted doctor-in-residence to the world’s most evil clown — the roles that turned Tom Curry into a genuine pop-culture icon Had Tim Curry done nothing but play Dr. Frank-N-Furter, the lingerie-clad doctor from Transylvania who helped turn The Rocky Horror Picture Show into the granddaddy of all midnight movies, he would have already been assured a place in cinema-history books. But the British actor, who died at the age of 80, had a long, illustrious and diverse career — playing everything from English kings to evil clowns, buccaneers to butlers, William Shakespeare to a smooth-talking radio NYC D.J.…
Miley Cyrus has shared a heartfelt tribute to the icon of country music—and Cyrus’ own godmother—Dolly Parton, who died yesterday, August 25, at 80 years old. “The feeling of losing my Aunt Dolly is beyond what feels right to share,” Cyrus wrote in a message shared across her social media accounts. “What I KNOW is Dolly would want me to feel it, write a song about it, and then continue on and be strong. I have an angel by my side. I always have. One of our last conversations was about music and metamorphosis. 🦋”Cyrus closed her note by saying,…
Tributes for Tim Curry began to pour in on Wednesday following news of the actor’s death on Tuesday night at the age of 80. Curry — who was best known for roles like Frank-N-Furter in the cult-classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the butler Wadsworth in Clue, and the smarmy Rooster in Annie — was fondly remembered by his former co-stars. Comedian Rob Schneider, who starred alongside Curry’s uptight Plaza Hotel manager character in Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, said he was “gutted” by the news of Curry’s death. “The sensational character actor, Tim Curry has left the stage,”…
William Basinski has returned to solo piano composition for his first album since 2022’s Janek Schaefer collaboration …On Reflection and first solo LP in six years. Passing the Cup of Sorrows consists of a single 40-minute work, part of which, titled “Passing the Cup of Sorrows 1.1,” is excerpted below. The album arrives October 23.The title, a press release notes, is taken from “a hypnotherapy concept known as ‘Life Between Lives,’ where two souls who shared a tumultuous or destructive relationship on Earth undergo a purge and reconcile in the spirit world.”The new record’s predecessor was the similarly cheerful 2020…
Donald Trump has been milking every dollar and cent he can find out of his second presidency. Personal jets, real estate deals, crypto rug pulls and shady foreign investment deals are just the tip of the international corruption iceberg, and while far less grand, he’s also partaking in more mundane forms of graft. Namely lots, LOTS, of stock trades. New stock trading data published this week by the Office of Government Ethics revealed that Trump made over 1,000 stock trades in the month of June. The president, whose financial portfolio is theoretically supposed to be held by an independent third-party…
Priest Dionysios Tabakis-Nafplio-GreeceAugust 25, 2026Good morning, my friends.As far as my beliefs are concerned, they reflect my independent, unconventional and spontaneous character.I don’t like to hide what I believe, but to declare openly what is in my soul, even if this sometimes makes me unpopular. Not wanting to fit into boxes has cost me many times.As can be seen from my musical expression, I am in favor of unity, love, empathy and help for every needy, wronged and suffering person in life. Whoever they are, whatever they believe, whether they are a saint or a sinner.I have dedicated my entire…
Meta has agreed to a $17.1billion (£12.6billion) settlement and new restrictions for teenage Facebook and Instagram users after a landmark US trial. California and 28 other states had brought the case against Meta, the technology company that owns Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Threads, alleging that they had deliberately incorporated addictive features into its platforms. The suit also claimed that Meta had misled users about their safety and unlawfully collected data belonging to children under 13 without parental permission. The jury trial started in Oakland, California last week and had been expected to last for six weeks, but the landmark agreement was announced today (August 26). Under the…
