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Sleep, the legendary stoner and doom-metal band, have returned with their first new music in eight years and plans for a North American tour this fall. “Have Spacesuit Will Travel” is out now via Third Man. But wait: it’s also getting the flexi disc treatment as part of a bundle for Sleep Comic Book, the first issue of a new comic book written by frontman Al Cisneros and illustrated by Dave Kloc and Arik Roper.Arguably even bigger news than that, though, is that the band’s lineup has changed. Cisneros remains as Sleep’s singer, bassist, and lead songwriter, but their wild…
Craig Finn is staring down the barrel of a jam-packed 2026. The Hold Steady frontman already announced the second round of his joint tour with Drive-By Truckers’ Patterson Hood, set for June, and a European trek supporting the Mountain Goats in October. To those, Finn has now added a November run of full-band headlining shows, billed to Craig Finn & the Band of Forgiveness, in support of his latest solo LP, last year’s Always Been. Below, check out the full rundown of his upcoming performances.“I put together The Band of Forgiveness last year with three Minneapolis-based musicians—Nelson Devereaux, Joe Strachan,…
Tierra Whack has a message for her critics: Start drafting the apology. The Philadelphia rapper returned Tuesday with “Totem,” a razor-edged new single that doubles as a warning shot ahead of her upcoming mixtape, Whack's Museumarriving June 19 on Juneteenth. Clocking in at under two minutes, the track strips away distractions, leaving Whack alone at the center of a sparse beat as she dismantles doubters and reasserts her place among hip-hop's most inventive lyricists. “But I was born a stepper, so I'll take the stairs / Yeah, aura so bright, it could light arenas,” she sings in “Totem.” “Totem” arrives…
Mark Wystrach of Midland refuses to accept the fact that he once owned overalls. “Nope, not me,” he says, seated on a velvet couch in a mysterious secret wing of Garth Brooks' Nashville bar, Friends in Low Places, his feet kicked up on the coffee table. Today, he's wearing jeans, a striped pearl snap, and a hat, but I remind him that, last time we met up around the release of their second album Let It Rollthere was a mustache, a mullet, and most definitely a pair of overalls. He still denies it. Am I sure? “You had overalls on…
When an OB-GYN at McCurtain Memorial Hospital in Idabel, Oklahoma examined Taylor Parker on Oct. 9, 2020, he found no evidence that she had just given birth — or had even been pregnant at all. Parker, 27, who was pulled over driving to the hospital, claimed that she had delivered her baby in her car, and had the placenta in her pants to prove it. But, as the doctors quickly concluded, the baby wasn't hers. Earlier that day, Parker — who had pretended to be pregnant for 10 months — stabbed her pregnant friend Reagan Simmons-Hancock 15 times, then performed…
The ten concerts at the Olimpico in June next year Daniel D`Amico for SANREMO.FM
It's official: Vasco Rossi will perform 10 concerts at the Olympic Stadium in Rome in June 2027. The residency he mentioned will be held from 6 to 26 June, with concerts on 6, 7, 10, 11, 15, 16, 19, 20, 24 and 25 June. They are set to attract half a million people.The 10 concerts, a record for Italian stadiums, will close the so-called Vasco Jubilee, the celebrations for 50 years of his career. Vasco chose this method to «transform this anniversary into an event enjoyed and participated in. Not a single event capable of concentrating hundreds of thousands of…
Elliott Smith now has an asteroid named after him, over two decades since his death. The move has been approved by the International Astronomical Union’s Working Group for Small Body Nomenclature (WGSBN), and will see a minor planet discovered in 2014 become officially named as “(861969) Elliottsmith”. It was Edinburgh-based independent filmmaker Orlando Campopiano who came up with the idea for the heartwarming tribute, as reported by Stereogum. According to reports, Campopiano was looking into the night sky when listening to the late songwriter’s song ‘Shooting Star’ – which was released as part of posthumous album, ‘From a Basement on…
During the G7 conference on Wednesday, Donald Trump told reporters that while “nobody knows what it is,” his supposed deal with Iran “is very strong and most people seem to be very happy.” The deal, which is actually a 14-point “memorandum of understanding,” was made public hours later. It addresses virtually none of the Trump administration's stated goals for the war, leaving many key points to be decided later. It calls for “the immediate and permanent termination of military operations on all fronts,” including Lebanon, where Israel has been launching strikes, and for Iran to use its “best efforts” to…
In the last decade or so, network TV channels have reduced their late-night talk-show lineups, most recently with CBS canceling The Late Show. Now Jay Leno, who inherited The Tonight Show from Johnny Carson, has a theory about why that's happened and the current state of chat-show discourse. “I mean, podcasts really are the new talk show,” he recently told Deadline. “Joe Rogan is the new Johnny Carson.” Leno's intention with the comment has less to do with Rogan's edgelord opinions (in fact, he's said he wished comedy wasn't so politically polarized), though, and more to do with people's shifting…
