Author: Press Room
Stereophonics singer Kelly Jones has no “plans to slow down” and has vowed he has a lot more music to make. The 49-year-old singer/songwriter – who has Colby, 18 and Misty, 12 by his ex-partner, fashion designer Rebecca Walters, and two children, Riley, six and Marley, three, with his wife, MTV producer Jakki Healy, 42 – says being a dad doesn’t slow him down as he’s just as driven if not determined to carry on pursuing his musical dream. Recently, Kelly started a new side project Far From Saints with US musicians Patty Lynn and Dwight Baker of The Wind…
This Drag Race UK challenge single, starring Season 2’s funniest queens, became an unlikely Top 40 hit in England, in part because it was written to be a campy spoof of the perfect Eurovision song: ridiculous, super-fun, and so stupidly catchy you’ll be slamming your face against the wall weeks later, trying to get the “bing bang bongs” and the “sing sang songs” out of your head. Trixie Mattel: “Jackson” [ft. Orville Peck] (2021)Trixie, a beloved talk show host and make-up magnate with doll paint on her eyelids and a neon yellow wig, is also renowned as a music star, releasing four lyrically…
Waking up early it’s already so hot that the promise of mid-afternoon rain is a welcome one; but looking at the skies, it’s hard to believe.Sunday is always a weird day, reality starts to break through that one, unfortunately, cannot live each day listening to the live music in this idyllic setting. No need to rush today though, a phone app tells me that over 54km have already been covered, so it’s time to ease the pace and bask in the Glastonbury glory.First up for us and playing on The Other Stage are Nova Twins who wake up the sleepy…
Paul Simon goes where inspiration takes him. He did it when he split from Art Garfunkel at the duo’s peak popularity, when he opened the solo debut with a reggae number recorded in Kingston at an unsuspecting time, a year before the Wailers went to press. Catch a Firewhen he brought the sound of South Africa to the world with graceland. All things that we didn’t expect from him, just as no one thought that the musician, who is now 81 years old, would publish a work like Seven Psalms, a 33-minute suite that appeared to him in a dream.…
Benefits have spoken to NME about making their Glastonbury Festival debut tonight (Friday June 23). The Teesside noise punks will be performing under the invitation of Billy Bragg on his legendary Left Field stage this evening, shortly after the mysterious set from The Churnups – widely believed to be Foo Fighters, or least something featuring Dave Grohl, after he was spotted on site earlier today. Still, Benefits frontman Kingsley Hall isn’t worried about pulling a big crowd shortly after. “We’re not up against them,” replied Hall. “As soon as they finish, we start. There’s no crossover. If you’re really quick,…
Fabio River interview for All Music Italy Pasquale Mammaroone of the most influential managers and promoters in Italy. With over 40 years of career behind him, he has brought, and above all brought back, a myriad of artists to the attention of the public, then finding a comfort zone in those who right-thinking call “oldies”, but to whom he has restored a present success very important how Orietta Berti, Rector, Marcella, VAT Zanicchi, Fausto Leali, Countryside cousins and many others. I meet him for a pleasant video chat thanks to his participation in the Award dedicated to Gianni Raveraone of…
Imagine a house in Caprarola (ZIP code 01032), a Lazio village of farmers who love hazelnuts and the arts; imagine three children, we are at the turn of the 70s/80s: Piero, eldest son, dark, lively eyes and temperament of a ram who breaks through, Stefano, handsome and good, perhaps with a rare gift (musical ear) and Annamaria, the only female, long straight hair, probably bangs, who observes her brothers: she hates them a little, she loves them a little.In this house the parents are busy: Claudio is an engineer who prefers to teach electrical engineering in high school, Agnese is…
«The concept around which the immersive shows for which I take care of and write the soundtrack revolve is simple and at the same time complex: keeping images, sound, specific space and the emotional experience of the audience in perfect balance», says Luca Longobardi, pianist, composer and sound designer who in recent years has dedicated himself to immersive shows, shows in which music is intertwined with art. Longobardi, in particular, collaborated with the author and art director Vittorio Guidotti and with the director Massimiliano Siccardi on Immersive Van Gogh and Route 66, two of the best-selling shows of the year…
Years go by, but PFM remains a group that has few rivals live, with Franz Di Cioccio and Patrick Djivas who attract young students who learn to work their ass off on stage, not to be satisfied with reproposing the songs paro paro to the record but constantly reinventing them, changing playlists and arrangements, improvising with the awareness that, as Demetrio Stratos said, music can be a game in which you risk your life.«The records in the studio are long and tiring to make, they attenuate our nature which is to go on stage looking ferocious and smashing everything», says…
Saturday 24 June went on stage Italy Loves Romagna, the great event organized to help the populations affected by the flood which hosted many new and nascent big names in Italian music. The Romagnola could not be missing on the stage Laura Pausini which certainly gave one of the most intense and true moments of the evening. The evening, broadcast in prime time by Rai 1 with the presentation of several artists including Amadeus, Alessia Marcuzzi, Francesca Fagnani And George Panariellofeatured several unreleased duets including Tananai with max Pezzali with Years, Emma And Fiorella Mannoia neither The Weight of Courage,…
