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The lineup of ElectroniCON 2023 was announced last week, and John Maus was listed as a headliner alongside festival co-curator George Clanton and other artists including Doss, Rxk Nephew, James Ferraro, and others. It takes place August 25-26 at New York City’s Knockdown Center, and as of today, Maus is no longer set to headline. After fans expressed their misgivings about Maus appearing at the vaporwave festival across various social media platforms, Clanton issued an apology and said Maus agreed not to perform.“Due to the response by our ElectroniCON family of performers and fans, we have decided to move forward…

Have you had a good night’s sleep yet? Had a shower and opted for a cuppa first thing in the morning instead of a warm cider? Those Glasto habits die hard, after all… This weekend’s Glastonbury 2023 was suitably bursting at the seams with huge moments: Elton gave us a farewell to remember, the Monkeys made their show and Rick Astley made his pitch to be elected mayor of Worthy Farm. NME was there until the bitter end, and these were our favourite moments… Words: Jeremy Abbott, Liberty Dunworth, Thomas Smith, Andrew Trendell, Sophie Williams Foo Fighters and Dave Grohl…

Hardcore punk is flourishing in ways we haven’t witnessed before. With the likes of Grammy-nominated Turnstile breaking into the mainstream, the genre has picked up a new momentum, opening gateways into red-hot local scenes in the likes of Colorado and California – the latter of which is home to Militarie Gun. “I feel at home in this chaos” frontman Ian Shelton told NME earlier this year, describing his comfort within a movement that’s woven into the very fabric of his five-piece band. Their debut album ‘Life Under The Gun’ transcends the limits of what hardcore can be in 2023, leading…

Maneskins rush album review by Umberto Saved. “I’m out of place. Out of time. Unfashionable. Out of phase. Out of the way. Want to come meet all of my outside?”Fabrizio Caramagna This morning I run to the station, no one could give me a lift. I arrive in a hurry, I miss the train, I have to wait an hour for the next one. I sit on a bench, there is a teenage girl sitting next to me, she has headphones, the music she listens to is very loud, she seems to have shared headphones, I immediately recognize the piece,…

Tim Booth lead singer of James interviewed on the red carpet at this year’s Ivor Novello Awards by Music-News.com at Grosvenor House, London, on Thursday 18th May 2023. Receiving the Music Icon Award.The PRS for Music Icon Award went to Tim Booth, Saul Davies, Jim Glennie, Larry Gott and Mark Hunter for James. James have become an enduring gem of British music, selling over 25 million albums over their 39-year career.The Ivor Novello 2023 winners:Academy FellowshipStingBest Albums11written by Dean “Inflo” Josiah Cover, Jamar McNaughton, Cleopatra Nikolic and Jack Penateperformed by SAULTpublished in the UK by Copyright Control and Sentric MusicBest…

All you need is a smartphone and some applications to compose, record and broadcast music without having to leave your room. Songs as if they were toys for the very young of Gen Z who, after a hangover on TikTok, dream of waking up international stars. It can actually happen. For example, Billie Eilish proved it to us, but she is not the only one to have accomplished the prodigy. From her room in Houston, Texas, another young pop phenomenon under 20 has made inroads into the global charts. It is written d4vd, it reads David. Born in 2005, he…

There is a great misunderstanding in the story of the Italian rap game and it concerns the fascination for Silvio Berlusconi, seen as a “gangsta rapper” – Cole sings it in Delorean by Noyz Narcos – or as the made in Italy incarnation of the American swag model: “Life is only sluts and millions, says Ice Cube and Berlusconi too” is a rhyme by Guè ne The Golden boy.The truth is that Silvio B. has never been taken seriously in Italian hip hop, every reference to him is ironic, hyperbolic, cartoonish. He is a Scrooge McDuck inside a night club,…

Italians do it better: write terrific songs and sing them properly on a stage, especially if it’s the one at the Sanremo Festival. They proved it more than all Mtoneskin, who in 2021 flew from the Ligurian Riviera to conquer the world with theirs Shut up and good.But every Sanremo Festival, from the first edition of 1951 to today, has its definitive songs and performances, verses and refrains that have marked both the pop history of our country and, in a different way, each of us.It’s called its own Italians Do Hits Better the format conducted from 1 to 5…

Mike Oldfield is a strange boy who carries around a wound: the memory of the mother who, after the death of a son with Down syndrome, spent her life a slave to barbiturates going from one psychiatric hospital to another until her death in 1975. Two years earlier, Oldfield gained worldwide fame thanks to an instrumental album composed of two suites of 20-odd minutes per side, which almost entirely dispenses with the rhythm section and which blends folk, classical, minimalism, ante litteram new age and a series of unforgettable melodies.However, success has not pacified the musician who continues to suffer…

Footage of the crowd at Queens Of The Stone Age’s Glastonbury 2023 set has gone viral on social media. Queens Of The Stone Age took to the stage on the final night of Glastonbury 2023 this Sunday (June 25), and delivered one of the most explosive sets of the entire festival. The set marked their first performance at Worthy Farm since 2002, and saw them play hits such as ‘No One Knows’ and ‘Go With The Flow’. It was the closing track of the 16-song set that proved to be the highlight of the show, however, as Josh Homme and…