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David Bowie‘s archive at London’s V&A East Storehouse is set to go on tour across the UK. The David Bowie Centre opened at the new working store and visitor attraction at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in Stratford last autumn. It comprises over 90,000 of the late star’s possessions, as well as curated exhibitions of objects by Bowie collaborator Nile Rodgers and super-fans The Last Dinner Party. Today (Wednesday July 1), it has been announced that a new national tour will bring highlights from the V&A’s Bowie archive to venues across the UK over multiple years. More than 100 pieces…
London trio Mary In The Junkyard cheekily dub their sound “weepy chaos rok”, but they often summon something far more: an intricate magic weaved from vocalist and guitarist Clari Freeman-Taylor’s poetic, observational eye and freewheeling arrangements, equally informed by wiry math-laden contemporaries and elegant classical stylings. After a tireless couple of years and adventures stateside (a two-month tour with Wet Leg included), the former NME Cover stars have gone from courting Corsica buzz to counting fans in Marina Abramović. Facing their long-awaited debut upon this new foundation, ‘Role Model Hermit’ opens self-reflexive: “It is yours babe, you deserve it,” Freeman-Taylor…
NoIa Smith is caught between her ambition to speed up and her desire for a break. It's been two years since the release of the British soul star's debut EP 'Give Up The Fear' and, while the rollout itself was “pretty chill”, life has felt non-stop ever since. While her first single, the EP's soulful and resilient title-track, was a perfect introduction to Smith as an artist, it was her collaboration with Jamaican dancehall superstar Popcaan on the remix of her track 'Personal' that really blew things up. In the aftermath, she's been nominated for the Rising Star award at…
The Rag dollsthe first all-female band to arrive on the Ariston stage in 76 editions of the Sanremo Festival, were guests of SPOT – The Podcastthe program that Michele Monina And Massimiliano Longo they record live at the Spot Music Fest in Bareggio. To represent the group, in front of the microphone, Dani And Kayfor a conversation that starts from the profession and arrives at a broader theme: what it means to be recognized as musicians, and not just as performers. Rag Dolls: “So it's true, you're a musician” Having arrived at SanremoAbove all, they say, it changed the perception…
“Fuck the fucking ceiling”.This is how Erin Hoagg, aka Rare DM, summarizes the attitude of “Attention”, her second work. Darkwave has a limit – she says – and it doesn't want to stop before it has gone beyond that limit. Imposed by who or imposed by what we cannot imagine, but Rare DM is too pop to be confined to a genre and too performative to be considered goth-adjacent. In this album desire is intertwined with obsession, electroclash, minimal wave and Ebm coordinates are taken until they are pushed further, onto the dancefloor of an imaginary club seen through a…
Return the Bindi Awardthe historic festival dedicated to new Italian songwriting, which since 2005 has paid homage to the figure of Umberto Bindi. The XXII edition will be held on Thursday 9th, Friday 10th and Saturday 11th July at the Umberto Bindi Amphitheater in Santa Margherita Ligurein the province of Genoa. The three evenings will be hosted by the radio and television host Claudio Guerrini and the actress, presenter and journalist Chiara Buratti. Organized by the Le Muse Novae Association with the artistic direction of Zibbaand supported by the Municipality of Santa Margherita Ligure and the Liguria Region, this year…
Robert Smith has revealed that he initially turned down the offer to collaborate with The Rolling Stones, saying he “wasn’t prepared for it”. The frontman of The Cure contributed guitar to Mick Jagger and co’s recent song ‘Divine Intervention’ from their new album ‘Foreign Tongues’, which is released next Friday (July 10). He also provided synth and backing vocals on the cut ‘Never Wanna Lose You’. During an interview on the official Stones podcast, Speaking In Tongues, Smith discussed how he came to be in the studio with the legendary band. “Andrew Watt [producer] and I have kind of exchanged…
vote7.5 Bands: TEMPLE GUARD Duration: 00:25:12 Available from: 11/06/2026 The fire evoked in the title is not just a metaphor: in the Temple Guard it is almost a permanent condition. For years the English band has been building its trajectory around an idea of music experienced as a declaration of war, a mixture of urgency and hardcore ethics, metal heaviness and militant vision that leaves little room for half measures. “Citadel in Flames” therefore arrives as a new chapter in a saga carried forward with surprising consistency: a job every two years or so, regular live activity and an increasingly…
«It's another song that took a while to mature. It had to make it into the album in some form at some point Ibut we didn't get to finish it, but it's always been one of my favorites.”Full moon, new song. Peter Gabriel published another piece from o\ithe album he will release later in 2026. It's called I Belong to the Sky and from a sound point of view it starts from a tom-tom pattern played with timpani sticks, the ones with felt heads, inspired by the 1960 documentary Jazz on a summer day which chronicled the 1958 Newport Jazz…
Guitarist Bob Britt has spoken out about his departure from Bob Dylan‘s live backing band. Over the weekend, Britt was reported to have left the touring line-up after he shared a brief social media post that was later deleted. He had played with Dylan since 2019, and been a regular fixture during the ‘Rough And Rowdy Ways’ tour. The news came after electric guitarist Doug Lancio was replaced in the live group by acclaimed jazz guitarist Julian Lage. Lancio had toured with the legendary singer-songwriter since 2021, but was absent from his June 17 show in Santa Barbara, California. According…
